Chapter 23 THE SPOILS OF WAR.

All things considered, it was a joyous knot of humanity that gathered on that sand-bar-if one excepts the two plunderers who were tied hard and fast, their most cheerful outlook a speedy trial with a hangman's noose at the finish. I recollect that we shook hands all around, and that our tongues wagged extravagantly, regardless of whoever else might