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"Will you swear on the Book to do your duty by Skipper Simms an' me if we take you back?" asked Ward

"You bet," answered Bony Sawyer

The others nodded their heads, and Divine sprang up and started doard Ward

"Hol' on you!" coement don' include you--it's jes' between Skipper Simms an' his sailors You're a rank outsider, an' you butts in an' starts a otta stand trial fer that--see?" "You better duck,you sure"

Divine hite To face trial before two such men as Simms and Ward meant death, of that he was positive To flee into the forest meant death, almost equally certain, andsupplicating hands to the mate

"For God's sake, Mr Ward," he cried, "be merciful I was led into this by Theriere He lied to me just as he did to theyou for it"

"We'll hang for this rowled the irl off to be ot clear sooose fer the lot of us"

"You can collect ranso at a straw "I'll pay a hundred thousand myself the day you set hed in his face

"You ain't got a cent, you four-flusher," he cried "Clinker put us next to that long before we sailed from Frisco"

"Clinker lies," cried Divine "He doesn't know anything about it--I' 'bout all dis," cried Blanco, seeing where he ht square himself with Ward and Simms easily "Does yo' take back all us sailormen, Mr Ward, an' promise not t' punish none o' us, ef ear to stick by yo' all in de future?"

"Yes," replied thetoo as a prisoner, white rasped Divine by the scruff of the neck and forced him before him down the steep trail toward the cove, and so the mutineers returned to the command of Skipper Simms, and L Cortwrite Divine ith theed with a crime the punishment for which has been death since men sailed the seas