JULES VERNE -THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND CHAPTER 52 Đây là một tác phẩm anh ngữ nổi tiếng với những từ vựng nâng cao chuyên ngành văn chương. Nhằm giúp các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh . | JULES VERNE THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND CHAPTER 52 Of the convicts the dangers which menaced Granite House the ruins with which the plateau was covered the colonists thought no longer. Herbert s critical state outweighed all other considerations. Would the removal prove fatal to him by causing some internal injury The reporter could not affirm it but he and his companions almost despaired of the result. The cart was brought to the bend of the river. There some branches disposed as a liner received the mattress on which lay the unconscious Herbert. Ten minutes after Cyrus Harding Spilett and Pencroft were at the foot of the cliff leaving Neb to take the cart on to the plateau of Prospect Heights. The lift was put in motion and Herbert was soon stretched on his bed in Granite House. What cares were lavished on him to bring him back to life He smiled for a moment on finding himself in his room but could scarcely even murmur a few words so great was his weakness. Gideon Spilett examined his wounds. He feared to find them reopened having been imperfectly healed. There was nothing of the sort. From whence then came this prostration why was Herbert so much worse The lad then fell into a kind of feverish sleep and the reporter and Pencroft remained near the bed. During this time Harding told Neb all that had happened at the corral and Neb recounted to his master the events of which the plateau had just been the theater. It was only during the preceding night that the convicts had appeared on the edge of the forest at the approaches to Creek Glycerine. Neb who was watching near the poultry-yard had not hesitated to fire at one of the pirates who was about to cross the stream but in the darkness he could not tell whether the man had been hit or not. At any rate it was not enough to frighten away the band and Neb had only just time to get up to Granite House where at least he was in safety. But what was he to do there How prevent the devastations with which the convicts threatened
