Behind them the noise was deafening.
“Shoot him!” Sardos was shouting. “Shoot him! He is escaping!”
He fired his revolver.
There was a scream of pain and then there was the echo of the explosion.
Marcia thought that he must have hit Albert.
There was another shot and yet another.
And then a sound of heavy stones crashing to the ground.
It might have been stalagmites collapsing or it might have been stones falling from the roof.
The only thing that Marcia wanted was to get the Duc away as quickly as possible as she feared that Sardos would pursue him and capture him again.
Pierre moved quickly.
When they were well away from the big cave, the boy held his small lantern high.
They were then able to follow him more easily.
It took only a few minutes, but it seemed to Marcia more li
