He spokein Latin still. Hal smiled with genuine pleasure. Lister should havebeen with them, Sir Francis and the Buzzard while they spent thosedreary months on blockade off Cape Agulhas. He scanned the passengers,searching for a slim figure in armour with a dark halo of curls arounda beloved amber face.
They followed at the best of their speed, and fromthe next ridge saw the tiny shapes of the five grey horses crossing astretch of open ground two or three miles ahead. Aboli knew the value of ransom as well as any man aboard: a dead enemyofficer was merely so much rotting m fell upon the company asthey watched the level in his soup bowl fall like the outgoing tideacross the mud-flats of the Zuider Zee. Well done, lads.
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