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"
I
ca
n't
spare
the
time
yet
,
"
said
Moreau
.
The
rest
I
did
not
hear
.
I
picked
myself
up
and
stood
trembling
,
my
mind
a
chaos
of
the
most
horrible
misgivings
.
Could
it
be
possible
,
I
thought
,
that
such
a
thing
as
the
vivisection
of
men
was
carried
on
here
?
The
question
shot
like
lightning
across
a
tumultuous
sky
;
and
suddenly
the
clouded
horror
of
my
mind
condensed
into
a
vivid
realisation
of
my
own
danger
.
It
came
before
my
mind
with
an
unreasonable
hope
of
escape
that
the
outer
door
of
my
room
was
still
open
to
me
.
I
was
convinced
now
,
absolutely
assured
,
that
Moreau
had
been
vivisecting
a
human
being
.
All
the
time
since
I
had
heard
his
name
,
I
had
been
trying
to
link
in
my
mind
in
some
way
the
grotesque
animalism
of
the
islanders
with
his
abominations
;
and
now
I
thought
I
saw
it
all
.
The
memory
of
his
work
on
the
transfusion
of
blood
recurred
to
me
.
These
creatures
I
had
seen
were
the
victims
of
some
hideous
experiment
.
These
sickening
scoundrels
had
merely
intended
to
keep
me
back
,
to
fool
me
with
their
display
of
confidence
,
and
presently
to
fall
upon
me
with
a
fate
more
horrible
than
death
,
--
with
torture
;
and
after
torture
the
most
hideous
degradation
it
is
possible
to
conceive
,
--
to
send
me
off
a
lost
soul
,
a
beast
,
to
the
rest
of
their
Comus
rout
.
I
looked
round
for
some
weapon
.
Nothing
.
Then
with
an
inspiration
I
turned
over
the
deck
chair
,
put
my
foot
on
the
side
of
it
,
and
tore
away
the
side
rail
.
It
happened
that
a
nail
came
away
with
the
wood
,
and
projecting
,
gave
a
touch
of
danger
to
an
otherwise
petty
weapon
.
I
heard
a
step
outside
,
and
incontinently
flung
open
the
door
and
found
Montgomery
within
a
yard
of
it
.
He
meant
to
lock
the
outer
door
!
I
raised
this
nailed
stick
of
mine
and
cut
at
his
face
;
but
he
sprang
back
.
I
hesitated
a
moment
,
then
turned
and
fled
,
round
the
corner
of
the
house
.
"
Prendick
,
man
!
"
I
heard
his
astonished
cry
,
"
do
n't
be
a
silly
ass
,
man
!
"
Another
minute
,
thought
I
,
and
he
would
have
had
me
locked
in
,
and
as
ready
as
a
hospital
rabbit
for
my
fate
.
He
emerged
behind
the
corner
,
for
I
heard
him
shout
,
"
Prendick
!
"
Then
he
began
to
run
after
me
,
shouting
things
as
he
ran
.
This
time
running
blindly
,
I
went
northeastward
in
a
direction
at
right
angles
to
my
previous
expedition
.
Once
,
as
I
went
running
headlong
up
the
beach
,
I
glanced
over
my
shoulder
and
saw
his
attendant
with
him
.
I
ran
furiously
up
the
slope
,
over
it
,
then
turning
eastward
along
a
rocky
valley
fringed
on
either
side
with
jungle
I
ran
for
perhaps
a
mile
altogether
,
my
chest
straining
,
my
heart
beating
in
my
ears
;
and
then
hearing
nothing
of
Montgomery
or
his
man
,
and
feeling
upon
the
verge
of
exhaustion
,
I
doubled
sharply
back
towards
the
beach
as
I
judged
,
and
lay
down
in
the
shelter
of
a
canebrake
.
There
I
remained
for
a
long
time
,
too
fearful
to
move
,
and
indeed
too
fearful
even
to
plan
a
course
of
action
.
The
wild
scene
about
me
lay
sleeping
silently
under
the
sun
,
and
the
only
sound
near
me
was
the
thin
hum
of
some
small
gnats
that
had
discovered
me
.
Presently
I
became
aware
of
a
drowsy
breathing
sound
,
the
soughing
of
the
sea
upon
the
beach
.
After
about
an
hour
I
heard
Montgomery
shouting
my
name
,
far
away
to
the
north
.
That
set
me
thinking
of
my
plan
of
action
.
As
I
interpreted
it
then
,
this
island
was
inhabited
only
by
these
two
vivisectors
and
their
animalised
victims
.
Some
of
these
no
doubt
they
could
press
into
their
service
against
me
if
need
arose
.
I
knew
both
Moreau
and
Montgomery
carried
revolvers
;
and
,
save
for
a
feeble
bar
of
deal
spiked
with
a
small
nail
,
the
merest
mockery
of
a
mace
,
I
was
unarmed
.
So
I
lay
still
there
,
until
I
began
to
think
of
food
and
drink
;
and
at
that
thought
the
real
hopelessness
of
my
position
came
home
to
me
.
I
knew
no
way
of
getting
anything
to
eat
.
I
was
too
ignorant
of
botany
to
discover
any
resort
of
root
or
fruit
that
might
lie
about
me
;
I
had
no
means
of
trapping
the
few
rabbits
upon
the
island
.
It
grew
blanker
the
more
I
turned
the
prospect
over
.
At
last
in
the
desperation
of
my
position
,
my
mind
turned
to
the
animal
men
I
had
encountered
.
I
tried
to
find
some
hope
in
what
I
remembered
of
them
.
In
turn
I
recalled
each
one
I
had
seen
,
and
tried
to
draw
some
augury
of
assistance
from
my
memory
.
Then
suddenly
I
heard
a
staghound
bay
,
and
at
that
realised
a
new
danger
.
I
took
little
time
to
think
,
or
they
would
have
caught
me
then
,
but
snatching
up
my
nailed
stick
,
rushed
headlong
from
my
hiding-place
towards
the
sound
of
the
sea
.
I
remember
a
growth
of
thorny
plants
,
with
spines
that
stabbed
like
pen-knives
.
I
emerged
bleeding
and
with
torn
clothes
upon
the
lip
of
a
long
creek
opening
northward
.
I
went
straight
into
the
water
without
a
minute
's
hesitation
,
wading
up
the
creek
,
and
presently
finding
myself
kneedeep
in
a
little
stream
.
