“I would do that for any one demanding it.”
Guy knows this is so; for Father Anastasius is celebrated all over Zeeland as a priest who loves his Lord better than he loves his life, and who will do his duty to the humblest as well as to the highest, as commanded by his Church.
“Put Father Anastasius in my gig with me,” Chester says shortly to Dalton. “Arm it and man it!”
“It is done.”
“Are the long boat and cutter ready also?”
“Yes.”
“How many men all told?”
“Sixty.”
“That leaves sixty on the Dover Lass; plenty to handle, enough almost to fight her. You will remain in charge of the vessel, Corker will command the boats. They are well armed?” [[253]]
“Yes, pistols, arquebuses, pikes and battle axes, everything as trim as if it were a boarding party, not a troubadour affair,” answers the lieutenant.