It will get through on time!" With nine minutes to spare, the train rolled into the station at Lineville.

It was not the same train that had left Stormburg, for that train had been halted, safely, just before reaching the scene of the disastrous blow-out.

At that point the passengers had alighted and had been conducted on foot to the other side of the gap caused by the explosion.

Here Hazelton's Lineville special stood ready to convey them into Lineville.

So the road had been legally opened, since the passengers from Stormburg---among whom was the lieutenant governor of the state had been brought all the way through over the line.