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Updated: May 27, 2025
He rapped his pipe against the hatch-combing to dislodge the dottle, and got to his feet. I thought he was going to leave me without replying to my query, but after he had taken a step or two he spoke over his shoulder, softly. "That's true what I said about the money, Jack. It's there, just waiting for a few lads of nerve to come and take it."
He had done his work well. I sat down on the hatch-combing and rested my chin on my hands in black despair. "He deserves to die," I cried out; "and God forgive me, I am not man enough to be his executioner." But Maud was by my side, passing her hand soothingly through my hair as though I were a child, and saying, "There, there; it will all come right. We are in the right, and it must come right."
Then a musket cracked and a bullet imbedded itself in the mainmast by Job's head. "All right, boys," he said, without moving, "let 'em have it! Ready, port battery? Fire!" Jeremy and Bob, clinging side by side to the hatch-combing, felt the planking quiver under them at the series of mighty discharges, and saw the pirate schooner check and stagger like an animal that has received its death wound.
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