impression, 'not that I am against being civil'; and he slid into
Hatteraick's passive hand a bank-note of some value.

'Is this all?' said the smuggler. 'You had the price of half a
cargo for winking at our job, and made us do your business too.'

'But, my good friend, you forget: In this case you will recover
all your own goods.'

'Ay, at the risk of all our own necks; we could do that without
you.'

'I doubt that, Captain Hatteraick,' said Glossin, drily; 'because
you would probably find a 'dozen' redcoats at the custom-house,
whom it must be my business, if we agree about this matter, to
have removed. Come, come, I will be as liberal as I can, but you
should have a conscience.'

'Now strafe mich der deyfel! this provokes me more than all the
rest! You rob and you murder, and you want me to rob and murder,
and play the silver-cooper, or kidnapper, as you call it, a dozen
times over, and then, hagel and windsturm! you speak to me of
conscience! Can you think of no fairer way of getting rid of this
unlucky lad?'

'No, mein Herr; but as I commit him to your charge-'

'To my charge! to the charge of steel and gunpowder! and--well, if
it must be, it must; but you have a tolerably good guess what's
like to come of it.'