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He drew his brothers closer. "If for no other reason than to
find out if Dougan's telling the truth. If he is and if the
Graygem IS here and if we could be the ones to bring it
back . . ."
"Oh, it's here!" Dougan said, eagerly poking his black-
bearded face into their midst. "And when you bring it back,
lads, why the stories they tell of your famous father will be
kender lies compared to the legends they'll sing of you! To
say nothing of the fact that you'll be rescuing the poor
people of this island from their sad fate," continued the
dwarf in solemn tones.
"People?" Tanin said, startled. "You mean this place is
inhabited?"
"Aye, there are people here," the dwarf said with a
gusty sigh, though he was eyeing the brothers shrewdly.
"Yes," said Sturm, staring intently at the beach. "There
are people, all right. And it doesn't look to me, Dougan
Redhammer, like they want to be rescued!"
Tanin, Palin, Sturm, and the dwarf were ferried across the
water from the MIRACLE by a party of gnomes in a dinghy.
Bringing along the dinghy had been the dwarf's idea, and
the gnomes were enchanted with something so practical and
simple. The gnomes had themselves designed a lifeboat to
be attached to MIRACLE
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