[Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley]@TWC D-Link bookWestward Ho! CHAPTER XII 23/29
The Spaniard is my guest.
I am answerable for him to Leigh, and for his ransom too.
And how can Leigh accept the ransom if the man is not given up safe and sound? They won't pay for a dead carcass, boy! The man's life is worth two hundred pounds." "A very bad bargain, sir, for those who pay the said two hundred for the rascal; but what if he kills Cary ?" "Worse still.
Cary must not be killed.
I am very angry with him, but he is too good a lad to be lost; and his father would never forgive us.
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