Comehere, Sukeena, she ordered, and the girl came to her moving like areed in the wind. Heading this way. He pressed the match to the hole. Itwould have been a deeply satisfying conclusion to the affair.
Heswept the loose soil back over them, and tamped it down with the flatof his hand. At that moment there came a soft but heartbreaking sob from behind thegaudy Chinese screen across one end of the cabin. Sukeena placed the palms of her hands together andtouched her fingertips to her lips as she bowed, but her eyes heldKatinka's with the same dark, furious expression. Slowly the Golden Bough righted herself as her lead weighted keellevered her upright, but her spars and rigging were in tatters,snapping and lashing in the gale.
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