"I don't want to hear anything about the men," he said; "of course they will be hung.

What could be done with them if they were not hung?
But it is entirely different with me.

I am a most respectable person, and, now that I am willing to resign my piratical career, having won in it all the glory that can come to one man, that respectability must be considered." "Weel, weel," said the Scotchman; "an' when it comes that respectabeelity is better for a man's soul an' body than righteousness, then I am no fit counsellor for ye, Master Bonnet," and he took his leave.
The next morning, when Ben Greenway left his lodging he found the town in an uproar.

The pirate Bonnet had bribed his sentinels and, with some others, had escaped.

Ben stood still and stamped his foot.