Chapter Fifteen
Discovered!
Sparky woke me at two o’clock am, and handed me a message he had intercepted. “Hey, Captain! A reconnaissance satellite has finally orbited over Lust Bay and photographed The Pagan Princess. We have been discovered. The message says the government is sending a rescue ship that will reach us in twenty-four hours. We’re doomed unless we can escape from here somehow.”
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Hours later when morning dawned, I crept wearily up the ladder to the bridge. “Captain Rawson!” The tone of Ralph’s voice sent ice water down my spine.
“What is it?” I called out as I scrambled up the stairs to the bridge. “Look! Up there,” he said, “just east of us in the sky.” I grabbed the binoculars and swept the opening between the cliffs. I could hear it even before I saw it, the sound
