Aboli has stillnot heard from Sabah. Van de Velde looked up in irritation from the papers that littered hisdesk. His father's pathetic remains no longer hungthere, and the seagulls had gone back to the beach. When he opened the shutter of the lantern and flashed itaround he found that the crew of the dhow had already been subdued, andwere spreadeagled on the deck.
Tell me where you hid it, man, and I will put youand your men ashore with no further harm done, I swear it on myhonour. A softly rolling bank of mist obscured half the lagoon. sides thundered out in quicksuccession, and a rain of rite-arrows fell from the sky upon thestricken vessels. I am going across to theentrance.
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