As Bond, wearing shorts and sandals, had his breakfast on the veranda2 and gazed down on the sunlit panorama3 of Kingston and Port Royal, he thought how lucky he was and what wonderful moments of consolation5 there were for the darkness and danger of his profession.
Bond knew Jamaica well. He had been there on a long assignment just after the war when the Communist headquarters in Cuba was trying to infiltrate6 the Jamaican labour unions. It had been an untidy and inconclusive job but he had grown to love the great green island and its staunch, humorous people. Now he was glad to be back and to have a whole week of respite7 before the grim work began again.
After breakfast, Strangways appeared on the veranda with a tall brown-skinned man in a faded blue shirt and old brown twill trousers.
This was Quarrel, the Cayman Islander, and Bond liked him immediately. There was the blood of Cromwellian soldiers and buccaneers in him and his face was strong and angular and his mouth was almost severe. His eyes were grey. It was only the spatulate nose and the pale palms of his hands that were negroid.
Bond shook him by the hand.
'Good morning, Captain,' said Quarrel. Coming from the most famous race of seamen8 in the world, this was the highest title he knew. But there was no desire to please, or humility9, in his voice. He was speaking as mate of the ship and his manner was straightforward10 and candid11.
That moment defined their relationship. It remained that of a Scots laird with his head stalker; authority was unspoken and there was no room for servility.
After discussing their plans, Bond took the wheel of the little car Quarrel had brought up from Kingston and they started on up the Junction13 Road, leaving Strangways to busy himself with Bond's requirements.
They had got off before nine and it was still cool as they crossed the mountains that run along Jamaica's back like the central ridges14 of a crocodile's armour15. The road wound down towards the northern plains through some of the most beautiful scenery in the world, the tropical vegetation changing with the altitude. The green flanks of the uplands, all feathered with bamboo interspersed16 with the dark, glinting green of breadfruit and the sudden Bengal fire of Flame of the Forest, gave way to the lower forests of ebony, mahogany, mahoe and logwood. And when they reached the plains of Agualta Vale the green sea of sugar-cane and bananas stretched away to where the distant fringe of glittering shrapnel bursts marked the palm-groves along the north coast.
Quarrel was a good companion on the drive and a wonderful guide. He talked about the trap-door spiders as they passed through the famous palm-gardens of Castle-ton, he told abovit a fight he had witnessed between a giant centipede and a scorpion18 and he explained the difference between the male and female paw-paw. He described the poisons of the forest and the healing properties of tropical herbs, the pressure the palm kernel19 develops to break open its coconut20, the length of a humming-bird's tongue, and how crocodiles carry their young in their mouths laid lengthways like sardines21 in a tin.
He spoke12 exactly but without expertise22, using Jamaican language in which plants'strive' or 'quail23', moths24 are 'bats', and 'love' is used instead of 'like'. As he talked he would raise his hand in greeting to the people on the road and they would wave back and shout his name.
'You seem to know a lot of people,' said Bond as the driver of a bulging25 bus with ROMANCE in large letters over the windshield gave him a couple of welcoming blasts on his wind-horn.
'I bin26 watching Surprise for tree muns, Cap'n,' answered Quarrel, ' 'n I been travelling this road twice a week. Everyone soon know you in Jamaica. They got good eyes.'
By half-past ten they had passed through Port Maria and branched off along the little parochial road that runs down to Shark Bay. Round a turning they suddenly came on it below them and Bond stopped the car and they got out.
The bay was crescent shaped, perhaps three-quarters of a mile wide at its arms. Its blue surface was ruffled27 by a light breeze blowing from the north-east, the edge of the Trade Winds that are born five hundred miles away in the Gulf28 of Mexico and then go on their long journey round the world.
A mile from where they stood, a long line of breakers showed the reef just outside the bay and the narrow untroubled waters of the passage which was the only entrance to the anchorage. In the centre of the crescent, the Isle29 of Surprise rose a hundred feet sheer out of the water, small waves creaming against its easterly base, calm waters in its lee.
