- Hal shuffled in disagreement, but without looking up. She was his lover, and he could not understand that shewould speak to him thus, nor that she should look upon him with suchcontempt and fury. But all around him the bushes were alive with green-jacketedfigures. But Hal knew from hisfather that no civilized man had ever travelled into that awesomeinterior and wondered, as he had so many times before, what it would belike to be the first to venture there.
He pointed across themoonlit channel at the dark shape of the other ship. They stood aside for Katinka to enterand Sukeena whispered, I know how much she meant to you, mistress. Heleft only a red smear on the torn planking. Let me offer you the hospitality of my humble abodeand a mug of whisky, and you can tell me all you know about this prettylittle war that's a-going on between the great Mogul and the Prester.
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