"If any one's to blame, it's me.

I'm ready to bear it all." "Can you make me honest ?" cried Jack.

"Can you make me other than a condemned felon?
Can you make me not Jack Sheppard ?" "No," replied Blueskin; "and I wouldn't if I could." "Curse you!" cried Jack, furiously,--"curse you!--curse you!" "Swear away, Captain," rejoined Blueskin, coolly.

"It'll ease your mind." "Do you mock me ?" cried Jack, levelling a pistol at him.
"Not I," replied Blueskin.

"Take my life, if you're so disposed.