Just a cow on the track, I guess.

Don't get scared.

It isn't anything." But with a final shriek of the Westinghouse appliance, the train came to a definite halt.
At once the silence was absolute.

The ears, still numb with the long-continued roar of wheels and clashing iron, at first refused to register correctly the smaller noises of the surroundings.

Voices came from the other end of the car, strange and unfamiliar, as though heard at a great distance across the water.