Sea Plunder

<p>Harman said the Captain when I signed on for this cruise I knew I was going in for a shady job; still there didn't seem much to it anyway. I knew Shiner was going to tinker up a cable and I judged he was clever enough to pull the business through safely and give us all a big profit. Well that scheme is all gone and now I'm a bloody pirate it seems. The war with Germany started me on the road and there's no use in crying out and saying or pretending we're privateers. We aren't; we're pirates. That's the long and the short of it. We aren't making war on Germany; we are just collecting dibbs for ourselves. I'm not proud of it not by a long way; but we're in for it now and may as well make the most of it. You ask me what I am going to do with this vessel? Well I'm going to go through her.</p>