How will Captain Ned Lowe and George possibly escape from the hold and regain control of the ship?

H. Bedford Jones, today on the Classic Tales Podcast.

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We are going to have a pirate summer.

Seeing the end of this story on the horizon, I'm not quite ready to go ashore. I've just got my sea legs on.

So this summer, we will continue to present paratical adventures of the Seven Seas.

By Thunder, there won't be a timber that hasn't been shivered when we're through.

And now, Pirates Gold, part three of four, by H. Bedford Jones.

Chapter 7

The passage of time was nothing to us, as we lay in the pitch darkness amid the powder and the cabin stores.

Indeed, we lay there the whole day unheeded, all hands being busy above. But the day seemed like weeks to us.

Ned Lowe had heard some smattering of talk while he and I were being chained in the lasratt,

enough to show him that the mutiny had come about through Polly Langton.

He had heard spry swearing that they would stand by the last and see us hang for the pirates we were,

which indeed appeared proof positive.

Yet she was no navigator, though a good seaman in all else. So how could she hope to bring the ship to any port?

Ned, I asked, during the weary wait.

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