It was nearly round, and it looked like a tall grey cake topped with green icing on a blue china plate.
They had stopped about a hundred feet above the little cluster of fishermen's huts behind the palm-fringed beach of the bay and they were level with the flat green top of the island, half a mile away. Quarrel pointed30 out the thatched roofs of the wattle-and-daub shanties32 among the trees in the centre of the island. Bond examined them through Quarrel's binoculars33. There was no sign of life except a thin wisp of smoke blowing away with the breeze.
Below them, the water of the bay was pale green on the white sand. Then it deepened to dark blue just before the broken brown of a submerged fringe of inner reef that made a wide semicircle a hundred yards from the island. Then it was dark blue again with patches of lighter34 blue and aquamarine. Quarrel said that the depth of the Secatur's anchorage was about thirty feet.
To their left, in the middle of the western arms of the bay, deep among the trees behind a tiny white sand beach, was their base of operations, Beau Desert. Quarrel described its layout and Bond stood for ten minutes examining the three-hundred-yard stretch of sea between it and the Secatur's anchorage up against the island.
In all, Bond spent an hour reconnoitring the place, then, without going near their house or the village, they turned the car and got back on the main coast road.
They drove on through the beautiful little banana port of Oracabessa and Ocho Rios with its huge new bauxite35 plant, along the north shore to Montego Bay, two hours away. It was now February and the season was in full swing. The little village and the straggle of large hotels were bathed in the four months gold-rush that sees them through the whole year. They stopped at a rest-house on the other side of the wide bay and had lunch and then drove on through the heat of the afternoon to the western tip of the island, two hours further on.
Here, because of the huge coastal36 swamps, nothing has happened since Columbus used Manatee37 Bay as a casual anchorage. Jamaican fishermen have taken the place of the Arawak Indians, but otherwise there is the impression that time has stood still.
Bond thought it the most beautiful beach he had ever seen, five miles of white sand sloping easily into the breakers and, behind, the palm trees marching in graceful38 disarray39 to the horizon. Under them, the grey canoes were pulled up beside pink mounds40 of discarded conch shells, and among them smoke rose from the palm thatch31 cabins of the fishermen in the shade between the swamp-lands and the sea.
In a clearing among the cabins, set on a rough lawn of Bahama grass, was the house on stilts41 built as a weekend cottage for the employees of the West Indian Citrus Company. It was built on stilts to keep the termites42 at bay and it was closely wired against mosquito and sand-fly. Bond drove off the rough track and parked under the house. While Quarrel chose two rooms and made them comfortable Bond put a towel round his waist and walked through the palm trees to the sea, twenty yards away.
For an hour he swam and lazed in the warm buoyant water, thinking of Surprise and its secret, fixing these three hundred yards in his mind, wondering about the shark and barracuda and the other hazards of the sea, that great library of books one cannot read.
Walking back to the little wooden bungalow43, Bond picked up his first sandfly bites. Quarrel chuckled44 when he saw the flat bumps on his back that would soon start to itch45 maddeningly.
'Can't do nuthen to keep them away, Cap'n,' he said. 'But Ah kin4 stop them ticklin'. You best take a shower first to git the salt off. They only bites hard for an hour in the evenin' and then they likes salt with their dinner.'
When Bond came out of the shower Quarrel produced an old medicine bottle and swabbed the bites with a brown liquid that smelled of creosote.
'We get more skeeters and sandfly in the Caymans than anywheres else in the world,' he said, 'but we gives them no attention so long as we got this medicine.'
The ten minutes of tropical twilight46 brought its quick melancholy47 and then the stars and the three-quarter moon blazed down and the sea died to a whisper. There was the short lull48 between the two great winds of Jamaica, and then the palms began to whisper again.
Quarrel jerked his head towards the window.
