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An Indian railway station in the first freshness of an autumn dawn,with a clear decision of light and shade, unknown to northernlatitudes, lending a fictitious picturesqueness to the low-archedbuildings festooned with purple creepers. There was a crispness in theair which seemed to belie the possibility of a noon of brass; yet thelevel beams of the sun had already in them a warning of warmth.
The up-country mail had just steamed out of the station afterdepositing a scanty store of passengers on the narrow platform, whilethe down-country trai