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Chapter 4

"No, Barbossa, I can't be lettin' ya do this," Bootstrap yelled as he watched Barbossa toss Captain Sparrow a gun with a single bullet...

Jack, who was standing on the plank, turned to looked at Bootstrap...

"It be okay matey. I will be back on the Pearl faster than ya can blink. After all, I be Captain Jack Sparrow." With those final words Jack gave the crew a bow before jumping off the plank.

Barbossa turned toward Bootstrap and placed his arm around the man's shoulders...

"Now, ya be tellin' where the treasure be, or I be slitting yor throat. Ya see Mr. Turner, ya and Jack be the only one's who know where it be, and forgive me if I don't be believin' Jack."

Bootstrap gulped at the blade Barbossa had suddenly placed at his throat...

"Okay, I be tellin' where it be, but ya do know it be cursed. Ya do know that don't ya?"

"Ah, the curse. There'd be no such things as curses boy... Now tell me where that treasure be.."


The cavern was filled with the cheers of the pirates as the gold was uncovered.

"Here it be men... Our gold. Plenty ta be passin' around," Barbossa stated excitedly to the men.

"They not be understandin' that it be cursed," Bootstrap thought to himself as he shook his head at his crew mates.

"We be splittin' it equal like when we be gettin' it back on the Pearl."

"What say ya, that we be spendin' the gold in Tortuga?"

"AYE," the crew yelled.

"That be the deal then."

When no one was looking, Bootstrap took a single coin out of the treasure.

"They be deservin' ta be cursed," he thought to himself.