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Strange as itfellow as he stood in his fine unifore, the fresh breeze ruffling his brown curls when he lifted his heavy cocked hat

True, he was leaving behind him his friends, Captain Bonnet and Ben Greenho; true, he was going, he knew not where, and in the power of a e eccentricities; and true, he , hour by hour, farther and farther away froel Kate and his lad feeling that he was going, that he wasMoreover, in answer to one of his impassioned appeals to be set ashore at Jaet tired of him he did not see, at that moment, any reason why he should not put histon

Dickory did not believe very much in the black-bearded pirate, with his wild tricks and inhuoing eastward

Incited, perhaps, by the possession of a fine ship, manned by a crew picked from his old vessel and froe, Blackbeard was in better spirits than was his wont, and so far as his nature would allow he treated Dickory with fair good-huination never failed hi taken the fancy to see Dickory always in full uniform, he allowed him to assume no other clothes; he was always in naval full-dress and cocked hat, and his duties were those of a private secretary

"The only shrewd thing I ever knew your Sir Nightcap to do," he said, "was to tell libly that I believed him Had it not been so I should have sent you to the town to help with the shore end of my affairs, and then you would have been there still and I should have had no adhten my accounts"

Sometimes, in his quieter moods, when there was no provocation to send pistol-balls between two sailors quietly conversing, or to perform some other demoniac trick, Blackbeard would talk to Dickory and ask allman answered, while some he tried not to answer Thus it was that the pirate found out a great dealfellow ireatly interested in Bonnet's daughter, and wished above all other things in this world to get to her and to be with her