Beadle's New York Dime Library (no. 1101) (1905 10)
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A \ TO Ze \ z gery Se ear ne pee Fee cin = ; M, J. LIVERS & CO., Publishers, Rap ages No 101 hacer a (JAMES SULLIVAN, Proprreror), 10 Cents a Copy | ( LYXXVII : $1.00 a Year. 4 ¥ Month. 379 Pearl Street, New York. OR, THE RED REBEL OF THE REVOLUTION, A Sea and Shore Romance of the War of “'76." ——— BY COL, PRENTISS INGRAHAM, AUTHOR OF “ MERLE, THE MUTINEER,” “ MONTE- ZUMA, THE MERCILESS,” ETC., ETC. CHAPTER I. A MAN'S CRE, “WELL, Guiteau, what say the men?” “That your wife is a witch, sir, beautifol as she is, and must die.” “*So be it, I will break the sad uews to her; but, Guiteau?’ “Yes, Captain Ravel.” “You gave them no hint that I had bade you originate the idea?” “ Ah, no, captain, Guitean, the bo’sen, is no fool, if he is an under officer on a pirate craft, , for did I give the men a hint that you had of. “BO, THE SHADOW SILVER SHIP AHOY! A—-H—O—¥! 4—HB-O—Y!” fered me a big price to set the men againss ra Yo t = A ttle A nl al yen ells lamers nn : 1
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beautiful madam as a witch, then the lads would | point of his cutlass and ninzzle of his pistol, for hang both you and me.” while one baud rested upon the bilt of his good ** True, once their superstition and malice are | blade, the other played with the butt of the fire- aroused and they are capable of anything; but | arm stuck in his red silk sash, how did you arrange it, good Guiteau.” “Did not the boatswain tel] you, captain, **°*Sh! captain, don’t call me good, for I am} what we had decided on?’ asked the spokesman as wicked as man can be—as wicked as you are, | nervously. my captain.” ‘*He said that you all attributed the i!!-for- ** Sir)” tune we have had of late to my wife's presence “Don’t get angry, captain, for I was just | on bonrdand ber prayers for our souls.” showing you by comvarison how little I deserved | ‘* Yes, sir, and we do, for we know she bea the word good applied to me, witch, sir, one to work ill-omen upon us, and “Once I was good, and my mother was wont | you know, captain, that the only way to break to use the word to me often; but, I fell, and I | a spell of witchcraft is to put the evil heart to dc not wish to hear myself called good Guiteau.” | death.” “It was a mistake, I admit, Boatswain Gui- | The pirate chief seemed deeply moved, and at teau, for you are as black a hearted wretch as j last said, while his voice quivered with feigned ever sailed under the black flag.” emotion: , ‘* Witness now my act against your beautiful wife, for which you are to pay me so well; but, I bartered my soul to Satan long ago for gold, 80 can do no worse,” ‘* How did you arrange it with the men, I asked,” and Captain Ravel, the Rover, seemed nettied at the man’s words, ‘* Well, sir, you know all seamen are super- stitious, and we pirates doubly so, and when I hinted that we had made no captures of late, that not a single deed of good fortune had come to us since our captain had taken his beautiful wife a-cruising on the schooner, the men began to think, ‘Then I told them that prayers upon a pirate ship were like curses, for they were but a cause of ill-omen to us, and I hinted that the captain’s lady was always praying, and last I said I really believed that she bad bewitched you. “Then the men began to talk among them- selves, and after a few days [ saw that it did not require more than-a suggestion by me that your wife was really a witch to have the men threaten her life, and they will come to you to-day and demand that you cast her into the sea,” # When they come I will promise to get rid of ‘My men, I know the powers of those possess- ing the baue of witchcraft, and though [ love my wife most dearly, and ho that she would bring us only good fortune, I feel that I must give her up, that I must yield to your demand, for I too have felt her evil power.” The men moved uneasily, and the chief, after a pause continued: **But, men, I would not be the one to take her life, nor would you stain your hands with her blood, and yet she must go from us, and if you will consent that I set her adrift in the life-boat, I will do 80 this very nizht, “Then if she be a witch let her save herself, and if not she must die, and we must have her hfe recorded against us, **Do you say yes, men, to my wish?” The men glanced uneasily toward the cabin, as though expecting the appearance of the wo- man they were plotting against, and then their o%kesman, having read consent in the eyes of responded: “We agree, sir, if she be set adrift before night comes on,” “It shall be done, and I will now go and tell her of her doom,” and the cruel outlaw chief turned and descended to the cabin, 2 The Shadow Silver Ship. She saw at a glance all that the charge was, all that it meant, In those days su in, and the fate of those thus accused was often appalling. ; witches were believed. She saw now that her actions, intended to- turn them from their crimes, might readily be misconstrued by the wicked, superstitious fiends. who composed her husband’s crew. No wonder then that she cowered in terror before him, for what meant not that fearful change to ber. Sue tried to speak, but not u word could she his part well to vtter. At last the man, actin deceive her as to his own feelings, said; “Clio, L argued with them, pleaded with them and threatened, but all to no purpose, “T then told them to sacrifice my life, if they would first let me place you on shore in safety, “hey refused, and so t came to tell you all,” “But you can, you will protect me, Ravel?” Her voice was firm now with hope as she uttered the words, “ Alas, Clio, what could Ido, more than to die with you?” “T have seen your*men mutiny on two mo rate occasions, and each time one man quelled. the disturbance.” if bine refer to Belmont, my lieutenant?” és," “He did quell the mutiny, but bad to kill several of the men.” : - “And can you not do the same, Ravel? for it will be their lgres, or death to me.” “Ah, Clio, the mutiny when quelled by Brandt Belmont was not caused by superstition, but a fight to put to death prisoners we had taken. “Now the worst fear of man, superstitious dread, arouses these demons and they demanded that { give you up for death,” ‘‘Then I must die, Ravel?” . 4 _ There was something so pares so resigned. in the words and tone in which they were utter- her, : “‘ But, captain, it’s hard, sir, to take her life, so let you and me save our gailty souls by cast- ing her adrift in a boat, for the men will hardly demand more, ‘“* And she may be picked up?” “ Hardly likely, sir, and if so what do you care, for you bave gottea rid of ber at last, and should you meet again,why the men forced you to do as you did is all the plea you need.” ““ANl right, ’'d rather do that, for it would ease my conscience to feel that I did not will- fully take her life.” * But the men told me, sir, to break the news to you, and see, they are mustering to come aft and demand that you get rid of beautiful madam as a witch.” ‘ The two stood upon the deck of an armed craft, —e gees along over a sotithern sea, She bad that rakish, wicked look that natur- ally belonged to the free rovers of a century pe and her captain and his crew were a typical lot of merciless buccaneers, {he men were rigged out gaudily in many different costumes, armed to the teeth, and counted among them whites, West Indians and negroes, the former including Americans, Eng- lish, Portuguese and Spaniards, The boatswain, Guiteau, was an Euglishman, m erading under a French name, and the chief of this lawless lot of humenity was at one time a priest, then an ex-naval officer of Great Britain, who had follcwed the bent of an evil _ nature, and disgracing his name and rank had hoisted a flag more congenial to his wicked humors, ; He had won the love of a beautiful girl, the daughter of an American planter, and had wed- ded her, to then tear from bis face the mask of hypocrisy and come out in his true colors as Ross Ravel, Buccaneer. : ‘ True to her love the young wife bad not de- serted the man who had cruelly deceived her, and strove bard to win him back to a different life; but after a year kad passed she gave it up, and, dragged down to his level, went on board of his caaaik with him. This did not suit the buccaneer, and so he sought to get rid of her to carry out certain other plans he had in view, and in Boatswain Guiteau he found a ready tool, while he selected atime when his first officer, a young American whom he had forced into piracy, and of whom he stood in certain awe, was away in Havana petting certain needed stores and equipments or the pirate craft. © And so it was that the men, with the seed of suspicion and superstition sown by Guiteau against the beautiful wife of the pirate captain, had proaounced her a witch and demanded that sbe be at once gotten rid of. As the crew advanced toward where he stood upon the quarter-deck, Captain Ravel turned to meet them and demanded sternly: ‘* Well men, what is your demand of me?’ He was a and dressed gorgeously, just such a one to win the heart of an innocent young girl who believed ‘bim a man of honor. He was a good actor too, and faced the men . i Bo diol tipes his face, and more, as Wneh he meant to meet their demand at the handsome man, dashing in bearing THE BUCCANEER’S BRIDE, Then he said: . ALL unconscious of the diabolical plot against | * Iwill tell you, Clio, what I did do.” ‘Yes, Ravel?” and she,clutcbed eagerly at his her, Cleo Ravel, the unfortunate wife of a % at a pe sat in the luxurious cabin of ber bus- } words of hope as a drowning man w and’s vessel, her hands idly rankaee over the | straw. strings of a handsome harp, her solace in her “‘] persuaded them not to put you to death.” ‘God bless you, Ravel.” a But, Clio, instead, to set you adriftin an open t.” y “My God!” ‘Don’t feel that you are lost, Clio, for we are near the coast of Mexico,” y ‘I thought that we were near the middle of the Gulf.” ‘ F : “Ob, no, just off-shore, though the men do not know it, and I will take the life-boat and slip in some provisions and food for you, anda couple of oars, for we will not set you adrift be- fore night, and I will come near, so as to keep you in view until 1 bave seen the tide take you meee T ill not th » spot and efor yo *‘Tben I will note the and come for you before long, for the coast near here is inhab ted and you can readily find a place of refuge. “Tf you are not pleased with this plan, Clio, then I will defend you with my fife and we can die together, : * “Nal no! Ravel, make me one promise?” — ¢-Yos,” ‘eis ‘ 2 sha th “When you come after me, promise to give up forever our lite of crime, and gladly will I do as you wisb, - O Yes, I promise, Clio.” ‘+ Swear it!” ; : “1 do!” rf , A “Enough! go on deck and leave me alone in my. pager . ie : “Tn an hour I will be ready; but there is great risk as it is, Ravel.” ‘* and here it is certain death.” —__ ‘ “True, I abide by your plan, Ravel,” and sinking into her seat she looked the very picture of woe, and the buccaneer fled from the cabin hours of sadness, Her surroundings were strange, yet beautiful, for the cabin furniture and appointments par- took of a hundred piratical captures, and the best had been stripped from every prize to adorn the sea home of the buccaneer’s bride, _ Velvet and silken draperies, peersieered ottomans, the richest of carpets, with bric-a- brac from many jands were seen upon all sides. Tke cabin was very large, taking up the en- tire breadth and some twenty-five feet of the after e.d of the vessel, with forward of if two large state-rooms, And here lived the woman whose loveliness of face and form had won for her the name of ““Clfo the Beautiful,” a womian who had refused honorable suitors by the score to become fas- cinated with an adventurer, whom afterward she found out sbe bad been warned against with truth, for she had become the bride of a pirate. Now as she sat there bumming snatches of an old ballad dear to her girlhood, her husband en- She sawat a glance that his face was wor- ried, and ceasing her music she said anxiously: ; ed, that the guilty man felt h smote hard, CHAPTER II. " and shuddered. ‘Ts aught going wrong, Ravel?” “f ‘* Yes, Clio, there is everything going wrdng.” ‘ My husband! what ean you inant : He threw himself into an easy-cbair with a reer =o es ee a his oo ; uickly she was by bis side and dropping u her knees she asked with loving ee sith “Tell me, Ravel, what is the matter?” “Clio, the men have mutinied,” he said almost. fiercely, ed Mined ‘So bad as that?’ and her face | = turne white with dread. es, and worse; they make a demand upon | to shut out the form crouching in prayer from es a Teannot resist PRAISE — his sight. sae a Lees, ‘ * Ab, ) me all, for your looks, your| — ed Sars ee SS be were point £0 one," and her volte quivered with | — CHAPTER IIL pk ihe sudden an i sue ee agi jo eee : It is of you ores shane apa mate ol gad n Si a —— actions, your words have done all the harm.” _ ving Doi tee lag ie 9d ‘Ob, Ravel! what bave I done?” — ee | bes as bent in prayer. i “You have talked to the men of their crimes, | ees, avd though of prayer—yes, have prayed for them, and pre- | | was perfectly tending to tell their fortunes to | n. them » | cal Beas La thea predicted ‘only death. and disaster.tor | nay sp Per aet orm | ona lovely aan f y 1 REE aie ape cioee ) her wt tt a va a = Pair. ' rome had now becom et ' os red ter ote ee ae At last the shadows began to deepen in the = Sas ve Thr rg we rung white with tood trembling violently. a owe 4 a ata ses oa EY of ¢ ane eT % Sav eal Sam
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cabin and she knew that night was near at hand. No, there was a deep, rumbling sound, and it was an approaching storm that had so soon darkened sea and skies. Surely tie crew would not send her off adrift in face of the coming tempest. Ah, yes, for they had no pity for such as she, no heart for a witch, A tread upon the companionway and her hus- band entered. But ke bad not come alone, for he had feared to trust himself in ber presence, Behind him came his private officers and several men, * She had started toward him, believing him aJone, as though to throw herself into his arms; but now she saw bim draw back and heard his coldly-spoken words: **Clio, the men believe that you have be- witched the ship and them, and that is why we capture no more prizes. “They demand that you be set adrift in the face of this coming tempest, and if you are a witch, then save yourself from death, and if not then your blood must be upon our heads, ‘“‘Clio, the boat is ready for you alongside, and we have come for you, Are you ready?’ Of course -he was playing a part, to still better be able to save her, and so she too must act, not show what she felt, **I am ready for the sacrifice you doom me to,” she said with forced calmness, and she tried to catch the eye of her husband. But he would not meet her gaze, and more, held back and motioned to his lieutenant to lead her to vhe deck, She shrunk back from the lieutenant, and walked alone, following her guilty husband to the deck. The men stood there in a group, grim, stern, silent yet uneasy, The heavens were overcast with inky clouds, and the vessel was gliding slowly along under reefed sail, driven by a light breeze, for the storm was coming, yet miles away. On the side towed a small boat taken from a prize, and in it were a pair of oars, a small cask and a bundle, But the boat was light and frail, it seemed, even for a quiet sea. Tbe men had become so overwhelmed with their superstitious fears that they shuddered as she came on deck, Facing them she said in a firm voice, while her eyes rested in a fixed look upon the face of her pirate busband: ** Men, you call me a witch and sentence me to ‘be turned adrift in that frail boat in the face of yonder tempost! ** Woe be unto you all, if my death follows this cruel act of yours!” The men sbrunk from her as though froma pestilential blast; but uttered no word in re- sponse to her warning, while ber husband stood as though chained to the deck. “I am ready, sirs! have some of you the courage to escort the Sea Witch to her boat?” Her voice was becoming bard and bitter now, and her eyes had a look in them that seemed to read the guilty soul of Ravel the Rover. But yet she did not grieve now, she uttered ne complaint, for her heart seemed turned to stone with the discovery that if the crew be- lieved her a witch ber husband also was not guiltless of a like belief. Not one of the crew stepped forward to aid her, and she walked fearlessly to the side of the schooner and went up the gangway steps to the a of the bulwarks, : bere she hesitated an instant and glancing over the pirate crew until her eyes fell upon the chief, she cried in a tones: ‘* Buccaneers, the Sea Witch goes to her doom, but yours will quickly follow ! In an instant she went down the gangway and stepped into the boat towing alongside, while several seamen sprung forward and cast loose the painter, A moment more and she was adrift upon the broad Gulf of Mexico, far from the land and with a tempest rushing down upon her with ir- resistible fury. Away glided the pirate craft leaving the boat dancing in its wake, while her crew gathered in groups and gazed after her. ; There on the quarterdeck stood’ the chief, si- lent, owe and with a look of almost. fright upon his handsome, cruel face, He had accomplished his purpose and gotten rid of the woman who had become his bride, giving up all for him, pirate though he was. But those threatening words rung wildly in his ears, seeming to yet fill the air as they had when sent from the white lips of the doomed woman, He saw her seize her oars, and they broke in two, for he had had them cut in twain, Then she grasped at the cask, and next the bundle, There were but a few drinks of water in the one, only a mouthful of food in the other, He saw that she knew that he had betrayed her, that be had been the one to wish to get rid of her, to have her die. He beheld her shake her tiny clinched fist The Shadow Silver Ship. 3 EEE SSS (ao CARER OP aera Lay ean a Ry Se SON REL SAEED, maledictions upon bis head, He knew that her love bad turned to hatred of the fiercest kind, Yet he could not turn his gaze from her, and he watched her in the gathering darkness of the coming storm and night, At last he could stand it no more and he rushed down into his cabin toshut out the ter- rible sight, for now he realized how dearly he had really loved the woman he bad sentenced to death, Yet he dared not call upon the men to go back and pick her up, for they did believe her a witch, and did he give such an order they would at once turn upon him be well knew. At length the roaring without told him that the storm was almost upon them, and he rushed upon deck, glad, in a struggle with the tempest to drive away his bitter thoughts, His first glance was at the storm, and then astern, The storm was coming on in fury, driving a huge wall of foam before it, and the little boat was in its path, the woman standing like a statue facing the tempest and as though in defiance of its power to harm her. Another moment and the skiff was no longer in sight, and the pirate craft was battling with the storm, CHAPTER IV. THE SILVER SHIP, Upon the coast of Mexico one calm morning, several days after the cruel desertion of Clio by her pirate husband, a small boat drifted ashore and was caught by some Mexican fishermen whose hamlet was near. The boat had proven after all to be stanch enough to resist wind and wave, and it bad thus preserved the life of its single occupant who in that short while had seemed to grow from youth to age, for her eyes were sunken, her cheeks hol- low and her wealth of »black bair -had become white as snow in the ordeal through which she had passed, Unable tospeak, nearer deaj than alive, she was taken by the kind fishermen, who recognized her as not one of their class, to the hacienda of a rich Mexican ranchero, who with his family dwelt not far distant. Back to health she was nursed, and then as she was homeless and friendless, she was offered the place of governess in the family, and thus dwelling among kind strangers in a strange land her life was passed until years had gone by. The ranchero was also a wealthy miner, and he had orders to collect for the Government of Spain a large amount of silver bullion from the miners in Mexico, and, with other treas- ure demanded from the people by Spain, to take all by a barque to Cadiz, The ranchero obeyed his orders so far as get- ting a swift-sailing vessel, loading her with sil- ver bullion and other treasure, and setting sail was concerned; but he never reached Cadiz. To enjoy the voyage he carried his family with him, and of course the beautiful white- haired governess, old before her time, and to whom they had all become deeply attached. She had told a simple story, of how her hus- band had been commander of a vessel and she had escaped wreck in the little boat in which she had come ashore, No one doubted her and all were glad to have her remain, as she bad said that she bad no kindred or friends to whom she eould go. And the fleet barque set sail, under a gallant oll skipper with a small crew, fur the sai ng of so valuable a cargo was kept secret as possible and it was hoped that no enemy had learned of the duty she was sent upon, But the secret had leaked out, and both sea outlaws and war vessels whose nation was the enemy of Spain, lay in wait out in the Gulf for the Silver Ship. Sighted by a cruiser a chase began at once, and though a storm blew the pursuer and pur- sued far off the course, they did not lose sight of each other by day or night, Then, to make matters worse for the barque, fever broke out among the crew, and quickly spread tothe cabin, when the ranchero was the first to go. Then his wife followed and his daughter next, and though she had devoted her every energy to nursing them the beautiful governess escaped the epidemic, but was aloue left of the once happy family from the Mexican hacienda, At Jast the persistent pursuer was thrown off by the barque, which had fled far off ber course, and through the fever had become short handed, with hardly men enough to work the sbip. The next morning another pursuer hove in sight, and another, and a hot chase began, and was continued for days, _ Within range they fired steadily upon the fly- ing barque, but as long as the shot struck no —_ part of his vessel the undaunted skipper eld on, His taffrail and bulwarks were <u) almost to pieces, the spars bad big gashes in them, the sails were filled with sbot-holes, while the crew, by death and wounds, remained but a bandful. They could only let the barque keep on her | ; ‘ wh ; after him, and he knew that she was uttering | course before the wind, her Dest sailing point, and even when it came on to blow a gale not a stitch of canvas could be taken in, And yet in ber wake hung her relentless pur- suer, for the other had been dropped out of sight astern, At last the hull of the vessel became almost a wreck, and yet the during old Spanish skipper stood at his wheel, determined to hold on until he too fell, And this came later on, and the snow-haired woman, who had been called by the pirate crew a Sea Witch,remained unbarmed,calm and seem- ingly without fear, As night came on she seemed to feel that the end of the gallant barque was near, The pursuer was gaining then, but a black- looking tempest was also sweeping down upon the devoted craft, Soon they came, and together, the darkness, the storm and the pursuer, all in one mad rush it seemed. The masts, cut and shattered, went overboard as the storm st-uck the barque, her decks were swépt clean of the crew who still remained, and the hull drove away in the: blackness, a wreck upon the sea, while the crew of the cruiser had to look to their own safety and give up the Silver Ship. Days passed away but the wreck of the Silver Ship still floated, and of all that had been on board but one remained alive, and that was the woman, the Sea Witch. Other, were there, the old Pa he 2 and others of the crew, but they were dead, and the wreck was at the mercy of the windsand waves. Then one day asail appeared in sight, and the woman gave a cry of joy. But that cry of joy soon after became a wail of woe, as her vision told her that the vessel was but too wel] known to her. 4 have mercy! after all I have passed through is it to be my fate to again fallinto the hands of that cruel man whom once I idolized but now hate with the batred of a fiend? * Yes, it is his vessel, for I know her very outline of hull, spars,and sails, and my fate will be a fearful one indeed. ** Ah! can I not hide from them, for far better be it to be left here on this wreck, after the have robbed it of its treasure, than to be in the merciless power.” So saying she sped away from the deck to the cabin, a sought a hiding-place in a large chest, without thinking that its contents of velvets, laces, silks and other articles of value would cause the buccaneers to prize it highly. But so it was, and too late she realized’ ber mistake as sbe beard the command to carry the chest to the cabin of the pirate craft, She shuddered as she felt it borne away, and _then, as the bearers left itin the cbief’s cabin and departed, she sprung out of her-hiding place and darted into what she knew was the chief's storeroom of his treasures, There was ample biding-room there, and she knew that she could subsist for days with what she could pilfer from the cabin table when no one was there, Once the vessel sought an anchorage and sho could make her escape she was sure. And from her concealment she heard the pi- rate lieutenant tell the captain of a secure hiding-place for the treasure, on an island in the Rare ad Sea where once he had been wrecked. And she learned that the pirate craft was not seaworthy, so would sail at once for the island and then goin search of another vessel to bear away the treasure, And from her hiding-place the unfortunate woman heard the anchor let fall off the island, and then the bullion and other treasure was removed, She heard the men talking of an aged priest found there, and that be was to bury the treas- ure with certein rites that would bring eternal curses upon any one who would return alone for the riches and thus defraud bis comrades, When all the crew had gone ashore to join in these rites sbe slipped from her hiding-place, and with what things she cared to take from the cabin, lowered herself from the stern ports and swam shoreward, for she was a tireless swimmer, She had discovered that ber husband, Ross Ravel was no longer chief, but in his stead Brandt Belmont, the buccaneer lieutenant who was away from the schooner when she was set: adrift several years before, Still she dared not make her presence known, and yet felt that she could find a refuge upon the island with the aged priest, © She reached the shore, gained a cliff and from it looked down upon the weird ceremony going ' on over the treasure, which was being sunk ina pool out of sight. The first. words uttered by the priest and she started, dropped on her knees and with clasped nes listened to every sound that came from Then she said in a voice that was hoarse with suppressed emotion: Bent, yes, his white hair and beard are fa and bis priestly garb clothes e black heart; he cannot deceive me i" }
