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CH16P:2:Wear Hook's clothes tonight.

Some of them wanted it to be an honest ship and others were in favour of keeping it a pirate; but the captain treated them as dogs, and they dared not express their wishes to him even in a round robin. Instant obedience was the only safe thing. Slightly got a dozen for looking perplexed when told to take soundings. The general feeling was that Peter was honest just now to lull Wendys suspicions, but that there might be a change when the new suit was ready, which, against her will, she was making for him out of some of Hooks wickedest garments. It was afterwards whispered among them that on the first night he wore this suit he sat long in the cabin with Hooks cigar-holder in his mouth and one hand clenched, all but for the forefinger, which he bent and held threateningly aloft like a hook.