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Updated: May 18, 2025
Piracy was, however, in those days a semi-legitimate offense, winked at by the authorities all through the colonial period; and respectable people and governors and officials of New York and North Carolina, it is said, secretly furnished funds for such expeditions and were interested in the profits. Delaware was the first colony to be established on the river that bears this name.
A few hours more, according to his own statement, wouldn't have made any difference one way or the other, would it? He could have sent a boy for it, as usual. That was the way it had always been done before. Why anything different now? He knew that he was a ruined man! He knew that his last semi-legitimate avenue of escape the favor of George W. Stener had been closed to him!
His semi-legitimate financial subtlety, backed indeed by his financial genius, but certainly on this account not worse than that being practiced in peace and quiet and with much applause in many other quarters was now seen to be Machiavellian trickery of the most dangerous type.
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