Dead Men Tell No Tales

she would tell all when we landed. And you remember how Santos used to shrug? That was all he did then. It was enough for me who knew him. For days I never left them alone together. Night after night I watched her cabin door. And she hated me the more for never leaving her alone! I had to resign myself to that.

“The night we anchored in Falmouth Bay, thinking then of taking our gold straight to the Bank of England, as


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she would tell all when we landed. And you remember how Santos used to shrug? That was all he did then. It was enough for me who knew him. For days I never left them alone together. Night after night I watched her cabin door. And she hated me the more for never leaving her alone! I had to resign myself to that.

“The night we anchored in Falmouth Bay, thinking then of taking our gold straight to the Bank of England, as


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