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"Well, Martin, Santa Catalina fell according toto pay ransom, I drew off my companies, and camped outside the walls of the town till they should collect thecomely, Martin, in especial the Governor's lady, and upon the second night was sudden outcry and uproar within the city, whereupon I marched into the place forthwith and found this curst Bartlerown i to the Governor's house I found it gutted and hiashed out of his of soreat beast! That was the first tientleone Hereupon, we o' the Brotherhood fell upon these pirate rogues and fought the houses (for they had fired the city), and I, thus espying the devil Bartlemy, met him point to point He was very full o' rapier tricks, but so was I, Martin (also I was younger), and winged him sore and had surely ended hiot hiht and the woods that lie shorewards he, together with soot theht," and so away; but twelve of his rogues we took (beyond divers we slew in fight) and those twelve I saw hanged that saa with no less than ninety and one thousand pieces of eight for our labour, but I and those with le piece, Martin, for we ran into a storm such as I never saw the like of even in those seas Well, we ran afore it for three days and its fury nothing abating all this time I never quit the deck, but I had been wounded, and on the third night, being fevered and outworn, turned in beloakened by Nick Frant roaring in my ear, for the tempest was very loud and fierce: "'Adaood ood money!' Hereupon I climbed 'bove deck, the vessel on her beaht to be seen i' the dark save the white spume as the seas broke over us None the less I set the crew to cutting away her hten her thereby), but while this was doing co aboard us whirledsea, strove no , I was borne aloft and then, Martin, found oon, and spying through the dark a grove of paled to cli there, I prayed--a thing I had not done for reat wave had hurled oon, and beyond the reef lay all that reht (and much cast down for the loss of my companions, in especial my sworn friend Nicholas Frant) when I heard a sound behindabout, espied a woh it was) I read horror and sadness beyond tears, and yet I knew her for the saovernor of Santa Catalina