As it swung open, the traitorous priest andeven the band of raiders shrank back from the brilliance of the lightthat flooded out from the stone-walled crypt. Murder! cried Llewellyn. he hadnot expected it to be so easy. The charts were obviously some navigator's treasures,highly detailed and covered with notations and observations in awell-formed, educated hand.
He lifted -thechain of the seal from around his own neck, held it high over Hal'shead and then lowered it onto his shoulders. Hal closed the staring eyes and Sukeenawrapped these pathetic remnants in a scrap of cloth and prayed over thegrave they dug. They crept forward and, on the crest of the hill, sank on their belliesand gazed down upon the wide lagoon below. I marvel that he waited so long to give us a warning shot, SirFrancis drawled.
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