Dutch smoked his Lucky Strike and then started another. I allowed him some time alone to think about his situation, as well as what we might do about it. I climbed back toward the cleft to examine the vein of copper and gold more carefully. Once down inside, on hands...
Happy to be back on the ship; its movements now very welcome next to the high-risk steadiness of the solid ground we’d worked our way up, over, and out of just a bit of time before. “Since we are in this together,” I stated, loudly, with acid in my tone, “just...
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN St. Paul Island Günter spent the next ten minutes getting his routine down. He would be the point man with Immigration, and he had to be totally convincing, whoever the immigration official was. I prepared him in case more than one...
CHAPTER ELEVEN The High Cliffs of Russia Dutch moved the bottle of Bacardi back to his lips, runnels of tears falling from his cheeks. I pried the half-empty bottle out of his clenched hand. I propped it back into a cleft between two nearby rocks. “Stop blubbering and...
CHAPTER EIGHT The Pass of the Isle of the Tsar of Russia Instead of going to my own cabin, I headed directly down to Botany Bay’s number 36. There was something about the way in which the Basque woman had looked at me earlier, which was drawing me back. Don had stayed...