'De "Undertaker's Wind",' he commented.
'How's that?' asked Bond, startled.
'On-and-off shore breeze de sailors call it,' said Quarrel.
'De Undertaker blow de bad air out of de Island nighttimes from six. till six. Then every morning de "Doctor's Wind" come and blow de sweet air in from de sea. Leastwise dat's what we calls dem in Jamaica.'
Quarrel looked quizzically at Bond.
'Guess you and de Undertaker's Wind got much de same job, Cap'n,' he said half-seriously.
Bond laughed shortly. 'Glad I don't have to keep the same hours,' he said.
Outside, the crickets and the tree-frogs started to zing and tinkle49 and the great hawkmoths came to the wire-netting across the windows and clutched it, gazing with trembling ecstasy50 at the two oil lamps that hung from the cross-beams inside.
Occasionally a pair of fishermen, or a group of giggling51 girls, would walk by down the beach on their way to the single tiny rum-shop at the point of the bay. No man walked alone for fear of the duppies under the trees, or the rolling calf52, the ghastly animal that comes rolling towards you along the ground, its legs in chains and flames coming out of its nostrils53.
While Quarrel prepared one of the succulent meals of fish and eggs and vegetables that were to be their staple54 diet, Bond sat under the light and pored over the books that Strangways had borrowed from the Jamaica Institute, books on the tropical sea and its denizens55 by Beebe and Allyn and others, and on sub-marine hunting by Gousteau and Hass. When he set out to cross those three hundred yards of sea, he was determined56 to do it expertly and to leave nothing to chance. He knew the calibre of Mr. Big and he guessed that the defences of Surprise would be technically57 brilliant. He thought they would not involve simple weapons like guns and high explosives. Mr. Big needed to work undisturbed by the police. He had to keep out of reach of the law. He guessed that somehow the forces of the sea had been harnessed to do The Big Man's work for him and it was on these that he concentrated, on murder by shark and barracuda, perhaps by Manta Ray and octopus58.
The facts set out by the naturalists59 were chilling and awe-inspiring, but the experiences of Cousteau in the Mediterranean60 and of Hass in the Red Sea and Caribbean were more encouraging.
That night Bond's dreams were full of terrifying encounters with giant squids and sting rays, hammerheads and the saw-teeth of barracuda, so that he whimpered and sweated in his sleep.
On the next day he started his training under the critical, appraising61 eyes of Quarrel. Every morning he swam a mile up the beach before breakfast and then ran back along the firm sand to the bungalow. At about nine they would set out in a canoe, the single triangular62 sail taking them fast through the water up the coast to Bloody63 Bay and Orange Bay where the sand ends in cliffs and small coves64 and the reef is close in against the coast.
Here they would beach the canoe and Quarrel would take him out with spears and masks and an old underwater harpoon65 gun on breathtaking expeditions in the sort of waters he would encounter in Shark Bay.
They hunted quietly, a few yards apart, Quarrel moving effortlessly in an element in which he was almost at home.
Soon Bond too learned not to fight the sea but always to give and take with the currents and eddies66 and not to struggle against them, to use judo67 tactics in the water.
On the first day he came home cut and poisoned by the coral and with a dozen sea-egg spines68 in his side. Quarrel grinned and treated the wounds with merthiolate and Milton. Then, as every evening, he massaged69 Bond for half an hour with palm oil, talking quietly the while about the fish they had seen that day, explaining the habits of the carnivores and the ground-feeders, the camouflage70 of fish and their machinery71 for changing colour through the blood stream.
He also had never known fish to attack a man except in desperation or because there was blood in the water. He explained that fish are rarely hungry in tropical waters and that most of their weapons are for defence and not for attack. The only exception, he admitted, was the barracuda. 'Mean fish,' he called them, fearless since they knew no enemy except disease, capable of fifty miles an hour over short distances, and with the worst battery of teeth of any fish in the sea.
