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This intrepid fellow was a Negro born on the engineer's estate, of a slave father and mother, but to whom Cyrus, who was an Abolitionist from conviction and heart, had long since given his freedom.
On that day the engineer, Cyrus Harding, was accosted in one of the streets of Richmond by a person whom he did not in the least know.
The engineer looked fixedly at the man who spoke, and who added, in a low voice,--"Captain Harding, will you try to escape?""When?" asked the engineer quickly, and it was evident that this question was uttered without consideration, for he had not yet examined the stranger who addressed him.
The engineer understood him at once.
The hurricane was in all its violence, it is true, but so clever and daring an engineer as Cyrus Harding knew perfectly well how to manage a balloon.
The courageous boy knew of the sailor's plan, and it was not without anxiety that he awaited the result of the proposal being made to the engineer.
The engineer only feared one thing; it was that the balloon, held to the ground and dashed about by the wind, would be torn into shreds.
Without speaking a word, Harding, Spilett, Neb, and Herbert took their places in the car, while Pencroft by the engineer's order detached successively the bags of ballast.
The balloon was then only held by the cable, and the engineer had nothing to do but to give the word.
It was Top, a favorite of the engineer.
During the night the engineer could not dream of descending, and when day broke, even a glimpse of the earth below was intercepted by fog.
But one of their number was missing, the man who was to be their guide, their leading spirit, the engineer, Captain Harding!
Chapter 3The engineer, the meshes of the net having given way, had been carried off by a wave.
The engineer had disappeared to the north of the shore, and nearly half a mile from the place where the castaways had landed.
From time to time the castaways stopped and shouted, then listened for some response from the ocean, for they thought that if the engineer had landed, and they had been near to the place, they would have heard the barking of the dog Top, even should Harding himself have been unable to give any sign of existence.
They could not leave it either, as the sea surrounded them; they must therefore put off till the next day their search for the engineer, from whom, alas! not a single cry had reached them to show that he was still in existence.
The reporter then proposed to light a fire on a point of the islet, which would serve as a signal to the engineer.
Either the engineer had been able to save himself, and had already found a refuge on some point of the coast, or he was lost for ever!
Towards midnight the stars shone out, and if the engineer had been there with his companions he would have remarked that these stars did not belong to the Northern Hemisphere.
He little expected ever to see Cyrus Harding again; but wishing to leave some hope to Herbert: "Doubtless, doubtless," said he; "our engineer is a man who would get out of a scrape to which any one else would yield."
The boy's heart sank; the sailor had not been deceived in his forebodings; the engineer, Cyrus Harding, had not been found!
He and Neb had surveyed the coast for a distance of eight miles and consequently much beyond the place where the balloon had fallen the last time but one, a fall which was followed by the disappearance of the engineer and the dog Top.
The sea was as deserted as the land, and it was there, a few hundred feet from the coast, that the engineer must have found a tomb.
And yet, if Cyrus Harding had been with them, if the engineer could have brought his practical science, his inventive mind to bear on their situation, perhaps all hope would not have been lost.
As long as the waves had not cast up the body of the engineer, as long as he, Neb, had not seen with his eyes, touched with his hands the corpse of his master, he would not believe in his death!
It was the dog of the engineer, Cyrus Harding.
But was the engineer living, or had Neb only sent for his companions that they might render the last duties to the corpse of the unfortunate Harding?
The body was that of the engineer, Cyrus Harding.
The reporter knelt down beside the motionless body, and placed his ear to the engineer's chest, having first torn open his clothes.
"He lives!" said he.Pencroft knelt in his turn beside the engineer, he also heard a throbbing, and even felt a slight breath on his cheek.
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