You must promise to obey my orders as if I were your captain, and you under articles of war, and help me to work the sloop to Callao, or some other port on the mainland.

In return, I promise not to bring any charge against you when we get there." "All right, sir! Kidd was my master, and I obeyed him; now you are my master and I will obey you." I quite believed that the old salt was speaking sincerely.

He had been so completely under Kidd's influence as to have no will of his own.
"Good! but there is something else.

I must have those diamonds he stole from my house at Alta Vista.

Where are they ?" "Stitched inside his jersey, under the arm-hole." I went to Kidd's body, cut open his jersey, and found the diamonds in two small canvas bags.