The Perils of Command (2015)
“You was hard for it afore I spotted him. Is it cold feet you’re getting?’ ‘It will be a cold body you will have, Fred Brewer, if you don’t have a care. What I is saying is this. It ain’t as easy as you are now getting worked up for. There be considerations.’ ‘Like us being stuck aboard this barky,’ said Cephas Danvers.
‘Hit the spot, Cephas. Old Ironsides might be short on her due but she is still home to more’n seven hundred souls and where is the place where mischief can be done without s...ome swab catching sight?’ ‘It don’t answer either, Cole, for it leaves us aboard and there might be blood staining the deck, not handy with a bluecoat missing.’ That was responded to with a sly smile. ‘But what if we could use Pearce to get redress?’ ‘Don’t follow,’ whispered Dan Holder.
‘Nowt new in that Dan, you bein’ the slow one.’ ‘Let’s hear yer thinkin’, Cephas insisted.
‘Say we could get him to order up a boat crewed by us?MoreLess
‘Hit the spot, Cephas. Old Ironsides might be short on her due but she is still home to more’n seven hundred souls and where is the place where mischief can be done without s...ome swab catching sight?’ ‘It don’t answer either, Cole, for it leaves us aboard and there might be blood staining the deck, not handy with a bluecoat missing.’ That was responded to with a sly smile. ‘But what if we could use Pearce to get redress?’ ‘Don’t follow,’ whispered Dan Holder.
‘Nowt new in that Dan, you bein’ the slow one.’ ‘Let’s hear yer thinkin’, Cephas insisted.
‘Say we could get him to order up a boat crewed by us?MoreLess
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