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bridge, and white light at the masthead; and three or four men on deck, working urgently at things she couldn't see.
She hurried up the wooden gangway ahead of Farder Coram, and looked around with excitement. Pantalaimon became a Jack Verhoeven's dead, perhaps you've heard. And his boys captured."
"We have bad news too," said Farder Coram, and told of their encounter with the flying spirits.
John Faa shook his great head, but didn't reproach them.
"Where is the creature now?" he said.
Farder Coram took out the leaf tin and laid it on the table. Such a furious buzzing monkey and clambered up the derrick at once, but she called him down again; Farder Coram wanted them indoors, or below, as you called it on board ship.Down some stairs, or a companionway, there was a small saloon where John Faa was talking quietly with Nicholas Rokeby, the gyptian in charge of the vessel. John Faa did nothing hastily. Lyra was waiting for him to greet her, but he finished his remarks about the tide and pilotage before turning to the incomers."Good evening, friends," he said. "Poor
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