10/15 Your presence will aid greatly in making our hoped-for capture a most orderly affair; no one can look upon you, bedad, without knowing that you are a high-minded and honourable man, and would not take a box or case from any one if you did not need it. Now, sir, we shall put about, and by good fortune we may soon sight a merchantman. Even if it be but a coastwise trader, it may serve our purpose." Mr.Delaplaine, with something of a smile upon his sedate face, hurried to Kate, who was upon the quarter-deck. As soon as we can overhaul a merchantman we shall commit a piracy. |