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“我真觉得很对不起，先生们，”列车员说，“如果换个别的时候，我准定帮忙。不过话又说回来了，虽然你们没有来得及在站上决斗，可是你们可以在车上干，谁也管不着。” "That wouldn't be convenient, perhaps, for this gentleman," said the colonel, in a jeering tone. “在车上也许这位先生会觉得不太合适吧！”上校嘻皮笑脸地说。 "It would be perfectly so," replied Phileas Fogg. “我觉得完全合适。”斐利亚·福克回答说。 "Well, we are really in America," thought Passepartout, "and the conductor is a gentleman of the first order!" “瞧这个痛快劲儿，就准会相信我们是在美国！”路路通心里说，“这个列车员可真是个了不起的好人！” So muttering, he followed his master. 他心里一边这样想着一边就跟着自己的主人走了。 
列车员领着两位决斗的对手和他们的公证人，从一节车厢走到另一节车厢，一直到最后一节车。这节车厢里只有十几个旅客。列车员就问旅客们是否可以暂时把车厢让给这两位先生用一下，他们要在这儿决斗。旅客们听了这话吓了一跳，但是他们很乐意帮这两位先生的忙，于是都走出车厢，站到车桥上去了。 The car, which was some fifty feet long, was very convenient for their purpose. The adversaries might march on each other in the aisle, and fire at their ease. Never was duel more easily arranged. Mr. Fogg and Colonel Proctor, each provided with two six-barrelled revolvers, entered the car. The seconds, remaining outside, shut them in. They were to begin firing at the first whistle of the locomotive. After an interval of two minutes, what remained of the two gentlemen would be taken from the car. 这个车厢长约五十英尺，作一个决斗场倒挺合适。在这里决斗真是大方便了，两个对手在中间的过道上，可以向对方逼近，高兴怎么打就怎么打。福克先生和普洛克托上校每人各带两把六轮手枪，走进了车厢。他们的两个证人替他们关上了门，守在外面。只等机车上的汽笛一响，他们就开始射击……然后只要再过短短的两分钟，就可以进去把活着的一位先生接出来。 Nothing could be more simple. Indeed, it was all so simple that Fix and Passepartout felt their hearts beating as if they would crack. They were listening for the whistle agreed upon, when suddenly savage cries resounded in the air, accompanied by reports which certainly did not issue from the car where the duellists were. The reports continued in front and the whole length of the train. Cries of terror proceeded from the interior of the cars. 按说，没有比这再简单的事了。它是那么简单，以至使费克斯和路路通觉得自己的心跳动得简直要爆炸了。人们在等待着第一声汽笛，正在这个时候，突然听见一阵凶猛的喊叫，还夹杂着噼噼啪啪的枪声，但是这枪声并不是从进行决斗的车厢里传出来的。相反地，继续响着的枪声是从整个列车，甚至是从最前头的车厢里传来的。列车上到处是惊慌的喊叫。 Colonel Proctor and Mr. Fogg, revolvers in hand, hastily quitted their prison, and rushed forward where the noise was most clamorous. They then perceived that the train was attacked by a band of Sioux. 普洛克托上校和福克先生，拿着手枪，立即走出了决斗场，赶到前面发出更加激烈的枪声和喊声的车厢去了。他们已经知道：这是一帮西乌人在袭击火车。 This was not the first attempt of these daring Indians, for more than once they had waylaid trains on the road. A hundred of them had, according to their habit, jumped upon the steps without stopping the train, with the ease of a clown mounting a horse at full gallop. 这些亡命的印第安人拦劫火车已经不是头一回了，在这以前，他们也干过好几次。他们总是用这样的办法：不等火车停下来，上百的人一齐纵身跳上车门口的踏板，然后就象在奔跑中翻身上马的马戏团小丑似的爬上了车厢。 
这些西乌人都带着步枪，刚才的枪声就是他们和旅客相互射击的声音，车上旅客差不多都随身带有武器。 The Indians had first mounted the engine, and half stunned the engineer and stoker with blows from their muskets. A Sioux chief, wishing to stop the train, but not knowing how to work the regulator, had opened wide instead of closing the steam-valve, and the locomotive was plunging forward with terrific velocity. 这些印第安人一上车就先往机车上跑。火车司机和司炉早被他们用大头棒打昏过去了。一个西乌人首领上去想把火车停下来，但是他不知道怎么关汽门。本来想把汽门关上的，他却把它完全拉开了，于是机车就象脱缰的野马，飞跑起来。 The Sioux had at the same time invaded the cars, skipping like enraged monkeys over the roofs, thrusting open the doors, and fighting hand to hand with the passengers. Penetrating the baggage-car, they pillaged it, throwing the trunks out of the train. The cries and shots were constant. The travellers defended themselves bravely; some of the cars were barricaded, and sustained a siege, like moving forts, carried along at a speed of a hundred miles an hour. 在同一个时间里，其他的西乌人攻进了车厢。他们在车厢顶上飞跑，一个个都象野猴子似的，他们从车窗上跳进来和旅客进行肉搏战。他们抢了行李车，很多箱子、行李都从里边给扔出来了，枪声和叫喊声一直没停。