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two days before Christmas, they joined hands and listened attentively as Tim Caveny prayed: “Merciful an “You were heroic,” she said, grasping him by his frail white fingers. The time has come. He was aghast.

“We should not trade with him,” Cudjo protested, and the elders looked at each other knowingly. ” And Julia watched, amazed, as her daughter argued with her father like some embit­tered man. “Why did you choose him for your captain?” Franklin asked. And then Rosalind saw with relief that someone onshore was launching a longboat, manned by ten slaves, and w