"Take the one that suits us best."
"But that would be stealing," suggested Bob, whereupon Luiga winked his eye and laughed.
Bob's face turned crimson, for he was not yet quite so hardened as to contemplate deliberate theft, though he was prepared to devote his life to it as a pirate.
"I know a vessel which would just suit," suggested Luiga.
"Do you? Where?"
"Can you keep a secret?"
"I swear I can."
"Then I will tell you. This is the very boat."
"But——"
"I know. You stole it from the English; why not let us steal it from the Americans? We would fight the English until the war was over, and then the vessel would be our own."