Scourie , Chas . Turley , and the Alsatian Foggerty . Turley fell to the tomahawk of the terrible Panther , who ultimately cut a way through the pirates with Tiger Lily and a small remnant of the tribe . To what extent Hook is to blame for his tactics on this occasion is for the historian to decide . Had he waited on the rising ground till the proper hour he and his men would probably have been butchered ; and in judging him it is only fair to take this into account . What he should perhaps have done was to acquaint his opponents that he proposed to follow a new method . On the other hand , this , as destroying the element of surprise , would have made his strategy of no avail , so that the whole question is beset with difficulties . One can not at least withhold a reluctant admiration for the wit that had conceived so bold a scheme , and the fell -LSB- deadly -RSB- genius with which it was carried out . What were his own feelings about himself at that triumphant moment ? Fain -LSB- gladly -RSB- would his dogs have known , as breathing heavily and wiping their cutlasses , they gathered at a discreet distance from his hook , and squinted through their ferret eyes at this extraordinary man . Elation must have been in his heart , but his face did not reflect it : ever a dark and solitary enigma , he stood aloof from his followers in spirit as in substance . The night 's work was not yet over , for it was not the redskins he had come out to destroy ; they were but the bees to be smoked , so that he should get at the honey . It was Pan he wanted , Pan and Wendy and their band , but chiefly Pan . Peter was such a small boy that one tends to wonder at the man 's hatred of him . True he had flung Hook 's arm to the crocodile , but even this and the increased insecurity of life to which it led , owing to the crocodile 's pertinacity -LSB- persistance -RSB- , hardly account for a vindictiveness so relentless and malignant . The truth is that there was a something about Peter which goaded the pirate captain to frenzy . It was not his courage , it was not his engaging appearance , it was not -- . There is no beating about the bush , for we know quite well what it was , and have got to tell . It was Peter 's cockiness . This had got on Hook 's nerves ; it made his iron claw twitch , and at night it disturbed him like an insect .
While Peter lived , the tortured man felt that he was a lion in a cage into which a sparrow had XXXXX .
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