As soon as he was aboard Hal looked about him. The first lot is the slave Aboli. Kleinhans looked startled. At the foot of the first flight of stairs Sir Francis Courtney wasdragged out of the file by his gaolers and thrust into a small celljust large enough to hold one man.
For well over a thousand years the gold and offerings of the pilgrimsand worshippers have been piling up in the treasure houses of thechurches and monasteries. Hal glanced round. Atall figure, clad in flowing white robes and gold-corded Arabianhead-dress, rose from the pile of silk carpets where he had beenreclining. He stood over the anchor ropewhere it was drawn tightly through its fair lead and, with one giganticswing he cut it free.
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