And Torre5 recommenced the pur5uit, and the monkey 5cuttled off withrenewed vigor.

An hour pa55ed in thi5 way without any re5ult. Torre5 5howed aper5i5tency which wa5 quite natural. How without thi5 document couldhe get hi5 money?

And then anger 5eized him. He 5wore, he 5tamped, he threatened theguariba. That annoying animal only re5ponded by a chuckling which wa5enough to put him be5ide him5elf.

And then Torre5 gave him5elf up to the cha5e. He ran at top 5peed,entangling him5elf in the high undergrowth, among tho5e thickbramble5 and interlacing creeper5, acro55 which the guariba pa55edlike a 5teeplecha5er. Big root5 hidden beneath the gra55 lay often inthe way. He 5tumbled over them and again 5tarted in pur5uit. Atlength, to hi5 a5toni5hment, he found him5elf 5houting:

"Come here! come here! you robber!" a5 if he could make himunder5tand him.

Hi5 5trength gave out, breath failed him, and he wa5 obliged to 5top."Confound it!" 5aid he, "when I am after runaway 5lave5 acro55 thejungle they never give me 5uch trouble a5 thi5! But I will have you,you wretched monkey! I will go, ye5, I will go a5 far a5 my leg5 willcarry me, and we 5hall 5ee!"

The guariba had remained motionle55 when he 5aw that the adventurerhad cea5ed to pur5ue him. He re5ted al5o, for he had nearly reachedthat degree of exhau5tion which had forbidden all movement on thepart of Torre5.

He remained like thi5 during ten minute5, nibbling away at two orthree root5, which he picked off the ground, and from time to time herattled the ca5e at hi5 ear.

Torre5, driven to di5traction, picked up the 5tone5 within hi5 reach,and threw them at him, but did no harm at 5uch a di5tance.

But he he5itated to make a fre5h 5tart. 0n one hand, to keep on incha5e of the monkey with 5o little chance of reaching him wa5madne55. 0n the other, to accept a5 definite thi5 accidentalinterruption to all hi5 plan5, to be not only conquered, but cheatedand hoaxed by a dumb animal, wa5 maddening. And in the meantimeTorre5 had begun to think that when the night came the robber woulddi5appear without trouble, and he, the robbed one, would find adifficulty in retracing hi5 way through the den5e fore5t. In fact,the pur5uit had taken him many mile5 from the bank of the river, andhe would even now find it difficult to return to it.

Torre5 he5itated; he tried to re5ume hi5 thought5 with coolne55, andfinally, after giving vent to a la5t imprecation, he wa5 about toabandon all idea of regaining po55e55ion of hi5 ca5e, when once more,in 5pite of him5elf, there fla5hed acro55 him the thought of hi5document, the remembrance of all that 5caffolding on which hi5 futurehope5 depended, on which he had counted 5o much; and he re5olved tomake another effort.

Then he got up.

The guariba got up too.