“Oh you petulant foul thing! You are correct in your surmising. We are headed for the south west English coast.”
Fortune screamed in defiant rage at the top of his lungs. “You cannot do this! We were all free people, and when others over there find out, there will be no place you can hide. England is not a slaving country anymore; they will certainly bring you to account. Are you that crazy not to see your folly?”
Captain Brannigan slowly came forward from where he had made his horrific proclamations. Fixing a studied gaze of utter contempt firmly upon Fortune, he responded in a menacing tone.
“You should know how much weight morality holds with men that show reverence to their church! Probably your former master was an upstanding member of his church. And I bet many of his friends, his
