“Christian dog, you shall die!”
“Some day. Don’t be in a hurry. I’m not!”
The pirate aimed a desperate blow at him.
Jack parried it.
Then recovering his guard, he pierced the pirate’s neck.
The jugular vein was severed.
A jet of blood spurted to the air and the terror of the Red Sea sank.
“Allah, il Allah!” he murmured. “There is but one God and Mahomet is his prophet.”
He spoke no more after that.
Those were his last words.