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Finally
,
on
the
25th
of
August
,
the
survivors
of
the
shipwreck
reached
the
capital
of
California
.
Ah
!
if
old
Tom
and
his
companions
had
only
been
with
them
!
What
shall
we
say
of
Dick
Sand
and
of
Hercules
?
One
became
the
son
,
the
other
the
friend
,
of
the
family
.
James
Weldon
knew
how
much
he
owed
to
the
young
novice
,
how
much
to
the
brave
black
.
He
was
happy
;
and
it
was
fortunate
for
him
that
Negoro
had
not
reached
him
,
for
he
would
have
paid
the
ransom
of
his
wife
and
child
with
his
whole
fortune
.
He
would
have
started
for
the
African
coast
,
and
,
once
there
,
who
can
tell
to
what
dangers
,
to
what
treachery
,
he
would
have
been
exposed
?
A
single
word
about
Cousin
Benedict
.
The
very
day
of
his
arrival
the
worthy
savant
,
after
having
shaken
hands
with
Mr.
Weldon
,
shut
himself
up
in
his
study
and
set
to
work
,
as
if
finishing
a
sentence
interrupted
the
day
before
.
He
meditated
an
enormous
work
on
the
"
Hexapodes
Benedictus
,
"
one
of
the
desiderata
of
entomological
science
.
There
,
in
his
study
,
lined
with
insects
,
Cousin
Benedict
's
first
action
was
to
find
a
microscope
and
a
pair
of
glasses
.
Great
heaven
!
What
a
cry
of
despair
he
uttered
the
first
time
he
used
them
to
study
the
single
specimen
furnished
by
the
African
entomology
!
The
"
Hexapodes
Benedictus
"
was
not
a
hexapode
!
It
was
a
common
spider
!
And
if
it
had
but
six
legs
,
instead
of
eight
,
it
was
simply
because
the
two
front
legs
were
missing
!
And
if
they
were
missing
,
these
two
legs
,
it
was
because
,
in
taking
it
,
Hercules
had
,
unfortunately
,
broken
them
off
!
Now
,
this
mutilation
reduced
the
pretended
"
Hexapodes
Benedictus
"
to
the
condition
of
an
invalid
,
and
placed
it
in
the
most
ordinary
class
of
spiders
--
a
fact
which
Cousin
Benedict
's
near-sightedness
had
prevented
him
from
discovering
sooner
.
It
gave
him
a
fit
of
sickness
,
from
which
,
however
,
he
happily
recovered
.
Three
years
after
,
little
Jack
was
eight
years
old
,
and
Dick
Sand
made
him
repeat
his
lessons
,
while
working
faithfully
at
his
own
studies
.
In
fact
,
hardly
was
he
at
home
when
,
realizing
how
ignorant
he
was
,
he
had
commenced
to
study
with
a
kind
of
remorse
--
like
a
man
who
,
for
want
of
knowledge
,
finds
himself
unequal
to
his
task
.
"
Yes
,
"
he
often
repeated
;
"
if
,
on
board
of
the
'
Pilgrim
,
'
I
had
known
all
that
a
sailor
should
know
,
what
misfortunes
we
would
have
escaped
!
"
Thus
spoke
Dick
Sand
.
At
the
age
of
eighteen
he
finished
with
distinction
his
hydrographical
studies
,
and
,
honored
with
a
brevet
by
special
favor
,
he
took
command
of
one
of
Mr.
Weldon
's
vessels
.
