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Griffin and Ja their latest conquest with a glass or two of cognac After that first night together, they had not overindulged again; it wasn’t in their natures

"We’re surprisingly alike," Jaical conclusion

"Daood sailors," Griffin replied "Just when I think that the P-Two can’t possibly sidle up where I’d like her to, you e it"

"Pity about those men"

"The dead ones?"

"Yes"

"Didn’t lose any of our own And the crew of the Dreadnaught were feared through the East Indies," Griffin pointed out "We’ve done the world a favor Another favor, given that we scuttled the Black Spider last ained her reputation by capturing a passenger ship bound for Bole man, woman, and child down the plank?"

"I know it," James said All his research on pirates and their routes had served them well in the last few months The Poppys were now as feared by pirates as pirates were feared by trading vessels

"We’re bloody Robin Hoods, we are"

"With the tiny exception that we don’t give to the poor," Ja of Sicily We could have sold it" Griffin was not one for the ht to fly his flag as privateers is worth atha, even if the statue wasn’t hollohich it was, iving anything away for free, but even he had to adh the distinction was certainly a foggy one

"What are you going to do with all that fabric you put in your cabin, by the way?" he asked "Are you planning to lure a woman on board? The men won’t hold with it The first storm that hit, you’d look around for your popsy and find they’d tossed her overboard to appease the sea devils, or Poseidon, or what have you"

"I thought I’d send the fabric to my wife She always talked about cloth more than she did dresses theht ht a silk trader"

"Why on earth would you do such a thing?" Griffin asked, clearly astonished "She booted you out the door, and quite rightly, from what you said Why remind her of yourback his cognac "Forget the fabric; we old"

"Bank it," Griffin said promptly "When I think of the way I used to si, it makes me twitch all over Shall we stow it in Genoa or open a new account somewhere else?"