![]() ![]() It was the Chinese Negro boss, the driver of the marsh buggy. Round the corner, not more than ten yards away, was the crane. ![]() Bond reached for the top cable and frantically began to edge along the swaying fence towards the rocky headland twenty yards away. To build the wire fence the men must have come from the left, from the direction of the jetty. Left was towards the ship, but also towards Doctor No. Then don't wait Get away quick Wildly Bond looked to right and left. Nothing, nothing but the spreading stain of black. But softly, gently, slowly The prize was almost intolerably sweet.īut where was the squid? Would it come back? Bond searched the sea. ![]() Slowly, a thin, hard smile broke across the haggard, sunburned face. He caught a glimpse of the tip of his spear lancing into the centre of a black eyeball and then the whole sea erupted up at him in a fountain of blackness and he fell and hung upside down by the knees, his head an inch from the surface of the water.īond sat and thought, measuring distances, guessing at angles, remembering exactly where the crane driver's hands and feet were on the levers and the pedals. ![]()
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