![]() ![]() Two hours later, one last corpse was set adrift, with acting captain Richardson muttering in Irish-accented Latin as it went over the gunwale.Īs Arabella watched the fitfully burning bundle of rags float away toward the sun, she realized she had never even learned the Frenchman’s name. Though he did not seem to be in quite such bad shape as the French prisoner, he still lay pale and sweating and insensible. You are dismissed.”īefore she left the cockpit, she paused briefly at the captain’s hammock. “I believe we may be able to accommodate him,” he said. ![]() She conveyed the man’s request to the surgeon, who nodded with pursed lips. “Je vais voir … que je peux faire,” she told him, and gently squeezed his shoulder. ![]() He seemed to consider for a moment, then said, “Je voudrais les derniers sacrements catholiques.” I would like Catholic last rites. ![]()
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