Peter Pan (24)

(11) The children Are Carried Off

Hook and his fiendish crew had taken the redskins by surprise, attacking in the evening.

Attacks are supposed to be at dawn, as everyone knows, so the pirates had a mean advantage.

Tiger Lily and a small band of braves were the first to see them.

They seized their weapons and gave their war cry, but it was too late.

Almost the whole tribe perished.

Only the chief, Tiger Lily and a few   warriors managed to fight their way out.

Hook stood in triumph a little way from his crew, who were busy wiping the blood off their cutlasses.

The night's work was not yet over.
There was hatred in his black heart for Peter Pan.

None of the pirates was thin enough to wriggle down the holes in the tree-trunks, but they could hear what the boys were saying down below.

" Who has won the fight, the redskins or the pirates ? "

" If the redskins have won, " replied Peter, " they'll beat their tom-tom. "

Hook signalled  to Smee, who was sitting on the tom-tom.

Smee beat on it twice, an evil grin on his face.

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