Hal scrambled to his feet, and launched himself up the stream bed. He led Hal forward cautiously until they couldsmell the woodsmoke and the familiar bovine odour of the cattle pen. Behind them one of the blazing hulls must have been loaded with severalhundred tons of black powder for El Grang's artillery. s, the square ofdirty canvas on the stubby mast stirring idly in the light puffs ofwind coming down from the heads.
They were led by a single horseman who came on at a trot. What have you to say in yourdefence? It was not my own fault! I swear I would not have done it but I wasin terror of my life. Likeyou, I know how it feels to wait. By noon of the following day all five of the strange craft were readyto be carried to their hiding place in the grove at the edge of thelagoon.
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