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on the Shore Which was out of range OF
the guns either Of the town or the central
cone.
The doctor, from his position on the
nearest salient, had seen all this. and with
his much fewer men could not attempt to
stop it. But as they were sheltered by the
walls, the assailants, numerous as they
were, would find their task difficult one.
The Senousists dragging their light guns
with them, formed into two columns and
came marching along with all the careless
bravery of the Arab and the audacity OF the
fanatics. who glory in their contempt of
of the European.
When they were well within range the
batteries opened on them. More than a
hundred fell, but the others still kept on.
Their field pieces were brought into posi-
ton, and they began to breach the wall in
the angle of the unfinished curtain towards
the south.
Their chief, calm amid those who were
falling at his SIDE directed the operation.
Sarcany, close by was exciting him to de-
liver the assault, and hurl several hundred
men at the falling wall.
From the distance DR.. Antekirtt and
Pierre had recognized him, and he had
recognized them.
And now the mass of besiegers began
their advance to the wall, which had been
beaten in sufficiently to let them through.
If they succeeded in clearing this breach
they would spread themselves over the
town, and the besieged too weak to resist,
would have to abandon it, and, with the
sanguinary temperament of the pirates, the
victory would be followed by a general
massacre.
The hand-to-hand struggle at this point
was terrible. Under the doctors orders,
who stood as impossible in the danger as he
was invulnerable amid the bullets, Pierre
and his companions performed prodigies of
valor, and Point Pescade and Cape Matifou
lent their assistance, and displayed the
most brilliant audacity.
The Hercules, with knife in one hand
and an axe in the other, kept clear the
space around him.
go it, my Cape. go it! Down with
them!' shouted Point Pescade, whose re-
volver, necessarily recharging and discharg-
ing. was going like a Gatlingr
But the foe would not yield. After be-
ing many times driven out of the breach,
they had again swarmed on to the attack,
and were slowly fighting their way through
when they suddenly found themselves at
tackled in the rear.
The Ferrato had managed to get into a
commanding position within three cable
lengths of the shore, and with her carron-
AIDES all brought to the one side, her long
chaser, her Hotchkiss cannons, and her
Calling mitrailleuses. she opened such a fire
on the assailants that they were mown
down as the grass before the scythe. She
attacked them in the rear and cannonaded
them on the beach at the same time so as
to destroy and sink the boats which had
been moored round the rocks.
The blow was terrible one, and was
quite unexpected by the Senouslsts. Not
only were they taken in the rear, but all
means of escape would be cut off if their
vessels were knocked to pieces by the guns
of the Ferrato The assaiants hesitated in
the breach that the militia were defending
so obstinately. Already more than five
hundred had met their deaths, while the
besieged had lost but few.
The leader of the expedition saw that he
must Immediately retreat to sea or expose
his companions to certain and complete de-
struction. In vain Sarcany demanded that
they might continue the attack on the town.
The order was given to return to the shore;
and the Senousists drew off as if they would
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given them to die.
But it was necessary to give these pirates
a lesson they would never forget.
Forward! my friends! forwardw shouted
the doctor, The militia threw themselves
on to the fugitives as they retreated to the
beach. Between the fire from the Ferrato
lists had to give way. Their ranks broke in
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seven or eight vessels that still were left to
them.
Pierre and Luigi, amid the confusion.
endeavored above all things to take one
man prisoner. That man was Sarcany.
But they wished to have him alive, and it
was only by miracle that they escaped the
revolver shots the scoundrel fired at them.
1t seemed. however, that fate would
again withdraw him from their hands.
Sarcany and the leader of the Senousists.
followed by dozen of their companions,
had managed to regain small polacca,
which they had cast off and were preparing
to get under way. The Ferrato was too far
off for them to signal her to pursue, and it
looked as though she would escape.
At the moment Cape Matifou saw field
gun dismounted from it's carriage and thrown
on the beach.
To hurl himself on the still loaded gun, to
lift it with superhuman force onto one OF
the rocks. to steady it by the truniOns and
in a voice OF thunder to shout. ''Come here.
Pescade! Herer' was the work of a mo-
ment.
Pescade heard Matifou's shout and saw
what he had done: instantly he understood.
ran up, pointed the gun at the polacca and
fired.
The shot went clean through the hull.
The recoil hardly shook the living gun-car-
rage The leader of the Senoussts and
his companions were pitched into the water
and for the most part drowned. Sarcany
was struggling with the surf when Luigi
threw himself into the sea.
minute afterwards Sarcany was safe in
the huge hands of Cape Matfou.
The victory was complete. Of the 1000
assaiIants who had landed on the island
only few hundred escaped to the Cyrenaic
to tell the story of the disaster.
Antekirtta would, it could be hoped, for
many year be free from another attack
from pirates.
CHAPTER XVII.
JUSTICE.
Count Matthias Sandorf had paid his debt
OF gratitude to Maria and Luigi FerratO.
Madame Bathory, Pierre and Sava were at
last reunited. After the reward came the
punishment.
For some days following the defeat of
the Senousists the colonists were actively
employed in repairing damages. With the
exception of few trif1ing scars, Pierre,
Luigi, Point Pescade and Cape Matifou-
that is to say, all those who had been init
fol of tic
drama-were safe and sound. That they
had not spared themselves, however, needs
no affirmation.
Great, therefore, was the rejoicing when
they met together in the Stadthaus with
Sava Sandorf. Maria Ferrato. Madame Ba-
thory and her old servant Borik. After the
fnnaral of those who had fallen in the hat