Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1886-08-13
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Point Pescade and Cape Nation hur-
ried after him. A hundred PAGES fur
ther on Toronthal stopped. He had
jumped on TO q rock which overhung a
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 then end his miserable existence by
hurting himself into the waves"
"A thousand devils !" exclaimed Pes
cade I've must have him alive Catch
him, Cape Matifou, and hold him
tight"
But they had not gone twenty yards
before they saw man appear to the
right of the path, 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.
Halo! - exclaimed Point Pescade.
He is going to give his friend some
thing to send him from this world into
the next Hurry up Matifou. You
take one-I Il take the other!"
But Sarcany stopped. He risked
being recognized A curse escaped his
lips. Then springing off to the right
before Pescade could reach him, he
vanished among the bushes
An instant afterwards, as Ioronthal
had gathered himself together to jump
from the rock, he was seized by Cape
Matifou, and pulled back on the road.
Let me go +! Let me go y"
Let you make mistake, Mr.. Toron-
thai? Oh, dear NOT answered Point
Pescade.
He was quite unprepared for this in
cident, which his instructions had not
foreseen. But although Sarcany had
escaped, Toronthal was captured, and
all that could now be done was TO take
him 10 Antekirtta, where he would be
received with all the honor that was his
due.
"Will you forward the gentleman
at n reduced rate = asked Point Pes
cade
with pleasure said Matfou.
Toronthal, hardly knowing what had
happened, made but very slight resist
ance. 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 Peacade's extraordinary
activity and his friends extraordinary
strength, they would certainly have had
e.. FOL aft rIC no.
their lives a score of times, they gained
the rocks or the beach. There the
shore is formed Of succession of small
creeks, caprciously cut back into the
sandstone, shut IN by high reddish walls,
and bordered 10y ferruginous reefs,
tinting the waves bright blocd-color rs
they curl over them.
Day had begun to br' ak when Point
Pescade found n shelter at the back OF
deep rayine that had been cut down
into the cliff in geologic ages Here he
left Toronthal in charge Cape Matifou.
You will stop here - he said.
"As long rs YOU like. -
Twelve hours even, if l am away"
Twelve hours.
"And without eating ?"
eff do not breakfast this morning, /
shall dine this evening and for both OF
us :"
And if you do not have dinner for
two, You shall have supper for four!'
And then Cape Matifou sat down on a
rock so as not to lose sight OF his pris-
oner and Point PescGde 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 vessel had arrived
off the ravine in which Cape Matifou,
seen from the sea, looked like mytho-
logical 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 coast-guard
or the fishermen, the Electric was of.
under full power, for Antekirtta