low John wentdown the staircase, Manseer lighting the treads with a lantern, andstopped outside the door of Sir Francis's cell. He placed the chainwith its jeivelled medallion around Hal's neck. There is no time to explain. The rough seamen who watched might have bayed and bellowed at thespectacle of a bull-baiting or a cockfight, but even they had fallensilent, awed by the terrible tragedy they saw unfolding.
The mistress will return very soon. Suddenly the Monomatapa stopped laughing. No, your excellency, I giveyou my assurance that Francis Courtney is the only man alive who knowswhere it is. I take your point.
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