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 AVTHOR of «• ST. CASTINE," •' child of the sun," " MIDNIGHT MOniilR," &c. 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 ]>«apair< 
 
 '* He was n mark 
 Foi blight and deaolation." — Dtrok'* DnxiM. 
 
 «• Yes!" he cried— no longer able to con- 
 ttol the pent-up agony of his soul — "it is 
 but one bold plunge, ailcr all, and then — all is 
 over forevermore ! Eternity ! — tush ! why 
 should tliat bugbear affright us ? Who has ever 
 returned from the grave to satisfy our doubts 
 as to an hereafter ? Pah ! it is all a fable ; the 
 Romans had their eljsiuoi, the Moslem his 
 paradise — the Christian his heaven — and all oF 
 them are dupes. I caunot stand this whirl of 
 thought— this maddening memory of the past' 
 —one brave plunge, and I am at rest forever ! 
 At rest ? — and can there be a rest for me ?" 
 and he accompanied the exclamation by a 
 phrenzied movement of the hand against his 
 tbrobbing forehead. 
 
 ' The person thus soliloquizing w^ a young 
 man, perhaps, twenty-five or twenty-seven 
 ;yearsofage; tall and wejl-formed, with a 
 8warthy.,iioia)pIexion and"..dii^k «eyes and hair. 
 His 6lgl^08 wore a certtua^degree of beauty, 
 and^SIFera bold and miiscaUne — but the 
 expression was bad— and evinced discontent 
 mingled with despair. His dress consisted of 
 a blue frock, and canvas trowsers^ belted round 
 the waist, m the manner peculiar to sailors ; 
 but there was a marked contrast between his 
 Hrhite hands and the course costume in which 
 he was dressed. 
 
 At the time of which we write he is standing 
 on the forecastle of a brig, with his arms folded 
 and apparently lost in contemplation. Around 
 him, engaged ing^eir various duties, are a 
 number of men, mime wearing clothes of a 
 similar description, and otiiers infinitely worse 
 dressed. Let us follow him in the train of his 
 reflections and (hereby learn something of his 
 situation : 
 
 ' " Yes"— he coutinued, " it is but one leap 
 into those dark waters, and all is over. This 
 mysterious thinking power, called the human 
 mind, can agonize no longer, and i shall be at 
 
 rest. Oh, could I fly from my thoughts- 
 could 1 become insensible to the past and the 
 the future alike— could 1 only become like 
 those animated and breathing clods of dust 
 around me— with sufficient power of reasoning 
 to vie with the instinct possessed by the brute 
 creation— it would be all 1 ask. But reflection 
 will drive me mad. To possess thousands but 
 a flew weeks since— and now— to be pennyless. 
 and pennyless by my own mad conduct — by 
 lavishing my living on cheats, gamblers, 
 drunkards and courtezans ! To bo, but a 
 month since, the associate of the refined, the 
 beautiful, the learned, the rich— and now to 
 be an outcast — the companion of all that is 
 vulgar and vile, ignorant and unsympathizing ! 
 — Great heaven ! what human brain could 
 ht-ar it ! To be refused employment, even in 
 the meanest capacity ; to be almost spurned 
 from every door— to go as a mendicant for 
 permission to toil ; it cannot be endured.— 
 They may talk of men of moral courage and 
 philosophic fortitude- but those who talk so, 
 never had their theory put to such a teHt aai 
 this. And now to become tlie companion of 
 these degraded men, and work my passage fo 
 a foreign land ! No ! I cannot do it. Let mo 
 end this brief existence— one plunge, and itis 
 done. There is no hereafter— why should 1 
 fear. Everything in this universe is in a state 
 of transition ; everything is resolved back to 
 its original, and so is man. His body is 
 resolved back into theelemcnfa, and immortal 
 spirit he has none. Ytt they say that there is 
 an overruling Providence. Have 1 not ad- 
 'jured him to stay me in my mad career ? and 
 yet 1 was not stayed. True, I made no effort, 
 but had I even done so, effort was vain— for a 
 resistless destiny precipitated me onwards, and 
 1 could not pause. Well— I will put the thing 
 to the test. I will go on shore ; I will make 
 one attempt to earn my living ; but, stop ! I 
 may be apprehended— never mind, 1 will try. 
 If that fails,.! have still the last resource, and 
 can act the Aoman's part." 
 
 At this momenta man who was engaged in 
 unloading the vessel, and whose peculiar con. 
 struction of viwge and figure inadehiraralhei' 
 conspicious, addressed the young man ; — 
 
 
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 '* 1 say, my friend with the white hands," 
 A« exclaimed, "if you don't intend to work, 
 get out of other people's way, will you ? We 
 don't want no skulkers here." 
 So absorbed was the person addressed in 
 '^gjfeis moody meditations, that, although he 
 ^%eard the words, he did not comprehend their 
 import, and consequently they passed unheed- 
 ed. Now, Mr. Rugglee, the gentleman who 
 had addressed him, was not versed in those 
 absent fits denominated brown studies, but 
 rather thought that his young friend was doing 
 him brown by this system of silent contempt, 
 and he exclaimed angrily : — 
 
 "Come, by George, my fine fellow, those 
 biff airs wont pass current here— what do you 
 take yourself for, you sickly-looking cur, that 
 you don't mind what I say — eh .'"' 
 
 The young man suddenly turned round ; a 
 ■oowl of ferocious wrath blackened his face, 
 and with a volley of oaths, and in language 
 that showed a long acquointance with the 
 London Hells, he struck the man with his 
 clenched fists, a few blows, which sent hPm 
 headlong to the deck, and showed how great 
 was the youth's skill in the art of scientific 
 boxing. On accomplishing this feat, he sul- 
 lenly descended the forehatch,and disappeared 
 below. 
 
 The man he had strnck arose to his feet 
 ■lowly ; an expression of murderous wrath 
 flushed to his face, and he clutched the knife 
 which was belted at his side, with a phrenzied 
 gesture. Then, as if recollecting himself, he 
 muttered — "Fool! what am 1 about?— if 1 
 destroy him, 1 destroy my revenge, and my 
 future prospects also. I am sure it is him — 
 And all 1 have got to do is to put him in a place 
 where I can lay my band on him whenever I 
 want him. The father, too, I've found — bat 
 it was afler a precious long hunt. I've tracked 
 him to this vessel, in which he goes passenger, 
 and ifl mind my oye, I'll make everything 
 mo straight enough yet." And, with this 
 half-uttered refleclton, he moodily resumed 
 his work. 
 
 " Dat vas a pad plow, mynheer Ruggles," 
 observed a Dutciiman who was standing by, 
 and who appeared to be altoge'her indifferent 
 as to the scene around him, if one could judge 
 by the unconcerned manner in which he looked 
 on — his hands plunged to the bottomless abyss 
 of his breeches pockets, and his pipe emitting 
 puffs of smoke at regular intervals of about one 
 per minute — 
 
 " Dat man vas pe used to dat eort of fight 
 peforejesh now. Hunncr tousand teuvils, vat 
 ▼or you not put your dirk in his pelly ?" 
 
 " Hans," cried the other, as if an idea had 
 struck him, " doesn't that fire-eating Captain 
 of yours want men .'" 
 *« Yaw — ven he can drust dem," 
 " Well, he can trust me, I suppose, since I 
 already know his secret ; see, Hans, I'rn sick 
 of this kind of Itfe, and if you go and tell your 
 eaptain tQ oome and see me rignt off, I think I 
 can find him a smart htnd. ' 
 
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 " Who vas he .'—nod dat ehab rat itrike 
 you jeab now ?" 
 
 " Never mind— do as I tell you or yoor 
 master will be angry. When do you sail i*" 
 
 " Dat vas debeud on vat time you sail ; we 
 Tak for keeb company." 
 
 " That is your crafl lying there .'" asked 
 Ruggles, nodding with his head towards a 
 small but beautifully moulded brigantine, with 
 raking masts and long, taunt yards. 
 
 " Yaw," said the Dntchman, who seemed 
 to possess more than the due proportion of 
 phlegm and taciturnity attributed to hit 
 nation. 
 
 " Well, Hans,"^ continued the other, " go 
 and do my bidding to the terrible captain, and 
 send him to me at once ; in che meantime, 1 
 will find out when we sail and all the rest of 
 it. Hush ! — here comes Mason. We must 
 not appear to have been talking — stand to oae 
 side." 
 
 The young man first spoken of now came 
 up from the hatchway, and so great was the 
 transformation which he had undergone while 
 below, that it was almost impossible to 
 recognize htm ; instead of the sailor's blouse 
 and tarry trowsers, he wore a full suit of black 
 of the finest description, and, as far as outward 
 appearances went, he now seemed to be a 
 person of education and refinement. 
 
 " I thouglit so all along," muttered Ruggrles 
 eyeing him furtively, as the youth advanced 
 along the wharf in brder to meet a smalt, 
 elderly man who was slowly walking toward* 
 the vessel. This latter personage was a rich 
 merchant from New England, who was on the 
 yoint of returning home, having visited Great 
 Uritain with his daughter, for the purjAjse of 
 providing ber with suitable teachers, and 
 finishing her education. She now remained 
 behind him. He wore a rich, warm dress,and 
 appeared in the possession of all the comtorta 
 that wealth can afford. *As we shall have to 
 speak of this mu|. again, however, we will 
 leave his deseripUort for a future Q^apter. 
 
 ^Ha ! that is eld Mason !" mirttMid the 
 man we have called Ruggles, as his ^es lit 
 up with savage joy, »' ha, have I traeedhtm at 
 last. But, if he should recognize that young 
 limb of the devil now ! — tusn, what chance ia 
 there of his doing that ! — he never saw hint 
 but once." 
 
 Tho young nrnn advanced slowly toward* 
 the other, as if hesitating whether to address 
 him or not; at length, he appeared to have 
 made up his mind as to the course he should 
 pursue, for, touching his hat, he said, in a 
 hesitating voice : — J| 
 
 " Pardon me, sir, but as I understand you 
 are just about embarking in this vessel for 
 America, and as I am extremely anxious to 
 proceed to that country, but am unable to 
 procure the means, 1 thought, perhaps, we 
 might enter into some arrangement whereby 
 1 could pay you, on my arrival there, for any 
 expense incurred by me while accompanying 
 you." 
 
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 a broad stare of surprise, wliich gradually direction which the joung mon had taken-*- 
 changed into a look of coldness and suspicion ; while Ruggles turned back and confronted lh« 
 he drew in his thin lips, and remarked, as he merchant, 
 adjusted his cloak stiU closer about him, and - ' "" 
 
 without stopping, while the youth walked by 
 his side, bock towards the vessel — 
 
 •''Pay me when you get there?' — how do 
 you propose paying me — have you got the 
 money?" 
 
 •♦ No, sir," answered the young man ; "but 
 I am informed that you are engaged in exten. 
 sive mercantile operations, and as I am fully 
 competent to go into a counting room, and in 
 many respects to render myself useful, 1 feel 
 certain of being able to requite your kindness 
 by services of that kind." 
 
 " Hum — ha," mused the merchant, looking 
 •till more freezing and suspicious ; *' and why 
 do you ask me in particular to do this service 
 for you — we are perfect strangers, sir — what 
 claims can you have on me .•* Ah, I see how 
 it is, young man — take my advice, and go 
 home to your parents." 
 
 The youth's eyes flashed fiercely : " 1 have 
 no parents!" he exclaimed hastily — " ond I 
 make this request of you merely for this reason 
 — that you are going to America whither [ 
 also wish to proceed, and have the means of 
 giving me a passage.'* 
 
 " I must decline doing so," said the mer- 
 chant, coldly ; " putting aside the fact that 
 we are perfect strangers, there still remains 
 other obstacles ; in the first place, 1 have in 
 my employment, already, a suilicient number; 
 in alloftheml can place confidence, and it 
 would be hardly reasonable for me to dismiss 
 any of them to make room for a person of 
 whom I know nothing." And so saying, he 
 stepped on board the vessel. 
 
 Tlys young man stood gazing aftor him for 
 somd time ; an expression of hopeless despair 
 
 settled upon his ieatures, and, at length, he 
 
 turned away sullenly and left the wharf. 
 During this conversation the man named 
 
 Ruggles, although apparently working, was 
 
 paying the deepest attention 16 what was going 
 
 on. At its conclusion, he muttered,in a scarce 
 
 audible tone — 
 
 •' So goes the world ! He does not know 
 
 now that that is his own son — and with my 
 
 consent he shall not know it yet awhile. Oh, 
 
 no — I must revenge myselt on that young 
 
 scapegrace, and at the same time make a 
 
 bugbear of him to frighten the old fellow, as 
 
 soon as the proper time comes. I'll make the 
 
 same request of him which the youngster did 
 
 — seeif he'll refuse me. But, stop — hero is 
 
 the terrible Captain coining — I must put him 
 
 on the scent first of all, before I do anything 
 
 else." ' ^ 
 
 Ashe thus mused, a person wearing a 
 
 man's dress, and with a ferocious cast 
 
 countenanec, approached the spot, and Rug 
 
 gles advanced to meet him. 
 A short but energetic conversation took 
 
 place between them, which resulted in the 
 
 CHAP. 11. V 
 
 Captain Sarsfleld. 
 
 " We are the sport of limo and terror. "f—MAsrsao. 
 
 The latter was now pacing the quarterdeck, 
 accompanied by the Captain of the vessel ; 
 but wiihout evincing the slightest idea that 
 he was intruding, Ruggles advanced towards 
 him, and atonee, in a tone of coarse familiar* 
 ity, broke in upon their conversation : 
 
 '« I say, Mr. Mason," he cried — •' I want to 
 have a few words with you when it suits your 
 convenience j are you at leizure .'" 
 
 •* Who are you, and what do you want?" 
 asked Mason, eyeing him in surprise, at tho 
 same time walking to one side to give him tho 
 desired opportunity of speaking in private. 
 
 " You don't recollect me, Mr, Mason ?" 
 
 II No — what do you want ?" 
 
 »• 1 want a passage to America." 
 
 «« A passage ?'" 
 
 4. Yes — a free passage." 
 
 " Are all the people mad !" exclaimed the 
 merchant angrily — '• why do auk me for A 
 passage ?" 
 
 .•*>( Because you durst not refuse me, Mason," 
 answered Ruggles warmly. 
 
 '' Insolent rascal ! do you dare to threaten 
 me '" 
 
 " I do — 1 threaten you with death !" 
 
 " You throaten to murder me !" exclaimed 
 Mason, starling back, horrified — '• vagabond ! 
 I will have you arrested." 
 
 " Vagabond, 1 will have you — arrested," 
 answered the other, with perfect sang froid. 
 
 " What 1" cried Mason, starting back, and 
 while an ashy paleness overspread his face — 
 »« arrest me, did you say /" 
 
 " That's what I said, and that's what 1 mean 
 tco -, why shouldn't I ?" 
 
 '^ It is Ruggles !" screamed the merchant, 
 gav;ing into his companion's face — '* there is 
 not anothf^r man in England dare make use of 
 such words to me Lut you." 
 
 " Yes," observed Ruggles, with a coarse 
 sneer, " it was ra'her unkind in you to forget 
 so old and tried a friend as Jack Ruggles has 
 been— but I guess you'll give us a passage 
 over the herring pond now." 
 
 Mason wrung his hands and groaned aloud. 
 •« Was not the world wide enough," he cried, 
 " that we might live without your haunting 
 me thus !" 
 
 " O, I dare say — but I like to keep near to 
 
 you to put you In mind of that night " 
 
 sea- • c( j^on't speak of it !" cried Mason, holding 
 ^ °* up his hands and shuddering — •• O, madman 
 that I was !" 
 
 *' Yes, it was rather a mad trick, for after all 
 I believe the boy was your own ; but sorrow 
 always cornea when its too late. She had a 
 
fortuae lell her «fi*r that, too— but 1 tuppoM 
 yon heard mil about it." 
 
 •• Talk no more of it," cried Mason, who 
 was now excessively agitated, as he walked 
 hurriedly to and fro— »• Never speak of that 
 horrible event again !" 
 
 «• And what am I to get for my silence ?" 
 said Ruggles. 
 
 " Name your price." 
 
 He did so, and it was a long one ; never- 
 theless it was agreed to, and matters amicably 
 arranged . 
 
 In the meanti.np, we shall turn to another 
 character of our narrative. 
 
 As the young man first introduced to the 
 reader turned away and lefl the pier, his 
 whole soul wrapped in fierce and gloomy me- 
 ditations, he was met by another person — one 
 ilestined to fill a conspicious part in our tale. 
 This was a young man of about four and 
 twenty, but whose face was slill youthful and 
 bore lew traces of those evil passions which so 
 frequently stamp themselves upon the human 
 countenance, making the wearer appear, ••old 
 in his youth and blasted in his prime." The 
 expression of his features was frank and manly, 
 at the same time, slightly tinged with that 
 haughty and defiant stamp so peculiarly the 
 characteristic of the ancient English Aristo- 
 cracy. His hair, which was of deep brown, 
 curled in wavy clusters above his white fore- 
 head, while his clear hazel eye, and short, 
 curved upper Sip, gave an intellectual 
 east to a countenance almost faultless in its 
 proportions, lie wore the uniform of a naval 
 officer. 
 
 On perceiving the other yonng man, who 
 was advancing towards him from the wharf, 
 his eyes bent to the earth, and walking with-a 
 slow and measured step — he appeared at once 
 to recognize him, for he advanced rapidly to- 
 wards him and, extending his band, exclaimed 
 familarly— 
 
 ••My old school mate,Jordan— is it possible ! 
 Why, manl can scarce call to mind when I 
 saw you last, it seems so long. Well — how 
 have you been since ?" 
 
 The young man addressed as Jordan took 
 the preferred hand mechanically, bat gazed 
 into the speaker's face with a wild and vacant 
 stare. At length he seemed to recollect him» 
 self— 
 
 ••Mr. Sarsfield," he said, almost savagely, 
 '• we are no longer equals ; if you knew ray 
 present position, you would not address ine in 
 the language of former days. You still retain 
 your place amongst the high-born and the 
 rich ; I, on the contrary, am an outcast from 
 society — I have neither a home to retreat to, 
 nor a penny to subsist on ; even my spirit is 
 l}Coken down, and my very nature quelled, or 
 I would not make this humiliating confession. 
 I have just been refused a petition which the 
 veriest beggar would disdain to crave — and 
 by one, too, who a few months since, would 
 have been proud to have courted my acquain- 
 
 tance. But it matters not," he muttered, in 
 a bitter tone, •• it will soon be over." 
 
 The officer listened to this declaration with 
 a look in which amazement gradually gave 
 way to sorrow and compassion. When tba 
 other had concluded, he exclaimed — 
 
 •' Joidan, if your misfortunes have been the 
 result of chance, of accident, of calamities 
 which you neither foresaw nor could prevent, 
 think not that J am one of those who would 
 desert so old a friend in his affliction. I seek 
 no man's friendship because he is in prosperity 
 —nor do I turn away from an old companion 
 because he is unfortunate. But should your 
 troubles be the result of your folly, vice or 
 credulitv, as 1 am half inclined to think they 
 are, you cannot expect that degree of sympa- 
 thy from me which J wouM evince were they 
 brouffht on by circumstances alone." 
 
 " 1 want no man's pity" interrupted Jordan, 
 " nor do 1 want a sermon on the bubject ; my 
 own reflections have repeated to me a thou- 
 sand times all you would say, and more, too. 
 1 do not want a monitor to tell me I have been 
 imprudent— I know it. Yet 1 have only ac'ed 
 up to the promptings of those passions which 
 were implanted within my bosom by nature, 
 and if I have done wrong, I have only to 
 thank that power which formed those passions 
 — and not myself." 
 
 •• Hush, hush !" cried Sarsfield, •« do not 
 talk in that fearful stiain. I am fully aware 
 that these were always your principles, even 
 at a very youthful age — but they were the 
 result of early indulgence and not of calm 
 reflection. You say, Jordan, you want no 
 monitor : 1 do not thrust myself upon you as 
 such, hut as a friend, and, by all appearances, 
 you have not many of them. But, Jordan, 1 
 can make allowances for those little bursts of 
 ill humor, under the circumstances, aogd -am 
 determined to assist you whether you will or 
 not." 
 
 " 1 tell you," cried the other, in a tone still 
 more fierce — •' that 1 am past benefitting by 
 your experience. 1 thrust myself on the charity 
 of no one, but shall end an existence which 
 has always been hateful and is now intolerable. 
 It is easy for you to talk — you who have been 
 blessed witli an easy and contented disposition 
 — you who have parents who love you, and 
 a home to retreat to from the storms ot' life. 
 Bu»- for me," he added, grinding his teeth, as 
 a bitter sneer sat upon his lip — " what is 
 there in this world for me thai I should lear to 
 leave it ? — I, who have neiiher parent, friend, 
 neither money or business— ^I, damned by a 
 restless and discontented temperam&nt, which, 
 in a short lime, would find even Faiadise a 
 hell — I, fallen from the highest sphere of 
 society into the very dust, and forced to herd 
 with the lowest of the low ' — what have I to 
 live for, provided I could obtain a living— 
 which I cannot." 
 
 The officer smiled sadly, shook kis head hut 
 remained f>ilent. The other continued, with 
 incroaaed impetuosity — 
 
 I 
 
 ^ 
 
" I am nosophi»t, ' ho Mid, " no pliilaiuphor 
 —bat I oitnnot fkil to perceive that 1 liavre 
 b«0D hardly treated by the creating power- 
 whatever that ereatinjf power may consiat of. 
 J came into oxiHtence without knowlodjje and 
 without my aanetion being obtained ; L had 
 no Toico in my own creation, nor could 1 
 preveot it by any oxcrcisio of roy own will. — 
 i was created with certain propensities and 
 pnssions — I was a passive being in tlie hands 
 of the creating power — I had no choice in the 
 Bfrlection of those faouUics andfeelinjjs which 
 lend either to nievat© or to degrade the human 
 race. In the first instance, had I hart a sepa- 
 rate existence, prior to tho present, and had I 
 had a voice in becoming the donizen oi anolh'^ i- 
 sphere, such as this world, I should nevur 
 have consented. In the second place had I 
 had the power of chosing lor myself, I should 
 have selected for my own that formation of 
 mind, that peculiar tempera ment which would 
 have caused uae to enjoy life and respect 
 virtue, and to love quiet rather than excite- 
 ment. But this povvor was never given me 
 — involuntarily and without my consent or 
 knowledge, 1 was created ; nature and subse- 
 quent cirouniatanccs have made ma the being 
 that I am. In this wherein am 1 to blame '' 
 Aye, thou stickler for virtue and divinity, tell 
 tue^ in this, whether I am to blame or the 
 jiower whuh created me so ? If 1 am impelled 
 onward to destruction by an irresistablc fate, 
 ara I to become responsible for a series of 
 •vents over which I had no control, and hence, 
 could not prevent ? Answer that,' ' he cried, 
 as he concluded tiiis wild, vague argument, in 
 a tone of such deep despair as to almost make 
 his companion shudder. 
 
 <* Jordan, I pity you," said the oiRoer ia a 
 tone almost indicative of contempt — " your 
 mind must be strangely disordered ; your 
 wocdS' would imply that, either there is no 
 God^ or that, in the event of there being one, 
 he is a God of infinite injustice, instead of 
 heing th© very reverse. I do not want, as you 
 jvst now expressed it, to pi«aoh you a sermoa 
 Oft tha subject, neither woMld* I be inGlined,for 
 one moment, to argue with a man who was 
 pvepaiied to question the existence or the 
 wiAdom of 91 efipreme being ; but for the sake 
 of our early intimacy, I will do m^y beet to 
 dispel this hallucination which lias possessed 
 your mind." 
 
 « It is vain," muttered Jordan, with a 
 eynieal laugh, " the die is cast !" 
 
 »» You Bi^ ," oontinued Lieutenant Sarsfield, 
 without attending to the interruption, " that 
 yeur eafomitfes are the result of your natural 
 
 «^en6itie«, andnot of your own wilful folly. 
 *eHi---v*e will admit it— we admit that you 
 Wesre led Hito vice and folly by the force of 
 yottfL evil passions — think you no other man 
 pOMdMeB passions equally strong and equally 
 wicked ? Yes, All men— all men, my liiend, 
 •Ven- the best ; but dot-hey suffer their natural 
 feelings to lead them astray .:>— do they suffer 
 ifaMaBelret to be the blind rietinia of each 
 
 impulsive p»ft«ion thait may baoome dominaivl 
 in the human breast, if not checked N.>-1 
 conceive not->othorwiie, you would see a 
 World filled with brings) worse than wolves, 
 a world of anarchy, horror and blood — a 
 v/orld compared to which Sndom would appear 
 virtuous and godly ! What I every man pursuo 
 unchecked tine dictates of a bloodthirsty or 
 licentious disposition ! — why, the earth would 
 become a lieh to which tho hell of the daiuned 
 would be an nsyluiu of refuge I No ! if wo 
 have slnutt' evil pmaions, we have also a stroag 
 sense of wliat is just and right — we have the 
 P'wcr of reflection — the godlike attribute of 
 reason — the knowledge of good and evil — tlio 
 hope of reward and the fear of punishmont to 
 deter U3. If, diercgardfiilot these cheQkB,we 
 rush on to evident destruction — whuse fault in 
 it P The beasts that porish pursue the dictates 
 of their nature, and wherein is man above 
 them ? — he pursues the dictates of reason in 
 preference to the promptings of his natural 
 passions." 
 
 '< And why, most disengenuous sophist, ace 
 those passions given him .*"' cried Jordan with 
 a sneer. 
 
 1' Because," responded his companion, t'we 
 are told that this world will present a series 
 of trioilB and temptations ; and to those who 
 havo the moral courage to resist will the palm 
 bti given. If every man naturally loathed 
 vice and loved virtue, where would, he deserve 
 credit in only following the propensity of his 
 nature. No, it was not so ordained. We are 
 prone to sin naturally, and tsials and tempta- 
 tions beset us on cvecy side : trials and 
 afflictions of the most bitter description con- 
 tidually assail us. The brave man takes 
 reason for hi3 guide, and dauntlessly faces 
 danger and temptation ; the recreant evaven 
 gives way to every temptation, breaks down 
 under th« first nfHiction,. becomes faint-Jieoxted 
 and desponding, and seeks foe rest, either by 
 drowning hia reason, the only godlike attribute 
 Uiat man possesses, in some stu pitying liquid 
 or by committing self-murder." 
 
 <(' Then you mean to say, SaisBeld, that I 
 am one of those recroanta who seek for rest by- 
 self-murder P The Romans held to no such 
 doctrines ; they did not count Cato, Cosaius 
 or Brutus recreants." 
 
 " It well becomes an atheist to being to his 
 aid examples afforded by the idolators wiio 
 worshipped, as they themselves admitted, one 
 dyed with the double sin of incest and murdef. 
 But," continued Samfieldt what do even such 
 examples prove P — merely the aame thing~ 
 that they were reorecnts who had evoked a 
 storm whioh they had not the courage to l^ce 
 and took shelter in the darkness and oblivion 
 of the grave ; the brave man would have 
 battled to the last, and if he fell, would hav^ 
 fallen with his fkce to the foe and hia sword 
 in his hand. But I did not assert, Jordan, 
 as you insinuated, that you eontempilated th* 
 damning crime of smcide. God forbid ! If 
 ever you have entertained mch a* ^knposKtf 
 
 'I M 
 
'! 
 
 mm 
 
 mmtmmm 
 
 rt 
 
 Intention, always couple with it, in jrour 
 reflections, the certainty that consdousnes* 
 will not cease to cxiat, and that, the deathleia 
 
 aoul the indcBtructibie and immortal spirit 
 
 will still have the power of thought and me. 
 
 mory that the stings of conscience — iJie 
 
 pangs of despair, will not have become dead 
 and dormant, when this tenement of clny has 
 become the abode of the reptile and the 
 worm"- — — 
 
 «• Pshaw '." cried Jorhan, " there, there ! — 
 that will do. Preach that stuff to dotards and 
 fools, Sarsfield, but not to one who has tested 
 the existence of the divine providence you 
 speak of, and who is convinced of its falsity — 
 or if it does exist, of its capricious injustice." 
 
 " Stop !— blasphemer !" v-ried Sarsfield — 
 ** tell me what claim you had established to 
 his mercies P" 
 
 ** Is not his mercy bestowed on those who 
 most require it, according to your superstitious 
 notion." 
 
 '* Aye, when they seek it as penitents, not 
 when they demand it with arrogant presump. 
 tion; at the very time they deny its attributes. 
 It would be folly to have mercy on those who 
 have none on themselves." 
 
 •' Well, Sarsfield," said the otiiLr, as if 
 wishing to waive the subject. Let us not 
 quarrel about it ; it is a long time since I was 
 schooled in thesa things, and I am not the 
 most patient listener in the world — especially 
 in my present state of mind. Let us not fall 
 out : this may be our last interview in this 
 world ; if, as you say, there is another, we 
 may possibly meet again — but irritate me no 
 lonver with superstitions which a man of your 
 knowledge of the world should hold in scorn 
 and contempt." 
 
 •• One word more," pursued Sarsfield, ** and 
 I drop the subject. You would throw the 
 bUme of your misfortunes on the overruling 
 Deity and not on yourself, when you and you 
 •lone, are wholly to blame. Did you ever 
 make a single effort to emancipate yourself 
 from the meshea which vice had thrown 
 around yoa— did you ever make the slightest 
 attempt to resist temptation .'—did you ever 
 sppeafto that Deity whom you deny for succor 
 •nd anpportr No ! I have known you from 
 an early age, and firom the earliest period 
 i hate known you, you ridiculed the idea of 
 •a OTerroling power— you plunged into the 
 MOisest debauchery, and mocked at those 
 wbe,1ike myself, were not inclined to go the 
 lengtha in immorality and vice which you 
 were wont to do. And now for these misfor- 
 tunev, the inevitable consequents of such a 
 eeurse, you accuse providence and hold yeur- 
 ■elf blameless." 
 
 Jordan made an impatient gesture; the 
 oflScer observed it, and hastened to add — 
 
 " Tott think me one of Job's comforters — 
 but 1 merely wish to disabuse your mind of the 
 fearful error which has taken possession of it. 
 Heavea knows I am not much given to 
 talk on religloui roatten, and am too much 
 
 inclined to neglect my duties in that reipsct, 
 but when 1 see one of your age, abilitiea and 
 strength of mind— one, too, whom I have 
 known so long— bent on the terrible act of 
 self-destruction, I should be as guilty as you, 
 were 1 to fail in using my utmost influence 
 to prevent you from consummating so revolting 
 a crime. Now tell me, for as yet I am pro- 
 foundly ignorant— what has brought you to 
 this state of indigence and despair.'" 
 
 " 'I'he same fatality which haa attended me 
 through life, replied the other, gloomily; — 
 ** My mother, as you are aware, possessed a 
 large and more tiian competent income ; she 
 derived it from a secret source which 1 never 
 could discover, and while she lived, 1 was 
 supplied with money to the full extent of my 
 wishes ; on her death, however, which look 
 place a few months since, the source which 
 had hitherto supplied my profligacy ceased, 
 and I found myself alone in the world and 
 without a penny. Never was there an orphan 
 left more helpless. I had been instructed in 
 no trade or profession — I was unacquainted 
 with the practical biisinesa of life — 1 had made 
 no friends but many enemies, and wherever I 
 was known I was distrusted and despised ; for 
 my mad, headlong course, had made me an 
 object of suspicion and aversion. Too proud 
 to look for employment in my native place, X 
 assumed the dress of a sailer and obtained a 
 passage to this port, thinking that here I 
 might procure a passage tc America. In 
 this, too, 1 have been disappointed — 1 cannot 
 pay for it, and I have failed even in begging 
 it— so there is only one alternative." 
 
