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"And if you should die before you have earned it? Ours is a calling
fraught with risks, my Captain."
"Damn you!" Levasseur flung upon him livid with fury. "Will nothing
satisfy you?"
"Oh, but yes. Twenty thousand pieces of eight for immediate
division."
"I haven't got it."
"Then let some one buy the prisoners who has."
"And who do you suppose has it if I have not?"
"I have," said Captain Blood.
"You have!" Levasseur's mouth fell open. "You... you want the
girl?"
"Why not? And I exceed you in gallantry in that I will make
sacrifices to obtain her, and in honesty in that I am ready to pay
for what I want."
Levasseur stared at him foolishly agape. Behind him pressed his
officers, gaping also.
Captain Blood sat down again on the cask, and drew from an inner
pocket of his doublet a little leather bag. "I am glad to be
able to resolve a difficulty that at one moment seemed insoluble."
And under the bulging eyes of Levasseur and his officers, he
untied the mouth of the bag and rolled into his left palm four or
five pearls each of the size of a sparrow's egg.


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