"Shall I be in greater danger ashore than aboard, now that we've but fifty men left, and they lukewarm rogues who would as soon serve the King as me?
Jeremy, dear lad, the Arabella's a prisoner here, bedad, 'twixt the fort there and the fleet yonder.

Don't be forgetting that." Jeremy clenched his hands.

"Why did ye let Wolverstone and the others go ?" he cried, with a touch of bitterness.

"You should have seen the danger." "How could I in honesty have detained them?
It was in the bargain.
Besides, how could their staying have helped me ?" And as Pitt did not answer him: "Ye see ?" he said, and shrugged.

"I'll be getting my hat and cane and sword, and go ashore in the cock-boat.