Chapter 5 BACK AT CAMP AGAIN
　　The children and Timmy left the deserted¹ railway yard behind them and climbed up the heatheryslope to find their way back to their camping-place. The boys could not stop talking aboutWooden-Leg Sam and the strange things he said.
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　　'It's a funny business altogether,' said Julian. 'I wonder why that yard isn't used any more - andwhere that tunnel leads to - and if trains ever do run there.'
　　'I expect there's quite an ordinary explanation,' said Dick. 'It's just that Wooden-Leg Sam made itall seem so weird². If there had been a proper watchman we shouldn't have thought there wasanything strange about it at all.'
　　'Perhaps the boy at the farm would know,' said Julian. 'We'll ask him tomorrow. I'm afraid therearen't any spook-trains really - 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 youwant another adventure. And I don't.'
　　'Well, there won't be any adventure, so don't worry,' said Dick, comfortingly. 'And, anyway, ifthere was an adventure you could always go and hold old Luffy's hand. He wouldn't see anadventure if it was right under his nose. You'd be quite safe with him.'
　　'Look - who's that up there?' said George, seeingTimmy prick³ up his ears, and then hearing him give a little growl⁴.
　　'Shepherd or something, I should think,' said Julian. He shouted out cheerfully. '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 farmlabourer 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 onthem.'
　　'No. There aren't any down there,' said Julian. 'But there are some further along the hill. We'vebeen 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'sa 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'sthe time I've heard them when I've been up here at night with my sheep. That tunnel hasn't beenused for thirty years - but the trains, they still come out of it, just as they used to.'

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