“You will be missed. Mac helped the old man to his feet and got himpropped in the corner of a flatcar that was loaded with machine parts covered with a tarpaulin. Since yesterday, they had met no one. They were in front of a crazylooking cathedral looking down on the harbor, steamboats, great ex-panses of platinum sea hemmed in by ashen mountains.
As ordered, he had waited for the diversion to start before he left his hiding place in theclouds. The dreggan cut deeply into the barbed tail but did not sever it. They turned the canoe over on the pebbly shore in the lee of a big bowlder and huddled up under it. After that he hadpaced the palace like a caged animal, fearing for his friends and warriors who were so far out tosea.
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