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The Queen’s Cup

CHAPTER 14
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She carried a heavy spread of canvas on her yards, and lay very low in the water." The pilot nodded.
"Me remember him, sar; could not make out de craft nohow.

Some people said she pirate, but dar ain't no pirates now." "That is so, Dominique.

Still there may be reasons sometimes for wanting to overhaul a vessel, and I have such a reason.

What it is, is of no consequence.

Pedro tells me that when she got under sail she went west, but as it was just dark when she sailed, she may very well have turned as soon as she was hidden from sight and have gone east; and it seems to me likely that she would, in the first place, have made for one of the Virgin Islands." "It depends, sar, upon the trade that he wanted to do.


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