Chapter X: Part 1

Two midgets, members of a traveling troupe, are waiting at the Atlanta station for a train to New Orleans. The train is due at midnight but it is late. The dwarfs go into the lunch room for a bite. One of them drinks two large cups of black coffee, then immediately begins to lament his indiscretion.

“I had no business doing that,” he pipes to his companion. “Now I know I won’t sleep a wink till broad daylight.”

The train arrives and the little men get on. The coffee-drinker has a sleeper ticket calling for Upper Eleven. The other little man holds a reservation for Upper Twelve.

The porter boosts the diminutive passengers into their respective berths and the train moves on.