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1"Boat ahoy!" again came the voice. Now Wendy understood. The real Hook was also in the water. He was swimming to the
2boat, and as his men showed a light to guide him he had soon reached them. In the light of the lantern Wendy saw his
3hook grip the boat's side; she saw his evil swarthy face as he rose dripping from the water, and, quaking, she would
4have liked to swim away, but Peter would not budge. He was tingling with life and also top-heavy with conceit. "Am I not
5a wonder, oh, I am a wonder!" he whispered to her, and though she thought so also, she was really glad for the sake of
6his reputation that no one heard him except herself. He signed to her to listen. The two pirates were very curious to
7know what had brought their captain to them, but he sat with his head on his hook in a position of profound melancholy.
8"Captain, is all well?" they asked timidly, but he answered with a hollow moan. "He sighs," said Smee. "He sighs again,"
9said Starkey. "And yet a third time he sighs," said Smee. Then at last he spoke passionately. "The game's up," he cried,
10"those boys have found a mother." Affrighted though she was, Wendy swelled with pride. "O evil day!" cried Starkey.
11"What's a mother?" asked the ignorant Smee. Wendy was so shocked that she exclaimed. "He doesn't know!" and always after
12this she felt that if you could have a pet pirate Smee would be her one. Peter pulled her beneath the water, for Hook
13had started up, crying, "What was that?" "I heard nothing," said Starkey, raising the lantern over the waters, and as
14the pirates looked they saw a strange sight. It was the nest I have told you of, floating on the lagoon, and the Never
15bird was sitting on it. "See," said Hook in answer to Smee's question, "that is a mother. What a lesson! The nest must
16have fallen into the water, but would the mother desert her eggs? No." There was a break in his voice, as if for a
17moment he recalled innocent days when--but he brushed away this weakness with his hook. Smee, much impressed, gazed at
18the bird as the nest was borne past, but the more suspicious Starkey said, "If she is a mother, perhaps she is hanging
19about here to help Peter." Hook winced. "Ay," he said, "that is the fear that haunts me." He was roused from this
20dejection by Smee's eager voice. "Captain," said Smee, "could we not kidnap these boys' mother and make her our mother?"
21"It is a princely scheme," cried Hook, and at once it took practical shape in his great brain. "We will seize the
22children and carry them to the boat: the boys we will make walk the plank, and Wendy shall be our mother." Again Wendy
23forgot herself. "Never!" she cried, and bobbed. "What was that?" But they could see nothing. They thought it must have
24been a leaf in the wind. "Do you agree, my bullies?" asked Hook. "There is my hand on it," they both said. "And there is
25my hook. Swear." They all swore. By this time they were on the rock, and suddenly Hook remembered Tiger Lily. "Where is
26the redskin?" he demanded abruptly. He had a playful humour at moments, and they thought this was one of the moments.
27"That is all right, captain," Smee answered complacently; "we let her go." "Let her go!" cried Hook. "'Twas your own
28orders," the bo'sun faltered. "You called over the water to us to let her go," said Starkey. "Brimstone and gall,"
29thundered Hook, "what cozening is going on here!" His face had gone black with rage, but he saw that they believed their
30words, and he was startled. "Lads," he said, shaking a little, "I gave no such order." "It is passing queer," Smee said,
31and they all fidgeted uncomfortably. Hook raised his voice, but there was a quiver in it. "Spirit that haunts this dark
32lagoon to-night," he cried, "dost hear me?" Of course Peter should have kept quiet, but of course he did not. He
33immediately answered in Hook's voice: "Odds, bobs, hammer and tongs, I hear you." In that supreme moment Hook did not
34blanch, even at the gills, but Smee and Starkey clung to each other in terror. "Who are you, stranger? Speak!" Hook
35demanded. "I am James Hook," replied the voice, "captain of the Jolly Roger." "You are not; you are not," Hook cried
36hoarsely. "Brimstone and gall," the voice retorted, "say that again, and I'll cast anchor in you." Hook tried a more
37ingratiating manner. "If you are Hook," he said almost humbly, "come tell me, who am I?" "A codfish," replied the voice,
38"only a codfish." "A codfish!" Hook echoed blankly, and it was then, but not till then, that his proud spirit broke. He
39saw his men draw back from him. "Have we been captained all this time by a codfish!" they muttered. "It is lowering to
40our pride." They were his dogs snapping at him, but, tragic figure though he had become, he scarcely heeded them.
41Against such fearful evidence it was not their belief in him that he needed, it was his own. He felt his ego slipping
42from him. "Don't desert me, bully," he whispered hoarsely to it. In his dark nature there was a touch of the feminine,
43as in all the great pirates, and it sometimes gave him intuitions. Suddenly he tried the guessing game. "Hook," he
44called, "have you another voice?" Now Peter could never resist a game, and he answered blithely in his own voice, "I
45have." "And another name?" "Ay, ay." "Vegetable?" asked Hook. "No." "Mineral?" "No." "Animal?" "Yes." "Man?" "No!" This
46answer rang out scornfully. "Boy?" "Yes." "Ordinary boy?" "No!" "Wonderful boy?" To Wendy's pain the answer that rang
47out this time was "Yes." "Are you in England?" "No." "Are you here?" "Yes." Hook was completely puzzled. "You ask him
48some questions," he said to the others, wiping his damp brow. Smee reflected. "I can't think of a thing," he said
49regretfully. "Can't guess, can't guess!" crowed Peter. "Do you give it up?" Of course in his pride he was carrying the
50game too far, and the miscreants saw their chance. "Yes, yes," they answered eagerly. "Well, then," he cried, "I am
51Peter Pan." Pan! In a moment Hook was himself again, and Smee and Starkey were his faithful henchmen. "Now we have him,"
52Hook shouted. "Into the water, Smee. Starkey, mind the boat. Take him dead or alive!" He leaped as he spoke, and
53simultaneously came the gay voice of Peter. "Are you ready, boys?" "Ay, ay," from various parts of the lagoon. "Then lam
54into the pirates." The fight was short and sharp. First to draw blood was John, who gallantly climbed into the boat and
55held Starkey. There was fierce struggle, in which the cutlass was torn from the pirate's grasp. He wriggled overboard
56and John leapt after him. The dinghy drifted away. Here and there a head bobbed up in the water, and there was a flash
57of steel followed by a cry or a whoop. In the confusion some struck at their own side. The corkscrew of Smee got Tootles
58in the fourth rib, but he was himself pinked in turn by Curly. Farther from the rock Starkey was pressing Slightly and
59the twins hard. Where all this time was Peter? He was seeking bigger game. The others were all brave boys, and they must
60not be blamed for backing from the pirate captain. His iron claw made a circle of dead water round him, from which they
61fled like affrighted fishes. But there was one who did not fear him: there was one prepared to enter that circle.
62Strangely, it was not in the water that they met. Hook rose to the rock to breathe, and at the same moment Peter scaled
63it on the opposite side. The rock was slippery as a ball, and they had to crawl rather than climb. Neither knew that the
64other was coming. Each feeling for a grip met the other's arm: in surprise they raised their heads; their faces were
65almost touching; so they met. Some of the greatest heroes have confessed that just before they fell to they had a
66sinking. Had it been so with Peter at that moment I would admit it. After all, he was the only man that the Sea-Cook had
67feared. But Peter had no sinking, he had one feeling only, gladness; and he gnashed his pretty teeth with joy. Quick as
68thought he snatched a knife from Hook's belt and was about to drive it home, when he saw that he was higher up the rock
69than his foe. It would not have been fighting fair. He gave the pirate a hand to help him up.
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