CHAPTER 14
Raphael
I watched Susannah standing on the porch with Sam, knowing how much she had wanted to come with us. Holy God, I of all people could understand how being shut out of something she was at the very heart of felt. Yet I could do nothing else. I touched the dagger at my waist. Port Royal was a lawless place, Noah had made that starkly clear.
We rounded the headland and returned into the harbour again, which appeared even more crowded than when we had arrived on the Linden. Noah and Hal manoeuvred the pinnace skilfully up to the wharf and Hal jumped ashore to tie-off the lines. ‘Where first?’
‘Harbour Master,’ Noah said. ‘I know the man well so we shouldn’t have any difficulty getting the information we need.’ He led us to a single-storey stone building at the end of the w
