Without prolonging the narrative to dwell on any one of its curious circumstances more than on any other, I may, in closing it, point out the coincidence that the warning of the Engine-Driver included, not only the words which the unfortunate Signal-man had repeated to me as haunting him, but also the words which I myself—not he—had attached, and that only in my own mind, to the gesticulation he had imitated.
FOOTNOTES.
[121] The original has eight chapters, which will be found in All the Year Round, vol. ii., old series; but those not printed here, excepting a page at the close, were not written by Mr. Dickens.
[303] This paper appeared as a chapter “To be taken with a Grain of Salt,” in Doctor Marigold’s Prescriptions.
[312] This story appeared as a portion of the Christmas number for 1866, “Mugby Junction,” of which other portions follow in “Barbox Brothers” and “The Boy at Mugby.”