St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-01

denly he threw himself off to the left, down
a narrow footpath running close to the high
cliff along the Shore under which the rail-
way and carriage-road pass by the tunnel.
Point Pescade and Cape Matifou hurried
after him. A hundred PAGES further on
Toronthal stopped. He had jumped on to
a rock which Overhung precipice whose
base. hundreds of feet below, dropped deep
into the sea.
what was he going to do? Had the
idea of suicide crossed his brain? Would
he tnen end his miserable existence by hurl-
ing himself into the waves?"
"a thousand devisw exclaimed Pescade;
1--WE must have him alive! Catch him,
Cape MatifOu, and hold him Tight"
But they had not gone twenty yards be-
fore they saw man appear to the right OF
the pa h, glide along the slope among the
myrtles and lentisks, and Chamber up so as
to reach the rock ON which Toronthal
stood.
1t was Sarcany.
"Hallow exclaimed Point Pescade, "He
is going to give his friend something to send
him from this world into the next! hurry
up, Matifou. You take One-IH take the
other!'
But Sarcany stopped. He risked being
ItCOSIllLGu. n curse tSCttFOu LILO iiP'.
Springing off to the right before Pescade
could reach him, he vanished among the
bushes.
An instant afterwards, as Toronthal had
gathered himself together to jump from the
rock. he was seized by Cape Matifou, and
pulled back on to the road.
LET me go! Let me go!' -
sLet YOU make mistake, Mr.. Toronthal?
Oh. dear no.' answered Point Pescade.
He was quite unprepared for this INCL
dent. which his instructions had not fore
seen. But, although Sarcany had escaped,
Toronthal was captured, and all that could
now be done was to take him to Anteklrtta,
where he would be received with all the
honor that was his due.
"Will you forward the gentleman-at
reduced rate?" asked Point Pescade.
with pleasure, said Matifou.
Toronthal, hardly knowing what had
happened, made but very slight resistance.
Pescade found rough footpath leading to
the beach. and down it he was followed by
Cape Matifou, who sometimes carried and
sometimes dragged his inert prisoner.
The descent was extremely difficult, and
without Pescade's extraordinary activity and
his friends extraordinary strength, they
would certainly have had a fatal fall. How
ever, after risking their lives a score OF times,
they gained the rocks on the beach. There
the shore is formed of a succession OF small
creeks, capriciouSly cut back into the sand
stone, shut in by high reddish walls, and
bordered by ferruginous reefs tinting the
waves bright blood-color as they curl over
them.
Day had begun to break when Point Pes
cade found shelter at the back of ravine
that had been cut down INTO the cliff In
geologic ages. Here he left Toronthal In
charge of Cape Matifou.
''You will stop here!" he said.
GAS long as you like"
"Twelye hours even, if am twelve hours
away?"
Twelve hours"
'sAnd without eating?"
eff | do not breakfast this morning
shall dine this evening-and for both OF
us.n'
'sAnd if you do not have dinner for two,
you shall have supper for fourw
And then Cape Matifou sat down on
rock so as not to lose sight Of his prisoner;
and Point Pescade made his way along the
shore from creek to creek towards Monaco.
He was not away as long as he expected.
In less than two hours he came upon the
Electric moored in one of the deserted
creeks. And an hour later that swift yes
sci had arrived off the ravine in which Cape
Matifou seen from the sea looked like
NEUROLOGICAL Proteus herding the sheep OF
Neptune,
A minute or two afterwards he and his
prisoner were on board and without having
been noticed by the coastguard or the fisher
men the Electric was of, under full power,
for Antekirtta.