Thepirates are on the rampage! The good citizens of Good Hope scatteredbefore them. They came slithering off the scree slope and burst out into the openmeadow beside the stream. Assoon as they were aboard the Buzzard weighed anchor and set out tosea. The raw salt air cleansed hisguilt and self-disgust.
Tis a little cut. Ahmed's mates on the bank shouted encouragement as they paid out theline. Then his eyes flicked to the face of the girl in the carriage. He forced himself not toflinch away from the flare of burning powder nor to recoil inanticipation of the explosion but to keep the barrels swinging gentlyin the line he had chosen.
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