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Next day Jack and Shackel went ashore at the last port before leaving England, and made a declaration of the deaths. Jack also delivered Korah's confession to the police, who promised to forward it to Inspector Chard at Grimleigh. Then they went aboard again, and the Dayspring spread her white wings and lifted to the swell of the open sea. Her nose was pointed south for the Horn.
"And then, Koiau!" whispered Jack to his wife,
"Koiau!" sighed Tera, and burst into wild singing in her native tongue. So they went sailing to a future of joy--to the spicy islands set like jewels in the shining seas of the under world.