Blood turned, and advanced to Don Diego.
"I am sorry to inconvenience you in this fashion, but..." For
a second he checked and frowned as his eyes intently observed
the prisoner. Then, after that scarcely perceptible pause, he
continued, "but I do not think that you have anything beyond
this inconvenience to apprehend, and you may depend upon me to
shorten it as far as possible." Don Diego made him no answer.
Peter Blood waited a moment, observing him; then he bowed and
stepped back.
CHAPTER XII
DON PEDRO SANGRE
The Cinco Llagas and the Encarnacion, after a proper exchange of
signals, lay hove to within a quarter of a mile of each other, and
across the intervening space of gently heaving, sunlit waters sped
a boat from the former, manned by six Spanish seamen and bearing
in her stern sheets Don Esteban de Espinosa and Captain Peter Blood.
She also bore two treasure-chests containing fifty thousand pieces
of eight. Gold has at all times been considered the best of
testimonies of good faith, and Blood was determined that in all
respects appearances should be entirely on his side.
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