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"The ransom is
for division, when it comes. The girl, meanwhile, is mine on that
understanding."
"Good!" grunted Cahusac. "On that understanding all arranges
itself."
"You think so?" said Captain Blood. "But if M. d'Ogeron should
refuse to pay the ransom? What then?" He laughed, and got lazily
to his feet. "No, no. If Captain Levasseur is meanwhile to keep
the girl, as he proposes, then let him pay this ransom, and be
his the risk if it should afterwards not be forthcoming."
"That's it!" cried one of Levasseur's officers. And Cahusac added:
"It's reasonable, that! Captain Blood is right. It is in the
articles."
"What is in the articles, you fools?" Levasseur was in danger of
losing his head. "Sacre Dieu! Where do you suppose that I have
twenty thousand pieces? My whole share of the prizes of this
cruise does not come to half that sum. I'll be your debtor until
I've earned it. Will that content you?"
All things considered, there is not a doubt that it would have
done so had not Captain Blood intended otherwise.


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