'Snow?'
'It must have been falling heavily for an hour or more.'
'Can't be helped; I must go.'
The nearest station for departure was London Bridge, and the next
train left at 7.20. By Reardon's watch it was now about five
minutes to seven.
'I don't know whether it's possible,' he said, in confused hurry,
'but I must try. There isn't another train till ten past nine.
Come with me to the station, Biffen.'
Both were ready. They rushed from the house, and sped through the
soft, steady fall of snowflakes into Upper Street. Here they were
several minutes before they found a disengaged cab. Questioning
the driver, they learnt what they would have known very well
already but for their excitement: impossible to get to London
Bridge Station in a quarter of an hour.
'Better to go on, all the same,' was Reardon's opinion. 'If the
snow gets deep I shall perhaps not be able to have a cab at all.
But you had better not come; I forgot that you are as much out of
sorts as I am.'
'How can you wait a couple of hours alone? In with you!'
'Diphtheria is pretty sure to be fatal to a child of that age,
isn't it?' Reardon asked when they were speeding along City Road.
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