Half adozen small brown faces peered out at them, boys and girls of mixedblood and of all ages between five and ten years. Get down! Hal leapt over the parapet of the gun pit andflung himself flat on the sandy floor. Lay the ship on the larboard tack, Mister Tyler. When he climbed the ladder and reached the top of the wall he lookedacross the parade to the avenue, and could just make out the roof ofthe Governor's residence among the trees.
It had been the cupboard of the Dutch captain's servant, andwas a mere cubby-ole. just beyond the firelight it began to devour him whilehe still lived. But he saw that it was, indeed, aboy. The peep-hole was at almost exactly the same level as hisaching crotch.
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