Tuesday, December 26, 2006

The Bermuda Whalers: Chapter X

Ben Hansen

"Well," Hugh said, "That was odd."
"What, you mean the way he introduced himself with his surname? That was weird," Ben replied.
"I was talking about the vomiting and unconsciousness, but yeah," Hugh conceded.
There was a short pause, followed by a longer one, but they were so close together it was hard to tell them apart.
"So... it would seem that all our information was incorrect," Ben said eventually.
"Indeed. Nice cover-up with the whaling though," Hugh responded sarcastically.
"Thanks," Ben said, blissfully ignorant of Hugh's inflection.
"So... what now?" Asked Hugh before another short pause.
"Make sure Grace's okay and then run away before somebody else comes in?"
"Makes sense."

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