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How
had
it
happened
?
who
had
killed
the
convicts
?
Was
it
Ayrton
?
No
,
for
a
moment
before
he
was
dreading
their
return
.
But
Ayrton
was
now
in
a
profound
stupor
,
from
which
it
was
no
longer
possible
to
rouse
him
.
After
uttering
those
few
words
he
had
again
become
unconscious
,
and
had
fallen
back
motionless
on
the
bed
.
The
colonists
,
a
prey
to
a
thousand
confused
thoughts
,
under
the
influence
of
violent
excitement
,
waited
all
night
,
without
leaving
Ayrton
's
house
,
or
returning
to
the
spot
where
lay
the
bodies
of
the
convicts
.
It
was
very
probable
that
Ayrton
would
not
be
able
to
throw
any
light
on
the
circumstances
under
which
the
bodies
had
been
found
,
since
he
himself
was
not
aware
that
he
was
in
the
corral
.
But
at
any
rate
he
would
be
in
a
position
to
give
an
account
of
what
had
taken
place
before
this
terrible
execution
.
The
next
day
Ayrton
awoke
from
his
torpor
,
and
his
companions
cordially
manifested
all
the
joy
they
felt
,
on
seeing
him
again
,
almost
safe
and
sound
,
after
a
hundred
and
four
days
separation
.
Ayrton
then
in
a
few
words
recounted
what
had
happened
,
or
,
at
least
,
as
much
as
he
knew
.
The
day
after
his
arrival
at
the
corral
,
on
the
10th
of
last
November
,
at
nightfall
,
he
was
surprised
by
the
convicts
,
who
had
scaled
the
palisade
.
They
bound
and
gagged
him
;
then
he
was
led
to
a
dark
cavern
,
at
the
foot
of
Mount
Franklin
,
where
the
convicts
had
taken
refuge
.
His
death
had
been
decided
upon
,
and
the
next
day
the
convicts
were
about
to
kill
him
,
when
one
of
them
recognized
him
and
called
him
by
the
name
which
he
bore
in
Australia
.
The
wretches
had
no
scruples
as
to
murdering
Ayrton
!
They
spared
Ben
Joyce
!
But
from
that
moment
Ayrton
was
exposed
to
the
importunities
of
his
former
accomplices
.
They
wished
him
to
join
them
again
,
and
relied
upon
his
aid
to
enable
them
to
gain
possession
of
Granite
House
,
to
penetrate
into
that
hitherto
inaccessible
dwelling
,
and
to
become
masters
of
the
island
,
after
murdering
the
colonists
!
Ayrton
remained
firm
.
The
once
convict
,
now
repentant
and
pardoned
,
would
rather
die
than
betray
his
companions
.
Ayrton
--
bound
,
gagged
,
and
closely
watched
--
lived
in
this
cave
for
four
months
.
Nevertheless
the
convicts
had
discovered
the
corral
a
short
time
after
their
arrival
in
the
island
,
and
since
then
they
had
subsisted
on
Ayrton
's
stores
,
but
did
not
live
at
the
corral
.