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“No, no, they do not know him, but 1 do, and would recognize him under any disguise. ‘“But why is he here, masquerading as an old priest before his men? “Some strange change has come, and Ross Ravel no longer is the buccaneer chief, “Yes, and I remain here with him, for re- venge is sweet to me now.” A loud “ Amen ” from the rocks above startled the priest and pirates alike, and as the latter re- turned to their vessel ver were followed by mocking words and laughter from the woman’s lips which struck terror to their hearts, but not mere dread wes felt by one of them than that which cams upon the one in ows garb, who fled to his cabin like a haunted man. CHAPTER V. A WIZARD AND A WITCH. “Ravnt, tell meagain all that happened after you—or IJ left the veesel,” The one who asked the question was the one- time lovely woman who had won the name of Clio the Beautiful. Still beautiful she was, but with her snow- white hair, large black eyes, and long snowy eyelashes and eyebrows, her beauty was of a weird kind that would create awe in the beholder rather than admiration, Her form was still faultless, her face darkly bronzed, and her dress of velvet and silk of gor- — colors, while her arms, wrists, neck and ngers were simply covered with jewels. ‘he one she addressed was Ross Ravel, the one-time pirate priest who had set the woman adrift in the little beat at sea under pretense that she was a witch. When he had seen the pirate vessel coming he had donned a white wig and beard, dressed in the garb of a priest, with an appalling mixture of the wizard added, which had filled the bue- caneers with a superstitious dread of him, and Fe bies aly prevented all possibility of recognition y them. Now he was only dressed in a sailor suit, bis own hair and beard, worn long, were dark, and his face was the same handsome, cruel one of years before. Tbe two were seated upon a cliff overlooking the sea in all directions, aid inland giving a view of a fertile basin, for it was hardly a val- ley. The island was a large one, seemingly from the sea a solid rock, with no anchorage near, and surrounded by reefs and sunken rocks, But within was the fertile vale, with grass and trees, a deqp, crystal pool, sending a tiny rivulet to the ocean, and goats were seen feeding near the stream. - In one end of the basin stood against the rocks a small ee with its cross, and if had evident- iy been built trom ie wreckage of vessels cast upon the island to their doom, Than these two no other person was visible’ upon the island, and it did indeed seem like witchcraft that they bad again met, and under such weird circumstances, “ You seom strangely interested in my story, Clio—” “There, you will call me Clio, when you know Iam now Sela’: the Sea Witch, and I always call you Fatler Felix, you know.” “Yes: but I have told you my story over and over again.” “> “Troe, and I like to hear it, for it tells me that I misjudged you. “ When I remained on this island it was to make you feel my revenge; but when you tell me that you did not wrong me, then am I happy jindeed, and I like to hear it again and ain, “ Well, I'll tell you again that tie boat was a life-boat, though none of the crew knew it, and if you found the cask empty and the bundle with no food in it, then one of those fiends had taken out, "No, I meant you to be saved, and I headed the vessel away in the storm to be near you | when I came about, , '“ Several of the crow were in my plot, and they were on deck that night, and yet we could not find you and I gave you up for lost, ‘When we went to the rendezvous and that accursed fellow Belmont rejoined us, he heard all, and so he raised a mutiny, took my vessel from me, and in punishment, he said, for my sending you adrift in an open boat, he did the same by me, “Ae sailed away in my vessel leaving me | odes in an open boat upon the waters,” Then you know just how I, a poor woman, | , ' | Priest,” and the two plotters haste: suffered.” * Ah, yes, I felt all; but after days of drifting my boat touched this island and I wes saved. “+ T found that a missiopary sbip had been here before me, a chapel built and plenty of stores left on hand to make me com/‘ortable, and so I lived here, and determined if avy one visited the island, to ef the part of a hermit priest. “To my horror, after a mg 3 stay here, I dis- covered in a vessel heading or the island, my ined myself, and met Belmont, | men, ynded to be an fixed upon a white speck’ visi were content to have me bury their treasure with certain rites, until they could return for it, “T felt that some of them would return, so I made the curses to fall upon such as fearful as I could, for I saw for myself riches untold if I could only get them from the island. “The crew left, as you know, in fear and trembling, and your strange coming here helped out in the awe they felt, and, as you know, alarmed me also, for from Leach the part of a wizard priest I seemed to have brought before me a veritable witch of the sea. ‘¢-You know the rest, so why say more, for we are united again and the future is before us.” ‘‘ Yes, but the treasure?” ‘That must be ours when we can get it away frora the island,” “We can sail in your boat, hidden in the rocky cavern, and return with a vessel to carry off the treasure, and in a far-away land kings will not live more luxuriously than we.” ‘*“-Yos; but let us abide our time yet longer, for in spite of my curses to fall upon the one who would come here to rob his mates, some of that crew will come back, unless all went down in the craft that night, which you say was so unseaworthy.” “Yes, they were working the pumps day and night, and the hull had come to be but a shell.” ‘She may have gone down, and yet she may not: but certain it is that Belmont or some of the crew will come here for the treasure.” “* And then?” “Then we must simply not let them have it.” ‘* But how can it be prevented?” “Tam sure, if they come, only a few, from three to five, will comprise the party, for they wish to make the amount for each as large as possible, and there are hardly more than that number, even in that dare-devil crew, who would brave that dread curse, “Then we must pretend to receive them well and get rid of the leaders, for I can do it, while | the others must be forced under the spell of witch craft and thus we will command them body and soul,” ' **And then?’ “ Wecan take their vessel, which will doubt- less be a small one, load it with the treasure and sailfor Havana. ‘*Once in that city we need fear nothing from those who go with us, for dead men tellmo tales, and we will be rich beyond all our thoughts of riches.” “So be it! tke die is cast between us, and I accept what the end may be,” “And I,” and for a moment no. word was spoken between the two; but had either regard- ed the face of the other they would have read there a look sinister, deceitful and full of devil- try, for both the man and the woman were bold- ly playing a part, and a dangerous, daring part t was. ' “And each trusted the other, for the man saw not the revenge in the depths of the woman’s beart, and she saw not that bis plans for the fu- ture did not include her after she had ceased to be useful to him, “Sail ho!” suddenly called out the man in the rofessional tones of a seaman, aud’his gaze was ble far away off on the blue horizon. The woman's eyes also beheld the tiny white speck, and together they watched it until is ro:e into the proportions of a handsome vessel. ‘Tt isa brig, and she sails like the wind, to rise as rapidly as she has above the horizon,” said theWizard. “Yes, and she is armed,” the woman answer- « She is, and her decks are crowded with men my God! it must be Belmont, returned in a new vessel, so our treasure is lost to us,” “* Perhaps, and yet it may not be.” ** Wait and see. . “The brig is heading straight for the island.” “Trae, but will not to-night, in the face of yonder rising storm, the woman pointed to clouds that denoted a coming tempest, “Well, she will run in close and then stand away after landing a boat’s crew ! but if she does not land, then the treasure must be sy this night where they cannot find it—ah! late, for they will have time to land a boat’s crew att the storm. io Laue * Qui ou must not be seen gers to help me A my work of witchcraft, and will veuture to put on my garb of the Wizard ned down into the vale and disappeared in the little chapel, the rear of which led into caverns in the cliffs where they dwelt, ne err" CHAPTER VI. bicep ef SPELL, _ . Tue vessel sighted by the two strange beings island cliff was a , and at her tain. had said, come above the horizon, Nh § ‘beautiful craft pad never floated even which was generally flaunted above ; { ue —t iw ak } a fet Aa OR a “yah wee in dieke fale od %, W// ar ‘a! storm is able to land to-day < a The Shadow Silver Ship. the decks of the trimmest and most rakish of sea cruisers, From the tip of her sagen long and ap gn bowsprit, to her taffrail, from water- ine to trucks she was a model of symmetry, grace and a. Her hull was lean forward, with a swell amid- ships and gaunt as a deer-hound aft, which rendered her both speedy and stanch, Upon her sharp iron prow, keen as a sword- blade, and under the bowsprit, was a strange © figurehead. It was that of a woman with dark flowing hair and . bronzed skin, and adress of red, a face and figure made to represent a witch. In her right hand she beld a real sword, point- ing ahead, and in her left, the mouthpiece press- ed to her lips, a trumpet from which she was supposed to be blowing a gale of wind over the sea, The feet of this beautiful carved piece of work rested upon a human skull, as though in defiance of death, and tbus the figurebead told her name of ‘* The Wind Witch,” The brig was armed with a five battery, and her crew were neatly dressed in the garb of the royal navy of Great Britain, pon her quarter-deck stood several officers, all in the royal uniform except one, and he wore the gorgeous attire of a cavalier. “Tn the face of this rising storm, Captain Maybrick, it would be madness to anchor sear the island, sir, so it will be well to stand off for plenty of sea room,” said the man in cavalier costume, and who was a man of particularly fine physique and handsome face, bronzed to the hue, however, of a sailor who had long buffeted with the winds and waves. ‘“‘T amso anxious to begin work, Captain Bel- mont, that I think it would be well to have you go ashore in a boat, with, say, a dozen men, to get the treasure tcgether, while I stand off with the brig until this storm blows over, for it looks like ugly weather for several days to me.” “Tt does, sir, and it might be best as you say for me to land with a boat’s crew and begin ine responded the man addressed as Captain mont, “Very well, get ready and I'll order a boat lowered and ready, and stand in as near as you deem it safe.” Half an hour after a cutter containing eight oarsmen, a coxswain, and Captain Belmont in the stern sheets was rowing toward the island, while the brig was running away with alls to give herself plenty of sea roomin which to meet the threatening storm, The one in cavalier dress took the tiller-ropes as the cutter neared the island, and seemingly well acquainted with the waters avoided many a sunken rock which would have dashed the boat to pieces to have struck, Reaching a shelf of rock jutting from the island cliffs, the boat’s party sprung ashore, and, dirested by Captain Belmont, dragged the eutter far up beyond the reach of the sea and made it fast there. Some packages were then taken from the boat, and the erew, all armed, followed Captain Bel- mont up the steep cliff path to the summit of the rocky wall, when @ murmur of admiration came ‘from the men as they beheld the secluded and lovely vale below. 3 ta ‘*Gome, men, we must not halt here, for the most upon us, and we'll seek shelter the priest who dwells in yonder little chapel,” ani Captain Belmont pointed with his cutlass to the tiny chapel. They quickly followed their leader down the steep path and crossing the vale soom balted at the door of the ag , Just as Captain Belmont knocked with the hilt of his cutlass, there came a blinding flash of lightning, followed by a crash of thunder that shook the island, for the storm was bursting now upon the sea not far distant, ut, though the men were startled by the vivid pane and the thunder, they were more so by nearing in a deep voice from within the solemn- ly uttered words: hae “* He who knocks for entrance into this sacred tabernacle, is perjured before God and man, for he has come hither to rob bis comrades in crime of their riches, Pie saa ae WY eras “It is you, Captain Brandt Belmont, the pirate, for it is given unto me to see thy now ey op face,” ‘ y now accursed face. ! The last four maficrsiyroun like an echo from the cliffs, or from tbe air, and yet in a shrill, strange voice, unlike the deep voice that had spoken from within the chapel door. | At the words, and the echo Belmont, who bad seemed uneasy, and whose tace was very pale, shrank back like one struck « hard blow, while onoer gozed in terror about them and upon ir leader, ; "4 But Belmont recovered b quickly and med barvhly, and in tones meant to be de nt: t “So be it that lam Sir Wizard Priest, and that 1 come f treasure hidden here under thy awful black art should tell thee that I alone survive of all my crew, and hence anv sole heir to the riches here under thy ban.” — er 3h
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< a —————————————_ SS — t | apne nee — The Shadow Silver Ship. 5 ) From bis rock lookout in the cliff the Wizard | them out when I divide, so I care not whether had seen that the brigy as she came near, carried | he be alive or dead. the British flag, and his glass showed him that her officers and crew were certainly not pirates, so be made some shrewd guesses as to the exact reason of the cruiser’s coming, and, with her, bis oll lieutenant, Belmont, He therefore said, in response to the outlaw officer’s hint, that his ‘black art” should have told him that he’alone survived bis crew: “The storm is upon us, so step within the portals of this sacred hut, you and your English crew, and let me tell you that I do know that thy vessel met with reverses, but thou art not the sole survivor, Brandt Belmont,” ‘*Hal!l how know you this, old Gray Beard?” quickly asked the pirate officer, “By my art,” ‘*No! Fornesca and his crew have been here already; but if they are before me and have that treasure, I will strangle thee, priest, wizard or devil that thou art!” and the pirate officer stepped nearer to the Wizard, as though to carry out bis threat, when a voice, from whence none knew, uttered the words, solemnly Spoken: ** Thou shalt do no murder!” Belmont shrunk back as though confronted by a ghost, and glanced uneasily around him; his men became very nervous at their surroundings; while the wild raging of the storm without more deeply impressed them, ‘**T have no fear of thee, Belmont the Bueca- neer, though thy bands be red with blood. **No; Fornesca has not been here, but said I not that thou wert not the sole survivor of thy crew? ‘*T beheld thy lieutenant and his men safe as thou art, and they also will come for their share of booty, and then will be the time to take it from its hiding-place and enrich ye all, “But tell me now thy story, and mark me well, when thou akest falsely, that moment wil] my art make it known to me, “T would know from thy own lips, Belmont the Buccaneer, thy story, and why thou hast come here claiming to be the sole survivor of po | crew, come to claim uncounted riches, come with British seamen at your back? “Speak, Belmont, for I would hear thy tale, and remember that thou art known to mein heart, as I read thy face now.” The outlaw officer shuddered, and turned his eyes anxiously oe his men, as though to see if they would uphold him in any act of violence he might attempt. ut he saw that they were impressed by the white hair, beard and priestly garb of the man, and awed by his supposed powers in the black art, and so he decided to temporize and then be governed by circumstances as to his future course, CHAPTER VII. THE WIZARD’S THREAT, “You would hear my story, holy father, wouldst thou, and yet you say thou wilt know ' if I should tell thee falsely!” said the pirate. ‘*-Yes, I will know.” ** Yes, we will know !/” came from the strange voice, and it again startled Belmont and the English tars, ‘““Tf you know, why need I tell thee my story!” persisted Belmont. Phat I may see just how far thou wilt tell the truth, Belmont, the Buccaneer,” ** So be it, father; thou shalt hear all I have to ll. ** You recall when last I was here?” “With thy pirate ship and crew, after thou hadst found the wreck of a Silver Ship. “Thy vessel was unseawortby, you feared she would sink in the next gale, und Fornesca, thy lieutenant, led thee here to bury thy treasure, that thou mightest return later in a ‘stanch craft, and get thy riches, “I hid those riches from mortal sight, with certain rites of church and witchcraft, and upon the one of thy crew, or thyself, who would come along to rob his mates, placed an ever- va curse. “Then your vessel sailed away before a fierce gale, and now thou art here again; but tell me what has bappened from the time thou left this isle and now return. ‘*T await your story. =f son.” The outlaw officer had stood motionless and silent while the Wizard Priest uttered his re- sume of what he knew of the pirates’ last visit to the iskand; but the English tars were cer- tainly waeasy under his deep voice and piercing look. “There is little to tell, father,:more than that, as I knew, my craft was so unsea- worthy that she went down in a gale some time after leaving this isle, forcing us to take to our boats. “One boat with its crew was ym down with the vessel, but the other two, Fornesca’s and mine, kept afloat, but became separated, and as a storm soon after swept the seas, I sup- that be and his men were lost~were ” “T said that I saw Fornesca and his men es- ape death. ‘Very well, granted, it would make longer division of the riches, did I not intend to leave Aen ““As for my boat, we were picked up by a board, who had once been Ravel’s prisoner, and soour story of being honest shipwrecked mar- | iners wus known to be false and we were put in irons and taken to London, ‘“* Our trial of course wasa mockery, but it end- ed in our being found guilty and sentenced to death. “Tam young, holy father, fond of life and cared not to die, sot ged an audience with the king and offered to give him vast, riches in return for my life and pardon, **T convinced the king that I meant what I said, sol was given the chance to prove. my words, while my boat’s crew died at the end of a rope before I left England, “ The king bad just had built a fleet yacht for himself, and superbly armed and equipped, so he put a favorite officer in command, sent me aboard in irons, and’ the craft sailed for this island and was known as the Silver Ship. ‘*T was to get the treasure, and when on board the brig Wind Witch, I was to receive my par- don and become the captain’s guest to what- ever port I desired to disembark, and also to have a snug sum to support me, ‘‘The captain, a gallant fellow, made me bis guest in anticipation, convinced that I would not play bim false, and hence you see me here now dressed asa cavalier, haviag landed with those good lads, to get the treasure ready to ship on the brig’s return, for we feared several days of bad weather which would keep her well off at sea, for, as you know, holy father, these are dangerous waters, “Now you have my story, and I await your comments.” Belmont had spoken in an offhand, free and easy manner natural to him, and the Wizard was sure that he had told the truth, But he said: , *‘Tbave heard your story; but was the boat of Fornesca as stanch as yours, was it as well provided for a fight of days with the sea?” “By tbe king’s crown, holy father, I do believe indeed that thou art a wizard—yes, you must surely be, after all I saw and heard when I was here before, and also then called me by name,” ‘“Your words indicate that the boat of the Senor Fornesca was not then what yours was?” ‘True, mine was the life-boat, his the long- boat, and I had picked men with me, with water, | yar sails and oars,” ** And he?’ ‘If he found fresh water in bis casks and food in the lockers it was contrary to my orders, for Fornesca was a vile wretch, the boon companion of those in the boat wich him, his fellows in the most dastardly crimes, crimes which I would shrink from, ‘So, holy father, if tha long-boat with For- nesca and his men reached port in safety, then it was nothing short of a miracle that caused them to do so,” ‘* Might they not have been picked up as you were?” “True, that might have been, and as your art tells you they’are safe, it must have been the case, “ Come, Sir Wizard, now tell me if you intend to refuse to allow me my treasure?” There was a threatening look in the eyes of Belmont as he asked the question, But the Wizard Priest replied in a low, dis- tinct tone: ‘*Belmont, not one peso of that treasure do you touch until Fornesca und his men are known to be dead, ‘When the king’s brig returns here I shall tell her captain that if he dares lay finger u that treasure to remove it from this island, then will I use my art in all its terrors to make his vessel a barmless cruiser. ‘* He sball be under a spell, his vessel and his crew, and no hail of other craft shall they an- swer, no port shall they enter, no gun shall they fire at a foe that crosses their path upon the seas, ‘* Havenless shall she wander the broad blue waters, from sea to sea, and though with an armed deck beneath their feet, and trained men in war, they shall fly like cowards from a craft that flies a peaceful merchant flag, “‘ I swear to you, Belmont the Buccaneer, that my curse, my anathemas sball ring in the ears of every man on yonder craft, and she shall be haunted for in vain as she flies the seas like a shadow of a ship, a specter, not daring to enter a harborage, not daring to answer a hail, but flying the seas indeed like a wind witch, “I defy you, I dare you now, Belmont the Buccaneer, to rob this island of its treasure, you and your ee captain and bis crew. “‘ Defy me if you dare, and see what the ven- geance of the Wizard Priest will be.” ‘* Yes, see what the 0 yg eee of the Wirard Priest will be,” echoed the voice in the air in oe tones, In spite of his wonderful nerve Belmont the Buccaneer was cowed before the man he bad de- fied, while his men with cries of terror fled from the chapel, and he followed them, Once outside and they saw that the storm had British cruiser, recognised. by an officer on | } | Swept by, and reaching the cliff they beheld the | brig coming rapidly back toward the island,, ' under a full pressure of sail, “Tf Captain Maybrick dare defy that wizard, | I dare, aud the treasure will be ours,” said Bel- oe ae savagely, his nerve once more under cor- | trol, : | “Ob, sir! but that fearful oath, that threat! | To be a havenless cruiser, never entering port, | never hailing or answering a hail, flying m | avery craft we meet, to be but a Shadow Ship— | My God! Captain Maybrick will not dare to ; defy that man of the black art, sir; no, never!” | Said the coxswain, in impassioned words. | **No, never!” echoed the men, their faces | blanched with dread, | “ But Captain Maybrick will dare do as I do,” was the determined answer of. Belmont, as he led the way to his boat to go out and pilot the captain to the island to face the Wizard’s threat, | CHAPTER VIII. ONDER A CLOUD, | As Belmont the Buccaneer had told the Wizard / | Priest, the British king bad been tempted into | niprey gee his life and a pardon, by the be- lief that the rover would give over to his royal treasury the vast treasure hidden in the rock island iv the Caribbean Sea. There had been that in the bearing and words of the buccaneer which conyinced the king that Belmont was making no idle promises, So he could afford to give him the chance for life, while he, the king, took the chance for en- ricbing himself, especially as his crew yacht was just about completed, and if the pirate captain failed to make good his promise there was the yard-arm of the brig to hang him up to, thus carrying out the original sentence, The brig was found to have been most proper- ly named the Wind Witch, for she distanced all vessels that tried their speed with her, while, though splendidly armed and manned, the or- ders of ber captain were to runon all occasions and risk no battle unless absolutely necessary. The truth was, with the wars upou his hands with his neighbors, and bis American Colonies in revolt, the king’s treasury was at a low ebb, and he needed monsy sadly, so why not a pirate treasure, the value of which was said to be enormous, Sir St. George Maybrick, selected as the com- mander of the brig, was a particular favcrite with his Majesty, and was a five sailor as well, one who could be intrusted with any service to perform, He was a man of means, had been reared in the royal navy, from a middy' of ten years, came of an old family, and held influence at cou The secret leaked out, however, that the king had granted promise of pardon to the Buccaneer Belmont, in return for his treasure, and that the Wind Witch was to go on the voyage to bring back the gold. State secrets even.will leak out, and so when the beautiful brig sailed, all anxiously began to count tbe time until sbe was due in port. As orders were given Captain Maybrick to touch at Boston on the way bome, bringing dis- patches and paying certain money into the cramped exchequer of the Colonies, the kin auxiously awaited news by each incoming ves: of the arrival in an American port of the Wind Witch. But days passed and no word of the brig’s ar- rival at Boston came, but instead vessels com- ing into English ports reported a “‘ specter ship ” afloat, Too many superstitous people faithfully be- lieved at that day in pbantom craft at sea, as thoroughly as-they did ghosts ashore, to doubt the stories brought in by mariners of this weird ves- sel seen in American waters. There were many who scouted at the idea also, but the incoming ships brought too many stories about this wonderful phantom ship, and from reliable sources too, to permit longer doubt that such a craft was afloat, toall intents and pur- poses, as far as a rances went, the ‘‘ very ghost of a brig,” be she in reality what she might. Ten came news that proved the weird sailer of the seas to be none other than the Wind Witch, or her ghost, The king was startled, anxious and angry. Had his trusted captain, Sir St. George May- brick failed in his pledge of honor to his king, and become a lawless rover himself? Such was the idea suggested to his Majesty rs! the rivals at court of the young naval cap- tain. : Then. those friendly to Maybrick suggested that if he bad gotten the treasure there would be no need for him to turn pirate. Upon this the king concluded that the hucca- neer was the traitor, that he bad gotten posses- sion of the vessel in some way, murdered Sir and those of his officers and crew who would not join him in. his lawless course, and had hoisted the black flag over the A This seemed to be the most, reasonable way regarding the affair, until when the skippers who had seen the phantom sbip at sea wers brought before the king, as vessel vessel came in, it was discovered that the
