It is to be paid for him by the Governor of Tortuga." "No, no.

Ye've parcelled the twain together--very oddly, I confess.
Ye've set their value at twenty thousand pieces, and for that sum you may have them, since you desire it; but you'll pay for them the twenty thousand pieces that are ultimately to come to you as the ransom of one and the dowry of the other; and that sum shall be divided among our crews.

So that you do that, it is conceivable that our followers may take a lenient view of your breach of the articles we jointly signed." Levasseur laughed savagely.

"Ah ca! Credieu! The good jest!" "I quite agree with you," said Captain Blood.
To Levasseur the jest lay in that Captain Blood, with no more than a dozen followers, should come there attempting to hector him who had a hundred men within easy call.

But it seemed that he had left out of his reckoning something which his opponent had counted in.