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I hastened over to Lafitte and called loudly to L'Olonnois, and commanded Partial to drop the renewed encounter with the clammers' dog, which now, also, swiftly threatened us. So, in a moment or two, I restored peace. I held out my hand to the clammer.
While the Scottish gentlemen were still taking service in foreign courts as, for example, the Admirable Crichton with the Duke of Mantua the young Englishman was sailing with Cavendish or Drake; he was fighting and meeting death under desperadoes, such as Oxenham; he was even, later on, serving with L'Olonnois, Kidd, or Henry Morgan.
"Is she your little girl," hesitatingly inquired Jimmy L'Olonnois, for the instant forgetting his part. "No," said I sadly, "she is not my little girl." "Where is she?" vaguely. "Regarding the whereabouts of either Anopheles or Helena, at this moment," said I still sadly, "I am indeed all at sea, as any good pirate should be." I tried to jest, but fared ill at it.
"How'd you mean?" "Why, reason it out with 'em both." Jean apparently shook his head, or had some look of dubiousness, for L'Olonnois went on. "We gotta do it, somehow. If we don't, we'll about have to go back home; an' who wants to go back home from a good old desert island like this here. So now " "Uh, huh?" "Why, I'll tell you, now. You see, I got some pull with her the fair captive.
In answer without order from me, my bloodthirsty mate, L'Olonnois, brought out the black burgee of the Jolly Rover, bearing a skull and cross-bones. "Have a look at that!" he piped. "Shall we clear the stern-chaser, Black Bart?" "Hold on there, wait! I've got papers for you," called the officer, still hanging at our rail, for I had not yet ordered full speed.
Men and women were hacked to pieces with swords; it was L'Olonnois' pleasure, when a poor victim had nothing to tell, to tear out his tongue with his own hands, and it is said that on some occasions his fury was so great that he would cut out the heart of a man and bite at it with his great teeth.
If any boat did come here, we could well, we could blow her out of the water, couldn't we, Peterson? We could blow you out of the water, too, couldn't we, we and these ruffians of our crew?" and I pointed at the two low-browed pictures of Lafitte and L'Olonnois. A shudder was my only answer. I think the two portraits of my young bullies did the business.
They ate, they drank, they gambled; they crowded the taverns as taverns have never been crowded before; they sold their valuable merchandise for a twentieth part of its value to some of the more level-headed people of the place; and having rioted, gambled, and committed every sort of extravagance for about three weeks, the majority of L'Olonnois' rascally crew found themselves as poor as when they had started off on their expedition.
No, nor ever will." L'Olonnois bent his flaxen head in dignified and manly sympathy. "I see," said he, "our brother in his youth has, perhaps, been deceived by some fair one!" Upon which I left them for my own room. If two buccaneers in my castle slept well that night, a third did not. Anopheles might go hang. I did not fancy my new microscope. I doubted if my last violin were a real Strad.
"We knew it," concluded L'Olonnois calmly. "So, after now, we'll call you Black Bart. You can let your whiskers grow, you know." "True," said I. "Well, we will at least take the whiskers under advisement, as the court would say." "We must be an awful long ways from home," ventured L'Olonnois, after a time.
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