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6 ‘The Shadow Silver Ship. was the fac-simile of the Wind Witch, but showed no national colors, but instead at the peak ficated a flag with a blue field and the Sg i of the vessel’s figurehead of the ind Witch standing upon a human skull, This convinced all tbat the brig was surely the Wind Witch, for she had gone to sea from London flying that flag from her mizzen top. The only differencé in the real brig and the yhantom, was that this mysterious craft was not painted black, but white, even her spars being ‘of the same snowy whiteness as hull and sails, That she had not developed into a pirate there “was proof of in the fact that she ran from every ~wetsel she Came near, even from merchantmen, Wever hailed, if suddeniy in fog, or darknéss coming upon a craft, and never returned tie fire of any cruiser that’had met her upon the seas, She would hover about a vessel for awhile, always afar off, and then sail away, but al- ways without a hail, a signal or a return shot, if fired upon, Her crew were seen to go to their work, and sail would be set, or taken in, as the’ wind re- quired, and with an alacrity and skill which made old tars shake their heads ominously, and swear that the brig was a specter, and her crew but ghosts, Thus it was that the king could no longer doubt, and yet what had bis Silver Ship be- come, The interest awakened by the mysterious craft was in everybody’s mind, and soon the common topic of the people, when they met, was the mystery of the “ Shadow Silver Ship,” as the Wind Wicth became popularly known, since all had become convinced that tne ‘‘ shadow craft” seen by so many mariners, was none other than the beautiful vessel sent by the king after the pirate treasure. Nor was this awe about the Shadow Silver ’ Ship alone felt upon the English shores, for if was even greater upon the American Coast, and from Halifax to the Gulf of Mexico few there were in the Atlantic ports who had not heard of this weird mystery of the sea, and the boldest seaman cared not to cross the path ot this. ocean specter, though it fled from every craft tbat carried sail, it was asserted, The war of the Revolution had begun in America, and Boston Harbor and its sarround- ings had become the central theater of action, Several battles of importance had been fought by the Colonists against the British, and Gen- eral Washington had besieged Lord Howe and his forces in Boston, so that the Americans had struck a hard blow for liberty from royal rule, and the tcesin of war was echoing from Massa- chusetts to the Carolinas. To aid the gallant heroes fight the battles upon land, there were brave American sailors afloat, in what vessels they could secure, to harass English commerce, and fight British cruisers when they met them on the high seas, Oné day there sailed into Boston Harbor, some half a year after the real breaking out of the war, a brig flying our flag at half-mast, It was a craft that already bad a history, for once it kad been a famous pirate schooner, and captured bya young American, bad been bought by the British, changed into a brig, and sent to cruise in South American waters. Now she returned to port, the British flag at half-mast, in token of distress on board, her crew reduced to a dozen men for duty, while her commander wore the dress ofa common sailor, and bad been released from irons as a prisoner, to bring the vessel home, And so under a cloud, as it were, the British brig-of-war Shark, sailed into Boston Bay, and dropped anchor, while old sailors who gazed upon her storm-beaten and shot-scarred bull and rigging, and her general air of misfortune, shook their heads ominously, as thongh they knew that a still deeper pall of gloom was to fall upon the ill-omened craft. CHAPTER [X, UNDER THE SHADOW OF THE YARD-ARM, A MAN was under trial for his life, facing bis accusers, A young man, with a face that even bis worst foe could not find’a trace of crime upon, a face to admire, r t and to command, was before a tribunal of British officers, to be tried upon charges which, if proven, would send bim to the yard-arm to die an ignominious death, The prisoner war the one in sailor garb, who had been oom | captain of the British brig-of- war, which had come into port with flag at half-mast, and seemingly in dire distress, His looks, his bearing showed the Amerivan, and though in the dress of a common seaman he looked like one born to command. Tall, elegant in form, courtly in manner and handsome, he riveted the gaze of every eye as he rose, and, to the various charges, for there were several, pleaded: “ Not guilty as accused,” For the purpose of “example,” to intimidate their American foes, the British commandant had ordered the court-martial held in public and there had gathered to witness what promised to be @ remarkable trial, the most prominent subjects of the English king, and the blood of the Americans whom desire, or the chances of war had kept in the city of Boston during the siege of it by the patriots under Washington. In a prominent part of the court-room sat a group more deeply interested than all others in the proceedings, One was a man of striking ap American boasting of the best blood in the Colonies, possessing riches, and known from his courtly manners, elegant style of dress and Javish entertainment of bis friends as ‘‘ Prince” Paul Revere. He was a man with a history, and many stood | in awe of him, but there was one whose slave be was and that one was his beautiful daughter, Pearl, who sat near him, and by the side of an- other maiden as lovely in face and form as her- self, and whose striking resemblance to the pris- oner proved her relationship to him of sister, Upon the other side of the maiden sat a woman with sad, yet comely face, and whose hair, be- ginning to whiten, indicated that she had passed the two-score mile-post of life, She was neatly dressed in deep black, and her large, magnificent ha were fixed upon tbe prisoner, her son, with a mingled look of hope and despair, Often did the gaze of ‘‘ Prince” Paul Revere, the prominent American gentleman whose sym- patby with the king caused him to be a promi- nent personage in British eyes, wander to the face of the matron and rest there an instant, and there were those'among the older ones who saw his look who remempered that there had been a romauce in the lives of the two many years ore. They recalled how pretty Ethel Noel bad been engaged to handsome Stacey Stanwood, who had been reported lost at sea, but returned the very arance, an | 1 | Remembering Noel Stanwood.as a dashing | young captain of one of his father’s vessels, ia | their days of prosperity, and & handsome, genial, | generous fellow, his former associates in high | life in Boston had assembled tosee him on trial brs crimes thatit was said would cost him bis ife, | So it was that a very distinguished assemblage | had gatbered at the trial of a man who had | written hero after bis name on numerous occa- | sions, and who now was under a cloud that had blackened it. Of ail present the prisoner seemed the least | moved, except when he glanced over toward bis mother and sister, and then a cloud would sweep over bis manly, noble face, yet only for an in- | stant, He sat apart, with his ankles and wrists in manacles, and every eye was upon him, and | none could fail to admire his cool courage in the face of his accusers, At last all was ready; the judge-advocate, a stern old martinet coummodore, was in_ his -seat, and the court was ready to try ‘‘ Noel Stan- wood, American sailor, for mutipy, piracy, con- spiracy against the king, and the murderofa superior officer.” CHAPTER X. GUILTY, OR NOT GUILTY. THE proceedings opened.in the court by the reading of the charges against the prisoner, who, | in answer thereto arose, unmindful of bis clank- | | as the tones of a bell: ing chains, and said in a voice that was as clear “T plead not guilty to the charges as therein | stated,” Then it was shown that after the lossof his | fortune Noel Stanwood had accepted the position night appointed for the marriage of his lady- | as skipper of a trading schooner along the coast, Jove to Paul Revere, and with just a moment to | and while so serving bad captured, with the aid spare to prevenf the ceremon | of a wrecked, boat’s crew he bad picked up at sea, and a sergeant ard a squad of marines who had taken. passage on his vessel, a famous. buc- caneer known as. Captain Crimson and_ his schooner, The capture bad been by. a cunning device of the young skipper nho allowed the pirates to board, without knowing of his extra help in the shipwrecked crew and marines, and the outlaw craft bad been taken after a hot band-to-hand fight, and brought into port as a prize, It.was this schooner which bad heen refitted and changed into a brig, and under the name of his Majesty’s brig-of-war Sbark, bad sailed for Southern seas, de Some yoonths, after the sailing of the brig the young hero had struck down end left for dead his father’s former partner, Fravk Farley, from, the said Farley asserted, no other motive than to wish to kill bim, avd bad escaped to sea in a barque that day to sail for Monte Video, having been purchased by the Government there. Having delivered the. barque to its owners, and afraid to come home, as be déemed Frank Farley dead, it was alleged that the prisoner joined a band of Peruvian pirates, but from ad treatment by them escaped and swam out to the brig-of-war Shark one vight, while said Paul Revere bad been east to the occasion, | for he bowed to his cruel fate, gave the band of Ethel Noel tothe man whose memory be knew | she loved far more than she did himself, and left | the elegant bome of the Noels. | For years he was absent from the country, | and one day returned with a lovely Cuban bride, | who had died soon after: the birth of her | daughter, the young maiden who now sat in the | court-room by the side of Ethel Noel, the | daughter of her father’s Jost lady-love. Those who looked back into the past recalled | also that where there bad always been but a cold | intimacy between Paul Revere and the Sitan- | woods, bis daughter owed her life to Noel Stan- | wood, the son of the handsome sea captain who bad won Bthel Noel. back from the very thres- hold of ber marriage with another, and the — three, Noe) and Ethel Stanwood and Pear! | Revere bad been the best of friends, : W batever his feelings were, or bad been in the far by-gone, now that Captain Stacey Stanwood | was in his grave at the bottom of the sea, and his son Noel a prisoner, charged with terrible crimes, Prince Puul Revere had come to tie trial, and with bis daughter was with the sor- rowing mother and sister of the unfortunate young sailor, There were also two more among the group deserving passing mention, for both of them | were British officers giving by their presence | friendly aid to the Stanwoods, who were known to be American patriots. ; Once the Stanwoods bad held exalted position | in the community, but when Captain Stanwood | was lost at sea, his partner in business proclaim. | ed that bad speculations bad ruined him, and the mother and children went from their elegant | | vessel was anchored in asmall harbor whither ' she had gone to fill her water-casks, By warning the brig that Captain Crimson, the pirate whom he bad captured on the Caroliua coast, had escaped and come out in the brigasa sailor, but bad gotten ashore and was to lead an attack. upen bis old vessel to capture her, the risoner hoped to gain pardon for having, a5 he lieved, taken the life of merebant Frank Farley. \ The attack of Captain Crimson and his borde bad beev beaten off, and as the brig was short- home, the grounds of which all joined those of | the Revere mansion, to live in an humble cot- tage. Noel went to sea and the aristocratic and wealthy friends, in success, deserted the widow and her children in poverty, with the exception of a very few. The two officers referred to were in the full uniform of Britain’s king, one wearing the rank of aren the other that of a licutenant in the Royal Navy. ; he captain was Lord Erskine Enders, a gallant officer, one whose family could look back upon their career for centuries with great pride, and who possessed great wealth, Captain Lord Erskine Enders had lately served upon the brig-of-war Shark in South American waters, and badly wounded had come home & short while previous to the trial of Sailor Noel Stanwood who bad, though a \prisoner, brought the unfortunate vessel back to port, Whatever the charges against the prisoner, he had returned bis firm friend, and at once sought to befriend the motber and sister. The otber officer was a lieutenant on the frigate British King, which bad been also in southern Waters, and at the time the brig Shark was there, and he, too, the firm friend of Lord Erskine was also in sympathy with the prisoner and bis kindred, Another group seated apart were in naval uniform, their ranks varying from commodore to midshipman, and then Sense were several seamen present, and from these officers and men it was said the testimony would come that would send the young sailor to the yard-arm. | handed. Captain Kane, her commander, bad made the prisoner, Noel Stanwood, acting boat- | swain, tos And the said Stanwood, while in that ca- city, bad insulted the first Jieutepant, Sir | Bradwyp Brule, upon the quarter-deck, and wresting his sword from his grasp had broken it and thrown the pieces into the sea, ; It was further charged that on account of his having saved the brig from the pirates, Captain Kane had allowed the prisoner to go ashore at | Callao, and he had challenged Lieutenant Sir | Bradwyn Brule to fight a duel, and bad in said duel taken that officer’s life. For said act he had been arrested by order of Commodore Tate, whose ship the Britisb King ; was then at Callao, and commanded to be sent home in irons in the brig Shark, ; It was further stated that the brig again put into the pirate bay, on her wa home, but found no outlaws there; but, while, at. anchor getting water, a large goleta filled with men ran out of a lagoon down v ber aud a fierce fight followed, in which the prisoner had come to the rescue with the siightly wounded and sick which he bad gatbered to follow bit, and having persuaded the guard to allow him-to do so. After doing so he went. back to his irons, and ones meee mentioned in bis behalf, doubtless nstigated by the prisoner. | On account of the severe wounding of Captain | Kane, Lord.Erskine bis first lieutenant, and | Lieutenant Caspar Caldwell his second, the brig ) was left. in command of the Senior Midshipman Burt Willis and a small force in crew, ‘ ite TUN aed me FON Se hy Pi Ewe we Pe 2 : —. i a =| gz
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SYS ie SR Mr y i te sd me tag Suiling on her voyage she had been caught in a hurricane while rounding Cape Horn, and the great skill of the prisoner as a seaman being acknowledged, and the vessel in danger of be- ing lost, Noel Standwood’s irons were taken off and he was placed in command of the Shark by Captain Kane, to bring her home, Toaching at a South American port Lord Erskine’s wounds had necessitated his being sent at once home on a frigate bound to Boston, while the brig held on her voyage to various rts as dispatch ship, and so Noel Stanwood ad commanded her until she dropped anchor in the harbor, where as she was to be at once fitted out to go on a cruise after the king’s lost Silver Ship, the prisoner had been put in irons again and sent to the town prison to await bis trial, Furthermore it was said that while on the way to Bostcn the brig, under her sailor captain, the prisoner, had captured two French prizes, a privateer and a merchant craft, and sent them into port, but be had refused, when the Sbark and her two prizes were together and couli easily have done so, to capture or fire on an American rebel privateer that was certainly at their mercy, and boldly stated that as a patriot he would not raise hand against his own people and their fight for freedom, Although all these charges had been made in public before, and discussed, their reading made a@ profound impression, o the unprejadiced mind it looked as though the Americzn sailor was a hero after all, in spite of some of the ugly charges of piracy, mutiny, challenging a superior officer to kill him and allowing an American privateer to go, But to the Tory eye, and the general observer among the king’s people, who looked at all from a one-sided view, it seemed that the prisoner was certainly guilty and should be put to death, As for the prisoner he did not change color during the reading. He seemed interested, yet hardly more so than others who were present. And to all he pleaded “ not guilty as charged.” Then the witnesses were called, but against the first, intent to kill merchaut Frank Farley, no one appeared, and all eyes turned upon Lord Erskine Enders who. coolly met the stares directed at him, although he understocd that every one knew that the reason the said merchant failed to appear was because be was lying very ill at home from a wound received a short while before in a duel with Lord Erskine. As Mr. Farley failed to appear the charge would have been dismissed had not Lord Erskine arose and asked, in justice to the prisoner, ifa witness present, when the merchant was left for dead by Noel Stanwood, might not state the facts as they were. The old commodore hed great regard for Lord Erskine, and more, being a r man fond of luxurious living, be always knew where to_bor- row a hundred pounds or so, when needed for his debts, aid just at that time owed the yonng nobleman 2 handsome sum, so granted permis- sion for the witness to appear in justice to the prisoner, : To the amazement of ali Pearl Revere was the witness, and in a Clear voice she told how she had been visiting Ethel Stanwood, and not see- ing ber, Merchant Farley had approached, and what he said had angered her friend greatly, and just at tuat moment Noel Stanwood had ap- roached and felled the merchant with a sting- bis blow. elieving that the merchant was dead, for his head iu falling had struck a stone, she, Pearl Revere, and Ethel had urged Noel to fly at once; and yielding to their entreaties, us the barque he was to command was ready to sail, he had at once left port, and then they, the two maidens, had found that the blow had only stunned Mr, Farley. This statement not a soul dared to doubt, but it was thought that Merchant Farley bad been uilty of moro than Pearl Revere alleged, and or the sake of Etiel had been spared. Against, the charge of piracy the prisoner’s own testimony was taken, viz: that be had been set. upon in Montevideo by robbers, who had wounded and robbed him of his all, and he was driven to shipping before the mast upon a vessel bonnd for Peru, The vessel was captured by Peruvian pirates, and to save bis life he had joined them; but taken ill at their retreat he heard, while lying in his cabin ashore, that Captain Crimson had escaped from the brig, bis old vessel, swam ashore, and a3 she was anchored in the little bay, intended to run out in a goleta and capture er, ; , 9 Ho had at once decided to swim out tothe brig and warn her, which he did, and thus had be- come acting-boatswain on board of her, His manver was calm, his words few and to the point, and many. began to feel that the pris- oner was clearing the dishonor from his name When Captain Carter Kane, a finé-looking old sea warrior, and the captain of the Sbark, was called as a witness against the prisoner. CHAPTER XI. Gyprint Kane's testitrony, If stipposed to be Coot CANE stimony, if su agaihit the prisoner, created the impression of being just the other way, for he told how the prisoner had swam out through shark-infested waters to warn the brig of danger, and bad risen from a sick bed to dogo, while, but for his ad- vice being followed in beating off the pirates the vessel would surely have been taken. As to bis affair with Lieutenant Brule, he knew nothing more than that, when on and off duty Sir Bradwyn Brule had seemed to have a cause of spite against the prisoner, and one day, when Lord Erskine was officer of the deck, the — had happened which led to the uel. The captain was still suffering from a wound which had kept him in his cabin on the whole voyage, and he was then on crutches. ord Erskine Enders, as officer of the deck when the trouble began between Sir Bradwyn Brule and the prisoner, took the stand and gave his testimony in a manner that caused much ex- citement. It was as follows: ‘“‘T was on duty, and Brule, Caldwell and junior officers on deck, and the brig becalmed. “ Stanwood was engaged in work upon the binnacle light, when Brule showed a miniature of a lady, witha remark that he was engaged to her, and some uncomplimentary words, ‘““When asked who she was, Brule turned to the prisoner and said that he could tell, at the same time handing kim the miniature. “It was all as quick asa flash, the lie given by Stanwood to Brule, who attacked him with bis sword, was disarmed, the blade broken, the pieces flung into the sea and a stinging slap given the officer upon the cheek. * Of course I put Stanwood in irons at once, and reporting it to Captain Kane, was told to relieve him, as Stanwood was his guest, only acting boatswain, and Brule had provoked pei purposely to do some act suchas he had one, ‘* Stanwood went ashore at Callao, Peru, and Brule challenged him through. Lieutenant Caldwell, “*T was Stanwood’s second, and Lieutenant Bonair, of the British King, Midshipman Lum- ley, Surgeon Deas, a coxswaim and four seamen came in the same boat with Brule and Caldwell, and all of them 1 see present, “The first meeting was with swords, and Stanwood disarmed Brule and han:led him bis blade, which was accepted with an insulting ete and a demand for a second meeting with pistols, **T demurred, but yielded, and Stanwood kill- ed the man, who richly deserved his fate, ‘Commodore Tate, of the British King, un- aware of the exact situation, ordered Stanwood sent back in the brig in irons, and it is Incky for us that he was, for when again attacked by pi- rates, when Captain Kane lay wounded on the deck, I had three wounds, Lieutenant Caldwell had been sent below severely wounded, two junior officers were dead, and our crew cut to pieces, the prisoner whom yon are here to hang, came to the rescue with men hardly able to stand aud saved the ship. ** Back to his irons then he went, of his own will, and the men mutinied, when he told the leaders that it was his wish to return in irons, ‘* Avain, when Midshipman Burt Willis, feel- ing that he could do no more to save the brig, so reported to Captain Kane, Stan wood’s irons were knocked off and he took command, and the brig rode out the hurricane off Cape Horn and came into port with two prizes while under command of her prisoner captain, “There are officers’ on the brig who are not friendly to the prisoner, for reasons best known to themse?lyes, but let mo here assert that not one of them can gainsay my testimony of what I saw and know, unless making false state- ments,” Thus tho testimony of Lord Erskine ended al- most with a challenge to any one who would dare report differently from what he had done, and there were taose present who felt it. Lieutenant Caldwell was called then, and the testimony he gave all came out by questioning, yet his answers led to the belief that Sir Brad- wyn Brule had been in the wrong, that he had sent the challenge, had beon spared by his ad- versary, and then met his death at his hands, He admitted that the prisoner had done much to save the brig from the pirates, but the court must judge as to whether Stanwood was guilty or not of willful piracy. himself before joining the Shark, . As to the brig’s being in danger off Cape Horn, he was wounded and below decks, but he thought that she would have Pidden ont the storm under Midshipman Willis’s command. About the capture of the two prizes, it only went to show how readily the rebel privateer could have. been taken by the; brig, in spite of her small crew, for the American of course did not know that the three vessels had not two-score men between them all told. He, Lieutenant Caldwell, had not been placed in command by Captain Kane, when ready to resume his duties, but served under the prisoner’s orders, and had remonstrated with him about not capturing the rebel, and was told to attend to his own affairs, and that.as an American he would not harm a patriot craft. ; Oa a gn en ype i: rs Fay ~ The Shadow Silver Ship. aE Ee = Upon this subject Lieutenant Caldwell became very communicative and said all that he could to cast the stain of being a “‘traitor to the king” upon tbe prisoner, and all could see that he was one of the officersat whom Lord Erskine had had his fling at the end of his testimony, When asked who the lady was, whose miniature Sir Bradwyn Brule had stown on the brig’s deck, Lieutenant Caldwell fell back behind his superior officer by the remark: ‘‘Tord Erskine came to me personally, and asked me, asa favor to him, not to name the lady, should the question as to who she was be brought up,” All eyes again turned upon Lord Erskine, but he did not change color; but something the old commodore saw in his face caused him toprevent the question being urged. Other witnesses were then called, and the at tentive listeners came to the conclusion that th prisouer could not be found guilty. But the court took another view, for he was an American, an avowed rebel, his own testi- mony alone stood as to having been forced toserve on a pirate craft to save his life, and most of all he had proven a traitor to the king in that he bad refused to capture, or even fire upon a rebel privateer. The finding therefore of the military court was against bim, and he was adjudged guilty, but, in consideration for the valuable services he had rendered the brig and her crew, his sentence would not be to be hanged to the yard- arm, but instead he would be sent to England there to be incarcerated as a prisoner for life, . CHAPTER XII UNDER ANOTHER NAME. Ir was evident that the verdict of the military court, sentencing sailor Noel Stanwood to an English prison for life, was pected by many present with feelings of pleasure, and a few were disappointed that he had not been sent to the galluws, But there were-many more who felt that the only case the court had against the prisoner was his having allowed a rebel privateer to escape, and this shonld not bave weighed heavily in the face of his having saved the brig on thr2e occasions, brought her to port in safety, and also captured two prizes of value. There was a show of animus against the prisoner on the part of nearly all the officers and meu on the brig and the British King, and it arosefrom the fact that an American had ac- complished so much, and stood as a rebuke to British naval officers, Tnen too the American was of the merchant service, and more, though not trained as an officer he bad disarmed and spared the life of the most dangerous sportsman and duelist in the English service, as had Sir Bradwyn Brule been known to be, Also be had shown a deadly aim with the pis- tol, in the second meeting, and more, a courage through all that nothing could daunt. When the decision of the court was mado the Americans all knew that Stanwood suffered because he was notan Englishman, and that tha court retreated behind a seeming spirit of mercy in that they had not banged kim. The prisoner’s face did not change, and whether it was a joy or regret to him, not a soul could tell. He received his sentence in silence, and when asked if he had aught to say against it, respond- ed in an unmoved voice: “No more than that as I know lam made to suffer as an American, I feel proud thatI am a patriot, a rebel, if so it pleases the gentlemen of this august court.” That Lieutenant Caldwell had boped that death would be the penalty, bis face plainly showed, as did the countenance of Lord Erskine Enders that he considered the punishment an outrage. “ Whatdo you think of the sentence, my lord?” asked one of the court, a pompous little captain of the Royal Navy. ‘That not to consider that bis gallant deeds more than canceled the one act of his being a rebel, and thus setting him free, was infamous,” came the stern rejoinder, and others who heard the outspoken words of the nobleman winced under them, as did tho dapper little questioner, “ But, my lord, the guilt of the prisoner as—” “See here, Verney, your verdict settled the case, 80 don’t reopen it with me, for I consider it infamous, as I said, and I shall see to it that the king gets the entire facts of the case,” and with this shot Lord Erskine turved away, while he left behind him a very uneasy feeling in the minds of some of the court, for Commodore Tate of the British King frigate, Captain Carter Kane of the brig Shark, and Lieutenant Bonair of the frigate, those, with Lord Erskine, most conversant with the whole facts, seemed to feel that no punishment should have been meted out upon the evidence as given, with tbe merits of. the case in Stan wood’s favor to offset such acts of bis that were open to censure. Lord Erskine and Lieutenant Bonair bastened on after Prince Paul Revere and the three ladies, who had gone to the Revere carriage in wait- ing, and Lord Erskine seid cheerily:
