Bolitho 19 - Beyond the Reef (47 page)

“Not all wounds bleed, Sir Richard.” He watched him put it to his lips. He hesitated. “Lady Catherine would tell you. Some people change. It’s not always their fault …”

Bolitho emptied the glass, and wondered if it had come from the shop in St James’s.

“I thank God you do not, old friend.”

Jenour saw them walking together, and pausing to talk with some of the seamen. Their world. It had been his; it was his no more. He looked across at the captured frigate, and seemed to hear Bolitho’s voice again. The most coveted gift.

But Lieutenant, now Acting-Commander, Stephen Jenour, once of Southampton, England, felt that he had just lost everything.

Is that a sail on the horizon?

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