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1Meanwhile the passengers and some of the wounded, among them Colonel Proctor, whose injuries were serious, had taken
2their places in the train. The buzzing of the over-heated boiler was heard, and the steam was escaping from the valves.
3The engineer whistled, the train started, and soon disappeared, mingling its white smoke with the eddies of the densely
4falling snow. The detective had remained behind. Several hours passed. The weather was dismal, and it was very cold. Fix
5sat motionless on a bench in the station; he might have been thought asleep. Aouda, despite the storm, kept coming out
6of the waiting-room, going to the end of the platform, and peering through the tempest of snow, as if to pierce the mist
7which narrowed the horizon around her, and to hear, if possible, some welcome sound. She heard and saw nothing. Then she
8would return, chilled through, to issue out again after the lapse of a few moments, but always in vain. Evening came,
9and the little band had not returned. Where could they be? Had they found the Indians, and were they having a conflict
10with them, or were they still wandering amid the mist? The commander of the fort was anxious, though he tried to conceal
11his apprehensions. As night approached, the snow fell less plentifully, but it became intensely cold. Absolute silence
12rested on the plains. Neither flight of bird nor passing of beast troubled the perfect calm. Throughout the night Aouda,
13full of sad forebodings, her heart stifled with anguish, wandered about on the verge of the plains. Her imagination
14carried her far off, and showed her innumerable dangers. What she suffered through the long hours it would be impossible
15to describe. Fix remained stationary in the same place, but did not sleep. Once a man approached and spoke to him, and
16the detective merely replied by shaking his head. Thus the night passed. At dawn, the half-extinguished disc of the sun
17rose above a misty horizon; but it was now possible to recognise objects two miles off. Phileas Fogg and the squad had
18gone southward; in the south all was still vacancy. It was then seven o'clock. The captain, who was really alarmed, did
19not know what course to take. Should he send another detachment to the rescue of the first? Should he sacrifice more
20men, with so few chances of saving those already sacrificed? His hesitation did not last long, however. Calling one of
21his lieutenants, he was on the point of ordering a reconnaissance, when gunshots were heard. Was it a signal? The
22soldiers rushed out of the fort, and half a mile off they perceived a little band returning in good order. Mr. Fogg was
23marching at their head, and just behind him were Passepartout and the other two travellers, rescued from the Sioux. They
24had met and fought the Indians ten miles south of Fort Kearney. Shortly before the detachment arrived, Passepartout and
25his companions had begun to struggle with their captors, three of whom the Frenchman had felled with his fists, when his
26master and the soldiers hastened up to their relief. All were welcomed with joyful cries. Phileas Fogg distributed the
27reward he had promised to the soldiers, while Passepartout, not without reason, muttered to himself, "It must certainly
28be confessed that I cost my master dear!" Fix, without saying a word, looked at Mr. Fogg, and it would have been
29difficult to analyse the thoughts which struggled within him. As for Aouda, she took her protector's hand and pressed it
30in her own, too much moved to speak. Meanwhile, Passepartout was looking about for the train; he thought he should find
31it there, ready to start for Omaha, and he hoped that the time lost might be regained. "The train! the train!" cried he.
32"Gone," replied Fix. "And when does the next train pass here?" said Phileas Fogg. "Not till this evening." "Ah!"
33returned the impassible gentleman quietly.
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