A cable's length this side of it rode the black hull and naked spars of the Swallow--Captain Leigh's ship.
Lionel stepped along in silence, very gloomy and pensive, hesitating even now.

And the crafty mariner reading this hesitation, and anxious to conquer it for the sake of such profit as he conceived might lie in the proposal which he scented, paved the way for him at last.
"I think that ye'll have some matter to propose to me." said he slyly.
"Out with it, sir, for there never was a man more ready to serve you." "The fact is," said Lionel, watching the other's face with a sidelong glance, "I am in a difficult position, Master Leigh." "I've been in a many," laughed the captain, "but never yet in one through which I could not win.

Strip forth your own, and haply I can do as much for you as I am wont to do for myself." "Why, it is this wise," said the other.

"My brother will assuredly hang as you have said if he bides him here.

He is lost if they bring him to trial.