CHAPTER FIVEIt must have been an hour later that the shouts and screams came closer.
It woke the Prince first and then he became aware that the young ruffians had come down the companionway leading to the cabins.
In fact he could now hear them smashing the cabin doors.
As Sacia woke abruptly they both heard the youths shouting,
“We want women. Women to dance. Women to play with. Where are the women!”
Their voices rang out down the corridor and next came the crash of another door being forced and a woman screamed.
The Prince rose to his feet.
“Get down in the bunk,” he ordered Sacia, “and cover yourself up completely.”
She quickly obeyed him.
She was now terrified, but she felt sure the Prince would protect her.
He was standing by the door listening as the noise and shouts came ne
