” Nicholas set the woman down. ' This made sense, and when De Pr~ saw that the Van Doorns were wavering, he dispatched Henri to fet There was a scar on his right calf. She looked to be the same woman who had been in the room last night, but Dougless couldn’t see her face as she kept it turned away.
” Dougless blinked. ' When Henry consulted his maps it was clear that the Biblical ships must have gone south to Africa; there was no way by which they could have entered the Mediterranean. Fortunately, two English merchantmen sailed into the bay, homeward bound from Java, and with daring seamanship a boat from the Haerlem succeeded in reaching them with a request for help. Mevrouw van Doorn's two sons watched the New Year's celebrations with detached interest; stern Kar
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