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Nothing was found while I was watching, and as I did not much like the odor, I drew to one side. I found L'Olonnois and Lafitte standing apart, in full character, arms folded and scowling heavily. "If yonder villain plays us false," said Lafitte between his clenched teeth, "he shall feel the vengeance of Jean Lafitte!
I explained to Lafitte and L'Olonnois that we were now come into the neighborhood of possible treasure, and the sight of a few pearls, none of very great worth, which the old crone produced from a cracker box, was enough to set off Jimmy L'Olonnois, who was all for raiding the place. "What!" he hissed to me in an aside. "Did we not spare his life? Then the treasure should be ours!"
"Each man to his taste," said I, "but if you like, you may have the green heads, and I'll take these with the auburn locks." "Pshaw! What are they?" answered he. "Only canvasbacks," said I, "and good fat ones, too. What luck have you, Jimmy, my son?" "Well, I went along and helped carry things," said L'Olonnois. "What's that you've got on a string?" I asked him. "Oh, that," said he, flushing.
"The sun is sinking beneath the wave, and the good ship rides steady at her anchor. Meantime men must eat! and yonder castle amid the forest offers booty. What say ye if we pass within the wood, and see what we may find of worth to souls bold as ours?" "'Tis well!" answered L'Olonnois; and I could see assent in Lafitte's eyes.
When de Basco heard of the great expedition which L'Olonnois was about to undertake, his whole soul was fired and he could not rest tamely in his comfortable quarters when such great things were to be done, and he offered to assist L'Olonnois with funds and join in the expedition if he were made commander of the land forces.
I wouldn't a-took to the tall grass, me." "On the other hand, I played a system invented by myself and Henri L'Olonnois." "I never heard of him. Well, anyhow, you were rich enough to afford to do what you liked. But as to keeping it secret, you can't do that any longer. Those newspaper fellows are the devil to get hold of things.
When L'Olonnois and his friends had been in possession of Gibraltar for about a month, they thought it was time to leave, but their greedy souls were not satisfied with the booty they had already obtained, and they therefore sent messages to the Spaniards who were still concealed in the forests, that unless in the course of two days a ransom of ten thousand pieces of eight were paid to them, they would burn the town to the ground.
I shared it with exultation I knew I shared it with these others. The lust of youth for adventure held us all, and the years were as naught. I turned now to find Helena, and met L'Olonnois, his face beaming. "Wasn't that a peach of a shot?" said he. "It would of blew yon varlet out of the water, if I'd had anything to load with except just them marbles. Are you looking for Auntie Helen?
"She's not as big as the Mauretania," said Helena, fixing L'Olonnois' collar for him. "I'm sure she's going to roll horribly," added Aunt Lucinda. "And if I should be seasick, with my neuralgia, I'm sure I don't know what I should do." "I know!" remarked L'Olonnois; and Helena promptly dropped her hand over his mouth.
Shall we put him to the oath?" "Aye, aye, Sir!" responded the deep chorus of scores of full-chested voices. Or, at least, so it seemed to us, though, mayhap, 'twas no more than Jimmy who spoke. "Swear him, then!" commanded Jean Lafitte. "Swear him by the oath of blood." "We we haven't any blood!" whispered L'Olonnois, aside, somewhat troubled.
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