[The Crushed Flower and Other Stories by Leonid Andreyev]@TWC D-Link bookThe Crushed Flower and Other Stories CHAPTER VII 27/44
Oh, devils, devils! String him up with a rope." Khorre whines harshly: "Me, Captain! I was your nurse, Noni." "Silence! Rascal!" "I? Noni! Your nurse? You squealed like a little pig in the cook's room. Have you forgotten it, Noni ?" mutters the sailor plaintively. "Eh," shouts Haggart to the stern crowd.
"Take him!" Several men advance to him.
Khorre rises. "If you do it to me, to your own nurse--then you have recovered, Noni! Eh, obey the captain! Take me! I'll make you cry enough, Tommy! You are always the mischief-maker!" Grim laughter.
Several sailors surround Khorre as Haggart watches them sternly.
A dissatisfied voice says: "There is no place where to hang him here.
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