Last printing: 06/02/02`;47/' ISBN: 0-2844-109-7638-1Author's NoteAlthough this story is setin the mid-seventeenth centur By now Hal and Aboli were fifty yards away, swimming for the beach, butHal rolled onto his back to watch and trod water. He sensed that Schreuder was guilty of the murderhe denied so vehemently but, guilty or not, he was now an outlaw and hewas placing himself at Cumbrae's mercy. As he hurried to the foot of the mainmast he saw the glow of hisfather's pipe in the shadows of the poop and smelled a whiff of histobacco, rank on the sweet night air.
Coarse peasant cattle, van de Velde growled and laid his hand protectively upon Katinka's shoulder. His grip on Hal's armtightened as he felt Hal draw breath to speak. upper deck reverberated through the hull and they heard the faintshouts of the petty-officers relaying the orders to get the Gull underway. They could nolonger follow this dizzy path.
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