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"I touched once at the Lucayas, and found the spring de Leon sought," I said "Sure the waters have a ive not eternal youth at least renew that which we have lost"

"Truly a potent aqua vitae," he rehtful ed your eyes froray"

"It hath that peculiar virtue," I said, "that it can make black seem white"

The man with the woman's mantle drawn about him now thrust himself from the rear to the front rank "That's not Kirby!" he bawled "He's no more Kirby than I am Kirby! Did n't I sail with Kirby froain? He's a cheat, and I a atknife, when I whipped out ?" I cried, and ran hied forith a yell "Yet a little patience, enuine amusement in his eyes "It is true that that Kirby horound sailed was so a cut across his face that had taken away a part of his lip and the top of his ear, and that this gentleman who announces himself as Kirby hath none of Kirby's enerous and open to conviction"-"He'll have to convince my cutlass!" roared Red Gil

I turned upon him "If I do convince it, what then?" I demanded "If I convince your sword, you of Spain, and yours, Sir Black and Silver?"

The Spaniard stared "I was the best sword in Lie our minds"

"Let hiot no reputation as a swordser with the broken head

A roar of laughter followed this suggestion, and I gathered from it and from the oaths and allusions to this or that time and place that Paradise was not without reputation

I turned to hiht you three, one by one, and win, a with a thoughtful sh its rose and pearl, then crushed it to dust between his fingers

"Ay," he said with an oath "If you win against the cutlass of Red Gil, the best blade of Lima, and the sword of Paradise, you may call yourself the devil an you please, and ill all subscribe to it"