the barrel shook as he leaned his shoulders against it, and i was just about to jump up when the man began to speak. it was silver’s voice, and before i had heard a dozen words, i would not have shown myself for all the world, but lay there, trembling and listening, in the extreme of fear and curiosity, for from these dozen words i understood that the lives of all the honest men aboard depended upon me alone.
the barrel shook as he leaned his shoulders against it, and i was just about to jump up when the man began to speak. it was silver’s voice, and before i had heard a dozen words, i would not have shown myself for all the world, but lay there, trembling and listening, in the extreme of fear and curiosity, for from these dozen words i understood that the lives of all the honest men aboard depended upon me alone.