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Mistress Stevens.

So, you had trouble

with a passenger?

A female passenger,

no doubt.

No, ma'am, my oath on it.

I had no trouble with her,

merely because of her.

I never have trouble

with women, never.

You don't?

I've got a feeling that

you're going to and soon.

But I think you'd be a

bad judge of that, ma'am.

I'll warrant, I'll wager that

you've never even kissed a man

without a great bushel

of whiskers on his chin.

Perhaps not,

but it's easily remedied.

I lost.

Well?

I'll survive.

I'll survive.

Of course, if I didn't

have my hands tied...

Of course, of course.

But don't get any

wrong ideas about me.

I may have use for you when

I know that I can trust you.

Otherwise, you'll find

your hands tied again

and not to an auction block

but to a tide stake.

But then that's for us

to decide tonight.

Us?

Tonight?

What do you mean?

You're one of the

Captains of the Coast?

And why shouldn't I be

when I own a ship?

No reason at all, ma'am.

Except that...

If the Captains do

decide to dispose of me,

I shall only regret that I didn't

have the honor of serving under you.

Harris, who are these Captains of

the Coast that have the say about us?

The same crew of cutthroats that

sailed the Spanish Main out of Tortuga.

That right, sir?

Oh, yes. Yes.

Seems that times

are changing, though.

You say you were broken from your

rank as lieutenant on the Monsoon?

Yes, sir, formally broken

before passenger and crew.

But it is a simple affair,

monsieur,

to tear buttons

from a coat, is it not?

So say I.

Why waste our time listening

to his foul-mouth lies?

We'll find out soon

enough whether he lies.

I remember well,

Captain Kidd,

when you'd let the crabs

have their fill of them first

and find out if they

told the truth after.

And well I do, too.

But I was younger then and

consumed with the impatience

and the injustice of youth.

It was during your youth

that your name

was to be feared

along the seven seas.

Meaning, of course, that I

am to be feared no longer?

You can take it

as you wish.

Better to die while

you're still a legend

than to live long enough to

make a mockery of that legend.

Is that what you imply,

Don't you think

you're getting a little...

It's not Captain Kidd

who is on trial here,

but these three men.

Aye.

Proceed, Captain Kidd.

You say you had 20

at the grating?

Yes, sir.

We've only got

your word for that.

I can show you

if it's the truth or not.

Go ahead then, Gow.

Who did you have

20 from on the Monsoon?

From the boatswain,

Flower.

Right. I sailed on the

Monsoon meself, gents.

And I knows that when Flogger

Flower lays 20 to a man's back,

he signs his name with

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