CHAPTER IX.
THE ENCOUNTER AT MARSEILLES Toni, who abominated railway journeys on account of his torpid immovability, now had to abandon the _Mare Nostrum_ and suffer the torture of remaining twelve hours crowded in with strange persons.
Ferragut was sick in a hotel in the harbor of Marseilles.

They had taken him off of a French boat coming from Naples, crushed with silent melancholia.

He wished to die.

During the trip they had to keep sharp watch so that he could not repeat his attempts at suicide.

Several times he had tried to throw himself into the water.
Toni learned of it from the captain of a Spanish vessel that had just arrived from Marseilles exactly one day after the newspapers of Barcelona had announced the death of Esteban Ferragut in the torpedoing of the _Californian_.