The Pilot

Chapter 29

"_Don Pedro_. Welcome, Signior: you are almost come to part almost a fray."

_Much Ado About Nothing._

"Down with your arms, you Englishmen!" said the daring intruder; "and

you, who fight in the cause of sacred liberty, stay your hands, that no

unnecessary blood may flow. Yield yourself, proud Briton, to the power

of the Thirteen Republics!"

"Ha!" exclaimed Borroughcliffe, grasping a pistol, with an air of great

resolution, "the work thickens--I had not included this man in my

estimate of their numbers. Is he a Samson, that his single arm can

change the face of things so suddenly! Down with your own weapon, you

masquerader! or, at the report of this pistol, your body shall be made a

target for twenty bullets."

"And thine for a hundred!" returned the Pilot.--"Without there! wind