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  Excerpt from my novel FATE. The Murder of Captain Eoin 'Bonny' Devlin                                                         Having restored part of his strength and clarity of mind over three days under the care of Marcus Meagher, who helped to nurse him through his grief, Captain Devlin went on deck to reclaim The Lilly White and his captaincy. The schooner, with her sails billowing like the wings of a rising Phoenix and her timbers creaking in the gentle morning breeze, was looking as graceful as the day she was launched in Quebec, and seemed ... God help him ... to greet Captain Devlin.          As he stepped onto the deck, he could feel the pulse of the ...