If not, we must take those you have on.

We are not robbers, and don't want to steal them.

If you will fix a fair price on the things, we will pay for them.

But you must in any case submit to be bound and gagged till morning; when, on going on deck, you will find no difficulty in attracting the attention of some of your comrades, who will at once release you.
"Keep your hands on the table while my friends take away your knives.

If one of you moves a hand, he is as good as a dead man." His companions removed the knives from the belts of the two men sitting outside, and then Fergus said to the third man: "Now, hand over your knife.