Cross of Fire
“They rowed round, left their girl where she was, should they be observed.
They waited for the tide to withdraw and for the strewn rocks to show themselves. A boat beyond the tide was set to signal when the cave revealed its mouth, and Devlin and Peter Sam set them all to building the stones atop the horseshoe-shaped foundations of the dam that remained. But it would not be a single day’s labour. It was slow work. Levasseur must have used his whole ship’s company.
‘See it, Peter,’ Devlin... waved his arm across the bay they were creating. ‘Levasseur has a ship. A hundred men or more. He builds a wall to hold back the tide. To reveal a cave that a hundred men can walk a treasure into . . . and then he floods it. Why?’ Peter Sam watched the thirty men build, all of them happy in the heat, or greedy in the heat, for it was the gold that raised their ardour and labour.
‘I don’t know, Cap’n.’ He knew when Devlin was tuning his fiddle.MoreLess
They waited for the tide to withdraw and for the strewn rocks to show themselves. A boat beyond the tide was set to signal when the cave revealed its mouth, and Devlin and Peter Sam set them all to building the stones atop the horseshoe-shaped foundations of the dam that remained. But it would not be a single day’s labour. It was slow work. Levasseur must have used his whole ship’s company.
‘See it, Peter,’ Devlin... waved his arm across the bay they were creating. ‘Levasseur has a ship. A hundred men or more. He builds a wall to hold back the tide. To reveal a cave that a hundred men can walk a treasure into . . . and then he floods it. Why?’ Peter Sam watched the thirty men build, all of them happy in the heat, or greedy in the heat, for it was the gold that raised their ardour and labour.
‘I don’t know, Cap’n.’ He knew when Devlin was tuning his fiddle.MoreLess
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