"Avast! Jean Lafitte," I cried. "Shorten all sail, and bear across,
west-by-west."
"Aye! Aye! Sir," came the response from my bold crew.
"Why don't we run in and board her?" demanded L'Olonnois. However,
seeing that I had laid hold of the steering line where I sat, and was
heading the Sea Rover across the Louisiana side, away from the
city's water-front, he subsided.
"We'll cast anchor yonder where the holding ground is good," I
explained. "To-night we'll send off the long boat with a boarding
party. And marry!" I added, "it shall go hard, but we'll hold yon
varlet to his accounting!"