The Pirate Woman by A E Dingle Chapter 5 Page 7

But more weighty matters than a maid’s fluttering bosom demanded her attention, and she commanded sharply: “Milo, summon the men to the council hall at once. Let none be absent. Go swiftly!” Milo went, and Dolores flashed around on Pascherette again: “And thou, hussy, take this clinging frippery from me and give me my tunic. And, mark me, girl, thy eyes and ears belong to me. Thy tongue, too. Let that tongue utter one word of what those eyes see, those ears hear, and it shall be plucked from thy pretty mouth with hot pincers. Remember!”

Dolores put on her tunic and swept out to steal a long look at the white schooner before entering the hall.

Into the council hall the pirates came trooping, tarry, wet, soiled with the estuary mud as they were, and stood in a