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The Children of the King

CHAPTER I
10/35

There is no time to be lost, either, for you will probably come home in ballast.
Past Scalea, then, where tradition says that Judas Iscariot was born and bred and did his first murder.

Right ahead is the sharp point of the Diamante, beyond that low shore where the cane brake grows to within fifty yards of the sea.

Now you have run past the little cape, and are abreast of the beach.

Down mainsail--down jib--down foresail.

Let go the anchor while she forges, eight to nine lengths from the land, and let her swing round, stern to the sand.


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