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This work had been so quickly done, that Pencroft, Gideon Spilett, and Herbert found time to make an expedition to Port Balloon, The sailor was very anxious to know if the little creek in which the "Bonadventure" was moored, had been visited by the convicts.
"Then can the convicts have been on board?" asked Herbert.
"But if the convicts had used her, they would have pillaged her, or rather gone off with her.""Gone off!
"Well," resumed Gideon Spilett, "I ask again, what object could the convicts have had in using the 'Bonadventure,' and why, after they had made use of her, should they have brought her back to port?""Why, Mr. Spilett," replied the sailor, "we must put that among the unaccountable things, and not think anything more about it.
Only, unfortunately, if the convicts take her a second time, we shall very likely not find her again in her place!"
"But suppose the convicts pay her another visit," said Herbert.
The wood was thick on each side of the road and might easily have concealed the convicts, who owing to their weapons would have been really formidable.
In short, it was not without a motive that all communication had been stopped between the corral and Granite House, and who but the convicts could have any interest in interrupting this communication?
They did not think either of the danger which threatened them should the convicts return, or of the precautions to be taken for the future.
Gideon Spilett, at the moment he scaled the palisade, had clearly seen some one of the convicts running along the southern spur of Mount Franklin, towards whom Top had sprung.
"Then, doubtless, the convicts installed themselves in the corral where they found plenty of everything, and only fled when they saw us coming.
Have the convicts appeared in the neighborhood?
Chapter 8So the convicts were still there, watching the corral, and determined to kill the settlers one after the other.
Ayrton's house had been provided with all that was necessary for existence, and the convicts, scared by the arrival of the settlers, had not had time to pillage it.
It was probable, as Gideon Spilett observed, that things had occurred as follows: The six convicts, disembarking on the island, had followed the southern shore, and after having traversed the double shore of the Serpentine Peninsula, not being inclined to venture into the Far West woods, they had reached the mouth of Falls River.
"When Herbert is cured, we can organize a general battle of the island, and have satisfaction of these convicts.
In fact, the convicts' ship had appeared in the waters of the island, and if the pirates had been, so to speak, miraculously destroyed, six of them, at least, had escaped the catastrophe.
Besides, it did not offer the same security, and its tenants, notwithstanding their watchfulness, were here always in fear of some shot from the convicts.
If the convicts were hid in one spot of the island, if we knew that spot, and had only to dislodge them, I would undertake a direct attack; but is there not occasion to fear, on the contrary, that they are sure to fire the first shot?"
Do you imagine that the convicts will not see you leave it, that they will not allow you to enter the forest, and that they will not attack it during your absence, knowing that there is no one here but a wounded boy and a man?""You are right, captain," replied Pencroft, his chest swelling with sullen anger.
His dog would have warned him of any danger, and, as Top did not bark, it might be concluded that there was nothing to fear at the moment at least, and that the convicts were occupied in another part of the island.
The convicts have dragged him away in spite of himself!
But if the convicts had not killed him at first, if they had brought him living to another part of the island, might it not be admitted that he was still their prisoner?
Perhaps, even, one of them had found in Ayrton his old Australian companion Ben Joyce, the chief of the escaped convicts.
"Plateau invaded by convicts.
The convicts on Prospect Heights! that was disaster, devastation, ruin.
It was necessary, therefore, to follow this way, although it was well known to the convicts.
However, it was not probable that the convicts would have yet left the plateau of Prospect Heights.
Neb's note had evidently been written and sent as soon as the convicts had shown themselves there.
Cyrus Harding expected to find it in its place; supposing that the convicts would have crossed it, and that, after having passed one of the streams which enclosed the plateau, they would have taken the precaution to lower it again, so as to keep open a retreat.
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