"We must go now." "To fetch ze peoples to come and fight and be killed ?" "No," said Vince; "we will not say a word about where we have been." "But we must, Vince," said Mike.

"They will ask us; and what are we to say ?" "To be certain, my friend--of course," said the captain, showing his teeth.

"You see it is so.

Zey vill ask vere you go all night, and you vill say to see le Capitaine Lebrun and his cargo of silk and lace and glove and scent bottaile and ze spice; and vat zen ?" Vince had no answer ready.
"You do not speak, my friend.

Zen I vill.