 " Tush! man, do not give up b->," cried 
 Sarsfield, " these difficulties only incite a 
 brave man to make still greater efforts. I 
 will do my beat to procure you employment in 
 this city, and you must not be too saneuine at 
 first, but be satisfied with small beginninga." 
 
 << 1 am un6t for any employment," said the 
 other, sullenly ; " neither would I seek for it 
 in a place where I should be exposed to 
 endless recognitions. Many who knew me 
 under oilier uireumstances would be constant* 
 ly giving me long lectures on the profligacy of 
 youth and the danger of bad company, with all 
 the ten thousand et ceteras. No, no— it is bad 
 enough — but to stand behind a tape seller's 
 counter, or m a soap boiler's ahop, with men, 
 perhaps, who I have addressed, in former 
 days,as belonging to an inferior order of beings, 
 O ! I could never submit to that ! But the 
 truth is," he added, " I am totally unfit for any 
 sort of business. 1 was brought up in idlenesa 
 and wealth, and looked with acorn upon all 
 useful occupations ; 1 was allowed the free 
 indulgence of my passions and the unbridled 
 liberty to act in any manner 1 pleased— and 
 the consequence is, that I am not only diain* 
 cUned, but unable to perform any useful duty, 
 at all events, not in any place where J 
 
 known. My only hope was to get to Amerioa 
 — and in that I am also foiled.' 
 A fluapicion now crossed the yousg offioerNi 
 
 Mi^ 
 
Hk'* 
 
 or any 
 IleneM 
 lon all 
 
 mind. " But your miifortunea," he taid, aa 
 he eyed him closely, " havo been the result of 
 thote exceasei which most young men who 
 have the command of money are generally 
 guilty of — together with the death of your 
 parent ? You have not brought these evila 
 upon yourself by any crinio still more culpa- 
 bht thiin those follies of which I speak r" 
 
 *' 1 have committed forgery !" said Jordan 
 in a dogged tone, while ho fixed hia stern, 
 fierce gaze upon the face of his companion, 
 " and now you have my reason for being so 
 anxious to quit England. Denounce me if 
 you will — drag me before the nearest tribunal 
 — perhaps, after all, it were lietler tliut I died 
 by the hangiaan's hands than by my own." 
 
 •« Ha !" exclaimed Sarsfield, drawing a long 
 breath between hia shut teeth—" Unfortunate 
 man ! 1 pity you ! — you are as evidently unfit 
 to be a villain as you are to be an honest man, 
 or you would never have made this candid 
 confession." 
 
 «• I want not your pity," said the other 
 gloomily, " and 1 told you frankly when wo 
 first met, that we were no longer equals, and 
 declined any conference — but you persisted in 
 speaking. '■ 
 
 " Well, here our conference ^nds," said 
 Sarsfield coldly, as he placed a £lO Hill in the 
 hauda of the forger — " that will i>ay your 
 passase to America — do not liesitate— take 
 it. Repent and reform — you may yet do well 
 — and now, adieu forever." 
 
 And with these words, the officer turned on 
 hid heel, and left the wretched felon alone in 
 his agony. 
 
 Scarcely had he disappeared when his 
 place was supplied by another person. This 
 was the Captain who had been in conversa- 
 tion with Ruggles previous to that party's 
 addressing Mason, and who was no less than 
 the celebrated Captain John Teach — alias, 
 Bl^ckbkard. 
 
 CHAP. III. 
 IloiiS Vauhurst* 
 
 Far as tlie hicese ean boar— tho billowi foam, 
 t^urvoy our empire and buhoM our liuiiic. 
 
 The Corsair. 
 
 »• In the blue devils, youngster — eh ?" said 
 this person, comin/r up, and saluting Jordan 
 with a familiar slap on the shoulder. 
 
 " Who are you, sir .'" — exclaimed the 
 young man, turning round, with an expression 
 so bad that even that hardened villain shrank 
 back ; but recovering himself, he answered 
 the fierce interrogatory — 
 
 " A right good friend to you, youngster, if 
 you only follow my advice. Fortune has used 
 you hard — do not start — I know all your 
 history, but it is safe with me. I say 1 come 
 to show you a way to get rid of all these 
 troubles that beset you. You mustn't be too 
 stifT, though, because I'm a little given to 
 
 pride myself and can't put up with much of 
 it from another." 
 
 ♦• Away ! and interfere not in my affairs !" 
 said Jordan, moving on — •* if you are wise, 
 you will not tempt a desperate man !" 
 
 '• Ha, ha," laughed the Cuploin — «* you art 
 just now in the frame of mind I like best. — 
 Why half my crew — and by far the smartest 
 kolf— havo been rescued from the very jaws 
 of the devil in the same manner ns I intend to 
 rescue you." 
 
 " Madman ! what do you want .''" cried the 
 exasperated youth, turning round firrcely. 
 
 "1 want to save you, youngster," replied 
 the other in the same half-sneering, half 
 seri »us tone — '• look'ye here, my lad — your 
 affairs are hard up on a clench — there isn't 
 any opening in this world a'leadof yon, and 
 you must die by your own hands, or by the 
 hangman's." 
 
 •' Ha !"exc'vmed Jordan, starting. 
 
 " Yes," pursued the Captain, " it is short- 
 stay-apeak with you, and the breakers are 
 foaming under your lee. You have tried to 
 weather them, by taking a trip across the 
 herring pond, and you have mis stayed — your 
 anchors have come home, and ruin is before 
 you. Now what would you say if 1 were to 
 club haul your ship yet — double the reefs — 
 bend on new rigging — and place you oaco 
 m'»re in smooth water — eh .'" 
 
 *• What mean you ?" cried the young man 
 as a strange gleam of hope struggled over his 
 ogonized features. 
 
 His eye now for the first time fell on his 
 companion, and, from that brief survey, a 
 mysterious sympathy sprang up in his mind 
 towards him. The stranger had the same 
 look, only to a mors extreme degree, of 
 hardened desperation ; he wau a man who had 
 evidently once been above his present sphere, 
 for at times, when not intermingled with sea 
 terms and oaths, his language was of a far 
 different order than might have been expected 
 from one of his class. This — together with 
 the knowledge that he was aware of the crime 
 which he had committed, caused Jordan to 
 regard his words with a degree of interest 
 which he could not shake off. 
 
 " What mean I r" repeated the Captain, 
 '* Well — I mean this : you have committed a 
 crime for which you will swing if you remain 
 here ; you've tried to get a passage to the 
 other side of the water, and you've not be^n 
 able. I offer you a passage free ; you tried 
 to go there as a mendicant — I will take you 
 there as a free man, and, if you behave well, 
 and I find you true blue, you will be promoted 
 to the rank of officer. Besides, I promise jou 
 active employment enough to diive away the 
 blue devils. Come ! what say you to that, 
 my hearty ?" 
 
 The young man stood as if stupified, and 
 apparently but half conscious of the import of 
 the words addressed him by his equivocal 
 benefactor : 
 
ior. 
 
 10 
 
 '.-I 
 
 11 
 
 " VVhul ilc) I say to it '" — exclHimed the 
 young man ; «' why that you have saved me, 
 that you have drawn nie from the pit ot 
 despair to a heigiit from whence I can again 
 obtain a gleam of h'>pe Cut, stop !" he added 
 ill a voice of sucii concentrated passion ihat 
 the capt. started ; " Are you sporting with my 
 misfortunes— is this a jest ? If so, it is the 
 dearestjest you over played '."■ — and with his 
 fists clenched and his eyes gleaming, he 
 advanced towards the cnptain. 
 
 •' Back, boy — bnck !" cried Blackbeard, 
 calmly — - I tell you I am in enrnest ; — why 
 should I make sport of your misfortunes. — 
 But this is no place to talk over such matters, 
 friend,'' he added, as he observed a crowd had 
 been attracted by the last passionate remark 
 of his companion — "come with me — 1 will 
 find a place where we can talk the matter over 
 withoutbeing interrupted. Come !" 
 
 The youth hesitated not ; his condition 
 could not be worse, happen what would ; and 
 putting aside the truism, that " drowning 
 men catch at straws," the very excitement of 
 the adventure was food for the distracted stato 
 of his mind, as it served to dispel reflection 
 and thought. 
 
 They turned up the s'.reet, and walked 
 rapidly forward for some time, in silence. — 
 The shades of evening were now falling fast, 
 and, as there was not so much light thrown 
 upon the subject in those days as there is in 
 this age of iias and camphene and burning 
 fluids, the alley which they entered wns as 
 Bombre and dark as though it were the avenue 
 leading to the dim regions over which the 
 infernal Pluto once held sway. The youth 
 and his companion walked on,eachseominglo8t 
 in his peculiar meditations, nor was the silence 
 broken until t'ley were confronted by a man, 
 who for some time previous had been dogging 
 their steps, as though he had beiMi doubtful 
 that tiiey were the objects of his search.— 
 Suddenly he stood before them and exclaimed 
 in an under tone — 
 
 " The Ocean Q,uecn ?" 
 
 •• The Ocean Queen," repealed the Capiain 
 as iu response, and without evincing any sur- 
 p ise — 
 
 " Hans Vanhurst ?" he added enquiringly. 
 
 " Yaw," responded the Dutchman, with 
 whom the reader is already acquainted. 
 
 " What's wrong ?" asked the captain, on 
 seeing that his mate looked perturbed. 
 
 " Kberyting vash wrong," replied the Hol- 
 lander ; " you vash pe come on poard jesh 
 now or te teuvil vash po vant pay. Ruggles 
 Hay tpy vash plow te gaff" — here he stopped, 
 looked at Jordan and then at the captain, as if 
 asking — can he be trusted ? 
 
 '■ All right," said the latter, in answer to 
 the niutu nppeal ; '• he is one of us, Hans — 1 
 have offered him a free passage to America, 
 which he has accepted" — and a significant 
 look, unnoticed by the young man, passed 
 between the pair. 
 
 »• You vash te teuvil," said the Dutchman, 
 
 «« no mans po scape you." 
 
 "They've blown the gafl', have they i*" 
 repeated the captain without attending to ths 
 male's remark — 
 
 " Who did it .'". 
 
 " Mein Gott, Ruggles vaa not know. Ho 
 stob on poard te park so we vas have a friend 
 dere. Von hunner tousand teuvils pe tamn ! 
 vat vor you stob !" 
 
 " Don't be frightened, Hans," said the 
 captain, composedly—"! cannot go on board 
 now ; I lojt money here laEt night, and I must 
 get it back to-night. But you go on board at 
 once — make every preparation for a start — 
 d'ye mind — i aul of! in the stream and leave a 
 boat at tiie Long wharf, so that whatever time 
 1 go down they will be ready to lake me on 
 board." 
 
 '■'' Donner ! wilt gy met vuj gaan?" cried 
 the mate, frightened at this protracted delay. 
 
 " No !" echoed the captain in a harsh tone, 
 " I will not go with you now. Obey your 
 orders, sir — be prepared to start at a moment'M 
 notice, and have a boat ready for me." 
 
 " And sbose te gutter attrck us pefore you 
 vas come on poard?" suggested the Dutch- 
 man. 
 
 " Fight on then like one hundred thousand 
 devils," said the captain using his male's 
 favorite expression — " fight on till 1 como on 
 board." 
 
 " 1 does lak to fight when 1 cant helb it — 
 put dis is as patlder as worse, and more pad 
 too. The wind vash fair — K't us go." 
 
 " Go the devil I — or to the one hundred 
 devils you talk about. I tell you I've left 
 money here, dutch ox, and I must get it back. 
 Obey orders !" 
 
 " Vaar wel dan, mynheer ; Gott pe mit you 
 — we vas never meed again seb mit robe 
 collars round our neck." And with this 
 sorrowfully uttered prediction, the Hollander 
 disappeared, leaving the Captain and his 
 jirotege to pursue their course. 
 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 
 The Hell. ^' 
 
 " Slave ! I have RPt my lifo upon tlie cast — 
 And I will stand lliu liuzird oftliu die !" 
 
 ItlCH&RD III. 
 
 They stopped in front of a large and bright- 
 ly lit up mansion, and the Captain, whimpering 
 to Jordan — 
 
 " Be firm and cautious — obey me in every 
 thing — the slightest hesitation and I will not 
 answer for your safety'* — opened the door. 
 
 " Go on !" cried the young man, his face 
 flushing with the morbid and feverish excite- 
 ment produced by the sounds issuing from 
 within — " I have been in such placea before 
 tonight." 
 
 In the next moment they both atood within 
 the saloon, and the door olosed after hem. 
 
n every 
 will not 
 door, 
 his face 
 excite- 
 \g from 
 before 
 
 within 
 
 Many of our readers liavo eecn, and those 
 who have not seen have read discriplions of 
 gambling houses or " hells" such us the one 
 into which our worthies had now introduced 
 themselves — and it is, therefore, unnecessary 
 to weary their patience, by. attempting to give 
 anything like an adequate idea of the scene 
 here going on. To those who wish for a 
 graphic— nay, a thrilling and terrific picture 
 of a gambling hell, we recommend the peru- 
 sal of Mr James's novel, •' The Cock and 
 Anchor" — and while liiat vivid description 
 is before our eye, it would be presumption in 
 us to trespass on a subject which he has made 
 peculiarly his own. 
 
 The tables were piled with gold, silver and 
 notes, and around each sat a group of men ; 
 some were wrapped up in agonized intensity 
 of thought and look— others, flushed with 
 success, were loud and boastful, while still a 
 third class gave no expression in their feelings 
 by word or sign, but with calm and unruffled 
 features coldly scanned the scene. . Many 
 were excited by liquor, and were bettig madly 
 and unsuccessfully — while a few stood round, 
 apparently neither betting nor playing, but 
 watching the chances of the game wi'h a 
 scrutiny so clo^e and earnest, as though their 
 own fortunes had depended on the turn of the 
 dice or the color of the trump. The winners 
 seemed the peculiar objects of observation to 
 this class, and many a dark and sinister look 
 was furtively bent upon the Buccessful player 
 as he swept his heaped-up winnings from ihe 
 hoard. Some sat watching the cards apparent- 
 ly in the agonies of despair. With bloodshot, 
 but keen and burning eye, they staked their 
 last guinea, and rose ivp beggars. 
 
 Of the class which stood looking on without 
 participating in tlie play, were our worthies — 
 the Captain and his jnole^t. 13ut the strong 
 attractions of a scene which had always been 
 of a character the most fascinating for the 
 young man were too powerful, and, in a short 
 time he evinced a desire to risk the fluctua- 
 ting chances of the cards by joining in a 
 game. 
 
 " Madman ! you have no money," whisper- 
 ed the Captain in his ear. 
 
 " 1 have," returned Jordan, producing .the 
 £10 bill given hiin by Sarsfield — " see, here, 
 is money ; before morning 1 will make it 
 JCIOO." 
 
 ♦»D n !" muttered the Captain, "that 
 
 lying Ru^gles said that he had not a penny. 
 Perhaps he got it since .'" He then added in 
 a louder tone — " Stop a moment i" 
 
 His eye now fell upon a person sitting im- 
 mediately opposite to him. This was a young 
 man of about twenty eight or thirty years <.f 
 ugc, with a forbidding and repulsive, though 
 not unhandsome countcnace. He was but- 
 toned to the throat in a great coat of military 
 cut, and appeared to be playing* deep, and 
 with unvarying success ; but no ciiange in 
 the run of luck, produced the slightost emo- 
 tion, if one could judge by the tranquility 
 
 which pervfided his countenance. Winning 
 or losing, his face wore the same calm, confi. 
 dent expression, and amid the storm of oaths 
 and imprecations — thn suppressed blasphemies 
 end the half uttered yells of ruin and despair 
 that rcrg around liim, he maintained a cool 
 and unmoved exterior, his whole soul seeming 
 so absorbed in the play as to ba unable to Jose 
 time in giving words or expression to hia 
 feelings. Suddenly this consummate and 
 finished gambler found he was the obje i of 
 the Captain's scrutiny. A suspicious move- 
 ment of the gambler's hand took place as ho 
 again shuffled the cards ; the quick eye of the 
 Captain noticed it, and the gambler felt that 
 he had been detected, for he witnessed the 
 half smile that flitted over the seaman's face. 
 With calm assurance, however, he went on 
 dealing the cards, and while doing so winked 
 to tiie Captain, as if he would say — 
 
 '' You saw that movement of mine — but it 
 is no business of yours ; do not meddle in 
 matters that concern you not, and whenever 
 an opportunity occurs J will reward you for 
 your secresy." 
 
 And so the Captain understood it, for he 
 nodded his head as if acquiescing in the mule 
 request. 
 
 The game went on, and again the gambler 
 won — until, one after another, his antagonists 
 arose from the table — beggared and ruined 
 men. 
 
 " Now," whispered the Captain to Jordan. 
 " if you wish to try your hand, take up that 
 man — it is the scoundrel, who last night, won 
 from me " — he added in a lower tone — " but 
 I will receive it back to night with interest .' 
 take him up !" he continued — " and, as that 
 £10 will not go very far, here — there are one 
 hundred gumeas in this" — and he passed into 
 his hand, unobserved, a small canvas bag. 
 
 Jordan's eyes flashed with wild excitement; 
 he grasped his patron's hand with a frenzied 
 gesture of gratitude, and in the next moment 
 he was seated in front of the practised and 
 consunjmate gambler who had driven all his 
 opponents from the table ruined and undone. 
 The cards were dealt — the trio held their 
 breath, as they fell one by one upon the table. 
 The game ended, and Jordan had lost. An 
 expression of fearful and malignant passion 
 arose to his face, and his brow became damp 
 with the sweat of agonized excitement. 
 
 Again the cards were dealt — and agnm the 
 gambler won — while the expression on the 
 young man's countenance changed into one 
 of murderous vengeance. The gambler ob- 
 served it ; with the utmost sang froid, he 
 drew a pistol from his breast pocket — buttoned 
 up his coat again, coolly examined the priming 
 — and laid it on the table before him. 
 
 " Here is more money," whispered the 
 Captain, passing behind Jordan's chair, arjd 
 slipping another bag of guineas into his fund. 
 He then, as though aecidentaliy, took up his 
 position, directly in front of his protege, and 
 behind the gambler — thus oblai ning a full 
 
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 view of the latter gentleman's band. 
 
 For the third game the cards were dealt^- 
 and Jordan won. Hla excitement was intense 
 and he proposed doubling the stakes. With 
 the same calmness which had characterized 
 him while winning, however, the gambler 
 laid his hand upon the pistol, and turning to 
 the Captain, said — 
 
 ** You will oblige me, sir, by moving from 
 that spot. Mark me, I insinuate nothing — 
 but move from that I" — and he made a signi- 
 ficant motion with his pistol. 
 
 The Captain bit his lip — a frown of deadly 
 import for one moment settled on his features, 
 but saying— " O, certainly, sir" — he stepped 
 aside. 
 
 The play was resumed ; in half an hour 
 the youth had lost the last guinea, and, with 
 the beaded sweat rolling from his forehead, 
 his hand and lip trembling like an aspen, and 
 his face blanched pale as ashes, he turned an 
 imploring look upon the Captain. The latter 
 smiled, shook his head, and said, in a hoarse, 
 suppressed voice — 
 
 " 1 have no more." 
 
 With an imprecation too tremendous to be 
 written, Jordan turned to his adversary — 
 
 " Villain, sharper !" he cried — "you have 
 played me falsel — I have been cheated, by" — 
 ere the oath was uttered he caught the Cap- 
 tain's eye, and instinctively he stopped. — 
 There was a meaning in it which a fool migiit 
 have read ; the young man immediately 
 recognized its import, for he stopped as if 
 paialized, and shuddered from head to foot. 
 It was but a single glance — for a moment it 
 rested on the gambler, and then was directed 
 towards the hilt of a dagger which his open 
 bosom partly revealed. As J ordon stopped, 
 the gambler slowly rose, and, with a quiet 
 remark that he would be cautious in playing 
 with mad people for the future, he deliberately 
 swept his winnings from the table, deposited 
 his pistol in his pocket, and walked to another 
 part of the room. 
 
 Jordan at first stood like one stunned — the 
 -whirlof excitement produced by the scene 
 around him — the fluctuations of the play and 
 ihe transitions from hope to despair — the rush 
 of retrospective thought and the feelings called 
 up by the Captain's terrible look— all tended 
 to bring his mind to a state bordering on 
 delirium— nor was it until the latter took him 
 by the arm, and he again stood in the open 
 nir that he recovered from tlie stupor into 
 which h« had fallen. 
 
 CHAP. V. 
 
 The. Dwtchmail'a Flight. 
 
 " Goodnrghtto Mariulon'."— Marmioit. 
 
 It is now quite dark. Two men arc upon 
 the pier at which lies the vessel referred to 
 in our first chapter. 
 
 " Vanhursl," said Ruggles-— for it was he— 
 "you are tempting the devil ; what in the 
 
 name of are you stopping for, when I gave 
 
 you hit warning an hour ago that the game 
 was up and that the land sharks were on the 
 look out ? You say he's clinched the young- 
 ster, the wind is fair, you see —and what the 
 deuce is he slopping for .■'" 
 
 «« Donner and blitzen ! vat vas I do but 
 dell de Gabban .' Tanrade, we vas have our 
 sails loose and eberyting ready for a start," 
 answered the mate. 
 
 *' And why don't you start, when the road 
 between you and the gallows grows shorter 
 evey minute you stop ?" 
 
 " Veil, vat vas 1 do but dell de Gabban — 
 and he vas pe have some tamn scheme in his 
 head mit. dat poy, Shordan. He vas dell me 
 von bull mid a cog story about de money vat 
 he vash lose last night, and dal he must get it 
 back to night— and den he order me on poard 
 to get ready de Ocean Queen for a start, and 
 to leave te poat for him ad te wharf." 
 
 " You're sure then he's nabbed Jordan ?" 
 
 *' yaw— he vas engage him for te passage ; 
 ha, ha — it vas pe a strange bassage for him — 
 and more strange too veu lie find out vat sord 
 of craft it vas." 
 
 " That is good,'' muttered Ruggles — adding 
 aloud — " What do you think of that young 
 chap.?" 
 
 " Dink .' I dink," replied the Dutchman, 
 " he vas make a smart man ven he vas pe 
 drilled two or dree cruises. He looks ash if 
 he had von hundred tousand teevils in him." 
 
 Ruggles paused for a moment. " 1 could" 
 he muttered aloud — " denounce him as a 
 forger — but 1 want him to live — I may turn 
 him to some account yet in the long run — who 
 knows ? At all events, 1 can revenge myself 
 on him while he is in the Ocean Queen — for, 
 although I shall not go myself in her this trip, 
 1 have friends enougli on board to do my 
 bidding — and he shall lead a dog's life while 
 he is in her. But the great thing is, that if 
 it should ever be to my advantage to 'produce 
 him, I can lay my hand upon him — for there is 
 no chance of his escape once he puts his foot 
 on board the Ocean Queen." 
 
 ** I vas not hear a word of all dat," said the 
 mate, who had been vainly endeavoring to 
 catch the meaning of Rugglea's half-uttered 
 cogitations — " Speak plainer, mynheer, ; I 
 does not know vat vas you say." 
 
 " Never mind, Hans," replied the otlier, "1 
 was talking to myself. See here, have you 
 got the boat wailing, as the Captain ordered 
 you?" 
 
 «*Yaw." 
 
 " And why are you not on board, getting the 
 brigantine under weigh .'' — the Spaniard hae 
 but little authority." 
 
 " 1 vas gomg on poard ven I stob to see if 
 you would go mit me. Will you come dis 
 drib? ' 
 
 «' No, Hans—I've got a 'jhaoe of my own 
 ahead." 
 
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 in the 
 I gave 
 game 
 on the 
 young- 
 tat the 
 
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 Biart," 
 
 10 road 
 shorter 
 
 ibban — 
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 dell ine 
 may vat 
 St get it 
 )n poard 
 art, and 
 
 Ian ?" 
 lassagc ; 
 )r him — 
 vat sord 
 
 —adding 
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 itchman, 
 5 vaa pe 
 ka ash if 
 n him." 
 1 could" 
 m as a 
 ny turn 
 un— who 
 :e myself 
 en — for, 
 this trip, 
 do my 
 ife while 
 that if 
 'produce 
 r there is 
 his foot 
 
 ' said the 
 oring to 
 f- uttered 
 leer, ; 1 
 
 Qtlicr, "1 
 lave you 
 ordered 
 
 siting the 
 iard hae 
 
 to see if 
 come dia 
 
 my own 
 
 »* Ah," said the Dutchman, *'• vat vas dal?" 
 
 •' There is a rich merchant on board thia 
 
 vessel, and by accident I possess a family 
 
 secret of his of great importance ; now I've a 
 
 notion he will purchase it with a good round 
 
 f trice, and 1 would nut lose the opportunily 
 or all the chance of prize money I'm likely 
 to have in the Ocean Queen for the next six 
 months to come. Uesides, your Captain 
 wished me to remain on board the bark, as 1 
 told you before — for I can render him more 
 service here than 1 can in the brig." 
 
 " Yaw, I know dat — mein Gott, you could 
 scuttle her if we were in chase and not sail so 
 fast nsyou vas" — said the Hollander. 
 
 " Now, Hans," continued Iluggles, without 
 attending to hia remark — " you saw the blow 
 that fellow Jordan gave me to day — well, I 
 want you to take it out of his hide, once you 
 get him on board — to rope's end liim every 
 day of his lifie soundly. Do you promise me 
 this ?" 
 
 " Yesh, and get his knife in mine'pelly I — 
 No, no, mynheer, 1 vas not do dat." 
 
 " Why you Dutch coward," cried Rnggles 
 angrily, " you are big enough — surely you 
 are not afraid .'" 
 
 " No, I ish not avraid of him," answered 
 the phlegmatic Hollander — " but it vas too 
 much drouble to peat him ebery day." 
 
 " Hush !" exclaimed Iluggles, raising his 
 hand to impose silence, as the sounds of a 
 desperate struggle in an adjacent street broke 
 upon the silence of the night. The sharp 
 whirring sound of a wntchman's rattle follow- 
 ed and then n loud, fierce imprecation rose 
 hoarse above the scuffling sounds and half- 
 supppessed voices. 
 
 *' Mein Gott, dat vas de Gabban's voice ! — 
 Van hundred tousand teuvils !" 
 
 •' Go on board as fast aa you can, then," 
 said Ruggles, «' and don't stand there to be 
 nabbed. I shall get on board the bark and 
 into my berth as fast as I can — for I think it 
 ieas the terrible captain's voice." 
 
 " Yesh it vas— O, mein Gott — ten hundred 
 dousand teuvils !" roared the Dutchman, as a 
 man rushed by him, his face streaming with 
 blood — " dat vas de watch." 
 
 " No, you fool, it was Jordan making his 
 way to the Long wharf where the boat lies. 
 The Captain has been nabbed depend upon it, 
 and BO will you, if you stand gaping there like 
 a atuck pig" Jordan will take the boat and 
 leave you behind." 
 
 "Donner hagel and blitzen !" yelled the 
 terrified mate, as he ran, panting and sweating 
 towards where the boat lay, in the hope of 
 overtaking Jordan — 
 
 «« Ah mein Gott, 1 vas pe left pehind— van 
 hundred tousand teuvils, I vas pe deat man ! 
 Ah, mein goot Gott— hallo ! Shordan, you ! 
 Ten hundred dousand teuvils !— stob !" 
 
 Ruggles watched his receding form for a 
 
 moment, shrugged his shoulders, and, with 
 
 the words— •«« Goodnight to Captain Teach !" 
 
 descended the forehatch of the bark and 
 appeared. 
 
 dis- 
 
 CHAP. VI. 
 Tho Flrat Spilled !Iloo«1. 
 
 *' II nny spnrk oriira Ixi ynt roinniniiif:, 
 Down, ilown tu hell — und »ay 1 Boiii jlieo ihorn !" 
 
 Hicif. II. 
 
 When the Captain led the half stnpified 
 Jordan into the open air, lie whiepfrcd — 
 
 " Now before giving you empjo} ;ncnt, I 
 must put your courcgeto the test — because I 
 always form a favorable opinion rf a man of 
 » erve, and 1 don't like onyihinglike chicken- 
 heartedness — mind that. 1 want to try your 
 pUick — now soe l;ere : that same fellow that 
 cheated you to-night cheated me last night ; 
 I watched him to hi.<4 den and know the road 
 he will take ; we will station ourselves in a 
 place which he will have to pass, and put it 
 oiit of his power to cheat any one after this 
 night." 
 
 " How .''" enquired Jordan, almost shudder- 
 ing at the terrible meaning of the Captains 
 words — for although he had been nearly 
 maddened by rxcitemcnt, and ill luck, and 
 although burning with resentment against the 
 author of his misfortunes, and although weary 
 of life, yet there was something so revolting 
 in the thought of sliedding blood — in becom- 
 ing a midnight assassin, that his soul sickened 
 — and he shuddered from head to foot. 
 
 " How ."'" repeated the captain, eyeing him 
 narrowly ; '* do you suppose I would have 
 given you all that money to lose if I had not 
 had a plan prepared whereby I would make 
 sure of getting it back ? — no ! I'm not such a 
 fool ! I thought at first you might bo a sharp 
 yourself — but I found you as great a fl-jt vs 
 ever I met — for when I got behind the fellow's 
 chair 1 could scarcely make you understand 
 for a long time the cards he held," 
 
 " Because, I was unused to cheating," said 
 Jordan. 
 
 '« So much the worse !" observed the Pi- 
 rate gloomily — " for had you won my money 
 back that way, there would have been an 
 end of it, — but we must now take a surer and 
 shorter method. The fellow w'ill pnss this 
 way BOfm, and he is loaded with gold. Wo 
 must have our own out of him, and if there is 
 any over, we will throw it in for the interest" 
 — and he laughed aloud. 
 
 " You mean to murder him !" cried .Tordan , 
 with an involuntary shudder, for he fell that 
 he had now gone too far to recede, and he 
 stood appalled with horror as he gazed upon 
 the horrible abyss over which he so suddenly 
 found himself suspended. 
 
 " Yes," said the Captain, sternly — «« that in 
 what I mean. Why do you tremble, man — 
 wouldn't he have murdered you with that 
 pi&tol of Ilia if ho had seen that you were 
 playing him false .^— Well— he played y'JH 
 
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 false, and you have every ri^ht in the world 
 to murder him. Are you going to allow him 
 to escape with his unjust winnings whicli by 
 rights is your money and mine. See here !" 
 he added sternly, as he placed a dagger in 
 tlie young man's hand — «♦ when he comes in 
 front ot'this spot where we are now standing 
 rush out and strike him a sure blow — stri'tc 
 about here," he continued, placing his hand 
 on his side, *' when you do that we will soon 
 get our own out of him. 1 would do it my 
 self, but want to see what kind of stuff yuu 
 are made of, and whether your nerves will 
 Buil me." 
 
