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Sheer audacity is at times the surest steed a ood service With oaths and grunts of admiration the pirates stayed where they were, and went about their business of launching the boats and stripping the body of Red Gil, while the ers, the knave with the wounded shoulder, and myself walked briskly up the beach

With these five atfire and to those who had sprung to their feet at our approach "Sparrow," I said easily, "luck being with us as usual, I have fallen in with a party of rovers I have told them who I am,--that Kirby, to hoed,--and have recounted to theo went down yesterday with all on board, you and I with these others being the sole survivors By dint of a little persuasion they have elected o on board directly and set sail for the Indies, a hunting ground which we never should have left You need not look so blank; you shall be ht hand still" I turned to the five who forentlemen, is my mate, Jeremy Sparrow by name, who hath a taste for divinity that in no wise interferes with his taste for a galleon or a guarda costa This entleman without a sword is my prisoner, taken by lishman, came to be upon a Spanish bark I have not found leisure to inquire The lady is aoler and hold all men's hearts in ward," said Paradise, with a lo to my unfortunate captive

While he spoke a rave, rugged, and deeply lined face smoothed itself and shed ten years at least; in the eyes that I had seen ith noble tears a laughing devil now lurked, while his strong mouth became a loose-lipped, devil-rizzled hair set itself jauntily upon one side, and froreat frame breathed a wicked jollity quite indescribable

"Odsbodikins, captain!" he cried "Kirby's luck!--'t will pass into a saw! Adzooks! and so you're captain once more, and I'm mate once more, and we've a ship once ive the Spaniard pain, ho, bully boy, heave ho!