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CONTENTSTitle PageDedicationChapter OneChapter TwoChapter ThreeChapter FourChapter FiveChapter SixChapter SevenChapter EightChapter NineChapter TenChapter ElevenChapter TwelveChapter ThirteenChapter FourteenChapter FifteenChapter SixteenChapter SeventeenChapter EighteenChapter NineteenEpilogueOther TitlesCopyright
07 September 1665The black wave curled high above the Griffin, and came crashing down onthe barque with a roar like a wild beast. Tons of water washed over thestreaming deck. As thetim in the air with enough sudden violence that men werehurled off the ship to disappear into the raging sea. Such was the nature of thegreat storm that pounded His Majesty’s privateer fleet in the autumn of 1665.Young Samuel Higgins was still aboard the Griffin when she righted herself.But this was only because he had been lashed to a bulwark by York, the ship’sbarber and medical officer. York had been ordered by Captain James Blade tosee to the welfare of the thirteen-year-old cabin boy. The barber took thisresponsibility seriously. Seamen who disappointed the Griffin’s cruel masteroften felt the bite of his bone-handled snake whip.The sails were down to bare poles, and the captain himself had hold of thewheel. He steered his vessel straight into the wind, howling curses at the gale.“You’ll not stop me, by God! The Griffin will yet ride low with a belly full ofSpanish gold! No storm can change that!”There was a crash as loud as a cannon shot, and the mizzenmast snappedclean in two. One hundred feet up, the top of the pole — thick as a century oak— began its plunge to the deck below.Samuel tried to run, but the same tether that had saved him from beingpitched overboard now prevented his flight. He was trapped — trapped in thepath of hundreds of pounds of falling wood. A scream was torn from his throat,but it disappeared into the shrieking of the relentless wind.The hurtling mast struck the tangle of ratlines and rigging, halting itsdestructive drop less than a handspan from Samuel’s head.Lucky. That was his nickname among the crew.But no amount of luck would save him if the Griffin foundered in theonslaught of nature’s wrath.
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Page 19 and 20: Minor Hockey Association finals. A
Page 21 and 22: But something other than reason was
Page 23 and 24: watery grave, but on the surface it
Page 25 and 26: Menasce Gérard watched Kaz’s rec
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Page 29 and 30: 08 September 1665Samuel came awake
Page 31 and 32: Star sat up in bed and swung her le
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Page 39 and 40: It was not yet dark, but the bonfir
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Page 51 and 52: 08 September 1665Samuel had tasted
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ship. “Will it float?”“Maybe
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“Everything I need, I have.”“
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“Topside,” English reported.
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Dante cut him off. “I see things
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The ship they believed to be the Gr
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It was well after midnight, but the
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repositioned the ship so that the b
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Finding her helium-squeaky voice at
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Now the screen showed a close-up of
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to black.Holding his breath as the
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“Say something, Marina. We know y
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pincers. He would not realize the h
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nightmare — to be ripped apart an
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feel himself slipping into a void f
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the order to set fire to Nuestra Se
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Dawn was breaking through the overc
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the Adventurer.He called, “What c
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Kaz knocked on the door of the smal
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09 September 1665Samuel came awake
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Copyright © 2003 by Gordon Korman.
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