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… the Seine, and the like, showed me that his giant brain had not only grappled with the problem, but solved it to his satisfaction. The plan was perfect; on the night of the eclipse those three guards would be on duty at such and such gates; Dodu would tear his clothes into strips, bind and gag Bertrand, come and release me. Together we should spring on Rolland, take his uniform and rifle, and leave him bound and gagged. We should then dash for the shore, do the same with Monet, and then, dressed in their uniforms, take the boat of an octopus-…
1929 · PDF PAGE 10
son to think highly of my intelligence. By a stratagem, he repeated with emphasis. I have a plan, he continued. It will take twenty- three days to communicate, if we are not interrupted; between three and four months to prepare; two hours and eight minutes to execute. It is theoretically possible to escape by air, by water, or by earth. But as we are watched day and night, it would be useless to try to drive a tunnel to the mainland; we have no aeroplanes or balloons, or means of making them. But if we could once reach the waters edge, …
1929 · PDF PAGE 15
Yes, said Dodu (continued the narrator), I have a better plan. I have a stratagem. I will tell it you tomorrow. The train which was to carry the narrator and his hearer to Mudchester came round the corner. That morrow, glowered Duguesclin, that morrow never came. The same sun that slew the spy broke the great brain of Dodu; that very afternoon, a gibbering maniac, they thrust him in the padded room, never again to emerge. The train drew up at the platform of the little junc- tion. He almost hissed in Bevans face. It was not Dodu …
1929 · PDF PAGE 11
…of convicts, and only then dragged out There is a traitor, a spy. Henceforth I must find a new means of communicating the details of my plan. I have thought it all out. I shall speak in a sort of rebus, which not even you will be able to understand unless you have all the piecesand the key. Mind you engrave upon your memory every word I say. The following day: Do you remember the taking of the old mill by the Prussians in 70? My difficulty is that I must give you the skeleton of the puzzle, which I cant do in words. But watch the line of…
1929 · PDF PAGE 13
…idor. Crillon was unfortunate that day, though braver than ever. Such were the indications from which I sought to piece together our plan of escape! Perhaps rather by intuition than by reason, I gath- ered from some two hundred of such clues that the guards Bertrand, Rolland, and Monet, had been bribed, and also promised advancement, and (above all) re- moval from the hated Island, should they connive at our escape. It seemed that the Government had still use for its first strategist. The eclipse was due some ten weeks ahead, and needed ne…
1929 · PDF PAGE 8
…s car- ried out with as much severity as if he had been a com- mon criminal. It was to such a man (naturally) that I looked to devise a plan for our escape. But rack my brains as I wouldmy grandmother was a Warwickshire Higginbotham I could devise no means of getting into touch with him. He must, however, have divined my wishes; for, one day after he had been about a month upon the is- land (I had been there seven months myself) he stum- bled and fell as if struck by the sun at a moment when I was close to him. And as he lay upon the ground …