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WITHIN a couple of hours after the destruction of the islet Sultan Khalid was back in his palace, and the _Ithuriel_ and the _Vindaya_ had departed with their prisoners of war for Kerguelen.
Alan, quite content with the advantage he had gained by obtaining the Sultan's pledge of peace for a year, in comparison with which even the capture of one of the Russian air-ships was of trifling importance, had determined not to run the needless risk of an encounter with Olga's fleet, for he had learnt the strength of it from Lossenski, and saw that it would be madness to attack it.