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11 - Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson
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It's the perfect time to experience the quality and reliability that has made Dickies a trusted name for over a century. Allen and I sat down to breakfast about six of the clock. The floor was covered with broken glass and in a horrid mess of blood, which took away my hunger. In all other ways we were in a situation not only agreeable but merry, having ousted the officers from their own cabin and having at command all the drink in the ship, both wine and spirits, and all the dainty part of what was eatable, such as the pickles and the fine sort of bread. This of itself was enough to set us in good humor, but their richest part of it was this, that the two thirstiest men that ever came out of Scotland, Mr. Schuan being dead, were now shut in the four part of the ship and condemned to what they hated most, cold water. "And depend upon it," Allen said, "we shall hear more of them air long. You may keep a man from the fighting but never from his bottle." We made good company for each other. Allen, indeed, expressed himself most lovingly and, taking a knife from the table, cut me off one of the silver buttons from his coat. "I had them," says he, "from my father, Duncan Stewart, and I'll give you one of them to be a keepsake for last night's work. And wherever you go and show that button, the friends of Allen Breck will come around you." He said this as if he had been Charlemagne and commanded armies, and, indeed, much as I admired his courage, I was always in danger of smiling at his vanity. In danger, I say, for had I not kept my countenance, I would be afraid to think what a quarrel might have followed. As soon as we were through with our meal he rummaged in the captain's locker, till he found a clothes-brush, and then taking off his coat began to visit his suit and brush away the stains, with such care and labor as I supposed to have been only usual with women. To be sure, he had no other, and, besides, as he said, it belonged to a king and so behooged to be royally looked after. For all that, when I saw what Carrie took to pluck out the threads where the button had been cut away, I put a higher value on his gift. He was still so engaged when we were hailed by Mr. Rietch from the deck, asking for a parlay, and I, climbing through the skylight and sitting on the edge of it, pistol in hand and with a bold front, though inwardly in fear of broken glass, hailed him back again and bait him speak out. He came to the edge of the roundhouse and stood on a coil of rope, so that his chin was on a level with a roof, and we looked at each other a while in silence. Mr. Rietch as I do not think he had been very forward in the battle, so he had got off with nothing worse than a blow upon the cheek, but he looked out of heart and very weary, having been all night afoot, either standing watch or doctoring the wounded. "This is a bad job," said he at last, shaking his head. "It was none of our choosing," said I. "The captain," says he, "would like to speak with your friend. They might speak at the window." "And how do we know what treachery he means?" cried I. "He means none, David," returned Mr. Rietch, "and if he did, I'll tell you the honest truth we couldn't get the men to follow. Is that so?" said I. "I'll tell you more than that," said he, "it's not only the men, it's me. I'm frictioned, David," and he smiled across at me. "No," he continued, "what we want is to be shut of him." Thereupon I consulted with Allen, and the parlay was agreed to and parole given upon either side, but this was not the whole of Mr. Rietch's business, and he now begged me for a dram with such instantly and such reminders of his former kindness that at last I handed him a pentakim with about half a gill of brandy. He drank a part and then carried the rest down upon the deck. "To share it, I suppose, with his superior." A little after the captain came, as was agreed, to one of the windows, and stood there in the rain with his arm and a sling, and looking stern and pale, and so old that my heart smoked me for having fired upon him. Allen at once held a pistol in his face. "Put that thing up," said the captain, "have I not passed my word, sir, or do you seek to affront me?" "Captain," says Allen, "I doubt your word is a breakable. Last night you haggled and argo-bargled like an apple-wife, and then passed me your word, and gave me your hand to back it, and you can very well what was the upshot? Be damned to your word," says he. "Well, well, sir," said the captain, "you'll get little good by swearing." And truly that was a fault of which the captain was quite free. "But we have other things to speak," he continued bitterly. "You've made a sore hash of my brig. I haven't hands enough left to work her, and my first officer, whom I could ill spare, has got your swords throughout his vitals and passed without speech. There is nothing left me, sir, but to put back into the port of Glasgow after hands, and there, by your leave, you shall find them that are better able to talk to you." "I," said Alan, "and faith, I'll have a talk with them myself. Unless there's nobody speaks English in that town, I have a bunny tail for them, fifteen tarry sailors upon the one side, and a man and a halfling boy upon the other. Oh, man, it's beautiful." Hosey's in flushed red. "No," continued Alan, "that'll no do. You'll just have to set me ashore as we agreed." "Aye," said Hosey's in, "but my first officer is dead. You can best howl." "There's none of the rest of us acquainted with this coast, sir, and it's one very dangerous to ships." "I give you your choice," says Alan, "set me on dry ground in Apen, or Art-Gour, or in Morvin, or Eresseg, or Morar, or in brief where you please, within thirty miles of my own country, except in a country of the Campbells. That's a broad target. If you miss that, you must be as feckless at the sailing as I have found you at the fighting." "Why, my poor country people in their bit-cobbles pass from Island to Island in all weathers. I am by night, too, for the matter of that." "A cobble's not a ship, sir," said the captain. "It is no draft of water." "Well, then, to Glasgow, if you list," says Alan, "we'll have the laugh of you at the least." "My mind runs little upon laughing," said the captain, "but all this will cost money, sir." "Well, sir," says Alan, "I am no weather cock. Thirty guineas if you let me on the seaside, and sixty if you put me in the lenny luck." "But see, sir, where we lie. We are but a few hours sale from Arden American," says Hoseason. "Give me sixty, and I'll set you there." "And I'm to wear my brogues and run jeopardy of the redcoats to please you?" "Cries, Alan." "No, sir, if you want sixty guineas, earn them, and set me in my own country." "It's to risk the brig, sir," said the captain, "on your own lives along with her." "Take it or want it," says Alan. "Could you pilot us at all?" asked the captain, who was frowning to himself. "Well, it's doubtful," said Alan, "I'm more of a fighting man as you have seen for yourself than a sailor man, but I have been often enough picked up and set down upon this coast and should Ken something of the lie of it." The captain shook his head, still frowning. "If I had lost less money on this unchancy cruise," says he, "I would see you in a rope's end before I risked my brig, sir, but be it as you will. As soon as I get a slant of wind, and there's some coming, or I'm the more mistaken, I'll put it in hand. But there's one thing more. We may meet in with a king's ship, and she may lay us aboard, sir, with no blame of mine. They keep the cruisers thick upon this coast you, Ken, who, for. Now, sir, if that was to befall, you might leave the money." "Captain," says Alan, "if you see a pennant, it should be your part to run away. And now, as I hear you're a little short of Brandy in the four-part, I'll offer you a change, a bottle of Brandy against two buckets of water." That was the last clause of the treaty and was duly executed on both sides, so that Alan and I could, at last, wash out the roundhouse and be quit of the memorials of those whom we had slain, and the captain of Mr. Reatch could be happy again in their own way, the name of which was "Drink," and a chapter. Hey, Amazon Prime members! Why pay more for groceries when you can save big on thousands of items at Amazon Fresh? Shop Prime exclusive deals and save up to 50% on weekly grocery favorites. 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