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1On the contrary, he thought he had scaled her side as noiseless as a mouse; and he was amazed to see the pirates
2cowering from him, with Hook in their midst as abject as if he had heard the crocodile. The crocodile! No sooner did
3Peter remember it than he heard the ticking. At first he thought the sound did come from the crocodile, and he looked
4behind him swiftly. Then he realised that he was doing it himself, and in a flash he understood the situation. "How
5clever of me!" he thought at once, and signed to the boys not to burst into applause. It was at this moment that Ed
6Teynte the quartermaster emerged from the forecastle and came along the deck. Now, reader, time what happened by your
7watch. Peter struck true and deep. John clapped his hands on the ill-fated pirate's mouth to stifle the dying groan. He
8fell forward. Four boys caught him to prevent the thud. Peter gave the signal, and the carrion was cast overboard. There
9was a splash, and then silence. How long has it taken? "One!" (Slightly had begun to count.) None too soon, Peter, every
10inch of him on tiptoe, vanished into the cabin; for more than one pirate was screwing up his courage to look round. They
11could hear each other's distressed breathing now, which showed them that the more terrible sound had passed. "It's gone,
12captain," Smee said, wiping off his spectacles. "All's still again." Slowly Hook let his head emerge from his ruff, and
13listened so intently that he could have caught the echo of the tick. There was not a sound, and he drew himself up
14firmly to his full height. "Then here's to Johnny Plank!" he cried brazenly, hating the boys more than ever because they
15had seen him unbend. He broke into the villainous ditty: "Yo ho, yo ho, the frisky plank, You walks along it so, Till it
16goes down and you goes down To Davy Jones below!" To terrorise the prisoners the more, though with a certain loss of
17dignity, he danced along an imaginary plank, grimacing at them as he sang; and when he finished he cried, "Do you want a
18touch of the cat before you walk the plank?" At that they fell on their knees. "No, no!" they cried so piteously that
19every pirate smiled. "Fetch the cat, Jukes," said Hook; "it's in the cabin." The cabin! Peter was in the cabin! The
20children gazed at each other. "Ay, ay," said Jukes blithely, and he strode into the cabin. They followed him with their
21eyes; they scarce knew that Hook had resumed his song, his dogs joining in with him: "Yo ho, yo ho, the scratching cat,
22Its tails are nine, you know, And when they're writ upon your back--" What was the last line will never be known, for of
23a sudden the song was stayed by a dreadful screech from the cabin. It wailed through the ship, and died away. Then was
24heard a crowing sound which was well understood by the boys, but to the pirates was almost more eerie than the screech.
25"What was that?" cried Hook. "Two," said Slightly solemnly. The Italian Cecco hesitated for a moment and then swung into
26the cabin. He tottered out, haggard. "What's the matter with Bill Jukes, you dog?" hissed Hook, towering over him. "The
27matter wi' him is he's dead, stabbed," replied Cecco in a hollow voice. "Bill Jukes dead!" cried the startled pirates.
28"The cabin's as black as a pit," Cecco said, almost gibbering, "but there is something terrible in there: the thing you
29heard crowing." The exultation of the boys, the lowering looks of the pirates, both were seen by Hook. "Cecco," he said
30in his most steely voice, "go back and fetch me out that doodle-doo." Cecco, bravest of the brave, cowered before his
31captain, crying "No, no"; but Hook was purring to his claw. "Did you say you would go, Cecco?" he said musingly. Cecco
32went, first flinging his arms despairingly. There was no more singing, all listened now; and again came a death-screech
33and again a crow. No one spoke except Slightly. "Three," he said. Hook rallied his dogs with a gesture. "'S'death and
34odds fish," he thundered, "who is to bring me that doodle-doo?" "Wait till Cecco comes out," growled Starkey, and the
35others took up the cry. "I think I heard you volunteer, Starkey," said Hook, purring again. "No, by thunder!" Starkey
36cried. "My hook thinks you did," said Hook, crossing to him. "I wonder if it would not be advisable, Starkey, to humour
37the hook?" "I'll swing before I go in there," replied Starkey doggedly, and again he had the support of the crew. "Is
38this mutiny?" asked Hook more pleasantly than ever. "Starkey's ringleader!" "Captain, mercy!" Starkey whimpered, all of
39a tremble now. "Shake hands, Starkey," said Hook, proffering his claw. Starkey looked round for help, but all deserted
40him. As he backed up Hook advanced, and now the red spark was in his eye. With a despairing scream the pirate leapt upon
41Long Tom and precipitated himself into the sea. "Four," said Slightly. "And now," Hook said courteously, "did any other
42gentlemen say mutiny?" Seizing a lantern and raising his claw with a menacing gesture, "I'll bring out that doodle-doo
43myself," he said, and sped into the cabin. "Five." How Slightly longed to say it. He wetted his lips to be ready, but
44Hook came staggering out, without his lantern. "Something blew out the light," he said a little unsteadily. "Something!"
45echoed Mullins. "What of Cecco?" demanded Noodler. "He's as dead as Jukes," said Hook shortly. His reluctance to return
46to the cabin impressed them all unfavourably, and the mutinous sounds again broke forth. All pirates are superstitious,
47and Cookson cried, "They do say the surest sign a ship's accurst is when there's one on board more than can be accounted
48for." "I've heard," muttered Mullins, "he always boards the pirate craft last. Had he a tail, captain?" "They say," said
49another, looking viciously at Hook, "that when he comes it's in the likeness of the wickedest man aboard." "Had he a
50hook, captain?" asked Cookson insolently; and one after another took up the cry, "The ship's doomed!" At this the
51children could not resist raising a cheer. Hook had well-nigh forgotten his prisoners, but as he swung round on them now
52his face lit up again. "Lads," he cried to his crew, "now here's a notion. Open the cabin door and drive them in. Let
53them fight the doodle-doo for their lives. If they kill him, we're so much the better; if he kills them, we're none the
54worse." For the last time his dogs admired Hook, and devotedly they did his bidding. The boys, pretending to struggle,
55were pushed into the cabin and the door was closed on them. "Now, listen!" cried Hook, and all listened. But not one
56dared to face the door. Yes, one, Wendy, who all this time had been bound to the mast. It was for neither a scream nor a
57crow that she was watching, it was for the reappearance of Peter. She had not long to wait. In the cabin he had found
58the thing for which he had gone in search: the key that would free the children of their manacles, and now they all
59stole forth, armed with such weapons as they could find. First signing them to hide, Peter cut Wendy's bonds, and then
60nothing could have been easier than for them all to fly off together; but one thing barred the way, an oath, "Hook or me
61this time." So when he had freed Wendy, he whispered for her to conceal herself with the others, and himself took her
62place by the mast, her cloak around him so that he should pass for her. Then he took a great breath and crowed. To the
63pirates it was a voice crying that all the boys lay slain in the cabin; and they were panic-stricken. Hook tried to
64hearten them; but like the dogs he had made them they showed him their fangs, and he knew that if he took his eyes off
65them now they would leap at him. "Lads," he said, ready to cajole or strike as need be, but never quailing for an
66instant, "I've thought it out. There's a Jonah aboard." "Ay," they snarled, "a man wi' a hook." "No, lads, no, it's the
67girl. Never was luck on a pirate ship wi' a woman on board. We'll right the ship when she's gone." Some of them
68remembered that this had been a saying of Flint's. "It's worth trying," they said doubtfully. "Fling the girl
69overboard," cried Hook; and they made a rush at the figure in the cloak. "There's none can save you now, missy," Mullins
70hissed jeeringly. "There's one," replied the figure. "Who's that?"
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