Justin went into the parlor.
“Back already!” exclaimed the jolly captain of the Xyphias.
“Yes, and I have some news to tell you!”
“News! what, on this place? It must be that Columbus has discovered America, or the Dutch taken Holland.”
“No; but it is that we have taken the captain of the Sea Scourge!”
“Lord bless my soul and body! man, are you mad?”
“No, nor dreaming. We have taken the captain of the Sea Scourge!”
“Taken the captain of the Sea Scourge? We know that he was reported cruising about in these latitudes, lying in wait for East Indiamen; but we have seen nothing of him; there was no Sea Scourge nor any other ship in sight when we anchored here, or when we came ashore.”
“And yet we have the notorious sea rover.”
“Spear?”