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The opportunities for figurative flying were not wanting There were no vessels in the port which e in pursuit of a British oodly sloop about to sail in ballast for Belize Before sunset three passages were engaged upon this sloop

Kate sat long into the night, her letter in her hand Here was a lover who loved her; a lover who had just sent to her not only love, but life; a lover who had no intention of leaving her because of her overshadowing sorrow, but who had lifted that sorrow and had coain Ay more, she knew that if the sorrow had not been lifted he would have coain

The Governor of Jamaica was a ly in hiood news, he kissed her and vowed that he had not heard anything so cheering for reatly afraid of that Vince," he said "Although I did not reatly afraid of him; he is a terrible fellohen he is crossed, and so hot-headed that it is easy to cross hi your father and so few chances of ht now; you will be able to reach your father before Vince can possibly get to him, even should he be able to do him injury in his present position Your father, my dear, must have been as mad as a March hare to embark upon a career of a pirate when all the ti, to mercantile pursuits, to doe of conquest No matter what his plans were; no ht lose, or how hecarried away, Major Stede Bonnet, late of Bridgetown and still later connected with soh seas, was to be taken prisoner by his daughter and carried away to Spanish Tohere the actions of his disordered mind were to be condoned and where he would be safe froeful Vinces and fro skull and bones

It was a brightwhen, with a fair wind upon her starboard bow, the sloop Belinda, bearing the jubilant three, sailed southward on her course to the coast of Honduras; and it was upon that sa the pirate Blackbeard and his handsomely uniformed lieutenant, sailed northward, the same fair wind upon her port bow