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"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.
He had reached his house in the corral during the night and the settlers judged it best not to agitate him by their presence.
During the days which followed, Herbert and Spilett having gone in the direction of the corral, ascertained that Ayrton had taken possession of the habitation which had been prepared for him.
He busied himself with the numerous flock confided to his care, and spared his companions the trouble of coming every two or three days to visit the corral.
Independently of facts bearing on the mystery of Lincoln Island, many others might happen, which would call for the prompt interference of the colonists,--such as the sighting of a vessel, a wreck on the western coast, the possible arrival of pirates, etc.Therefore Cyrus Harding resolved to put the corral in instantaneous communication with Granite House.
Finally, the engineer obtained wires from forty to fifty feet long, which could be easily fastened together and stretched over the distance of five miles, which separated the corral from the bounds of Granite House.
Such was the ingenious and very simple apparatus constructed by Cyrus Harding, an apparatus which would allow them to establish a telegraphic communication between Granite House and the corral.
Two batteries had been manufactured, one for Granite House, the other for the corral; for if it was necessary the corral should be able to communicate with Granite House it might also be useful that Granite House should be able to communicate with the corral.
On this day, Harding, having sent the current through the wire, asked if all was going on well at the corral, and received in a few moments a satisfactory reply from Ayrton.
Pencroft was wild with joy, and every morning and evening he sent a telegram to the corral, which always received an answer.
This mode of communication presented two very real advantages: firstly, because it enabled them to ascertain that Ayrton was at the corral; and secondly, that he was thus not left completely isolated.
They thus visited all the left bank of the Mercy, along which ran the road from the corral to the mouth of Falls River.
The reporter and his assistant became in a short time very skilful operators, and they obtained fine views of the country, such as the island, taken from Prospect Heights with Mount Franklin in the distance, the mouth of the Mercy, so picturesquely framed in high rocks, the glade and the corral, with the spurs of the mountain in the background, the curious development of Claw Cape, Flotsam Point, etc.Nor did the photographers forget to take the portraits of all the inhabitants of the island, leaving out no one.
Cyrus Harding proposed that he should come to spend the bad season with them in Granite House, where he would be better lodged than at the corral, and Ayrton promised to do so, as soon as the last work at the corral was finished.
But, in short, Granite House did not suffer much from the inclemency of the weather, and it was the same with the corral, which, less exposed than the plateau, and sheltered partly by Mount Franklin, only received the remains of the hurricanes, already broken by the forests and the high rocks of the shore.
The damages there were consequently of small importance, and the activity and skill of Ayrton promptly repaired them, when some time in October he returned to pass a few days in the corral.
This was the opinion of all, and the reporter, going to the telegraphic apparatus which placed the corral in communication with Granite House, sent this telegram:--"Come with all possible speed."
"But our plantations, our poultry-yard, our corral, all, everything!" exclaimed Pencroft, stamping his foot.
Moreover, it was necessary for Ayrton to return to the corral, where the domesticated animals required his care.
If anything occurred at the corral, or in the neighborhood, he could instantly warn the colonists by sending a telegram to Granite House.
Ayrton departed at dawn on the 9th, taking the cart drawn by one onager, and two hours after, the electric wire announced that he had found all in order at the corral.
That evening a telegram was sent to Ayrton, requesting him to bring from the corral a couple of goats, which Neb wished to acclimatize to the plateau.
But it might be that Ayrton was not at that moment in the corral, or even that he was on his way back to Granite House.
Was Ayrton no longer at the corral, or if he was still there, had he no longer control over his movements?
Could they go to the corral in this dark night?
"Off to the corral," said he."And well armed!" added Pencroft.
Cyrus Harding, Gideon Spilett, Herbert, and Pencroft were to repair to the corral, and if they did not find Ayrton, search the neighboring woods.
The colonists, after leaving the plateau of Prospect Heights, immediately took the road to the corral.
Cyrus Harding and his companions followed beside the road the wire which connected the corral with Granite House.
The unexpected explanation of the difficulty was here, and it was evident that the despatches from Granite House had not been received at the corral, nor those from the corral at Granite House.
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