eight in
the evening
However , all danger had quickly disappeared . A breakage of the coupling of the luggage-van had first caused the shock to , and then the stoppage of , the train , which in another instant would have been thrown from the top of the embankment into a bog . There was an hour 's delay . At last , the road being cleared , the train proceeded , and at half-past eight in the evening arrived at the station of Nijni-Novgorod . Before anyone could get out of the carriages , the inspectors of police presented themselves at the doors and examined the passengers . Michael Strogoff showed his podorojna , made out in the name of Nicholas Korpanoff . He had consequently no difficulty .