 Jordan still hesitated. 
 
 " See here, youngs'.er !" exclaimed hi? 
 patron, an ominous scowl darkening h\n sun 
 burnt features — " there is no use in fretting 
 over spilled milk. It is too late to back out 
 how — you must do as 1 direct you, or by the 
 Heaven above us both, ere to-morrow's sun 
 rises,! will have you handouffed in a dungeon 
 as a felon! You have no choice — you have 
 taken earnest in my service, and you must 
 earn back by one home blow the money you 
 had of me to-night. Hush ! I hear a step ! — 
 it must be him. Surely you are not such a 
 ehild as to fear to resent a wrong ; and to 
 tako back by force what was cozened out of 
 you by fraud." 
 
 Jordon look the dagger, and although pale 
 as death, he nerved himself tor the task. 
 
 . "After all," |ie muttered, " he is but a cheat 
 — a miscreant who does not deserve to live !" 
 The captain took a ilask from his pocket — 
 
 " Drink ! — drink !" he exclaimed, handing 
 it to his companion — ' *■ quick ! — he is close at 
 hand !" 
 
 The youth half emptied the flask at a 
 draught— a desperate courage took possession 
 of his mind and, clutching the implement of 
 death with an iron grasp, he stood awaiting 
 his devoted victim. 
 
 It was a fesrful moment. He had stood in 
 the hell pennyless, with the drops of despair 
 rolling from bis forehead — ruin staring him in 
 the face,no solitaryhope for I im in all the world 
 —he had stood on the dripping bulwarks, his 
 eyes bent on the dark waters below — his 
 brain whirling with delirium as the desperate 
 impulse of the moment prompted him to self- 
 murder — but never had he experienced such a 
 moment of maddenmg excitement as this — 
 never had such a storm of agonized feeling 
 careered through his soul ! Throughout he 
 had felt the murderous resentment against the 
 gambler the chief passion that agitated his 
 mind — but ho wanted the physical strength— 
 the nerve, as it is termed— to perpetrate that 
 vengeance. This was now given him by the 
 stimulus of the liquor— the power of reflection 
 had fled, and the animal nature had obtained 
 a complete mastery over tho mental. Nor 
 wa& he impelled onward to this crime by his 
 vindictive feehngs only — the certainty that 
 the Captain would denoun«3 him as a felon — 
 or, perhaps, stab him on the spot— also had 
 
 its weight in precipitating tha unhappy youth 
 forward to liis doom. 
 
 H6 had scarce time to return the flask and 
 to cl utch his knife more firmly, when a figure 
 emer.^ed from the gloom. For a mnme::t they 
 botli stood silent in their concealment, till the 
 Captain, wlio had been peering through the 
 gl (om, exclaimed aloud — 
 
 '* Tiiat is he ! — strike fairly and make sure 
 your blow !'' 
 
 A flame dmced before Jordan's eyea — a 
 ruijhing sound fllled his cars— his fingers 
 tightened on the hilt convulsively, and, with 
 the impetuosity of madness, he sprang from 
 his hiding place, and grasping the wretched 
 gambler by the throat, he drove tho dagger 
 with all his foroe into his screaming victim's 
 side. The latter, iiad not, however, been 
 taken wholly by surprise ; — at the first move- 
 ment made by Jordan, he instinctively put his 
 hand to his breast and drew forth a pistol. — 
 Belore, however, he had time to use it the 
 blow had been given — hut it was not imme- 
 diately fatal. Taking a dt-ath grasp of his 
 murderer with one hand, he attempted to 
 shoot him through ihe body — but they were 
 now so closely locked together that this was 
 impossible, as Jordan had taken a Arm hold 
 oFthe wri^t which held the weapon. In tha 
 struggle the pistol went off and a loud groan 
 which followed told that the bullet had not 
 sped in vain. The Captain, who fearing the 
 watch might be aroused by the struggle, was 
 advancing towards the combatants with the 
 purpose of putting an end > it, received the 
 shot in his leg. With a loud imprecation, he 
 fell forward, but, recovering himself, he was 
 enabled to reach the fierce belligerents, and, 
 repeating the terrible exciamation attributed 
 to Richard Plantngenet, and quoted at the 
 head of the chapter, he struck his victim a 
 deadly blow which caused him to relax his 
 hold and fall upon his knees. With savage 
 ferocity the blow was repeated, and the dying 
 man uttering a loud unearthly shrink, fell 
 forward on his face, and, with a few convul- 
 sive struggles, expired. 
 
 In the next moment the bloody victors were 
 surrounded. The pistol shot and the cries of 
 the murdered man, had attracted the police — 
 and the Pirate and his protege feltthemselvei 
 lost. But having gone so far, they were not 
 now disposed to submit without a struggle. — 
 The Captain, however, made but a faint 
 attempt to run, when his knee faik '" ^'im and 
 he stumbled and fell. Emitting a roar like a 
 wild bull when it first feels the lasso, he made 
 an effort to risa, but before he could effect his 
 purpose, he was overpowered and bound. 
 
 Not so Jordon. With his knife, still drip- 
 ping with the red stream of murder, clenched 
 in his hand, his face as pale as that of a corpse 
 — his eyes bloodshot and his hair erect in the 
 agony of his despair, he rushed upon hig 
 assailants, dashed two of the watchmen aside, 
 who fell heavily, their lanterns crashing under 
 hem in .their fall— with one tremendous 
 
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 liound, lie cleared the open space between 
 them, and in n few minutes gained the street 
 that led to the water's side. Though hotly 
 puiaued, his superior agility enabled him to 
 lead bis pursuers by several hundred yards, 
 and m a short time his form was lost sight ot 
 in the increasing obscurity. 
 
 CHAP. VII. 
 
 Cape Breton 190 Yeni-s Ago. 
 
 •'Thecont.iniioon woods— 
 Where rolls tho Oregon, nnd lioarH no sound 
 Have hii own Junliing." — Bryant. 
 
 We must now, tor a lime, lose sight of the 
 events narriled in the six preceding chapters 
 — and when the scene again opens it is after 
 the lapse of a considerable period, and in an 
 other hemisphere. And as the curtain next 
 rises at that strangely-formed inlet or cove 
 from which this Legend has derived its name, 
 it becomes our duty to give it a more minute 
 description than we have yet done to any of 
 thelocalities in which our scene has been laid. 
 
 On the main land side of the Gut of Canso, 
 or as it was called in those days, whenthe 
 French were Lords of Acadia and Cape 
 Breton — " the Straits of Fronsac" — there is a 
 cove so completely sheltered from the view of 
 the numberless passers by, owing to a point 
 covered with tall trees that extends in a semi 
 circle in its front — that a vessel might lie 
 there for years undiscovered — provided, her 
 masts did not overtop them, and thus be open 
 to view — nor would parties in the closest 
 proximity dream of her presence, unless acci- 
 dent led them into the very cove itself. — 
 Immediately above this little inlet and 
 commanding its entrance, is an eminence of 
 considerable height, known by the name of 
 Cape Porcupine. According to tradition in 
 former times, when ttie Buccaniers infested 
 the whole American sea board from the Gut 
 of Canso to the Spanish Main, this cove was 
 the retreat of many a Pirate Chieftain who 
 had taken his lessons in predatory warfare 
 under the tuition of Dampier or Anson — and 
 hence it obtained tho name which it still 
 bears of— " Pirate Cove." 
 
 It is scarcely deep or wide enough for a ship 
 — bat the vessels of the sea maurauders being 
 mostly small light craft, could lay beneath the 
 overhanging trees in perfect security. A 
 look-out man was generally stationed on the 
 heights above, who would signalize to his 
 companions below the approach of each vessel 
 that passed the straits, if the strange sail had 
 the appearance of being a ship of war, the 
 Buccanier kept close ; but if of a fieighted 
 merchantman, the Pirate left his concealment 
 — boarded the vessel, and, after having 
 murdered the crew and plundered the ship, 
 would scuttle or set fire to her. Even down 
 to the middle of the last century tradition t<>llB 
 
 of'lhc Pirate ships wliich made this Cove 
 their haunt— but owing to a discovery which 
 has recently taken place, and to which we 
 shall presently refer— it appears evident to us 
 that it must have been fortified at a period far 
 anterior to the age of Blackbeord, or even 
 Dampier. During the wars of Louis XIV, 
 it was the rendezvous of an English Priva- 
 teersman, named Davis — for whose horrible 
 atrocities towurds-the Micmacs — then the allies 
 of France — see the Life of the Count De St. 
 Raymond, Governor of Louisburg. At a 
 eubsequent period it became the haunt of 
 several British Privateer.?, but as American 
 commerce did not pass through the Gut of 
 Canso during the war of the Revolution, it 
 appears to have been lost sight of as a place 
 for concealment and plunder during that 
 sanguinary contest — although it is related by 
 the old inhabitants of the Gut of Canseau, 
 that the celebrated American commander, 
 John Paul Jones, was one of the number who 
 occasionally made Pirate Cove their resort, 
 when watching for British vessel. It is said 
 that he once made an attack on St Peterg, (a 
 harbor on the Cape Breton side) at which 
 place there was at this time a mercantile 
 establishment, the reputed wealth of which 
 was very great. The attack, however, was 
 repelled by the inhabitants who rose en masse, 
 and arming themselves in the best fashion 
 they could, and headed by their Parish Priest, 
 made such a determined stnnd that the mau- 
 rauders were intimidated and made a hasty 
 retreat to their boats. Although we believ« 
 this story to be true in tho main, yet there 
 does not appear the shadow of evidence to 
 prove that Paul Jones was the party makincr 
 this attack. That a Privateer came to anchor 
 in the harbor— that the inhabitants, becoming 
 alarmed,a8sembled under the direction of their 
 Priest, and lined the woods bordering the bay, 
 hanging hats and caps on the trees around to 
 give the appearance of sheltering a large body 
 of men — that about thirty of the Privateer's 
 crew landed, and were received by a desultory 
 fire, from fire arms of all shades of descrip- 
 tion—that they became alarmed, and effected 
 a hasty retreat— are facts which we have 
 heard related too often to doubt of their truth 
 — but that the leader of this party was Paul 
 Jones is an assertion the correctness of w^hich 
 we question very much. True it is that the 
 common tradition makes him the hero of this 
 aflair, but we have searched in vain for proof. 
 The fact is, we believe those who repelled 
 the invasion, did not themselves know the 
 person who headed it. Neither are we incUned 
 to believe that Paul Jones would have been so 
 easily diverted from his purpose, — or that the 
 man who fought the Bo7i Homme Richard 
 with his leaden-eoled boots on,would have been 
 beaten ofi by such a disorderly rabble. — 
 Certain it is that, one night about throe weeks 
 subsequent to the occurrence of the foregoing, 
 a body of armed men again landed at St Peter's 
 and taking advantage of the absence of the 
 
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 tiniK in llalifUx, aUacked the establishment, 
 carrying ofl'with them £9000 inspecip. 
 
 It is related that all of them having become 
 intoxicated, with the liquor which they tound 
 in their search for pluniicr, conHdent in thc>ir 
 numbers, and knowing that there was no 
 possibility of the scattered inhabitants of the 
 place being aroused upon such short notice, 
 they planted sentinels and betook themselves 
 to sleep before the kitchen fire of the private 
 mansion attached to the establishment. That 
 the sentinels upon whom the fumes of the 
 liquor had a/so an influence, becoming dead 
 to a sense ol duty,also suffered themselves to be 
 beguiled into the downy arms of the slumber- 
 ing god. No sooner had they ceased their 
 watch, than an old negro long attached to the 
 family, was met by his mistress, aa he was 
 hastening to the kitchen, wiih a sharp broad 
 axe in his hand, and his thick lips wreathed 
 into a most ferocious smile. 
 
 *' Bless de lord, missus," he exclaimed in a 
 horrible whisper, " dey is all asleep.' ' 
 
 " What in the world do you iutend to do 
 with that axe," cried his mistie.ss, already 
 half dead vviih fear. 
 
 In the most self-laudatory tone, and in a 
 voice that might have rivalled Jordanhill's 
 whisper when he scaled the frowning lieights 
 of Edinburgh castle —he replied, as hebent his 
 sable face towa'-ds his listener — 
 
 " Me cut dar heads off, missus — ebery dam 
 one." 
 
 Bat as he could by no means impress his 
 mistress with his sangumary ideas on the 
 subject, she put her distinct veto on his plan 
 of decapitating the slumbering Yankees,much 
 to his dissatisfaction. Tlie latter, being per- 
 mitted to dream quietly of money bags and 
 wine casks, decamped next morning, bright 
 and early — bearing with them, as already 
 stated, the sum of £9,000 ! 
 
 Again in the war of 18J2, Pirate Cove was 
 Tesorted to by the amnll armed British vessels 
 and became useful for the same purpose for 
 which the Pirate who first ruffled its dark 
 waters, perhaps two hundred years before, 
 Bought the protection of its shade. 
 
 At the date of our story a swivel gun was 
 planted on the heights above, which gun 
 swept the entrance of the Cove, and could be 
 turned in any direction. It was constantly 
 attended by two or three of the crew, in casjj 
 of any sudden attack by the boats of a iVlan-of 
 war to cut them out. From this circumstance 
 the hill in question is to tliis day, called "Fort 
 Porcupine," and the appearance of the spot 
 still indicates that an artificial mound had 
 once been thrown up there. 
 
 On the opposite, or Cape Breton side of the 
 Straits, there is another inlet, of very similar 
 description, also called Pirate Co?e. It con- 
 sists of a little creek at the head of St Peter's 
 Bay (then called Port Toulouse) — and is over 
 
 arched by stately pine and hemlock trees 
 
 Of the Bceaes connected with it we knowbut llt< 
 
 tie that can bo borne out by contemporaneous 
 history. One thing, however, has been proved 
 — which is, that this harbor was resorted to 
 in very early times— perhaps at a period prior 
 to the discovery of I he inlet on the Nova 
 Scotian side — from the fact that a hooped 
 cannon of the same description as that which 
 by bursting, killed James il. at Roxburgh — 
 has recently been dug up at this spot. This 
 relic of a by .gone age, which would have 
 delighted the antiquary groping for truth amid 
 the dubious light of fable and tradition — which 
 would have furnished him with data to his 
 researches, and have caused him to cry— 
 " Eureka !" amid the wilderness — this lelic, 
 which would have adorned a Museum, should 
 our country ever possess one — was, according 
 to the praclical spirit of usefulni^ss which 
 characterizes the age, manufactured into 
 horse shoes and ship bolts by the vandalism 
 and cupidity of the owner of the property on 
 which it was found ! !* 
 
 That these harbors were, therefore the resort 
 of Dampier, Blackbeard, &c.., there remains 
 not a doubt — but that it was only sought by 
 those men who, for a century and a half in- 
 fested the Atlantic, as a place of refuge when 
 pursued, or as a convenient harbor to heave 
 down in, there is also abundant evidence to 
 avouch. 
 
 Tradition (ells of but one who made Pirate 
 Cove his chief abiding place — the same who 
 planted the gun upon Fort Porcupine, and 
 whose far-feared bark was ever ready to dash 
 at tiie prey that was continually passing the 
 Straits of Frousac. Yet not always did he 
 linger there. Sometimes his far-dreaded flag 
 was seen by the nflrighted mariner of the 
 homeward bound and richly -freighted galleon 
 of Spain; at others, it was coquetting with the 
 breeze in a dark harbor of Cuba — anon it 
 spread terror along the shores of Yucatan and 
 the Mexican Gulf— afid when next his bark's 
 black hull and white sails were seen, he 
 would appear as a demon of the waters, 
 springing on his proy as he rushed from the 
 dark foliage that shrouded Pirate Cove. Of 
 him well might it be snid, as was said of yore 
 of the Arab Sire — hia hand was against every 
 man, and every man's hand against him. Of 
 this far-famed, far-feared chieftain of the sea 
 strange tales are told by the Fishermen of the 
 Gut of Canso, even to this day — and although 
 centurit s have rolled by since those waters 
 bore the shadow of his blood-red flag, his fame 
 still exists in their traditionary legends. 
 
 * Wo underitand (hat tlio chapel bell recenily dug up 
 nt Inganiahe, Cnpa BretoR, hui been Bold to the pro- 
 prietors of a foundry ai old iron ! We ■ball noxt hoBr 
 ofthe bonea of Dunsparte being lold to make «oap— oi 
 tho field of Marathon dug up for guano. 
 
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 CHAT. ViU. 
 Frances Mason. 
 
 " And ne'ttitliil Grecian uliiael tiaco 
 
 111 nymph, in naaiJ or in gracn, 
 
 A lovelier form— a fuirer t'dce."— ircoir. 
 
 •' 'Tig mino— my blood-red flag— again, again — 
 I am not all descried on tho main !" — b»Bo:v. 
 
 On a summer evening, many nionllis after 
 the occurrence of the events related in the 
 foregoing pages, aa the setting sun ahcd a halo 
 of uMst-like giory over the verniillion dyed 
 West, and a breathless calm was settling upon 
 the face of the waters, a bark, borne onwards 
 more by thn force of the current than by the 
 dying wind, which scarcely served to inflate 
 the flapping sails — crept lazily through the 
 liut of Canseau. Tho iStrait was about a mile 
 wide, but winding and the channel intrieule. 
 it was evident from its appearance that Cape 
 Breton, the Island to the left, had been rent 
 from the mainland by some convulsion of 
 nature ; this was rendered evident from the 
 corresponding Capes and inlets on either side. 
 Down to the water's edge came tho dense, 
 ititcrminablc forests, bounding the for, dim 
 horizon on every hand : 
 " No track — no pathway niiijht declare 
 That human foot frequented there." 
 All was silence, solitude, and gloom; there 
 appeared no more evidence of life or human 
 presence throughout ihose boundless wilds 
 llian there did on the morn of creation. To 
 those on board that ship the scene must have 
 been immeasurably grand — and no description 
 ol it, at the present day, however glowing, 
 would convey anything like an adequate idea 
 of the stupendous reality to tho reader's 
 mind. 
 
 Over the rail of the quarter-deck, hung in 
 listless and silent admiration, several passen- 
 gers, gazing with intense delight on the grand 
 and awful scene around them. The booming 
 roar of the restless ocean, smiling the echoing 
 shore — the trackless solitudes where eternal 
 silence had reigned unbroken only by the 
 plover's cry, or the red deer's tread— the 
 hm-like hum of an hundred thousand trees all 
 rustling in thel ast low moan of the dv ing 
 winds — impressed the spectatorf with a feeling 
 of awe and utter loneliness. Yet there were 
 bofter features to that scene : the bright far 
 nky above, on whose vermillion-dyed bosom 
 iluatcd sun-fringed clouds like " Islands of the 
 Blest" — the sparkling waters reflecting back 
 the hues of the gorgeousWest — and the richly 
 tinted sea birds that floated majestically by — 
 added to make the scene picturesque as well 
 as magnificent. 
 
 Lot UB take a nearer view of those now lost 
 la silent admiration, as they lean* over the 
 bulwarks of that English bark. We find tho 
 most uonspicious to be an elderly man, a 
 youth, and a young female who stood between 
 
 them. The first, by his appearance, seei"*^^! 
 to be a man who had indulged in early ozp^^- 
 ses to a great extent, but who had long linue 
 become cautious and thoughtful as to hi* 
 mode of life ; his age might have been about 
 fifty ; his dress, which was in the peculi'''' 
 fashion of the time was rich rather than 
 tasteful, and was worn with that studied and 
 affected negligence which indicated that the 
 wearer had been unused to it up to a recent 
 period. A sword, which in those days every 
 j'entleman won*, hung at his side, but it was 
 evident that it was allowed to hang lher« 
 more because it was the fashion than from 
 any use to which it was likely to be turned 
 by its proprietor. This was Mason. 
 
 Beside him, and lost in contemplation, as 
 she gazed on the sublime yet lovely scenery 
 around, stood the young female alluded tu. 
 She wore a rich light dress of flowered silk, 
 adjusted with such careful grace as to set off 
 her naturally symmetrical figure to ten fold 
 advantage. She appeared about nineteen or 
 twenty yt»ars of age. Her hair of the darkest 
 brown fell in wavy tresses on her neck and 
 shoulders ; her eyes which were of the same 
 color, had neither the liquid fire of the black 
 eyes of the women of the South, or the 
 sparkling brilliancy of tho blue ; they were 
 soft, pensive, swimming — like the gazelle's, 
 and beamed upon an object with a dreamy 
 contemplative expression that was bewitching 
 and irresistable ; while the dark silken lashes 
 that shaded them enhanced the charm of their 
 expression till the very soul would appear 
 beaming through them and melting within 
 that fringe of jet. The features of her face 
 were not regular, they were not faultless,like 
 tho elaborate and lovely creations of the 
 Grecian sculptor'c chibel ; yet this was over- 
 looked in the admiration claimed by the 
 expression — in the soul that lit up her counten- 
 ance with its radiance ; there was an intel- 
 lectual beauty in her face iliat far more than 
 oompensaled for any deficiency in its physi- 
 cal proportions ; it was one which a painter, 
 if he would not have chosen it for a model of 
 symmetry and perfection, would have given it 
 life lime to have betn able to transfer tho 
 cvprcsdion — the soft, dreamy, madonna-liku 
 expression — to his canvas— and would have 
 given it in vain. It was one on which a 
 poet to gaze on would become inspired. — 
 When she laughed, and disclosed her white, 
 even leclh, the effect was entrancing, and her 
 whole countenance appeared irradiated with 
 a new description of beauty from that of the 
 dreamy and melancholy cast which was its 
 must hMbilual expression. To look into her 
 dark, pensive eyes was to love her, for they 
 produced a sympathetic thrill through the 
 soul, under the effects of which one became 
 spell bound with admiration. 
 
 A young man was leaning languidly against 
 the rail, beside her. Ho wore the uniform of 
 an English officer : a cocked hat and the 
 Mack cockade of the House of Haiiover; a 
 
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 •rold laoed scarlet jacket, with large, loose 
 hufi' Tarings, a sinirle silver epaulette, a broad 
 biift'bi'lt across Ifn shoulder, on which was 
 lioolted tt iiinssive plate, engraved on whicli 
 was the number of hia reginienl; knee breeches 
 black gaiters and buckles, wliilc a slight 
 hanger was suspended at his side. His hair 
 was powdered in the preposterous manner 
 ]>eculiar to the time, and his who!e appearance 
 betokened one of those warriors who had less 
 experience in the tented fields than in the 
 court of Venus and ofUacchus. In figure be 
 was slight and tall, with a handsome thouirh 
 somewhat eft'eminnte countenance ; 3'et lines 
 betokening resolution and powerful passions 
 were strongly written thereon. A dark brown 
 moustache shaded hiM short upper lip and his 
 whole appearance was that of a young, aristo- 
 cratic Englishman whose natural good points 
 had been obscured by adulation, dissipation 
 and indulgence in those passions wliich most 
 lend to debase the huaiuu character. 
 
 Those three formed the princij)al ptrsonagos 
 of the group. The remainder consisted of the 
 captain and some of the ofTicers of the ship. 
 Mr Mason v,-a3 now returning with his daugh- 
 ter to New KngLiaJ, she having finished her 
 education in ! ho mother country, Mr. Mason 
 was immensely ricij, but the earJy part of 
 hid history wa.s wrapped in doubt ami obscu- 
 rity — and there was not one of all liii many 
 acquain anccs who knew from whence ho 
 came, or wlnl had been his early life. Uut 
 we mistake — lliero was one ; one who seemed 
 intimately acquainted with every transaction 
 of his past lifi — jue wiio followed him every- 
 where like iiis shadow. This was the man now 
 witting on the forecastle, smoiiing,and who the 
 reader will recognize as Iluggles. At tliis 
 moment his coar.-.o foiiiui'es wore wrapt up in 
 un expression of inteuEe thought, and his gray 
 baleful eye v.as fi.ved upon Miss Mason — who 
 all unconscious of (hat fixed gaze, looked like 
 an angel of light undergoing the mahgnant 
 glance of a fiend of (iurUness. " She must 
 be mine 1" was this man's muttered reflection 
 as he gazed upon her beautiful face — '- she 
 niustbe mine, althouah I hang her father and 
 brother as the price 1" 
 
 The officer, Willinm Carlynden, the junior 
 Bon of an Knglisli noble, haughty but poor — 
 had become acquainted with Mason at an 
 evenmg party given in the vicinity of tlie 
 ti;arrison where Carlynden was stationed. — 
 Ilerc he had become deeply enamored, and 
 had paid her the most devoted attention uj) to 
 the present time. Whether the love was 
 reciprocal he had not yet been able to ascer. 
 lain. Just previous to the opening of the 
 present chapter, he had been ordered to join 
 his regiment then serving in the Colonies, 
 a id had taken the opportunity of crossing the 
 Atlantic m the sime vessel that contained the 
 object f his affections. During the passage 
 but few opportunities had occurred to enable 
 him to et press his feelingc, as she was gene- 
 rally accompanied on deck by her father — and 
 
 whenever lie did find hitiii^elf alone with hor 
 the words he had prepared for the occasion 
 would vanish from his memory, and he would 
 get no further tlian some commonplace remark 
 regarding tiic weather or the length of the 
 
 passage, wiien they would be interrupted 
 
 And yet on ordinary occasions, there never 
 was one more, easy and unemlarrassed in 
 conversation ; scarcely nny circumstance took 
 him by surprise, and his coolness or rather 
 apathetic indifierenee to danger was a matter 
 of admiration amongst his friends. 
 
 At this moment both h.} and |^ young lady 
 were leaning over the rail apparently lost in 
 contemplation, llelween the old man and 
 the Captain, however, some passing remarks 
 were being exchanged. 
 
 " It is seldom," said the merchant, " that a 
 vessel from Eurepe has to pass through those 
 Straits." 
 
 " Very seldom, sir," said the captain, •• in 
 fact, never, unless sfreKs of weather drives 
 tliem first up the Gulf of St. Lawrence as it 
 has us, in which case the 
 
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 shortest 
 through 
 
 way 
 Ihi's 
 
 to get into the track again 
 Strai'." 
 
 " You think, Seylon," continued the old 
 man," that your next voyage will be to the 
 Uaham*'s ?"' 
 
 " Tiiat, in all probability, will be my next 
 destiniition." 
 
 " My daugliler, Frances, wishes to spend a 
 short, time vvitii some of her relatives there ; it 
 would be a fine chance, but I am afraid J shall 
 be too busy to be able to accompany her,"' 
 .said Mason. 
 
 "MrsScyton is going with me," replied 
 the ('iiplain, " her health is very delicate, 
 and 1 wish to see wliat eficct a sea voyage 
 may have — and in that cise, she will be excel- 
 lent company for Mi.«8 Frances." 
 
 " Yes," Slid Afason, " 1 may safely entrust 
 her to yo ur wife's protection, " for I have 
 known her longtime. But , we can settle all 
 that when we get home." 
 ' A silence followed, which was broken by 
 the young officer — 
 
 " How different is this scenery," ho said, 
 " from the m?riy England which we have 
 just left! The thinly scattered park trees — 
 the busy farmers, the wide unbroKen fields of 
 corn, the flower-scented hedges, the crowded 
 highways, the busy sound of trade and manu- 
 factures, the crumbling castle, the modern 
 palace, the humble farmhouse, and the wind- 
 mills crowning every hill— render th« scene 
 there diversified by a thousand varieties, and 
 presents a contrast to the eternal silence of 
 those frowning forests that fills one with a 
 vague awe." 
 
 " And yet," added the lady, •• nierrie Eng- 
 land waa once like thia— a frowning wilderness 
 — inhabitated perchance by a few sullen 
 barbarians,^hose very traditions were forgot- 
 ten long before a Oruid fire burned, or the 
 world's imperial master beheld her chalky 
 cliffs." 
 
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 lace remark 
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 arrasscd in 
 istance took 
 9 or ratiicr 
 as a matter 
 
 young lady 
 
 mlly lost in 
 
 man and 
 
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 mt, " that a 
 rough those 
 
 ptfiin, " in 
 Iher drives 
 rcnco as it 
 orloBt way 
 rough this 
 
 led the old 
 be to the 
 
 e my next 
 
 1 to spend a 
 ■es there ; it 
 fraid 1 shall 
 pany her,"' 
 
 le," replied 
 
 ry delica!e, 
 
 ten voyage 
 
 11 be excel- 
 
 fely entrust 
 or I have 
 n settle all 
 
 broken by 
 
 he said, 
 
 we have 
 
 ark trees — 
 
 len fields of 
 
 le crowded 
 
 and manu- 
 
 ie mudera 
 
 the wind- 
 
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 rieiies, and 
 
 silence ot 
 
 one with a 
 
 lerrie Eng- 
 wildernest 
 BW sullen 
 fete forgot- 
 ed, or the 
 er chalky 
 
 ** Yes,' conlinuf d her f'a'hor, " and such ns 
 England is will this land one day bo. Those 
 forests will disappear, those boundless marslirs 
 be drained — those wilda become resonant with 
 the sounds of life, commerce, activity — and 
 where the silence of ages has been broken 
 only by the falling cataract or the liidan 
 hunter's tread, a busy nation's voice will hum. 
 JJul you are mistaken," he added, " if you 
 suppose that this island on our left is unin- 
 habited. Thousand;] of the aboriginal natives 
 troad its forest mazes — and a cclony of French 
 Fishermen are cstublished on it and carry on 
 a thriving trade with Kurope. It is further 
 said, that Lewif, to whom it belongs, intend* 
 erecting a poweriul city on its Eastern sea- 
 board— nay, if I mistake not, it has already 
 b?en commenced. I have seen the harbor 
 named as its site. It is the eastern extremity 
 of the whole American continent, and is ojrn 
 at all reasons of the year. It is tlie key of 
 the Ft Lawrence, and the politic Frenchman 
 well knows that if he fortifies this harbor it 
 will be the sT;rest method of defending and 
 preserving his Canadian possessions. In the 
 event of another war with France, the natives 
 of New EntrlandHJll be blind to their own 
 pecurity if they allow it to remain in his hands 
 — whichever side liolds that ciiy lu Ids tha 
 foothold whirh eventually will make them 
 masters of all America. It is easy to perceive 
 what it will become in the course of limp ; 
 it will become the grand depot for all the 
 ])roductions of Northern America, and liio 
 connectirglink between the old world and the 
 new. Future Uriti.sh Statesmen will see it-i 
 importance, even if those who now have tlio 
 management of our oiTairs ar.' blind to it. I 
 but once saw the harbor — but that one view 
 was sufficient to suggest all these reflections 
 on the subject." 
 
 " Are not those Indian warriors to whom 
 you just referred notorious for their cruelties 
 to the English, as well as celebrated for their 
 stoicism in submitting to their fate .'" asked 
 Carlynden. 
 
 "For both," returned Mason, " the horrid 
 atrocities perpetrated by them on En:^lishmrn 
 who have fallen into their hands about this 
 Very spot where wo now are, are of the most 
 revolting nature. But the Indians are not 
 the only foes to bo feared in those straits, I 
 believe." 
 
 <' By no means," said Captain Seyton — "1 
 would rather sec a hos?t of the painted warriors 
 than the red flag of the Pn-ate who haunts 
 these waters." 
 
