Hal left Sukeena at the companionway and strode out in front of themen. Van de Velde waited for Sir Francis to showsome emotion, but he stared back without expression. Schreuder will come, Hal told him. SirFrancis nodded at Hal to follow him, and turned his back on theGovernor.
As they rowed back up the lagoon the two newly arrived vessels lay atanchor in the main channel. On thatday we will hoist the Buzzard's head to our masthead and divide up hisbooty. Well, is he, doctor? Van de Velde glared. There would be a need for lodgings on shore while the Resolution wascareened on the beach, her hull cleaned of weed and examined for anysign of shipworm.
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