Captain Kidd Page #5

Well...

I suppose we could take Lord Fallsworth

and Lady Anne...

Aboard the Adventure to Madagascar...

And then if we are separated

and this...

Vessel should be taken...

What about the treasure on board?

One silver chest alone...

A present to His Majesty

from the Grand Moghul...

Contains precious gems valued

at more than a million pounds!

May I suggest, your Excellency...

Why not transfer the treasure chest

with yourself and Lady Anne...

Aboard the Adventure until

we are out of danger?

She is a King's ship.

That is a great responsibility.

And although my instructions are

that you are to trust me in all matters...

I don't know if I could go so far as...

What else can we do?

Three of them against us?

Or even two, sir...

We'd be helpless!

It's the wisest course!

It defer to your Excellency.

Now could we inspect the chests?

We could have them slung into our boats along

with the gear of Lord Fallsworth and Lady Anne.

Why, certainly!

This way, Captain.

No trouble at all!

Hoist away!

Mr Povey!

I've sent for the manifest, Captain.

You may check it against the content of this

chest and give me your receipt, if you will.

Gladly, gladly.

Oh, there you are Mr Lorenzo!

Have you completed your business?

Almost, sir.

Your people have been most kind,

Capitan Rawson.

There is only one detail left.

It will not take a minute.

Finish it up then.

We must be gone within the hour.

Yes, Capitan!

- The manifest, sir.

- Would you attend to that Mr Povey?

Thank you very much, Captain.

Come Mr Lorenzo!

You've seen a lovely lady before this!

A tribute to your beauty, Ma'am!

Did you finish your business below?

Yes, Capitan.

Then we better be under way!

Mr Mercy, you will see Lord Fallsworth

and the Lady Anne into the boat.

Aye, sir.

Make way for the longboat!

You will look after the

luggage, Mr Lorenzo.

I apologize My Lady for

our poor accommodation.

But me valet Shadwell will see

that you are made comfortable.

A pleasure to have your Ladyship aboard.

If you will follow me, please.

Why hasn't it happened?

Release that chest!

Captain!

Papa!

Excuse me My Lady.

Your father. May I say how sorry I am.

The captain has requested that you

take your meals in the main cabin.

Oh no Shadwell, I can't bear

to face those men.

I can't!

I quite understand My Lady.

But the Captain's orders are orders.

Shadwell, you must help me,

there's no one else I can trust!

What can I do, My Lady?

I'm only a servant.

Where can I turn?

I'm so confused and frightened!

I keep thinking of my father

and the others lost back there.

But on this ship wherever I go,

those horrible staring men...

Like Lorenzo, who's always standing

behind me, beside me!

Last night there was a

tapping on the door...

When I opened it there he was!

The evil smiling face of his!

We might have been better along with

those pirates you fought a few days ago!

Pirates, Milady?

We fought no pirates.

Well my father said Captain Kidd...

Shadwell, what manner of ship this is?

My father was killed deliberately,

I'm sure of it!

That's why I can't bear to face

your Captain. I'd accuse him!

There's a man on board, My Lady...

A gentleman.

Whom I know you can trust.

- Mr Mercy?

- Yes, MY Lady.

Shadwell, I know I've met or seen him

before, no matter how he denies it.

His name isn't Mercy...

Who is he?

All I really know is My Lady,

he is no friend of the Captain's.

Perhaps if I ask him, he'll...

Shall I?

- Oh yes, will you please!

- Yes, My Lady.

I'm asking you again very nice...

My dear Capitan...

Your fancy manners

do not impress me, Mr Lorenzo.

- When do we divide the gold?

- In London, not before!

Then look Capitan,

I'll make a bargain with you.

A bargain?

Everybody wants to bargain with me.

You and Mercy!

Who do you think I am,

a stinking sausage merchant?

What kind of a bargain?

The girl.

All my life I've dreamed of

a beautiful woman like that.

Give me half of my dinero now...

And you can split the rest

between you.

If you will let me have her.

Pity on him!

He's smitten with love.

Again!

I want her...

And I'm going to take her.

Whether I like it or not?

With all this treasure on board...

The crew is like a barrel of hot gunpowder.

All that is needed

is a word in the right ears.

Do you mean mutiny?

You're a witness!

He is inciting the crew to mutiny.

No, no, no, no, Capitan!

I was only joking.

You have a very nasty

way of joking, Mr Lorenzo.

As for the girl, I have my own plans

for her and they do not include you.

Get out.

Who is it?

Adam Mercy.

Mr Mercy, I...

- Thank you for coming, Mr Mercy, I...

- My name is Adam Blayne.

Son of Lord Blayne?

I knew it, I knew.

What are you doing on this ship?

My father was killed

and accused of piracy.

- Few people believe that Lord Blayne...

- The King did.

That's why I went to sea and turned

pirate three years ago.

That's why I'm on this ship.

I knew that someday

I'd come upon the truth.

And you have?

It was Captain Kidd who killed

your father, wasn't it?

Adam I am no fool!

He did the same thing to my father!

The fat butcher!

It's taken me three years

to track him down.

Three years of degradation.

Now I got him where I want him

and he knows it.

Do you mean he knows

who you are?

He knows something.

That's why you

didn't get me to know you.

Why you avoided me.

If Kidd knew we shared this he'd kill you with

as little compunction as he means to kill me.

If I'd let him.

What can I do to help you?

There must be something!

Forget everything

you've seen on this ship.

Play up to him. Be friendly.

That way you'll be safe.

Now, when you get back to London,

no matter what has happened to me...

Go to the Lord of the

Admiralty and the King.

You'll be doing me a great favour,

as well as you know.

I will, Adam, I promise.

We're going to have trouble with Lorenzo.

He's speaking as a lion

who's exciting the tiger.

His blood's getting too rich for him.

He'd be the better for a bleeding.

Things are getting

a bit complicated me Lord.

The King may accept the elimination

of the Queda merchant as an accident.

Maybe even the sudden demise

of Lord Fallsworth...

But what about the Lady?

You said you had plans for her.

Do they include...

Mr Povey, the little dear is as safe

with me as if she was me daughter.

My passion's power and gold.

Since she suspects nothing...

I'll deliver her to His Majesty along with

his share of the Queda merchant's gold...

I'll weep appropriately over

the untimely demise of her Pa...

Receive the grateful

thanks of me Sovereign...

- And a peerage is mine.

- Milord!

That is your will, but

that's what I'll have!

And neither man nor devils shall stop me!

- Shadwell.

- Seorita, Milady.

Do not be alarmed.

Now that she knows who I am

and what kind of a ship she's on...

I think we can count on her

to keep her head.

You stay here till I come off watch.

Help!

Shadwell!

Use your head Mr Povey!

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