Part 58 (1/2)
”Powder, sir, out o' that there locker”
”What! and blow theh”
CHAPTER THIRTY NINE
DESPERATE MEASURES
”Powder? An explosion?”
”Yes, sir; blow the whole thing out just when they didn't expect it”
”The powder?” cried Mark, excitedly ”Yes, of course Why, To, when they are not so strictly on the watch”
He looked excitedly at Toed
”No,” he said; ”it is iain the door, oes; smash tumbles the door and hatch and all the rest of it, and then out we rushes, knocks 'em over one at a time, and the schooner's ours”
”Man, man, can't you see that if we did that we should blow ourselves up as well?”
”No, ouldn't sir, because we'd lie down”
”Well, what difference would that make?”
”All on it, sir Powder flies up, and it wouldn't hurt us”
”Think not?”
”Sure on it, sir”
”Tom, I'm not sure; but dare we risk--”
”O' course, sir”
Mark sat thinking for a few ht try it with a little”
”Itdose or none at all, sir”
”Yes, and we must risk it,” said Mark ”Now, then, it must be done quietly, for depend upon it that scoundrel is watching us”
”Then I tell you what,” said Tom, ”as now it's dark he can see us, and we can't see him, I say, sir, let's all have a nap, and directly after the sun's up get ready”