The Man Thou Gavest

The passengers, one by one, left the train but Truedale took no heed. He was the only one left at last, but he was not aware of it, and then, just as the darkness outside caught his attention, the train stopped so suddenly that it nearly threw him from his seat. "Accident?" he asked the conductor. "No, sah Pine Cone station. I reckon the engineer come mighty nigh forgetting-he generally does at the end. The tracks stop here. You look mighty peaked; some one expecting yo'?"