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Excerpt from In the Wake of the Buccaneers
Villains though they were; reddened with the blood of the innocent and helpless though their hands; black-hearted cutthroats beyond denial yet there is something about them that appeals to all, and that, despite their ill deeds, fills one with admiration.
Perchance it is the fact that we all appreciate bravery - and, notwithstanding their multitude of sins, the buccaneers were brave beyond compare. Again, it may be that in all of us lurks a little of the gambling spirit and we admire those who can take a chance, even though we do not, and no greater gamblers ever lived than the buccaneers. They staked their lives at every turn, they gam bled with death, and the greater the odds the more readily did they throw themselves into the game. And it was this gambling spirit, this recklessness that enabled them to defy the world of their day.
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