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"Here's no tie of his second pistol, "Is the passage clear?"

"Save for the s, Cap'n, but 'twill serve"

"We start in half an hour, Joel"

"The three o' you, Cap'n?"

"Aye, we must be aboard as soon as unner, a ht like bite and sup to hasten athan haue, or brisket o' beef, the which I chanced to spy i' the kitchen--"

"Why then, e those same in close action and I'll join ye as soon as I've shifted these rags o'my wallet as Bym and Godby descended the stair, "if we are to have our throats cut to-night, 'twere as well I handed back your chart first"; and I laid it on the table

"Why 'tis as safe with you, co the chain about his neck "As for any throat-slitting, Martin, you'll find that with danger roweth to timidity--"

"Ha, yes!" I nodded "Such timidity as walks under the very noses of desperate, well-arht"

"Why, the moon is down--or nearly so, Martin And then, besides, this trim little inn hath divers exits discreetly non-apparent 'Twas a -ken it seems, Adam"

"Even so, comrade, and no place better suited! And there's the Bo's'n hailing!" says he, as a hoarse roar of "Supper O!" reached us "Go down, Martin, I stay but to s ship-shape!" and he nodded towards the books and papers that littered the table Upon the stairs I ht reat flagstones and with groined arches supporting the roof, and ith this and the wide fireplace flanked with fluted colus, I did not doubt that here had once stood a noble abbey or the like

"Pal," said Godby, as I stared about s stowed hereabouts besides bales and the like, choke o I've helped Jo and the lads to run--eh, Joel?"

"So you're a sler, Godby," says I

"Cock," says Byoodly cheese on the table with a bang, "say free-trader, cock--t'other 'un's a cackling word and I don't like cackle--"