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The Path of the King

CHAPTER 8
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Such of us as live will some day return there....' I have said we had little powder, but for half a day we withstood the assault, and time and again when the enemy leapt inside our lines we beat him back.

At the end, when hope was gone, you would hear little splashes in the waters as this man or that put his treasures into eternal hiding.

A Spanish sword was like to have cleft my skull, but before I lost my senses I noted Captain Bovill tearing the chart in shreds and using them to hold down the last charges for his matchlock.
He was crying, too, in English that some day we would return the road we had come." "And you returned ?" The seaman shook his head.

"Not with earthly feet.

Two of us they slew outright, and two more died on the way coastwards.


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