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Aboard the Utopia, Charlotte searches through her sea chest to find a sea-blue day gown fit to catch the First Mates eye.... While doing this, she finds her sister, Roxanne's, diary...and all is revealed to her about sis's perfidious nature and alliance with their enemies...not to mention the salacious details of her love for Peter, the dangerous and opportunistic sailor. She is torn with indecision...loving her sister despite her faults...she hesitates a few minutes too long.....for the cabin door is flung open and Roxanne sees her diary in Charlottes hands...a serious cat fight ensues, which draws quite a crowd of onlookers!....A claxon pierces thru the din in the small cabin and adjacent hall,,,sounding the alarm that the prisoners have escaped! The clang of steel upon steel rings loudly in confined spaces, and pistol fire cracks sharply from above decks...The sisters stare at each other in horror...one, feeling betrayed and confused...the other, dreading the outcome of the bloody pursuit above them , and for both....the possibility that their new loves had perished....
A hesitant cough from the doorway breaks their spell, as First Mate O'Connor arrives to tell them that the scourge have been "dispatched"...and none to soon, as they were caught unlocking the arms chest(which was booby-trapped by the savvy captain)....their presence was requested on deck.....blood was being swabbed away and wounded crewmen attended to , the sight of which caused Charlotte to relate to her new beau all that had transpired in a flood of words and tears....Roxanne remained stoic, even upon learning that she would be under house arrest until they ported...as for Peter,,,,well, a seaman bragged that he speared him and hoisted him over the rail....
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Score is 51
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