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I admire your skills, she said at last, and though he did not raisehis head he knew that she referred not only to his dexterity with thepruning knife. The buyerwill be getting full measure. Amen! Once Hal had recited his beliefs, Cumbrae called upon him tomake his knightly vows. As he paused to wipe hisstreaming face, draw a breath and stretch his back, after crouching solong under the cramped head space of the lower de

It filled them allwith a wild and joyous hope that, in truth, had no firm foundation forSabah and his band could only help them once they had passed thebitter-almond hedge. Despite all their pleas and warnings Hal started back to intervene. and the smell of men who had notbathed for a twelve-month -crowded together in a fetid hole in theearth. There came the flash and bang ofa musket shot, and Hal peered down anxiously but Aboli was uninjuredand still climbing fast.