THE PIRATE'S CURSE

BY GUY MULLALLY

ROXOTN: Now you're not trying to start something you don't intend to finish again, are you?

MARGUERITE: Oh, I believe that was you the last time.

ROXTON: Well it won't be this time.

AFTER FALLING DOWN A HOLE, ROXTON LANDS ON TOP OF MARGUERITE

MARGUERITE: Oh, it's a good thing we don't do that every day.

ROXTON: Oh, I don't know, it felt pretty good to me.

VERONICA: Do you really think she'd use that gun?

ROXTON: No, I'm sure it's just for show.

VERONICA: She really scares me sometimes.

ROXTON: Layer upon layer of self preservation. Sometimes it's hard to get to the truth.

VERONICA: It's amazing you never stop trying.

ROXTON: Well, underneath it all she's not so very different from the rest of us.

MARGUERITE: This was your idea.

VERONICA: No. My idea was to throw it down the deepest crevice we could find.

ROXTON: Oh, Marguerite, it's for the best and as Veronica says, why tempt fate?

MARGUERITE: You just did.

MARGUERITE: Oh, and about yesterday…the best part was finding the treasure.

PAPPIN: One could take exception to strangers like you making eyes at their wife. Many have died for less.

MALONE: I'm sure in your little world many people have died for absolutely nothing.

PAPPIN: That's always the best.

PAPPIN: So, how's my new mates?

MALONE: Tiring of your atrocious hospitality.

ROXTON: What part of 'leave me out of it', didn't you understand?

MARGUERITE: If you say one word that I find distasteful of offensive, I will not hesitate to correct your grammar.

MARGUERITE: Sometimes it's just too easy.

VERONICA: OK, Marguerite, you win.

MARGUERITE: I usually do.

MALONE: Seriously, if this were one of my stories, even I couldn't convince the reader that you gave up a fortune…just like that.

CHALLENGER: Captain Marguerite, the most feared and elegant pirate around.

MALONE: The scourge of the plateau.