Book Excerpt: ...the platform gazing at the train as it faded away in the dusk that appeared to come down the road to meet it.I had expected to alight at a town, but the station was a lonely place, a wagon-maker's shop, the company's building and a few shanties. I asked the station master if he knew where the school teacher was wanted, and he answered that from the people thereabouts one must be needed in every household."And I should think," I replied,...