Ulysses had not imagined that the little boat could carry so many cases.

When the hold was empty, the last German sailors disappeared and with them the cables that had lashed them to the sailboat.

An officer shouted to him that he could get under way.
The two submersibles with their cargo of oil and gasoline were nearer the level of the sea than on their arrival and now began to disappear in the distance.
Finding himself alone in the stern of the schooner, the Spaniard felt a sudden disquietude.
"What have you done!...

What have you done!" clamored a voice in his brain.
But contemplating the three old men and the boy who had remained as the only crew, he forgot his remorse.

He would have to bestir himself greatly in order to supply the lack of men.