Chapter
5
Where am I.—(Notes by Simon Hart, the Engineer.)(NOTES BY SIMON HART, the Engineer.)
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here am I? What has happened since the sudden aggression of which I was the victim near the pavilion.
I had just quitted the doctor, and was about to mount the steps, close the door and resume my post beside Thomas Roch when several men sprang upon me and knocked me down. Who are they? My eyes having been bandaged I was unable to recognize them. I could not cry for help, having been gagged. I could make no resistance, for they had bound me hand and foot. Thus powerless, I felt myself lifted and carried about one hundred paces, then hoisted, then lowered, then laid down.
Where? Where?
And Thomas Roch, what has become of him? It must have been he rather than I they were after. I was but Ga
