Hungry as the Sea

  sign now, but Nicholas would let them wait a little longer.

  Nicholas stood on the open wing of Sea Witch's bridge and watched the

  four smaller harbour tugs bustling importantly about their ungainly

  charge.

  He lifted the cheroot to his lips carefully, for they were still

  blistered from the heat of the fireball - and he pondered the question

  of how much he had achieved, apart from spectacular riches.

  He had reduced the spill from a million to a quarter of a million tons

  of cad-rich crude, and he had burned it in a fireball. Nevertheless,

  there had been losses, toxins had been lifted high above the fireball.

  They had spread and settled across Florida as far as Tampa and

  Tallahassee, poisoning the pastures and killing thousands of head of

  domestic stock. But the American authorities had been quick to extend

  the hurricane emergency procedures.

  There had been no loss of human life. He had achieved that much.

  Now he had delivered the salvaged pod tanks to Orient Amex. The new

  cracking process would benefit all mankind, and nothing that Nicholas

  could do would prevent men carrying the cad-rich crudes of El Barras

  across the oceans. But would they do so in the same blindly

  irresponsible manner that Duncan Alexander had attempted?

  He knew then with utter certainty that it was his appointed life's work,

  from now on, to try and ensure that they did not. He knew how he was to

  embark upon that work. He had the wealth that was necessary, and Tom

  Parker had given him the other instruments to do the job.

  He knew with equal certainty, who would be his companion in that life's

  work - and standing on the firescorched deck of the gallant little

  vessel he had a vivid image of a golden girl who walked forever beside

  him in sunlight and in laughter.

  Samantha. He said her name aloud just once, and suddenly he was very

  eager to begin.

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