Yorke #03 - Galleon by Dudley Pope

Author:Dudley Pope [Pope, Dudley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, General, Historical, Men's Adventure
ISBN: 9780755104390
Google: ZBo5kIbPkvcC
Amazon: 0755104390
Publisher: House of Stratus
Published: 1987-01-01T23:00:00+00:00

"Well, we've enough money to live comfortably," she said. "For you, buccaneering comes easily; you love leading these men, and you do it well. But for me — well, the worry sends me crazy: I have nightmares in which I see the Spanish garotting you, or a cannonball smashing you into a pulp, or —"

"But I always come back safely, and anyway usually you're with us."

"I know, I know," Aurelia wailed, "but Diana gets the same nightmares about Thomas ..."

"So what am I to do, then?" Ned asked, half angry and half wishing to placate her. "Plant sugar-cane, tobacco, and buy ships to collect dyewoods from the Moskito Coast?"

"Ned," Aurelia said, holding his arm, "both you and Thomas are going to have to accept that Jamaica is secure now: you've beaten the Spanish, you've provided the big guns for Heffer to put in the batteries to defend Port Royal, you've provided enough gold from the Portobelo raid to establish the island's currency. Now both of you have one enemy left, and you've got to be in the island to fight them."

"Who on earth -?"

"The government in London! They have no idea of what it's like out here in the Caribbee islands, and for years to come they'll be sending out people as stupid as this man Luce and, quelle blague, these bouffons will destroy everything you've done unless you are there to argue or persuade them. This buffoon — it sounds stronger in English — Luce will never understand that Spain in Europe is one thing, but Spain out here is another. I think the French and the Dutch understand, but they don't own Jamaica, so —"

Ned pointed, interrupting her.

"Oh," Aurelia exclaimed, "here they come! Four of them, and the sun is shining on the armour of two of them. Oh, let us pray that he's managed to find out what's been happening. Just look at the Peleus – she looks so forlorn at anchor, with just that Spanish sentry ..."

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