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Updated: June 25, 2025

Then, addressing Bat, Austin, and Hercules, "Arm yourselves, my friends, and come!" Each of the blacks took a gun and a cutlass, as Dick Sand had done. A cartridge was slipped into the breech of the Remingtons, and, thus armed, all four went to the bank of the river. Mrs. Weldon, Tom, and Acteon remained at the entrance of the grotto, where little Jack and Nan still rested by themselves.

Jules Verne - Dick Sand: A Captain at Fifteen