As soonas he reached the Golden Bough, he sent the longboat to wait forAlthuda at the landing, and gave the orders to ready the ship for sea. t With a sweep ofhis thick hairy arm he threw the child fifteen feet straight up in theair, and then held the point of the claymore beneath him as hedropped. Not all were killed, Aboli told him. At Katinka's insistence the Governor slept in the smaller,less grand cabin beyond the door that was locked from her side.
He kept the two of them afloat for the rest of that longnight, but in the dawn he knew that he was near the end of his strengthand the child was shivering and whimpering softly in his arms. He was about to call her name when he heard a sound that silenced andalarmed him. The deck aroundhim dissolved into a buzzing storm of splinters and the knot of Amadodanearest him were struck squarely and blown into nothingness. Look atthose bloody butchers! As the green-jackets came clamouring forward, they paused only to stabthe wounded seamen who lay in their path.
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