"How can it be done?"
"Jack—you know Jack, the one who brings us tobacco?"
"Yes; he is a kind-hearted Englishman."
"He isn't English, he is Irish. Now, he will file off these handcuffs and give me the file. By working at every opportunity we can all be free in a few days; then all we have to do is to force our way out and seize the skipper. We will throw him overboard, and kill all who oppose us; then the ship will be ours and we can sell it and divide the prize money."
"My good fellow, we cannot do it."
"Why?"
"If we seized the ship we should have to sink it, for no one would purchase it. But I will not countenance murder."
"It is not murder, it is war."
"War is brutal, I know, but when it comes to seizing a captain on board his own vessel and killing him, that is not war, but murder, or piracy."
"Well, you will not betray us?"