No lights, he warned Ned Tyler, and keep the hands quiet. El Tazar! roared the men of the Golden Bough, to be answered by, The Gull and Cumbrae! as they came together. Hugo Barnard was waiting to take over from him. Leave them for the Dutch? Hal asked.
The anchor watch was curled onthe deck, out of the wind, sleeping like a hound in front of thehearth. Then he went back to the fire and called out towards the lean-to ofbranches and thatch, The dawn comes. Daniel and Ned followed close behind him, both theirvessels wreathed in tarry black smoke and dark orange flame. The three men in the guard room wereslumped on the bench.
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