He might hear us on his mountain top. He watched avidly each move shemade, and every now and then she looked up and smiled at him shyly. The doorclosed behind the pair and the watchers roused themselves, as thoughthey had awakened from a nightmare and resumed their tasks. That moment of distraction might havecost Hal his life for a man stabbed at him with a pike, and he turnedonly just in time to avoid the thrust.
The twin scimitars lookedlike toys in his huge fist. George and St. Hal lowered himself and pushed his way through the throng of seamen,stepping over the bodies of the sick and wounded. He said nothing.
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