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We let em up to within twenty yards. Then we let em have it, the three of us Piper, Knapp, and I.... "Such a panic! 'It's a trap! screams one. 'Blockademen! yells a second. Diamond was the only one of the lot to keep his head. ''Bout ship, boys! he shouts. 'Call again another day. And off they scuttled, quicker than they came....
The Cavalry had been withdrawn to the camp there. A case of cholera had emptied Langney Fort. The Sea-Fencibles had run away. Black Diamond had swept up the blockademen. Darkness, darkness, everywhere. Kit stole to his side. "We must get a message through to Nelson," he chattered. "We must." The boy felt himself at war with destiny, and crushed by it.
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