You remember that he began, yesterday, by offering you this way of escape.

You are to take me with you and beg for a renewal of that offer.

Maybe he'll demur.
You'll then point out that you have two men's service to tender him in lieu of one.

I _have_ smelt powder in my time, Jack, and I once had the luck to run De Ruyter's pet captain through the sword-arm and to carry his ship.

It's the very devil that I never could master the fellow's Dutch name sufficiently to remember it; but his Majesty--who has a greater grasp of his mother tongue--may be able to recall it, and the recollection may turn the scale.