CHAPTER VIIITHE CITY BY THE SEA
In Albany there was an ordinary train for New York standing in the station, but Larry, learning that there would be a fast non-stop train in half an hour, let it go. Shane waited too, of course. The two men sauntered about the magnificent station keeping the tail of an eye on each other. Shane despatched a couple of telegrams. Larry would have given something to know what was in them.
On his part Larry consulted the railway guide. Shane could not possibly tell what tables he was looking up. From it Larry learned that there was a way of reaching Atlantic City by way of Scranton and Philadelphia without returning to New York. For a while he dallied with the idea, but gave it up. There was no fast through train that way; moreover, it was in the crowded ways o
