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Moreover
,
in
certain
occurrences
an
inexplicable
influence
had
come
to
their
aid
!
...
But
all
that
could
only
be
for
a
time
.
In
short
,
Cyrus
Harding
believed
that
fortune
had
turned
against
them
.
In
fact
,
the
convicts
'
ship
had
appeared
in
the
waters
of
the
island
,
and
if
the
pirates
had
been
,
so
to
speak
,
miraculously
destroyed
,
six
of
them
,
at
least
,
had
escaped
the
catastrophe
.
They
had
disembarked
on
the
island
,
and
it
was
almost
impossible
to
get
at
the
five
who
survived
.
Ayrton
had
no
doubt
been
murdered
by
these
wretches
,
who
possessed
firearms
,
and
at
the
first
use
that
they
had
made
of
them
,
Herbert
had
fallen
,
wounded
almost
mortally
.
Were
these
the
first
blows
aimed
by
adverse
fortune
at
the
colonists
?
This
was
often
asked
by
Harding
.
This
was
often
repeated
by
the
reporter
;
and
it
appeared
to
him
also
that
the
intervention
,
so
strange
,
yet
so
efficacious
,
which
till
then
had
served
them
so
well
,
had
now
failed
them
.
Had
this
mysterious
being
,
whatever
he
was
,
whose
existence
could
not
be
denied
,
abandoned
the
island
?
Had
he
in
his
turn
succumbed
?
No
reply
was
possible
to
these
questions
.
But
it
must
not
be
imagined
that
because
Harding
and
his
companions
spoke
of
these
things
,
they
were
men
to
despair
.
Far
from
that
.
They
looked
their
situation
in
the
face
,
they
analyzed
the
chances
,
they
prepared
themselves
for
any
event
,
they
stood
firm
and
straight
before
the
future
,
and
if
adversity
was
at
last
to
strike
them
,
it
would
find
in
them
men
prepared
to
struggle
against
it
.
The
convalescence
of
the
young
invalid
was
regularly
progressing
.
One
thing
only
was
now
to
be
desired
,
that
his
state
would
allow
him
to
be
brought
to
Granite
House
.
However
well
built
and
supplied
the
corral
house
was
,
it
could
not
be
so
comfortable
as
the
healthy
granite
dwelling
.
Besides
,
it
did
not
offer
the
same
security
,
and
its
tenants
,
notwithstanding
their
watchfulness
,
were
here
always
in
fear
of
some
shot
from
the
convicts
.
There
,
on
the
contrary
,
in
the
middle
of
that
impregnable
and
inaccessible
cliff
,
they
would
have
nothing
to
fear
,
and
any
attack
on
their
persons
would
certainly
fail
.
They
therefore
waited
impatiently
for
the
moment
when
Herbert
might
be
moved
without
danger
from
his
wound
,
and
they
were
determined
to
make
this
move
,
although
the
communication
through
Jacamar
Wood
was
very
difficult
.
They
had
no
news
from
Neb
,
but
were
not
uneasy
on
that
account
.
The
courageous
Negro
,
well
entrenched
in
the
depths
of
Granite
House
,
would
not
allow
himself
to
be
surprised
.
Top
had
not
been
sent
again
to
him
,
as
it
appeared
useless
to
expose
the
faithful
dog
to
some
shot
which
might
deprive
the
settlers
of
their
most
useful
auxiliary
.
They
waited
,
therefore
,
although
they
were
anxious
to
be
reunited
at
Granite
House
.
It
pained
the
engineer
to
see
his
forces
divided
,
for
it
gave
great
advantage
to
the
pirates
.
Since
Ayrton
's
disappearance
they
were
only
four
against
five
,
for
Herbert
could
not
yet
be
counted
,
and
this
was
not
the
least
care
of
the
brave
boy
,
who
well
understood
the
trouble
of
which
he
was
the
cause
.
The
question
of
knowing
how
,
in
their
condition
,
they
were
to
act
against
the
pirates
,
was
thoroughly
discussed
on
the
29th
of
November
by
Cyrus
Harding
,
Gideon
Spilett
,
and
Pencroft
,
at
a
moment
when
Herbert
was
asleep
and
could
not
hear
them
.
"
My
friends
,
"
said
the
reporter
,
after
they
had
talked
of
Neb
and
of
the
impossibility
of
communicating
with
him
,
"
I
think
,
--
like
you
,
that
to
venture
on
the
road
to
the
corral
would
be
to
risk
receiving
a
gunshot
without
being
able
to
return
it
.
But
do
you
not
think
that
the
best
thing
to
be
done
now
is
to
openly
give
chase
to
these
wretches
?
"
"
That
is
just
what
I
was
thinking
,
"
answered
Pencroft
.
"
I
believe
we
're
not
fellows
to
be
afraid
of
a
bullet
,
and
as
for
me
,
if
Captain
Harding
approves
,
I
'm
ready
to
dash
into
the
forest
!
Why
,
hang
it
,
one
man
is
equal
to
another
!
"
