The Yankee Champion — page 66: what you’re looking at

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THE YANKEE CHAMPION. 59 “Tf you'll give me one half of that thousand pounds, I’ll put the brig into the hands of the sloop- of-war, if she’s off the harbor,’ he said, at length. ‘How’ ll you do it?’’ asked the rest. “No matter. Just say that half of the thousand shall be mine, and Ill do it. Ill see that the sloop has the privateer under British colors in me than six hours after she clears the port.”’ | ‘Tsn’t that setting it a little high?’’ queried Bax- ter. “Suppose you say three hundred?” said Ryan, after a moment’s thought. SN o--2 | “Four hundred ought to be enough, certainly.’’ ‘T¢ must be five hundred or nothing,’’ persisted Mason. ‘But that is unreasonable,’ said Baxter. ‘‘And no mistake,’’ chimed in Dow. ‘‘Gad, you wouldn’t leave me enough to buy a pipe of brandy.” “Then you can do the business yourself.” “But, Mason, you know, according to our com- pact, we are to share equally in what we receive from the British,’’ said Ryan. ‘Yes, in what we receive for mere intelligence,’ — orunted Mason, “but not in sucha case as this, Will you go on board the privateer, and, single-handed, put her into the hands of the British?’ “No,’’ emphatically returned Ryan. Mason put the same question to each of the others, and received the same answer. ‘Now,’ continued he, “‘you see just where you stand. You may have the five hundred pounds to divide pepone yeu, of You may go without it, just a as you beat co ss | Eomicbooks