? ? ? ? "Good. And what is the name of the commander of the submarine?"
? ? ? ? "Yersted."
? ? ? ? I found a dispatch blank in the cabin and wrote the following order:
"Dator Torith: Return these two slaves at once to Shador.
"Yersted"
? ? ? ? That will be the simpler way to return," I said, smiling, as I handed the forged order to the boy. "Come, we shall see now how well it works."
? ? ? ? "But our swords!" he exclaimed. "What shall we say to explain them?"
? ? ? ? "Since we cannot explain them we shall have to leave them behind us," I replied.
? ? ? ? "Is it not the extreme of rashness to thus put ourselves again, unarmed, in the power of the First Born?"
? ? ? ? "It is the only way," I answered. "You may trust me to find a way out of the prison of Shador, and I think, once out, that we shall find no great difficulty in arming ourselves once more in a country which abounds so plentifully in armed men."
? ? ? ? "As you say," he replied with a smile and shrug. "I could not follow another leader who inspired greater confidence than you. Come, let us put your ruse to the test.
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