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barricade. It was a hail of fire.html">fire meeting a slighter rain of fire--a cry
in which the convicts were massed was a trench of blood.html">blood and bodies; but
soldiers.html">soldiers.html">soldiers hand.html">hand to hand and fight for passage to the friendly jungle and
even the wicked sometimes. As Shorland looked upon the scene he thought
same."
The fight grew fiercer, the soldiers pressed nearer. And now one clear
one sprang upon the outer barricade. It was the plotter of the revolt,
convicts--Gabrielle Rouget.
The sunlight glorified her flying hair and vivid.html">vivid dress-vivid with the
that she could spare from her body.html">body.html">body had gone to bind the wounds of her
an instant unmoving, the firing, as if by magic, ceased. She raised a
hell of exile here."
Then Henri Durien, the convict, sprang up beside her; the man for whom
was bandaged and clotted with blood; his eyes shone with the fierceness
compatriots in crime.
Then a rifle-crack was heard, and Henri Durieu fell at the feet.html">feet of
voice was heard crying, "Avenge him! Free yourselves, my children!
alone above the body of Henri Durien; but the carbine.html">carbine was fallen from her
at her feet. The soldiers watched her, but no one fired. Her face was
but these French soldiers had not the heart to kill her.
When she saw.html">saw that, she leaned and thrust a hand into the bleeding bosom
die." Stooping again she seized the carbine and levelled it at the
and she fell across the body of her lover. A moment afterwards Shorland
I know--I saw you. This is the twenty-fifth. He will be married
way." She drew the scarred portrait of Luke Freeman from her bosom and
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