onger waiting to act?

He dropped on his back upon the bed and lay with his hands clasped
under his head, his eyes staring up at the roof of the car.

In the card-room of the observation car, playing and conversation still
went on for a time; then it diminished as one by one the passengers
went away to bed. Connery, looking into this car, found it empty and
the porter cleaning up; he slowly passed on forward through the train,
stopping momentarily in the rear Pullman opposite the berth of the
passenger whom President Jarvis had commended to his care. His
scrutiny of the car told him all was correct here; the even breathing
within the berth assured him the passenger slept.

Connery went on through to the next car and paused again outside the
berth occupied by Eaton. He had watched Eaton all day with results
that still he was debating with himself; he had found in a newspaper
the description of the man who had waited at Warden's, and he reread
it, comparing it with Eaton. It perfectly confirmed Connery's first
impression; but the more Connery had seen of Eaton, and the more he had
thought over him during the day, the more the conductor had become
satisfied that either Eaton was not the man described or, if he was,
there was no harm to come from it. After all, was not all that could
be said against Eaton--if he was the man--simply that he had not
appeared to state why Warden was befriending him? Was it not possible
that he was serving Warden in some way by not appearing? Certainly Mr.
Dorne, who was the man most on the train to be considered, had
satisfied himself that Eaton was fit for an acquaintance; Connery had
seen what was almost a friendship, apparently, spring up between Eaton
and Dorne's daughter during the day.

The conductor went on, his shoulders brushing the buttoned curtains on
both sides of the narrow aisle. Except for the presence of the
passenger in the rear sleeper, this inspection was to the conductor the
uttermost of the commonplace; in its monotonous familiarity he had
never felt any strangeness in this abrupt and intimate bringing
together of people who never had seen one another before, who after
these few days of travel together, might probably never see one another
again, but who now slept separated from one another and from the
persons passing through the cars by no greater protection than these
curtains designed only to shield them from the light and from each
other's eyes. He felt n