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| + | jordan shoes Jack+Harkaway+and+his+Sons+Escape+from+the+Brigands+of+Greece_103 and I remember now that they said another was all but gone."<br>"Why, of course," said Barthes; "and see how the lazy beggars haven't even taken the trouble to tie the neck of the sack round."<br>"That's easily done."<br>Before the boys could guess what was next to take place, the sack was jerked over, and a rope was twisted around the neck of the sack, thus excluding nearly all the air.<br>But young Jack had already grown desperate, and he held his knife in his hand ready for an emergency.<br>The jerk had sent the knife through the sack about two inches, and it prodded Barthes in the hand.<br>"Hullo!"<br>He yelled and drew back his hand<br>"What now?"<br>"I've cut myself."<br>"Why, how on earth did you manage that?"<br>"There's a knife sticking out of the sack,mmoserve. Let's open it and get it out."<br>"What for?"<br>"It's a pity to throw such a thing into the sea,Jack+Harkaway+and+his+Sons+Escape+from+the+Brigands+of+Greece_103."<br>The boys shivered.<br>This time there could be no mistaking the words.<br>"Jack," whispered Harry Girdwood, "do you hear?"<br>"Yes; let us show ourselves, and go back to prison, or--"<br>But before he could complete his proposition, they were jerked in the sack up on to their feet.<br>"Come, let's do it quick"<br>"Good!"<br>"Phew!" grunted Barthes; "it's precious heavy."<br>"Heavy enough for two," said Fleon.<br>"Over with it. Now, then, both together at the word three."<br>"One."<br>"Two."<br>"Three."<br>They raised the sack on to the window ledge and--<br>"Oh, murder!" cried Barthes,, his cheek blanching with terror. "I felt something move in the sack."<br>"So did I," faltered Fleon.<br>"It's alive," cried the man Barthes, turning pale.<br>"Over with it, then; sharp."<br>It was poised for an instant, no more, over the dizzy height.<br>Then down it went,mmoserve.com.<br>As it fell, a wild, despairing shriek went up to Heaven.<br>A piteous cry.<br>It was cut short by the sharp flight through the air.<br>A splash.<br>Then all was still.<br>* * * * *<br>The two ruffians stood staring at each other, their eyes half starting from their sockets.<br>The perspiration stood out in big beads upon their foreheads, and they shook like ague-stricken wretches.<br>"Look over," said Fleon in a hoarse whisper. "What do you see?"<br>"I see," responded the other, in the same constrained tone, "there's a shark! I see his fin."<br>"There's plenty more in the neighbourhood."<br>"No; he's all alone, and, my eye! what a feast he'll have!"<br>"I see him! He strikes for the bottom. He's got him, whether he's dead or alive."<br>CHAPTER XXXVI.<br>A WATERY GRAVE--THE BED OF THE OCEAN--A BOLD STROKE FOR LIFE-- THE RACE WITH A SHARK--A NARROW SQUEAK--HOW TO GIVE A SHARK THE SACK-- THE BOAT--"FREE, FREE AS AIR!"--A STRANGE ENCOUNTER WITH A GENTLEMAN ON TWO WOODEN LEGS.<br>Poor boys!<br>Unhappy Jack.<br>Luckless Harry Girdwood.<br>The fall from such a height to the water would render death almost a certainty.<br>Hand and foot bound, they could not move.<br>Yet stay.<br>Could it be possible that these noble boys were to fall victims to the villainy of such ruffians?<br>No.<br>As they reached the bottom, the two boys, momentarily deprived of their senses by the fall, were partially restored by the shock.<br>Instinctively the knives go to work.<br>Young Jack here rendered the most signal service.<br>He held his knife in a tight grip even as they fell.<br>And barely did they come in contact with the bed of the ocean, when young Jack stabbed upwards, and, at a single stroke, cut his way out of the sack.<br>At the self-same instant his left hand grappled his friend and trusty comrade Harry.<br>To kick the earth fiercely with his feet was to Jack a natural impulse, and striking upwards, he made for the surface.<br>Will he reach it?<br>Doubtful.<br>It seemed a weary, weary way to get.<br>But now the water grows lighter and less dense.<br>Jack and Harry can see about them.<br>Both are experienced swimmers <ul> | ||
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