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Dead Men Tell No Tales

CHAPTER XI
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When you see it back in the window, watch with all your eyes! I am going to write and then throw it out.

Not another syllable!" She was gone; there was a long yellow slit in the masonry once more; her light burnt faint and far within.
I retreated among some bushes and kept watch.
The moon was skimming beneath the surface of a sea of clouds: now the black billows had silver crests: now an incandescent buoy bobbed among them.

O for enough light, and no more! In the hall the high voices were more subdued.

I heard the captain's tipsy laugh.

My eyes fastened themselves upon that faint and lofty light, and on my heels I crouched among the bushes.
The flame moved, flickered, and shone small but brilliant on the very sill.


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