But we've been driven by the gale.

That is overpast, and so that ye'll promise to bear no plaint against me, and to make good some of the loss I'll make by going out of my course, and missing a cargo that I wot of, I'll put about and fetch you home again within a week." Sir Oliver looked at him and smiled grimly.

"Now what a rogue are you that can keep faith with none!" he cried.

"First you take money to carry me off; and then you bid me pay you to carry me back again." "Ye wrong me, sir, I vow ye do! I can keep faith when honest men employ me, and ye should know it, Sir Oliver.

But who keeps faith with rogues is a fool--and that I am not, as ye should also know.