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He squatted behind the corner of thewall and waited. At the samemoment Bowles and his gang realized his predicament. It cracked down with a practised and controlledblow on the back of the shaven pate, not hard enough t The beast disappeared in a swirl, to surfaceseconds later halfway back to the mud-bank on which her calf stood,forlorn and bewildered.

With the impetus of that movement Hal went on the attack and, theirblades rasping and clashing together, he forced Schreuder back down theopen deck to the stern. No! Abolishook his head. He wishes us to dress and stand to. For once Hal hated the clarity of his own eyesight, that spared him nodetail of the terrible transformation that was taking place as hewatched.