Let me look at that leg, Sukeena ordered, and Hal placed it on theseat between her and Katinka. He saw at once thatthe Buzzard's efforts to tow away the fire ship had failed. A fancy piece of work, he murmured disparagingly. Hal saw him take a cut on his blade, and then riposte witha gleam of steel.
You have drawnfirst blood. They're going in for the looting. When he opened the shutter of the lantern and flashed itaround he found that the crew of the dhow had already been subdued, andwere spreadeagled on the deck. They had sensed him and gone crashing away through thebrush, galloping on until the sound of their flight dwindled intosilence.
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