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"I'll be darned if yew will, though, stranger!" he snapped. "No, sirree; not much, I don't think! Why, yew're even more ignorant than I thought yew was, and I must teach ye another little bit of yewr business. Why, yew goldarned Britisher, d'ye know that yew haven't got no right at all to stop me from pursooin' my v'yage, or to demand a sight o' my papers?
"Soon as yew're all over the side, we'll cut yew adrift; and when yew're skipper picks yew up, yew may tell him that I'll throw every nigger overboard before he shall take us, and run the schooner aground and blow her up this time." "You can give your message when Captain Maitland has you safely in irons, sir," said Mark, stoutly.
"I have done it," said Mark, sharply. "What! going to keep them free American citizens prisoners below like a pack o' niggers?" "Why not?" said Mark. "Do you think I'm going to let you and your men hatch up a scheme to retake this schooner?" The man laughed. "Guess yew're a sharp one, squaire. Wall, what are you going to do with me?" "Take you aboard my ship, sir."
And p'rhaps that won't be so very difficult, a'ter all, for when I next see my friend Rodriguez that's the cap'n of the Preciosa I'll tell him that yew're out arter him, and maybe he'll lay for yew; for Rodriguez hates the Britishers 'most as bad as I do, and I'm sure he'd enjy blowin' El Caiman outer the water now that she's fallen into yewr hands.
"Yew're going back, then?" said the American, with a flash of the eye. "I am, sir," said Mark, sharply, "but I'm going to leave a strong prize crew here on board, and I wouldn't advise you or your men to make any attempt at recapture. Matters might turn out, as you call it, `ugly." "All right, squaire, but I don't see where your strong prize crew is coming from," said the man, drily.
He and Morillo was great friends; and I reckon he'll feel bound to avenge Morillo's loss. Yes; I'll tell him, for sure. And I'll also tell all the others on the Coast to keep a bright look-out for the brigantine. Waal, so long, stranger. I'm bound for the Congo, if yew're anyways anxious to know."
"I'll bet yer 't was Aunt Nancy; she's got a sharp tongue, but a lot of silk pieces an' a tender spot in her heart fer yew, Abe. Ruby Lee says she never thought yew'd bring her around; yew're dretful takin' in yer ways, Father, thar's no use a-talkin'." Abraham glanced at himself in the glass, and pulled at his beard, his countenance not altogether free from a self-conscious vanity.
Draw, my lads, and cut them down if they resist. Fillot, have off that hatch." At a sign, the two blacks tore it open: and with the horrible vapour that arose came a wild, piteous clamour from the imprisoned slaves below. "Guess yew're right, curse you!" said the American, in an angry snarl. "Drop it, boys; they're too many for us this time. We're done, and it's of no use to be ugly."
Homan in her most commanding tones at the end of a final discussion in the big hall, on the evening before the date set for departure, "ef yew're bound, bent, an' determined, Brother Abe, to run in the face of Providence, yew want tew mind one thing, an' wear yer best set of flannels ter-morrer." "Sho, thar hain't no danger of me ketchin' cold," decried Abe.
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