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I am going across to theentrance. He came across the cabin with a bundlein his hands and dropped it on his bunk. You speak English? he demanded. There's naught but a piece of canvas tween us and the deck now, hewhispered triumphantly, and reached up to touch the tightly stretchedcover.

Weare taken by slavers! They will eat us, squeaked the youngest. For a moment Hal thought hewould run him through the spine, but he should have guessed better. With a local pilot on board Hal was able to head on towardsMitsiwa with all dispatch, not even deigning to shorten sail when thesun set that evening. Now that the lad had shed his noisome clothing, he had become a thingof striking beauty.