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- a7 8, “Do not sorrow over the result, Mrs. Stan- wood, you and Miss Ethel, for the king shall know of the affair, if { go to England to pre- sent it to him in full, and I shall bear the names of men whose influence will be felt, that the punishment was unjust. ** Do you not agree with me, Mr. Revere?” “T cannot see wiy the fact of being a rebef was not more than cffset by the many services rendered, and you may count upon apy influence I may have, my lord, to urge upon. the king a pardon,” “Thank you, my lord, and the don we must have, though it will doubtless result in sending a very daring and dangerous foe upon the seas against us—eh, Bonair?” “Yes, Erskine, I am sure Stanwood wouid draw his sword for the patriot cause, once he was free,” returned Lieutenant Brainard Bonair, and after seeing the ladies into the carriage, for Pearl Revere was to drive Mrs, Stanwood and Ethel home, the three gentlemen walked away upon their respective duties, for Lord Erskine was busy fitting out the returned brig for the special mission she was to go upon, and which wes to hunt down the now famous Shadow Silver Ship. Orders had come from the king to promote Lord Erskine toa captaincy, and to send him upon this mission, in the fleetest vessel that could be found in American waters. No expense was to be spared in fitting the vessel out, and she was to be heavily armed with the best battery to be found, and equipped thorcughly, while her crew of a hundred seamen were to be picked men, The vessel decided upon before her return from South American waters, was the brig Sherk, as she was known to be a stanch craft, an able sea boat and remarkably fleet, She could, bya new set of spars, carry far more sail area, and certain alterations in her hull would add to her speed, it was thought, and no expense was tu be spared, The duty of selecting his men, Lord Erskine placed in the hands of a certain prominent ship- ping merchant, with orders to pick every man for his physique and seamanly qualities, and as many shrunk from goingin chase of a specter craft, each man was to be told the exact mission that the brig was to sail on, the capture of the Silver Ship, or its mysterious ‘* Shadow,” so that there should be oo ignorance pleaded, once they were at sea, that they did not know they were going on a ghost-hunting cruise, Among the officers of the brig, which was to be known no longer as the Shark, for Lord Erskine had een, named her the Sea Shadower, was Lieutenant Caspar Caldwell. The conduct of this officer Lord Erskine had not liked, when it was directed against Stan- wood, but when be bumbled himself to ask for a junior officer’s berth on board, as he was a splendid seaman the young captain was too just a man toallow persoual feelings to influence him, so had offered his name for the position of second Heutenant, and it was granted by the naval commandante of the port. One day a messenger ship arrived direct from England, and..Lord Erskine received a number of important dispatches which sent him in haste to the naval commandante, After a visit of lonz duration to him he walk- ed rapidly back to his quarters and his valet handed him a note which had just arrived for him, and it was marked: ““ PERSONAL AND IMPORTANT.” “Grimes, get all my traps ready, for I will sail for England just ten days from to-day, “Tf any one calls, other than. Lieutenant Bonair, or the officers of the Sea Shadower, I am to be excused,” and so saying Lord Erskine read the note, after which he resumed bis hat and cloak and walked rapidly away in the direc- tion of the more handsome houses of the citizens, turning into a massive gateway that led to the elegant mansion of Paul Revere, CHAPTER XIIL A PAIR OF PLOTTERS, THE note which Lord Erskine had received npon entering his quarters, or the voluminous dispatches which had come P owe before from London, had cast a deep shadow upon bis face, He walked along like one half in a dream, and mechanically spoke to several acquaintances whom he met, When ushered into the elegant parlors of the Revere mansion, he found there Pearl and Ethel, the latter with hatand cloak on, and pst welcomed him pleasantly, while the former said: ; “Tt was kind of you, my lord, to come so soon after the reception of my note; but you look ill ay. “T came, Miss Revere, at once, as you re- , and because | have much to do ina very short while, for 1 have just received the aad intelligence from home of my noble father’s death, the dearest friend I ever had, not to speak of his devoted regard for me,” Thus spoke the dutiful son, who through his father’s death came into the title of Har! and one of the Ja fortunes in England, “You have my deepest sympathy, my lord, The Shadow Silver Ship. in your deep affliction,” said Pearl, in her sweet, frank manner. ‘ _ ane mine, my lord,” and Ethel offered her and, “*You are both most kind, and I appreciate your sincere sympatby, and will teil you that I am ordered home by tke first vessel, and naturally will Lave to ask leaye for six months, to arrange my affairs in England.” “Then you will not cominand the Sea Shadower in her crvise after that mysterious vessel, my lord, which they call the specter of the King’s Silver Ship?” “No, Miss Revere, I have just resigned my place as captain, and the naval commandaut was so good as to say that as another officer was to be her captain, he preferred to have him get his orders direct from the king, so he is to send the brig to England under Licutenant Henshaw, and I will go as passenger in ber,” “Tam sorry we are to lose you so soon, my Jord; but I hope you will again come to the Colonies.” “IT certainly shall do so, for I am not going to remain idle in war times, when my king needs the swords of his subjects; but Lam giad that 1 ¢o at this time, for it will enable me to personally nee the case of Mr. Stanwood before his Majesty, and urge for bis pardop,” “Ah, my lord, you are so kind,” said Ethel, and 7 eyes filled with tears, while Puarl said uickly; ' : “Yes, you are always good; but let me tell you why I wrote you to come to see ma.” ‘“*T am at your service, Miss Revere,” **T heard to-day that Mr, Stanwood was to he sent to England in a ‘few days, and the vessel had been selected that he would go in, “* May I ask if this is the case?’ “Yes, he was to goin the next dispatch ves- sel, but the commandantsaid that he would send him in the brig with me,” ‘** You asked this of course?” “Well, I felt that it would perhaps be pleas- anter for Stanwood to go in the same vessel with ie, and as the commandant is aware that I have some influence with the king he was good enough to grant my request. ; “In fact it was my intention to decide at the last minute to just cross the sea and have an eu- dience with the king, and offer to take Mr. Stanwood with me, so all along had no idea of trusting bim to the tender mercies of others until his Majesty had heard my story and seen the proofs, signed by others, that I have secured of the case.” “* And you believe, my lord, that the king will pardon my brother?” Ethel asked, “T Lave that hope, Miss Stanwood, though I know that much influence will have to be ccn- tended with against a pardon, and the king may, ina sudden bumor, refuse, for he is very bitter just now against Americans.” “* Then there is considerable doubt as toa par- don, my lord?’ Pear] asked. ** There is, though I hope for a pardon for Mr, Stanwood,” ie a I ask just when you are to sail, my ord “On the tenth day from this, I have decided to sail,” For Some reason, after knowing the date of the brig’s sailing, both Pearl and Ethel seemed to show considerable anxiety, and soon after Lord Erskine arose to take his leave, and said: “Miss Stanwood, I will call to say good-by before my departure, and I wish you would tell your mother that I will do allin my power to save her nobleson, so that she must not worry about him, ““T also gained permission from the com- mandant to-day for you and your mother to call at the prison and see Mr, Stanwood, so you can do so eucl: evening after dark, for itis best not to let the general public know that you have the privilege, Ethel’s joy was so great that she could not utter a word, for thus far they had not been al- lowed to see the prisoner, and anxious to avoid thanks Lord Erskine took « basty leave, Hardly bad he serene from the mansion when Pearl said quickly: “Come, Ethel, save yourself, for we must act at once,” “Yes, but, Pearl, will you carry out your bold plot that you spoke of, now that Lord Erskine’s efforts may gain Noel a pardon?” “Certainly, for if tue king is in an ugly humor he will refuse even Lord Erskine, and we must take.no chances,” “Oh, Pearl, you are so brave, and yet you will have to face far more than you think.” “Yet he has to face imprisonment for life, ‘*No, now is our chance, and fortune favored us in father’s going last night to Halifax with Commodore Gates in bis flagship, “I will let the servants believe I am visiting you, and no one will know of our absence, “The sailor who came to you, as your brother’s friend, offering to make an effort to free Noel, must serve us, so go right home and send old Bennett for him to come here and I will tell my plan, aud he can help us, “Tf he fears to make the venture, then we will by land in my carriage, for, as I told you, I have father’s pass from Lord Howe, ! | whee he expected to go barons the lines ten days ago to visit the wounded British officer in. Wasti,gton’s camp, “The pass reads; “* Pass Mr. Paul Revere and servant out of, and. back into the British lines,’ j “It issigued, sealed snd gond as gold, only father did not use it, as word cauie that the colo- nel was dead,” ‘But what good can the pass do us, dear Pearl?” ** Listen!” **T am all ears,” “The pass was written on the first of the month—so, 1st. Now I will chauge it to read 15th, which will be to-morrow, by making the s intoa fand the tinto an hk and putting in the. flare 3 which can ali be easily doue, for I have studied if out.” “Ob, Ethel, but—” “Ttis for Noel, remember, and we are doing: no great harm, “Then I can make Paulread Pearl, Mr. read M'ss, aud servint, or servt. read maid, and T vave a pass for to-morrow giving ‘ Miss Peart Revere and maid’ exi. and entrance threugh the British lines.” “* Do you see, my dear?” “You bave a wonderful head for plotting, Pear,” ‘* The circumstances of the case demand bold work, Etbel; but now go home and send for that ecilor, Jack Ross, and then return and await his. coming, “If he refuses to venture by boat, then we will go by land and visit the great rebel chief, Washington, “* What an adventure it will be, too, Ethel,” Eine! seemed to fully realize the adventurous pert of tle daring plot as she hastened home; but if Pearl Revere was willing to risk so much for Novel, certainly she would not fail her brother at such a time, So Benneto the old servant, who, with Lrey his wife, had clung to the fortunes of the Stan- woods in their poverty, was sent witha note to Srilor Jack Ross, asking him to come at once to the Revere Mansion, Telling her mother of the good news, that: Lord Erskine had gotten them permission to see: Noel each evening, and intended to plead for his. pardon in person to the king, but saying nothing. then of Pearl Revere’s bold plot to save the prisoner, Etbel hastened back to the home of her friend, inwardly all excitement, but outwardly pao calm, for she bad the courage of her rother when occasion demanded nerve, CHAPTER XIV. JACK ROSS, SAILOR. ** THERE he comes, Pear},” ** He is pponnt, and that argues well for us,” responded Pearl, as from the window the form of + amas in sailor garb was seen coming up the walk, As the two maidens gazed at bis approach from the library window, a huge watch-dog, which by some accident had slipped bis collar and gotten into the front yard, bounded from the piazza directly upon the sailor, Quick as a flash the sailor drop upon one kuee, seized the savage brute by the throat, and hurling him to the ground and deftly drawing his black silk scarf from his neck, bound it in a a few seconds around the mouth of the dog, com- pletely otuzzling him, Then witha kick he sent him flying toward the back yard, while he said with a light laugh. to the pompous butler, who appeared in alarm; * Call off your dog, Silk Stockings, or hell: hurt me,” *Yez must be afther bein’ kin to the divil to make that same dorg turn tail like that, man.” “*T am bis cousin, Irish; but] didn’t burt your: dog for I thought he was valuable to his master,” ** And what is it yezis afther wanting here, Mishter Salt Water?” “To see the lady of the houge, old Knee. Breeches, so pray tell her that Sailor Jack Ross. awaits ber sweet pleasure,” “Divil a bit will I, and divil a bit will the, loikes 0’ yez see my leddy,” “If you don’t bear my message to the lady, Tll muzzle you as I did the dog, and be my own. flunkey,” “* Mahone, show the gentleman into the library this instant, and be more respectful in future to my visitors.” ahone started as though he bad been shot. at from an ambush, as he _ b the voice of bis. young mistress behind him, The sailor bowed low, as he doffed his tar- paulin, and said politely: * Sailor Jack Ross, at your service, miss. “T was told to come here and see Revere.” ‘“‘T am Miss Revere, Mr. Ross, so please come into the library,” and Ethel led the way, while Jack slyly winked at Mahone as he passed, but elicited only a profound bow from that person- age. ‘‘ Miss Stanwood you have met, Mr. Ross,” ery ye by Bs: of introduction. bat I ¢ ess sweet. soul, yes, miss; would never have met her had it not been for her —
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noble brother, to whom I owe my life more than one time,” ‘* Be seated, Mr. Ross—” ‘There, miss, please don’t mister me, for I don’t know how to answer the hail. “Tam plain Jack, miss, Jack Ross at your service, afloat or ashore,” “Well, Jack, we saw your bravery just now, and I do not believe one man out of a Sthousand could have put Savage to flight as you did. ‘* T hope he did not harm you,” “Oh no, miss, for I caught bis throat, and ‘you'll pardon my having no neck-scarf, for I Joaned it to the dog.” “‘T have a very handsome one of my own you shall have in return, if you will accept it,” said Pearl, amused with the handsome, frank young sailor, whose quick victory over Savage they had admired, and laughed at his conversation with Mahone, all of which they had overheard, **T’ll accept it with pleasure, miss, and many thanks to you; but I'll bring you a souvenir for your wedding the next voyage I make to foreign lands,” Pearl's face flushed and Ethel laughed, while Jack Ross took the seat which was urged upon bim, ‘ “Mr, Ross—” “« Jaci, miss,” ** Well, Jaek, Miss Stanwood tells mo that you came and asked herif some plot couid not be arranged— Pray step to the door and see if Ma- kone is not outside.” The last was said in a whisper, and Jack glided across the room, threw open the door and sent Mahone sprawling upon the ball floor, for he had his ear at the keyhole, and the door opened outward. ‘‘Mister Mahone, your mistress would like you to go and unmuzzle the dog and muzzle yourself, for you are dangerous to run at large.” The two girls could not restrain their laughter, while Mahone gathered himself together and slipped away as fast as his legs could carry him, muttering prayers for the damnation of the sailor’s soul. With a light laugh Jack closed the door and returned to his seat, and Pear! continued: “You wished to enter into a plot for the escape of Mr Stanwood?” 4 5 miss, for his escape if it could be arranged quietly, or his rescue, that failing. ** You see, miss, I was a prisoner to Captain Crimson, and was to be made walk the plank the very night following is capture by Captain Stanwood, ‘* When the brig went to southern waters I was in ber, so it was Captain Noel Stanwood saved us twice from the pirates and once ina burricane, ‘Now the men of the brig, the old crew, don’t want to see him sent to prison, and I called on Miss Ethel to ask ber if she could not plot with ‘with me his escape, “She could tell me no way, and go I said we would raise a nmiob, storm the prison and have him out in a few iinutes, and a}l arranged for his escape, ‘* But Miss Ethel said it would cost many lives and must not be done, and she knew her brother would not wish it, so I gave up the idea, and with a mate, also true to the captain, was study- ing up another pen when If got the note cailing me here, and I hope your two pretty heads to- gether can see the way clear to save the young €aptain, for he’s a patriot, true 1s steel, and wish to serve under him yet on the deck of an armed craft to fight the British,” and Jack Ross siopped short, as he felt that he might have over- shot the mark, baying beard that Pearl's father was an American upbolder of the king. “*T admire you, my man, for expressing your views frankly, and it is because we have cunfi- dence in you that Miss Stanwood and myself de- sire as aid in rescuing Captain Stanwood,” said Pearl. “Tam yours to command, ladies, Jack Ross, saijor,an American patriot, and ready to risk my life to save the best captain that ever trod a for I have seen him serve. “Just say what I can do, and I'll go to work,” ** Well, we wish you to see General Washing- ton, Jack,” “So do I want to see him, lady, but be can do nothing for Master Noel.” ** Yes, we think he can—in one way.” “You have got some plan stowed in your ; head, miss.” ** Yes, we wish to see if you can reach Gen- eral Washington and state the case to him?” “T could do so, miss, by going to sea and run- cing cera to Lynn, and thus go by land across to Cambridge, where the patriot chief is now said to be quartered, miss,” “You would not attempt to go by land, then?” “I could not get through the British lines, miss, and would be shot, maybe, by the Ameri- ‘Gans if I did, ** It’s safer to go by sea, by far, ladies,” * But you must huve a good boat?” ‘* Yes, miss, a stiff craft that can sail like the wind, for I’ve got to run the gantlet of the har- bor boats, and a frigate, a brig and a schooner The Shadow Silver Ship. © in the bay below, fer they board all outgoing | his crew and was waiting for something to turn craft, you know.” **Do you know if you could get such a boat?” “*There’s a shallop there now that run in past all the guard boats a week ago, and sailed like a witch ‘*The old skipper kno‘vs he could not get out, for his crew will not sail with him, so he’s will- ing to sell out for a smull price and go home as best he can.” ‘What do you mean by a small price, Jack?’ ‘* Well, miss, I’ve got several hundreds laid up and guess [ can buy her with it.” ‘*No, not a dollar of your money must you touch, for I have ample, and will give you three hundred pounds, and more if you need it, so buy your shallop and be ready to start.” “When, miss?” ** To-night, if possible.” ** And the duty I am to perform, miss,” "Go to General Washington and state the case of Captain Stanwood as it is, “Tell him that just ten nights from now the brig-of-war, Sea Shadower, the flectest sailing craft in the English Navy, sails for Eagland, having been fitted out, armed and manned to go in search of the mysterious vessel known as the Shadow Silver Ship.” ‘* Yes, miss.” **And tell him that upon that vessel, a pris- oner in irons, will be Captain Noel Stanwood, on his way to England toserve a sentence for life for crimes he 1s guiltless of.” ‘6 Yes, miss.” ‘“*And tell him if he can send several fleet American privateers out tolie in wait for the brig, he can rescue Captain Stanwood and get a splendid craft for his country’s service; but that there is one person on board, a passenger, who roust be allowed to go free, and that is Lord Erskine Enders,” “The plan is a good one, miss, and would work all right if I was known, ** But not a soul doI know in the patriot lines, and I would not be believed or trusted in, and it would take some one of influence to cause |-me? General Washington to act in the matter, “But I can get the shallop, and a mate and be all ready, only you must send some one that ean prove all is as you state by showing their authority.” Quickly came the response: “Vou are right, Jack; but I know General Washington, and J will go myself.” * You, lady?” ‘Yes, so get your shallop ready and I will board her to-night.” ‘*Not alone, Pearl, for I will go too,” said Ethel in a decided tone, CHAPTER XV. THE NIGHT VENTURE, JACK Ross was dumb with amazement at the decision of the two young ladies. He had expected some American known to Washington as a sympathizer, and whom the | maidens knew and could get to go along, would have to be his nger; but that he would have two such beautiful girls to protect through the danger of running the gantlet at night he neither expectea or cared for. So he at once began to urge against it, But Pearl Revere was not one to yield, once she had made up her mind as to her course, m pd ee is A ate vessel, is it not?” es, 3 ectly so, “ And cane Pabin?” 4 ** One of the neatest little cabins you ever saw, nla, nears bo “Well, we are both good sailors and will go, “You get the suallop and take her off the cottage of Mrs, Stanwood after nightfall, and we will have what we need in the way of stores and bedaing ready to take on board, “Then, when you think best to sail, come up to the co or-us and you'll not find us either cowards, or in the way, I'll. pledge you, Jack.” “* But, lady—” “Now Jack, Captain Stanwood must not be taken to England, and the patricts must cap- ture a fine vessel-of-war, so we are determined and it is useless to further argue against it.” ‘*Not a word more will I say, miss, for you are captain.” “Then wait until I get you the money, and then lose no time.” Ten minutes after Jack Ross was on his way down to the harbor, There, not far off-shore lay at anchor a small shallop of ten tons, and as pretty a craft asa sailor’s ore would wish to icok upon, Tt was her first voyage, and all about ber was in perfect shape, pon the deck sat her skipper, an old weather- beaten sailor, who had won fame by boldly run- ing in under fire of forts, vessels and guard- boats and after coolly dropping anchor told the officer who boarded him that he was too deaf res near blind to know that they were firing at im. He had a cargo of vegetables and fresh meats, which sold well to ene helicases soldiers, but he was told not to again put to sea, so be dismissed ; up in his favor. | And something did “ turn up” in the shape of | Jack Ross, who, after some talk with the old | skipper, bought his shallop for a hundred and | fifty pounds, and told the old, man to get per- | misson of the harbor captain to take her over to | a certain anchorage and unbend ber sails so as | to lay her up, ‘“ When you get there, begin work, only don’t | dismantle her too fust, old lad, and about good | dark just row ashore in line with a white cottage on the hill, and I'll be there with the balence of your tnoney, for here are fifty pounds as a proo' | of good faith,” : | The old man promised, and a short while be- fore sunset, Pearl and Etbel, who were at the Stanwool cottage, saw the little sballop anchor and her skipper begin to strip her vf her can- vas. Soon after dark the ola skipper came ashore | in his tixht skiff, and there stood Jack Ross, and | with him a young man, also in sailor garb, | You don’t want no pilot for your work, | stranger?” asked the skipper. | NotI, for 1 was born on the bay aad know it as I do my good mother’s face,” enswered Jack. | “You are going to have a rougb night.” “Tm glad of it,” and the skipper then said: “ Pve got confidence ia you, lad, andif you'll accept a hand free, I'll go, for I want to git | home,” “Tt's a go,so {ll take you and my mate out so you can get to work, and I’ll come ashore for my passengers.” | Nick Norcross, the young sailor, and old Skip- per Welby were rowed out to theshallop, and | returning ashore, Jack Ross decided to bide his | oars, in case any one should stroll along, aud going bebind a large rock near came full upoma ' crouching form. | The man attempted to run, but the young | sailor was upon him quick as a flash, and with a | pistol thrust into his face cried: “Now, sir, wbo,are you that is watching p> “Ob, sur! I’m afther bein’ Mahone, with a | message from the leddies, sur, up at the cottage, and they sint me to say you was not to come up, ' sar, but I would come down along with ’em.” | Muhone, Lbave no more confidence in you ' than I bave in your master’s dog, so TJ] be on | the safe side, * Come, into that boat, sir, nnd Til stand no nonsense,” | “Oh Howly Saint Patrick, but I'l! be kiit, sure, for—” ‘* Rither get into that boat, orsay your prayers, for I am in earnest.” The Irishman obeyed the first order, and taking bis oars the sailor pulled back to the shalk:p. : Nick.” | “™ Ahoy, Jack.” “Pye got something bere I wish yoa to gag and bind securely and then stow forward.” Mahone groaned. but was yanked out of the | boat by Nick’s strong arm, while Ross at once | rowed back to the shore. | Going up to the cabin he found the two girls | and Mrs, Stauwood awaiting him, | “Oh, sir, but it will be a bad night at sea,” said Mrs. Stanwood. “After I round Deer Island, madam, it will not take me long to run under the lee of Nabant, and I[ hardly think we'll get the full force of tne storm under several hours,” “God grant it, sir; but Miss Revere and my daugbter are determined to go, as it is to save my poor boy, and I feel that Heaven will pro- tect » sa in the good work.” “Yes, madam, we'll go through, even if we do see a little powder burnt meet a rou sea and gaie; but the shallop is as fast as a bird, and stiff as a church, and for the cruise I’ve named her the Two Angels, after the young ladies,” Soon efter, loaded with stores and bundles, for their comfort, Jack led the way down to the shore, while Mrs. Stanwood, old Bennett and Lucy followed. Farewells were said when they reached the shore, and with a fervent prayer for their pro- tection, Mrs. Stanwood saw them row away in toe cching ‘th allop th ped light! ching the sballop they step) ightly on board and descended into the cabin, both ex- claiming at its comfort. Jack introduced Skipper Welby and Nick Norcross, and then, as all was ready, ordered the anchor up. ¢ Meas ‘We'll start under as little saii as possib'e, so as not to attract attention, but be ready to dress her up lively, skipper, you and Nick, if we bave to run for it, and with this stiff breeze she will fairly fly. * There, we are off, so now go forward, please, and look out for the guard-boats.” A moment more the shallop was upon her way to run the dangerous gantlet. CHAPTER XVI. RUNNING THE GANTLET. Tue home of Widow Stanwood was upon an elevation, not very far from where, at that time, | ooo
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_ response of Teel, Rows and both Pearl and Exhel 10 -was a very large fortification across Boston Neck, and the shallop had been brought to an- ‘chor within easy rifle-range of the guns. Upon healing out from the anchorage Jack ‘Ross had to lay his course for Goveraor’s Island, intending to then seat down the harbor, past Castle Island, for the wind came from the sea. ‘When Castle Island was dropped a mile astern he could lay his course upon the port tack di- rectly between Deer Island and Nick’s Mate. To round Deer Island and then square away with the wind over the starboard stern quarter would have logged him about seven miles, with The Shadow Silver Ship. | | | } | | wind, I’ll round to under your lee, and send my boat aboard, for it is too rough to come along- side, “He will discover us if you do,” cried Pearl. But Jack Ross did not heed her and let the shallop fall off a trifle as though to jibe and fol- low out his words, for he saw that the guard- boat had already come up into the wind, But a moment after he was flying along as rapidly as before, “Ho, you lubberly skipper! Round to! round to!” yelled the officer on the guard-boat, “* Ay, ay, sir; my sheet-rope is jammed, but it a run of six more before he could get under the | will be free in a minute—that is, we will,” and lee of Nahant, with three miles more into Lynn Harvor. This was the course which Jack Ross meant to take,and in asking old Skipper Welby for his opinion he gave the same, only remarking: ‘But thar’s ther sloop-of-war anchored at the head o’ Governor’s Island, lad, and ther the last words were uttered to the two maidens. The guard-boat waited awhile longer, and then ame a scattering fire after the shallop, now out or range, Jack Ross laughed, and said quietly: * That gives the alarm, and I will have to run between Bird Island and Governor’s, stretching Castle, with a brig to seaward down o’ Castle, | over toward Apple Island and then beat up.” not to speak o’ a frigate off the landward point o’ Thomson’s, and mayhap the bay cruising- schooner a-hidin’? somewbar around Spectac C) Island, not to speak o’ ther guard-boats,’ ‘Oh, I knows, for I cum in among ’em, and give °em a chance ter burn powder as yer knows.” “Yes, I do know, for I was on Dorchester Neck and saw you run in, and you did it well, ee so says Jack Ross,” ‘* Well, maybe I did, and right whar yer band be on ther tiller yer’ll find two bullets stuck, one from a musket on ther schooner, and tother from a Officer’s pistol in one o’ ther guard- boats.” ‘*} am very glad to have you along, skipper, I assure you, for if we are hunted, then you know what to do if I go under, and Nick don’t know the bay. ‘* But the ladies are coming on deck now, and they can stay until it begins to get warm, I uess,” The two girls now came upon deck, and were given sé¢ats in the cockpit, to windward, and made comfortable, for the night was cold and the wind piercing. The skies were overcast now with the blackest of clouds, but the lights of. the town were plain- ly visible, with otbers on Castle Island and a sloop-of-war lying near, The wind was already blowing half a gale, and threatening a fierce sea storm before the night was over, while the bay had begun to choppy and foam-crested. **T cannot see how you can find your way in such darkness, Captain Jack,” said ing about her, ‘Same as you can, miss, in your own home- earl, glanc- grounds of a dark night,” was the answer, while Ethel remarked: eee “ And the darkness is better for our purpose, is it not?” ‘Yes, miss, only I wish the shallop’s sails were not so new, for she looks like a ghost against the blackness.” . “Itis an ugly night, but you must not mind us, Captain Jack, for we are both good sailors. never sea-sick, and can lend a hand if need be.” “Just like your brother, miss, and as brave wh2n the need comes, ‘*] am proud to have my best to run Two Angels through,” ‘« Meaning the shallop, of course,” Pearl said, pleasantly, “Tbe shallop Two mig. ap miss, and Two Angels she carries,” was the gallant reply, and Pearl returned: ‘* We must not talk to you now, for you have all you can do.” But Jack Rossdid not seem to hear her words, rou along, and I'll do “a Ay, ay.” . “Ts not that a guard-boat under sail ahead?” s ay, ay, sir—jib hid her from me.” ‘*You must keep your eyes open then for- ward,” The words were so stern that the two maidens could hardly believe they came from the lips of Jack Ross; but they showed he could be in deadly. earnest when the time came for it, ‘“* Ay, ay, sir,” promptly answered Nick Nor- cross, who felt he was.in the wrong, while the old skipper muttered: _ “YT has good eyes, but that P he captain has got telescopes in his head, by Jerusba!” Had the guard-boat been sooner seen the shallop could have held up closer and passed over a cable’s length further away than was now possible, and it was evident that she ha: not been seen by the watch though she soon must be. . “Shallop ahoy! what craft is that, and where bound?” called out a loud voice from the boat just a moment later. ‘ ** Dispatch boat from the fortification in th Neck to the castle, sir,” was the perfectly cool breathed more ely, for there was no longer any doubt as to the sman having been the very man they needed for the work, “You don’t look like a dispatch boat. Lay ‘ or i into you!” Ay ay, sir: , ° ibe il be ly Caer if you will come up ‘into the' “ fined vent just left the island?” ‘ ‘ ‘s 1d f j The firing of the guard-boat did give the alarm to the sloop-of-war, on board of which the drums beat to quarters, and yet the shallop had shot by her before being discovered, and was far away when her port side was illumined by a flash, and a shot came flying over the topmast of the little fugitive craft. *‘ Good for you, sloop-of-war; but you'll only get one more in at us,” said Jack Ross, and he held up so as to get the upper end of Governor's Island between him and the fire. One more shot the sloop did get, but it flew wild, and the shallop was heading toward the rear end of Apple Island and fairly flying like a bird, pointing right into the wind’s eye. The other guard-boats about the harbor an- swered the alarm now by burning blue lights, while the frigate and brig answered the signals from the sloop-of-war by also sending up rock- ets. But no one seemed to know just what the trouble was, or where to look for the cause of the firing. ; The wind was increasing to a gale, and blow- ing as cold as Greenland, with the spray: blown from the wave-crests stinging like a knife-cut where it struck the faces of those exposed, and freezing on the decks as it fell. Muffled up completely, yet Pearl and Ethel could realize bow bitter was the night. As for Jack Ross, he seemed not to heed the cold, and had cast aside his storm-coat, appear- ing in his stout jacket, and with tarpaulin ulled down over his eyes, rested his gloved and upon the tiller, while, crouching low, he kept his eyes fastened upon the course ahead, CHAPTER XVII. THROUGH FIRE AND TEMPEST. FINDING tbat he could not pass to windward of Apple Island, Jack Ross lost no time in try- ing to do so, buf put about on the starboard ek aa pointed for the sea shore of Governor’s sland. * Ahoy at the helm!” came from Nick Nor- cross, a y ay, sir.” “ A’guard-boat putting out from Governor's.” “1 see her now; but do you locate the Bay Guard schooner?” ‘“‘T seen a light coming eastward of Spectacle, sir, and moving. 