With great deference, Schreuder led Katinka gently through the recitalof her name and position and then asked her to describe her voyageaboard the Standvastigheid, and how she had been taken prisoner. Thrust itinto me so deeply that you pierce my heart. 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. Despite herUncompromising manner, Hal found himself strangely reluctant to leaveher presence.
Thelaughter died as his mouth snapped shut and he glared around thequietening battlefield. El Dragib was lost with all hands in a storm inthe Bay of Biscay while on her homeward voyage. Hal stared at him aghast. Latch onto her! bellowed the Buzzard.
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