But don't turn pale; I have arranged it all." "You!" exclaimed the wide-eyed Kate.
"Yes," said her uncle, and he told his tale.
"And remember this, my dear," he added; "if we cannot pay, we do not eat.

I shall be as relentless as the bloody Blackbeard; if they take not my money, I shall swear to Ichabod that we touch not their goods." "And are you sure," she said, "that there will be no bloodshed ?" "I vouch for that," said he, "for I shall lead the boarding party." She took him by both hands.

"Why," she said, "it need be no more than laying in goods from a store-house; and I cannot but be glad, dear uncle, for I am so very, very hungry." Now Dame Charter came running and puffing.

"Do you know," she cried, "that there is to be a piracy?
The word has just been passed and the cook told me.

There is to be no bloodshed, and the other ship will not be burned and the people will not be made to walk a plank.