It seemed no one had the key or the door code for the building at 147 rue La Fayette near the Gare du Nord train station in Paris.
And yet I have decided to go straight on from the Gare du Nord.
That same evening, the tapestry was discovered in a trunk deposited in the cloak-room at the Gare Saint-Lazare.
Hordes of people rushed to the Gare du Nord in the early dawn to find it entirely closed, no trains either entering or leaving it.
Destiny, like the most attractive of the porters at the Gare de Lyon, "s'occupait d'elle."
Gare rgulatrice for "distributing station" is one of the many scores of cases in point.