One day they shot a ten-pounder that had been hanging round them, melting into the grey distances and then reappearing, silent, motionless in the upper water, its angry tiger's eyes glaring at them so close that they could see its gills working softly and the teeth glinting like a wolf's along its cruel underslung jaw72.
Quarrel finally took the harpoon gun from Bond and shot it, badly, through the streamlined belly73. It came straight for them, its jaws74 on their great hinges wide open like a striking rattlesnake. Bond made a wild lunge at it with his spear just as it was on to Quarrel. He missed but the spear went between its jaws. They immediately snapped shut on the steel shaft75, and as the fish tore the spear out of Bond's hand, Quarrel stabbed at it with his knife and it went mad, dashing through the water with its entrails hanging out, the spear clenched76 between its teeth, and the harpoon dangling77 from its body Quarrel could scarcely hold the line as the fish tried to tear the wide barb78 through the walls of its stomach, but he moved with it towards a piece of submerged reef and climbed on to it and slowly pulled the fish in.
When Quarrel had cut its throat and they twisted the spear out of its jaws they found bright, deep scratches in the steel.
They took the fish ashore79 and Quarrel cut its head off and opened the jaws with a piece of wood. The upper jaw rose in an enormous gape80, almost at right angles to the lower, and revealed a fantastic battery of razor-sharp teeth, so crowded that they overlapped81 like shingles82 on a roof. Even the tongue had several runs of small pointed recurved teeth and, in front, there were two huge fangs83 that projected forward like a snake's.
Although it only weighed just over ten pounds, it was over four feet long, a nickel bullet of muscle and hard flesh.
'We shoot no more cudas,' said Quarrel. 'But for you I been in hospital for a month and mebbe lost ma face. It was foolish of me. If we swim towards it, it gone away. Dey always do. Dey cowards like all fish. Doan you worry, bout17 those,' he pointed at the teeth. 'You never see dem again.'
'I hope not,' said Bond. 'I haven't got a face to spare.'
By the end of the week, Bond was sunburned and hard. He had cut his cigarettes down to ten a day and had not had a single drink. He could swim two miles without tiring, his hand was completely healed and all the scales of big city life had fallen from him.
Quarrel was pleased. 'You ready for Surprise, Cap'n,' he said, 'and I not like be de fish what tries to eat you.'
Towards nightfall on the eighth day they came back to the rest-house to find Strangways waiting for them.
'I've got some good news for you,' he said : 'your friend Felix Leiter's going to be all right. At all events he's not going to die. They've had to amputate the remains84 of an arm and a leg. Now the plastic surgery chaps have started building up his face. They called me up from St. Petersburg yesterday. Apparently85 he insisted on getting a message to you. First thing he thought of when he could think at all. Says he's sorry not to be with you and to tell you not to get your feet wet - or at any rate, not as wet as he did.'
Bond's heart was full. He looked out of the window. 'Tell him to get well quickly,' he said abruptly86. 'Tell him I miss him.' He looked back into the room. 'Now what about the gear? Everything okay?'
'I've got it all,' said Strangways, 'and the Secatur sails tomorrow for Surprise. After clearing at Port Maria, they should anchor before nightfall. Mr. Big'son board - only the second time he's been down here. Oh and they've got a woman with them. Girl called Solitaire, according to the CIA. Know anything about her?'
'Not much,' said Bond. 'But I'd like to get her away from him. She's not one of his team.'
'Sort of damsel in distress,' said the romantic Strangways. 'Good show. According to the CIA she's a corker.'
But Bond had gone out on the veranda and was gazing up at his stars. Never before in his life had there been so much to play for. The secret of the treasure, the defeat of a great criminal, the smashing of a Communist spy ring, and the destruction of a tentacle87 of SMERSH, the cruel machine that was his own private target. And now Solitaire, the ultimate personal prize.
The stars winked88 down their cryptic89 morse and he had no key to their cipher90.
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