Chapter TwelveABDUCTED CHILDRENPirates of the Redskins caught unawares. Further proof that the unscrupulous Hook attacked them unfairly because virtually impossible to catch the Indians by surprise. They each minute alert, and always hear all acute hearing and notice all keen eyesight.The fact that the pirates on the island, they knew from the moment the first of them stepped on the first dry twig. But they did not think that Hook dare to violate the order, according to which always being savage war. First, the attack relies Indians, not white. Blednolitsye usually located on a hill at the foot of which flows a stream. Because it is extremely dangerous - to remain without water. Redskins scouts like snakes crawling in the grass, and no blade of grass will not move. Shrub closes over them as silently as sand, which buries the mole. The silence was broken only by their signals to each other. This imitation of the lonely cry of a coyote. Some of that cry out even better than the coyotes themselves that this is not always achieve perfection. Indians attacked, barely daybreak, when the courage of pale usually is in decline.Knowing all of these unwritten rules, the Indians with their usual equanimity waited time is right to attack an hour.But Hook and his band even for a moment did not stay on the hill, at the foot of which flows a stream. They did not consider the fact that the night has only just begun. Not even for a moment conceived to wait for them to attack.The Redskins were tempted warriors deft and cunning. They lost only to the dishonesty.They can, and have managed to repel a pirate attack if immediately jumped up when they appear and lined up the chain, which is difficult to break. But here, they could not break the unwritten law that states that the noble savage must never detect confusion in the face of white man. Therefore, when suddenly there were pirates, not a muscle moved on their faces, as if they were on their own invitation. And only after bravely was to fulfill the law, they grabbed their weapons and the air resounded with cries of battle. But time was already lost.Watchdog squad was defeated by the Indians, but the main objective of this pirate night had not yet been made, because I do not care Indians were Jez Hook. They were just the bees, which need to ward off the smoke, so you can get to the honey. A honey for Peter Hook was. Of course, Wendy, and all the boy's team. But mostly - Peter.Peter was such a little boy, that really, wonder depth of hatred Hook. Well, that's the truth, Peter fed the crocodile bit his hand. Anyway, this fact in itself is difficult to explain such a ruthless and vicious thirst for revenge. And it was that it was something in Peter that drove pirate captain to rabies. It is not the courage of Peter and his pretty looks. Yes, actually, there is nothing to guess, we know exactly what it was, and we need to declare this. This is his conceit. Hook it acted on my nerves. At night, it bothered him, like an insect. While Peter remained alive. Hook felt a lion in a cage, which scored a cheeky sparrow.The whole question for pirates now is how to go down the empty barrel. Hook looked at his team. His eyes sought out the very bad. Pirates fidget. Each of them knew that the hook will not stop before going to shove them through the barrel by means of stakes.And what about the boys? Let's go down to him for a minute.The roar of the top ended as suddenly as it had begun. But proshumev as a thunderstorm, he has now decided their fate.Who won?Pirates eagerly listened to the voices coming through the empty barrels. They heard the question asked by Peter boys. Alas! They overheard and his answer.- If the Indians won, they will beat the tom-tom. This means they win.Shortly before, the media just stumbled on tom-tom and now sat on it.- How, now, you hear the winning tomtom! - He muttered under his breath.But, to his surprise terrible. Hook told him to beat the tom-tom. And gradually came to Smee monstrous treachery of this order. Maybe until now simpleton Smee so admired Hook.Smee struck twice for the instrument and then stopped to listen.- Tamta! - Heard rascals cheer Peter. - The Indians have won!Doomed boys told him friendly "Hurrah." And this "Hurrah!" Echoed in the music of black souls of those who had been waiting at the top. The boys again said goodbye to Peter. It's slightly puzzled pirates, but at the moment all sense overshadowed in their hearts one - the joy that the enemies do now rise to them in the trunk. They gleefully grinning and rubbing their hands. Hook whisper gave the order: pirate on every tree, everything else lined up at a distance of two yards apart.