这时旅客们都在拼命地抵抗，有些被围攻的车厢已经变成了防御工事，简直就象一个个活动的堡垒；而这些堡垒却正被机车拖着，以每小时一百英里的速度向前飞驰。 Aouda behaved courageously from the first. She defended herself like a true heroine with a revolver, which she shot through the broken windows whenever a savage made his appearance. Twenty Sioux had fallen mortally wounded to the ground, and the wheels crushed those who fell upon the rails as if they had been worms. Several passengers, shot or stunned, lay on the seats. 艾娥达夫人从一开始就表现得非常勇敢，当西乌人向她冲过来时，她就拿着手枪毫不畏惧地从破玻璃门口向敌人射击。有二十多个西乌人被打得半死从车上滚下去了，有的从车桥掉到铁轨上，象虫子一样被火车轮子压得粉碎。很多旅客中了枪弹或者挨了大头棒，伤势很重，躺在椅子上。 It was necessary to put an end to the struggle, which had lasted for ten minutes, and which would result in the triumph of the Sioux if the train was not stopped. Fort Kearney station, where there was a garrison, was only two miles distant; but, that once passed, the Sioux would be masters of the train between Fort Kearney and the station beyond. 现在必须使这场战斗结束，它已经继续了十分钟了。倘若火车不停，那结果就一定会便宜了西乌人。因为离此地不到两英里就是克尔尼堡，那里有个美国兵营，如果再过去，从克尔尼堡一直到下一站，这些西乌人就可以在车上为所欲为。 
列车员本来正在和福克并肩作战，但是飞过来一颗子弹把他打倒了，这个人就在自己倒下去的时候叫着说：“五分钟之内火车要是不停，我们就全要完蛋了！” "It shall be stopped," said Phileas Fogg, preparing to rush from the car. “一定会停下来的！”斐利亚·福克说着就准备冲出车厢。 "Stay, monsieur," cried Passepartout; "I will go." “您留在这儿，先生，”路路通喊着说，“这事交给我好了。” Mr. Fogg had not time to stop the brave fellow, who, opening a door unperceived by the Indians, succeeded in slipping under the car; and while the struggle continued and the balls whizzed across each other over his head, he made use of his old acrobatic experience, and with amazing agility worked his way under the cars, holding on to the chains, aiding himself by the brakes and edges of the sashes, creeping from one car to another with marvellous skill, and thus gaining the forward end of the train. 斐利亚·福克还没来得及阻止，这个大胆的小伙子已经打开一个车窗溜到车厢下面去了，他没有被西乌人看见。这时战斗还在激烈地进行，子弹从他头上飕飕地飞过，他运用自己马戏团演员那一套轻巧灵活的故技，在车厢下面隐蔽前进。他攀着联结列车的铁链，踩着煞车舵盘，沿着外面车架的边沿，巧妙地从一节车爬到另一节车，一直爬到最前面的一节车上。他居然没有被人发觉，这简直是不可思议的事。 There, suspended by one hand between the baggage-car and the tender, with the other he loosened the safety chains; but, owing to the traction, he would never have succeeded in unscrewing the yoking-bar, had not a violent concussion jolted this bar out. The train, now detached from the engine, remained a little behind, whilst the locomotive rushed forward with increased speed. 现在，他一只手攀着车，整个身体悬空在行李车和煤车之间，另外一只手去松开挂钩链条，但是，由于机车的牵引力很大，如果单靠他的力量，挂钩中间的铁栓一辈子也拔不开，就在这时候，只见机车一阵摇晃，铁栓被震动得跳出来了。列车脱离了车头慢慢地落后了，而机车却更增加了飞驰的速度。 
列车由于惯性的推动力继续前进了几分钟，但是车厢里的旅客扭紧了煞车舵盘，列车终于在离开克尔尼堡车站不到一百步的地方停下来了。 The soldiers of the fort, attracted by the shots, hurried up; the Sioux had not expected them, and decamped in a body before the train entirely stopped. 兵营里的士兵听到了枪声，立即赶了过来。西乌人还没有等到他们来，趁着列车还没有完全停下来以前，他们早就四散逃窜了。 But when the passengers counted each other on the station platform several were found missing; among others the courageous Frenchman, whose devotion had just saved them. 但是，当旅客们在站台上检查人数时，发现少了一些人，其中包括那个仗义拯救了这些旅客性命的勇敢的法国人。 Three passengers including Passepartout had disappeared. Had they been killed in the struggle? Were they taken prisoners by the Sioux? It was impossible to tell. 连路路通在内一共有三个旅客失踪。他们是在战斗中被打死了呢，还是被西乌人捉去了呢？现在谁也不知道。 There were many wounded, but none mortally. Colonel Proctor was one of the most seriously hurt; he had fought bravely, and a ball had entered his groin. He was carried into the station with the other wounded passengers, to receive such attention as could be of avail. 旅客负伤的相当多，不过据了解还没有人受致命的重伤。普洛克托上校算是一个重伤号。他这次作战很勇敢，大腿根上中了一颗子弹，被打倒了。他和另一些需要立即治疗的旅客都被抬到车站里去了。 
艾娥达夫人平安无事。斐利亚·福克虽然是全力作战，但是连一点皮也没有擦破。费克斯膀子上受了一点轻伤。只是路路通失踪了，艾娥达夫人在为他流眼泪。
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