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 bullet had plowed across the back of my hand and along my arm and had broken the bone just  above the elbow. It got very sore and made me lightheaded, so for a while it seemed to be always glaring daytime and for a while always  night. And then I seemed to wake up from a long sleep and found the sun just coming up and  a fresh wind blowing off the lake and the pirates  gone. The clock had run down and I had lost the place on the calendar and that was how I got  Sunday three days wrong.”

“And Jake and the Indians, did they all get away?”

“There were seven that came, and it seemed to me that I could still count seven afterward where  I saw them walking around their cabin over there. But I heard when I went to Rudolm that there was not a sound man amongst them, and that  two of them had got enough of pirating forever  and did not come back to these parts. And while it is pretty hard to see for certain, I believe Jake  limps still.”

“I think he does,” said Hugh, remembering