Excerpt from Under Northern Skies

The only other traveller who had alighted was a young Swede, bound for his native country. Com panions in misfortune 'are attracted towards each other, and, under such circumstances, an hour will do the work of months. Before long we had become Old friends, with only one cause of regret in common -that the Pall Mall office and the railway company were not able to hear all the merited abuse showered upon their offending heads.

The hours dragged their slow lengths away. As the station was in the blackness of darkness we strolled about the town. It. Was plunged in silence and slumber, in darkness also, for the streets were not lighted. N o pallid rays from ancient oil or modern gas made that darkness more visible, the moon did not give her light, and stars faintly ¿ickered. Though dying for a cup of tea - we would almost have paid for it in gold - it was not to be had. Not even a dog or cat crossed our path during those silent hours.

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