A Miracle of Love by Barbara Cartland

Author:Barbara Cartland
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-78213-135-9
Publisher: Barbara Cartland.com
Published: 2012-10-08T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIVE

It must have been an hour later that the shouts and screams came closer.

It woke the Prince first and then he became aware that the young ruffians had come down the companionway leading to the cabins.

In fact he could now hear them smashing the cabin doors.

As Sacia woke abruptly they both heard the youths shouting,

“We want women. Women to dance. Women to play with. Where are the women!”

Their voices rang out down the corridor and next came the crash of another door being forced and a woman screamed.

The Prince rose to his feet.

“Get down in the bunk,” he ordered Sacia, “and cover yourself up completely.”

She quickly obeyed him.

She was now terrified, but she felt sure the Prince would protect her.

He was standing by the door listening as the noise and shouts came nearer and nearer.

As the youths reached them, he flung open the door and fired his revolver into the ceiling.

It made a resounding noise in the narrow corridor and for a brief second there was silence from the rioters.

“I will shoot the next man who breaks a door,” the Prince yelled, his voice ringing out so that they could all hear him. “Go back on deck where you belong and don’t come down here again.”

As he finished speaking he fired a second shot into the air.

The youths turned.

In a blind panic they began running up the corridor falling over one another in their anxiety to escape.

It was as the last youth disappeared that the woman who had already been dragged out of bed called from her cabin which was near the companionway,

“Thank you, sir, thank you.”

The door opposite the Prince also opened and the man in the cabin had obviously been petrified as to what might happen next.

He called out to the Prince,

“You are a hero, that’s what you are. I was really scared until you sent them away.”

“They will not return,” the Prince asserted, “but if they do, I am in here and I will keep my promise and shoot anyone who assaults us.”

The Prince closed the cabin door and turned round to see Sacia peeping out from under the bedclothes.

He could just make her out faintly in the moonlight streaming in through the porthole.

But he saw that she was looking very beautiful and the expression in her eyes was one of admiration.

“You were so wonderful,” she sighed. “I was really terrified as those other women must have been.”

“I don’t think they will come back now, but if they do, I will definitely shoot one of them to teach the others how to behave.”

“If you kill one, there will be a scandal – ”

“I am not as stupid as that, Sacia. I will shoot him in the leg or the arm and incidentally, in case you question me, I am a very good shot!”

“I’m quite certain you are, Nico. You are good at everything and most of all at protecting me!”

The Prince locked the cabin door and walked a few feet to Sacia’s bunk.

He sat down on it, thinking the moonlight behind her hair was the most beautiful sight he had ever seen.

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