Disengaging his right arm, Jonathan struck his
victim a tremendous blow on the head with the bludgeon, that fractured his skull;
and, exerting all his strength, threw him over the rails, to which he clung with
the tenacity of despair. A sense of loss was amongst us. The spikes almost touched the upper part of the hatch:
scarcely space enough for the passage of a hand being left between their points
and the beam. Ennison roused himself with an effort, took a long drink from his whisky and
soda, and lit a cigarette. In this screen, which masked the entrance of a dark passage
communicating with the Condemned Hold, about five feet from the ground, was
a hatch, protected by long spikes set six inches apart, and each of the thickness
of an elephant's tusk. The women, Ann Veronica thought, were not quite so interesting as the men. Her slender
throat was encircled by a black riband, with a small locket attached to it; and
upon the top of her head rested a diminutive lace cap. She was gone. “I’ll get dressed. "
"Stand out of earshot," rejoined his leader. "
"The very face," exclaimed Gay, advancing to look at it;—"with all the escapes
written in it. ” The
doors at the other end of the hall opened. Holding down the light, he perceived that the wounded man had risen to the
surface, and was trying to clamber up the slippery sides of the well. The Jew got in first. He seemed to be.
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