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"INISH SCULL'S just a Yankee adventurer," Richard King said directly, when Call overtook him. "He went up against Ahumado once with a strong force and he lost. What the hell made him go back alone?"
"I can't say, Captain," Call admitted. "We were on our way home and he just peeled off, with the tracker-the next thing we heard he was captured."