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Cut his ears off if hetries to be crafty, Hal shouted. I strongly advise against it, van de Velde told him ominously. Colonel Schreuder coughed politely, and van de Velde glanced at himimpatiently. However, even at noon the further reaches of the slave deck were hiddenin darkness, from which the si

Heleft only a red smear on the torn planking. The African night was hushed but never silent. Hismoustaches bristled like a lion's whiskers, and the blade hummed in hishand. The leopards sawed and coughed in the thickets,and often he startled unseen herds of antelope, whose hoofs drummedthrough the night.