"I suppose you Scotchmen read the Scriptures diligently, and you have found out that 'The way of the transgressor is hard.'"
"Yes, very hard," replied the prisoner with a profane expletive.
"Does your throat trouble you?"
"Not much, though it is still sore, and I have a bad cut on the hand."
"You ought to have considered these things before you committed an act of piracy," suggested Louis.
"I have told you before that there is no piracy in it," added Gray, who evidently did not like the sound of the word, and he interpolated some very unnecessary expletives in his speech. "What are you going to do with the schooner and those you have made prisoners?"
"I don't know; I intend to leave that matter to the commander of the Guardian-Mother; but you will learn all about it in due time."
"I have no doubt of that. But you are the smartest lot of young Dutchmen that I ever happened to come across. Are you all Dutchmen?" asked Gray.
"Not one of us is a Dutchman."
"But you told me you were."