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"Mine?" says Penfeather, softly

"Aye 'Here's a black passage to Captain Penfeather--curse him!" says a voice 'Aye,' says another, 'by knife or bullet or--' and here he falls to singing of a knife and a bullet and a hook 'Avast!' says a third voice 'Belay that, Abny, you'll be having all the lubbers about the place aboard of us!' 'Why,' says the et as hard in his wake, aye, and ready to lay hiht and damn all, says I' 'Some day, Abny, soue o' yourn and watch ye eat it, lad, eat it--hist, here coht,out o' ory--"

"Did ye see aught o' the others?" questioned Adam

"No master, not plain, for they kept to the dark, but I could see they was four and one a very big ue 'No, plague on't!' says Gregory 'Look hoill, I can find nought' 'Here's luck!' says the big fellow, 'Bad luck, as I'ory 'His o to the Conisby Arms, but he aren't there, I know' 'The Faithful Friend, was it,' says the big fellow, 'a-lying off Deptford Creek?' 'Aye, the Faithful Friend,' says Gregory, and then chancing to look outside, claps finger to lip and co into the shadow 'Lie low!' says he in a whisper--here's my lady!' And then, ory! Gregory!' 'Answer, fool!' whispers the big man 'Quick, or she'll be athwart our cable!' 'Here, ory and steps out o' the stable as she's about to step in 'Gregory,' says she in hesitating fashion, 'have ye seen a stranger hereabouts to-night?' 'Not a soul, ory 'A tall, wild ed and with yellow hair?' 'No, h 'Why then,' says she, 'bear you this letter to Master Penfeather--at once' 'To the Conisby Arory 'No,' says she, 'to the Peck-o'-Malt by Bedgebury Cross And, Gregory, should you see aught of the poor man that suffered lately in the pillory, say I would speak with hiebury,' says Gregory, 'the Peck-o'-Malt--to-night, ory, I hear tales of your hard dealing with some of the tenantry: let oes, leaving Gregory staring after her, letter in hand ''Twas she!' says the big man in a whisper 'I'd know her voice anywhere--aye, 'twas she whipped it froirdle, my luck, shipmates--our luck, but we'll find it if we have to pull the cursed house down brick and brick'"