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Title: The Passenger from Calais

Author: Arthur Griffiths

Release Date: July 21, 2005 [EBook #16339]

Language: English

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L.C. PAGE & COMPANY
New England Building, Boston, Mass.

The Passenger
from Calais

By Arthur Griffiths

Author of "The Rome Express," etc.

Boston--L.C. Page and
Company--Publishers

_First Impression, January, 1906
Second Impression, February, 1906
Third Impression, February, 1906
Fourth Impression, March, 1908_

Colonial Press
_C.H. Simonds & Co.
Boston, U.S.A._

FOREWORD

_I desire to state that the initial
fact upon which I have founded
this story is within my own experience.
I travelled from Calais to
Basle by the Engadine Express in
the latter end of July, 1902, when
my wife and myself were the only
passengers. The rest is pure fiction._

A.G.

CHAPTER I.

[_Colonel Annesley's Story_]

The crossing from Dover to Calais had been rough; a drizzling rain
fell all the time, and most of the passengers had remained below.
Strange to say, they were few enough, as I saw on landing. It was a
Sunday in late July, and there ought to have been a strong stream
setting towards Central Europe. I hardly expected to find much room in
the train