CHAPTER V.
“WHERE AM I?”
(Notes by Simon Hart, the engineer.)

WHERE amI? What has happened since that sudden
attack on me within a few steps of the pavilion ?

I had just left the doctor, I was about to go up the steps
into the room to close the door and resume my post
beside M. Roch, when several men fell upon me and knocked
me down. Who are they? I could not recognize them
with my eyes bandaged. I could not call for help with a
gag in my mouth. I could offer no resistance because
they had bound my arms and my legs. And in that con-
dition I felt myself lifted and carried for about a hundred
.paces—then I was raised up—then lowered, and placed—

Where ?>—where ?

What has become of Roch? Is it not he rather than I
they wanted to harm? To everybody I am only Gaydon
the keeper, and not Simon Hart the engineer, whose real
character or nationality has never been suspected: and
why should they wish to seize a humble hospital atten-
dant?

The French inventor has been carried off; of that I

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