6:30 p.m.
`` Up at the shed . '' `` I 'm on sick leave , '' said John . `` Ca n't help that . The 6:30 p.m. passenger train must be drove , and there 's nobody left but you to drive it . Jones is away with a goods train owin ' to Maxwell having sprained his ankle , and Long Thompson is down with small-pox , so you 'll have to do it . I offered 'em my services , but the manager he said that intelligent lads could n't be spared for such menial work , and told me to go and fetch you . '' `` Maxwell had no business to sprain his ankle , '' said John Marrot .