“Ah! it was a dreadful time, sir. I never left off calling to him. I
put this arm before my eyes not to see, and I waved this arm to the last;
but it was no use.”
* * * * *
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.