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I can get my fingers through the hole. Hal led Aboli back towhere most of Althuda's party were already asleep. He was haranguing the gang of commonconvicts laying the paving stones along the foot of the east wall. He might hear us on his mountain top.

The cargo? Schreuder demanded. She lowered the glass. Hal flung the drunken creature from him and leapt onto the parapet. While he finished the rest of thebrandy he considered the courses of action that were now open to him.