In the courtyard he was right under Barnard's eye, and twice in thesame morning Barnard laid into him with the whip. Althuda? Hal puzzled over this untilhe understood that Aboli, or the writer, must be asking after thewelfare of the other prisoner. A cable's length off the starboard bow he saw the flash of wings highenough in the sky to catch the first ra There's another ship at anchorhere already! Beside him Schreuder shaded his eyes from the slashing gusts of windthat eddied around the cliffs.
Although he gave theillusion of height, he was in fact a head shorter than Hal. A shore party under the command of Sam Bowles stood by tocollect the discarded chains to take back aboard the Gull. in the short time hehad served with them, Schreuder's feats of daring had become legend inthe Mogul's army. His accent was like a Scottish gale.
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