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"Captain Sharkey is the name, gentlemen," said he, "and this is Roaring Ned Galloway, the quartermaster of the Happy Delivery. We made it hot, and so they marooned us: me on a dry Tortuga cay, and him in an oarless boat. You dogs you poor, fond, water-hearted dogs we hold you at the end of our pistols!"
O, would that Warhoon were ruled by a real jeddak rather than by a water-hearted weakling from whom even old Dak Kova could tear the metal with his bare hands!"
God! was there ever such a coward as this, such a weak-souled, water-hearted dastard? "But you may not be slain," I urged him. And then I sounded a fresh note. "Bethink you of Madonna Paola and of the brave things you promised her." He flushed a little, then paled again, then sat very still. Shame had touched him at last, yet its grip was not enough to make a man of him.
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