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Faria had dug his way through fifty feet, Dantes would dig a hundred; Faria, at the age of fifty, had devoted three years to the task; he, who was but half as old, would sacrifice six; Faria, a priest and savant, had not shrunk from the idea of risking his life by trying to swim a distance of three miles to one of the islands Daume, Rattonneau, or Lemaire; should a hardy sailer, an experienced diver, like himself, shrink from a similar task; should he, who had so often for mere amusement's sake plunged to the bottom of the sea to fetch up the bright coral branch, hesitate to entertain the same project?

We must look after them, else they deteriorate in the seminary. You have the example of the baker, Louis Lemaire, an idler, a gossip, a tattler, a man who, instead of walking behind the coach, would not go unless Monseigneur paid for a carriage for him to follow him to La Rochelle, and lent him his dressing-gown to protect him from the cold.

'The fact is, M. Vandeloup, said Madame, quietly, 'Archie is so annoyed at this conduct that he does not want Lemaire to come back to work. 'Ma certie, I should just think so, cried McIntosh, rubbing his head with his handkerchief. 'Fancy an imp of Beelzebub like yon in the bowels o' the earth. Losh! but it macks my bluid rin cauld when I think o' the bluidthirsty pagan.

For a few seconds Jack Benson did not dare trust himself to utter a word. When he did speak, it was to ask, calmly: "M. Lemaire, who is your master?" "My master?" repeated the Frenchman. "I do not understand you." "Every dog, even a dirty one," thundered Captain Jack Benson, "has a master! Who's yours?" M. Lemaire's face became livid in an instant.

Vandeloup, for whom a warrant was out for the murder of Lemaire, had also disappeared, and was supposed to have gone to America. Madame Midas suffered severely from the shocks she had undergone with the discovery of everyone's baseness.

Charles, will you favor us with some account of the islands?" CHARLES. "Staten is a detached island, which may be considered as forming part of the archipelago of Terra del Fuego. It was discovered by Lemaire. "The Falklands are two large islands, separated from each other by a broad channel of the same name. We are now nearly out of the Atlantic."

"Why, Captain Benson, I might even kill, if I found it necessary," replied the Frenchman. "Then don't get any notion that it's necessary," frowned the young submarine captain. "It would get you into a fearful lot of trouble, and could do you no possible good." "But you called me a 'dog," pursued M. Lemaire, plaintively. "To a Frenchman that is the gr-r-r-rand insult!"

"I was wrong to think Jack Benson a fool," she said to herself, angrily. "He is far more clever than the men I have met. I can do nothing with him. I must turn him over to Lemaire to see if that prince of spies, as he has often been called, can find the flaw in this submarine boy's armor." With that Mlle. Nadiboff leaned forward, murmuring a few words to the chauffeur, who nodded slightly.

As for the third, Hal Hastings, I hear that he is a silent fellow, who says little, and generally waits five minutes, to think his answer over, before he gives it." "Benson it shall be, then," nodded M. Lemaire. "I shall find it easy to meet him. And now, good-bye, Norton, until this evening. You will know what to do then."

Now Jack drew himself up, for he was becoming master of himself. He at once resolved to play this game, if there was to be more of it, with greater coolness. "I think you see, Monsieur, that I am not be frightened by your childish gymnastics," Benson uttered. M. Lemaire, too, had forced himself to greater coolness.