Volume I Part 74 (2/2)
By what miracle had Albert escaped?
The reader will recollect that Gratillet had fallen into the sea of blood which had streamed froone a flock of vultures ian to hover about the dead bodies
Albert was leaning with closed eyes against the post, when a well-known voice angrily cried:
”Captain, let us think now of our rescue”
It was Gratillet
”Let me die,” murmured Albert, wearily ”I do not care to live anynonsense Die, forsooth! Shake off your torpor and be a h what miracle did you recover your life?”
”None, I tell you I never was dead; only sha Oh, if I only had a knife”
While Gratillet was talking he worked at Albert's cords with his teeth and nails, and finally succeeded in freeing him
”And now,” he said, ”let's decamp, and that as soon as possible”
The twoabout and keeping up a lively conversation
”Here is a narrow pathway!” exclairound near me, and we can continue our little walk on all-fours”
Albert followed the journalist's orders, and the next round near his companion
”Well done,” said Gratillet ”Noe must be very careful, for it is pitch dark and banisters are unknown in Uargla Ah, now I knohere the pathway coets the rain from the rocks”
”Do you need a cord?” asked Albert ”If so, I have a scarf which answers the sa?”
”Best of wool and perfectly new”
”How long is it?”
”Four yards”
”Then give it to me”
Albert handed it to hi hierous journey
”Flying is not so bad after all,” said the reporter ”It is doing splendidly and I--”
The scarf broke and Gratillet fell to the botto, who had held one end of it
At the sae of musketry was heard Had they escaped from Scylla to fall into Charybdis?