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CHAPTER SIXThe passage through the Red Sea was almost unbearably hot. Beyond the few remarks at their first meeting she and Captain Alexander had barely exchanged a word since he had come on board. As a matter of fact she saw very little of him. He rose before she did and apparently he took his meals at different times. Yet inexplicably to herself, she felt continually conscious of his presence on board. When she was talking to the Prince, she would find herself glancing up as if at every moment she expected him to appear. A murderer and a spy! Not a particularly pretty description of any man. That he was a murderer Vivian was fully convinced about and he was a member of the British Secret Service had been revealed to her by her father. His presence on board ship made her unaccountabl