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It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason, since you have found this poor creature in such a state!""But, captain," asked Herbert, "what leads you to think that the brutishness of the unfortunate man began only a few months back?""Because the document we found had been recently written," answered the engineer, "and the castaway alone can have written it."
"But, by the bye," said Gideon Spilett, addressing Herbert, "you never told us how you met this savage, and we know nothing, except that you would have been strangled, if we had not happened to come up in time to help you!""Upon my word," answered Herbert, "it is rather difficult to say how it happened.
"Yes, my brave Pencroft," answered the engineer, "but on condition, however, that you help me, for you do as much as three men in all our work."
"Sir," said he to Harding, "your companions and you, are you English?""No," answered the engineer, "we are Americans."
"No," answered Pencroft, "for it was still floating.
"No! no!" he exclaimed; "one word only--am I free?""You are free," answered the engineer.
"Now for a good wind," said he, "and we shall grind our first harvest splendidly!""A good wind, certainly," answered the engineer, "but not too much, Pencroft."
On the 10th of December, a week after his return to Granite House, Harding saw the stranger approaching, who, in a calm voice and humble tone, said to him: "Sir, I have a request to make of you.""Speak," answered the engineer, "but first let me ask you a question."
"It will be good enough for me, sir.""My friend," answered Harding, "we will not constrain you in anything.
"My friend," answered Harding, who always intentionally made use of this cordial appellation, "you must let us judge what it will be best to do in this respect."
The irishman, in whose service he had been for more than a year, answered for his trustworthiness.
They answered, "Duncan" sailed on the 18th instant.
"Captain Harding, leave me some time longer," replied Ayrton, "leave me alone in the hut in the corral!""As you like, Ayrton," answered Cyrus Harding.
"Yes, the document which we found enclosed in a bottle, giving us the exact position of Tabor Island!"Ayrton passed his hand over his brow, then after having thought, "I never threw any document into the sea!" he answered.
"It was he," answered Neb, "only the unhappy man was half-mad."
"However," observed Pencroft, "if he was not yet a brute when he wrote that document, and if he threw it into the sea seven or eight years ago, how is it that the paper has not been injured by damp?""That proves," answered Cyrus Harding, "that Ayrton was deprived of intelligence at a more recent time than he thinks."
"Unaccountable indeed," answered the engineer, who did not appear desirous to prolong the conversation.
"Exactly so," answered the engineer.
answered the reporter, joining the boy.
"I will attempt anything that is desired, Mr. Spilett," answered the sailor, "and you know well that I am not a man to flinch!""Remember, besides, that we number another sailor amongst us now," remarked Neb.
"Well!" answered Pencroft, "I agree with you that the nobleman will return, and soon too.
"Certainly," answered the reporter, "and nothing is easier than to place in the hut, which was Captain Grant's and Ayrton's dwelling, a notice which Lord Glenarvan and his crew cannot help finding, giving the position of our island."
"That is evident," answered the engineer.
"I think that we shall be obliged to do so, whether we like it or not," answered Pencroft, "for the sky looks very threatening towards the west.
"I shall try to keep in the offing until the flood, that is to say, till about seven in the evening, and if there is still light enough I will try to enter the gulf; if not, we must stand off and on during the night, and we will enter to-morrow at sunrise.""As I told you, Pencroft, we will leave it to you," answered Harding.
"We mean, captain," answered Pencroft, "that on board the 'Bonadventure' we were very anxious during the few hours before our return, and we should have passed to windward of the island, if it had not been for the precaution you took of lighting a fire the night of the 19th of October, on Prospect Heights."
answered Cyrus Harding.
"No, Mr. Herbert," answered Neb, "and yet this gulf here doesn't please me much!
"No, Cyrus," answered the reporter, "it was certainly a fire lighted by the hand of man.
"No, Pencroft, but mysterious, most certainly," replied the engineer; "unless you can explain that which Spilett and I have until now failed to understand.""Speak away, captain," answered the sailor.
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