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HEALTHFUL HOUSE. The carte de visite received that day, June 15, 189—, by the director of the establishment of Healthful House was a very neat one, and simply bore, without escutcheon or coronet, th…
COUNT D’ARTIGAS. Just who was this Count d’Artigas? A Spaniard? So his name would appear to indicate. Yet on the stern of his schooner, in letters of gold, was the name Ebba , which is of pure Norweg…
KIDNAPPED. Half an hour later the Count d’Artigas and Captain Spade were following the beech-lined road that separated the Healthful House estate from the right bank of the Neuse. Both had taken leav…
THE SCHOONER EBBA. It was not till the next morning, and then very leisurely, that the Ebba began to make preparations for her departure. From the extremity of New-Berne quay the crew might have bee…
WHERE AM I? (Notes by Simon Hart, the Engineer.) Where 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…
ON DECK. Here I am in the open air, breathing freely once more. I have at last been hauled out of that stifling box and taken on deck. I gaze around me in every direction and see no sign of land. On …
TWO DAYS AT SEA. Perhaps—should circumstances render it necessary—I may be induced to tell the Count d’Artigas that I am Simon Hart, the engineer. Who knows but what I may receive more consideration …
BACK CUP. In my opinion the Ebba could have struck no other group of islands but the Bermudas in this part of the Atlantic. This is clear from the distance covered from the American coast and the di…
INSIDE BACK CUP The next morning I am able to make a first inspection of the vast cavern of Back Cup. No one seeks to prevent me. What a night I have passed! What strange visions I have seen! With wh…
KER KARRAJE. The cell in which I reside is about a hundred paces from the habitation of the Count d’Artigas, which is one of the end ones of this row of the Beehive. If I am not to share it with Thom…