2 ‘* They bas doused the’r glim now, but if must ha’ been ther schooner a-comin’ up to jine in ther fireworks,” said the old skipper, : ** Doubtless,” and Jack Ross showed no sign of knowing that if it proved to be the schooner, she could head him off from rounding Deer Island, and with her light draught follow bim across to Nahant, But Pear! realized it, and said: ~ “Tf the schooner is coming in, aud off Specta- cle Island, she-can lead us off, sir, can she not?” ‘1 is about the worst place she could be for us, and I did hope : tasket Road; but the bad weather has driven her in for a better anchorage, I guess.” “If it should prove to be the schooner, what is to be done?” asked Ethel Stanwood, calmly, shosgh her heart throbbed violently with dread, ‘We will wait and sea, miss; but.just now I’ve got that guard-boat upon my hands,” This seemed a hint for-silence, and the maidens took it, while the shallcp flew on her way, send- ing the spray flying high from, her sharp, high bows, where, unmindful of the cold and_drench- ing they received, the skipper and Nick Norcross were crouching down on the watch, '“ You-see how ther guard-boat heads, cap’n?” called back the skipper. / ia ay.” p ‘¢ You is standin’ in almighty close toward the east landin’,” came the skipper’s warning from forward.a momentaftery. ’ ; ‘That is my intention,” was the alg. answer vouchsafed by the young sailor, who had now become the stern, skijlful commander, A moment after, just as the guard-boat slight- ly changed her course, all on the shallop were startled by Jack Ross’s loud hail: Ho, the guard-boat, ShOyd” a! ot By A Sten she was somewhere in Nan-} ‘“ Ay ay, sir.” *‘ (s Lord Howe there, can you tell me?” ‘No, ne is on board the frigate, British King to-night.” ‘¢Thank you, sir, she lies north of Spectacle Island, I believe?” * ** She doas; but what craft is that?” *‘ The shallop Rescue, just impressed to send down after Lord Howe. Is that you, Trigg? am Lieutenant Caldwell, of the Sea Shacower.” “* Ay ay, Caldwell; but what tie devil is the. row in the harbor?” ** Washington is moving upon the town,” and the shallop was beyond the distance tosay more, Just then Skipper Welby came aft, and said: **Cap’n, yonder do be ther schooner, and she have got us; but I don’t feel no more uneasy, fer he as holds ther helm what kin lie as you kin, thar hain’t no danger but that he c’u’d scoot past Saint. Peter at ther heavenly gates with Cap’n Kyd tber Pirit in tow. “Cap'n, I are proud o’ yer, and Zeke Welby from Kennebec never goes back on his_ word, “ Thar be ther schooner, jist six p’ints off yer lee bow,” and Skipper Zeke Welby returned to his post, The merry laugh at his words from Jack Ross. was contagious, and the two girls joimed in, while Pearl said slyly: ‘* As Skipper Zeke Welby of Kennebec says,,. you seem to have a story for every new-comer, Captain Jack Ross,” “You certainly fooled Captain Trigg, whom I once knew,” Ethel added. ‘* Well, we have now got to fool Captain San- ford, of the Bay Guard schooner Ocean Out- post, and that will not be so easy— Ho, for- ward!” % Ay, ay, sir,” , “Sst her flying jib and topsail.” ‘Will she stand it, Jack?” ** She must, Nick.’ “She'll stand anything, this heur craft will, by gosh, and you bet the skipper at that tiller knows,” said Zeke Welby in commingled aa- miration for his late vessel and the young sailor. “He plans abead, and he already bas some bold plot formed,” whispered Pearl to Ethel. *T have partes confidence in Lim, and I be- lieye the schooner is all we have to fear now,” Ethel said, , . Hardly had she spoken when from the sloop- of war up the harbor went up rockets in rapid succession, green, blue, white, red, until two- score or more had gone up, ‘* Ah! I can read your signals, Sir Britisher, and it tells us that we are passing between Apple and Governor’s Jsland, and heading sea- ward between Deer Island and Nick’s Mate, ‘Soe, the brig answers, also the frigate—yes, and there goes the response from the schooner that she is besween Deer Island and Spectacle, to head us off.” All on the shallop had seen the various rocket signals, and the maidens, as the schooner Ocean Outpost, showed her exact position, felt like all hope was gone. “Weare in a box, pipes but Jack knows what he is about,” said Nick Norcross to Zeke Welby, who answered: - “Tf he don’t, then may I never see old Kenne- bee’s blue waters again—your mate aré a won- der as a liar and a sailor, two mighty good var- tues when they is needed.” . The course that the shallop was now on was directly toward the little schooner-of-war, The latter was north by east of Spectacle Island, about a mile and a half from the lower end of Deer Island, which Jack Ross had hoped to round, and thus make to sea. : 2 The shallop was due north of Spectacle Island, from which she was a mile distant. . Not a light was visible nee the shallop, while the schooner’s light could be seen, 4 Still Jack Ross felt that he pee hope that he was not discovered by the guard cruiser. If there was any doubt about this, it was at once dispelled by the sudden burning of blue lights upon the Castle, which illumined the bay with a weird glare, and ere its ‘a pass away, running ona ‘course directly for the schooner, others on the guard-boat they |} vassed Inst. upon the frigate British King, upon the schooner and again upon Castle Island, made the bay as sa te as day for a moment, * here was the shallop, plainly seen, now, and ; under full sail rushing on a course that showed she meant to try and dash by the schooner out to sea. The light revealed the fine face of the helmsman, calm as a May morn, fear) determined, and the eyes of Pearl and Ethel were fastened upon it for some trace of fear, or a Ne ad : rt Tees The look they saw there gave them hopes beh hope died away when they realized that the schooner was directly in their course and never be passed. ean At least it. so seemed to them. Me Hen he skipper and Nick forward had devoted their eyes to taking in the whole situation during the burning of the blue lights. ‘ The result of this was the hail from Nick Nor- cross: ; “* Ahoy, the belm!” _ ’ a Sire " “Ay, ay, Nick,” and the voice was mufled, "and
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_the cold elso, bat it was a. terrible night to be ee The Shadow Silver Ship. | 11 “There is a guard-boat lying close in toward | channel through the Gut, on the bar, there is Deer Island Point, and she’s one of the large, | four feet.” rough-weather crafts.” | ** Nine inches to spare, lad, under her keel,” “T saw her, Nick.” ‘We'll make it, so ease off sheets as I'll head ** And there’s another near the schooner, cap- | her for the pass,” ting, with a second to her port bow and a few, ‘* You know best, captain,” and old Zeke cable-lengths away, and they are heading so! Walby and Nick stood by the sheet-ropes and as ter cut yer off ter seaward, while ther frigate | the shallop’s course was suddenly changed, and does as much for yer on t’other side, with three | she went driving away directly for the channel gnard-boats a-comin’ down on yer astarn.” | known as Shirley Gut, and which was between ~ “IT got a glimpse of our surroundings, skip- | Point Shirley and the head of Deer Island. per, aud they are not cheering—oh! there comes “Stand by tolower her peak, Nick, when I a gun from the Castle!” need 1t, and you, Skipper Zeke, keep forward As Jack Ross spoke there came a bright flash | and watch the approach, for I want all your aid from the Castle fort and a shot went over the | now.” shallop. You'll git it and welcome, capting; but what A momentafter the large,sea-going guard-boat | about that prisoner forward, for he are a’ most off Deer Island Point fired a twelve-pound shot | skeert ter death, and hal® friz with the cold.” from its bow howitzer, and Captain Trigg, who ‘Lady! [had forgotten we had a passenger.” had now realized how cleverly be had been de- ‘* A passenger? cried Ethel and Pearl together, ceived in the shallop, sent a six-pound shot from ‘““Yes; it is Mahone, your butler, Miss his bows, for his guard-boat bad turned and was | Revere,” | in chase, ‘ ** Mahone! and here ?” To show that she meant to be formidable the ‘Oh, I was sure you did not know he was not schooner opened fire as a demand for the shallop at home on duty; but, I found him spying be- hind a rock where I landed, sol just rought him aboard and told Nick to gag and bind him, and Thad forgotten him, but .wvill have them bandle him into the cabin now, or he’ll freeze,” ‘* He intended to play the spy upon us,” “*He did play it, miss—no, Nick, you and skipper Zeke bring tbat Irish gentleman aft and bundle him into the cabin.” They dragged aft with great difficulty Ma- hone with fright and cold, not to speak of sea- sickness, for the shallop was plunging and heel- ing terribly under her tremendous pressure of canvas, “Take the gag out of his mouth, Nick, and throw something over him to keep him warm— there now stand by the peak halyard.” Neither Pear] nor Ethel uttered a word in their amazement, aud now turned their atten- tion wholly to the daring young helmsman. The change in the course of the shallop had not been noticed for some little time from the guard-boats or schooner, and then the increas- ing fury of the storm had caused them to look to their own safety. But when at last, it was seen that the shallop was making for Shirle Gut, she was given up for lost, for the sail she carried caused her to look like a vessel double her tonnage and to go through such a channel was set down as utterly impossible, 0 they all, the schooner and three guard- boats, headed for Shirley Gut to be under lee of Deer Island and send boats in to take off who- ever happened to be upon the wreck, for it was a foregone conclusion that the shallop was rush- ing to her destruction, or rather hard aground in the Gut, ; But tbe schooner and the largest guard-boat, the one coming up from Deer Island Point, open- ed fire hotly, and the Castle, — getting the range of the shallop, also sent her shots flying fast and furious after the flying fugitive craft. “It will be accident if we are hit,” answered Jack Ross coolly, and as he spoke a shot passed through the mainsail, “*T told you so, and they cannot do it again,” he added quickly; and his words were verified, as the co was untouched, though a few iron’ messengers fell very near her, “Am I aiming right, skipper?” “You be, straight as a arrer, lad, and if yer keel don’t interfere with ther bottom, we’) go through slick,” was the reply. “The water is shoaling fest. Lower away the peak, Nick, for she’s hard to manage now with so little water under her.” ‘* Ay, ay, sir; lowered it is!” came in Nick’s professional sailor tones, and the result was at once marked in the sailing of the shallop, which el, as the sister of Noel Stanwood, would be | no longer bent soto the fierce wind, and held a made to suffer, she was sure, more even. course, ‘In view of this fect she spoke to Jack Ross| ‘Skipper, you and Nick do all you can to about it, with ao explanation of the dangers. single reef her while we are in the Vane for we * I fels that you did vot really know the great | won't dare carry so much sail outside.” » miss; but { thought of it all beforehand, “ Ay, ay, capting, jist as you says, but this and Tarn not unersy, now, as to the result.” ns Do you mean that you can escape?” It’s just what { intend to do, ladies, so trust to come to, and following the roar of her long eighteen came the deep m ofa heavy guu from the frigate at anchor to the southwest of Castle [sland and a mile and a half away. ‘Bark away, bulldogs and pups, but yon have not caught us yet,” cried Jack Ross, and then he continved rapidly: *“You should be below, ladies, but then the danger would hardly be lessened unless we were in reach of small-arms.” , -‘*No, we will remain on deck,” said Pearl. — ** By all meaus, for we will not have you risk danger we shrink from,” Ethel rejoined. ** You're plucky; but if I had no ladies on board I’d make that schooner believe I intended to come to astern, and before she could get around in chase we would be half a mile away and it would take crack shooting to hit us then.” * Bat you will not do this with us on board?” ** No, miss, I will not let you take chances on a shot I can avoid.” “You surely do not intend fo surrender, Captain Ross?” cried Pearl. “Not I, miss! but with those craft astern, and the schooner and her guard-boat cutting us off from rounding the point of Deer Island, I’ve got to try another plan.” ‘* Heaven help us! I can see no other,” “Nor I,” said Ethel. “‘T think Ido,” was the cool remark of the young sailor, and he called to the old skipper ind Nick to lower the topsail and flying-jib and soon after they had done so the storm of wind broke furiously upon them. CHAPTER XVIIL. THE SHALLOP’S FLIGHT, Bot Bthel Stanwood and Pearl had now be- gun to fully realizs how desperate the under- takiuy they had ventured upon was becoming. ba storm was certainly in their favor, with abvoul even in a large vessel, and the creeping of the guard-boats out from under the lee of the islands, and the coming in of the schooner for a safer anchorage, showed that their commanders fully understood how terrible their experi- ence was to be did they remain exposed to the cold and the tempest. Ouly the sea-going guard-boats were now abroad, and these would have been in a place of refuge but for the alarm caused by the shallop’s bold run out, Re If taken, Pearl began to feel bow terrible it would be for her father, who would at once be looked upom with saspicion, while she would be nee as a spy, thoy being Americans, and set on ber spars.” i ; “T am glad to know this; but see! we are in Jack Ross to do it.” smoother water, under the lee of Deer Island, * We bave perfect confidence in you, my good | and once through the Gut we ean lay our course friend,” straight for Lynn Harbor.” Jack bowed and turned to the skipperand|! “Yas, lad, once we git through we kin,” and Nick who now mads their way aft. Captain Zeke’s words implied a grave doubt that He had shortoned sail in time, and he could | the shallop would ever “ git through,” ashe ex- not but feel that the shallop had then all she | pressed it, could stand, with mainsail and jib, and more | “ Should we fail, ladies, let me tell you that the boat belonging to the shallop, and now on than many another much larger craft would have carried; but she must bear it, he well | deck, is a life-skiff, and has a stump mast and knew. | leg-of-mutton sail, * se have you ever been through Shir- ‘Tn it we can continue the run on to Lynn, ley Gut though of course the voyage will be a very nasty “Say, Iad, do you mean it?” excitedly said the old skipper. | ; ‘IT do mean just that. Do you know the ”n ut. “Pye besn through in boats smaller than this one, cold and wet for you.” “ But we will not mind it if the boat will carry us,” “Tt will carry a dozen, Miss Revere, and we are not half that number,” eh “Yes, with Mahone.” ‘ei _“* Ah, yes, I had forgotten him; but we'll take | him wong too, and make bim a present to Gen- Was ington, as a specimen of a wild Irish- man,” avd Jack’s light laugh showed that he “You told me sha draws three feet three, when in inellast?” “To the inch, lad.” “With thiz tidc at the shallowest part of the | was not imbued with the slightest idea of fail- | ure, The firing of the Castle now ceased, but the sea-guard boat and schooner still kept it up, thought with no more damage to the shallop. Skipper Zeke Welby and Nick Norcross had been reefing the mainsail as best they could and then a call from Jack Ross told them that the moment of greatest danger had come. ‘¢ Throw the lead, Nick.” ** Ay, ay, sir.” “Skipper, keep your eyes ahead.” ‘Pil do it, sir, but in this darkness I can’t see nothin’.” ‘“*T will feel my way through then— What is it, Nick?” **One fathom!” sung out Nick Norcross, By swerving from his course a few points both io seaward and windward, and markin the calls of Nick Norcross with the lead, Jac Ross got his idea of just where the channel wag and it was shown by the sailing of the shallop. “‘ Quarter less six,” sung out the leadsman. (A y; ay.” ** Five feet!” * All right, sir.” ** Quarter less five!” “T hear!” ‘“* Half less five.” : ** Ay, ay, sir.” “ Four feet!" and Nick’s voice raised almost to excitement. ‘**T know it, sir,” came the cool response, and the skipper muttered to Nick: “Mate, thet lad are cooler than this freezin’ night be.” ** Four feet!” “ce Good "7 “a Vestn less six,” almost shrieked Nick. ** We are over,” and, as he uttered the word a shot from the schooner tore along the decks o: the es followed by a yell of terror from one. CHAPTER XIX, AN ALLY IN EARNEST, “ ANYBODY hit?” called out Jack Ross, and for the first time his voice showed anxiety. “Oh yis, sur! I’m kilt intoirely,” cried Mahone. . “Nick, you'll have to gag that fellow again, for he is reviving.” ** But, may he not have been wounded, sirf” “No, Miss Revere, for the shot cut along the deck. I feared that Nick or Skipper Zeke might be; but Trish is all right, far safer than you are. : ‘* And there is no more danger of capture?” “Not a bit, for I will luff now and reef, and then we can go flying for Lynn, and be at anchor long before dawn, so if you wish to into the cabin ['l put Trish forward in the steerage.” “No, we prefer to remain on deck; but will not the schooner follow us “She draws five feet and a half, so will have to go around Deer Island and that will give us over a league start,” ‘* And the guard-boats?” “Not one of them will dare venture through the pass into this sea,” The sails were now single reefed and the shal- lop shot out into what was certainly a very rough sea, But she proved herself a splendid sea boat and — plunging along through the waves in fine style. The fire in the little cook stove in the caboose was now lighted by the old skipper and a cup of bot coffee and a sandwich given to the two i who ate with a relish, ; Jack Ross also ate heartily, while the skipper, Zeke, took the tiller, and when the young sailor epee forward for a talk with Nick Norcross, he said: “ Leddies, does yer know thet lad are ther hearteuest one I ever seen?” 2 ** How so, eeppe Welby?’ asked Pearl, ‘Waal, jist look at ther run he made this here craft can’t be downed by no canvas yer kin | night.” ‘It was wonderful, sir.” “It were a miracle, miss.” “And I have heard that you made a daring run into port in your vessel also, skipper?” “It were jist a little boasting, miss, ter show ther Britishers they couldn’t catch a live Yankee ef he were old and jaded. * Yer see, I had no reason ter run for it, as I ogly had things ter eat aboard ter’sell ’em, and folks said I badn’t oughter take provender ter ther inemy. : “But yer see I did thet of in, fer I had a purpose in goin’ thar, though Lord love yer when I got in I jist seen ther couldn’t be did,” * May lL ask what it was Mena 3 “Waal, tee! sett as you - a, is out 0 ‘ing, I don’t mind telling yer that a friend 0’ mine are thar in jail. ny “I sailed with bis pa years ago, and he were my best friend and give me a start in life, and the son, who were a lad then, jumped over- board one day, when I fell from the yard-arm and saved me from sinking, for I was hurted by *®o as thet same lad are in prison, I jist run
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12 in ter see what I c’u’d do ter git him out, don’t you see?” ‘* May I ask his name?” ** Noel Stanwood, miss,” “‘T am his sister, sir, and this very night have we left Boston in this shallop to try and save my poor brother. ‘“*How strange, sir, that we should thus meet,” said Ethel, holding out her band, and as Jack Ross now came aft they all talked over the strange coincidence of being upon the very same service which had brought the old skipper in reality to Boston, The old skipper seemed more than delighted at the chance of meeting Noel Stanwood’s sister, and then, after hearing of the intention of the maidens, to visit General Washington and get him to dispatch vessels to capture the brig-of- war Sea Shadower, he remarked; “I guess as how the general kin do it, and will; but has yer decided, ladies, how yer is ter git oack inter Bosting, for not fer a thousand in Continental money would 1 have yer run ther ' same course in ag’in, though the lad here could do it, oh he could do it, after what I see him do to-night.” ‘ The idea of returning had not been taken into | consideration by Pear] or Ethel. To get to Washington’s quarters was their =< and after that they could see to getting ck, Then they regretted that they had not brought the pass of Mr. Revere, and changed it as Pearl had suggested, for they could easily have passed back into the British lines with it. In silence they looked at their brave young preserver, wondering what he thought of the re- turn as they came, for it seemed, with this object accomplished, they would not bave the ‘courage to run such a gantlet again, though, like Skipper Zeke Welby, after what they had seen they did not doubt but Jack Ross would get them home in safety. ‘*T thought of the going back, miss, and my idea was that you better take some coaster in, going in a disguise I could rig up for you.” aca ‘*Lad, you talk eddicated, for that’s the idee exactly, Now when I run in with green stores ; and fresh meats for the Britishers in Bosting, | they thought it were ter make an honest penny; but, as [ told you, [ had a big aim in view, only ts it did not pay out as I wanted. “The Britishers wanted me to go ag’in and , get a cargo, but feedin’ them was ‘not my legiti- ; mate business, so I was glad to sell out the shallop; while now I know what it were wauted for, I jist begs to return the money.” “Not a dollar of it, Skipper Zeke, for neither - of us will bear to that,” said Pearl, decidedly. ‘* Waal, m’am, V’ll tell you my plan, and it are founded on ther lad’s idee here of dis- guises, . * While you is in the patriot camp I kin run to a place I know and git a cargo of chickens, a mutton, beef, pork and vegetables, for some et poor patriots needs money, and the Britishers il as got it. ‘“Vhen we kin start back, and you leddies and the lads kin go in disguises, while I goes as cap- ting when we sight Bosting, ‘“Tll make no secret of it, but run to ther frigate and tell ’em I has fresh feeding for ’em, and so on up to the town.” ‘But they same that gave them such a chase to-night,” snggested Nick Norcross. So be it if they does, and I’ll jist tell ’em it are my way, as I wants ter keep the’r guns from gittin’ rusty, and ther sailors from goin’ ter ; sleep on watch, hey * Oh, we'll we will; and if we should be held, why the leddies knows some big gun ” among ther Britishers they kin send for, and go in without making ther leetle v’iage public, don’t i you see?” our plaa will work like a charm,” said Jack at : ‘* Yes, and should the shallop be held, there is Wr aboag one British officer we can send for who can save us trouble, for I would not hesitate to tell i j him the truth, as he would never betray us,” eo Peet be ski ight, when hailed going i é | @ might, when hailed going in, an state that he bad r} = of fresh provisions oe for the brig-of-war Sea Shadower,” suggested eran YF: Ethel, knowing that Pearl referred to Lord am Erskine Enders as the one who would protect 4 = ship's ghost, be’ant it?” asked Skipper o’ this very “Tt were the night before [ run inter Bosting Bay, and we was sailing slowly along when Mo ah by mx haat ay know that the shallop is the } “You are a good plotter, Skipper Zeke, and them. “That be the craft that is fitting out to hunt The Shadow Silver Ship. { suddenly we seen astern of us a large white brig. ‘“We was all skeert I kin tell you, but thar ** Certainly not, miss.” **Tt will do no use— See that!” As he spoke Skipper Zeke Welby pointed to she come, and fast as yer knows this shallop to ! the shadow craft, which suddenly wore up into be, that white craft glided right by us, “She wasn’t nigh a quarter of a mile away and the night was starlight, the sea smooth and a six-knot breeze going. ‘* But she were making all of ten, and I seizes my trumpet and hails her, ** But no answering hail came and I had not the grit to do it ag’in for it did seem ter me like callin’ on dead folks ter speak to me, ‘* So the shadow brig jist sailed on and went out o’ sight in a fog-bank some half-hour after, and I never wants ter see her ag’in— ** Sail, ho! Look thar!” and as old Skipper Zeke uttered the words he pointed toward a vessel that had hove in sight seemingly like a cloud from out the sea. And the vessel looked strangely like the ghost of a brig, for it seemed hardly to be real. CHAPTER XX. A SPECTER OF THE SHA. TuHE shallop had been holding upon her course, ponntes for Bass Point, crossing the open sea etween Deer Island and Nahant, a run of some five miles where she felt the full force of wind and wave from the ocean. It was the object of Jack Ross to get the shallop out of the rough waters and fierce winds as soon as possibly by running for Bass Point on Nahant, and thus keeping close inshore to be un- der the lee of that remarkable peninsula which forms the sea wall, or arm, of Lynn Harbor. The shallop was behaving well, but the cold was intense, the decks slippery with ice, and forward the bows of the craft were getting pees from. the spray freezing as it burst upon them. The gale was from the eastward, by a point north, so Nabant would be a fine lee once the shallop got under its shelter, and, as near as he could guess in the darkness, Jack Rozs was heading for Bass Point, with the hope of bitting in between there and Black Rock, at least. So interested had all become in discovering in Skipper Zeke Welby an earnest ally in the rescue of Noel Stanwood, that not one of the three men had been on the lookout, as they otherwise would have been. And again the piercing cold had made them all crouch close down in the roomy cockpit of the shallop, while the young skipper bad re- sumed his heavy overcoat, and was taking it as comfortable, after the gantlet he had so dar- ingly run, o it was that just as Skipper Zeke had fin- ished telling of bis meeting with the Shadow Silver Ship, be had involuntarily cast his eyes out over the waters to behold the very object of his conversation, Every eye was at once riveted upon the vessel at which he pointed, and Jack Ross instinctively let the shallop fall off several points, as though to give her a wider berth. ; ‘It’s a brig, or a ghost of one,” said Nick Norcross, in a suppressed voice. “It’s the Shadow Silver Ship, for no other craft is like that,” and the voice of the young skipper had lost some of its ring, showing that even he was deeply impressed with the sight. ‘‘That’s ther craft, folks,” whispered Zeke, and he added: ‘Speak out, if yer sees her, so as ter show eye i hain’t no liar—for I sees the Shadow Pp. “That is certainly a weird, strange craft—a brig,” Pearl said. "it’s a brig, miss, but they called the lost treasure craft, which was. brig-rigged, the Sil- ver Ship, and so this shadow or specter is also called so,” explained Nick Norcross, ‘*What do you make of it, Captain Ross?” asked Ethel, ! ‘That it is the strangest craft I ever set eyes on, Miss Stanwood,” ‘“* Do they see us?” whispered Pearl. The anos craft was as white as snow, hull, spars and sails, and she was fairly surging along with the gale over ber port beam, carrying con- siderable canvas for such a sea and wind, he was to windward of the shallop, heading so as to within a couple of cables’ length, and, but for the fact that Ross had let his bows fall off several points, she would have been much nearer, She appeared to have run close inshore to Na- hant, which was now not a mile distant, “T shall hail ber,” suddenly declared Jack Ross, and loud, clear and ringies was his voice as be shouted: ** Ahoy the brig! woe? ve é Not a sound came in response, no creaking block was heard, and the strange craft was now dead abeam the enh “ Ho, the Shadow Silver yn ig ab—o—y! a—h—o—y!” and the voice of Jack Ross, even in the teeth of the gale, would have been heard twice the distance, __ But no answer came from the weird brig to the pal from the little sballop. “Don’t bail ag sir, pray do not,” urged Pearl, awed by the sight of the strange craft and its flying by in such dread silence, ly hig dis the wind, and with her sails triuimed flat, with- out a sound of an order, the creaking of a block or fluttering of canvas, went dashing away di- rectly out into the blackness of the tempest- Swept sea, For some minutes not a word was spoken by those upon the sballop, and then the silence was broken by Jack Koss with: ‘* See! there rises Nahant, and you notice we are running into quiet waters,” His words were a relief, and all gazed eagerly at the black outline which was now known to be Nahant, and was each moment becoming more and more alee to them, Along sped the shallop, however, far snongh off-shore to get the pressure of the a upon her sails, though the sea no longer broke wildly about her. Au hour after, the two maidens, utterly worn out, were seated befcre a large blazing fire in a comfortable room of the tavern, eating a warm supper, while Jack Ross had already ‘‘ turned in” also in pleasant quarters—Skipper Zeke and Nick Norcross having remained on board the shallop, as the old skipper said: ‘To keep the Irish spy from gittin’ lonesome,” If there was anything which Mahone did wish just at that time it was to be lonesome, He had made up his mind, when he saw Jack Ross visit the Revere mansion, that some mis- chief was up, and if he could discover a secret upon his young mistress, he would make her pay. a round sum for him to keep it, and get more from Ethel, and the sailor, too, So he bad determined to play the spy, after he had been caught with his ear at the keyhole, for he was sure that it meant his discharge to be thus surprised, Then he thought he might make a discovery, which his master, Prince Paul Revere, would glad to know and pay for. So it was that Mahone had started upon a spy - ing expedition with no thought of taking a voy- age, and the upsh..t of which voyage he had no means of even guessing, for he stood in holy awe of the young sailor, “ Keep him, Nick, until we return; and, Skip- per Zeke, don’t fail to meet us at the inlet_ near the farm-house you spoke of in Saugus River, for it will save us much time. ‘* We will leave the carriage to come on with- out us, while we await your coming there,” said Jack Ross as he left the shallop, to accompany Ethel and Pearl ashore to the tavern in the little town, intending to make the qoorney to Wash- ington’s headquarters by vehicle, f CHAPTER XXI. THE PATRIOT CHIEF, It was a long way around to go to the head- uarters of tbe patriot chief, who was not far istant in a straight line from the home of Pearl Revere; but then, to get through the British lines there had to be a reason for, and neither of the maidens cared to have the English command- ers know that they entered the lines of the American Army. For. Pearl to have done so would surely have gotten her father, as an American, into serious trouble; while, with ker brother in prison, and an avowed “ rebel,” Ethel and her mother would have been the sufferers, So it was that they took the big chances of running out by boat, at ht, and making a pes movement upon Wasbington’s quarters via nn, a he two girls, after their terrible adventure and bardsbips of the night, retiring as they did shortly before dawn, were glad to sleep in their darkened room until called, and this Jack Ross did not allow until a late hour. ; He, meanwhile, bad secured a vehicle to carry them across country, and at noon aroused the two daring maidens and stated all was ready for their journey. _ “And the sballop? Pearl asked as she came into the breakfast room where a substantial meal was awaiting them, “She has gone off already after a cargo, from the coast farms, misc, i ane Mahone?” ‘* Took the voyage in ther shallop.” “But what can we do with the unfortunate man?” “* Well, Miss Revere, my mate Nick fright- ened him into a confession t be meant to know what you were about and force money from you to keep the secret, and from Miss. Stanwood too,” Oar “ mow could he be so vile?” said Pearl indig- nantly, a ‘‘ He was worse, for he meant to go to your father and if not well paid, to threaten to tell or tches through y “This seems robe: 4 o” “But is true, and to take him back to would just destroy all, so I will see that he gost Ps tended cru , ee a on ag ‘bien bodily harm?” quickly — “Oh no, miss; but Lean give him » chance 0 at Da iH ti 4 es \ Howe that he was acting as a spy, sen aing shits ¥
