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"To the corral! to the corral!" exclaimed the sailor.
The colonists were now half way between Granite House and the corral, having still two miles and a half to go.
Indeed, it was to be feared that some serious accident had occurred in the corral.
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?
Soon they arrived at the place where the road led along the side of the little stream which flowed from the Red Creek and watered the meadows of the corral.
Deep silence reigned in the corral.
"Into the corral, then!" said Pencroft.
As may be believed, during the four-and-twenty hours they had been in the corral, the colonists had no other thought than that of nursing Herbert.
First of all they examined the corral.
As to the corral, it had not suffered any damage.
"Then, doubtless, the convicts installed themselves in the corral where they found plenty of everything, and only fled when they saw us coming.
"At any rate," said the engineer, "we are obliged to wait some time, and to remain at the corral until we can carry Herbert without danger to Granite House."
The villains are evidently watching the corral, they are hidden in the thick woods which surround it, and if you go we shall soon have to regret two misfortunes instead of one!""But Neb?"
He will carry to Granite House the news of the corral, and he will bring back to us that from Granite House!""Quick!" said Harding.
We are at the corral.
The road to the corral was familiar to him.
The engineer went to the gate of the corral and opened it.
The gate of the corral was closed.
Almost immediately Top bounded into the corral, and the gate was quickly shut.
Chapter 8So the convicts were still there, watching the corral, and determined to kill the settlers one after the other.
From this point, by following the right bank of the watercourse, they would arrive at the spurs of Mount Franklin, among which they would naturally seek a retreat, and they could not have been long in discovering the corral, then uninhabited.
Herbert had questioned him on the subject of Ayrton, whom he was astonished not to see near him, thinking that he was at the corral.
"My friends," said the reporter, after they had talked of Neb and of the impossibility of communicating with him, "I think,--like you, that to venture on the road to the corral would be to risk receiving a gunshot without being able to return it.
"Besides, observe that if both of you left the corral I should remain here alone to defend it.
"You are right; they will do all they can to retake the corral, which they know to be well stored; and alone you could not hold it against them."
But we are at the corral, and it is best to stay here until we can leave it together."
It can, therefore, be well understood how injurious this seclusion in the corral must have been to the colonists.
It was a piece of cloth, stained and torn, which Spilett immediately brought back to the corral.
"It is that Ayrton was not killed at the corral!
Indeed, they had before believed that, surprised in the corral, Ayrton had fallen by a bullet, as Herbert had fallen.
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