 "So should 1" said Mason, shuddering — 
 " their wrath might be averted, but from the 
 exterminating sword of the demon who haunts 
 the Atlantic, there is no escape." 
 
 "What is his name .'" asked the youg man, 
 smiling at their fears — " It is not Blackbeard 
 —is it.''" 
 
 " No," said the old man," Blackboard was 
 taken the last time I was in England." 
 
 " And has escaped again," added Captain 
 
 Seyton—" they had nn prison in England 
 strong enough to held the lamous Captain 
 Teach." 
 
 " Ha! is Uie devil broke loose again ? — t 
 was not aware of that — I only know he was 
 takon in one of the streets of Liverpool, afior 
 a desperate struggle, the last time 1 was in 
 England. His vessel lay in the harbor, but 
 she succeeded in escaping before the alarm was 
 given." 
 
 " It is still the same vpsscl which creates 
 so much terror," said Seyton, "she is changed 
 in nothing save her Captain — who is ns far 
 beyond Teach in ferocity as ho waa beyond 
 other men." 
 
 At this moment the man. Buggies, •vi- 
 dently att: acted by the subject on which they 
 conversed, rauntered past the group, as if 
 trying to calcli the remarks that were passing 
 around. 
 
 " The name of Blackboard's vessel was the 
 Ocean Queen." 
 
 " And the same name is borne by tho 
 pirate vessel wc are speaking of," added the 
 captain. 
 
 " A most effeminate appellation for so terri- 
 ble a vessel," said Carlynden, "and what is 
 this tremendous sea king's name which you 
 £;com as much al' aid to utter as if it would 
 conjure up the very outlaw himself by its 
 talismanic sound r" 
 
 " It ig as un pirate like as tho name of his 
 bark, and is neither Blackbeard nor the Red 
 Hover, hut plain William Jordan ; whetlmr it 
 is his real na.ne or not, it would be difficult to 
 say." 
 
 "What is this follow doing here?" said 
 Carlynden, alluding to Iluggles, whose curi- 
 oFity had prompted him to thrust himself amid 
 the group — "the fragionce of tho Indian 
 weed must, indeed, bo grateful, when he fan- 
 cies that the odor cmillcd from tliatfiUhy old 
 tobacco pipe can be endured. To Miss Mason 
 it must be quite refreshing." 
 
 " I am no servant of yours, sir," ohsorved 
 Buggies, with the utmost insolence, and still 
 puffing away. 
 
 " VVrelchod menial, your baseness is your 
 protection," muttered Carlynden, coloring 
 with anger, bur, struggling to keep it down — 
 when Mason interfered — 
 
 " Go forward, fir," he exclaimed in a tone 
 betwixt rntrealy and command — "and for this 
 insolence you fball be discharged from my 
 service whenever we reach the shore." And 
 takii.g Carlynden's arm, they walked further 
 aft. 
 
 " Discharge me !" muttered Buggies to 
 hinifclf, ns Carlynden gave him a look of 
 withering scorn, which he returned with one 
 of savage malignity — fcr to say the truth ho 
 wag a little jealous of the young officer !— 
 " Discharge me, eh .'—that is ap 1 please. not 
 as you pleaEC, monsieur Mason. It strike 
 me very forcibly that I shall have revenge on 
 that domineering officer before many hours 
 go by" — and thinking, he walked forward. 
 
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 I his interruption wis tliought no morf of, and 
 tlie conversation regarding the pirate was 
 resumed — Carlynden still sneering nl the idea 
 orsucli a thing, until at Icn/jth he arouRod the 
 cnptain'fl ire~ 
 
 ♦• This young gentleman laughs," he said, 
 *' at the notion of pirates — but were tlio rod 
 flag of Jordan to appear above tho horizon, 
 the stoutest heart hero would feel a thrill it 
 never before experienced. lie cannot have 
 heard that name or he would not treat it so 
 ligluly." 
 
 •* Pahaw !" said the young ollicer, »' I have 
 heard talcs of him that would lead me to sup- 
 pose he bore a woman's heart rather than tlx- 
 wolf-like nature ascribed to him." 
 
 " Recently I have heard strange tales of his 
 iilagnanimity," said Mason, ', but I attach no 
 weight to them." 
 
 " I have seen him," said the captain in a 
 lone intended to be decisive — "and ought to 
 know. He is a devil — if not the very devil." 
 
 " And how came you to escape ironi thi; 
 clutches of his satannic majesty ?" uskcd 
 Carlynden. 
 
 " It is a long story," said the captain, mu- 
 sing — «' hut if you would like to hear the 
 ditty, it is at your service." 
 
 ** Oh, by all means," responded the young 
 man; "let us have this tremendous narra- 
 tive. Doubtless your hero wore horns and 
 club faet, a la Blackboard ?" 
 
 " He did," replied the Captain, as he mused 
 over the recollections connected with the 
 event — "aye ! and had you Been him, you 
 would not have been inclined to laugh at his 
 terrible appearance." 
 
 •♦ Well, well — lor your story." 
 
 •'No," interposed Mr Mason, "it may 
 occasion groundless fears and alarm Fanny ; 
 would it not, dear ?" he continued addressing 
 /lis daughter, who was still leaning over the 
 side watching the passing objects, and appa- 
 rently taking no intere.st in the conversation. 
 
 '♦ What would nl irm me ?" asked she, lift- 
 ing up her dreamy eyes for the first time with 
 an expression so altscnt from the subject dis- 
 cussed that the vvltoic group could not repress 
 a smile. 
 
 " Oh, there is nothing of that kind to be 
 apprehended — is tiiere .''" she osked. 
 
 •• No," said Carlynden — " aud if there 
 were, there are enough here to defend the 
 ship and protect you." 
 
 Captain Seyton stared in his face for a 
 moment, and then burst into a long and 
 hearty laugh, until at length a flash of anger 
 crossed the lieutenant's brow. 
 
 " Enough here to defend the ship," he 
 repeated — " were the Ocean Queen to make 
 her appearance you would see the crew creep 
 into the very scuppers if they could find shel- 
 ter there — and unless your single arm could 
 defend her she would be given up with 
 out a blow J' 
 
 " Thjn my sipgle arm would defend ln-i , 
 wliilo life remained to lift, it" said Cnvlyndeii, 
 proudly — " it is not the mountebank's black 
 face and horns ihat would terrify me." 
 
 He spoke no idle boasl- but it wua to be 
 put to the test sooner thnn he expected — foi 
 HP.irce had h(' censed Hpeukinjr wh'H n clouii 
 of while smoko hurst from the height above, 
 nnd an 18 lb. sliol crniio skipping over tlie 
 water ucro.Js tlio veHsel's forefoot — while the 
 sharp ringing report of flie gun awakened n 
 thousand echoes on every side — and as they 
 died away in the distance, the air bccamcr 
 darkened with the flocks of startled pea birds 
 that arose from the wuler.'? and the reeds. 
 
 " 1 thought nhe was not far ofT," muttered 
 Rugglos — «• now which shall I do? — take hei 
 with me on bo.iid the I'irule, and let all the 
 rest walk the pinnk — or stick to the old one n 
 little longer— nnd save his life by telling 
 Jordan oTlhe relationship ?' 
 
 I CHAP. IX, 
 
 ' The Ocean Queen. 
 
 " Featnrra horril)lRr tlwin lioll e'er iriiml 
 On its own tiiond— no dcmun of tlio waste — 
 No cliuicli-ynnl glidulccanghl in ihe linsering li^lir 
 Of I lit) IiIoshM «un f 'ur blastui] iiutnnii siglit 
 VN iili linoumcnts eu fiiul — go fit<rc(ia!) tliobo." 
 The Vicilbd PnuFHST. 
 
 Frances Mason shrieked not — but her cheek 
 in common, with thiit of every face there, 
 save one, becime pale as death, Every breath 
 was hushed, and every eye was dinctcd to 
 the shore. The sight that met their gaze 
 appalled the bravest there. 
 
 Emerging, as it appeared, from the thick 
 ' iliage of the wood.s, and as yet but half- 
 rovealed, was seen a vessel standing slowly 
 out towards them by the aid of the faint air 
 that floated from the land, under her mainsail 
 gafi' topsail and jib ; while from the peak a 
 red flag waved — in the centre of which there 
 grinned forth a ghastly death's head. The 
 hull was long, low and, with the exception of 
 a very narrow red streak that ran from stem 
 to stern, perfectly black. Her masts were 
 disproportionately high, nnd raked back till 
 the main truck was immediately above the 
 taflrail. Her after sail consisted of an immense 
 mainsail and gaff topsail, and that forward of 
 three staysails leading into the respective 
 lops of the foremast, a square foresail, topsail, 
 topgallant sail and royal, and three jtbs. Of 
 course, to these were added studdingsails, 
 when going free, and sometimes a light sail 
 was set above the royal. At present this 
 description of vessel is called brigantine, but 
 
 in those days they were very uncommon 
 
 Her deck was covered with men ; four heavy 
 carronades were run out on each side, and a 
 long 18 pounder played on a swivel forward. 
 
 "Ha!" cried the Captain, drawm >• his 
 
ileiend lif'i ; 
 J Cniljndeii, 
 nnk'u black 
 
 mc." 
 
 wati lo Iff 
 Jtpoctpd — for 
 pu n nioud 
 fight abovf, 
 g over tlie 
 , — whiio iho 
 awakened n 
 ind as they 
 
 air became 
 ed Fea birds 
 le roods. 
 V itiulferpd 
 ii? — take het 
 let all the 
 lie old one a 
 by telling 
 
 n. 
 
 waste— 
 
 b! liiisering iiglir 
 
 il siglit 
 
 a tlioiio." 
 
 D Prophbt. 
 
 tuliier check 
 
 I face there, 
 
 Every breath 
 
 directed to 
 
 their ga7c 
 
 the tliick 
 
 but half- 
 
 ing slowly 
 
 le famt air 
 
 ler mainsail 
 
 the peak a 
 
 which there 
 
 head. The 
 
 exception of 
 
 from stem 
 masts were 
 ed back till 
 
 above the 
 an immense 
 
 forward of 
 : respective 
 sail, topsail, 
 jibs. Of 
 uddingsails, 
 a light sail 
 resent this 
 ;antine, but 
 
 common 
 
 four heavy 
 side, and a 
 
 forward. 
 Irawinj his 
 
 91 
 
 breath hard, and who, altlinugh n nlly a brnve 
 uinn, was now pnle and apitnted — '• (here is 
 Jordan! N-iw, Mr Carlyiidcn, wlmt woii'd 
 ynit recommend — resistnnce to hucIi a fcrce ns 
 that ?" • 
 
 " Yes ! by the Homnn Jove !" cried the 
 ofTicer, his pale lace glowing with exciteiiioril 
 — •« fight the main tluonijh VVIitit ! would 
 you surrender without a blow ! Why the 
 coward hare will turn to buy when nil hope i.s 
 over — and, therefore, better die game, lil^e 
 Knglishmen, with our swordd in our liands, 
 than like fawning spaniels at our conquiTor's 
 feet. You are mislnken," he continued, •« if 
 you Htippose my recklessness of danger only 
 nssumod in its absence— -and 1 will very soon 
 prove it to you, although every man in the 
 ship should desert me." 
 
 " I agree with you, Mr Cnrlynden," said 
 Mason, whoso pole cheek and trembling lip 
 bespoke the mortal fear that shook him from 
 hend lo foot—" death can only be our fate at 
 the worst — but for the sake of iny poor, dear 
 Frances I will reti.st while life remains — for 
 her doom will be worse tison death.' 
 
 '• Oh Heaven !"' exclaimed the agonized 
 young girl, becoming faint and sick as the 
 truth of her situation now fir the first time 
 burst upon her mind in all its appalling reality 
 — and she would have fallen had not her 
 father and lover sustained her. 
 
 The captain stood for a moment, thought, 
 ful and silent—then as if having adopleu a 
 sudden resolution, he exclaimed — 
 
 »* Well, if we are to fight it out like English 
 men, as Mr Carlynden says, the sooner we go 
 at it the better. The pirate is coming up fast 
 with that land breeze, and there is no time to 
 be lost That is Jordan — I would know his 
 craft amongst a thousand. Mr Carlynden, if 
 you have arms go and get them ready, and I 
 will go forward and speak to the crew." So 
 saying, he walked towards the forecastle, 
 while Carlynden, leaving Frances lo the care 
 of her father, went below tor his pistols and 
 fowling piece. 
 
 "My lads," said Captain Seyton,addre8iing 
 the men, who were huddled together around 
 the windlass, like a flock of birds awaiting 
 the swoop of the falcon — •♦ that is Jordan the 
 I'irate. I( we submit, there is no chance for 
 our lives — we shall have to walk the plank, 
 every mother's son of ug — but if we fight it 
 out, we may beat him off till a breeze springs 
 up, or perhaps a cruiser may hear the firing 
 and bear down to our rescue." 
 
 " Fight h — 1!" exclaimed Rugglcs, who 
 stood with his arms folded, apparently quite 
 unconcerned at the idea of being forced to 
 walk the plank. 
 
 *' This is not a king's ship," said Rugglcs, 
 doggedly, " and we arc not forced to fight 
 unless we please." 
 
 ♦' I did not address myself to you, sir," said 
 the captain sternly, "you are Mr Mason 'a 
 servant, not mine — or I would «oon know how 
 to manage you, It was to you men, that I 
 
 Bpoki«— all linndH who will slick to the Hag i.l 
 old Knplnnd and their crptain, walk over to 
 the weather Bide— yiiii who are nirnid of the 
 shot, go Mkiilk amongst the bread bags until 
 the action is over." 
 
 llnl the captain's olpqiieuco had very little 
 woight, and it was evident from their discon- 
 tented looks and dogged silence, that Iliigglea 
 had been tnmperinj.' with ihem. At all events 
 but very few walked over lo the weather side. 
 
 In the meantime Francps hnd been con- 
 veyed below, and with some diflicully Carlyn- 
 den hnd prevailed upon her father to remain 
 there, too, by showing him of how little use he 
 would be on deck, and how necessary it was 
 that he should remain with his diiughler lost 
 her fear and anxiety should ogain overcome 
 her. 
 
 lie now advanced towards the captain, who 
 was walking moodily aft, and asked him what 
 success he had ir.et with the men * 
 
 '• 1 fear they won t stand by us !" said the 
 cnpiain. 
 
 " They won't, r h .'" cried the fiery Corlyn- 
 den — " see here, Cpptain Seyton,"Jhe cried, 
 elevating his voice po as to be heard by the 
 seamen on the forecastle — " there must be no 
 flinching — wo must fight the main through ! 
 The first man who shows himself dunghill 
 and no gome, by my father's soul ! I will 
 shoot him through the head, though he were 
 my brother !" 
 
 " It is all one," said the captifn, in a tone 
 that bespoke hopeless despair, for the mutiny 
 of the rr.en had disheart'?ned him — «' it is all 
 one whether we die by the pirates or by you — 
 since die we must," 
 
 •' Ho ! ship ahoy !" hailed a voice from the 
 brigantine, which had now ranged up within 
 speaking distance. The eyes of Carlynden 
 and the captain were immediately turned on 
 the Ftrang'e vessel, on whose bulwarks stood 
 a man holding by the mainshrouds, of coun. 
 tenance so terrific as to appal the bravest. — 
 He was somewhat above tlie middle height, of 
 strong and athletic proportions — but with 
 features diabolical as his — 
 
 " Upon whose l)row tlio ttiundnr-scars arc graven." 
 He wore a blue frock, while around his can- 
 vas trowcrs was buckled a broad black belt, 
 in which wera stuck pistols of the most form- 
 idable dimensions, together with a cutlass of 
 a size proportionate. His red hair, black face 
 and bushy moustache gave a desperado like 
 fierceness to a countenacc rendered already 
 ferocious by the artificial aid of a pair of horns 
 which appeared from under the skin of a bear's 
 head, stufiTed so as to answer the purpose of a 
 cap, yet at the same time retaining its original 
 shape — the false eyes glaring horribly, and 
 the grinning teeth tingedwith red,as if dripping 
 with blood. He was the only person distinct- 
 ly visible — the remaining portion of the crew 
 being portially hidden by the bulwark, under 
 whose shade half an hundred black faces and 
 
 1 
 
 jN»ukLuLAL. 
 
ay 
 
 
 
 l\ 
 
 V- 
 
 tiV 
 
 nil 
 
 I 
 
 
 glitlrring Ciitl.isioB ivfro rcn.'y to cirry ilm. 
 may niid Ut.-atli to llie Iifurtl of all wJio crossed 
 their path 
 
 "TJmtiB Jordan on th« bnlwnrliH," said llio 
 caploiti in a voice tint trembled witli ngitution 
 — " 1 know liini well." 
 
 *' Alloy, there ! oome to the wind nndlu'avo 
 to !" now ehouled the I'ini'c Captain. 
 
 «' Are you sure that iti Jortlaii himself?" 
 nnked Curlyndcn, without attending to the 
 Bui'RBnicr's command. 
 
 't t would swear to him," said the Captain, 
 " that is the devil himself." 
 
 " Then here goes to end his Sable Majes- 
 ty« career," said Carlyndcn, deliberately 
 firing a pistol otthe pirate's head. Tiio bullet 
 crashed amongst the bear's teeth, but did no 
 lurther injury. 
 
 '• Blast the luck !" muttered Rugglcs, "Ihis 
 will never do. 1 do'nlbear Mr Jordan much 
 love, but it won't suit to see him shot just 
 now. By the lord Harry, he is going t6 fire 
 again !" 
 
 " You have nvssed him," exclaimed the 
 Caplain of the lUenheim, " and now we may 
 expect no quarter !" 
 
 Carlynden made no refJly — he looked calmly 
 at the priminff of his other pistol, and a se- 
 cond time took dellborate aim at the Pirate 
 Chieftain, whenlho latter waved his hnnd — 
 
 '* Ilark'ye ! no more of that !" — he cried — 
 "or I will scuttle the ship and not Kavc a 
 living soul to tell the tale. Don't make bjd 
 matters worst by a foolish resistance." 
 
 ♦' Will yon spare our lives if we surrender.'" 
 cried oue'of the men from the forecastle. 
 
 «' More likely than it you resist,'" suid the 
 Pirate—" brinif your ship to the wind, and 
 stop firing that pop gun, or by the god of 
 war you shall rue it !" 
 
 «' We surrender the ship quietly then," snid 
 the man fgrvvard, but ere the words had well 
 left his lips, a bullet from Carlynden's pistol 
 went crashing through his brain, and with a 
 convulsive bound, the unfortunate man fell 
 back dead. " I did not swear by my falher's 
 soul in va"n"— said the ofTicer, as he calmly 
 picked up his fowling piece — but the priming 
 had got wet. 
 
 For the moment succeeding this shot the 
 men stood as if paralyzed, and then an uproar 
 of the most fearful kind ensued. Headed by 
 Ruggles, they made a Bitnullaiieous. rush aft 
 — intending to sacrifice Carlynden, and thus 
 oblain quarter for themselves. 
 
 The captain retreated to the affrail to 
 avoid the elorm, but felt that he was unable 
 to avert it, and exclaimed bit'erly — 
 
 " Never will I again go to sea except with 
 tried men, and with a ship well armed." 
 
 Carlyndcn, from the first moment he had 
 •cen himself deserted, had but one object in 
 view, which wa« that he might exasperate the 
 Pirate to destroy all on board — for death was 
 nothing in his estimation, compared to tho 
 capture of his beloved Frances by the demon 
 crew of the Ocean Queen. 
 
 '* O ! ihal F stood bf^^ide the majznziiio I" he 
 exchiiiK'd— " I would seiul those chnrUflyinf; 
 to the heaven vhoso battlements they will 
 never reach !" 
 
 As the Hi-amet: rushed aft with the double 
 purpo.ie of pulling down the Kngliih flag, and 
 of preventing Carlynden (rom making any 
 further reislancc — the brigantine was laid 
 alongside, and twenty or tliirty whiskered and 
 blackened deepcrudoes leaped upon the Eng- 
 lish vessel's deck. 'J'he sailors stopped mid 
 way in their career, and the Pirate Chieftain 
 shouted — 
 
 '« Spare those who surrender— wo will shed 
 no blood now — " 
 
 '• Are you sure of that I" — interrupted 
 Carlynden, presenting his fowling piece at the 
 pirate's breast. In another moment Jordon'w 
 career woulJ have been at an end, but the 
 priming flashed in the pan without dischirg- 
 ing the piece. Throwing it away, with an 
 imprecation, the officer drew his sword, and 
 made a desperate pass at the pirate's body — 
 exclaiming — " never will 1 surrender, though 
 all on board should !" 
 
 " Oh, yes, you will," replied the Buccanior, 
 calmly,a3 In; caughtCarlj iden's weapon on his 
 cutlass, and with a turn of his wrist, sent it 
 llying out of his hind — "you must, yield if 
 you want to see any merey shewn to any one 
 on board" — so saying, lie threw the English- 
 man to the deck, and crying out — " Hero 
 McGregor, tie this fellow's arms till ho acts 
 reasonably," he turned the struggling ofiicer, 
 over to his Lieutenant, who despite hi» 
 desperate exertions and unavailing threats 
 carried his captain's orders into execution — 
 
 " Hech, mon, but ye're hard to bind or 
 haud," exclaimed the officer, panting with his 
 effijrts, OS he succeeded in quieting the 
 refractory Englishman — " if ye dinna net 
 mair oanny than that wuU put a straight jacket 
 on ye." 
 
 " Where the devil can Hans Vanhurst 
 be ?" — Muttered Ruggle», looking around — " 1 
 would'nl know hinr. though amongst theso 
 painted devils, unless he speaks." 
 
 " Now for the captain," said the Buccanicr, 
 who merely smiled a sardonic grin at 
 Carlyndcn's' threats of vengeance should he 
 escape being murdered — " I want to see him." 
 
 The captain advanced, pale and trembling 
 — exclaiming, " we have yielded without 
 resistance — the vessel and cargo is yours — 
 only spare our lives, and set us on shore, and 
 we will think ourselves fortunate in the 
 extreme. 
 
 " Something wrong," muttered the Bucca- 
 nicr— "then she is not, after all, a pirate prize." 
 
 "Something wrong, indeed," said Ruggl«s, 
 sotlo voce, " where can the Dutchman be ."' 
 
 " Well," continued, the Buccanier, " 1 
 must sec the ship's papers," adding aloud to 
 the captain — " come below, 1 wish to know if 
 you have concealed anything of value." 
 
 Before descending he turned to one of his 
 companions, and aaid — 
 
^pp 
 
 B«zlno !" he 
 3hiirU flying 
 I lliey will 
 
 the double 
 ■h flag, and 
 naking any 
 B was laid 
 liHkpreJ and 
 ri the Eng- 
 ilopped mid 
 tc Chioltniii 
 
 vo will shed 
 
 -interrupted 
 piece at the 
 jnt Jordon'« 
 nd, but, tho 
 it dischirg- 
 ly, with an 
 aword, nnd 
 lie's body — 
 ider, though 
 
 ! Huccanior, 
 eapon on his 
 rist, sent it 
 usf. yield il* 
 n to nny one 
 1)0 English- 
 out — " Hero 
 till he acta 
 irling ofilcer, 
 
 despite hi» 
 
 ling threats 
 
 execution — 
 
 to bind or 
 
 ling with his 
 
 uieting the 
 
 dinna net 
 
 raight jacket 
 
 [S VanhufBt 
 laround — " I 
 longst theso 
 
 Buccanicr, 
 to grin at 
 should he 
 |Lo seo him." 
 trembling 
 ;d without 
 is yours — 
 shore, and 
 late in tho 
 
 Ithe Bucca- 
 lirate prizo." 
 |id Ruggl«s, 
 «an be ?'■ 
 icanier, " I 
 lig aloud to 
 li to know if 
 
 OM 
 
 ilue.' 
 lone 
 
 of hia 
 
 •' Keep a sharp lodk tiut n!,nin.U tn^nrliory, 
 McUregor; thid is n dangerous gaiuf, and we 
 ennnot he too cautiou-i." 
 
 '• I always said it wns a drinjerous game," 
 niult«,'red lh<f pirate ollicer, as tiie captain 
 followed Seyton below — " but y« wadnii lake 
 my advico — so e'en let a wiWu uion hae hid ain 
 way." 
 
 The stateroom to which the i>irale now 
 descended, wns the anylum chosen by Mr. 
 Mason and his daughter, during tho con'uBiou 
 on deck. lie was now sitting in a Biale ot'the 
 most dreadful agitation, every moment expect- 
 ing to be drugged on deck, and murdered, 
 while he nhnddcred to think of the fate thnt 
 awai ed his brljved Frances, who wag stand- 
 ing with her arms wound round her father's 
 neck, invoking the protection ol'lu^aven. 
 
 On the entrance of the captain and his 
 fiend-!ike companion, she uttered a irantic, 
 scream — her eyes dilated wildly with terror, 
 nnd winding her arm, s'iil more titjhlly around 
 her parent, »he essayed to Hpeak in vain. 
 
 •' What a scene I could occasion tlioro, by 
 one little word, thought Rugglea, as lie peered 
 into the state room — "but no, I iiave other 
 ends in view — sol will go back, and have 
 something to say to Mr. Curlynden, who i.s 
 lying kicking up there ar^d see iflie ia ng pmud 
 as he was an hour ajro." So lliinking, Ik; 
 withdrew from t])o hali'opeii entrance. 
 
 The pirate, who liaJ never dreamed of 
 Bceing anything like the scene that presented 
 itself, started back in amaz?aiont. WlK?llier 
 it was lier excessive loveliieas, or tlie sii.idcn 
 recognition of some one he iiad known before 
 — or surprise at seeirtg such a being tiiero — it 
 is diiiicult to determine — but he slopped short, 
 ag if petrilied, ai'.d it 'was not till he was 
 aroused from his stupor by her pleading voice, 
 na kneeling athis fe.f, she implored mercy 
 lor her father, while llie hot tears of intense 
 agony rolled down her cheeks, that ho found 
 words to assure her that she had ]>revailed. 
 •' Fear nothing, lady, ' said the hardened 
 Buccanier, in a voice that sounded strangely 
 tremulous — "your presence renders this 
 Ttessel and all on board sacred. — Not an article 
 shall be touched, not a man injured." 
 
 She looked up to pour forth her thanks and 
 overpowering gratitude, but catching a 
 glimpse of his terrific face, she shuddered and 
 was silent. He stooped forward to raise her 
 up, and as he did so, a nautical instrument 
 called a tell-tale which was suspended above 
 him, caught in the red kerchief around his 
 head, and retained it, but pulling away the 
 artificial hair which hung in fiery clusters to 
 hiB shoulders, and with it the hideous mask 
 which hhd concealed his features fell to the 
 deck — and he stood revealed — not, however, 
 as a demon-like and deformed being, whose 
 very appearance was inhuman, but a young 
 man of about six and twenty, whose features 
 were the very reverse of being repulsive. His 
 broad, white forehead, dark clustering hair, 
 bright falcon eye, jet brows, and the roseate 
 
 line of health and manhooil on his fhc<^, 
 displayed by ttieir coMibiin'd cxpre^Hion a cnMl 
 of countenance anything Inil Manguiunry or 
 iiiaIiciou.s. 
 
 It WIS now the captain's turn to be dumb 
 with as'oiiidliinent— not only at this favorable 
 metamorplioBis — but at ihe idea of the far 
 famed Jordon evincing so much clemency, 
 and he exclaimed in the oulbrust of his surprise 
 and wonderment — 
 
 • But are you not nfaid of our giving 
 intf^lligence of havinir seen you — and where .' 
 — 1 have always heard that you wont on the 
 principle t'latdoad men tell no talep, and as 
 you never allowed a survivor to bear inlelli- 
 geucc oi'you,it ii impossible to guess where you 
 vessel could be found." 
 
 Tlie old man trembled as capt lin Seyton, 
 made this imprudent speeci), wherein he 
 pointed out to the Buccanier Ihe necessity of 
 imposing silence— as lie feared that silence 
 might bo eternal. But the Buccanier ujerely 
 smiled darkly — and said — 
 
 "On the 'ontrary, I care not how many 
 carry inlelligdiico of my place of rendezvous 
 — the more it is circnhted tho beter 1 shall 
 like it, TIjereforu I give you full and free 
 liberty to speak of it everywhere — to describe 
 my vt'ssi.'l and niy pcr.sou — and those who 
 venluro may the reby secure the reward set 
 upon roy bead. ' Then throwing auothtfr 
 glance on Fiances Mason, who was now hang- 
 ing nn her father's neck, sobbing convulsively, 
 al the transition of her feelings from despair 
 lo hope, he exclaimed, as lie left the cabin — 
 
 «' Your lives and property are safe, owing to 
 the intercession ol^ that fair young lady ; 
 henceforth let no one say but that Jordan the 
 I'irate has a spioo of gall nilry in hii disposi- 
 tion.' ' So ."Jiij'ing he went on deck accompanied 
 by tho captain. While ascenJing he took 
 occasion to say to the latter — 
 
 " 1 say,oaptain, you may thank that beauti- 
 ful woman's intercession for your safety. Was 
 that her father with her?" 
 
 "Yes," replied the Captain, still mnre 
 surprised at the easy tone of conversation 
 assumed by the outlaw — 
 
 " And who is that young man on deck — any 
 relation of hers?" 
 
 "No,"|jre8ponded Seyton — "but he expects ta 
 become so— he is an English officer, and is 
 paying his addresses to Miss Mason." 
 
 ** Miss Mason," repeated the Buccanier — 
 " and where does her father reside ?" 
 
 «• At in New England," replied captain 
 
 Seyton — They had now reached tho deek,and 
 tha prostrate form of Carlynden caught 
 Jordan's eye. 
 
 •> Un'ooie him," he said, motioning with his 
 hand towards the officer, who on being released, 
 rose sullenly, to his feet, and with a scowl of 
 vengeance and defiance, he exclaimed, *' we 
 ■hall meet again, villain, where the odds will 
 not be all on one side !" 
 
 « Rest assured, we shall meet again, sir," 
 answered the pirate in a slow, empbatio voioe, 
 
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 aa he sprang on the deck of hit bri^, which 
 fell off before the wiiiJ,and crept leizurelyawaj . 
 
 <* And for you, do^," he said ia a menacing 
 tone to Rugyles — " I will make you rue the 
 hour you were born, lor this day's proceed- 
 ings," 
 
 But the latter was gazing wist/ull/ on iho 
 receding form of the brigantine, and answered 
 not. 
 
 CHAP. X 
 T!in Strancfcr in the Ball room. 
 
 " Curious fool bo still- 
 la human lora thci growth uriiunian will .' 
 To her he misht bo geiulontjiiB." — Lak4. 
 