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—— i ‘ ay er oS or eee eres, The Shadow Silver Ship. 13 ) and theterrible gantlet they hadrunin Skipper | they threatens ter hang all Americans afloat as Zeke’s shallop, pirits.” ‘* And so you were the cause of all that firing | ‘‘ Yes, but they will not dare to do that, Skip- night before last, were you, young ladies? | per Zeke; bat how is she off for officers?” *You are indeed herofmes, and [ know not | ‘t Maybe you c’u’d git a berth if yer come back cruise in an American privateer which is bein fitted out inan inlet near to go into Englis waters and prey on the British merchantmen.” ‘‘ Very weil, that will not be so bad and he deserves really severe punishment,” said Pearl, — AS and half an hour after, entering the carriage in the rear yard of the tavern, to attract no at- tention, the three were driven away upon their way to the patriot camps, The driver was told to take the stage-road from Salem to Boston as far as Powder Houso Hill, where they would branch off from the turnpike and seek the banks of the Mystic River above, where they had been told by the land- lord of the tavern they would find a ferryman who had a boat in which he could carry them up to where a farmer dwelt on the Somerville shore of the river, and from thence they could make their way again by vehicle to the quarters cf Washington, then near Cambridge. The river was reached, and the ferryman soon bad his buat ready, the driver of the vehicle being told to remain there until their re- turn, As it was sunset when they reached the farm- house on the other shore of the Mystic River, the three adventurers decided to remain there until the following morning, when the farmer romised to drive them on to Washington’s eadquarters, » They were now where the ragged uniforms of the Continental soldiers were seen instead of the flashing costumes of the British, and though halted a score of times on the road, and by boats on the river, Jack Ross always received word to continue on his way, when he made the eport: ‘Two ladies vo visit General Washington upon matters of importance.” The next morning the farmer, who had been given a note from his friend the landlord of the tavern at Lynp, and a promise of generous pay from Ross, had his wagon ready and started upon the way to the army camp. As he made a weekly trip with provisions he knew the road well, and in good time was halted by the sentry at the headquarters camp, and soon after the three invaders of the patriot lines stood in the presence of the great chief whd is now, a century after, known as the ‘‘ Father of His Country.” Jack Ross saluted profoundly, and said: ‘*General Washington, I am but an humble sailor, late in the Royal Navy, and serve only as an escort to these two ladies, who in confidence will tell you who they are and make known their mission.” ‘Ts it not strange, sir, that a British sailor should present himself here in the American lines?” said General Washington somewhat sternly. ““T was asailor, sir, as I wished you to under- stand, in the king’s navy; but, I am an Ameri- can, and when my vessel returned from a long voyage a few weeks ago, I left the ship with an honorable discharge, intending to seek service in the American Navy.” ; “ Ah! Iam glad to hear of such determination, sir: but let me now greet your companions,” and the general walked over to where the two mazidens stood awaiting his pleasure. His kindly greeting emboldened Pearl Revere tontonce give ber name and that of her fair companion, “Your name is well known to me, Miss Re- vero; and I now recall having met you and your father a yearago. Iam glad to meet you again, and you also, Miss Stanwood. May I ask if ou are a relative of the young American sailor, Koel Stanwood, whoma British military court has lately punished so severely, in, spite of his valuable services, simply because he had the courage of his convictions to declare himself a patriot?” Tl am the sister of Noel Stanwood, General Washington, and it is to peg you to save him that we have come; but I had no idea that you knew of him?” é “Oh, yes; Captain Stanwood is too gallant a man for ins light to be hid under a_ bushel, and wo geo news from our enemies in Boston in a roundabout way.” ; “ And my father, General Washington, you must also know, is in sympathy with the British rule, (uough an American, w ile I am, as our Tulers call us, a Rebel heart and soul,” said orl “3 Aas Miss Revere, I was pained to know that your father bad cast his lot with the foes of his nativo land; but if he went as his convictions dictated none can blame him; but now tell me how it is that you expect me, a patriot comman- der, to save a prisoner under sentence of the British ood in their power,” aud General Wash- ington srailed, but added, quickly: ‘ Wirst tell me, Please, when you left Boston, and how did you reach our lines? ” Pearl Revere then told the story, from the waiting for Jack Ross up to their arrival at General Wasbington’s headquarters. Several times when, fearing she was tiring the chief, she ssid that she would avoid certain de- tail, the general said: ie ‘No, no; I must know all, And 80 be heard of even the attack of the dog upon Jack Ross, Mahone’s conduct and capture aad nL what to say in praise of your splendid pluck and | arter the run into Bosting.” the ne: ve and skill of our sailor friend bere, Mr, | Ross, not be forgotten.” “It is my desire, General Washington, to let my country hear of meif I can only get on board of an American veesel-of-war, sir.” ‘*T will see that after having escor their homes,” m Oh, sir, I thank you,” said the delighted sailor. Then General Washington called for a staff officer to enter the room, and gave him certain instructions to attend to. In half an hour the officer returned and made his report, and General Washington said: “IT am glad to report that there are three vessels available for the service of seeking to capture the brig, and word shall be sent to their respective commanders at once to prepare for sea,s0, Mr. Ross, pray give me the exact tonnage, armament and crew of the Sea Shacower?” This the young sailor did, and added: *“ Pardon me, General Washington, but if not considered obtrusive, I would like to make a suggestion, sir,” ‘Certainly, Mr, Ross, I wish all the infor- mation, suggestions and advice I can get,” said the chief with a smile, **T wish to say, sir, that having sailed in the brig, when she was the Shark, that | know her to be a very fleet craft, and she wi!l be faster now, as her topmasts have been lengthened, aod new and longer spars have been given her, so that to capture her two vessels should be well apart and far out at sea in her course, and a third astern of her so as to catch her in a triangle between them, for she will be no easy craft to take,” ‘Your suggestion, Mr. Ross, is a good one, and I shall see that it is made to the command- ers of the respective vessels, for we have not only to rescue Captain Stanwood; but capture = fine a craft as you state the Sea Shadower to After some further conversation, General Washington was so convinced that the Sea Shadower would be a hard vessel to capture, that he decided to send another courier at once to New York, where an American vessel-of- war, once a fleet clipper shin, was almost ready for sea, and have her also lie in wait tor the British brig. Then, armed with a pass from General Wash- ington, to give them safe and speedy permit through the American lines, the trio started upon their return, the general saying earnestly: ‘**Remember, Mr. Ross, you must use svrategy in getting again into Boston with your charges, for no second time could you pass through in safety the gantlet you did in coming out. ‘* Permit me also to add that when you need an officer’s berth upon an American vessel, you have my full permission to refer to me, The face of the young sailor flushed with pride, and then they departed, delighted with their visit to the great chief, and with hope that the Sea Shadower would be taken ere she reach- ed England with her prisoner. CHAPTER XXII, HOMEWARD BOUND, Tue morning after leaving the Continental Headquarters, the vehicle secured from the tavern landlord, drew up ata comfortable farm- house upon the Saugus River, and some miles from where the stream emptied into Lynn Har- bor. It was to this place Skipper Zeke had directed Jack Ross to go, and they were warmly wel- comed by the farmer who after the vehicle had driven on its way back to the tavern, told the visitors that the skipper of the shallop was then getting his stores on board so as to be ready to sail during the night, the shallop then being in hiding a couple of miles away in an inlet, After a good supper at the farm-house, the party entered a boat and were rowed by the far- rend to the jt ht - ya a * shea ey were warmly welcom ac Zeke and Nick Merercue, “i er, The maidens at once went into the cabin of the shallop, for they were very tired after their hard aes while Jack set to work to help get ready ea, He saw a large vessel anchored near, and Skip- per Zeke told him that it was a craft being fitted out secretly as a privateer, and added: They is Wuiting for her crew to arrive, lad, but I have shipped one man on board, though he won’t do no work until she gits out te sea, bein’ as he is ter be kept in irons,” You mean Irish?” “* Yas, lad, that is the crittur I means, and he ought ter thank me, fer of course he'll git his eup and pay, and bp sens gh sre jf the schooner capters prizes, and maybe if she’s cap- tered by the Britishers he may git hung, for “It’s a chance Pll bear in mind, skipper, if | you'll introduce me to the captain, and I’d rather ‘*You may be sure, Mr, Ross, that you will | go ns a foremast hand than not get to sea soon, } | : ou do, # you return here | you confideatial like I has a interest in the your fair charges back to schooner, sO my word goes for something. Neen ne ee a eS ee ee ee ee for our country needs all the aid we can give her now.” * She does, lad, and we'll go over and see Ca’ ting Dale, fer kis name be Dan Dale, and I'll te ‘But you seen Washington, the gals tells me?” ** Yas, and he was most kind to me,” ‘¢ Waal, waal! I’d give much to see bim; but let me tell you right now that I want to give back the money you paid me for the shallop, for she’s no good to the leddies arter. we return, and I now know how I kin git out, by pretendin’ ter run arter green food for ’em, don’t yer see? “Come, I will hev it so;and I be no man to fool, and I jist swow I won’t tech a dollar for what I has done for Capting Noel, so here’s the money and the shalop’s mine.” “Keep it to see if we get inall right, for if taken you must not lose the craft,” ‘* No, I'll take no risk, and so bere is the cash.” Argument was useless, s0 Jack Ross bad to take back the money and then the old skipper told him of the disguises he had for the whole party except himself to return in the shallop, “Oh! they'll fit, and don’t he forgit it, lad, fer they isa Jot o’ things as belonged to some play actors that got wrecked on Nahant and Farmer Lewis, with whom yer took supper hed ‘em stowed away, as I know’d, and got’em from him to-day. “ But we'll go now and see Capting Dale, for we has ne’er about got the cargo aboard, and I kin tell yer it will fetch big money, so the gals needn’t feel bad fer fear I may lose suthing.” The visit to the privateer schooner was made and Captain Dale, a typical American sailor, fearless and determined, said he would be only too glad to bave Jack Ross as second officer, for Skipper Zeke had told him of the run out of Boston Harbor, and he added that he would keep the berth open ten days for him. “Tl tell you, captain, if I can Tl be back sooner, but try and get to sea before that time, say in six days, for the brig of war Sea Shadow- er sails for England in just ten days, and if you could help capture her it would bea big thing for the patriots.” “Pll try my best, thank you for-the sugges- tion, Mr. Ross,” was the reply of Captain Dale, and he made up his mind that he would try con- clusions with the Sea Shadower, for he really had a well-armed, swift and fine schooner to take out under the flag of the new nation. As the wind had switched around to the south- east, making it a beat to Boston, and they knew that theshallop would not arrive until morning, Jack Ross and Skipper Zeke decided to remain in the inlet all night and start the following day, for it was their desire to run up the barbor about twilight, or just before, So word was given to Pearl and Ethel to turn in,” and make themselves comfortable for the night, the three men occupying the steerage and which was by no means unpleasant quar- ters. The next morning the shallop dropped down the Saugus and entering the open waters headed for a under a head wind blowing some seven nots, With time to spare, and sailing splendidly, she rounded the group of islands at that time known as The Graves, ran down into Nantasket Roads, and with the wind over her port quar- ter, boldly headed up the bay. The coast-guard schooner Ocean Outpost: was deseried far down toward Hingham Harbor, so nothing was to be feared from her, and the frigate British King had moved her position up off the city, while the brig-of-war Sea Shadower had dro down the barbor and was anchored north of Spectacle Island. She: was about ready to sail, but the sloop-of- war having been sent to sea in chase of a v sighted off outer Brewster Island, and flying the “Gridiron Flag,” the Sea Shadower had taken sentinel duty until her return, for the frigate had gone up to town to refit for a cruise to the Carolinas, Upon the deck, pacing to and fro, with the air of one who was chief of all he surveyed, was Lieutenant Caspar Caldwell, the officer who had been so bitter against Noel Stanwood in his tes- timony. ; A triumphant smile was upon his face, for the day before, when ordered to drop down to the brig’s present anchorage, the lievtenant, who was the senior in rank, and after kine’s resignation, bad. been in command, hid been taken seriously ill with fever, so that par Caldwell found himself the Sea Shadower’s captain, to his great jov and pride. There was no possibility that bis senior officer would be able to sail in the brig, so the admiral commanding the station had promoted him toa ‘senior lieutenancy, and told him that he should
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«command the brig in her cruise in search of the Shadow Silver Ship, but Lieutenant Bonair shad beer ordered to the brig as his first officer, ‘a circumstance which Caldwell did not exactly like, but could not avoid. Lord Erskine bad sent all his baggage aboard, ‘and had taken up his quarters already in the brig, as an honored passenger and dispatch bearer to the king, and what pleased Caldwell the more was the fact that Noel Stanwood had also been sent in irons to the brig, and was then below decks. A certain rumor that the rescue of the pris- oner from the jail might be attempted by the American populace in the town, had decided the commandant in placing him where he would be safe from rescue. ‘‘Send Lieutenant Bonair to me, Mr. Ban- croft,” he said after a long look through his glass at a craft which was coming up the bay. The junior lieutenant addressed obeyed and when Brainard Bonair came on deck, “* Cap- tain” Caldwell as he wasnow called by courtesy, holding the rank he did, said: : “Lieutenant Bonair you were on, the frigate the other night when that Yankee shallop ran out to sea?” ** Yes, sir.” «* There comes a shallop up the bay now, and from the description I had given mo of her by Captain Trigg of the guard-boat, I think that must be the infernal Yankee returning.” Lieutenant Bonair took the’ glass and after a short look through it said: ‘Yes, sir, it is the very craft, for you know it was found out to have been the new sballop which an old Yankee skipper ran in some weeks ago with provisions, risking our fire just for mere bravado, though he said that he did not hear our firing upon him and too near blind to see.” “The accursed Yankees are full of tricks; but I shall bring that fellow to.” “ Certainly, sir, and my word for it you will find him loaded down with fresh provisions, meat and vegetables, and just what we need to stow the brig with.” “Yes, I'll take his provisions and put him in irons for his running out the other night. “ Have a gun cleared to bring him to.” The order was obeyed and a moment after a shot was fired across the bows of the incoming shallop, CHAPTER XXIIL ? A FRIEND IN NEED. Tux shallop was some quarter of a mile away when the gun was fired trom the brig, to bring her to, and at once she changed her course, which would have carried her some distance away from the Sea Shadower. Tho change brought ‘her cirectly toward the British vessel, and soon Captain Caklwell hailed: ‘** Ho the shallop,” * Ay, ay, capting.” “Come up under my lee, ana if you knocgz an onnce of paint off my brig I'll blow you out of the water. “Ay, ay, capting,” was the undisturbed reply, and a moment after the shallop glided alongside of the brig and was made fast with- out even scraping the shining paint of the pretty war-craft. Upon the deck of the shallop five people were visible, an old man at the tiller, weather-beaten and shrewd-faced, and seated in the cockpit was a white-haired woman, wearing large spec- tacles and sage a a stocking with all the com- posure in the world, in spite of its being a really cold day. By her side sat a young girl, with an old- fashioned sun-bonnet on, and her face seemed a long way back in it, aud yet looked fresh and pretty, while » mass of fiery red curls hung down her back. % Both were plainly but neatly dressed, and the young girl was winding a ball of yarn. Forward, ready to obey the orders of the old skipper, were ‘two young sailors, of the half- farmer, half-seaman style, for they wore top- boots, pea-jackets and worsted caps pulled down over their ears and forebeads. Their faces were not of the cleanest, and they did not appear to be very bright epecimens of outbful manhood, as they stood gazing up at 6 brig with open-mouthed wonder. “Well, sir, who and what are you?” de- manded Captain Caldwell, sternly, as he looked down on the group upon the deck of the shallop, “Tf yer means wae I be, I’=a proud to tell yer I be Skipper Zeke Welby, o’ Kennebec; but if ye means who ther craft be, it are the Kenne- shallop Honey Bes, bound inter Bosting with a cargo o’ fresh beef, mutton, pigs, poul- try, eggs, potatoes, turnips and sich garden truck as you Britishers is hungry fer jist now, seein’? as Gineral George W. n has got yer in a tight corner.” , “Well, your cargo is a but not your observations about that arch-rebel, Washington. * But who else have you aboard?” pers i a The Shadow Silver Ship. , jedges em by your Bosting chaps, though they be’ant sich durned fools as they looks.” A laugh greeted Skipper Zeke’s words about the crew of his shallop, and then Captain Cald- well asked: - “Ts not this the shallop that ran in a few weeks ago under fire?” “ It be,” ‘‘- You were her skipper then?” ‘‘T are the man, capting.” 7 thought it was said you were very deaf?” ‘My hearin’ have improved pretty smart.” “I ‘guess so; but why did you take such chances when you had provisions to sell to the British?” ; : Skipper Zeke laughed and replied; “ Waal, I had a new boat, and so I jist wanted ter see what she’d do, “Then I be a Yankee, and so thought I'd jist give the Britishers a stir up.” ‘“* And this is the same craft that ran out three nights ago under fire?” ‘ Did yer see her, capting?” “ My officers did.” “Didn't shé go like a streak o’ greased light- ning?” ‘You admit this was the craft then?” ‘Of course it were the Honey Bee.” ‘And what was your purpose?” “Waal, captive, made a good thing in king’s gold by my last run, and so I concluded I'd git another cargo, but they wouldn’t let me go out, so I jist took chances, and here I is ag’in with beef, mutton, fowls, turnips, water—” by Silence, sir, and let me tell you tbat I con- fiseate your cargo and sball put you in irons,” savagely said Caldwell, who felt that the Yan- kee was inwardly laugting at him. ‘‘ See here, capting, this be my boat, paid for with my money, and when I do be friendly to you Britishers to bring in provisions and keep you from starving you talks about taking my craft and putting me in irons,” It was evident that Captain Caldwell meant to do just as be said, for his was a mean nature, and by confiscating the cargo it cost him noth- ‘ing out of his own pocket for provisions, and as he had the authority, or rather the power, he could keep the skipper_under his guns until he got ready to sail, or send the shallop up to town as a prizo, he having captured tne fleet craft which bad set the whole British force, ashore and afloat, in alarm a few nights before. *©Oh, sir, you will not let him do this eruel act, you, siz, whom 7 recognize now as Lord Erskine, who was ub our house once?” Lord Erskine Enders had come on deck and been a silent observer of all that had occurred, Now, as be was addressed by name, he started and gazed fixedly into the fave of the speaker, whoin the skipper had said was his daughter, Patience Ann Walby. ‘Well, L declar’, be you Lord Erskine Enders arter all? : : “IT do recognize younow, sir, and you hain’t the one to let that upstart young officer put my old man in irons,” Tt was the “ old woman” who spoke now,and again’ Lord Erskine started, his face flushed, and he said quickly; *‘ Ah yes, my good friends, I recall you now,” and turning to the brig’s commander he con- tinued: ** Caldwell, I will be responsible for these peo- ple, so get what provisions you need and let the sballop go on her way.” * Pardon me, my lord, but I cannot do so,” “And why, sir?’ and Lord Erskine’s eyes brightened with anger. ‘“T may be held responsible for them,” Cald- well replied. ‘But J will be responsible for them, I said.” ‘That does not please me, so I will hold them and their craft.” ‘© Do you decline, sir, upon your own responsi- bility?” ** My lord, I am in command of this brig, you but a passenger, and—” , ‘Hold! sir! Are you"aware that my resigna- tion was accepted at my own option to give up my command, or not? ‘You also must know, sir, that I rank you, holding es [ do the king’s commission of captain, and I shall take the responsibility of at once re- lieving you from duty, if you will to test’ your power against mine?’ Caspar Caldwell winced under the words of the nobleman, who he knew would not assert that the option to resign or resume his com- mand of the brig was left with him, unless it was so, and he hastily said: “‘T beg-your pardon, my lord, but I thought your resignation of the captaincy of the brig was decided, so I said what I did,” “Then permit me to tell you that if it is my pleasure to resume command of this brig at aay time from now until sbe sails from England in search of the lost Silver Ship, I can do so, as you will be informed by inquiry of the admiral, _ “But I desire to say nothing of this for your sake, unless forced to do so,” ‘* Again I ask pardon, my lord.” _ “And is my guarantee for this shallop and “My old lady, Jemima Webby, darter Pa- | her crew to be taken, sir?” tience Ann, and them two gawk lads as don’t know beans when ther bag be opened, ef yer | | * Certainly, my lord,” “Thank you, and I beg that you get what pro- | visions you need at once, for I shall sail up to the town in the shallop as I wish to protect these good people from being again molested, and more, secure a permit for the skipper to leave port at will for other provisions, which our forces certainly need most sadly.” Caspar Caldwell bit his lips viciously, but ave orders to an officer to purchase all needed resh supplies, avd get them aboard. And right there did Skipper Zeke get in his quiet little revenge by charging double the price he had intended to for his *‘ green goods,” as he called his cargo, _ After an hour’s delay the shallop cut loose in the gatheriug twilight, and Lord Erskine was upon her deck as she moved toward the city. ‘tT suppose you know that I recognize you both now,” he said quietly, as he took a seat in the cockpit. “Yes, my lord, and we owe you a debt no thanks of ours can ever repay,” earnestly said Ethel Stanwood, who was masquerading as ** Darter Patience Ann,” ‘No, you have saved us from more than we can tell,” and the ‘* Old Lady Welby ” spoke now. in the full, rich tones of Pearl Revere. CHAPTER XXIV. TRUE AS STEEL, For some moments after the words of thanks to Lord Erskine Enders, no word was spoken, and then beit was who broke the silence, He did not wish to refer to their strange and incompretensible situation, in disguise and on a coasting shallop, bound into port, as he did not know just who Skipper Zeke was, or how far be and the two young men could be trusted, and he was anxious not to compromise his own dignity in the matter. So he said; ‘“*{ presume yu have had a pleasant voyage, thouzb it was but a short one,” , “Well, as to the Pgs cag my lord, I can not speak; but we had what we deem a success- f 2 voyage,” replied Pearl, for Ethel remained silent. ‘You do not mean to say that you were in this stallop when sbe ran out the other night throuzh fire and tempest?” see we were upon ber,” was the smiling reply. / ‘‘T have heard it spoken of as the most daring | gantlet that any craft coull run and live | through it, Certainly it was a fearful ordeal for you to pass through, young ladies,” “The excitement kept us up, my lord.” ** Well, let me pen Sotlrge your skipper here upon a nerve and skill that was wonderful.” ‘See here, stranger, I bain’t a man to wear no duds that don’t belong to me, and thongh I thanks you all the same, and admires you as one o’ the squarest Britishers as ever sarved a king, I'll say that thet young lad there, Master Jack Ross, are the man as did that gantlet-running,” said Skipper Zeke, “ Ab! that accounts for the voice then, for I was with Captain Trigg in bis guard-boet when you passed, TT |” “So you are the hero, sir?” a ‘Yes, my lord, I am Jack Ross, late boat- swain on the Shark, and to whom you were always most kind, sir. ‘‘T would not re-ship because lam an Ameri- . can, and I gave up my prize-money and went ashore, unwilling longer to serve against my own people.” ‘T honor you for it, Ross, and I congratulate you as a bero, for few men could do what you did that night. | “It would get you an officer’s berth in the Royal Navy did you care to remain, and your deed of daring but carried out the idea [ had formed of you, i ‘*There is something behind your being an ordinary sailor, Jack Ross.” The face of the young sailor flushed crimson, but be made no reply,and Lord Erskine con- tinued: “T think, now that penetrating disgnises is in order, that I can trace the face of Coxswain Nick Norcross under that innocent countenance, alsoasailor of the Shark when I was her lieu- tenant?” ** Yes, my lord, I am Nick Norcross, ex-cox- swain, and I also being an American, left the service just as Mate Jack did,” said Nick frankly. ‘*T congratulate you upon your disguises, and are fain to ask if Skipper Zeke here is his natural self, or also in disguise?” said Lord Erskine with asmile, “ Hes bis nat’ral self, my lord, for I calls yer s0’cause others does, though jist why a man should be called by ther same name as ther Great Jehovah my dear old mother taught me to rer to long ago, the Lord only knows why; 5 here I is, old Zeke Welby, from Kennebec, owner 0’ this leetle craft, Honey Bee, and at present sarvin’ on board as helmsman, the lad Jack being captain, sir, at your sarvice eternally.” _ Lord Erskine saw that be had discovered & character in Skipper Zeke, and he knew that it was just such honest, independent, ple ma- terial as be was made of, that was rd to make the Colouies free from English. , for be was one of the few wholooked ahead. “ is 5) ae gee “i 3 ¥ has % aa oS os joe 3 . ae o
