`` Say , ` Ay , ay , sir . ' '' `` Ay , ay , sir . '' `` There is one thing , '' Peter continued , `` that every boy who serves under me has to promise , and so must you . '' John paled . `` It is this , if we meet Hook in open fight , you must leave him to me . '' `` I promise , '' John said loyally . For the moment they were feeling less eerie , because Tink was flying with them , and in her light they could distinguish each other . Unfortunately she could not fly so slowly as they , and so she had to go round and round them in a circle in which they moved as in a halo . Wendy quite liked it , until Peter pointed out the drawbacks . `` She tells me , '' he said , `` that the pirates sighted us before the darkness came , and got Long Tom out . '' `` The big gun ? '' `` Yes . And of course they must see her light , and if they guess we are near it they are sure to let fly . '' `` Wendy ! '' `` John ! '' `` Michael ! '' `` Tell her to go away at once , Peter , '' the three cried simultaneously , but he refused . `` She thinks we have lost the way , '' he replied stiffly , `` and she is rather frightened . You do n't think I would send her away all by herself when she is frightened ! '' For a moment the circle of light was broken , and something gave Peter a loving little pinch .
`` Then tell her , '' XXXXX begged , `` to put out her light . ''
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