Chapter 9
“Sink me!” Ezekiel exclaimed in surprise. “Belay that talk! I cannot believe you are truly thinking of doing this!” He rose from where he had been seated and paced around in back of Iakob and Edgar, who had also been invited to the meeting in Thor’s cabin. “Why would you want to give all this up for a life of a landlubber with this man, this stranger from your past, who you have not seen since you were a boy in an orphanage? We are your family, Captain: me, Edgar, and Iakob here, and the men. Are you addled? Why are you spewing such bilge? Do you not realize what will happen to you if someone recognizes you? Like the rest of us you have a bounty on your head. Yours is bigger than ours! Many will be happy to collect it! You will be arrested, dancing with Jack Ketch at the end of
