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I have driven you hard. Yes, you are right. As soon as he realized that the brute was in earnest Hal snatched upthe slow-match from the tub at his feet. He had not dreamed there could be so much blood in thatslim white body.

The squall passed over them swiftly and the sun burst forth again,sparkling on the blue swells and steaming on the decks. In his tinycabin he packed his chests hurriedly and, when a man could not bespared to help him, lugged them up onto the deck himself. They will come. There was nosound or trace of their pursuers, not a last despairing cry or dyingmoan, not a shred of cloth or discarded weapon.