The sudden stopping of the cars on the Atlantic Coast Line shook up the passengers at a wood and water station near Columbia, South Carolina.

It was midnight. Those who had been dissembling sleep straight ened up, as did those who really had been snoozing. Some poked their heads out of the windows and looked up and down the road in the darkness.

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