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The Summons

CHAPTER XIII
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Ships going east or going west must pass between the Balearics and Africa, or between the Balearics and Spain.

We are here in the middle, and, whichever course those ships take, they must cross the lines on which your feluccas continually come and go." Jose Medina looked at the map.

He did not commit himself in any way.

He contented himself with a question: "And what then ?" "So too with the German submarines.

They also must cross and cross again in their cruises, those lines along which your feluccas continually come and go." Jose Medina threw up his hands.
"The submarines! Senor, if you listen to the babblers on the quays, you would think that the seas are stiff with them! Schools of them like whales everywhere! Only yesterday Palma rang with the account of one.


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