The Madman and the Pirate. R. M. Ballantyne

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СКАЧАТЬ with orders to act in strict accordance with his signals, Orlando sauntered down alone and unarmed to the place where the sailors were filling their water-casks.

      “Is your captain here?” he asked quietly.

      The men, who were seemingly a band of thorough ruffians, looked at him in surprise, but went on filling their casks.

      “I am the captain,” said one, stepping up to the youth with an insolent air.

      “Indeed!” said Orlando, with a look of surprise.

      “Yes, indeed, and let me tell you that we have no time to trouble ourselves wi’ you or yours; but since you’ve put yourself in our power, we make you stay here till we’ve done watering.”

      “I have no intention of leaving you,” replied Orley, seating himself on a rock, with a pleasant smile.

      “What d’ee say to kidnap the young buck?” suggested one of the men; “he might be useful.”

      “Perhaps he might be troublesome,” remarked Orlando; “but I would advise you to finish your work here in peace, for I have a band of three hundred men up in the bush there—not ordinary savages, let me tell you, but men with the fear of God in their hearts, and the courage of lions in their breasts—who would think it an easy matter to sweep you all off the face of the earth. They are ready to act at my signal—or at my fall—so it will be your wisdom to behave yourselves.”

      The quiet, almost gentle manner in which this was said, had a powerful effect on the men. Without more words they completed the filling of the casks, and then, re-embarking, pushed off. It was obvious that they acted in haste. When they had gone about a couple of boat-lengths from the beach, one of the men rose up with a musket, and Orlando distinctly heard him say—

      “Shall I send a bullet into him?”

      “If you do, the captain will skin you alive,” was the reply from one of the other men.

      The alternative did not seem agreeable to the first speaker, for he laid down his musket, and resumed his oar.

      Soon after the boat reached her, the sails of the stranger were spread, and she glided slowly out of the lagoon.

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