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The Shadow Silver Ship. He made no comment as to why the young ladies were on the shallop and in disguise, but said: ‘“Well, Skipper Zeke, I will secure for you a ‘pass to take your vessel out again without hay- ing to run such a deadly gantlet as you did coming im some weeks’ ago and going a few nights since.” : “Thank you, my lord; but I guess it’s better for Skipper Zeke to take no passes, and when they see he has comein ag’in with a cargo of provisions for ‘em, the Britishers won’t git in the way o’ my going out for another, I guesses.” “ Not unless they see a deeper design under our going in and out than to bring in provisions, But Vil see to it that you are not molested, for there will be some such feeling felt against you as was shown by Lieutenant Caldwell to-day, for creating the disturbance you did the other night.” “¢y thank you, my lord, and I’ll git out o’ port soon as IL kin, for it do begin to grow a trifle cloudy for the sballop, I guesses.” And, Ross, let me suggest that you and Nor- cross take a berth on the brig.” ‘The Shark, my lord?” ‘That was, now the Sea Shadower.” **T do not wish to serve the king, my lord, nor does Nick here,” ‘Very well, I merely offered the suggestion. ** She sails for England in just six days now, and I can arrange for you to ship for the voyage across if you like, forIl goin her as a passen- er. a I regret having bed to humiliate Lieutenant Caldwell as I did awhile since, but he was run- ning over with pride and meant to hold the shallop, which could but end in the discovery that four persons on board were masquerading, and bence I acted as I did. ‘t Miss Revere, I called to see you yesterday avd was told that you were visiting Miss Stan- wood, so I went to your home, Miss Ethel, to be told by old Lucy that you were away from home for the day. ‘‘Miss Revere, there is some anxiety felt at veur home for the butler, Mahone, who has iaivsteriously disappeared.” ‘Roth Bthel and Pearl felt that Lord Erskine, inn quiet way, took pleasure in teasing them atx’ knew more than be vould really admit, so earl gaid: : “ Tord ' Erskine, can I trust youwith a eeerett” ‘“T never betray a secret, Miss Revere, but is it not best that I should not know it?’ ** J would feel better to tell you the truth, you have been so more than kind to us,” ‘No, let me remain in ignorance, please, at Jeast for tbe present,” and the look on the face .ot the nobleman convinced Pearl that he meant «viat he said, 80 sbe answered; - “ Just as you deem best, my lord.” The twilight was now beginning to cast the ‘bey and city into obsenrity and a guard-boat wns seen putting out to bead the shallop off, the Castle paying no attention to the little vessel as -she had been seen to run alongside the brig, As the guard-boat reached the shallop the -officer in command bailed sharply: ‘Ho that shallop! come to and give an ac- count of yourself or [ will fire into you.” Lord Erskine arose and answered the hail ~evith: “Ahoy the guard-boat! . «There is no need of harsh measures, sir, for did you not seo that the brig brought the shal- lop to? ‘ ‘J am Lord Erskine Enders, sir.”’ The officer’s tone and manner changed at once, and be said: “7 bumbly beg f panics, my lord, but I thought I recogmzed the craft that gave us such a chase a few nights ago,” “Tt is all right, sir,” and the shallop held on ther way toa secluded anchorage off the hillon avbich stood the cottage of Widow Stanwood, “Make your quarters on the shallop for a few duys, Ross, you and Norcross, and you will be safe, for Skipper Zeke and his crew will he protected, . “Now place those ladies and their luggage ashore, and I accompany them,” This was done and in the darkness Lord Ers- kine and the two young girls made their way up to the cottage, where their coming made Mire Stanwood happy beyond expression as she had lived in the most dreadful suspense since their departure, having kvown that the firing and tempest was faced by the little shallop in its flight. CHAPTER XXV. LORD ERSKINE LEARNS A SECRET. yEN Widow Stanwood had recovered from tir eeebion at the return of her daughter and Pearl, sve told the latter that half a dozen ser- ‘vants bad come from the Revere Mansion to see her, as all was excitement on account of the mysterious disappearance of Mahone, the butler. He had put on his great-~coat for a walk, he said, as no one of the mansion was to be at home, and he had not returned since, and all gearch for him bad been unavailing. He bad been supposed, so thought the other } servants, to have been seized by the press-gang and taken on board some vessel-of-war to serve asa sailor. Mrs. Stanwood had explained Pearl’s not be- ing at the cottage, when the messengers came, as best she could, and she added: “What I was to say to-morrow I could not guess, and I am so glad that you are home again, Pearl, as the servants might bave grown suspicious,” We will, with Lord Erskine’s consent, press him into service after tea, and walk over to the mansion, so. that I can allay any suspicion of the servants,” Said Pearl. **T am wholly at your service, Miss Revere,” assured the nobleman, and as the widow left the room to get tea, she having entertained Lord Erskine while the maidens were reversing their disguises and changing back to their sweet selves, Pearl now said: - ‘¢My lord, I saw that you did not wish me to tell you before Ross and the others, what both Ethel and [ deem it now our duty to make known to you, in explanation of our very re- markable adventure, as it must appear in your eyes.” fs No, I have no right to know, and my confi- dence in Miss Revere and Miss Stanwood is so great that I have no suspicion regarding their actions.” “You are most kind to say so; but we will tell you the truth; and as it is in confidence, and rests between we three, there will be no danger of being betrayed, or of your being compromised by hearing our secret.” ‘Remember, | am a British officer, and tell me nothing you are not perfectly willing I should know.” ‘‘ We are not treating you as a British officer, my lord, but as Captain Erskine Enders, our warm friend, such as you have proven yourself to be.” “Then as Lord Enders I will hear your secret. and so consider Captain Enders not present,” was the smiling reply, and he added: “T could not permit you to compromise your- selves, in admitting my knowledge of your affairs, before others, or to compromise me as a British officer, by telling me your secret, and so I checked you in the shallop somewhat rudely, perhaps.” ‘ Well, my lord, I wish to tell you that, with every confidence in you, your influence, and willingness to aid in the pardon of Captain Stanwood, as you have suggested that after all it might hang upon the humor of the king, we decided to try another plan for the rescue of Noel.” , «Just as I felt once,” was the quiet remark. “‘ The srilor—this in confidence, remember, as to others named, &1s0.” “ Certainly.” “Jack Ross came to see Ethel to propose a plan for Captain Stanwood’s rescue, and, as it would cause bloodshed we would not listen to it; but we decided to get his aid ina plan we had formed ourselves, which seemed feasible, and that was the capture of the brig on her run to England.” Lord Erskine smiled, and Pearl asked: ** You do not believe it can be done?” ‘T think it impossible; but let me hear your whole plan.” : Then he heard of Jack’s coming to the man- sion, his conquering the immense brute sayage and the Irish spy, Mahone, and the plan that had been decided upon. “Tbe coming of the shallop, capture of Ma- hone by Jack Ross, and the running of the fear- ful gantlet was all told, as afterward the trip to the headquarters of Washington, after the dis- covery of the fact that Skipper Zeke bad run into ton for the very purpose of trying to rescue Noel Stanwood, and would not accept a dollar in money for his services, and handed back the money) paid him for the shallop.” ** You Americans are made of the right mate- rial, from bigh to low,” said Lord Erskine. ‘‘ The king will discover that truth also,” said Pear], with a wicked look, ‘* His Majesty possesses the knowledge already Miss Revere, and is made wiser every day. I ania the freedom of America, conquered by orce cf arms, for I know your people: but what a little rebel you are and your father so loyal,” and Lord spoon returned the wicked look of say ra in pepe aoe re ‘Yes, I am a te uess, an pa, well, he sticks to the king, 80 e never Mason Pe IE be knew Wh hed “If he knew what bis hopeful daughter 7h Se the past few days, he would go mad, ** But the deed is done, and [ must tell you j what it is.” 5 Shay lah ‘* You saw Washington, then?” “Yes, for E had met him before, and always liked the splendid-looking calm-faced Virginian, and now 1 do not wonder that he is the idol of the American Army.” ‘*T also admire nim, Miss Revere, and he will bea great man before this revolution comes to an end, for I do not believe that the struggle is to bea short one. What said the commander- in-chief of you rebels?” ; ; > ‘* We told him that the brig was to sail on a certain date, and asked if he could not send several vessels of war to intercept her.” ‘Ah? you said several?” ‘Yes, for we had an idea of what the capabil- ities of the brig are, for you remember Jack Ross was along.” ‘* Yes, and as you said several vessels there may be the trifle of a possibility that the brig may be taken, but I doubt it,” Yet why?” ' **In the first place there is no better equipped vessel afloat in the way of battery, small-arms and munitions of war. She bas a large crew, and now that Bonair is her first luff, a full com- plement of officers, and the men were picked for a special purpose, you know, so are not easily alarmed at a force even superior, Again, berold topmasts were replaced by others some ten feet longer, and her bowsprit isa dozen feet greater in length than the old one, her bows and gaff being also increased at the same proporticn, as also her squaresail yards, which allows her to spread one-third more canvas than she did, and she was a very fleet craft then, as you have heard, - “Tbe stern, which dragged water a little be- fore, has been changed, so that helps her speed, and her bows have been sharpened, I may say until they are almost like a knife-blade. “Such a craft, you see, will be able to run away from any vessel she cannot whip.” “You do not give us much hope.” ** As you say several vessels are to go, then they may entrap her.” **Remember, your bame was given, my lord, as one to be set free in case of her capture—to be sent, in fact, directly on to England and land- od with all your belongings. ‘* This was our stipulation, and such were the in- structions: Washington gave the different cap- tains, for we told him the sad errand that car- ried you abroad, and he said that he remembered your father pleasantly in the French and Indian wars, when he was colonel of dragoons, and bad been a dashing officer and splendid comrade, ** He asked if you were not like him?” ‘*He was most kind to speak thus of my father, } ““ He did not tell you that when my father fell wounded from his horse, he risked his life to bear him from the field?” ° “No, he said nothing of this, my lord.” ‘““That showed his modest nature; but it is true, and the name of George Washington of Virginia has ever been a treasured one in our home in England,” and the young noble spoke with deepest feeling. CHAPTER XXVL. LORD ERSKINE GIVES A HINT, ‘‘T wust say, Miss Revere, that I more than appreciate the kindness of yourself and Miss Stanwood, in having provided for my escapeand comfort, in cuse the brig is captured, and I thank ou. “Tt was our duty, my lord, after all you have done for Captain Stan wood.” ** Well, many would not haveso considered it, or even thought of it; but would it not com- promise me with my own people, when the facts become known?” + “We thought of that, and spoke to General Washington about it, and he said that the order ony be to protect you, as a passenger on the rig. ‘* Ah, ever generous; but now let me tell you, that as I seem to bave dashed your hopes down as far as thecapture of the Shadower is concerned, let me raise them by simply giving you a hint,” *““ Weare all attention, my lord, and will take a hint with more than pleasure,” Ethel said naively, “‘Tonly wish to say that should the American privateers not capturo the brig, I hard!y believe that Captain Noel Stanwood will ever land in -England, More I cannot say; but I wish you to use your influence with both Jack Ross and Nor- cross to have them go to-morrow and ship on | board the brig.” ** A British vessel?” ** Yes, and I ask it as a special favor to Cap- tain Stanwood, so that they may be near him. ** Now beg them to do this, but they must not know that I urge it, and more, you can promise that they will not be tbe sufferers, “This is all I will say, more than that you must have hope.” Mrs, Stanwood now entered to announce tea, and both Ethel and Pearl felt impressed with what Lord Erskine had given as a hint. After tea the three walked over to the Revere Mansion, and the servants seemed greatly re- lieved by the sight of their mistress, whose con- tinued absence they could not understand, At the request of Pearl, Lord Erskine went to the butler’s room, which bad been kept securely locked by the housekeeper, and a short examin- ation showed that the butler was certainly given to thieving, as certain pieces of silver plate, from old sets never used, were hidden away in out-of- the-way places, and there was a sum of mouey also which Pearl remembered that ber father — thougbt bad been stolen, with the silver,
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16 burglars who were supposed to have broken into the house one night, Mahone then was the pretended burglar, and more, it was shown that he was in the pay of Merchant Frank Farley, to glean all the in- formation he could regarding Pearl and her intimacy with Ethel Stanwood, “Tock the door and leave the things for my father to see upon his return,” Pearl had. order- ed, and then she added in a Jow tone to Ethel: “| have no sympathy now for the fellow, and he deserves his fate, “He will not dare come back here agsin knowing our discovery, and we are well rid o m. “ And it is better to let them believe, as they now do, that he is a\victim of the Press Gang,” Ethel returned. ‘‘ Par better,” and telling the housekeeper that she would remain several days longer at the cot- tage with Ethel, Pearl left her elegant home to the care of the servants, and returned in conm- pany with her devoted friend and Lord rskine, Mrs. Stanwood then told of her visit to her son in the prison, and that he was hopeful and bade her not despond, while he had inquired tw ogame after his sister, Pearl and Lord rskine, Another visit to bim, however, had been pre- vented by his having been sent from the prison on board the brig, but Lord Erskine told her that he would see that she and also Ethel should seo him to say farewell before the brig sailed, Soon after he took his leave and looked in at the Military Club to see if. any late news of im- portance had been received, and found the whole place in an uproar of excitement, over the fact that an hour before the mysterious craft known as the Silver Ship, or its Shadow, had run into Nautasket Roads, as far as Beacon Island, and afier putting about had headed out to sea, Several vessels coming in had been overhauled and passed by the fleet Shadow, and when she put about she had stood by and on out to sea, answering no bail, and with her crew pred not conscious of the existence of another craft near, She had not passed up the harbor to where she eould get a view of the Sea Shadower at anchor, but had been seen by the armed schooner Ocean Outpost, which had been just north of Hangman’s Island, and the little cruiser had crowded on sail and gone in pursuit of the sea mystery. ‘There is something strange about this craft after all, for what can she be?” mused Lord Erskine as he mace his way down to the South Battery, where*he had told the coxswain of the brig to meet him, The boat was there, and having reported the fact at headquarters that Skipper Zeke, of the Honey Bee had meant no harm to the king in running his shallop in and out of the bay as he had, but was simply an eccentric old Yankee skipper, he ordered the coxswain to steer for the shallop. Skipper Zeke was aboard, having just drop- ls after a run to the frigate British ng and the sloop-of-war, on board of which he bad sold all his cargo, The two sailors were also on the shallop, still looking like simple country lads, and Lord Erskine, going into the cabin told Skipper Zeke that the best thing he could do was to ship a couple of seamen to help him man the shallop and run out the next day, or even that night. ‘* As for you, Jack, aud Norcross, Miss Stan- wood wishes to see you up at the cottage, and so under no circumstances must you leave the town, and my best wishes attend_you, for I erty! that you will do as Miss Ethel deems st. Then turning to Skipper Zeke, he continued: ‘Now, skipper, I wish your report, and those of Ross and Norcross regarding the seeing of the Shadow Silver Ship, which the ladies told me you saw the night you ran out?” “Yer shall have it, capting, jist as I seen her,” and the skipper told bis story, which the two young men corroborated in every particu- **She is a mystery indeed, and some day it must be solved,” and shaking hands in good-by with all three Lord Erskine returned to his boat and was rapidly rowed down the bay to the brig. Captain Caldwell pee him upon his return, for he was nervously anxious, for fear that he might be relieved of duty, and he knew that a word from Lord Erskine would cut off bis head, figuratively speaking. “My lord, I hope, sir, you did not deem it necessary to make any report of my rude con duct toward you this afternoon?” he said, apolo- getically. , “No, Captain Caldwell, I never hold ill-will, and my rebuke of your conduct ended the matter as far as | am concerned, “‘T hear that the Silver Ship was seen down the bay?” ** Yes, my lord, but without orders I dared not & in chase,” You were right, sir; but we sail within a few days now and then your chance will come ‘ oS Degkliha 5 eet AMES on dy ail mo Marth slitbaiac The Shadow Silver Ship. to win fame as a commander of what I be- lievé to be the fleetest and best appointed vessel afloat. “ Good-night, Captain Caldwell,” and Lord Erskine descended to the cabin, leaving Caspar Caldwell delighted at the fact that his words had been overlooked, but just. in the same ratio of joy at his escape from being relieved from duty on the brig, was his increased hatred of the man who had been too honorable to censure him to his superiors, CHAPTER XXVII. A SAILOR’S PLEDGE, Iv was a cause ot great congratulation to both Ethel and Pearl, to disccver that their absence from the town had not been known out of the cottage and to those who had gone upon the shallop with them. They sent old Bennett after breakfast the next morning, down to find where the shallop lay and to ask Jack Ross and Norcross to call at the cot- tage that evening. ennett returned with the information that the shallop had sailed at dawn, so ke had gone to the former quarters of Jack Ross and found him there, so had delivered the message and the two sailors would call after dark. It was a pleasure to know that old Skipper Zcke had put to sea, and had gone without cre- ating any such an excitement as his first coming in and running out before had done. The brig could be seen lying at anchor down the bay, and the talk of the town was, so sail Bennett, the appearance in Nantasket Roads the night before of the Specter Ship. ‘She ran right in like a ghost, took a look at the brig which was fitted up to capture her, and then put to sea again, her crew beckoning to the Sea Shadower to follow her out into the ocean,” Such was old Bennett's story, as he had heard it, and ae also stated that there was the most in- tense excitement in the town about the appear- ance of the Shadow Ship in the offing, and gaa that the brig had been afraid to pursue er. People were talking about the brig already, and her officers and crew, and commenting: that if Lord Erskine had been in command he would have at once given chase to the ghostly craft, The action of the commander of the schooner- of-war Ocean Outpost was highly commended, for he bad, with his small vessel and a crew of half a hundred men, gone at once in pursuit. But the Ocean Outpost had not been seen since, and many predicted that he never would be again, for it was certain destruction to a craft, aud death to the crew, to follow an ocean phan- tom, Thus the day passed, and soon after nightfall a boat landed on the shore near the cottage of Widow Stanwood, and two persons went up to the little house, They were Jack Ross and Nick Norcross, and they were at once ushered into the parlor, where the maidens met them as they might old friends, “The shallop bas gone?” said Pearl, inquir- ingly. a Yes, Miss Revere, After the visit of Lord Erskine to the shallop last night, Skipper Zeke concluded it would be safer for him to sail for home and thus be sure of saving his vessel, so I got him acouple of Portland lads who were in iding from the British press-gang, and the Honey Bee flew away at dawn, presumably to bring in another cargo of fresh provisions, but I do not think Skipper Zeke will return again, until General Weshington drives Lord Howe out of the town.” “And what had Lord Erskine to say to you, Jack?” | ‘* He wished us all good luck, miss, and bade us farewell, for he sails on the brig, you know.” “Yes, and both Ethel and 1 bave a great favor to ask of you and Nick Norcross.” “ Granted, of course, Miss Revere, and for both of us, for Nick will not say no.” “¢ Not I,” said Nick, warmly, “But you do not know how much we are going to ask of you?” “Tt cannot be more than to run the gantlet again, which we are ready to do on call,” “ You may think it a harder task.” You know! said granted for both of us, Miss Revere, so you have but to say what it is,” “To ship on the Sea Shadower for the cruise to England.” Both the sailors started at the bold propo- tion. “Tt is a king’s ship, Miss. Revere and Miss Stanwood?” ‘** Yes, and Captain Stanwood goes on it as a prisons, and you can ship for the run to Eng- and only, for Lord Erskine can arrange that for pou, ‘Should the privateers capture the brig, then you will be already on board to ship in the new service, and of course Captain Stanwood, to whom both Ethel and I will write, getting you to secretly give him the letters, can clear you of having been there for other purpose than to save si im, ' “Tf the the pavenere do not capture the brig then you will in England when he is, and his friends, you may aid him to escape, for I will ee place in your hands one thousand five hundred pounds, which will goa long way toward aidmg his escape, especially where it will not be thought that he has friends, ‘Then you three together can enter the service of the patriots, once Captain Stanwood is free.” “ Had I not given my promise, Miss Revere, your pleading and able argument in favor of our going, would have decided us, for 1 know Nick will go if I do.” ‘*T am with you, mate, so do not consider me in your pledges worth referring to.” was the an- swer of Nick Norcross, “ Then Pe will ship on the brig?” ‘° ‘Yes, Miss Revere, we will watch for the first boat that comes up in the morning, and re- turn in her to ship for the ciuise, and if they will not take us for that only, we'll make it a. year, for the war, or eternity, and let them hold us if they can after we drop anchor in the Thames,” p ‘You mean that you would desert?” “Certainly, for we are not going to serve the king but Captain Stanwood,” “Tt seems terrible to ask so much of you,” said Ethel. ‘It is little enough I assure you, Miss Bthel, and the cuptain of the brig will regret it more than we do,” * But may not Lord Erskine, seeing us aboard, be suspicious?” asked Nick, ‘* Well, if ho is, he is too good a friend of Cap- tain Stanwood to saya word, I can vouch for that, if he was certain we sbipped only to rescue him,” rejoined Jack Ross, As no entreaty could force either Ross or Nor- cross to touch a dollar for themselves, Pear] was forced to yield to their wishes and place in their keeping twelve tundred pounds to be used for the rescue of Noel Stanwood, Then farewells were said, and the brave sail- ors took their leave, and the next sunset found them on the brig’s books as ‘‘ first-class seamen, shipped for the cruise of the brig Sea Shadower insearch of the mysterious vessel known as the Shadow Silver Ship.” CHAPTER XXVIII. THE SEA SHADOWER SETS SAIL. Tu excitement about the appearance of the Shadow Silver Ship off the harbor did not abate in Boston in the least, as several days passed by and tbe little schooner did not return. The Americans were pressing the siege more closely each day, and that alsO was cause for excitement, and the British began to feel that the ‘‘rebels” were by no means foes to be despised. More help had been expected from Eng- land, but it had not come, provisions were few and high-priced, and the British knew that they were in a city where their enemies outnumbered them in spite of the fact that Lord Howe had over ten thousand soldiers and a fleet under bis command. The British general had expressed the sit- uation fully in his dispatches to England, which Lord Erskine was to be the bearer of on board the fleet brig Sea Shadower. The day before the sailing of the brig the cutter, manned by four oarsmen, landed at. the little a near the Stanwood cottage and Lord Erskine sprung ashore and ascended the hill. In a short while he returned with three ladies, all closely vailed, and giving them seats_in the cutter it pulled for the brig, which had now come up to an anchorage off the town to take on her last supplies. Reaching the brig Lord Erskine aided the ladies to the deck and led them into the cabin where he left them with the remark: ‘* He shall come hither at once.” A moment after, with the clanking of chains, Noel Stanwood entered the room, accompanied by two marines who remained standing at the companionway until Lord. Erskine appeared and ordered them to await on deck. and the prisoner was alone with his mother, sister and Pearl Revere. Half an hour after the ladies came from the cabin, the marines took the prisoner once’ more in charge ard Lord Erskine escorted the visitors to the deck, Captain Caldwell not being visible, for he had wisely decided to o ashore at the time of the yisit, pil Lieutenant Bonair in charge of the deck, an who was greeted by Mrs. Stanwood and the: two maidens with real friendship. Lord Erskine had accepted Mrs. Stan- wood's invitation to return and have supper with them, as it was the last night in port, after which he had promised Lord Howe to call and get his latest dispatches before going aboard the brig, which was to sail with the early morning tide.
