He rose slowly to hisfeet with his glass in his hand. Her husband had commandedthat the crew of the galleon observe a strict dress code while she wasaboard, so the figures on this strange ship fascinated her. They could be used to hasten the completion of the works,also to please the Seventeen. He ordered theship's carpenter to knock together a bunk and a shelf on which Halcould lay out his books and papers.
It was so exquisite, so moving that when he stood his legs feltstrangely weak under him, and he snuffed it up rapturously. At the samemoment Bowles and his gang realized his predicament. The cannon in the galleon's ports were training around, but few couldcover the caravel as she came flying down on the wind, screened by theDutchman's own high counter. A green-jacketed soldier had spotted him.
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