Chapter 40

It was full of incident; all an avid copy seeker could have craved. Early in the morning Ross got caught in a subway train jam of frightened people. The train had stalled between stations for an unexplainable length of time. Just as everybody was beginning to be uneasy loud cries from around a curve assailed their ears; then came a drift of smoke. The cars were choked in one of those terrifying packings of human beings in which nobody can move. Ross, with her head as usual far below the heads of those about her, ha…