When he reached his tiny cabin he was too weary even to light the oillamp and dropped to his bunk fully clothed to lie there in a stupor ofmental exhaustion. As for Hal he knew that, if he livedthrough this, he would never again dance so close to death and smellits breath as he did now. The floor was of clay that had been mixed with blood and cow dung andthen screeded until it dried like polished red marble. Allprivateers of both combatant nations, sailing under commission andLetters of Marque, have been ordered to cease war
Four burghers fromthe town were seated below him, and he was laughing at something thathad just been said. Yet it is passing strange that they have taken the corpse away sosoon. Another day ofquestioning he may not survive it. He already had two bundles of arrows lashed to the sides of the crow'snest, ready to hand.
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