 "I love him — 
 And that's the heitvi«!it link in lovo's long chuin 
 Ttt lovo tho HO wu uatecm not. lie it so — 
 'J'he hour is comini; when lio'll nood uli lovd 
 And find none."— BiTRON. ^, 
 
 Time ! thou mighty ravisher of human 
 beauty and human glory ! — into whose fathom, 
 leas abyss hath rolled the human flood of twice 
 three thousand years, — with "bannered host' 
 and realm passed away — and many a victor 
 proud, forgotten now ! Thou who art more 
 insatiate than the grave — and whose demands 
 will never cease until thou art thyself lo.st in 
 the miirhlier tide of far and dim Eternity! — 
 Time — the Avenger, and " the beautifier" — 
 who " rights when man has wronged" — and 
 sheds a halo and the light of vague romance 
 over the far times of the dreamy Past — Invest- 
 ing it with glory which is thine ! Thou hast 
 adorned all things and actions past — thou 
 hast shed thy haze»like glory on the rocks of 
 Thermopylae, and bathed in thy dim halo the 
 crested brow of Scylla — to the waves of Ac- 
 tium thou hast given a name coeval with thine 
 own — and thou hast cried to tho riven air above 
 the Belgium plain — " let thine echoes sleep no 
 more to all the world !" Thou hast set thy 
 seal upon each crumbling tower that erst rung 
 to the bugle»horn of the iron>cIad crusader — 
 on every stream that erst ran red with tho 
 bijod of battle and despair — on every hill that 
 boro ofold"the Day God's living fire" — on 
 each immortal name that decks the record of 
 thine ages! How oft hast thou been thus 
 apostrophized — howcften hast thy mystery 
 been pondered over by many a brain wherein 
 the earth worm riots now .' liut, unchecked 
 by human event, thou roUest past on thy tre- 
 mcnduous mission — empires fall, and cities 
 crumble into diist, and peasants and potentates 
 die, and races pass away, and are found no 
 more — but still thy flight is onward ; nor wil! 
 It erase, until that day when the gates of hell 
 shall be closed forever and the heavens shall 
 vanish like ascr 11. 
 
 When we again look for the characters wo 
 ■re chiefly interested in, Mr Mason and his 
 daughter had reached their home. Here we 
 find them. Frances is again in the place hal- 
 
 lowed by the mcmorias of early childhood — 
 aurroundod by those who await but her look 
 to execute her coinmandB, and in the posses- 
 sion of every crijovment that wealth can 
 obtain. 
 
 Not long, however, did she remain a parta- 
 ker of the sweets of hnme, when she again 
 became a voyager — when she again became 
 exposed to t'lc vicissitudes of a ^* life on ths 
 ocean wave" and all its attendant dangers. 
 
 At first, on their return, the event was 
 celebrated by entertainments- uid parties ; — 
 she was accompanied on all i^ccasiona by the 
 young, the gay, the accomplished — the most 
 fashionable exquisite of the neighboring gar- 
 rison paid court to her — the hign-born and 
 devoted Carlynden was ever at her side-- and 
 yet with all these essentials, she was not 
 happy. Why she was not so, she herself 
 could not have told. Every ^ish she expressed 
 was gratified — still she was pensive and ab- 
 sent, and took no interest in the scene of 
 gaily that suriounded her. To Carlynden 
 this was unaccountable ; hewas assiduous and 
 unremitting in his attentions, yet these, as 
 well as his refinement and hia wit, his gold 
 lace and scarlet jacket, were alike lavished 
 in viiin,and failed to excite their wonted meed 
 of admiration. Neither was this apathy in 
 accordance with .'ler former character, and 
 those who had known her previous to her 
 going to Europe were at a loss to account lor 
 tho ciiange. liul the mind of man is a strange 
 capricious thing, and the mind of woman ten 
 limes more so — causing them to sigh and aspire 
 for i.hey know not what— and to dream day 
 dreams that never can be realized. With 
 young ladies it generally happens that all their 
 ideal troubles arise in consequence ef novel 
 reading; whereby the imagination is dazz'ed 
 by pictures falseiy colored, and a sickly sen- 
 timentality awakend which destroys the taste 
 for things ua they are, and creates a desire 
 for things as they " should be." Whether 
 anything of this kind had produced this iow- 
 ness of spirits in Miss Mason, or whether she 
 was the victim of disease, is immaterial to our 
 purpose, and we shall lose no time in endea- 
 voring to solve the problem. To the latter 
 cause, however, did her father attiibute the 
 change, and, acting on this belief, and tal;iug 
 advantage of the circumstance that Captain 
 Seton and his wife were about embarking for 
 the South, he entrusted Frances to (he caro 
 of the latter, for the purpose of ascertaining 
 if a more congenial climate would bring back 
 her wonted flow of spirits. 
 
 It was on the second day after her embark- 
 ation, at an evening paitygiven by Mr. Mason 
 in honor of an old friend of high rank, that 
 our story again opens. Here were assembled 
 the gay and fashionable of the neighborhood ; 
 >^ and all went merry as a marriage bell." It 
 may strike the reader as strange to speak of 
 '^ the gay and fashionable" of a land and at a 
 time, when society was unformed, and a dis- 
 •rgauizalion of its clcmcnte so extensive hart 
 
 ^ittiii ' ' 
 
childhood — 
 but her look 
 in the possea- 
 
 wealth can 
 
 main a parta- 
 ?n slie again 
 igain bticaine 
 i°»* life on the 
 it dangers. 
 he event was 
 id partieu ;— 
 sasiona by the 
 ed— the most 
 ghboring gar- 
 hign-born and 
 
 her side— and 
 she was not 
 ., she herself 
 I she expressed 
 naive and ab- 
 the scene of 
 ["o Cariynden 
 I assiduous and 
 yet these, as 
 wit, his gold 
 alike lavished 
 ir wonted uieed 
 
 this apathy in 
 character, and 
 cvious to her 
 
 to account lor 
 nan is a strange 
 
 of woman ten 
 I sigh and aspire 
 
 to dream day 
 alized. With 
 
 ns that all their 
 lence ef novel 
 
 on is dazz'ed 
 a sickly sen- 
 
 itroys tiie taste 
 
 ealcs a desire 
 Whether 
 
 iced this iow- 
 
 r whether ahe 
 
 imatorial to our 
 me in endca- 
 To the latter 
 
 r altiibute the 
 
 ef, and tailing 
 
 that Captain 
 
 embarking for 
 
 s to the caro 
 
 |f ascertaining 
 Id bring back 
 
 [r her embark- 
 I by Mr. Mason 
 irh rank, that 
 ^ere assembled 
 lieighborhood ; 
 |iage bell." It 
 to speak of 
 J land and at a 
 Led, and a dis- 
 lextensivc had 
 
 ys 
 
 taken place that in a social point of view, the 
 servant was equal to his lord, and distinctions 
 were not tolerated. Vet, even at that time, 
 in all towns where troops wore stationed — to 
 say nothing of the little colonial court held by 
 tiie English Governors of each colony — an 
 exclusive circle speedily sprang up, and a 
 miniature imitation of the broad line of demar- 
 cation which in England divides the upper 
 from the middle classes, was formed and 
 ndhered to. If now, in ri'publican America, 
 there exists a variety of classes, it arises from 
 quite a different cause — nor is that cause to 
 be traced wholly to the relative amount of 
 property possessed ; the maa of ignorance and 
 coarseness will not associate with the man of 
 refinement and education were he permitted 
 to do BO, because he would be as much out of 
 his element and would feel himself as ill 
 at eaae in the presence of the latter, as would 
 the latter were he forced to mingle with the 
 vulgar and illiterate. Yet, true it is, that in 
 the United States a monied aristocracy is now 
 apringing up, who arrogate to themselves, on 
 grounds a thousand fold piore absurd, that 
 exclusiveness which is claimed as the prero- 
 gative of the peers of Europe. The claim of 
 tlie former rests on the fact, that, by a run of 
 luck, or by some chance, he has acquired a 
 larger amount of property than his neighbors, 
 — that of the latter, because he can trace his 
 lineage back to the Knights of the Round 
 Table or the Peers of Charlemagne, and still 
 possesses the property which his ancestors 
 posssessed, perhaps, ere the war song of Ro- 
 land p'ialed at Hastings, or " fell proud peer 
 and paladin on the Roncesvalles field." 
 
 But the evils resulting from American 
 aristocracy are not so formidable as those 
 wiiich arise from the European system. Here 
 their pretensions to an exclusive sphere are 
 laughed at — their order id not hereditary, and 
 'Hhcir riches perishwith them" — and the son of 
 « merchant prince may be a coal beaver or a 
 cabman. In Europe, the son of a lord and a 
 vis'i man must be a lord also, but as the 
 wisdom is not hereditary, he may be a dunce 
 or buffoon as well. 
 
 Nevertheless, much as has been said and 
 written, on the dissolute habits and haughty 
 tearing of British offlcers, it is an admitted 
 fact that wherever they are stationed, the 
 lociety around takes its tone from them, and 
 mproves. They alune perpetuate that code 
 >r honor which, during a dark and ruflian age 
 ippeared as *' one virtue mid a thousand 
 irimea." That courtesy to the femai* sex- 
 hat chivalry which was the only redeeming 
 rait of a coarse and barbarous period— that 
 etinement an4 gentlemanly demeanor, are 
 lil more thoroughly understood and acted 
 ipon by them than by any other class. And 
 ven at this day, in the numerous Colonies of 
 Iritaln wherever they are stationed, they are 
 8 conducive in producing refinement of feei- 
 ng atd courtesy of demeanor in the society 
 I'liicii they mingle as they are essential to 
 
 the protection of the country which they arfr 
 engaged to defend. 
 
 «» You are drunk, Ruggles,"Baid Inglia, a 
 Serjeant rn Carlynden's company, aa he aad 
 the first-named personage loitered in front of 
 
 the brightly-lit up mansion, among the 
 trees to which were suspended colored lampa 
 and various devices, ghttering like stars amid 
 the foliage, — while tiie rich music came gush- 
 ing forth from the open windows, filling the 
 air with melody — " You must be drunk, or 
 you wouldn't talk such nonsense." 
 
 " I am drunk," answered Ruggles, " but X 
 know what I'm saying for aJI that." 
 
 " What ! that you'll marry Misa Mason 
 before a month ? — you!" 
 
 " Yea, me"— anawered Ruggles, with a self J 
 satisfied look, as he conrro:.ied his companion 
 — «♦ is it such a hard matter do you thi^ 'c .'" 
 
 " Too hard for you to accomplish, friend, '' 
 said Ingles — " why, she wouldn't have you 
 — she would drown herself first." 
 
 '* Don't you believe it. She will have me 
 fast enough to save her father's life." 
 
 " How can you hurt her father's life?" 
 
 ♦' Ha, ha — that's the enigma, old boy," said 
 Ruggles, with a drunken ieor, *' but I can't 
 solve it for you." 
 
 «' But Lieutenant Carlynden," said Inglia, 
 " intenda to marry her." 
 
 *< Pah ! I'm only waiting till the Blenheim 
 returns from the South to have this ^Carlyn- 
 den taken up for murder.' 
 
 " For murder! — why, who did he kill ?" 
 
 " Ho shot one of the crew of the Blenheim 
 — I saw him do it." 
 
 " Then why didn't you get liim taken up 
 before V asked Inglis. 
 
 " U, I had my own reasons for that .'" said 
 Ruggles, with another wink. 
 
 '• But," added he, immediately afterwards, 
 (' it makes no oddii, she doean't care a straw 
 about Aim — but there is another on whom she 
 /laa set her affections, that, only she is too 
 closely related to him, i would have more 
 cause to fiear as a rival." 
 
 ♦« Here is some one coming," said Inglis, 
 who heard a step, " see here, Ruggles, I'll 
 bet you a year's wages against a like sum of 
 money that you never marry Miss Mason." 
 
 «' Done," said Ruggles, extending hia 
 hand, and hereupon these worthies separated. 
 
 Meantime, let us proceed to the interior »f 
 the mnnsion, where all was revelry and mirth. 
 In the neighborhood of Mr. Maaon'sfhouae a 
 detachment of troops were stationed, and the 
 ofHcers, of whom Carlynden was one, of 
 course were present on the ocRanion — the lion 
 of the evening, however, was Sir £d«»ard 
 Sarsfield, commander of en Eugliah frigate, 
 then lying in the neighLoring port. He waa a 
 strongly framed and fine looking old man,with 
 stern featurea and a commanding countenance 
 — and , although advanced in years, bore the 
 traces of time ao well, aa to appear atill in hia 
 prime. Yet his face, bronzed by the battle 
 
■WJ 
 
 I HI 
 
 1 Hi 
 
 ! 
 
 f! 
 
 j!i!|'5 
 
 an.! llif brf»ezp, by thf sultry ann of the trc* 
 pics nnd the North winds of the frigid zonp— 
 oviilcnred that ho Iiad pfirned hia present rank 
 ly long and trying service. His reward for 
 It ronsistocl in n ribbon wiiich hung at liio 
 builonhole. 
 
 In cloae conversation with him otood tho 
 mafjlcr of tho mansion, while ecvcral young 
 oHicers and others stood round, wa-tinn; for n. 
 passing word from so distinguisiiod nn indivi- 
 dual ns Sir Edward Sarsficldi and endeavor 
 ing to arrest his ottontion by silly joGta at 
 wliich tho whole group were b'>nnd to lau^^h. 
 The Bubjccl which Mason nnd tho veteran 
 had Btarted, howevcr,8eemed of loo interesting 
 a nature to be lost sight of for the mere 
 common place remarks of their companion iu 
 Thorc was also a third person, who, nitiiough 
 not joining in tho conversation, appeared to 
 take n very deep interest in it. This wa.n a 
 man, apparently about (liirty y{;ar.s of age, and 
 would have been handsome, were it not for 
 his swarthy complexion and tho profusion of 
 black hair that concealed the lowor part of 
 his face. Ho wore a ligl>t blue uniform, and 
 remained in tho back ground without seeming 
 lo be recognized by any one. He had just 
 entered as Mr Mason had concluded ihc 
 narrative of his adventure with tho Pirate, to 
 which Sir Edward had been an attentive 
 lirtener. 
 
 " Alter such a narrow eRcapc," said one cf 
 tho listeners, " was it not imprudent to allow 
 Miss Mason again lo tempt the dangers of a 
 voyage ?" 
 
 " O, there is nothing to apprehend this 
 time. Captain Seton lias had his ship armed, 
 by mounting several carrouadcB, and has taken 
 tho precaution to have his men picked so that 
 Ihoy won't flinch. Besides he sails in com- 
 pany with a frigate — tiie Pallas." 
 
 " O, tho Tallas didn't sail," said Sir Edw., 
 " we discovered that some repairs were still 
 wanting, and she will not Ptart before next 
 ■ivcek." 
 
 *' lla '" cried Mason, evincing a good dml 
 ofanxiety, «' 1 wonder if Capt. Selon sailed 
 without her escort. Surely he wouldn't bo 
 eo imprudent !" 
 
 «» Alter all," paid the Commodore, going 
 back to tho subject of the merchant's narra- 
 tive, '« from wliat I can gather relative to 
 this Pirate, it appears he is not exactly tho 
 demon he is represented to be in England. — 
 Hut for all that, he is by far too sanguinary a 
 scoundrel, to permit him to continue bin 
 depredations, and should 1 happen in any of 
 my crui-^es to fall in with him, I will teach 
 him and all on board what it is to outrage 
 the law of nations ns ho has done. You say 
 that hi^ conduct which came under your 
 notice was deserving of our consider tion and 
 clemency. Bnt that conduct, remember, was 
 produced merely by the whim of the moment, 
 and had a capricious whmi of tho same sort, 
 prompted him to have murdered all on loard, 
 he would as readily have been actuated by it, 
 
 |-JWn.-.finTriB|m 
 
 It ia evident he r. guided neither by fear nnr 
 principle, and mercy, as a general thing, run 
 have bnt liiile weight wiih .lordan. F'orer 
 ample, look at tho.se horrid atrocities whicJi 
 areasnrilied to him in (he I'.nglijdi print?. I 
 have no symynlliy with the dog, and shall 
 hang h'ni at the yard nrm, if ever 1 have the 
 lurk to take him, and am not forestalled by- 
 my son, who im now cruising in quest of liini 
 1 tdiould like to make nn example ul the 
 villain !" 
 
 " Probably you have not hoard of his hast 
 adventure," said the stranger, speaking for 
 the first time—" it surpasses all hi.s former 
 atroeilies, nnd cannot be paraHelh«d by all the 
 reeordfl of hell, if in tho regions of the damned 
 they record iis inmates' crimes." 
 
 " Why, when was tins :" cried Sir Edward, 
 str.rtled fioni his usual serenity, by the 
 energetic manner of llie speaker. 
 
 " Yesterday," replied (lie stranger— «• one 
 of tlie .survivors o( the tragedy is present, and 
 V. ith two others, constitute all who remain 
 nlivc of tho crew and passengers of the bark 
 Blenlioim." 
 
 " Cracious heaven !" gasped Maeon, sud- 
 denly becoming pale as death, «» that was the 
 na-ric of the vesNcl my daughter sailed in.— 
 Where do you say siic was captured ?"' 
 
 " NjI far off the coast here," answered the 
 young man—but, before he had time to con- 
 clude the sentence, there was an exclamation 
 of .surprise—of rceognition—tho hstenere fell 
 back in ajiiazenient, and the stranger suddenly 
 wilhdrew from the wondering circle that 
 stood mute with expectation. 
 
 .^i CHAP. XI. 
 
 • ' The I?Iassacrc. 
 
 '' Hilt lintk, tlint wnr- whoop on lIio Jock '. " 
 
 "A sccomi rrimh — a tliiril \ — 
 
 Anil now, .TH il";; liolt of tliuivior, 
 H:iil riven tho Inhoiiii^ phtiiko iisiindnr, 
 'I'ho iliM'k IuIIm in— wh;it horrrrs tlmii 
 niooil, wavcii. nnd t;icMr— swords nnd men 
 
 (.';itno mix'd !" 
 
 •^ " Tiiron^hoHt 
 
 Tl>o I'lomcntH one Any rmi — 
 
 Olio ijciiHrnI muo, wliicli h-lt n doulit 
 
 Which was >lio »i<>rcer— Heaven or Man." 
 
 La;.la Rookh. 
 
 Wc must now, to explain for the evenlri 
 narrated in tho last chapter, return to that 
 point ol our history where Miss Mason dcpartf; 
 for the South. Seeing the declining state of her 
 health, her father, as we have already stated, 
 concluded to entrust her to the care of Seylon 
 and his wife during the voyaoe to the Bahamas 
 — in the hope that change of scene and cli 
 mate would improve it— Mason himself being 
 too much occupied with business matters to 
 be able to accompany her. Tho captain, 
 however, being an old and tried friend, am! 
 his wjif'c being a refined nnd amiable woman 
 
 dail 
 
 ion. 
 
mmm 
 
 ... I ll, I W I I II M I 
 
 SRS 
 
 icr by foar nnr 
 neral tiling, ran 
 udan. For ex 
 utrocitifa which 
 glioh print.". I 
 (log, and shall 
 pvor I have tlio 
 )l forostalled by 
 in quest of liint 
 example ot the 
 
 card of his last 
 ir, speaking foi 
 I all his IbriTier 
 lleUed by all the 
 118 of the daniniMl 
 •s." 
 
 jried Sir Edward, 
 renity, by the 
 akcr. 
 stranger—" one 
 \y is present, and 
 all who remain 
 rcrs of the bark 
 
 )cd Maeon, sud- 
 li, " that was the 
 iter sailed in,->- 
 apturcd ?' ' 
 e," answered the 
 lad tinie to con- 
 s an exclamation 
 -the lislcners fell 
 ^Iranger suddenly 
 ina circle that 
 
 27 
 
 l!io deck '." 
 
 Ill ;— 
 
 IT, 
 
 miiiiUnr, 
 
 ■S lllfMI 
 
 lis niid meu 
 • • . . • 
 lioiit 
 
 i\ floiiUt 
 or Man." 
 Lai.la Kookh. 
 
 for the eventri 
 return to that 
 ss Mason dopartf 
 ining state of her 
 a already stated 
 10 oareof Seytor 
 elolhe Bahama! 
 scene and oil 
 on himself being 
 less matters to 
 Tho captain 
 led friend, and 
 miablc woman 
 
 he placed Prances under their care with the 
 utmost confidence. 
 
 It was on the same day that they went out, 
 towards the afternoon, that those two ladies 
 otood on the quarter deck, enjoying tho land 
 breeze which fanned their cheeks vvith its 
 vigorous and refreshing breath. To them 
 there was no sign of aught that boded other 
 than a prosperous and pTonsant time, but to 
 the captain's experienced eye, there were 
 unmistakeable evidence of a coming storm. 
 He was, therefore, at that moment getting his 
 ship under easy eail, housing the sluddmg- 
 sail booms and royal poles, and puUing 
 overything in preparation for tho gale which 
 1)8 fully believed was coming. 
 
 Without apprehensions of any kind, Miss 
 Mason and Mrs. Selon gave tlieirfielves up to 
 the free indulgence of tiieir rellections, till at 
 length they engaged in conversation. The 
 ocean scenery, naturally, produced rcfationa 
 of events connected witii n.iutical life, niid 
 Mrs. Seton now drew from Franceu the whole 
 account of her adventure with the pirate 
 while passing Cape Breton— of which, pre- 
 viously she had heard but vague anl contra- 
 dictory reports. .When Mies Mason had 
 concluded, there was a dead pause, and bo!h 
 seemed lost in meditation; at length, Mrs. 
 Seton broke silence, and observed — 
 
 " You thought this desperate man, hand- 
 some, then, Miss Mason." 
 
 " Pre-eminently so," replied her compan- 
 ion," — as far as his face and form go, I never 
 saw so handsome a person." 
 
 Again there was a pause ; the married Indy, 
 as all married ladies like to do, wished to 
 ascertain the state of the single lady's heart, 
 yet knew not how to begin, fearimr ylie migiit 
 offend her. At len<;th, she remarked 
 corelesbly : 
 
 " Since that fearful scene, Miss Mason, your 
 spirits seen very much depressed — they are 
 not what they were formerly. Surely you will 
 not allow the terror produced by that one 
 occurrence to weigh upon your mind iorcver 
 after." 
 
 " Oh, no," replied Frances Mason, " with 
 the utmost naivcltc, " 1 feci no terror nor 
 repugnance in recurring to that scone. 1 
 cannot describe the sensation I experience 
 when thinking of it — and although it was an 
 event that produced thrilling cxuitcment, 1 do 
 not find it unpleasant to think or talk of it." 
 
 "Ah, indeed, "thought Mrn. Selon — "I 
 begin to understand," than added aloud — 
 
 " It would almost bo a pity, that so 
 chivalrous and hand-some a man ay tliid Jonloii 
 is described to be, should bo captured and 
 sentenced lo the gallows." 
 
 The blood forsook Miss Maaoirs clicoks — 
 and she faltered something in re,)ly, e.\presding 
 her belief that he would nut bo l.iken, but 
 would allow hij vessel to yo to the bottom 
 before sulfering himself to be made a ciptive. 
 
 "Oh, yes, that id very romantic," said Mra, 
 Seton in reply," but a hundred jlii[)3 cf wm 
 
 the lookout man 
 ' — asked the captain, 
 replied tlic man ; — 
 
 are on the watch for hiin, and taken he will 
 be, despite of all his courage and precautions. 
 It is well known now that he litis a hiding 
 place in an island nailed Cape Breton, and 
 that once known, they will not be long in 
 hunting him Ciit." 
 
 " They would execute him, iif taken, of 
 course ?" enquired Miss Mason, while palet 
 and paler grew her cheek — 
 
 " Oh, no doubt of that, " cried the other 
 female, laughing—" but what is lh.it to us r" 
 
 "Nothing — nothing, of course," replied 
 Frances, 
 
 i4 Yet " 
 
 "Sail, Ho!"— cried 
 forward. 
 
 " What sort of vessel r' 
 carelessly, 
 
 " Low, black craft," 
 "partly square partly fore and alt rig. 
 
 " Ha !' —cried captain Seton, evincing some 
 anxiety — " I must take a look at her." He 
 mounted the niizen riwgiu!/, look n long and 
 ficrutinizing gaze, aud descended with a. face 
 blanched pale as ashes. 
 
 Let us change the scone to the deck of the 
 ft[)proaching vosicl. She is hauleU upon ii 
 wind — her yards braced sharp, and her mam- 
 moth mainsail sheeted close home, while the 
 freshening sea foamed and boiled along her lee 
 gunwale as she lay down under tho press of 
 canvas which bore her rapidly along. Her 
 hull is black as night, save one narrow red 
 Etreak, and, lo! a red flag surmounted by a 
 deaths»head flutters from the main. There 
 is no mistaking her now. On tlia weather 
 side of the quarterdeck paces the tremendous 
 Joidan, in his battle dress, his face distorted 
 even more hideously than when ho boarded 
 the ship ill tlio Gut of Canseau. liy hia aide, 
 walks his chief officer ; a man of about forty 
 years of age, by his speech and appcarancc-.u 
 Hollander; he is also painted terrifi'jully, hia 
 naturally ferocious countenance, rendered 
 disgusting by small pox and the traces of evil 
 passions, enhanced by artificial means. He 
 has nothing on him except a pair of blue cloth 
 trowsers of immense width ; around his waist 
 is belted a red sash, in which arc stuck his 
 cutlass and pistols. The men had been beat 
 to quarters and every preparation for a san- 
 guinary cunllict had been made. 
 
 " Well, Vuniiurat," said Jordan in a tone of 
 voice, quite harsh and dilForent from that used 
 on a former occasion, " what sort of vessel do 
 you take the cliaue to be .'"' 
 
 "A vat pri-.'.e, py Gott !'— answered the 
 German—" 1 does know a slink min-of-war 
 from a rich meixhandman— docu you dink ? — 
 Mein (Jott, yaw !" 
 
 " Well, 1 only hope i»hc iu," said Jordan — 
 " but it'.i an well to be prepared in case of the 
 werst. H ahe does turn out to be a frigate, 
 we can soon show tiiem a clean pfir 
 ol lieela for it 'I'hcre la only one vc;.oC'l ''i 
 lhci;c watti-i thai ta,u tumt; up to her at all — 
 
 1 
 
38 
 
 I, 
 
 i , '1 
 
 : i 
 
 t 
 
 and tliat is tl -^ armed brig, that young devil, 
 Sarsfield commands. He has been on the look 
 out for UB this long time — but I got intelligence 
 of his scheme— I am up to him. Did yoi\hear 
 what it was ?" 
 " Vat vash dat ?" asked the Lieutenant. 
 **Oh, never mind now— you will know in 
 good time," replied the captain, who was 
 abserving the manuoevres of the chase — " I 
 say, Vauhurst," he continued," what is that 
 vessel up to." 
 
 **She have furl her courses, and ish 
 pearing down ubon us — Mein Gott, put dat 
 ish var strange'.* 
 
 *( She intends to show light then, you 
 think?" 
 
 " Gott fortamn — yas— 1 p'lieve so." 
 *' Well, we will give her a wider berth ; 
 helmsman, keep her away two or three poiir^ 
 steady — so." 
 
 *^ Steady — so 1"— re-echoed the man at the 
 wheel. 
 
 " Ease oiF the main sheet— a small puil on 
 the weather braces — that will do," said the 
 captain, again turning hia eye upon the 
 strange ship." 
 
 A hundred teuvils !" cried the Lieutenant, 
 taking a long look through a telescope — " put 
 ■he vas pe a merchaiidman afder all." 
 " I think so," responded Jordan. 
 •* Yas — and she vas wand to make us feard 
 and dink she vas a man-of-war. 1 never see 
 such clumsy work ^n King's ship — yas — pe 
 tamn !" 
 
 " We will go about," said the captain «* and 
 fitand up alongsi de of her, on the other tack 
 — hard-a-lee-f ore-bowline, fore-top-bowline, 
 fore . and topsail sheets let go ! — mainsail 
 haul." 
 
 Like a eea bird on the wing, the pirate ship 
 came to the wind— the sails shivered for a 
 moment, the pointed yards flew round, the 
 heavy main boom ft>ll over to leeward, and 
 she danced over the waters, on the other tack 
 as if fraught with ]ir<^. 
 
 Seeing that their plan had failed of success, 
 the merchantman's courses were again let 
 fall, the helm was put down, and the ship 
 came slowly to the wind. 
 
 "Too late — too late -"—cried Jordan, with 
 hoarse laugh — •♦ Vanhurst you was right— till 
 now I was frightened we were getting into a 
 bad box — but she is no man-of-war. Ah, old 
 boy," he continued, apostrophizing the captain 
 of the bark—" that cock won't fight." 
 
 ** No, pe tamn, dat cog vash not fide," said 
 th« Lieutenant. 
 
 *' Vanhurst, see to the carronades — and let 
 the men stand by, and fire when I give the 
 word." 
 
 "Mein Gott, yas," said the dutchman, 
 hastening foward. 
 
 They were now within range of the devoted 
 Blenheim, which was soon proved by a well 
 aimed 32 pound shot skipping over the water, 
 and striking the pirate vessel aiuidships, 
 sending the splinters flying in al! directions, 
 
 and wounding two of the Succanier's crew. 
 
 " Donner and blitzen— put you vas bay Ibk 
 dat ! — "cried the Lieutenant, hastening ait — 
 " yesh, pe tamn— you vas so ! — stob liddle." 
 " That was a well-directed shot, Hans," said 
 the captain— "are those guns loaded and 
 primed, and the men standing by ?' 
 
 " Mein gott, dey vas ready, and more too." 
 " Port your helm, " shouted the captain, as he 
 once more brouslit his vessel to the wind — 
 and standing obliquely past the merchantship's 
 stern, he bore away and iaid his vessel along 
 side — for both were'now going free. 
 
 " Ho ! heave to !" he shouted—" heave to, 
 
 and be d d to you !" 
 
 His answer was a broadside from the Mer 
 chantmen that made the tin^ pirate bark reel 
 and tremble, like a child's boat in a mill race 
 — hia bulwarks were shattered to pieces — his 
 decks ripped and torn up, and about twenty 
 men fell cither wounded or dead. To make 
 the scene still more terrific, night was 
 approaciiing, and tiie gale which had long been 
 threatening, now burst forth with, a rushing 
 roar that tore the ocean into foam as far as 
 the eye could see — while the ships, bounding 
 over the snowy waves, like race- horses, run 
 onward side by side. 
 
 " Te teuvil pe tamn— put dis vash never 
 
 do!" cried the Dutchman— " one nuder 
 
 proadside vas pe sink us to the pottom, and 
 
 more doo. We vas dry our long gun, and not 
 
 pe come to close quarters." "Right again, 
 
 Vanhurst," shouted the captain through the 
 
 gale — " Up with the square foresail, double — 
 
 reefed and put her through it — it may bury 
 
 her, but the devil may care— put her through 
 
 it." 
 
 To pe sure — it vas perry her — put do 
 tcuvil may gare — but her drew it." 
 
 The reefed foresail was hoisted — the strain- 
 ing masts bent forwards till the taunt cordage 
 cracked with the tension, and the brig, half 
 buried in the foam, darted forward like an 
 arrow, leaving the more-clumsily worked 
 merchant ship far behind." 
 
 "That will do, 1 think, Vanhurst," cried 
 the captain we are now out of the range of 
 those impudent scoundrel's carronades— brace 
 sharp on a bowline, and let long torn talk 'to 
 them." 
 
 "Donner and blit/en ! yas! — led long torn 
 dalk do dem. Ready apoud — hart a lee steady 
 so. Hauldaut, pe tamn to you, on de lee 
 praces — tere, dat vas do." 
 
