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"Keep it or throw it away 'tis all one to me!" Then he went away through the wood and, as he went, I thought he walked with a new and added caution. Evening was at hand as I reached a little alehouse well away from the road and pleasantly secluded by trees: thither came I, fondling Penfeather's money in my pocket, for I was again mightily sharp set.
Ten great pieces a side I counted, with ports for divers more. I was yet wondering at the emptiness about me when I heard sudden uproar from the deck above my head, shouts, cries, a rush and patter of many feet, and above all Penfeather's furious hail.
As to ways and means, here we be thirty and eight to Penfeather's fourteen, and in a little 'twill be dark and the guns shan't serve 'em and then aha, look yonder! The fools be coming into our very clutches! To cover, lads, and look to your primings and wait my word." Now glancing whither he pointed, I saw, above the adjacent headland, the tapering spars of a ship.
Penfeather's black brows flickered and his keen eyes glanced from his rent doublet round about the room: "Howbeit he was here, Joel!" said he. "Why then, Cap'n, the dying woman's curse holds and he can't die?" says Bym, clawing at his great beard. "He was here, Joel, in this room," says Penfeather, busy with powder-horn, "man to man, knife to knife and I missed him.
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