The signals are against us; that's all we know at present." They crawled on again in about ten minutes, stopped, and resumed their progress at an even slower rate.

Mr.Dunster once more summoned the guard.
"Why are we travelling like this ?" he asked impatiently.

"We shall never catch the boat." "We shall catch the boat all right if it runs, sir," the man assured him.

"The mail is only a mile or two ahead of us; that's one reason why we have to go so slowly.

Then the water is right over the line where we are now, and we can't get any news at all from the other side of Ipswich.