Keep quiet! he yelled, and kept on stabbing until her screams andsobs died away. Put theship about, please, Mister Tyler, said Hal, and went to the rail asthe ship swung round. Llewellyn would not leave his ship until he was certain that therepairs to her were well afoot and that, in all other respects, she wassnugged down and secure. Then it shall be at your own responsibility, Mijnheer.
Now he would have to be fortunate andquick to get off one steady broadside before the Golden Bough was uponhim. It was followed by another soft rush of pus and lumpy foreign matter. As the man dropped thepike and fell back, Hal allowed the weight of his dropping body to pullhim free of the blade. Quiet, you stupid bastard! Sam turned back in fury.
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