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twisting movement, forcing his tongue deep withn her mouth, while cupping her breasts in his hands and crushing her between himself and the cabin wall.
    She fought him with everything she had but it was for naught. The quartermaster was too strong for her diminutive frame. She could not fight him off. He forced his reach down the front of her trousers and slipped his fingers into her velvety sheath.
    With a muffled cry, she begged him to stop. "Please don't. I beg of you Mr. Kilern."
    Her pleas fell upon deaf ears. He continued onward. When Kilern tried to penetrate her with his encrusted fingers he encountered a familiar tightness and suddenly he realized what he actually had, right there, in his hand. He pulled back from her and looked into her eyes. With utter astonishment in his voice he exclaimed, “You’re a virgin! I've found me a bluddee pot o' gold, I have!” He ceased his advance s. He leaned himself back against the table and let loose a most evil and insidious laughter that resonated the sound of lunacy. Then with a wide and malevolent grin spread across his sickenly repulsive face he said, "I'm gonna sell ya ta the highest bidder when we get ta port. Some rich gov’ll pay a lot o' money ta have ya for the first time. And after that I'll sell ya ta some bawdy house in Boston. Yes m’am, I'm gonna be a rich man. No more traipsin' across the ocean ta make my way in life." Kilern broke from his trance and snapped his orders at her. "Fix yourself girl, I don't want the Cap'n gettin' suspicious ya been gone too long."
    With tears in her eyes and fury within her heart she spat back her venomous threats at him. "I'll make certain Godsey knows of this violation of me. You'll be sorry, for sure."
    He let forth a snort of laughter at her weak attempts to avenge her pride.
    "No ya won't, girl. Ya see if ya say a word of this ta anyone, the Cap'n’ll find out and he'll give Godsey the lash for sneakin' ya aboard and so shall you get the same, maybe worse. Why, Cap'n Hargendon might just make ya swing from the yardarm or throw ya overboard. No you won't tell. You'll keep my secret and I'll keep yours, heh, heh, heh". He opened the cabin door, gave her a sinister wink, tipped his cap to her in sarcasm , then closed the door behind him.
    Maura quickly put herself back together, then got herself to the galley and retrieved the Captain’s evening meal. When she finally returned to the cabin she discovered Daniel had gone. This was a welcome relief, she thought. It gave her a little more time to safeguard her disguise.
    With her head held high she went directly to her usual duties of rolling in the great copper tub, as she had been doing for weeks. She began boiling the kettles f or Daniel's bath and wished she could sink into the water and wash off the vile mauls of that pig, Kilern. Oh how she would scrub and scrub until her skin fell off. Even then she probably never would be able to get over being touched in such a way as that.
    Just as she had finished her tasks she could sense the heavy footfalls of agitation as the cabin door swung open and Daniel entered in a hurried and perturbed manner, slamming the portal door behind him.
    "Where in hell's name did ya go, boy. I sent ya to the galley a half an hour ago! Doddlin’ were ya? I knew I was being too lenient with ya. Well, is my meal here!?" He barked at her.
    Maura could not speak for fear of giving away what had transpired between herself and quartermaster. She simply mot ioned to the table where he noticed the table was nicely set for dinner with candles lit and also the tub was already in the cabin awaiting the warming kettles.
    Quietly he sat down and began to pick away at the plate of seasoned meats and yams.
    Maura poured him a tankard of ale from the pitcher then silently retreated to her side of the cabin to sit atop her bunk and await the next sequence of orders.
    It did not go unnoticed by Daniel that Maura’s plate of food sat in front of her growing cold.