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Benson merely warded off the blow, at the same time brushing M. Lemaire back a couple of steps. "Now, you keep away Gaston, or whatever your name is!" warned Jack, wheeling upon the chauffeur. "If I lose my temper, some one is going to be hurt." But that defiance served only to draw the chauffeur on. Raising the wrench, he rushed swiftly at the young submarine captain, aiming a blow at his head.
It was now the 18th of May, and Lemaire ordered the course to be changed, that the Moluccas might be reached by the north of New Guinea. After sighting the country of Papua, Schouten and Lemaire reached Gilolo, one of the Moluccas, where they received an eager welcome from their compatriots.
His experiences as a convict had been novel but not pleasant, and he looked upon the time which had elapsed since he left France in the convict ship to the day he landed on the coast of Queensland in an open boat as a bad nightmare, and would willingly have tried to treat it as such, only the constant sight of his dumb companion, Pierre Lemaire, reminded him only too vividly of the reality of his trouble.
Jack swiftly told what had happened, and what he had just discovered, at the same time passing the cane to the Secret Service man. "Lemaire, I guess you'd better come with us, for safe-keeping," advised Trotter, dryly. "You ar-r-rest me?" snarled the Frenchman. "Oh, yes; if you insist upon a name for it."
"Ah, well, out of three young men, we shall find one who will tell us all we need to know," laughed M. Lemaire, gayly. "So it is only a question of learning which of the three to make the first attempt upon." "If you want a suggestion " began Norton. "By all means, my dear fellow." "Then turn your batteries of inquisitiveness loose upon Jack Benson, first of all. He may be easy game.
"Cavendish assures us that they are tall and robust," continued Paganel. "Hawkins makes out they are giants. Lemaire and Shouten declare that they are eleven feet high." "These are all credible witnesses," said Glenarvan. "Yes, quite as much as Wood, Narborough, and Falkner, who say they are of medium stature.
He had thrust his hands deep down into his trousers pockets, in order to restrain his very natural impulse to spring at the Frenchman and rain blows in the latter's face. "Two or three days' work, let us say," continued M. Lemaire. "And, for that we will pay you handsomely ten thousand dollars in the best money of your land!" They halted, gazing at each other.
Ratonneau and Pomegue are the nearest islands of all those that surround the Chateau d'If, but Ratonneau and Pomegue are inhabited, as is also the islet of Daume. Tiboulen and Lemaire were therefore the safest for Dantes' venture. The islands of Tiboulen and Lemaire are a league from the Chateau d'If; Dantes, nevertheless, determined to make for them.
He was conveyed to the house of the judge of the peace for the Section of Bondy, Rue Grange-sue-Belles, whose name was Lemaire. His countenance was mild; and though his manner was cold, he had none of the harshness and ferocity common to the Government agents of that time. His examination of the charge was long, and he several times shook his head.
"Careful," warned the Frenchman, "or I will soon make you shriek your apologies to me. I can do what I please with you, and sometimes I have an ugly temper. But listen. I come for one purpose only to find out what answer am to take to my master, M. Lemaire." "Take him," retorted Jack, dryly, "the assurance of my undying contempt for him and all of his kind."
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