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"

Are

you

afraid

?

"

asked

Colonel

Proctor

.

"

I

afraid

?

Very

well

;

I

will

show

these

people

that

a

Frenchman

can

be

as

American

as

they

!

"

"

All

aboard

!

"

cried

the

conductor

.

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"

Yes

,

all

aboard

!

"

repeated

Passepartout

,

and

immediately

.

"

But

they

ca

n't

prevent

me

from

thinking

that

it

would

be

more

natural

for

us

to

cross

the

bridge

on

foot

,

and

let

the

train

come

after

!

"

But

no

one

heard

this

sage

reflection

,

nor

would

anyone

have

acknowledged

its

justice

.

The

passengers

resumed

their

places

in

the

cars

.

Passepartout

took

his

seat

without

telling

what

had

passed

.

The

whist-players

were

quite

absorbed

in

their

game

.

The

locomotive

whistled

vigorously

;

the

engineer

,

reversing

the

steam

,

backed

the

train

for

nearly

a

mile

--

retiring

,

like

a

jumper

,

in

order

to

take

a

longer

leap

.

Then

,

with

another

whistle

,

he

began

to

move

forward

;

the

train

increased

its

speed

,

and

soon

its

rapidity

became

frightful

;

a

prolonged

screech

issued

from

the

locomotive

;

the

piston

worked

up

and

down

twenty

strokes

to

the

second

.

They

perceived

that

the

whole

train

,

rushing

on

at

the

rate

of

a

hundred

miles

an

hour

,

hardly

bore

upon

the

rails

at

all

.

And

they

passed

over

!

It

was

like

a

flash

.

No

one

saw

the

bridge

.

The

train

leaped

,

so

to

speak

,

from

one

bank

to

the

other

,

and

the

engineer

could

not

stop

it

until

it

had

gone

five

miles

beyond

the

station

.

But

scarcely

had

the

train

passed

the

river

,

when

the

bridge

,

completely

ruined

,

fell

with

a

crash

into

the

rapids

of

Medicine

Bow

.

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The

train

pursued

its

course

,

that

evening

,

without

interruption

,

passing

Fort

Saunders

,

crossing

Cheyne

Pass

,

and

reaching

Evans

Pass

.

The

road

here

attained

the

highest

elevation

of

the

journey

,

eight

thousand

and

ninety-two

feet

above

the

level

of

the

sea

.

The

travellers

had

now

only

to

descend

to

the

Atlantic

by

limitless

plains

,

levelled

by

nature

.

A

branch

of

the

"

grand

trunk

"

led

off

southward

to

Denver

,

the

capital

of

Colorado

.

The

country

round

about

is

rich

in

gold

and

silver

,

and

more

than

fifty

thousand

inhabitants

are

already

settled

there

.

Thirteen

hundred

and

eighty-two

miles

had

been

passed

over

from

San

Francisco

,

in

three

days

and

three

nights

;

four

days

and

nights

more

would

probably

bring

them

to

New

York

.

Phileas

Fogg

was

not

as

yet

behind-hand

.

During

the

night

Camp

Walbach

was

passed

on

the

left

;

Lodge

Pole

Creek

ran

parallel

with

the

road

,

marking

the

boundary

between

the

territories

of

Wyoming

and

Colorado

.

They

entered

Nebraska

at

eleven

,

passed

near

Sedgwick

,

and

touched

at

Julesburg

,

on

the

southern

branch

of

the

Platte

River

.

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