CHAPTER IX

* * * * * That was a great start the day we left Baltar, the ponies collected before the door, loaded with tents, provisions and everything necessary for ourselves and the men with us. Lady Lucia, looking like a tall, slender boy in her riding kit, stood with Dunbar and beside them Tazaki, consulting and deciding for himself, his keen Japanese eyes quick as a sword-flash. To such men as he it is best to leave everything in entire trust. A fine honorable man of this world, samurai and gen…