A favour? he asked. They heeded his advice. Then he had something else to think about for the fire in the cargoabove him gained a firm hold and roared into boisterous life. They sounded as thoughthey were just round the corner of the buttress behind them.
His boatswain and two seamen followed him. Almost certainly the two recent Anglo-Dutch wars hadimparted this impetus. This was the tide of fortune he had waited for all his lifeand, with the woman he loved beyond everything else at his side, hewould take that tide at the full. Master Hal grows widereach day.
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