Chapter 23 No.23

"He saw with his own eyes the moon was round,

Was also certain that the earth was square,

Because he'd journeyed fifty miles, and found

No sign that it was circular anywhere."

Don Juan.

Raoul Yvard was indebted to a piece of forethought in Clinch for his life. But for the three guns fired so opportunely from the Foudroyant, the execu