"But, mark you, with one exception--the Englishman is not to be killed, if he can be taken alive.

I would deal with him." "How are we to recognize him from the others ?" "Pish! a blind man would know--he is the only one of that blood on board, taller, and heavier of build, with blond hair.

A mistake, and you pay for it.

Besides him there are two negroes, and an Irish fool.
It matters not what happens to them; a knife to the heart is the more silent; but I would have this Geoffry Carlyle left alive to face me.
You will do well to remember." "I will pass the word to the men." "See that you do.

Then after that," Sanchez went on deliberately, as though murder was of small account, "you will follow me up the bluff.
Who are the others with you ?" "Carl Anderson, Pedro Mendez, and Cochose." "Well chosen; Mendez is the least valuable, and we will leave him with the prisoner at the boat.