6 CONSTANTINOPLE : over the carriage doors ; the third bell rings, the guard whistles, the engine gives a little shriek, the guard whistles again, another pro longed shriek from the engine , and we move majestically, though slowly, forward.
Gendarmes in brass helmets and blue coats stand guard  6 CONSTANTINOPLE : over the carriage doors ; the third bell rings, the guard whistles, the engine gives a little shriek, the guard whistles again, another pro longed shriek from the engine , and we move majestically, though slowly, forward.  "We have placed ourselves in the little verandah at the end of the carriage to give our friends a last nod, a score of whom are waving hands and hats as if seeing us again were a pro bability on which they scarcely reckoned.