First, Colonel, may I trouble you for a littlecompassion? None of my men has had a drop of water since yesterdayafternoon. As if to illustrate the point, after Ned had fired every one of theheavy guns on board six had misfired and the nearest he had come tostriking the floating cask was twenty yards. It is customary for the ship to retain half of the prize, Haldemurred. Behind him, the sky was dulled with thesmoke of the burning hulls and the sea was littered with thewreckage.
Halstared longingly at the far blue mountains, and that night sleptlittle. What is the spirit of the men you took with you to the mountains? They are brave men and women too, for there are three girls with theband. How did he change? Well, he was always a braw laddie, was Franky. May this ship carry you over the dark oceans to the landfall where thewoman whose name she bears awaits you, Aboli whispered.
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