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"I care nothing for his threats."
"You should," said Wolverstone. "The wise thing'd be to hang him,
along o' all the rest."
"It is not human to be wise," said Blood. "It is much more human
to err, though perhaps exceptional to err on the side of mercy.
We'll be exceptional. Oh, faugh! I've no stomach for cold-blooded
killing. At daybreak pack the Spaniards into a boat with a keg of
water and a sack of dumplings, and let them go to the devil."
That was his last word on the subject, and it prevailed by virtue
of the authority they had vested in him, and of which he had taken
so firm a grip. At daybreak Don Esteban and his followers were
put off in a boat.
Two days later, the Cinco Llagas sailed into the rock-bound bay of
Cayona, which Nature seemed to have designed for the stronghold of
those who had appropriated it.

CHAPTER XIII
TORTUGA

It is time fully to disclose the fact that the survival of the story
of Captain Blood's exploits is due entirely to the industry of Jeremy
Pitt, the Somersetshire shipmaster.


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