Success to the Brave
“Achates was pitching heavily at her cable, and Bolitho guessed that Keen had doubled the anchor watch for a first sign of its dragging.
It should still have been daylight, but low, angry clouds and drifting spume had closed around the ship like an early dusk.
He could not wait much longer. He dare not.
With the cabin sealed Bolitho felt the air tormenting him like steam and he was running with sweat in seconds.
There was a tap at the outer door and Keen’s voice murmuring to some...one. He was exactly on time. Had probably been aching for the moment to arrive.
Bolitho nodded to him. “Let’s be about it then.”
He saw the unwilling hostage in the background flanked by the ship’s corporal and Black Joe Langtry, Achates’ fearsome master-at-arms. The latter had a pair of grotesque black brows and, despite years at sea, an ashen countenance. More like an executioner, Bolitho thought.MoreLess
It should still have been daylight, but low, angry clouds and drifting spume had closed around the ship like an early dusk.
He could not wait much longer. He dare not.
With the cabin sealed Bolitho felt the air tormenting him like steam and he was running with sweat in seconds.
There was a tap at the outer door and Keen’s voice murmuring to some...one. He was exactly on time. Had probably been aching for the moment to arrive.
Bolitho nodded to him. “Let’s be about it then.”
He saw the unwilling hostage in the background flanked by the ship’s corporal and Black Joe Langtry, Achates’ fearsome master-at-arms. The latter had a pair of grotesque black brows and, despite years at sea, an ashen countenance. More like an executioner, Bolitho thought.MoreLess
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