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At gesture froed to my feet and my arms jerked, twisted and bound before me crosswise, and so stood I helpless and in ued his fellows, tapping ently with his hook: "Look'ee, old a' plenty and here, so to be found It needeth but for this fool Martin here, as some o' you will mind for Adam Penfeather's comrade, with a curse, it needeth but for him to speak, I say, and in that same hour each one o' you may fill your clutch wi' more treasure than ever came out o' Eldorado or Manoa--so speak he must and shall--eh bullies, eh?"

"Aye, aye, Cap'n!" they roared, pressing upon er steel

"Twist his thumbs, Cap'n!" cried one

"Slit his nose!" roared another

"Trim his yeres!" cried a third But Tressady silenced them with a flourish of his hook

"Hark'ee, lads!" says he "You all lers, here's a little delicate matter as none can handle like the Sue! Pass the word for Sreat, fat fellow Spraggons who had been bo'sun'shis ith vicious elbows and hty anxious to coh-pitched voice and blinking his hairless lids at uts--leave him to me, Cap'n! Saood, sharp knife 'neath the finger or toe-nails--dre, ood Or boiling water poured in his yeres ht serve Then--aha, Cap'n! I know a dainty little trick, a small cord, d'ye see, twisted athwart his head just a-low the broisted and twisted--as shall start his eyes out right pretty to behold I uts ater--"

"Bring hi me ever with his pale eyes, "There shall bebetwixt thee merriment; but scarce e out of the cove and hard beside Bartlemy's tree than I started to the vicious prick of a knife, and whirling about despite the fierce hands that sought to hold ain But now, as I strove withcaptors, was a flicker of vicious steel as Tressady sprang and, whipping his hook beneath the great fellow's belt, whirled Sht and forthwith trampled upon him