D'Artagnan, the King Maker — page 115: what you’re looking at

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104 _ The Third Lash. instant the tornado gathered all its ferocity to make the last stroke. Lightning blast, and rising sea all united. In the triple shock the stumps flew out of the sockets. The disrupted deck split into separate boards. Pedro slid on the last one parting, blinded, deafened, stunned, into the boiling caldron, and the vortex sucked him down, down! ) } ESS (E(@)