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watchman we shouldn't have thought there was anything strange about it at all.'
    'Perhaps the boy at the farm would know,' said Julian. 'We'll ask him tomorrow. I'm afraid there aren't any spook-trains real y - but, gosh, I'd love to go and watch for one, if there were any.'
    'I wish you wouldn't talk like that,' said Anne, unhappily. 'You know, it makes me feel as if you want another adventure. And I don't.'
    'Well, there won't be any adventure, so don't worry,' said Dick, comfortingly. 'And, anyway, if there was an adventure you could always go and hold old Luffy's hand. He wouldn't see an adventure if it was right under his nose. You'd be quite safe with him.'
    'Look - who's that up there?' said George, seeing
    Timmy prick up his ears, and then hearing him give a little growl.
    'Shepherd or something, I should think,' said Julian. He shouted out cheerful y. 'Good afternoon! Nice day it's been!'
    The old man on the path just above them nodded his head. He was either a shepherd or farm labourer of some sort. He waited for them to come up.
    'Have you seen any of my sheep down along there?' he asked them. 'They've got red crosses on them.'
    'No. There aren't any down there,' said Julian. 'But there are some further along the hil .
    We've been down to the railway yard and we'd have seen any sheep on the slope below.'
    'Don't you go down there,' said the old shepherd, his faded blue eyes looking into Julian's. 'That's a bad place, that is.'
    'Well, we've been hearing about spook-trains!' said Julian, with a laugh. 'Is that what you mean?'
    'Ay. There're trains that nobody knows of running out of that tunnel,' said the shepherd.
    'Many's the time I've heard them when I've been up here at night with my sheep. That tunnel hasn't been used for thirty years - but the trains, they stil come out of it, just as they used to.'
    'How do you know? Have you seen them?' asked Julian, a cold shiver creeping down his spine quite suddenly.
    'No. I've only heard them,' said the old man. 'Choo, choo, they go, and they jangle and clank. But they don't whistle any more. Old Wooden-Leg Sam reckons they're spook-trains, with nobody to drive them and nobody to tend them. Don't you go down to that place.
    It's bad and scary.'
    Julian caught sight of Anne's scared face. He laughed loudly. 'What a tale! I don't believe in spook-trains - and neither do you, shepherd. Dick, have you got the tea in your bag? Let's find a nice place and have some sandwiches and cake. Wil you join us, shepherd?'

    'No, thank you kindly,' said the old man, moving off. Til be after my sheep. Always wandering they are, and they keep me wandering, too. Good day, sir, and don't go down to that bad place.'
    Julian found a good spot out of sight of 'that bad place', and they all sat down. 'Al a lot of nonsense, 'said Julian, who wanted Anne to feel happier again. 'We can easily ask the farmer's boy about it tomorrow. I expect it's all a sil y tale made up by that old one-legged fel ow, and passed on to the shepherd.'
    'I expect so,' said Dick. 'You noticed that the shepherd had never actually seen the trains, Julian? Only heard them. Well, sound travels far at night, and I expect what he heard was simply the rumblings of the trains that go underground here. There's one going somewhere now! I can feel the ground trembling!'
    They all could. It was a peculiar feeling. The rumbling stopped at last and they sat and ate their tea, watching Timmy scraping at a rabbit-hole and trying his hardest to get down it. He covered them with sandy soil as he burrowed, and nothing would stop him.
    He seemed to have gone completely deaf.
    'Look here, if we don't get Timmy out of that hole now he'll be gone down so far that we'll have to drag him out by his tail,' said Julian, getting up. 'Timmy! TIM-MY! The rabbit's miles away. Come on out.'
    It took both George and Julian to get him out. He was most indignant. He looked at them as if to say: ' Well, what spoil-sports! Almost got him and you drag me