CHAPTER VI

Pencroft's Halloos – A Night in the Chimneys – Herbert's Arrows – The Captain's Project – An unexpected Explanation – What has happened in Granite House – How a new Servant enters the Service of the Colonists.

Cyrus Harding stood still, without saying a word. His companions searched in the darkness on the wall, in case the wind should have moved the ladder, and on the ground, thinking that it might have fallen down… But the ladder had quite disappeared. As to ascertaining if a squall had blown it on to the landing-place, half way up, that was impossible in the dark.

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