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"What ho! Jean Lafitte," said I at length, rousing myself from the old

habit of reverie, of which I had chiefest dread; "and you, Henri

L'Olonnois, scourges of the main, both of you, listen! I have a plan

to put before you, er pirate, so proain I had much to do to refrain from suddenbeneath the

wave, and the good ship rides steady at her anchor Meantime men must

eat! and yonder castle amid the forest offers booty What say ye if we

pass within the wood, and see e may find of worth to souls bold

as ours?"

"'Tis well!" answered L'Olonnois; and I could see assent in Lafitte's

eyes In truth I could discover no great preparations for a long

voyage in the open hold of the Sea Rover, and doubted not that both

captain and crew by this tiry Odd cruht be all very well at the edge of the

village of Pausaukee (I judged they could have coreater

distance, some twelve or fifteena journey as lies between Pausaukee and the Spanish Main

They rose as I did, and we passed beyond the clu ate which closes