PART VI

31 The Ship Goes Kenton stood there, half in stupor seeing less the room than swift fleeting pictures on that last battle. A bell struck three times. Three o’clock! Of course . . . this was a world of time . . . not like the world of the ship. . . The ship! He staggered over to the shining mystery that had given him everything he had desired of life—and at the end had taken everything away. Sharane! There she lay . . . on the ivory deck . . . close to the rowers’ pit . . . a gleaming to…