"Let me go with you.

It would be hard if you must send me back, for I would fain see the ships.

That talk of driving the cattle can be naught but a jest." "Likely enough," he answered, laughing.

"It is no new thing for a crew to come ashore and clear out the booths of the tradesmen without troubling to pay offhand.

Presently their captains will come and pay what is asked, grumbling, and there will be no loss to our folk.