 " By ," cried Jordan, " 1 will teach 
 
 those scoundrels to make such havoc amo«:g 
 my crew another time. Not a living thin^r on 
 board shall escape. 1 will make them all 
 
 walk the plank by 1" 
 
 " Yas, we vas make dem all walk de blank, 
 but womans — pe tamn — if wonians pe on 
 poard, we vas not make dem walk de blank — 
 te teuvil ! yas— he not walk de blank." 
 
 Jordan grinned hideously, and walked 
 forward to arrange the Ionggun,which worked 
 on a swivel amidships. 'Vhey now had the 
 
 thi 
 
 8tj 
 
 in I 
 mq 
 ne 
 
 ,.jjmi» ' «' 
 
canier's crew, 
 you vas bay I6i 
 
 liagtening ait — 
 
 f— stob Jiddle." 
 shot, Hans," said 
 ins loaded and 
 : by ?' 
 
 , and more too." 
 he captain, as he 
 
 to the wind— 
 e merchantship'a 
 
 his vessel along 
 g free, 
 ed— " heave to, 
 
 from the Mer- 
 pirate bark reel 
 It in a mill race 
 I to pieces— his 
 d about twenty 
 lead. To make 
 fie, night was 
 ch had long been 
 
 with a rushing 
 foam as far as 
 ships, bounding 
 race-horses, run 
 
 dis vash never 
 1— "one nuder 
 he poltom, and 
 mg gun, and not 
 " Right again, 
 ain through tlie 
 uesail, double- 
 it — it may bury 
 put her through 
 
 ■y her— put do 
 rii." 
 
 ted— the strain- 
 
 e launt cordage 
 
 the brig, half 
 
 )rward like an 
 
 rasily worked 
 
 inhurst," cried 
 tlie range of 
 ronades— brace 
 ig torn talk ;to 
 
 -led long torn 
 art a lee steady 
 Du, on de lee 
 
 i will teach 
 
 havoc amo<ag 
 
 iving thin.r on 
 
 lake them nil 
 
 iralkde blank, 
 mians pe on 
 Ik de blank — 
 blank." 
 
 and walked 
 which worked 
 now had the 
 
 ■'^' —T- 
 
 to 
 
 devoltd mercljanltnan compkttly at their 
 mercy — the long eighteen pounder having tier 
 within its range, while their carronades were 
 useless. Every lime tlicy rose to the summit 
 of a wave, the pirate fired— each bnll telling 
 with terrible precision on the hull of the ill- 
 fated lilctiheim. As if to hivor the former, and 
 to cut otf all hope of the eiscape of the latter, 
 the sqtiall passed over as svddpnly as it had 
 appeared, and the moon breaking out threw 
 almost a noon-tide brilliancy over the fur 
 spreading waste of waters. 
 
 " Tat vas goot," cried the Lieutenant of 
 the Pirate — now we vas fire long doni more 
 straigijter dan straight— dare go his mainyard 
 in to sli.ngs ! Ten dousand teuvils— dat ish 
 more pelter dan goot, and more petter dan 
 never vas, too." 
 
 Still the remorseless fire from the Firate 
 went on, and at every discharge, the spars of 
 the Blenheim flew splintering in the moon 
 beams. Several attempts were made on the 
 part of the latter to close with the Buccanier, 
 but in vain. The Pirate had been taught a 
 respectful dirflance — and he kept it. 
 
 At length all attempts at resistance seemed 
 abandoned— the spars of the ill-fated ship 
 were hanging in the slings — her sails were 
 torn to ribbons— and several shots had riddled 
 the hull between wind and water. 
 
 The mate now pointed out to the attention 
 of the captain, a man s:anding in the uiizcn 
 rigging, who was waving his hat in token of 
 surrender. 
 
 •' Never mind !" thundered the ferocious 
 Jordan, with a terrible oath—" blaze away at 
 
 them, till there is not a d d one left to 
 
 wave his hat. 1 intend to give old Nicholas 
 work to-night, for when I board them 1 intend 
 to cut the throat of every vi'liain that is left 
 alive." 
 
 " Yaw — ten dousand teuvils, we vaS cut 
 dcrc troats, pe tamn ! Let us stob long dom, 
 and poard dem now — it vas pe getting galra 
 enough." 
 
 •' Well, I expect they don't feel in a humor 
 now to give us another broadside" — said the 
 Pirate — " so, quarter master, lufF up and lay 
 her along side the ship. Vanhurst,- clear 
 away the launch, and let her be manned." 
 
 In a short time the Pirate vessel was within 
 hail of the Blenheim. One of the crew of the 
 latter mounted the rigging and announced 
 their surrender. 
 
 •• Vanhurst," said Jordan, ** jump into the 
 launch with twenty men, and niako siiort 
 work with all on board. 1 dare say she is 
 richly laden " 
 
 ♦' Sail, ho ! — close on tho weather bow" — 
 cried the Pimte lookout man." 
 
 " Gott ler tamn !" cried the mate at this 
 unexpected i nnouncenient. ile was ahout to 
 descend — but he stopped short and looked at 
 the captain for further orders. 
 
 «♦ Go on I" thundered the Pirate — ■' it's only 
 a merchant brig — what the d— 1 arc you 
 frightened at ? Yovl have plenty of time to 
 
 -n 
 
 take out the valitnLioe, cut the thfoals of ali 
 on board, and scuttle the ship before the 
 stranger comes u|>, even if she is a cruiser. I 
 will keep them in piny till then." 
 
 " No ! py mrin Goit !" cried the Maie— "I 
 VBs not poard dat ship. Doos you dink dat 
 vas von mcrchand pr.g ? Hunner and five 
 million teuvils, she vas von prig of war !" 
 
 As he said this, the sironge sail had yawed 
 for a moment, and the Hollander had obtained 
 a brief but accurate survey of her looks. 
 
 Jordan gnashed his teeth — «' Dutch idiot!" 
 he shouted, snatching a pistol from his belt 
 " 1 will teach yon to mutiny at a time like 
 this"- and so saying, he fired, and the horrified 
 lieutenant roaring out, in a voice that sounded 
 like the bellow of a wounded bull— »» Von 
 hunner million teuvils " — fell to the deck 
 with his arm shattered to pieces. ' 
 
 " 1 must go myself," he cried, jumping 
 into the boat," La Vega," he continued to a 
 whiskered Spaniard, who acted as second 
 heutennnt, — '« lake command of the brig till 
 I return, nnd if you see any signs of foul plav 
 on board the prize, fire right into her, and send 
 more men along." 
 
 "Aye, aye,' responded the Oflicer, as the 
 boat put oft. Scarce had they gained the 
 deck of the English ship, when a cloud of 
 smoke burst from the stranger's bow, and an 
 eighteen pounder came whirring over the 
 pirates' heads. 
 
 " Perdition !" exclaimed Jordan, " who 
 
 would have thought it was a cruiser?" 
 
 adding, as he sprang upon the Blenheim's 
 deck—" To work, men— quick— no quarter !" 
 ile now took a hurried look at the strange 
 vessel— and reinarjied in a passionate tone— 
 
 " Vanhurst was right, by ! it is an armed 
 
 brigantine ! Never mind— the Ocean Queen 
 and the prize both together will be more than 
 a match for him. To work— men !— we have 
 time enough !" 
 
 " Not by a long chalk," cried one of the 
 Pirates, trembling all over, as if ho had been 
 suddenly struck with an ague fit—" siie is 
 close on board, and La Vega is bearing awav ' 
 Wearelost— lost !" ^ ' 
 
 " Liar !" yelled Jordan, as the truth of hi:^ 
 
 desperate situation flashed to his mind " he 
 
 dare not desert mo." 
 
 " Look !" cried the man. 
 
 ll was too true. Plainly perceiving that 
 the stranger was a man of war, tlie Pirates had 
 thought only of their own safety, and bore 
 away, leaving Jordan and his companions to 
 their laic, in the meantime an indiscriminate 
 slaughter was going on, in compliance with 
 Jordan's commands— as he was anxious to 
 murder all on board before the stranger came 
 up, and so prevent any cry lor iHsislance 
 being raised. 
 
 "By Satan! the game is up!" cried tho 
 Pirate chief, the damp sweat of despair rolling 
 from his brow,—" but thank heaven, there 
 ia one chance yet," he muttered, as the olhcr 
 vessel bore down and hailed— 
 
 I 
 
30 
 
 n} 
 
 I H 
 
 »« Ahoy there ! What's wrong P" 
 
 " We've been uttacked by a Pirate," replied 
 Jordan, in hig hoarse voice — »« but your shot 
 has scared them. Make bail in their wuke, 
 and you may come up with them yet." 
 
 " Are you much damaged ?" 
 
 '* Not at all— but lose no time in giving 
 chase, or the piratical rascals may get oft'.' 
 
 " No ! — no !" cried one of the survivora, 
 springing from hia concealment — " they are 
 on " 
 
 There waa a scuffle heard by thos; on board 
 the man of war — a smothered cry — a dull, 
 crushing sound, and then a heavy Tall. 
 
 " Somethmg wrong !" exclaimed the 
 captain of the man of war brig — " Lower 
 tfl 4iway the cutter there — quick !" 
 
 He jumped in himself, and ordered the 
 men to give way. 
 
 " Here they come '."cried Jordan, standing 
 on the gangway, with a cocked pistol in each 
 hand — " but by Satan ! we'll die game !" 
 
 At this moment one of the Pirates, who had 
 gone below to pillage, returned on deck — 
 dragging with him two shrieking fcmalus — 
 
 " Captain, captain," he cried as he pulled 
 them forward to wliere Jordan stood — '♦ we 
 have hostages for our lives^ and can make our 
 own terms." 
 
 i •♦ Good ! by — !" echoed Jordan, snatching 
 
 at the idea — ♦' Mount you the gangway with 
 
 ,1 that one, and hold her up to their siglif, and 
 
 A the moment they disregard my offer and try to 
 
 '; board, cut her throat and toss her over the 
 
 ii side. Our own lives before any other 
 
 I I consideration. I will tike this one," ha 
 
 I I added, seizing Mrs. Scton i)y the arm, and 
 
 I 1 lifting her, half fainting up to where he stood, 
 
 j and holding a pistol to her head. As for 
 
 I - Frances, she was perfectly insensible, and in 
 
 a state that more nearly resembled death than 
 
 i life. 
 
 I The man of war's boat was now close on 
 
 1 board. 
 
 >. Jordan raised high the form of Mrs Seylon 
 
 with his right hand, and waving his left, ho 
 cried in a voice of thunder — 
 
 ' »« Keep off ! — keep off! or by Eternal Hell ! 
 
 . 1 will hurl this innocent woman's body upon 
 
 ' your heads !" 
 
 " Frances Mason !" shrieked the mon of 
 *i war oiticer, as catciiing a glimpse of her pnle 
 
 face, he bounded to the deck. No sooner had 
 il\ he done so, than the Pirate's pistol cxplodcMl, 
 
 1 :' and tho lifeless body of Mrs. Seyton fell to the 
 
 • i \ dark waters below. 
 
 " Fight on !" roared Jordan—" we out 
 number them two to one. Show them no 
 quaiter— for they will show none to us !" 
 
 '> Harm him not !" thundered tlio Uriti;iii 
 officer, in a voice that rang high and loud 
 above tho clash of the breaking swords and 
 the trampling feet-— "harm him Jiut— lie chall 
 die no warrior's d^ath !" 
 
 CHAP. XJl. 
 The l*irut«*s Creed* 
 
 " O, aha Imtl hail fcarM her aoiil wasfivcn 
 
 'J'o rvmo uiihiillowod iJiilil of air — 
 
 Homo 01 ring spirit loiit Trom hcuvoii." — MoUHi.. 
 
 When Frances Mason again opened her eyeu, 
 as the returning soul once more again rcaumud 
 her functions, her gazu fell upon a face which 
 save in her dreams, she had never seen but 
 once. Instinctively she closed her eyes, and 
 a shudder of indescribable emotion thrilled 
 her frame. ♦' I am still dreaming," she 
 thought — " 1 never sleep but that face liaunto 
 my visions. In my waking hours I can shut 
 it from my mind — would that 1 could also shut 
 it from my dreams !" 
 
 She looked around, and found herself in a 
 ship's stateroom, tastefully decorated, — but 
 dilFerent from the one whicii she had occupied 
 in the Blenheim At length, however, a dim 
 and vagno recollection ofsoiae of the events 
 of tho preceding i2i hours flashed to her mind, 
 — the cliabe — the gale, the conflict — lastly 
 the, the vision of the horrible face that had 
 met her gaze when she waa dragged, half 
 dead, from the cabin, — all rushed to lier mind, 
 and a vague, wild fear, almost amounting to 
 delirium, flashed for a moment ncrosa her 
 brain. Again, with a convulsive effort, she 
 opened her cyea ; the scene was not vLsionary 
 — it was reality. With r.n involuntary shriek, 
 she exclaimed, as she again caught a glimpse 
 of those but too well^remeuibered features — 
 
 »« Jordan, the Pirate !" 
 
 " Be composed, dear lady," said the person 
 addressed — •' you ore in safety, and will very 
 soon be conveyed home." 
 
 " Murderer^!! slie cried, " where arc my 
 companions P" 
 
 "Lady, I am net," answered tho PirnCc ; 
 •' 1 spare life — I do not destroy it. Your 
 companions are all prisoners." 
 
 " Thank heaven, they were not butchered 
 then ! Where is Mrs. Seton P" 
 
 The Pirate was silent. 
 
 •' Is she a piisoner also P" 
 
 He l^ipwed his head. 
 
 *' And why are we not together r" she cried 
 starting up. 
 
 " The prisoners have been scut away in the 
 prize," said the other, " but lady," he added, 
 " fear nothing — rest assured you are sife.-- 
 Every one around you is desirous of consulting 
 your comfort, and this cabin is appropriated 
 wholly to your use, until we arrive in port— ■ 
 when you will be taken to your home. But 
 do not agitate yourself now, on account of 
 the late fearful scones, which innat have 
 distracted your mind witli terror." 
 
 " And, why, wretch," sho continued, em- 
 boldened by the very despair that stared her 
 in tho face — " why do you enact auch soeuoB.' 
 — are they not yout doings ?" 
 
 •' Lady," said tho pirate, in a voice that 
 aoracwhat trembled—*' twice I have preserved 
 
1. 
 Creed. 
 
 oiil wasfjivcn 
 
 air — 
 
 icuvon." — MooHi.. 
 
 II opened hereyt'u, 
 ore aj^ain reaumt'd 
 upon a lace which 
 
 never seen but 
 Bed her eyes, and 
 c emotion thrilled 
 
 dreaming," sho 
 t that face Jmunto 
 g hours I can shut 
 it 1 could altsu shut 
 
 ound herself in a 
 7 decorated, — hut 
 she had occupied 
 li, however, a dim 
 liie o/' the events 
 ifhed to lier mind, 
 conllict — laptly 
 le face that had 
 aa drajrjrt.d, hall 
 ished to lier mind, 
 st amountinjr to 
 nent across her 
 ilaive effort, she 
 was not visionary 
 nvoluntary cshriek, 
 caught a glimpse 
 acred features — 
 
 Haid the person 
 ty, and will very 
 
 ' where are my 
 
 ;red tho Pirate ; 
 jlroy it. Yout 
 
 - r 
 
 not butchered 
 
 Iher r" she cried 
 
 lent away in thu 
 
 lady," he added, 
 
 lou are safe. — 
 
 lusoi consulting 
 
 fa appropriated 
 
 rrivo in port—' 
 
 home. But 
 
 Ion account of 
 
 Ich iiiuat have 
 
 It." 
 
 nilinucd, em- 
 liat stared her 
 pt £)uch scenoB." 
 
 a voice that, 
 liavo preserved 
 
 your life— yon, at least, have no right to term 
 me murderer." 
 
 " Were you not one when you ordered 
 your demon crew to fire into this ship .'" 
 
 •' Thi.s ship fired first, and wo only acted on 
 aolf defence." 
 
 " VVcioyounot nearly taken by another 
 veppcl ?\ asked Frances, whose torrors were 
 now partially allayed — " I heard them say, 
 before 1 lost all conscieusness, that there was 
 a chance of our being rescued." 
 
 " Yes — a boat boarded us from that vessel," 
 but wf boat them off." 
 
 " And can you," she continued, ♦' who can 
 thus converse rationally, and, on some occa- 
 sinng, act with generosity, can you delight in 
 such a life of rapir.c, slaughter and blood — till 
 your name has bpcomo a byword, and your 
 deeds held up to tho execration of a justly 
 incensed world ?" 
 
 The outlaw paused. «' Lady," he at length 
 eaid — " it is that world which has made me 
 such as I am. You view this matter through 
 a false medium ; your ideas on the subject 
 have been imprdssed ou yonr mind since your 
 oarliest childiiood, and when we have long 
 belived what is wrong, it at last assumes the 
 appearance of right. Men become actjustomed 
 to view this question in a certain light, and 
 only under one aspect — till, at last, to their 
 minds, it becomes a moral impossibility io view 
 it in any other. Any infringement that is 
 made on the self-evident principles of justice 
 and human rights by a constituted body, men 
 do not question, but submit to its impositions 
 because it is conventional us.ige and has 
 assumed the appearance of what is termed 
 legality; and yet those impositions may involve 
 both robbery and bloodshed. Uut when an 
 individual member of society denies the right 
 of any hu man power to divest him of the 
 exercise of his own will, cither by usage or 
 enactments — when he acts on tho assumption 
 that ho is a member of no particular fraternity 
 — a citizen of the world, and not of a nation — 
 even although ho forsake the land and makes 
 himself a home upon the wide and trackless 
 sea, as an empire not undes the dominion of 
 any nation — men look upon his conduct as a 
 monstrous violation of those conventional 
 laws which tliey have always been taught to 
 regard as sacred—and, hence, deny to tho 
 individual the right of free agency which they 
 yield to united society. A king, with au 
 hundred thousand men, may shed the blood of 
 a nation — but it is legal warfare ; an individual 
 sheds the blood of one, and it is murder. A 
 king may plunder and lay desolate a whole 
 realm, but the robbery is hallowed by the same 
 title to legality — if I, on the other hand, rob a 
 solitary ship, it is denounced as piracy. I do 
 not hold up my evil example to make mine 
 appear less evil ; I merely wish to show that 
 the evils of which you speak, and which you 
 have hitherto considered partial, arc not so — 
 they are widespread and general. From the 
 king on his throne to the bravo in the steets, 
 
 •"^Kmr 
 
 the same eystem of high hand wrong is pursued 
 — the strong imposes on the weaker. Man in 
 the natural prey of man— it has been so, is so 
 and will bo so, until the breaking morn of the 
 Millenium. Society has thrown me out its 
 pale — why^ should 1 recognizo or abide by its 
 laws ? 1 never sanctioned or concurred in 
 those laws, why should I be reviled^ for not 
 obeying them ?" 
 
 " You have had recourse to the most subtle 
 sophistry in defending your conduct," said 
 Frances,'^ which puzzles one though it does 
 not convince. Hut aflcr all you have said, one 
 great fact remains evident — you take from 
 others, the property which is not yours, and 
 which you have no right to." 
 
 " True," said the pirate, calmly — «« but, 
 lady, so does all the rest of tho world. Tho 
 king plunders the p roperty of his subjects— 
 the subject ''heats his fellow subject — tho 
 church robs the laity, and the laity rob one 
 another. The only difference between us is 
 in the mode pursued. I rob openly and 
 without fear — 1 defy an united world — I roo by 
 the right of tho strong arm and the mailed 
 hand — but the king robs under the form of 
 legal taxation, and by means of a system 
 upheld by corruption, bribery and force — the 
 church obtains its tithes by aid of the bayonet 
 — while the citizen robs from his fellow by 
 falsehood and dissimulation. In this mine is 
 the most noble course, for what 1 do is done 
 in open day and in the eyes of the whole 
 world. Yet the wickedness of the one is 
 regarded not — he is esteemed by his friends- 
 beloved by his family — united to the female of 
 his choice, and dies surrounded by lamenting 
 
 sutvivors. But for me" cried the Pirate, 
 
 springing up — " 1 have no friend in this wide 
 world — no woman's smile can beam for me ' 
 no gentle voice shall soothe my dying hour — 
 no tear bodew my corpse. Not in harmony 
 and peace shall my parting spirit fly- but in 
 the red hot breath of battle,or in the whirlwind 
 storm must my foul wing its flight. O ! sudden 
 bloody and ignominious must ue my end — let 
 the time come when it may !" 
 
 And, as if overcome by his feelings this 
 mysterious and unfathomable man mounted 
 the deck, and left Miss Mason lost in doubt 
 and apprehension. 
 
 This was soon allayed. In a short time the 
 pirate re-entered the cabin, and leading her 
 on deck, she found the vessel entering the 
 harbor which she had left so shortly previous. 
 Her gratitude to heaven for this her second 
 miraculous deliverance was so unbounded, 
 that it deprived her of speeeh,and sha entered 
 the boat in sllcnco. During the passage of 
 the boat to the shore, not a word was spoken, 
 and, aiUiough Frances trembled with anxiety, 
 knowing the danger to which he exposed 
 himself in landing, she could not muster up 
 suiFicient courage to hint at her fears, or 
 dissuade Lim from so venturous an experi- 
 ment. On landing, ho handed her into a 
 carriage which one of his men had ordered 
 
3a 
 
 previously, nnd, tcr her inexpressiltle terror, 
 took a seal beside Iier, at the same lime dir»"ct- 
 ing the driver to take the road that lad to her 
 falher'fl liouse. 
 
 ill 
 
 • CHAPTER Xlll. 
 TliG Kail room ngrain. 
 
 ' " This is tho strangost tain timt e'ar 1 iionrJ." 
 n HiiAKS. Com. op Kuuons. 
 
 '■' We must now return to the point where we 
 left th» reader at the close of the ninth chapter. 
 Scarce liad Mason given vent to the outliurst 
 of liis priof at the intelligence of the capturo 
 of the Blenheim, when his daughter entered 
 the room, and clasping her father round the 
 neck, exclaimed — " I am iiere, father I — fear 
 not for me — by tho merest accident, 1 have 
 been preserved !" 
 
 The amazement produced by her words and 
 her sudden appearance, may better bo 
 conceived than described. At first the whole 
 party stood mute and spoil-bound in their 
 astonishmenl,till Iier father, recovering himself 
 somewhat, exclaimed : — 
 
 " Eleavens ! — 1 am stjuck dumb! — The ship 
 captured by a pirate ! — by this infernal devil, 
 Jordan, too : — All on board murdered ! — and 
 you escape ! — hoio can it he possible !" 
 
 »' Thid is a most unaccountable mystery," 
 said Sir Edward, while Mason relapsed into 
 silent astonishment — " Surely the pirate did 
 not set you at liberty ! If so, the fellow is an 
 enigma which 1 cannot solve '" 
 
 " I can scarcely remember anything 
 connected with that fearful scene," replied 
 Frances, trembling at the very recollection — 
 «* fiom the time that the pirate ship hove in 
 Bight, a mortal sickness overcame me, and my 
 memory of what took place is as confused and 
 vague as the visions we see in the delirium of 
 fever. I have a dim sensation ot the firing — 
 the sound of conflict — the cry that a vessel 
 was bearing down to our rescue — that I was 
 dragged on deck — but remember nothing else, 
 till I awoke or recovered my senses in the 
 pirate vessel — where 1 was treated with every 
 attention — fetched on shore, and brought 
 safely home, about half an hour since. — What 
 became of my fellow passengers and crew I 
 know not — I was told they were retained as 
 prisoners. — To-morrow I will be able to tell 
 the story in a more coherent manner — but to- 
 night I leel 80 agitated that 1 am unable." 
 
 " Ha !" — muttered Carlynden, grinding his 
 teeth, " 1 see it all. But I will baulk them !" 
 *'l never heard of such an escape!" cried 
 the knight, in astonishment. " A most 
 wonderful penchant for pirate adventure, 
 truly," — said Curlynden with a covert sneer — 
 "1 hope this fellow's depredations will be 
 confined to the sea. However, I must make 
 short work of it now," be added internally, 
 
 « and bring the matter to a close. 
 
 How for the first time the tull sense of the 
 
 amm 
 
 danger, his child iiad . undergone, and her 
 mysterious preservation a second lime from 
 the late that once bcfiro had threatened her, 
 burst upon Mason's mind, and he clasped her 
 in his arms and was silr'nt. 
 Sir Edward still looked on, incredulously. 
 •' How," he asked, '< have you been restored 
 to your homo po quickly ?" 
 
 " The person — that is my captor — had me 
 conveyed on shore — treated me with every 
 respect possible — and had me taken home in a 
 coach without the least delay." 
 
 •♦Most extraordinary!" exclaimed Sir 
 Edward -"and are any of them here now P 
 But I sec it all," he added "you have got 
 confused with fright — the ship that bore down 
 on you saved you, depend upon it. Yes, I 
 have it ! that is it. When you came to your 
 senses, you were not in the pirate ship .'" 
 
 •'Yes," replied Frances, ••and the pirate 
 liimsolf standing by me." 
 
 ••Oil!" — said Carlynden, drawing his 
 breatli between his shut teeth. — '• And ar« 
 any of them here, now may I ask, Miss 
 Mason ?" 
 
 ♦• Yea — no — " stammered Frances, in a 
 confused tone, ••that is they set me down at 
 the door, and then returned." 
 
 •' And why did you not invito them in.'" 
 said Mason, upbraidingly, «• that I might have 
 thanked and rewarded them for this unaccount- 
 able preservation of tho treasure I prize 
 dearest on earth ?" 
 
 •• 1 did," replied Frances, artlessly; ••but 
 they alleged want of time, and hurried back." 
 "No doubt th?y did," said Carlynden, 
 sneering, " do you suppose they were mad, to 
 have thrust themselves into the very hands of 
 jusiico ? — Mad enough they were — but not 
 mad enough to do that. Neither can 1 see 
 how they are entitled to your gratitude ; I once 
 heard of a dog who saved a child by jumpino- 
 into the canal after it ; it was so caressed for 
 the action, that shortly after, seeing another 
 child on the bank, he shoved it in, for tho 
 purpose ot having the pleasure of pulling it 
 out again, and being again praised. This did 
 not save him, however, from being hanged, 
 for his gratuituous serviced — and neither I 
 tru.st will this feat of first capturing Miss 
 Mason, and then releasing her, prevent thia 
 Mr. Jordan from being hanged, if he is taken." 
 '• True, true," said Mason — '• that never 
 struck me ; but, perhaps, it was as Sir Edward 
 suggests — she may have been rescued by the 
 crew of the vessel that bore down to them, in 
 which case they would have been entitled to 
 my utmost gratitude, had they have come in." 
 " I tell you," said Frances," that it was tho 
 pirate that accompanied me home — ana further 
 he told me that he had beaten oil;' the other 
 ship. 1 find my mind almost unsettled by the 
 events of the last twenty four hours, and on 
 any other point would not be so positive — but 
 of that 1 am sure." 
 
 "You are wearied out, lovo," said her 
 father, anxiously, as ho took her hand, and led 
 
33 
 
 one, and her 
 nd lime from 
 reatened her, 
 e clasped her 
 
 ncredulously. 
 been restored 
 
 ffioT — had me 
 J wiih every 
 Len home in a 
 
 claimed Sir 
 I here now ? 
 ou liave got 
 lat bore down 
 ti it. Yea, I 
 :ame \o your 
 e ship ?•• 
 id the pirate 
 
 drawing his 
 — '* And ar« 
 I ask, Misa 
 
 anccB, in a 
 me down at 
 
 I them in r" 
 I might have 
 is unaccount- 
 3ure I prize 
 
 lessly ; " but 
 
 iirried back." 
 
 Carlynden, 
 
 ere mad, to 
 
 ery hands of 
 
 re — but not 
 
 can 1 see 
 
 tude ; I once 
 
 by jumping 
 
 aressed for 
 
 ng another 
 
 in, for tbo 
 
 pulling it 
 
 This did 
 
 g hanged, 
 
 neither I 
 
 iring Miss 
 
 event this 
 
 is taken." 
 
 hat never 
 
 >ir Edward 
 
 ;ed by the 
 
 ,0 them, in 
 
 ntitled to 
 
 come in." 
 
 it was the 
 
 ,na further 
 
 the other 
 
 led by the 
 
 and on 
 
 Iftive — but 
 
 said her 
 ], and ted 
 
 hot to the door, " you had better retire. 1 will 
 wait impatiently till to-morrow for the details 
 of your perilous adventure — an adventure so 
 stunning to my senses, that even yet I cannot 
 realize it." 
 
 •t Well, one thing is certain, said Sir 
 Edward, •' the fellow cannot be fjr off the 
 roast— and in the morning I shall have a look 
 after him." 
 
 ••And if permitted," added Carlynden, " I 
 will accompany you ns a volunteer. 1 owe 
 Monsieur Jordan an old score, and am anxious 
 to pay it." 
 
 " And he will give you a full discharge — 
 and a discharge from all your earthly liabilities 
 ni well" — whispered a voice in the officer's 
 car. 
 
 Carlynden started — and turned suddenly 
 round to see from whence the words came — 
 but he saw none to whom he couldtrace them. 
 
 ** Whospok9!"— he exclaimed — but no one 
 replied. Subduing his anger, which had, to 
 say the truth, a spice of fear in it, he remained 
 quiet and observant, trusting thus to discover 
 the cause of this sudden interruption. 
 
 Meantime Mason had left hia daughter at 
 the door, and rejoined Sir Edward Sarsfield. 
 As the young lady opened it to pass out, the 
 stranger before referred to, followed her, and 
 whispered as he went out — 
 
 •• One word more, for mercy's sake ! — and 
 then adieu forever, and forever !" 
 
 With difficulty she repressed a scream at 
 this sudden addres8,but recognizing the sound 
 of hiii voice, she exclaimed, in a tone trem- 
 bling with terror — 
 
 '• You here yet ! — In God's name, begone ! 
 —Add not self-murder to the black catalogue 
 of your crimes by remaining here longer ! ' 
 
 •• Hush ! ' — he exclaimed, as he caught her 
 arm, to enforce silence—" listen !" 
 
 •• Mason, this villnin's depredations are 
 passing all bounds," said Sir Edward, as the 
 merchant rejoined him, <• and 1 swear by the 
 coronet which I one day hope to wear ! 
 to cruise these waters till 1 bring him to 
 punishment — or never to return ! I will now 
 do myself that which I have hitherto entrust- 
 pd to the judgment and courage of my son. 
 He commands en armed vessel, and promised 
 to do great things, when he departed on his 
 cruise in search of the Buccaniera that infest 
 these seas— but I have never heard of the 
 young mad-cap since ; I suspect he found 
 Jordan too wily for him— although Teach or 
 Blaokbeard was the bugbear then — and this 
 Jordan was not known — nor do we yet know 
 who he is — but the desperado has a worse foe 
 now to contend with ! — one who will not 
 hunt in vain ! — No ! by Saint George ! he 
 ■hall hang, before a month rolls over, or 1 
 have cruised the ocean forty years for noth- 
 ing !" 
 
 " Heard you that !" — cried Frances to tha 
 ■tranger, in a voice «o agitated she could 
 hardly speak ;•• go— go," she cried, pushing 
 him ft way— " jour bwod spilt hero will not 
 
 atone for your sins !— for the aake of haaven, 
 begone — and haunt me not again !" 
 
