It was a famous drugstore, and contained one of the first private telephone booths ever erected.

"I want to use your 'phone a minute," he said to the night clerk.
The latter nodded.
"Give me 1643," he called to Central, after looking up the Michigan Central depot number.

Soon he got the ticket agent.
"How do the trains leave here for Detroit ?" he asked.
The man explained the hours.
"No more to-night ?" "Nothing with a sleeper.

Yes, there is, too," he added.

"There is a mail train out of here at three o'clock." "All right," said Hurstwood.