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THE NUT The Nut lay on the scorching beach facing the terrible sea in which the hungry sharks, the warders of his prison, were disporting. The convict was like a weary animal at rest. In truth, he ha…
CHÉRI-BIBI "Have you left the black hole?" asked the Nut. "Yes," returned Chéri-Bibi, who held in his hand a peculiarly shaped piece of hard wood which he was carving with the po…
IN THE NIGHT Chéri-Bibi, as we have seen, left the dormitory and slipped into his opening under the floor. The underground passage, which he had dug out with a patience and cunning which is only to …
HOW CHÉRI-BIBI DIED The Nut in the dormitory attempted by a supreme effort to shake off his bonds. He could not believe in Chéri-Bibi's death. For that matter his opinion was shared by the convi…
PERNAMBOUC, THE PRISON EXECUTIONER Though the warder was taking pot-shots at them, Chéri-Bibi and the Nut had received too great a start to run any risk of being hit. When, a few minutes later, the w…
THE MYSTERIES OF THE PRIMEVAL FOREST Chéri-bibi and the Nut had taken a serious step in entering the primeval forest. How many convicts who had escaped and sought refuge in it had found death; death …
THE GOLD-SEEKERS The bar and store which Señor Sanda had set up in the heart of the gold-prospecting district stood on the banks of a stream which, some three days' march farther on emptied itse…
CHÉRI-BIBI AND THE NUT SAY GOOD-BYE When the steamer was in the roadstead and the time came for Chéri-Bibi and the Nut to say good-bye, no words were wasted by them. It was a moment of great simplici…
FOUR YEARS LATER "But my dear Captain, why did you refuse the Legion of Honor? It's inconceivable." "Because, my dear girl, I considered that I didn't deserve it. That'…
COUNT DE GORBIO Count Stanislas de Gorbio was a handsome man, and quite young, for he was still in the thirties. There are certain women who cannot endure his particular style of beauty: velvet blac…
