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Where is your mistress? he demanded, and when she gawked dumbly athim he repeated, Where is Mevrouw van de Velde? The slave girl scrambled to her feet in confusion. For I am going to kill you. Inyosisnuggled against his chest. Ned is overeager, Big Daniel said.

For another hour Hal stayed at the masthead. He tossed it aside, stooped and picked up a pike from the deadhands of one of the fallen English seamen. He paused on the threshold of the Governor's dressing room and lookedfor the last time at the body of the woman he loved. Every day he is fed from thesea and grows stronger.