out to the cab, he danced about the hall in a
manner which made Miss Morton feel very pleased he was going. He put on
his overcoat, and held open the pocket whilst Hannah forced in the large
packet of sandwiches, and although they bulged out a good deal Jimmy did
not mind that at all. He shook hands with his aunt and entered the cab,
and Jones stepped in after him.

'My father and mother are going to meet me at Chesterham,' said Jimmy as
soon as the horse started. He talked of them all the way to the railway
station--not the same station at which he had arrived with Miss Roberts
yesterday, but a much larger and a rather dirtier looking one, with a
great glass roof. But before Jimmy reached that part of it, he went with
Jones to take his ticket.

'You are to put it in your purse,' said the butler, 'and mind you don't
lose it.'

'I shan't lose it,' answered Jimmy, taking out his purse, and as he put
the ticket away he looked to make sure that the half-crown was all
right.

'Now,' said the butler, 'we'll go and find the train.'

It was not very difficult to find the train for Chesterham, because it
was waiting all ready at the platform; but when they got to the train it
took Jones a long time to find Jimmy a suitable first-class compartment.
At last he stopped at one which contained an old gentleman and two
ladies. The old gentleman was sitting next to the door, reading a
newspaper, and he did not look at all glad when Jimmy sat down opposite
to him.

'I think you'll do now,' said Jones.

'Very nicely, thank you,' answered Jimmy, as the butler stood by the
door, but he was beginning to feel just a little nervous. You must
remember he was not quite eight years of age; he was only a small boy,
and he had never travelled quite alone before. He felt sure he should
like travelling alone, and in fact he did not much mind how he travelled
so that his mother met him at the end of his journey. Still, now that he
had taken his seat and the butler was going away in a few minutes, Jimmy
began to feel a little nervous.

'Got your sandwiches?' asked Jones, with a hand on the door.

'Yes, I've got them,' answered Jimmy, feeling them to make certain.
'I've never seen them before, you know,' Jimmy added.

'What, the sandwiches?' asked Jones.

'No, my father and mother,' said Jimmy. 'They're going to meet me.'

'Oh, I see,' answered the butler, and he ought to have understood, for
Jimmy had told him a great many times since