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"Lieutenant Davon, of the British Navy, of H.M.S. Standard, which is stationed at the Bermudas." Emotion choked me so that it was impossible for me to utter a word. "We have come to rescue you from Ker Karraje, and also propose to carry off Thomas Roch," he added. "Thomas Roch?" I stammered. "Yes, the document signed by you was found on the beach at St. George "
Gallant Lieutenant Davon, gallant crew, may England, may the civilized nations, never forget that you have sacrificed your lives in the cause of humanity! It is evident that now, however powerful may be their means of defence, even more powerful than a network of torpedoes, Engineer Serko and Captain Spade are filled with an anxiety that they vainly essay to dissemble.
Captain Spade had seen that another submarine boat was about to issue through the tunnel, and he was making preparations to chase us. How could a frail craft like the Sword defend itself against the attacks of Ker Karraje's powerful machine? Lieutenant Davon turned to me and said: "Go back to the compartment where Thomas Roch is and shut yourself in. I will close the after-door.
I saw you issue from the cell marked on your plan. Do you know where Thomas Roch is?" "A few paces off. He has just passed me, on his way to his laboratory." "God be praised, Mr. Hart!" "Amen, Lieutenant Davon." The lieutenant, the two men and I took the path around the lagoon. We had not gone far when we perceived Thomas Roch in front of us.
Lieutenant Davon certainly assured me that if his expedition failed, if the Sword did not return to St. George, another attempt under different conditions would be made with a view to breaking up this bandits' lair. Sooner or later the work of justice must be done, and Back Cup be destroyed, even though I may not survive its destruction.
On learning that Lieutenant Davon and his companions are dead, my heart is filled with anguish; but to keep up my role as they were persons with whom, presumably, I was not acquainted, and had never seen I am careful not to display any emotion. I must, on no account, afford ground for the suspicion that there was any connivance between the commander of the Sword and me.
"In a keg, Lieutenant Davon, which I committed to the waters of the lagoon." "And which contained," went on the officer, "the notice by which we were apprised that the island of Back Cup served as a refuge for Ker Karraje and his band Ker Karraje, this false Count d'Artigas, the author of the double abduction from Healthful House." "Ah! Lieutenant Davon "
I am still so weak that I could not walk a step. A little more and I should have been asphyxiated in that narrow compartment of the Sword at the bottom of the lagoon. Am I in condition to reply to the questions that Engineer Serko is dying to put to me? Yes but I shall maintain the utmost reserve. In the first place I wonder what has become of Lieutenant Davon and the crew of the Sword.
Solches durch seine subtilne Kunst hat gethan, Und des Teufels Lohn empfangen davon. 1525." On neither of the two pictures does Mephistopheles appear, unless he is meant to be represented in the shape of the black dog. It is not, however, Goethe's poodle that meets us here, but a sleek little creature with a collar around his neck, looking very much like a wooden toy-dog.
"Now we have not a moment to spare, we must profit by the obscurity." "One word, Lieutenant Davon, how did you penetrate to the interior of Back Cup?" "By means of the submarine boat Sword, with which we have been making experiments at St. George for six months past." "A submarine boat!" "Yes, it awaits us at the foot of the rocks. And now, Mr. Hart, where is Ker Karraje's tug?"
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