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Newspaper
The Rittman Press
Location
Rittman, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1919
Page
6
In a hollowed boat adrift after a nighttime raid, the narrator ponders escape and whether to risk returning to the dangerous scene. He fears the killers will regroup, discover Sanchez’s death, and seize fifty thousand pounds hidden in the unguarded house. The peril to Dorothy and the women elevates his alarm.
The narrator plans a perilous nighttime boarding of the pirate Namur off Rotterdam to rescue Dorothy Fairfax. He abandons the rudder, rows unseen, reaches the Namur’s shadowed hull, and attaches to the anchor hawser while weighing the risk of discovery and torture.
Geoffry Carlyle a ship master in his twenties is sentenced to twenty years in the American colonies for Monmouth rebellion ties. Roger Fairfax and Dorothy Fairfax travel with him as do Sanchez an enemy. Carlyle confronts Sanchez, battles his followers, and is cast overboard in a chaotic pursuit over Fairfax gold.
The narrator drifts in a small boat after being knocked overboard. He recalls a deadly pursuit aboard the sloop and suffers knife slashes and bruises. Struggling to recover, he awakens then realizes he is alive, noting blood loss but believing his wounds are not fatal.
On the Namur deck two sailors tighten sails as a drunken English speaker recalls a white, unnamed lad carried aboard by Manuel Estevan. The crew sheltered three rum bottles and debated what to do with the stranger, who was found comatose and later hauled into the boat.
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