Hal, however, was plagued by a nagging worrythat he shared with nobody, not even Aboli. There will come a time when you will weep to the Almighty and beg himfor the easy death that I denied you this day. He made no attemptto hide his displeasure at finding himself under the direction of a manwho, until recently, had been his enemy, an irregular whom heconsidered little short of a greedy pirate. You have taken from me already more than I canbear.
Next, the ingots of gold bullion were raised. For a long, dreadful minute it seemed that they would be trodden under,then a fluke of the wind pushed the bows across a point and she passedless than a boat's length from them. Sir Francis looked still more dubious. In the moment that Hal felt the surge oftriumph and the live feeling of his blade buried deep in his opponent'sflesh, Schreuder reared back
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