Part 28 (2/2)
”There you're wrong.”
”I'm a very patient man, as you know, Manuel, but a little more of this talk and I shall be getting up and leaving you.”
”I'm leading up to my story. No, Juan, we did not hand over everything.
Shall I tell you what was kept back?”
”If you please.”
”The key of the forward magazine!”
”Ha!”
Juan was excited now. That was clear by the exclamation he had uttered.
So was another listener, Young Glory. He kept as still as death, not wis.h.i.+ng to lose one syllable that was said, and waiting eagerly for the talk to proceed.
”Yes,” continued Manuel, after what seemed a long silence, ”we kept back the key of the forward magazine, and those fools are ignorant of it.”
”But the keys were handed over?”
”There are duplicates.”
”Go on! Go on!” exclaimed Juan, hastily. He was as excited now as he had been indifferent before.
”Now, Juan, to get into that magazine is quite an easy matter.”
”There are sentries!”
”Who can be overpowered.”
”By whom?”
”You, I, if necessary. We walk about the s.h.i.+p as we please, so do a few of our sailors, who are kept at work. What's to prevent us from seizing the sentries posted near the magazine, and stabbing them to death?”
”You might leave the stabbing out.”
”Certainly, if it's not necessary.”
”Having got rid of the sentries, Manuel, what follows?”
”We enter the magazine.”
”I suppose so; I'm still wandering in the dark.”
”But surely you understand what will happen.”
”I haven't the faintest idea.”
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