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Updated: May 23, 2025
I run no risk of being discovered, for only my head protrudes above the hole in the rock and no one is likely to come this way. The only thing that worries me is that Serko, or somebody else may take it into his head to see if I am in my cell, and if necessary to lock me in, though what they have to fear from me I cannot conceive.
But where is Thomas Roch? Has he been killed by one of the projectiles? No, I see him for the last time as he dashes into the passage. Ker Karraje, Engineer Serko and the others follow him to seek shelter inside of Back Cup. I will not return to the cavern at any price, even if I get killed by staying where I am.
Michael, crawling on the ground, felt about with his hands. Suddenly Serko uttered a fresh bark and darted towards a gigantic bird which had swooped down. It was a vulture. When Serko ran towards it, it rose, but returning struck at the dog. The latter leapt up at it. A blow from the formidable beak alighted on his head, and this time Serko fell back lifeless on the ground.
"They can know nothing about this matter, Mr. Serko. It is not imagined, either in the new world or the old, that the abduction from Healthful House was effected for your especial benefit, or that you have succeeded in coming to terms with Thomas Roch for his invention." Engineer Serko made no response to this observation, which, for that matter, was unanswerable.
Engineer Serko stops short, as though reluctant to give any further information, but finally adds: "Therefore, I end as I began, Mr. Hart. Resign yourself to the inevitable. Accept your new existence without reserve. Give yourself up to the tranquil delights of this subterranean life. If one is in good health, one preserves it; if one has lost one's health, one recovers it here.
As soon as I recover my senses I find myself lying on my bed in my cell, where it appears I have been lying for thirty-six hours. I am not alone. Engineer Serko is near me. He has attended to me himself, not because he regards me as a friend, I surmise, but as a man from whom indispensable explanations are awaited, and who afterwards can be done away with if necessary.
Besides, as will be seen, it soon disappeared and was never heard of again. The boat was constructed from a model and under the personal supervision of Engineer Serko, and fitted with all the known appliances of nautical science. The screw was worked with electric piles of recent invention which imparted enormous propulsive power to the motor.
He is somewhat of the Grecian type, and T have no doubt that he is of Hellenic origin when I hear him called Serko Engineer Serko by the Captain of the Ebba. As to the latter, he is called Spade Captain Spade and this name has an Italian twang about it. Thus there is a Greek, an Italian, and a crew recruited from every corner of the earth to man a schooner with a Norwegian name!
Ker Karraje and Engineer Serko had not gone yesterday, as I supposed, for I saw them in the evening. To-day, however, I have reason to believe that they really have gone away in the tug with Captain Spade and the crew of the Ebba, and that the latter must be sailing away. Have they set out on a piracy expedition? Very likely.
It is not likely that the ships will attempt a night attack and land a storming party, for they must imagine that the place is in a thorough condition of defence. All night long the pirates work, installing the trestles at different points of the coast. Six have been taken through the passage to places selected in advance. This done, Engineer Serko joins Thomas Roch in his laboratory.
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