Salut!" And the Captain raised his glass to one so distinguished by Government.
He laughed as he set his glass down on the little cabin table.
"No ill-feeling on either side," he added.

"C'est entendu." He made a half-movement as if to shake hands across the table and thought better of it, remembering, perhaps, that his own palm was not innocent of blood-money.

For the rest they had been friendly enough on the voyage.

And had the "Petite Jeanne" been in danger, it is probable that Barebone would have warned his jailer, if only in obedience to a seaman's instinct against throwing away a good ship.
He had noted every detail, however, of the dinghy while he lay on the deck of the "Petite Jeanne"; how the runner fitted to the mast; whether the halliards were likely to run sweetly through the sheaves or were knotted and would jamb.

He knew the weight of the gaff and the great tan-soddened sail to a nicety.