 •• I have but few words to say," said the 
 stranger, in a low, thrilling tone — *' do you 
 deny me the privilege .'' Frances Mason, my 
 life has been forfeited in my attempt to restore 
 you to your home — for that I care not— but 
 that 1 should go down to the grave without a 
 word of sympathy — without unburthening my 
 soul of the secret within it — maddens me. t 
 do not ask this final interview as a recompense 
 for any fancied services you may suppose I 
 have rendered you, 1 am yet too proud for that 
 — but grant it to me as an act of friendship of 
 mercy, if you will. You spurn me from you, 
 you deny mo the privilege ! — then be it so — 
 you are in the right — I am not a being with 
 whom the pure and innocent should hold 
 converse — but I am such as circumstances 
 and nature made me — and by Nature's God 
 tnuet I be judged. — Farewell!" 
 
 " Stop !" she cried frantica lly, a? he threw 
 an upbraiding look upon her from those dark, 
 burning eyes, that flashed in that dark recess 
 with the brilliancy produced by passion and 
 excitement—" what would you say :»— Merci- 
 ful Heaven ! what shall I do ! " 
 
 Without replying, he took her reluctant 
 hand, and led her out into the open air. In a 
 few moments they were in the garden, 
 attached to the mansion, and stood shrouded 
 in the gloom of the overhanging trees. Above 
 them a thousand stars were trembling and 
 glittering in the dark blue sky, while the 
 sullen and monotonous boom of the distant 
 ocean broke upon the silence of the nightj 
 like the knell of the world's doom. 
 
 CHAP. XIV. 
 L.ove. 
 
 8he love* — l)ut knows noi whom (he lores, 
 Nor what his race nur whence he came, 
 Like one who meets in ludinn gruvei 
 Home beauteou* bird withont a name. — Moors. 
 
 So great was her fear, that for some time she 
 stood in utter silence, which he did not appear 
 inclined to break, for he remained gazing on 
 her sofl dreamy eyes, as if they were the star 
 of his destiny, and bore <'all the light that 
 shone o>i earth for him." b'o deep, so a 1- 
 absorbing was this reverie, that she could not 
 but feel a thrill of admiration for the daring 
 being who could thus so fearlessly pause 
 while but one step divided him from the 
 tremendous abyss that yawned to engulf 
 him forever. Uut soon an overwhelming 
 sense of the impropriety of her situation — a 
 sense of the danger to which the inexplicable 
 being standing before her exposed himself, 
 bursting upon her mind — she exclaimed, in a 
 voice that trembled with excitement— 
 
 •' Madman ! why do you tempi destiny ?— 
 Did you not hear that terrible threat of Sir 
 Edward's'?— why, in heaven's name, do you 
 linger?" 
 
34 
 
 ''^"^'rfvw^gsym 
 
 I ;■' » \l 
 
 '. 
 
 Tlie youiijj man smiled, revialiiig Aom 
 beneath Iuh j.-l moiistaclie his white nt\<l cvon 
 tpoth— " I tear not thu tlireaUi dl" Sir Edwnnl 
 friarsHuld," he said, g<;ornlully — " IhicalB ol' a 
 similar kind have been made belorc now, by 
 men as wily and as btavo aa lu? ia, but as a 
 proof of Uipir worthlessncss I aLund beforo you 
 now. No, lady, ilis not i hat I ii;ar — I fear nioru 
 that you will refuse rue my last request tlian 1 
 do the power of all Kn^'land. Kvi'r since the 
 liour in which 1 aaw you first thf^ blarkness of 
 my soul has vanished, an I one bris;lit golden 
 dream has irradiated it instead — a dream that 
 must now end, but the blessed memory of 
 whicli shall exial until the period arrives when 
 my brief but fateful career, must terminate by 
 u premature and blo(»dy death." 
 
 Francos shuddered and was silent. She 
 turned to depart, but there was a fascination, 
 aome potent, all-poworful spell in the light of 
 those burnintr eyes, that chained her to (he 
 spot, and deprived her of speech or motion. 
 
 *' I know all you would say," he continued ; 
 " you think that the^e Im an eternal barrier 
 placed between us— that we are as far removed 
 from each other's sphere as the depths of hell 
 and the heiglits of heaven — that the v«ry fact 
 of my speaking to you is something revolting 
 and horrible — and that the sooner our short 
 and eventful acquaintance ends the better — 
 Hince, were it known, it would entail endless 
 shame on the fair Frances Mason. Start not ! 
 I am spenking to you probably for the last 
 time, ia this biJter and woe-fraught world, 
 and sh:i!l therefore speak freely. You 
 think our natures as antagonistic as the angels 
 of light and those of the bottomless pit — ?>nd 
 that you are bound to give me this final inter- 
 view in gratitude for having twice saved your 
 life — but that otherwise I were unworthy to 
 pollute by my prtsence the very air which 
 you bnaihe. And in all you are right — nor 
 Avould I haunt you thus now, but that an irre- 
 wistab! ; destiny impels me on, even although 
 death were the penalty of my presumption. — 
 JSay. interrupt me not — my time is short, and 
 1 may never gaze upon those sweet dark eyes 
 again ; you will become the beloved and 
 liappy bride of some rich and haughty suitor 
 — while 1 t>hall descend to death and infamy, 
 and you will only hear my name mentioned in 
 eonnection with rapine and sin of every kind. 
 Curses, not tears, will follow me to ray dis- 
 honored grave — not a solitary eye shall weep, 
 no sister's kisa, uo brother's hand, no mother's 
 gentle voice shall give me a last farewell — 
 but alone, unaided and unpitied must I g<> 
 through liie fiery ordeal. Be it so — it matter's 
 not, since I am about losing that v/hich wou'd 
 have made life glorious beyond measure. But 
 my doom has been pronounced — and as [ have 
 sown so must 1 reap. Society believe my 
 system of belief wrong, and 1 believe theirs 
 lo be wrong. I have as good a right to enjoy 
 and act up to my system of belief ns they 
 have to theirs. Yet despite the .dreadful 
 death which stares me in the face, one blessed 
 dream has irradiated my soul, and will until its 
 
 li^tit is quenched in tlie darkness of the grave 
 Asa nuMii(>nlii ot that dreuiii 1 usk you fo 
 thu ribbon around your nook, the otily fuvor I 
 shall ever ask of yO'i. You wore that ri'jbou 
 on tiio d ly 1 Hiiw you firht — give it me, and 
 tlien, adieu, forever — 1 shall never see you 
 more." 
 
 Frineerf was shaken witli emotion lo her 
 inmost soul, but she replied, firmly — 
 
 " I cannot ; it is attached to a miniature I 
 have worn since childhood." 
 
 •« Give it me," continued the other, in hin 
 thrilling tone — " detach it from llio picture, 
 for the ribbon can have no associations." 
 
 "No, no" — she cried — "Go! for God :i 
 sake, leave me ! Unhappy man, never w;ii 
 love more misplaced than yours !' 
 
 " Frances Mason, you will not refitso m ), 
 
 fersiiited t!je stringer ; " it in all the reeor ! 
 ask of our ill-fated acquaintance. Give it tc 
 nic — I will not trouble you again. Unless 
 my name ia redeemed from all disgrace— a 
 thing which cannot be — you will see me no 
 more" 
 
 " O, heaven ! your words will distract me,' 
 she cried, clasping her hands, and turning to 
 leave the spot — " Depart, wretched man ! 
 repent and obtain forgiveness !" 
 
 Again thatsmilo of unfathomable confidence 
 — that certainty of requited love, lit up his face 
 — and he exslaimed, as he drew still nearer to 
 her — 
 
 *' Frances, you love me — unhappy girl,your 
 love is as misplaced as mine. Yet, what is it 
 to the huinan heart that loves and cleaves to- 
 v/ardd another, what the object of its passion 
 has been oris .' — love cares not for the cold 
 opinions of the world. What is it to you if I 
 hate oil the world, and love but you alone ? 
 And why is it that you forsake me ? — because 
 all mankind have lorsiaken me ! Mea start 
 with horror at the mention of my name, and 
 because they do so, you also spurn me from 
 your presence. 1 have violated certain laws, 
 and for this I must sufi'er scorn and obloquy, 
 the prison, the halter, the grave. No human 
 love is proof to such an ordeal as to accompany 
 me through this. Even a motiier'a love 
 would vanish at the task — a brother would 
 forsake me — a father would turn in loathing 
 firom the bier of his dishonored boy — and can 
 I then expect yours .' Would not such a hope 
 be founded in madness ? They say a woman's 
 alTection for her lover is proof to all things — 
 that when all have for:>aken him she will not ; 
 though he dies of the infectious plague, she is 
 at hid side — though he mount the s«}afi'old, the 
 martyr of religion or politics, she deserts liim 
 not — but even the love of woman fails to 
 accompany to disgrace far worse than death 
 such a career as mine. All earth has united 
 against me — there is no resting place for Jlhe 
 sole of my foot — wherever the waters roll 
 my enemies are there — wherever earth indi- 
 cates th4 presence of civilized man there will 
 my human hunters be found. And will you, 
 too, Frances, join in the blood. hound cry that 
 is raised for my life ? — will you also thirst for 
 
lesH of the gnvo 
 1 UHk y<m fo. 
 tlie oiily (avur [| 
 vvorp that ri'jbou 
 
 Jive It 
 never 
 
 me, 
 
 BOO 
 
 emotion to her| 
 
 rmly — 
 
 to a miiiiutiire 1 1 
 
 fie other, in iiiu 
 oin the picture, 
 iocialioiis."' 
 Go! for God;, 
 lan, never \v;i , 
 irs !" 
 
 not ref'iiao m ), 
 I all the rec;or ! 
 lice. Give it to 
 itrain. Unlesi 
 all disgrace— a 
 vill see me no 
 
 vill distract me, 
 
 and turning tu 
 
 piched man !— 
 
 !" 
 
 tabic confidence 
 
 re, lit up his face 
 
 w still nearer to 
 
 liappy girl,your 
 Yet, what is il 
 ind cleaves to- 
 '. of its passion 
 t for the cold 
 is it to you if I 
 It you alone ' 
 niP ? — because 
 Mea start 
 ly name, and 
 )urn me from 
 d certain laws, 
 and obloquy, 
 No human 
 to accompany 
 notlier'a love 
 >rother would 
 ri in loathing 
 joy — and can 
 Dt such a hope 
 >ay a woman's 
 I all things — 
 she will not ; 
 lagup, she is 
 Bouftbld, the 
 deserts him 
 nan fails to 
 than death 
 has united 
 ace for jlhe 
 waters roll 
 eartti indi- 
 u there will 
 nd will you, 
 nd cry that 
 thirst for 
 
 my blood ' —will ymi aluu descrl mo becaiiao 
 nil thtn(;sthat wonr the form ot hiiniinity Inve 
 (liine so? — No, no-no! — yon love mo ! — 
 Frances, my adored one — 1 fi'el — 1 know it — 
 you will love me to the last !" 
 
 *♦ O ! God ! lop much" — e'le whispered — 
 I the effort wai too great — her brain reeled, tlie 
 light foroonk her eyes, and, with that invol- 
 untary exclamation, she fell fainting forward, 
 and was caught in the stranger's arms. 
 
 CHAP. XV. 
 Cnrlyndeii. 
 
 '• DuiiRor?" lie cried •■ lliou littlo kiKHv'at, 
 What lin <;nii iliire wlin, linrii luid niirKi 
 In <lung(,'i's palha, hni dntfxl hor worst — 
 Upon wliogn onr the Hignul word 
 f)riire iind donlli iii hourly l]re>ikiri|; — 
 Who slcciis witli lioad iipun tlin awonl 
 Ilia (ovot'd hand must gratj) in wukiM*." 
 
 FmE VVouHHIPFER!* 
 
 When Frances recovered from the dcalh- 
 iike swoon into which the excess of her 
 tumultuous feelings had thrown her, as she 
 made the involuntar.^ exclamation which had 
 betrayed her passion for the oulJnw, she slil! 
 found him beside her, bathing hor temples 
 with water that gushed from a fount in the 
 garden. (Ic appeared wild with ngony and 
 apprehension, fearing lest the struggle be- 
 tween her feelings and her duty had overcome 
 her reason. No sooner had she opened her 
 pyes, however, than tho memory of the late 
 Hcenes came floating over her mind, and she 
 instantly comprehended her embarrassing 
 situation, and again implored her companion 
 with all the eloquence of which she wan able, 
 to leave the place immediately. 
 
 '♦ Destiny has separated us eternally," she 
 said — " let us not make our condition more 
 wretched than it is. A lifistiine of reproach 
 repentance and tears must be mine — nor will 
 that atone for this unpardonable violation on 
 my part of everything that is womanly and 
 dignified : — and for yoii, unhappy man, retire 
 to some seclusion and repent of your dnrk 
 and nnniberleas sins. Hope not of requited 
 love," she added, wiiile her flashing eyes 
 sparkled in the star light — " for I swear by 
 yon Heaven that over-canopies us both that [ 
 will not return the love of one whose hand is 
 wet with the blood of murder !" 
 
 «' ' The woman who parleys is lost.' " 
 thought her lover — "let us see whetiicr it 
 will be so in this instance — or whether she 
 will have the moral fortitude to rcsiat. I will 
 test her affection still further. Frances," he 
 added aloud, " so far from your having acted 
 unwomanly, you have acted up to the very 
 nature of womanw-and that in spite ol your- 
 self — and when you forswear my love, you 
 arc allowing those cold formalities which the 
 world has declared shall guide us, to triumph 
 over your woman's heart. Vet why to plcuse 
 tho world and its opinions? should we render 
 
 each other wretched forever by an etfruKJ 
 separation •• Rather let us bo all the world h> 
 each other, and live iu an atmospiicre of our 
 own." 
 
 " What !" she cried—" become the parti- 
 cipator in your atrocities — go on board your 
 dreadful l)urk and associate with your demon 
 crew .' — do you mean this ?" 
 
 " Heaven forbid !" cried the pirate — " no ! 
 we will seek out some remote forest homo, 
 where tales of my name have ifver been told, 
 — and there, heedless of the surrounding 
 world, be all in all to each other." 
 
 " i\o, never !" she replied — " mad and 
 infatuated as I have been in giving way to 
 this passion thus far, 1 am not so utterly lost 
 to reason and self-rc'spect as to link my fate 
 to one trebly dyed in sin and blood, and yet 
 unrepentant. No — my heart may break in 
 the struggle — and let it, as a meet atonement 
 for my folly, but never will I suffer my feelings 
 to lead mo into assiTrcd ruin. Yet heaven 
 knows how 1 have struggled to repress them 
 — but what human power was proof to such 
 an unbounded passion as took possession of 
 my soul from the moment I saw you first." 
 
 " And for a cliimcra like this," he cried — 
 3'ou are willing to consign us both to despair P 
 — because I come not up to a certain standard, 
 which the world has drawn or rather am above 
 it, but which I recognize not — you blight the 
 holiest, strongest, most enduring feelings of 
 the human heart, and cons'gn me to liopeleEs 
 gloom and yourself to a premature grave. — 
 For me, you cut ofFall hope of repentance, fo 
 you alone can reclaim me — for yourself, you 
 will wither in your youth from unreciprocated 
 love." 
 
 " It is in vain to tempt me, Jordan," she 
 replied weeping, " I will not entertain the 
 base idea for one unholy moment. Were I 
 to do so, I would give way — and sooner dealli 
 a thousand times, than become a pirate's 
 bride" — and she turned to depart. 
 
 " One moment," — he cried — but she inter- 
 rupted him — 
 
 " Jordan, it is vain — my resolution is taken 
 I will not listen to you. Fureweli, forever — 
 and, O, if you love me as you proicss, never 
 put my strength to such a trial again !'' 
 
 " And well, noble girl, hast thou sustained 
 that trial," said her lover, in a tone of admira- 
 tion, but without evincing any sorrow at what 
 threatened lo be an eternal separation — 
 " nobly haflt thou sustained this trial, for 
 hadst thou given way my hopes in thee would 
 have been crushed forever. Despair not, 
 dearesfgirl, but believe that I can yet redeem 
 iny name from foul dishonor, and claim theo 
 in the presence of the proudest of the land." 
 
 At this moment a fuotslep was heard near 
 the spot — "Fly! fly" — she whispered, *' for 
 heaven's sake, remain not here I" He seized 
 her hand, and implanting a passionate kits 
 thereon, turned and disappeared. 
 
 Thu intruder was Lieutenant Carlyndcn ; 
 he adviinced lo Frances, and coinincnccd i\ 
 
 
yi 
 
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 floiivemation, whicii, owing tu hrr agitation, 
 ■he was by no means qualiHed to bear a part 
 ill— and it required a powerAil effort to regain 
 her tranquility ef mind. 
 
 " You have had a periloua adventure, my 
 dear Miss Mason," he aoid,** this iathe second 
 time, but it shall also be the last. Yes, by 9t. 
 Gesrge ! — Sir Edward sails to morrow in 
 
 Suest of this audacious miscreant Jordan — 
 etermined upon having him brought to 
 punishment. 1 am g^ing with him as & vol* 
 unteer, and before departing. Miss Mason, 1 
 havo sought you out to impart something 
 which, now that I am about to leave you, 1 
 can no longer conceal." 
 
 It may well be imagined that the state of 
 Miss Mason's mind — after the fearful scenes in 
 the filenhelm,the conversation with licr outlaw 
 lover, and the danger that now impended 
 over his head — was by no means prepared for 
 the disclosures about to be made by the 
 officer — but summoning up all her calmness 
 «nd fortitude, she prepared herself for the 
 interview. After a short silence, he said, as 
 he kept his eyes fixed on the ground — 
 
 ** It is difficult to say. Miss Mason, what 
 tnav not happen, should we meet this pirate, 
 and therefore it is that 1 would bid you adieu. 
 On taking Jordan I am determined— either 
 dlive or dead— -1 have longed to meet him 
 again since the day we met in the Gut of 
 Canseau — perhaps, 1 have a deeper ground of 
 revenge still than even his insults then. But 
 he must be taken, and I am only sorry that 
 hanging is too good a death for him." 
 
 Frances shuddered. •• And why," she 
 faltered, ** would you be so sanguinary ? He 
 spared our lives^ why would you thirst for his 
 blood ?" 
 
 *t Because I hate him," cried Carlynden, 
 gnashing his teeth — '^ 1 hate him, and I hate 
 to- hear you plead for him. What can he be 
 to you, that you evinfie such interest in his 
 behalf ?•» 
 
 "Sir!"— said Miss Mason, blushing with 
 indignation, "Pardon me, Miss Mason,'* he 
 said quickly, " 1 was hurried away by my 
 <eelings->-bnt this is an eventful night forme 
 — to-night I must learn my des»iny. 1 have 
 never told you — but you cannov have been 
 blind to my motives incoming U» America." 
 
 "You had no ehoice, Sir, I believe," said 
 the young lady, drily — " you wore ordered to 
 leave wiUi your regiment." 
 
 «» Ah ! "-^exclaimed the officer, drawing a 
 long breath, and biting his lips — <* well, ad- 
 milting it to be so," he continued — " have 
 you never had reason to suspect — in fact, have 
 1 not, in a thousand instances, given ^ou to 
 understand that 1 loved you — that you were 
 indispensible to my happiness.'" 
 
 "I should imagine," said Miss Mason, in 
 the same light tone, "only that I know your 
 manner loo well, that you were serious." 
 
 " I am serious," cried the officer—" I love 
 you to distraction— so help me heaven !" 
 
 " 1 am Borry for it, Sir," said the lady, 
 coldly — " b^t as I never sought your afTcc- 
 
 tintis, I am under no obligiitiun to rctttti 
 them." 
 
 " Miss Mason," continued tJie officer, "to 
 morrow 1 sail with Sir Edmund Sarsfield ii 
 quest of this abhorred Jordan; 1 may neve 
 return ; tills may be the la«t interview we shall 
 ever have — do you refuse ma the sligbtest 
 ground of hope •'" 
 
 " Hope of success in capturing the object o 
 your search, do you mean .^" — calmly inquired 
 Frances. 
 
 The officer became maddened at her quiet 
 tone of raillery, and exclaimed — 
 
 " Ha ! I see it all — 1 have observed a change 
 ever since the day that accursed villain 
 boarded us. Would to Ood," he added pas 
 sionately — *^ 1 could once more meet him face 
 to face." 
 
 " Your wish is granted" — said a stern voice 
 by his side. He looked around, with an in 
 stinctive start — " and the terrific features of 
 the pirate, Jordan, met his view. 
 
 Poralyzed, as if a spirit from the shadesF 
 had crossed his path — Carlynden remained! 
 speechless — while Frances shrieked aloud with 
 surprise and terror. The pirate stood calmly 
 regarding the two. 
 
 "Mad, infatuated man!" — at length »he\ 
 eried" — why do you throw yourself thus into 
 the \eiy hands of justice. I thought you had 
 gone to some retirement, to end your days in 
 repentance and atonement for your past trans 
 gressions. Do you know your danger.'" 
 
 " 1 know it well," said the Pirate, revealing 
 his white teeth, as be smiled—" bat I ant 
 weary of life — I can never obtain that for 
 which I would givo a thousand lives, and 
 therefore why should 1 deuire tolive longer." 
 
 Frances became pale as death — " this is 
 worse than self murder," she cried — " it is 
 murder of the soul — fly — there is yet time !" 
 
 " Too late," exclaimed Carlynden, who hid 
 recovered his startled faculties, as he drew his 
 sword — "he has thrown himself into our 
 hands, and he must abide the consequences." 
 
 " Into your hands," repeated the Pirate 
 scornfully — *'-I think, sir, we have crossed 
 swords before— you know whether I have 
 cause to fear you." 
 
 Carlynden's answer was a desperate lounge, 
 which the pirate, with difficulty, parried — and 
 they both for a moment paused and stood upon 
 the defensive, ere engaging in a contest which 
 threatened death to either one or th« other of 
 the combatants. 
 
 Motionless with terror, Frances Mason 
 uttered shriek upon shriek, which, in a few 
 moments, alarmed the house, and in a short 
 time, lights were seen coming to the spot, the 
 approaching persons guided by the sound of 
 the ringing Bwordd of the combatants. But a 
 few passes had been exchanged, when Mr. 
 Mason and the Enghsh Knight rushed to the 
 scene — but as the former caught a glimpse of 
 the fierce Buccanier's face, he almost shrieked. 
 
 "Jordan — the pirate :" 
 
 " Jordan !"— reechoed Sir Edward Sars- 
 field, drawing his sword—" the daring scoun. 
 
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 scuraed villain 
 
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 i meet him fac« 
 
 id a stern voicp, 
 id, with an in 
 iiic features ot 
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 'om the shades 
 nden remained 
 eked aloud with 
 te stood calmljr 
 
 at lenirlh ahe 
 
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 urself thua into 
 liought you had 
 id your days in 
 ^our past trans ' 
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 lobtain that for 
 nd lives, and 
 ive longer." 
 eath— »• this is 
 cried — " it ia 
 s yet time !" 
 nden, who hid 
 as he drew his 
 iself into our 
 sequences." 
 
 the Pirate 
 have croaeed 
 lether I have 
 
 3 rate lounge, 
 
 parried — and 
 
 |nd stood upon 
 
 :ontest wbicli 
 
 the other of 
 
 ^nces Mason 
 
 :h, in a few 
 kd in a sboit 
 I the spot, the 
 |lhe sound oi 
 
 ints. But a 
 when Mr. 
 
 ished to the 
 glimpse of 
 
 }st shrieked . 
 
 Iward Sara- 
 Iring scoun> 
 
 drci" — in a inoiufiit the uiirorluimte nulla w 
 wns aurroiindrd, niwl in llii- meltc, Ihu h words 
 of one of the purtips wuh pauaed llji'(>U|rii tli(< 
 flf>Hliy part of hia throJil. Ilin inouili tVAvtl 
 with blood, and he was incupttble of uUerinir 
 a word. 
 
 " Merciful God !" — e^ricd Frniicrs, cinkiiij^ 
 upon the grass — «' ITarbariniia, you Imvc killed 
 him!" 
 
 " And if we have," said the Kniirlit, srniling- 
 grimly, as her fulhcr rii8l)ed to liis daughter's 
 ussistauce — " it is the best night's work wo 
 overdid — but his single death will not. bring 
 to life the countless vicliir that have InUvn 
 by his bloody hand, liut i should not like to 
 see him die a soldier's death. lie must die 
 like a dug on the gallows tree. But, Muidon, 
 are you bure it is Joidun ?" 
 >**M cannot mistake those infernal features,'' 
 snid the old man—" it is him," 
 
 •' Is (here anvtliing oul of licll could look 
 like that," said Carlynden scornfully, "ex- 
 cept the devilJordan !" 
 
 "To the frigate with him, then,'' cried 
 Sarsiield — *' let those bandages be taken ufl' 
 his arms when he gets on board, and place 
 heavy handcuffs on him. I must take him to 
 England — and must use every precaution that 
 he does not esc.ipe." 
 
 " Oh ! my father," cried Frances, in on 
 agonized tone — " he spared our lives once — 
 mine twice — let the unfortunate man go ! — be 
 not guilty of his blood !" 
 
 Her father, who seemed paral)'zcd from the 
 first moment lie had seen the bandit's face, 
 answered not; Carlynden ground his teeth, 
 and Sir Edward laughed aloud — 
 
 " Let him go !" he exclaimed — " no by St. 
 John the Evangelist ! we had leo much trouble 
 to get him in our power to lO luu\ go so easily. 
 J^et him go ! eh .'" 
 
 ♦* Sir Edward," cried Frances kneeling 
 with clasped hands at the knight's feel — " he 
 saved ray life — for God's sake ! — spare him 
 hia— oh,'have not hia blood on your hands ! 
 Since his creator has borne with him so long, 
 why can not his fellow sinner man shew that 
 mercy which he himself so much requires!" 
 
 "Is the girl mod!" — cried Sarsfieid — 
 " what ! let the Devil loose again ! — let Jor- 
 dan escape !" 
 
 " What is the meaning of this, Frances," 
 said her father, raismg her half fainting from 
 the earth-^" don't you perceive it is in vain ? 
 — the man's life is forfeited — you have done 
 all you can — and it is unavailing to plead any 
 more, I can't understand this scene." 
 
 "Can you not.'"' — said Carlynden with a 
 sneer — " perhaps others can. Ask the pirate 
 what brought him here." 
 
 " 1 would," said Sir Edward, tauntingly, 
 " but don't you see the poor fellow's hands 
 are tied and his nioulh is full — and he can 
 neither move his hand nor wag his tongue. 
 What ! oan this be (he great Jordan — the 
 renowned sea king ! — is this the man that 
 stands on the gangway and thunders death 
 and terror to his victims who walk the plank!" 
 
 " VVIu'rc arir your pjinlcd bravus now, 
 ('iiptain JordiMi >" — (inntiiiui d ('«rlyiuien ni 
 the same mockin<; slylf, — " win n- nrn your 
 big wordn, and willu'riiig scowls — where is 
 the lady who loved you ho well," he added 
 with u bitter siietr, directed to Fr.iitces Mason, 
 who stood by with a cheek binncliod as aslien 
 — " Bf.enk to lier uiuu — oh ! you cin't,eh ? — 
 your inoijtli i» full of blood." 
 
 "What!" I'clincd Mason, as a suvpicion 
 flashed across his rnind. 
 
 "Oh nothiufr," replied Carlynden, with tiie 
 8ain»' «|niet snoer, " only that Monsieur Jordan 
 there has paid pretty dear for his uttenijit in 
 paying addresses to Miss l''ranceo IVIason — and 
 fully cxjilains why she takes such an interest 
 in his Ix-liall." 
 
 " He has s|)ok(Mi the (ruth !" said Frances, 
 in that tone of desperate resijrnalion, which 
 evinces, neither fear of punishment, reproach, 
 or future conse(|Uf nee. 
 
 " Wretched girl!" echoed her father, 
 starling from her aide, as if nn adder had billon 
 
 him — " and is it on a demon like th'S " 
 
 he could not finish — for his utterance seemed 
 choked, while Carlynden seemed to enjoy (he 
 scene wilh liundlike fjlee. 
 
 "Have done with this nonensel" — e.x- 
 claimed Sir Edward Sarsfieid — "off with him 
 to the ship ; Carlynden, to you 1 commit him, 
 ond I think you will keep him safe " sud- 
 denly (he speaker stopped, as if smitten by the 
 angel of death — his fixed and staring eyes 
 were riveted on something which hung from 
 the piisouer's neck, o'er which the blood was 
 streaming — lie rushed forward, drew it out — 
 tore the false beard from the pirate's faco, and 
 with an exclamation of madness and shame, 
 he full back into Carlynden'a arms, wilh 
 scarce the power to move a limb. 
 
 CIJAP. XVI. 
 
 •' I miyht liaTC Icnnwn ttiore wb» liut ono, 
 Whose loo 4 could quell t.ord Murniion."— Scott. 
 
 It was while Frances Mason lay in the State 
 room of the brigantine when being conveyed 
 ashore, after the caj)lure of the Blenheim by 
 the pirate, that we must return to explain the 
 events of last chapter. The pirate captain 
 was now walking the quarter deck of his brig 
 — he had thrown aside his mask and hideous 
 dress, and was conversing earnestly with a 
 young officer— the same who hod attended him 
 when boarding the ship in the Gut of Canscau, 
 and whom he had called McGregor. 
 
 "Yes," continued the pirate captain— "it 
 was a foolish — very desperate adventure from 
 the first— and had I known the results it 
 was destined to lead to, I would sooner have 
 forfeited my commission than have tried it. 
 But since 1 have gone so far, 1 will carry the 
 game out, as it rnables me to solve by ac(u<il 
 c:^)criment a problem which 1 have long been 
 in doubt about." 
 " You mean the force of vvoniar.'s love." 
 
' : m 
 
 f( 
 
 (It 
 
 I! 
 
 " Vca -l have a glorious opp'orluuily. — 
 When i Hrst was ordered lo criiiBO in senrch 
 ol'pirrttes, 1 was delerniined lo do wiiat no one 
 could do— capture ihem. So aHor racking my 
 brains a long lime, 1 fell upon the scheme of 
 disguising the vessel and Ihe crew, und assumo 
 AS much ns possible the appearance of this 
 Jordan, of whom, of course, the other pirate 
 veusela would not be in dread. The plan 
 answered admirably ; several, you are aware, 
 entered Pirate Cove while we lay therg, and 
 never dreamed of danger, always taking us for 
 Jordan. Well, things went verj well, till wc 
 boarded that merchant ship. We were told, 
 you remember, that she was a pirate prize, and 
 was then in their liands ; well, after that 
 event, you can vouch for my state of mind." 
 
 *' Yes," said the subordinate officer, laugh- 
 ing — " you had about as bad a love-fit since 
 as ever a poor devil was inflicted with. 
 But why do you not now reveal yourself — 
 declare your love — and obtain her consent ?" 
 
 " No— no, M'Gregcr," replied the captain 
 — " the wile I sivould like to have would be 
 one that could love ma with the same burning 
 passion as that felt by me for lier, — one that 
 would be willing to lay down her life for mc 
 nor shrink from my nide under any 
 circumstances — and one like tijat 1 will have, 
 or none." 
 
