`` what will happen is this : before any ship gets close enough to grapple and board and search us , captain blodgett will order that we be manacled by our necks on to one of those long chains you see lying down there next to the hull , that we be taken on deck in such a way that we can not be seen by the other ship , that an anchor be affixed to the chain that binds us , and that we be thrown overboard , like bait on a fish line '' shocked silence .