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KJELLEGARD STARTED, and looked up at the white-painted deckhead. The bishop glanced up too, and Kari asked them, ‘What was it - that noise?’
Dalen shrugged. ‘Who knows? I don’t even know how this craft works, what makes it go up or down. It’s all a mystery, to me.’ Kjellegard nodded. ‘It made me jump, whatever it was. Nerves! I’ve not got over the sight of that launch coming out after us. That thing, and no sign of the submarine - I don’t mind admitting it, I hadn’t much hope left, just then. If they’d got to us first, these people wouldn’t have been able to do anything. They wouldn’t have been able to shoot without hitting us too.’ He shook his head, as if it still worried him, even as a memory. ‘They’d have had it all their own way!’
‘But - ’ the bishop was frowning - ‘surely, the
