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Show 224 quiet, and even as the others waited for the rest of the sentence, began to snore. Returning they found that the sun had moved around, so that their rooms were dim and cool. Sid and Louise slipped on kimonos and found their way through the labyrinth of corridors to the bath; a large quiet room, hazy through the shadowed glass, empty now. The bath was a small circular pool, waist deep, with a bottom sloping upward toward the center, and they entered nude, swimming about in the luxury of freedom. Once a maid popped her head in to help soap, but Sid assured her they hari everything under control. Back in the room they slept. At four Yosh appeared to say that some of the others had arrived on the Nissan-maru; would they like to ride around the bay? So they dressed, and drove down to the dock, where they greeted the new arrivals. Mike was being loaded. She was large by now and ungainly; once in, she relaxed on a pile of life-preservers, where she looked out at the rocking water with distaste. "Anything wrong?" asked Hal. "You're green." "All right," she said. "Maybe." "Want to go back?" "No. Stomach a litr funny. Okay soon." When the passengers were aboard Furukawa cast off, and the boat circled away from the dock. It trailed a thick pall of smoke along the decks, and cupping her hand before her face |