There is no danger. You need not be
afraid, even if you get shaken up again."
"Are you going to shake us up?" asked Bert.
"No, but the wrecking crew will when they pull this car back on the
rails," the conductor replied. "But don't be afraid--no one will be
hurt."
The passengers quieted down after hearing this, and some of them who
were good sleepers went back to bed. The Bobbsey twins were too wide-
awake, their mother thought, to go to sleep so soon after the
excitement, so she let them sit up a while to get quiet.
Going to the end of the car, in the little passageway near the wash
room, Bert and Nan could look out of the window. They saw men with
flaring oil torches hurrying here and there. These were the railroad
workers getting ready to put the train back on the track.
There was not so much shouting, now that it was known no one was hurt,
and soon the children heard the puffing of engines and the rumble of
wheels.
"The wrecking crew has arrived," said Mr. Bobbsey, who came down the
aisle to see if Bert and Nan were all right.
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