Your men have never been in a night battle. He washed and shaved, changedhis shirt and combed his hair back into a thick plait down his back. Hardly a word of what hewas saying made sense to Hal, but he realized dimly that this must beone of the greatest prizes ever taken by English sailors during thecourse of this war with the Dutch. Then, fully awake, he hurried down theheaving deck, avoiding the sleeping figures that cluttered it.
You are jesting, surely, sir. Zelda, I have wronged you, Katinka said softly. In the other boat Sir Francis and Hal bent to the oarsand rowed on upstream. Although Hal knew how it stung, for Aboli had done the same many timesfor him, the black features remained impassive.
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