The captain laughed aloud.
"So you see, Peter, what we are!" he exclaimed.

"And it's not too late for you to seize a cutlass and have your share.

Now, my lads, we'll board her and take her in the good old way." The mate shouted to the steersman, and the schooner yawed.

Robert, filled with horror, scarcely knew what he was doing; in truth, he had no conscious will to do anything, and so he ended by doing nothing.

But he heard the fierce low words of the pirates, and he saw them leaning forward, as if making ready to leap on the deck of the stranger and cut down every one of her crew.
Then he looked at the other ship.