Over theheads of the men between them, Sam looked across at him and there wassudden terror in his pale, close set eyes. The Gull moved slowly past them, reducing sail progressively, as shethreaded her way deeper into the lagoon. We are outgunned in front and outnumbered in the rear. The gorges are a tangled labyrinth.
What is it you sing? Hal asked. Two minutes will doit, he told himself, and gave them what they expected to hear, endingjovially, In conclu He stepped back and nodded to themen on the rope's end, who walked away with it, slapping their barefeet on the deck timbers in unison. With a start of guilt Hal looked out into the darkness; he should notbe mooning down at the deck in these vital minutes when, at any moment,the enemy might loom close at hand out of the night.
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