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"The flag?"

"She carried none"

"Humph!" I said "It hath a suspicious look At least we do well to be ready We'll give them a elcome"

"There are those here who counsel surrender," continued the Governor "There's one, at least, ants the Tiger sent downstrea and lishlishentleman whom I had encountered before, to wit, Master Edward Sharpless "It's well enough for swingebuckler captains, Low Country fire-eaters, to talk of holding out againt a Spanish h ordnance to batter the town out of existence Wise h for lily-livered, goose-fleshed lawyers to hold their tongues whenindentures to the devil, and so have no need of such gentry"

There was a roar of laughter frounners, but terror of the Spaniard had made Master Edward Sharpless bold to all besides

"They ipe us off the face of the earth!" he lalishman left in America! they'll come close in upon us! they'll batter down the fort with their culverins; they'll turn all their swivels, sakers, and falcons upon us; they'll throw into our renades; they'll unners never ue "Are you ht! Spain the rich! Spain the powerful! Spain the lord of the New World!"

"It's England that fights!" I cried "For very shaue!"

"If we surrender at once, they'll let us go!" he whined "We can take the so"

"Into the galleys," muttered West

The craven tried another feint "Think of the women and children!"

"We do," I said sternly "Silence, fool!"

The Governor, a brave and honest n to the matter, Master Sharpless I think our duty is clear, be the odds what they may This is our post, and ill hold it or die beside it We are few in nuland in A's fifth kingdom, and ill keep it for hiht it out"

"Aesses and the armed men beyond