title: The Divine Circle of Ladies Rocking the Boat: The 6th Cass Shipton Adventure
author:  Dolores Stewart Riccio 
description: Dolores Stewart Riccio is the author of six Circle mysteries; Spirit, a novel; several cookbooks, including the original Superfoods series; Doors to the Universe, a collection of poems; and co-author of two books about haunted houses. She and her husband, Ottone M. Riccio, author and teacher, live in Duxbury, Massachusetts.
zlib_text: 2566 A.D.!
  
  A TALE OF ADVENTURE IN THE SECOND DARK AGE OF MAN
  
  By Jerome B. Bigge
  
  Chapter Forty Four
  
        "Let loose those yards, helm hard to starboard!" I barked, the ship swinging up into the wind, the bosun throwing the line as the Corsica came up to the woman there in the water. The mys- terious enemy ship now drawing further and further away with ev- ery minute! Then as soon as the woman had been hauled over the side I snapped the orders that put us once again in hot pursuit of the Dularnian schooner now racing for the horizon and safety! 
  
        "We lost a lot of `ground' there," Valerie said to me as a briefly clad slave girl was hauled over the side to stand drip- ping on the deck. I nodded. I would never leave an innocent to drown hundreds of miles out in the Pacific despite "losing" an enemy ship like now. I am in my way much like Darlanis in this. 
  
        "I am `Annette', a slave girl of Princess Tara," the drip- ping wench said to me, her soaking wet shift clinging to h