DEVIL’S ISLAND - by Bob & Wanda Duncan
On Devil's Island, the Time Travellers narrowly escape a dark fate planned for
Dreyfuss.
As six political prisoners are landed on a remote part of Devil's Island,
they make a break far it. Two swim out to sea, and while the others are being
recaptured, Tony and Doug materialize out of the Vortex of Time and are taken
for the vanished pair by head guard, Lescoux. The next day in the jungle Doug
manages to slip away from the work crew and knock out a guard, then goes to
the Commandant to try to explain how he and Tony came to be here. With Doug
holding the guard's gun, the Commandant pretends interest, but the moment Doug
s back is turned, he pulls a gun and turns him over to be put in the sweatbox
as punishment. When Captain Dreyfuss lands on the Island, those at the Tunnel
the date - March 15, 1895. The prisoners are spurred by the arrival of the
heroic Dreyfuss to plan an escape for themselves and him. Tony goes with
prisoner Boudaire to confer with Dreyfuss. The next day prisoner Perrault
spots a rowboat riding at water's edge, and Tony slips away from the work on
to hide it, narrowly escaping being caught by Lescoux. Now the prisoners have
a means of escape. They are all in the barracks that night when Kirk, at the
Time Tunnel, makes a pickup. But when he has all the power of the Tunnel
focused on the pair, Boudaire walks in between and is picked up instead. At
the Tunnel, he soon comes to understand how it was that Tony and Doug landed
amidst the prisoners, bur he declines to be returned to the Island so they can
be rescued. Meanwhile, he watches the fate of his fellows on the Tunnel screen
and learns that the prisoners' escape is actually being planned by the
Commandant so that Dreyfuss can be shot while attempting to escape. Thus
everything is made easy for the prisoners, while two guards with a cannon are
stationed to shoot the escapees. Meanwhile Tony and Doug face new danger when
Boudaire’s absence makes the Commandant threaten the guillotine if the
prisoner’s don't tell where he is. But Boudaire is so outraged at the
Commandant's plot against Dreyfuss that he consents to go back to warn the
others. Swain tells him how he can lead the prisoners to safety, but warns him
not to take Dreyfuss - there is no record of his ever having escaped the
island. The escape has started when Boudaire returns, but he is too
disoriented by his passage through time to transmit an of the message given
him. Thus Doug ties up the Commandant while Perrault tries to hurry Dreyfuss
away. But Dreyfuss refuses to go - it is his duty to stay and stand up for his
principles. With the Commandant all but urging him to escape, Doug suddenly
sees what Boudaire has not been able to tell them, it is a plot to kill
Dreyfuss. Assuring Dreyfuss that he will be taken off the Island soon and
acquitted, Doug sprints out,and with Tony finds the guards with the cannon.
Knocking them out, they run back down the hill to the others in the boat. In
that moment, the Tunnel picks them up, and as they disappear, Boudaire’s
memory is jogged and he calls to the others to take off into a gathering ocean
fog.
|
