Let me read it to see that it is plainly written and properly signed, for in such matters a good deal turns on handwriting.

Yes, that will do.

Now you understand, don't you, if anything goes wrong about the matter we have been talking of--that is, if the worthy John Castell is not rescued, or a smell of our little plot should get into the wind--this letter goes at once to the right quarter, and a certain secretary will wish that he had never been born.
Man!" she added in a hissing whisper, "you shall die by inches as my sister did." "A thousand doubloons if the thing succeeds, and you live to claim them," croaked old Israel.

"I do not go back upon my word.

Death and shame and torture or a thousand doubloons.