“You will have to behave yourselves, mind, or you will not have the gift.”
The men promised to be faithful, obedient and hard working.
This was all that Harkaway wanted.
They accepted the situation at once.
Some of the pirates were only wounded. The Arabs, seeing this, stabbed them to death.
They had no idea of giving quarters.
Some of their own party were wounded; these they carried into the hotel.
Pierre Leronge undertook to see to them as well as his limited knowledge of surgery would permit him to do.
Preparations were made to bury the others.