The train had then stopped. The engineer, when he found himself in the desert, and the locomotive without cars, understood what had happened. He could not imagine how the locomotive had become separated from the train; but he did not doubt that the train left behind was in distress.
La máquina estaba entonces parada, y cuando el maquinista se vio en el desierto con la locomotora sola, comprendió lo ocurrido, y sin que pudiera atinar de qué modo se había efectuado la separación, no dudaba que el tren estaba atrás esperando auxilio.