The sale henceforth offered nothing of interest; the few women remaining were sold at prices far inferior to that which Louise had fetched, to the great regret, we are bound to add, of the Company's agent.
The adventurers were preparing to leave the shed where they imagined there was nothing more to see; but at this moment Montbarts mounted the platform, and addressed the crowd in a sonorous voice—
"Brothers," he said, "stay, I have an important communication to make to you."
The adventurers remained motionless.
[CHAPTER XVII.]
THE ENLISTMENT.
All the adventurers assembled round the platform, anxiously awaiting what Montbarts had to tell them.
"Brothers," he said, a moment after, "I am preparing a new expedition, for which I require three hundred resolute men; who among you will follow Montbarts the Exterminator?"