One of the Gull's longboats had grappled Ned's fire shiP and, withfrantically beating oars, was dragging it clear. Then he ran to the wounded seaman, slung him over hisshoulder and came on again towards where Hal crouched. Hal began to scramble down the shrouds. It lay on the polished clay gazing with wideastonished eyes at the sky, and the lips writhing and twitching as theytried to utter the next wild denunciation.
The tap-tap tap-tap of the death drum set the pace. the silvercoins and other items of value that had been their share of the bootyfrom the Standvastigheid. Now he must sit up here, out of the hurly-burly, while hisfierce young heart ached to be a part of it. corsairand the pirate that, since the times of the pharaohs of ancient Egypt,had plagued the commerce of the oceans.
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