But if you don't want to come,' you added, 'it's all the same to me.' "Faith, I knew that was only talk.

I knew you wanted me.

Also I knew the king's navy needed me, for men are hard to get.

So, when they'd paid us the cash--forty pounds apiece--I stepped in behind you, and here we are--here we are! Forty pounds apiece--equal to three years' wages of an ordinary recruit of the army.

It ain't bad, but we're here for three years, and no escape from it.