 ♦' Then, by riy troth, you will be lohg 
 unmarried," said M'Gregor — " there are nae 
 Bic women. ' 
 
 «• 1 don't know," pursued the captain; "I 
 have read and heard much of woman's 
 unwavering fidelity — as well as of her faith- 
 lesKness. 1 shall now have an opportunity of 
 putting it to the test. 1 love this Miss Ma- 
 son with the whole strength of which my 
 nature is capable — but I shall make sure it is 
 mutual before revealing it. She believes me 
 the pirate Jordan— it will require a great 
 stretch of affection to enable her lo listen even 
 to a declaration coming from such a character 
 — should she do so, I will endeavor to over- 
 come her scruples wi'h regard to those fi\-cd 
 principles of moral right and wrong, when by 
 every one should be guided, and induce her 
 to flv with me ; — should she consent to this, 
 I will then own her love to be the result of 
 passion and not guided by eit'.ier principle or 
 duty — and mine will cool in a proportionate 
 degree. Should she resist she will be just 
 the woman J could admire for hei sireiigtii of 
 mind as well as beauteous face. 1 will try 
 one more lest. I will sufFer myself to be 
 arrested, and if she bravis the shamo — the 
 scorn — the oblcquy that will be heaped upon 
 her for pleading for a pirate'a life — I cannot 
 have a scuiplo letl with regard to the strength 
 of her love." 
 
 '' I bIiouI ' .magine not," said the Lieuter- 
 ant ; ''but do ye ken there is nane on eaiMi 
 bearing the form of women that will do ail 
 this— pshaw !" 
 
 '•• I don't know," Ba'^* the other musing - 
 '' 1 .viU be able lo answer you ere twenty fofir 
 hours pass away." 
 
 " Will you go di.s»juiNed as Jordan !" 
 
 " I will attend her to her falher'.s house, tik 
 I am now — but will lake a false beard with 
 r.\r^ and when the proper lime arrives, will 
 assume it." 
 
 " Rut Huppose," urged liip Lieutenant, •' an 
 attack were made upon you, and you w"»re 
 sabred before having time to undeceive them ? 
 — it w >ild be paying dear for the experiment 
 that!" ^ 
 
 " Oh, the moment 1 speak — my father why 
 is there wi'l iecognise my voice." 
 
 '* 1 dinna ken," urged M'Gregor, *' Sir 
 Kdward is a pretty fiery old fellow, and would 
 as snoii hang first and judge afterwards as not. 
 Suppose he is not there either; Ihe pirate 
 Jordan telling them that he was Captain 
 Charles Sarsfield, would look vera much like 
 a whale story. " 
 
 " Well then, thou most cautious of advisers, 
 suppose I plant you with a few men, together 
 with the real Jordan, at a shct distance from 
 the house, ready to rush to the rescue upon a 
 given signal, say a whistle." 
 
 " Ah, that will be something like prudence,' 
 responded the lieutenant, who was burning 
 with desire to be present and enjoy the 
 denouement, " once they hear my statement 
 that ye are the real and veritable Captain 
 Charles Sarsfield, and that the fellow below 
 there is the actual and bona fide Captain Wil- 
 liam Jordan, ♦he most incredulous must be 
 satisfied. I ought to be able to ffive testirno- 
 ny on the subject, for I never had a more 
 difficult piece of business in hand than to lake 
 hi.n alive." 
 
 •« Well, I shall go below," said the officer, 
 '* and see how Miss Mason is." 
 
 "The pirate loon yon was speerin for ye," 
 said the officer, " ever since he ^otout of his 
 tantrums. He's got the dirt washed off his 
 face now, and looks mair christi^inlike." 
 
 " He wants to see me r" snid Jiarsfield, 
 " let him be brought in then, well guarded." 
 
 In a *?w moments the pirate was ushered 
 aft betweeii a double file of ma-ines, with 
 fixed bayonets, an officer walking in front of 
 him with a drawn cutlass at his breast, to 
 prevent any attempt at suicide. The change 
 in his couu'cnar.ce since he was last before the 
 reader is for the worse • it is a riixlnre of 
 hardened desperation and unconquorabli de- 
 fiance. 
 
 " And it is to you, Sarsfield," he said, in b 
 deep hoarse voice, «' that 1 owe th/pi good 
 turn ? It was a ?ile scheme to betray me !" 
 he shouted — " btit after all, had those sons of 
 hell who deserted me, remained true, the 
 Ocean Queen would jivvc beaten you off." 
 
 The ofiicer started, ullorly astounded at this 
 recognition. '' What ! Jordan !" he cried 
 amazed, '• and thie is the fate to which your 
 terrible belief, your atheistical doctrines have 
 brought you ? — wretche i man, did I not pre - 
 diet ihe result unless yta reformed .""' 
 
 «• Well, said the pirate inif alieully, " I do 
 not want any moralizing, nor have I asked 
 this interview fo*" the purpose of begg'ug mv 
 
"'•'■"* -v.*^-^"^'' 
 
 gaf Hi ij i K W .-*^— fKWi 'y^yir - 
 
 30 
 
 m i 
 
 s house, i<* 
 beard with 
 rrivcs, will 
 
 enant, ♦' an 
 
 I you wr«> 
 
 seive them ? 
 
 experimert 
 
 father who 
 
 •egor, " Sir 
 , and would 
 i^ards ap not. 
 the pirate 
 was Captain 
 ra much like 
 
 s of advisers, 
 en, together 
 tstanc3 from 
 ;gcue upon a 
 
 se prudence,' 
 was burning 
 d enjoy the 
 ly statement 
 able Captain 
 Fellow below 
 Captain Wil- 
 !ous must be 
 (rive teslirao- 
 "had a more 
 d than to lake 
 
 id the officer, 
 
 erin for ye," 
 kotout of his 
 shed off his 
 ;mlJke." 
 id ^arsfield, 
 
 11 guarded." 
 was ushered 
 a-ines, with 
 
 in front of 
 s breast, to 
 
 The change 
 
 ast before the 
 ruxtute ot 
 
 qu^^rabh de- 
 
 lie said, in a 
 le this good 
 bet':ay me !" 
 Iiose sons oi 
 true, the 
 you oli'." 
 nded at tliis 
 " he cried 
 which your 
 itrines have 
 ,d I not prc- 
 d ?" 
 
 tly, " I do 
 
 ve I aakcd 
 
 bfgg'ng r"^' 
 
 hie. And yet for (he sake of our lornipr 
 friendship, 1 am abi)Ul asliing a favor v/hirli 
 will probably be the last 1 shall seek at tlie 
 hands of man. ' 
 
 •' Unfortunate being !" saifl Sar.'?field, feel- 
 ing for him deeply, " name your request." 
 
 " It is that you will not take me on shore ; 
 remove tliese guards, and 1 will soon rid you 
 of my presence. 9, if the false hearted dogs 
 who betrayed me were to perish with me, 1 
 woultl hang as soon as not— and 1 am porry 
 only that there is not an Hereafter, so that I 
 torment them for their treachery ! SaisHeld ! 
 Sarslield !" he almost shrieked, " By all your 
 hopes of earth or heaven, take ofi' llicHe 
 men, and allow me to find a grave in the dark 
 water* below." 
 
 " Heaven forbid !" cried Sarsfield shudtlor- 
 ing; " unrepentent wretch, would you cut off 
 all hope of pardon by sending yourself thus 
 redolent of blood and black wiih crime into 
 the presence of the Almighty ? ' 
 
 " It is ail a fable !" he yelled, making a 
 desperate exertion to burst his fetters; his 
 struggles, accompanied by the most horrible 
 contonions of visage and imprecated blasphe- 
 mies too terrible to record, produced convul- 
 sions ; his eyes rolled up in tl^e sockets, his 
 teeth became clenched, and his face turned 
 black and livid from the rush ot blood to the 
 brain. 
 
 " 'lake him below," cried Sarsfield, closing 
 his eyes upon the horrible spectacle, for it had 
 turned him faint and sick. 
 
 " In troth its nae cariiiie,"' said McGregor, 
 motioning to the quarter master lo remove 
 him, and writhing as though wrestling with a 
 demon, the wretched man was borne below. 
 
 Glad was Sarsfield to change the scene by 
 going into his o\vn cabin, and conversing with 
 the ai.gelic vvoiaun he had rescued. She had 
 just then rccjvcjed her consciouaneaa, as lins 
 bee;i describ?d in a former chapter, and found 
 as she suppcscd, the pirate watching over her. 
 Tho manner in which he had had her taken 
 home, the scene in the garden, her rejection 
 of Carlynden, the sudden re-appearance of the 
 supposed pirate — are events with which the 
 reader is already acquainted. We shall there- 
 fore return to the point of our story where Sir 
 Edwaru becomes impressed with the belief 
 thai 'he celebrated Jordan was no other than 
 hia own beloved son. He never for a moment 
 (^;eanied of the true state of the case, but 
 imaoined that, having the means and men at 
 his command, he had, from some mad and 
 unaccountable impulse adopted the stirring 
 life of the Buccanier. 
 
 CHAl'. .XVIi. 
 Riigglc«i and his Cluster. 
 
 Tlilnkst thou that iho whoa-] only liglit 
 
 In thin dim world frnm 'heo Imth shone, 
 
 Cult liuiir thn long and choirlets night 
 
 TliHl nmsl bo hew \/hen thou art gonu ?— 
 
 Thiit I c.:n live koiI let thno go 
 
 Who nit my life il*oll i" — no, no I — 
 
 VVhoii ti:u uteni diea the leaf that gre'v 
 
 Out of its licnrt must perish too. — Lalla Rooxri. 
 
 At that dread glance no pen can describe 
 the mental agony that convulsed the mind of 
 the proud and haughty kni/rht. Surprise, 
 horror, wounded pride, and paternal love, all 
 falrugglcd for the mastery ; but pride con- 
 quered. 
 
 " Wtetched boy !'' he cried in the agony 
 of crnflicting emotions, but checking himself 
 as if unwilling to betray to those around his 
 affinity to the culprit, he thundered out as 
 pride came to his aid — 
 
 •' Take him away ! take him away ! To 
 the nearest prison v,-;th him, Carlynden — don't 
 take him on ooard oi: my ship ! I wouldn't 
 have such a double-dyeci miscreant there ! lot 
 him be punished by the civi^ laws of this 
 country — I shall have xicthing to do with 
 him !" 
 
 " I shall lake care what to do with him, 
 though," muttered Carlynden, in an inaudible 
 tone, as he stopped forward to lead the young 
 man away—" the prison to which 1 shall con- 
 sign him will be an eternal one. 1 foresee it 
 all," he thought — " between this girl's tears 
 and pleading and the old man's relenting 
 feelings, he will be pardoned, and I will be 
 sacfificsd — and if he is received into favor 
 a/rain, of course, they will manage to procure 
 iiis pardon, on condilion that ne « repents, and 
 
 becomes an exemplary member of society' 
 
 and so good bye to my chance of Miss Mason's 
 hand, ai'd the consequent improvement in my 
 finances. Come along, sir," he added aloud, 
 placing his hand on young Sarsfield's shoulder 
 — " come ! we lose time." 
 
 He then turned round and whispered to a 
 soldier behind him who acted in the capu'^ityof 
 his servant, and again requested the priscner 
 to follow . 
 
 The agony of the latter was made apparent 
 by the beaded drops of perspiration that rolled 
 from his brow — yet, at every effort he made 
 to speak, his utterance was choked by the 
 profuse rush of blocd that filled his mouth from 
 the wound. 
 
 Again Frances, pale, ♦.rembling and almost 
 frantic, threw herself at the English Knitrlit'* 
 feet- 
 
 " You see,?' she exclaimed, in an imploring 
 voice, " that he is bleeding to death — the most 
 inhuman savage ot the rest would not hunt 
 his enemy to death thus ! — at least, let his 
 wound be bound up, or he will expire on his 
 way to prison. I saw a gleam of mercy in, 
 your lace, just nowr," she exclaimed fo the' 
 elder Sai • leld — «' extend it to this crushed 
 and wretched being, or you younelf, old man 
 n)ay one day cry for it it vain." 
 
w 
 
 "Wf^ 
 
 i 
 
 fli I 
 
 I, 
 
 ■ f 
 
 
 .fi 
 
 at he heard her not. Hia eye was fixed 
 .jion liis BOk., ni Carlyndcn led him |^<iy, 
 tittered and blecdin;^. ^or some ttrile he 
 controlled his emotion — at length a biirsl of 
 agonized leeling convuleed Iris iron frame, and 
 he exclaimed — 
 
 "Tjte boy I adoted— who 1 vainly thought 
 possessed all the courage and honor ot his 
 ancestors ! — the first of all my line who ever 
 disgraced their fathers' fame by treason such 
 as this I — The image of his sainted mother, 
 loo! — and must he die ? — so younj— so beau- 
 tiful ? — Heaven help me ! my brain is reeling ! 
 How shall 1 sustain myself under this dreadful 
 blow ? And I had yearned to meet him again 
 — and 1 have met him— met him to see him die 
 by the hangman and the gibbet ! — My God ! 
 My son— my son !" and the stern old veteran, 
 no longer able to control his nature, hid his 
 face in his hands and groaned aloud. But it 
 was too late ; Cdrlynden had huiried him off 
 as Frances Mason fell to the sward, as pale 
 and motionless as if the angel of Death had 
 stricken her down forever. 
 
 Meanwhile ?• singular conversatior was 
 being held by two other characters engaged in 
 this scene — Ruggles and the half distracted 
 father of Frances. 
 
 The former, who had stood gazing on as Sir 
 Edward made the discovery which identified 
 tlie culprit as his son. closely scrutinized the 
 face of the hitter, and exclaitced, half aloud : 
 
 " Something wrong in all this ! that is net 
 Jordan, and it would be useless for me to make 
 Mason acquainted with the knowledge 1 
 possess until 1 can produce the real party in 
 person. I see how it will be," he thought, as 
 he heard Garlynden mutter th09« omii 3U3 
 word .. which 4»pajdictpd doath to >jang Sars- 
 field — " 1 see ftow it will be ; I shall have the 
 coast clear, and no one to interfere with my 
 plans. Both these fellows, young Sarsfield 
 and Carlynden, are evidently my rivals — and, 
 if they live, both have a thousand fol^ better 
 chance of success than 1 have. But the officer 
 will have this fellow they mistake for Jordan 
 put out of the way, I see that, and thus I shall 
 be rid of him : then I will accuse Carlynden of 
 his murder, and bring forward his servant to 
 prove the charge, and BO get him out of the 
 way. It is a daring project, though — but I 
 cannot fail ; his life, character, fortune arc in 
 my hands, and he dare not rofiise. I know 
 his crime, and he is aware ot it, and the hand 
 of Frances Mason mutt be mine as the reward 
 of my silence. Hitherto I've not brought 
 matters to a cloge because 1 never could lay 
 my hands on Jordan ; but now I think I can 
 give a good guess as to his whereabouts. It ii 
 as plain as noon day that Sir l^dward was 
 right when he suggested that it must have 
 been the strange vessel which bore down that 
 rescued her. J begin to sec through the 
 whole of it -this young fellow has captured 
 Jordan, and then through some romantic 
 whim has played his p»rt and enacted the 
 pirate for Miss Mason's special benefit, and 
 now, owing to his wound, he cannot e^p){iin 
 
 matters away It is devilish lucky Sir I. 
 ward has got (he notion into his head ti. 
 this young fellow is the real Jordan, otherwise 
 he would librrnte him, and thus leave him 
 Etill at liberty to jrosfcute his love suit. In 
 nil likelihood, then, Jordan is a prisoner in the 
 vessel this fellow commands, and should Ma- 
 son refuse, I can have terrible revenge by 
 revealini? everything to his son — so in either 
 case 1 shall b>) gainer — for if he refuses m6 
 his daughter with a large dowry, I will place 
 the son in possession of his fortune and claim 
 half the spoils as my reward." 
 
 '1 li'us soliloquizing, he advanced to where 
 the old merchant stood wrapt in moody medi- 
 tations, and gazing apathetically upon his 
 daughter's inanimate form. 
 •' Mr. Mason," said Ruggles, in a low tone, 
 
 " do you remember that night " 
 
 " Villain !" hissed the old man, trembling 
 like an aspen, " dare you allude to that again ! 
 Have I notpinctiased your silence with nearly 
 half ni)' wealth ?" 
 
 " It is not enough for so terrible a secret," 
 nnswerec' Kuorgles moodily — " nor do you yet 
 know the full e.xtent of my knowledge.'' 
 
 *» Not enough !" groaned Mason, " and 
 whal more would you ha'e.'" 
 »* Your daughter's hnnd " 
 " My daughter's Li' " ?it yelled the 
 
 old man, growing pale witii passion, fear and 
 doubt — you ! — vou !" he gosped, curling his 
 thin lip, " are you mad .'' Oun^hill serf! dare 
 you aspiro to such a price .'"' 
 
 " ' Dare 1 aspire ?' that is not the question, 
 it is — dare you refuse ?" 
 
 " Yes, dog ! -betray me if you will — do 
 your worst, yo„ .nust suffer with me, and we 
 will both die by the hangman ere Frances 
 Mason becomes ihe wife of such an you." 
 
 ^^ S he is like, as things go, to become the 
 wife of a most respectable personage — to wit, 
 the pirate yonder. Should that fellow escape 
 I would like '^ery much to see how you could | 
 prevent her ^rom flying to his arms. 
 
 " Demon, it is useless to tempt mir^ - 1 
 not purchase my safety by sacr'-itMr 
 child. No ! the deed is done — hi . 
 accomplice, you dare not, for yoi r / 
 denounce me," 
 
 ♦' But the boy lives," said Haggles, sic..'! 
 watching the effects of his words. The old 
 man started— cl(»"'--"i his hands, and stood as 
 if struck speechlew. .vith astonishment. 
 
 " Liar !'" he cried, at length—" how know 
 you this .''" 
 
 ♦' I have watched him step by step, cveri 
 since that night. 1 did not carry your orders] 
 into effect, but restored him to his mother- 
 who supported him in the most >- "^le manner| 
 till with.n a year since, 1 cau /<:oduce himij 
 now, ano' by imparting to him a i':M ,?le<?g<5 of 
 his birth and your unnatural crime, Hiiu youU 
 forever !" 
 
 "*Ha ! I fear you not now," cried Mason, 
 i^nrll; .ocovering himself— " since b« livei 
 what have 1 to '^i at from your developments 
 'True, hiR ckimc might involve me in n Ul 
 
 ml] 
 
 ny 
 my 
 
 » 
 
 ■^Hr 
 
 \ 
 
i 
 
 jcky Sir t 
 lis head _^tl. 
 an, otberwiee 
 i» leave him 
 re Buit. In 
 irisonef in the 
 1 should Ma- 
 revenge by 
 - so in either 
 e refuses w* 
 , I will place 
 ne and claim 
 
 iced to where 
 , moody medi- 
 ;ally upon hia 
 
 , in a low tone, 
 
 [jan, trembling 
 3 to that again ! 
 oce with nearly 
 
 rible a secret," 
 nor do you yet 
 
 jwledge.'" 
 Mason, " and 
 
 .it yelled the 
 asBion, fear and 
 ,,ed, curling his 
 ^.ghilUerf. dare 
 
 not the question, 
 
 if you will— do 
 irith me, and we 
 [an ere Frances 
 ich an you." 
 to become the | 
 lonage— to wit, 
 aat fellow escape 
 te how you could 
 sarms. 
 
 [Hipt mr - i •vili 
 sacr^^'-i"!'; '^y 
 ,ne— »^' '"y 
 
 luegles, sk"'', 
 ords The old 
 jls, and stood as 
 fishment. 
 
 ^ u how know 
 
 by step, cvcri 
 irry your order* 
 to his mother— 
 r,\e manner I 
 .-.oduce hiny 
 
 43 
 
 ..M<u<ed in ignorance of the fact that Sars- 
 field h*d hitlierto represented the pirate, but 
 ■till Imagined that the pesperado before him 
 was identical with the one which Carlynden 
 had been ordered to convey to prison. Had 
 h« known the turn tilings were taking, and 
 that Captain Sarsfieldand not the outlaw was 
 his daughter's lover, his trepidation would 
 have vanished— but one ovcrpovvering terror 
 alone filled his mind, and it could grasp 
 nothing olae — that was lest Rujjgles should 
 communicate to the pirate tha dreadful secret 
 ufhis birth. 
 
 The former now approached Jordan, while 
 Mason's eyes dilated 'wildly with terror; the 
 pirate immediately recognizing him, cried — 
 
 " Seize this man, too — he belonged to the 
 Ocean Queen." 
 
 ■' Madman," interrupted Ruggles, •' I am 
 about to impart a secret to you which you 
 have long desired to hear." 
 
 " Villain, I want no favors at your hands ! 
 You are one of those who conspired to l|^ray 
 me, dog, and I will have revenge yet!"— 
 cried Jordan struggling to release his hands. 
 
 "Hold, Ruggles, hold," exclaimed Mason, 
 darting forward, " reveal nothing I consent 
 to your terms." 
 
 «' He shall reveal nothing," yelled Jordan, 
 " unless he reveals it in hell 1" He had 
 succeeded in wrestling his hands from tha 
 cords, and grasping the sword which hung at 
 Sarsfield's side, he plunged it into the \vrctch- 
 ed victim's breast. 
 
 With an imprecation too horrible to repeat, 
 he tell to the earth ! «' I am murdered '." he 
 yelled, tearing up the grass with his haaas — 
 " murdered by Mason's son ! — whose life 1 
 saved from his own father— 0, 1 have brought 
 
 this upon myself! — I deserve it all 1 " his 
 
 articulation beoame indistinct, and, with a 
 deep, apasmodic sigh, he became i'sensible. 
 
 Jordan was again free — armed, and mad will 
 1 desperate courage. Sir Edward had just 
 a rasped him by the throat, in an attempt to 
 gegainhis sword, when a crowd entered at the 
 rower end of the garden, bearing two bodies 
 on a rude litter. 
 
 \ 
 
 CHAP. XIX. 
 TIio Last. 
 
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 irime, fuiu you^j] 
 
 cried Mason, 
 
 [since h» !»▼«'. 
 f developments a 
 
 (9 me in ft \Vr* 
 
 Lastacena of all 
 That endf thia atrange, eventful hiitoiy.— Shasi. 
 
 • What Ruggles had said relative to the inten- 
 
 bns of Carlynden, was, indeed, true. When 
 
 b left the group, he directed his servan'. to 
 
 lllow him, and assist in conveying Sarsfield 
 
 ' prison, which was situated at no very 
 
 9at distance, making use, at the same time, 
 
 r those expressions which Ruggles had over- 
 
 kard. When they had proceeded a little 
 
 |ky, Carlynden said ia a whisper— 
 
 ««Now, Inglis, you understand— while I 
 
 walk forward a few yards, yoti do the job, and 
 save all the trouble of a trial. Here is £20?-. 
 with that you can make your escape, and 
 can say that in revenge for some slaughtered 
 friend you stabbed him on the way to prison. 
 What say you ?" 
 
 " I don't know," muttered Ingles, " 1 don t 
 like the ideaof bei ng made the scape goat in 
 this matter, and, if I am taken, I don't pro m- 
 iae but that I'll become King's evidence. 
 Why not leave him here somewhere, and let 
 him bleed to death .'" 
 
 " Hush ! I heard a footstep belde us I'" 
 
 The prisoner, who was in advance, also 
 seemed to hear it, for he looked around ; it 
 was now -qa'ite dark, however, and nothing 
 could be seen. 
 
 «' ' derail," muttered Carlynden, his belter 
 nature revolting at the deed, " it is a vile piece 
 of business ; and one, that a few years, since 
 I would have blushed to have thought of. But 
 altered circumstances very strangely alter our 
 feelings. Ifhe goes to prison, the intercessioa 
 of Frnnces acting , on his father's reientinp 
 heart, will procure his release — and the result 
 will be their marriage; there is no doubt but that 
 Frances loves him — and both herself and 
 her fortune shall vanish from my grasp so 
 sure as he is released. Besides 1 do not com- 
 mit the deed — if this man choses to take his 
 life, what have 1 to upbraid myself with .' — it 
 i^i no affair of mine. By this species of 
 reasoning he soon reconciled his conscience 
 to the task, but ere he had time to put his 
 plan into execution a man stood before the 
 prisoner, exclaimiiig, as if he had previously 
 been in doubt about his identity — 
 
 '• It is the captain, by the lord Harry — 
 pinioned, and wounded into the bargain '. why 
 Captain Sarsfield, who has done this ?" 
 
 " Is thaf a business of yours, sirrah '" cribd 
 Carlynd springing forward with his driwr 
 sword — " i>egone — or it will be worse ft , 
 you!" 
 
 "I should think it was a business of mine, ' 
 replied Lylton, fcr it was hi'— "and as to 
 going, 1 must first know the meaning of all 
 this." 
 
 Carlynden w s averse to shedding more 
 blood than was necessary — yet the stubborn- 
 ess of this man required a desperate remedy, 
 for he seemed bent on keeping them at a dead 
 halt till he was enlightened on the subject of 
 his captain's arrest." 
 
 " Fool I" — whispered Carlynden in a hissing 
 t<Hie— " meddle net: in what in no way 
 concerns ycu — hero is money — begone — or 
 you will get worse payment, I teil you !" 
 
 " Monr y I"— cried the high spirited and 
 haughty Lytton, striking the officer with hi« 
 clenched fist a blow that sent him reeling 
 headlong to the earth—" and there is valac 
 received for your money !" 
 
 'Inglis! — stab me this villain churl,' — - 
 shouted Carlynden as he fell. The aojdier 
 rushed forward, but the midshipman parrying 
 his blow, would have paid it with interest,h«d 
 
r.jHi 
 
 l 
 
 44 
 
 •"■^ 
 
 aot tfa« Ueulen&nl atUoked him bebifid hi,,i^^ 
 the ftm« moment • tiS"* 
 
 ^^ Foul odds !"~«aid I^ntteiffralmly-ii** 
 
 irif time." His 
 
 ^% p It hav^ |Mftt |[reat«f in 
 
 081 
 
 i\ 
 
 however, did not seem to attend him, 
 far Carlynden was a cool and experienced 
 worder, and it was with the utmost difficaliy, 
 he co'uld defend himself from two adversaries 
 at once. , . 
 
 '• Fiffht on!"— exclaimed the Lieutenant, 
 aa lie ooserved lyglis pause and look round — 
 ** what tfA't yqtej man — you are justified ir 
 killing ti^d 'j^ it iff pirate who attempts a re' 
 cue." ■...». 
 
 ** And 1 am justified in killing any one w 
 attempts the life of Mr. Lytton, or Captq A 
 Sarsfield," cri^d a voice behind, and at the 
 0ame moment Carlynden fell to the earth, 
 stunned, by a tremendous blow. It was the 
 tailor who had been dispatched to look for 
 Lytton. 
 
 ^ Oiring the <lfombat, .Sarsfield, who was 
 
 Ua^:A.'le to ^arlicipate in it, had sank upon the 
 
 ,-''>;>nd ftom weakis^ks and loss of blood, -^ 
 
 r, lis fiC' 'the moment Carlynden fell, and 
 
 ace gooii t ape, leaving the Midship- 
 
 snxh and his ':^r masters of the field.— 
 
 The latter now mt in search of assistance. 
 
 in bis detention. On 'QniiKg''^ __— , _.-,._ 
 
 pinioned he went into one oThiii fariouBpar^ 
 jRxysms— cursed the author of his being, umI 
 was •borne off. breaU^ng .the most tenilic 
 oaths. During the striMpWlason stood as' 
 if paralyzed — nor was i^|iwll Rnggles had 
 ceae?d to live, that he breathed freely— knoir* 
 ing that his secret, of whatever nature it may 
 have been, was now safe forever. He never, 
 however, fully recovered from the shock 
 occasioned by that night's proceedings, and 
 did not long survive the date of the transac- 
 tion. 
 
 Hans Vanhnrst succeeded to the command 
 of the Ocean Queen, the wound inflicted b> 
 the Herrible captain' giving him a claim to the 
 suffrages of the crew. But he did not long 
 enjov his new honors — being shortly after- 
 wards captured by McGregor. On the scaf- 
 fold he addressed the crowd, probably with the 
 intention of warning them from the course' 
 which had proved so utal to him,but being una* 
 ble toAroceed further than "Good beoble — Von 
 hunoer tousand teuvils !" — Jack Ketch, not 
 understanding the characteristic phlegm of 
 his nation, became impatient, and the drop 
 fell, and[: he was summarily ushered into the 
 presence of the "hundred thousand'Tnends of 
 
 I VI 
 
 anil soon met McGregor and the Servants by his he had been in the habit of calling upon so 
 * -ivhose aid a rude litter'°*was contrived on often. 
 ivi}''ah the two bodies were laid. Jordan, bewever, desirous of disappointing 
 
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 till. 
 
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 i'^' 
 
 There is ^ttle remains to be told. Sarsfield, 
 w/'owaa merely fainr with loss of blood, was 
 &',>^/n received by the aid of restoratives. Ere, 
 nowev^r, his repentant father could make 
 am<eiMl%|?r his harshness by one fond embrace, 
 ft whiter pair of arms were thrown around the 
 young officet's neck, and a softer cheek than 
 that cf the old veteran's, pressed to his. 
 
 Whether, he ever after argued against the 
 right of Society to legislate ^r individuals to 
 tOBvince her of the justice of plundering one's 
 neighbor, we know not— but this we do know, 
 that he argued so 'strongly in favor of the 
 matrimonial slate, that shortly af\er the fore- 
 going events, he left the service, and they 
 became united. McGregor obtained the com- 
 mand of the brig — and Lytton was promoted 
 to the rank of Lieutenant Of Carlynden little 
 was aflerwards known, further than that he 
 exchanged into an East India Regiment, where 
 it was supposed by some, that lie acquired a 
 fortune and returned to Europe— but other 
 accounts state that owing to a strong tendency 
 in distilled Uquors towards speedy dissolution, 
 and a stronger tendency in him towards distiN 
 led liquors, they united to produce a most 
 unpleasant and sudden result — which consisted 
 in liis being placed one day, on the shoulders 
 of six Sepoys, who kept time to the tune of 
 *" Roftline Castle," which was played the while 
 the}r marched, by the brass band that accom- 
 panied them. 
 
 As for Jordan, Mter making a desperate 
 vesirtanoe, he was overpowered by those who 
 bore the bodies on the litter, who had arrived 
 jt»t in time t<7 aie Sir Edward and the sailor 
 
 the folks of a hoUiday, and disapproving alto- 
 ^ther of those inhuman exhibitions which 
 vers wont to gratify the moi^id taste for 
 blood evinced by the people of Rome — died in 
 prison by his own hand — thus winding up his 
 career, and a t* Legend of Cape Breton" at 
 the same time. ■ 
 
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 urious par- 
 sing, aad 
 Hit tcnific, 
 stood as 
 fgles bad 
 y— know- 
 ire it may 
 He never, 
 le shock 
 iings, and 
 le traneac- 
 
 commant"' 
 aflicted bj 
 laitn to the 
 
 not long 
 rtly alter- 
 a the sea*'- 
 )ly with the 
 the course' 
 ; being una* 
 Boble— Von 
 Ketch, not 
 
 phlegm of 
 i the drop 
 ;d into the 
 i'Tnends of 
 ing upon so 
 
 sappoinling 
 roving alto- 
 ions which 
 d taste for 
 me — died in 
 ding up his 
 Breton" at 
 
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