CHAPTER II

THE TRAIN Hans was aware against his will, as they started for the station, that Mihail Klimov was an odd-looking travelling companion; against his will he realised it, because he was now in the open world, free of all prejudices, caring nothing for appearances. Nevertheless, Klimov's appearance was too individual--a faded green jacket of the hunting sort, gay knickerbockers and gay worsted stockings, a large black hat of the kind worn by unsuccessful artists. He carried also a kind of alpenstock, and conducted on …