Part 58 (1/2)
”_Ma foi_! vy should you understand? I send you hoens_--ze peoples--look for you; they do not find you, and zey say--Aha, _pauvres garcons_, zey go and make a falls off ze cliff, and ve nevaire see thehed
”He does not mean it, Mike,” said the boy ”We know better than that, Captain Jacques”
”Aha, you are so clever a boy You vill explain how you know all ze better zanto explain,” said Vince sturdily ”You don't suppose we believe you would kill us because we came down here,--here, where we have business to come, but you have not?”
”_Aha! c'est comme ca_--it is like zat, my friend? You may come here, and I s to his father, and you have no right to put ss here”
”Aha! you sink it ees like zat, eh, _mon ami_? Ve sall see You vill put yourselves down to sit”
”No, thank you,” said Vince ”We ht and be killed?”
”No,” said Vince; ”ill not say a word about where we have been”
”But we must, Vince,” said Mike ”They will ask us; and what are we to say?”
”To be certain,his teeth ”You see it is so Zey vill ask vere you go all night, and you vill say to see le Capitaine Lebrun and his cargo of silk and lace and glove and scent bottaile and ze spice; and vat zen?”
Vince had no answer ready
”You do not speak, o and speak like zat nobodies must know that I have my leetle place to hide here No, I cannot spare you You will not go back _chez vous_--to your place vere you live You understand?”
Vince looked at the lad to see you bose I nie But I do not ask you to coo back nevaire h that was very artificial
”Aha! I do not mean? You vill see I mean I sall see you vill sit down”
”No,” said Vince fir now”
”It is so? How you go?”
”Out by the passage yonder”
”Faith of a good man, no I say to myselfs, 'People have come down zere, and ityou nevaire o the other way,” said Vince firmly ”Ready, Mike?”
”Yes, I' to his side
”You know ze ozaire vay, o?”