"She wouldn't let me go.

I did it in self-defence." "I care not why you did it," said Jack, sternly.

"We work together no more." "Come, come, Captain," remonstrated Blueskin.

"I thought you'd have got rid of your ill-humour by this time.

You know as well as I do that it was accident." "Accident or not," rejoined Sheppard; "you're no longer pall of mine." "And so this is my reward for having made you the tip-top cracksman you are," muttered Blueskin;--"to be turned off at a moment's notice, because I silenced a noisy woman.