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SAR ris, WEEE Ge aire eS 1 a: a ad — “The commander-in-chief hopes that your vessel is near enougn ready for sea for you to beable to get into the brig’s course, and head her off, and orders have been also dispatched to the privateer brig Racer, ten guns, now fitting out at Sag Harbor, Long Island, the privateer schooner Brimstone, eight guns, now lying in the Connecticut Rive, and pene for sea, and the cut:er Spray, now having er battery put on board in the Kennebec River, to also get away in time to lie in wait for the Sea Shadower, and endeavor to entrap her. “Should the other vessels named cross your path you will act as commodore, and each of the flee will be known to one another by hoisting a red flag at the fore, “These instructions are also forwarded to the other commanders, and it is the earnest hope of the commander-in-chief that this splendid British brig will be captured, and Captain Noel Stanwood, a patriot prisoner on board, will be rescued from sentence of a life imprisonment, which he is to be taken to England to serve out. “If captured, there will be on board the brig a certain nobleman, guing as passenger to England, and this gentleman, with his servant and all his effects, are to go unmolested, while one of the rivateers, which one you deem best suited for he purpose, will carry him to the English Coast with all dispatch, ‘A response Ms Lieutenant Boykin, as to whether your clipper will be armed and ready foe sea in is respectfully requested by General Washing- “By command ““GsorGe WASHINGTON, r Commander-in- Chief, “ Aide.” Captain Paul read the letter through with a brightening face, and when he had finished it he said, earnestly: “The lron Wing shall be ready to sail, sir, for I shall work on her day and night, and get to sea within three days, which will give me time to reach the cruising-ground I need. The other vessels, the r, Brimstone and Spray I hope will be on hand. for 1 know that British craft well, and we must have her for our new navy without fail.” Having remained for some hours to rest, Lieutenant Boykin started upon his return to the patriot army headquarters, and General Washington enjoyed the satisfaction of know- ing that a quartette of fine vessels would soon be at sca in search of the British brig Sea pbs Fecal ritish brig Sea And there was one other that Gen Wasbington knew not of, that had A pie pew %& e thinks it will be | 17 ready for sez. That one was the privateer schooner Spit- fire, under Captain Dale, and in which Skip- yer Zeke Welby held a financial as well as a patriotic interest. With his two new men Skipper Zcke had sailed away from Boston, presumably for an- other cargo of fresh provisions, but in reality to trust the shallop no more in reach of a British gun. He had headed for the Saugus River, and had run up to the inlet where the Spitfire was at anchor, and reported to Captain Dale that he was unable to bring back with him Jack Ross, and which was a great regret to the privateersman. The skipper also told Captain Dale that the brig-of-war Sea Shadower was to sail on a given date, having Noel Stanwood on board as a prisoner. ‘If you c’u’d only rescue that lad, Dale, yer'd make me as happy as a boy, and ef yer e’u’d capter ther brig, then yer’d have ther fastest keel afloat, bar none,”’ said Zeke, ‘* Except the Shadow Ship,” “‘ Lordy, I hain’t including ghosts.” ‘You really believe that white, spectral- looking craft to be a ghost-ship, then?” ‘‘Waal, I really do, for if it hain’t ther ghost o’ a craft, durned ef it's any real craft, for I knows a human from a spook, and the same of ships.” *‘Well, I'll get to sea in time, Skipper Zeke, for I received word that my crew would arrive to-morrow, and I'll try and capture ee brig, so as to run down the Shadow ip.” \ Two days after, Skipper Zeke saw the S;étfire spread her sails and fly seaward, and fe then went on his way toward the Kenne- ec. And upon the ocean a quintette of armed Sea Rebels were lying in wait for the Sea Shadower. -_ —-_—— _ CHAPTER XXX. THE SEA SHADOWER SHADOWED. THE wildest expectations of Lord Erskine, and his hopes did not meet the reality of what the brig under her improvements and new rig accomplished in the way of speed, when she cast the Castle astern on her run out. The coast-guard schooner known as the Ocean Outpost, was a fleet craft, and having rested, as it were, after her chase of the Shadow Silver Ship, she was ready to start upon her cruise among the islands and in the adjacent waters to Boston Bay. Her commander, Captain Turpin, saluted — the brig as she went by, but he had been most anxious to try conclusions with her, and so, without appearing to be ready, all was in readiness for her to fall away astern of the Sea Shadower for a race out to the Beacon, or The Graves.* The captain, his officers and men al] felt that they would have a joke upon Captain Caldwell and his crew, for it was believed that the Ocean Outpost could hold her own, if not creep up on the brig. The schooner was at once crowded with canvas and went rushing on after the brig, and het coming was discovered by Lord Lennox, who was wistfully leaning against the taffrail and ing astern, after the salute to the Castle had been returned. ‘*Pardon me, Caldwell, but you have a chance to take the conceit out of Turpin if you will, for I saw that he was ready for us when we came a ; ‘Egad, but l'd like to, but how, my lord?” “He is starting out on his cruise for the day—see, his schooner is literally loaded with sail, so if you keep the brig close he can creep up and when he passes, then show him that we waited for him,” and Lord Ers- kine, a thorough sportsman, was delighted at the chance of a race. a AG ie “Thank you, my lord, I’ll soon have the brig sailing at her worst,” and Caldwell hastily gave his orders, the result of which, by hauling *Since 1776 the harbor of Boston and Bay have materially ch ea. eral a shee too flat, and sige Fst ‘another sail, while the helmsman did not — . ‘ *~ 2 > Mia, it fe Ge ‘oo LEP rsh oe ey iB J Bika Pe ager ane . at . + 7 \ ; +a
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a 7 = | CWO Se aS SES aa, ~ M Cy mat = An eo ee = ty, Set ee a 5 Pe ee 48 -steer particularly well, the schooner was seen to be holding her own. ; “Drop a cable over her bows,” suggested The Shadow Silver Ship. Fe ee a TE A LS eee : a Bris sie pe: ‘ and a strange smile was upon his face as he continued to pace to and fro. ae Captain Caldwell, feeling safe now in his Lord Erskine, and this being done the brig | command, was enjoying the dignity of his ‘dropped to much slower speed and the pretty | position in his cabin. schooner came creeping upon her in fine style. The tide was with them, the wind from northwest and blowing fresh, and the sight | that he had stepped in a few weeks from the of the two racing vessels was a beautiful | obscurity of a junior lieutenancy to the cap- , one, Captain Turpin was in an ecstasy of de- light at the performance of his vessel. He had spun by frigates, sloops-of-war, brigs and schooners, when running in and out, and was proud of his little flyer, as he called his schooner; but be was absolutely -délighted when he saw himself creeping up on the famous brig. ‘‘Pass her to windward, sir?” asked his ‘Tieutenant, as the schooner bowled along in the wake of the brig. ‘¢ Yes, we will blanket him, shoot by him, and run out past the beacon well ahead— this is grand, grand,” and Captain Turpin rubbed his hands in glee. The brig now had Rainsforth Island abreast of it, to the south, and was in Nan- tasket Roads, with the sharp bowsprit of the ‘schooner even withthe taffrail and crawling up, while she would when abeam be not one- half pistol-shot away. The crew of the brig stood in silence, but the grin on their faces was not seen by the ‘men on the schooner. Nearer and nearer erept the schooner until they were abeam and theit quarter-decks ‘were within easy conversing distance. ‘‘ Well, Turpin, did some last dispatches come in for Lord Erskine, that you camé after us?” asked Captain Caldwell. ‘*Oh no, I was merely going on my regu- lar rounds and thought I would run down with you. Your brig saily well, Caldwell, for few craft can keep abeam of the Ocean Outpost as she does,” and a broad smile was upon every face on the schooner. ‘* Ab, yes, she does sail well, as you shall see, for as a have no later dispatches for us, weshall not wait for yoa as we have been doing. Let the brig go ahead, Mr. Bonair.” « A laugh from the quarter-deck of the schooner greeted Captain Culdweil’s words, and it faded away into a look of wonder when Lieutenant Bonair’s fine voice was fieard: ‘‘Haul in that dragging cable over the lee bows there. ; { ‘‘ Haul taut on the squaresail sheet and the jiv-sheets, and slack away ou the main boom anil toresail, ‘That's it, lads, now she’ll give the wind a chance at her, and youcan give the schoon- er’s men a good by cheer.” A perfect roar broke from the brig’s crew, which no longer held back, shot away from the schooner at a pace that made Captain Turpin green with envy. ‘Thank you, my lord, for the chance you anus us to drag Turpin’s feathers in the ust,” said Caldwell in great glee, and rais- ing his voice, he called out: “Ho, Turpin!” ‘e Ay ay!” **Just tell them back in town that we waited for youy please.” * “I believe your infernal craft is akir to the Shadow Ship,” came back the answer from the disappointed Turpin, and his words brought a smile even to the sad face of Lord Erskine, saddened at the memory of his dead father, and the fact that he was leaving behind him, perhaps forever, the woman he loved with his whole heart and soul, When the bitig had dropped Egg Island out of sight astern, the afternoon was creep- ing on, and with an after-dinner cigar in his ios Lerd Erskine paced the deck for some ime. Then he took his glass and swept the sea, not ahead, but astern. His quick eye detected a sail far away over the starboard quarter a couple of points, as though coming out of Cape Cod Bay. “That is one of them,” he said calmly, and then he turned his glass upon the other side of Boston Bay. . “Yes, and there is another, coming on a szourse which must have brought her out of 3 hiding pace in Marblehead Harbor. . _ ‘The one in the direction of Cape Cod is @ large ship, and the other is a brig, I think,” “Putting on airs,” the middies said, and they had gotten it very nearly correct. He was a man of low caliber, and the fact | taincy of the finest brig afloat almost turned his head, and gave him a power that was | dangerous to intrust in the hands of such a | man. As a lieutenant, with masters over him, he was an excellent officer, cool, skillful and | brave. But as a commander he was one to lose his head, so to speak, and it was well that he had ! such a fine specimen of the thorough sailor as / his first luff, Brainard Bonair. And more, it was particularly fortunate that the presence of Lord Erskine on board was a check to him. If seen by the loozout aloft, the two sails were not reported, and Lord Erskine glanced upward to see who the man was. It was Jack Ross. ‘‘ Well, he has no orders to report vessels far astern, I believe. ‘‘Now for a glance ahead with what is left us of the daylight,” and Lord Erskine leveled his glass aliead.. Just as he did so, the lookout who saw his act suddenly called out: “Sail, ho!” ‘* He saw her before, but reported her when he knew I would discover her. ‘Tt is a large schooner, and she is directly in our course.” Just then Lieutenant Bonair, who was offi- cer of the deck, called out in answer to the lookout’s hail: ; ‘‘ Whereaway, my maa?” ‘Dead ahead, sir.” “Ay, ay. What do you make her out from aloft?” ‘* A. large schooner, sir.” “Then armed, of course, and a British cruiser or a rebel privateer. “Keep your eye on her, my man.” ‘Sail, ho!” ‘‘Ah! and whereaway?” “Three points off the lee bow, sir.” * Ay, ay! also in our course, so watch her.” ‘Ay, ay, sir— Sail, ho!” ‘“‘Ah! they are getting numerous, my lord,” said Lieutenant Bonair with a laugh, and calling out to the man aloft, he asked: ‘ i. Where igs she, and what do you make of er?’ ; ‘Three points off the windward bow, sir, and also a schooner.” ‘** And the first?” ‘« Still holds dead ahead, sir.” *¢ All schooners?” AS, ay, sir.” «* And their course?” ‘The one dead ahead, sir, seems to be laying to, and the two others moving under shortened sail toward the brig.” ‘Ay, ay, this craft has uothing to fear from them.” ‘*'The Sea Shadower is shadowed,” mut- tered Lord Erskine to himself, and he swept the horizon with his glass, taking in the three vessels ahead and the two coming on rapidly astern. Then headded: ‘General Washington is in earnest,” a CHAPTER XXXI. IN CLOSE QUARTERS, Te sun set with the brig in a triangle of danger, as it were. The sun went down clear, the weather was cold, and the wind steady and strong; but away over in the eastward were some black, ugly-looking clouds that betokened rough weather. The three vessels ahead seemed almost in a line with each other, the center one being perbaps a mile or so further off. All seemed to be under shortened sail, and they were on courses which, if the brig re- mained stationary, would bring them direct- ly to her within three hours or so. . Lieutenant Bonair reported the situation to Captain Caldwell, and asked if he had not best stand away to the south, or north, so that in the darkness he could dodge them while they were yet far off. The answer from the cabin was that hoe must hold his course as he then was, and that there was nothing to fear for the brig. Lieutenant Bonair again reported half an hour after that two vessels were coming on. astern, as though in chase, but far enough apart to head off the brig, did she now at- tempt to run north or south. Captain Caldwell put on his great-coat and came on deck to have a look at the situ- ation. He took a close glance around, said that he did not believe there was anything to fear if the five vessels proved to be all cruisers, and if they were any of them merchantmen then there was a chance for the brig to cap- ture a prize. So saying, he returned to the cabin, not liking the cold winds he encountered on eck, Thither Lord Erskine followed him, for it’. was near the supper hour, and throwing off his cloak, for the two occupied the cabin to- gether, ho said: «Caldwell, | am going to ask a favor of you.” ‘“Well, my lord?” x it is for that poor fellow Stau wood.” oe yes.” ** You know him to be a gentleman, or, to put it from the standpoint of some, to: have been a gentleman befure he lost his fortune. ‘“You are also aware of the very remark- able services he has rendered the Government and that you, as wellas I and many more, owe our lives to him on more than one occa- sion.” «© ‘*To what does all this terd, my lord?” asked Captain Caldwell, with some show of impatience. ‘You shall hear, sir, for [ wish you to fully understand the situation from my stand- point, and there is ample time, for it is half an hour before supper and you are not en- aged just now.” Caldweil bit his lip like a man vexed, but Lord Erskine continued: ‘‘Now, you must know, in your inmost heart, that the trial of Stanwood was a farce, as it was decided to hang him, only there was too strong influence to back him for the military court, to go that far, so they com- promised.” . “ Your influence, my lord, for instance.” ‘‘Yes, and I do possess some little, as I informed the gentlemen of that military court they should discover.” Caspar Caldwell winced at this, for his rank as captain might still hung by a slender thread. ; . ‘*Ag I said, it was a farce, and now that Stanwood is on his way to a life imprison- ment, and there is no danger of his escape in mid-ocean, I beg, as he is my friend, that you allow him to be free for the voyage and accept the hospitality of the cabin, for as you know | am, though a passenger, partly your host.” 4 This was true, for Lord Erskine had, at his own expense, most generally stocked the cabin larders, and engaged the cook, while his servant, Grimes, did the services for both Caldwell and himself. *T am sorry I cannot grant your request, my lord, but I have no desire to sit at table with a: condemned criminal, nor to allow a man who should have been hanged to go free from his irons, having the liberty of the deck.” A: ‘‘As you please, sir; the cabin is yours, so at your service wholly— Grimes!” “Yes, my lord.” ‘Transfer my baggage to the ward-room, the state-room eyes Lieutenant Bonair being vacant, and I shall mess there for the balance of the voyage.” ‘* Yes, sir. : ‘‘But, my lord, you surely will not make yourself thus uncomfortable?” urged Cald- well. 8. ‘Ag I spent months as an officer of this ship in the ward-room, I know that the quar- ters are comfortable, and I shall be in pleas- ant company with Bonair and bis mess.” ‘‘T cannot permit you to leave, my lord,” said Caspar Caldwell, who knew that his own supplies were very scant and mean, and he knew how generous were those of Lord Erskine, and especially the rare old wines, such as he had had at dinner. ae ss | my ' of ay me We ee a. a ae, Pony © ae ae ae ee P And. as, Ka ( es i rn : , » i a, ss oar | Pea a a to + * J rm fi Poe a 22 Aa, = i _*s 1. re ? wa «> Oy wn ee +h | % a az - faa a. 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The Shadow Silver Ship But he added: bo ina short while when eight bells ‘And all on account of that criminal, | struck. Stanwood.” **T would not like it, sir, were it not, that ‘‘Lieutenant Caspar Caldwell, when you | I have perfect confidence in myself and in referred to Captain Noel Stanwood, awhile | the brig,” said Caldwell, haughtily, since, as a criminal, and a man who. should ‘* You see, sir, that as we shortened sail, have been hanged, I passed it over; but now | according to your orders, the vessels astern I notice it, only to say that if you offer an- other insult to my friend, now in irons on | stretched out so that we are preity well sur- board this. brig, 1 shail make) it a personal, rounded, should they all be enemies.” matter with you the moment we reach Eng- ‘* Good-evening, sir.” in the cabin, heedless of the reports sent from | In vain did the now frightened captain | the deck that his vessel was running into call to Lord Erskine to return, that he | close quarters, begged to offer an apology, for he had been He now saw that the craft on his star- too hasty. _| buard quarter was a large vessel, and sailing Lord Erskine left the cabin, and Grimes | well, while she was not much oyera league transferred his belongings to the ward-room, | away. é Caspar Caldwell cursed himself mentally | The one on the port stern quarter was fully for a fool, for the bottle of delicious wine | a league and a half distant, and a brig. set out for the evening meal, Grimes took | Thenthere was alarge schooner dead ahead, with him, and the cook dropped supper half- ) two leagues distant, with one on each bow finished, and transferred his quarters to the | half a dozen points, and equally as far off. ward-room, greatly to the delight of the off-; But it placed the Sea Shadower in a very cers of that mess. . dangerous position, a circle, as Lieutenant Lord Erskine was not a man to be bullied, _ Bonair had said. and he saw that Captain Caldwell had de-| There were many clouds to the windward, termined to persecute his prisoner, and more, | and there would certainly be a blow. before make him; Erskine, feel that he having | morning; but now a moon just. entering its have crept up well, and those ahead ar | This startled Casper Caldwell exceedingly. | land. He felt that he had been enjoying his dignity | sailed as a passenger, had no authority | aboard the brig once she was out of port. third quarter showed all the craft ia sight, ; and that they had a common purpose in view A sailor cook was sent for to get the cap- seemed evident. taia’s supper, and a meager meal it was, while Lord Erskine’s wines and edibles were lavishly placed out for the benefit of the , ward-room mess, and his high-priced cook served up a supper that made the hearts of | the officers happy by catering to their appe- tites. : Soon after supper Lord Erskine, having been made most comfortable in the ward. room, stepped up to the officer of the deck, | Brainard Bonair, and asked permission to see ihe prisoner. It was cheerfully granted, and making his way to the quarters of the warrant oflicers, Lord Erskive found Noe! Stanwood there, ironed to a ring-bolt, and with manacles upon ankles and wrists, this baving been ordered by Captain Caldwell after sailing from Boston. ah But the proud spirit of the prisoner was not broken, and he greeted his visitor cheer- fully. ; “Stanwood, my unfortunate friend, I culled to say that I had hoped.to better your condition once we were under way, but Caldwell refused to allow you to go free, or be confined in the cabin, where, as there were but two of us, there was plenty of room.” : «‘You are most kind, my lord, but I pra you do not have trouble with Captain Cald- well on my account,” said Stanwood, *‘No fear of that, my friend.” «* Yes, but siete is, for I heard the men aughing about how you snubbed the cap- — pine had left the cabin.” P “JT am just as comfortable where I am, and the company is far preferable; but as I know that a voyage to one in your condition is most wearing, let me give you a ray of hope, and that 1s the fact of there being sev- eral rebel enemies shadowing the Sea Shad- ower, and to rescue you is their ultimate aim. 7 ar In fact, they have the brig now in very close quarters. — Good-night,” and Lord Erskine left a ray of hope in the prisoner’s heart that flushed his face with joy. CHAPTER XXXII, RED SIGNALS. We r Caldwell was in a very humor i went on deck af.er the frugal supper he had from his own stores. _ He had taken astand and his mulisk nature meant to keep him - it, though he knew that ‘Lord Erskine was a dangerous man to have ae till he felt that he could not be censured oa he did not set the prisoner free to puerta liberty of the ship, and hoped that , he would be upheld in his act by the Admir- aity in England. i whom he could have made his pot wry Si very different manner than what vagren ere like the position we are in, sir,” said Brainard Boneir, who was to go off | They could not be all British crafts, and if Americans, how was it possible for them , to be in that latitude together? | ‘*What do you make of them, Bonair?” , asked Caldwell somewhat anxiously. | ‘That they are Americans, sir.” | ‘But how is that possible?” | ‘* Well, sir, the Americans are getting a _navy rapidly, and also a number of pri- \ vateers afloat.” | “But here are five vessels.” i “True, sir, and my idea is that as it has _, been known for a coupie of weeks that the ' brig would sail to-day, that sbe has been re- fitted, armed and splendidly equipped, the Yankees concluded that they wanted her, so _ sent every available craft to head her off and | Surround her. | We should have run for it when these | vessels were sighted ahead.” | -**] fear no rebel craft, Mr. Bonair.’’ | ‘*Wery true, sir; but there are five here now,” | **I do not believe they are all Americans —do you my Lord Erskine?” EE st se entitle ene semen : 19 / . | ‘*How would it do to beat up to wind- ward?” ‘*No, you could not do it, fast as the brig is, without getting into close quarters with two of them, while to run before the ‘wind you can cross the line all of a mile away from.the square-rigger, and half that much more away from the schooner.” ‘* That.is so, my, lord, and I wiil call the men to quarters, prepare the brig for action, then square away and run for it. ‘Mr, Bonair, prepare the brig for action, sir!” ‘ ‘* Ay, ay, sir,” and the order was given. Then, to the amazement of all the cfficers of the brig the men formed in column and marched back to the quarter-Geck, und at their head was Jack Ross. CHAPTER XXXIiI. THE CREW OF THE SEA SHADOWER. ‘‘Waar does this mean? -*Go to quarters you devils!” roared Cas- par Caldweil, as he saw the men, almost to a@ man, march aft aud confront him as he stood upon the quarter-deck; Lord Erskine and Lieutenant Bonair near, and the other officers of the brig, a dozen in number, grouped not far distant. Jack Ross replied, and his voice was dis- tinctly heard, while what he said was to the point, ‘‘T have the honor, Captain Caldwell, to be chosen the mouth-piece of my mates, though I am but a new man aboard ship.” “‘Well, sir, 1 ordered you to go to quar- ters. “‘ Why do you not obey?” “ That is just what my mates desire me to make known to you, Captain Caldwell, and I beg to say that they believe the vessels in sight to be American cruisers.” “T know them to be, sir, and I desire to- cut through their line.” ; ‘**'You will have to secure another crew then, Captain Caldwell, for it so happens that the warrant officers are all Englishmen, while out of the one hundred scamen you shipped, seventy of them are Americans.” ‘Ha! mutiny? “Do you mean to mutiny, you devils?” yelled Captain Ca:dwell, livid with rage. ‘*No, Captain Caldwell, there will be no mutiny, for that time has passed, as every one of your warrant officers, and the ten English seamen are all lying drugged below ~ decks, and we, the Americans, are masters here— Hold! if you attempt any act of vio-, Caspar Caldwell had humbled himself to lence you will be swung up to the yard-arm; address Lord Erskine, who when he came ' on deck, had walked away to himself. ‘*T beg pardon, sir, but did you speak t | met” aa “‘Yes, my lord, I asked your opinion as to those five vessels.” ‘‘T observe, sir, what has doubtless es- caped the attention of both Lieutenant Bonair and vourself.” ‘Yes, sir?” ‘‘ Just before sunset I noticed that each of the five carried a large red flag at the fore,” “Indeed?” : “They did * ‘‘This would seem to be a signal.” ‘«More so, when as you now observe they ' each carry a red light at the fore.” | ‘** You are right, my lord, and this proves | that the vessels are all under the same flag— | was it the rebel flag, my lord?” ‘*It was too far to distinguish more than that they were large and of crimson hue.” ‘“Theu you think the brig is in a tight place?” ‘ “Il would consider any other vessel as good as captured, but the brig is such a fleet sailer, she has such a. splendid battery and .| @ large crew, so the chances are that she may run the gantlet.” > “Pardon, my lord, but I would like to askjif you deem it best to hold on?” “No, for you run into the circle of fire from five foes, while if you wear around, square away before the wind and run for it you bring but the two vessels to leeward against you.” , ) “I thank you, and will take your advice; but it will be well to call the men to quar- ters soastofightit out.” . acid “Certainly, Captain Caldwell, and it is unfortunate that one of the schooners is not in the piace of the large Square-rigger, whose guns must be heavy ones.’ j srenolient revealed a quiet smite upon his that I will tell you frankly; but submit, you and your officers, and your lives shall be spared, \ ** We are in deadly earnest, Captain Cald- well.” ‘To turn this craft into a pirate,” sneered Caspar Caldwell, who felt that he was utter- ly at the mercy of the crew. He had his sword alone on, and the several officers on watch had their weapons; but Lord Erskine and the others had not their side-arms on, and it was noticed that the marines had their muskets and stood ata ** ready.” “Captain Caldweil, you are mistaken, sir. for we do not intend to turn this brig into. a pirate, but simply to change masters and flags. H Wocoried: please bring the one whom we ‘have decided shali command the brig.” Nick Norcross went below, and the silence that followed was painful, Caspar Caldwell pacing the deck like a caged .ion, while Lieu- tenant Bonair stood ready to cie in defending the brig if necessary. The other officers groupe’ together were in awful suspense, and powerless. -As for Lord Erskine, he stood near the wheel calmly surveying the scene, like one who held. no interest in what was transpir- in . | > ‘Thus several moments passed away, and then Caspar Caldwell, grown desperate, wheeled toward the crew and decir Eas * Will you go to quarters, or pot?” ‘“We will not, sir” firmly responded Jack Ss. er “Then I shall ran you through the heart, Sir Mutineer,” and Captain Caldwell stepped forward, drawing bis sword as he did so. But Jack Ross did not move, and the j face as he said:
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' buccaneers, “Do not throw your life away, Captain Caldwell.” At this moment Nick Norcross returned, and there by his side was the prisoner, Noel Stanwood, but no longer in irons. ‘‘Men, what does this mean?” and he glanced over the crew and then at the group of officers. ‘«It means, sir, that the crew shipped for this British brig happened to be mostly Americans, and that we have decided to be masters here, haul down the ensign of a king, and hoist the Stars and Stripes of our new nation, while you, Captain Noel Stan- wood, we greet as our commander.” A wild cheer followed the words of Jack Ross, and the heart of Caspar Caldwell al- most ceased to beat, so intense was his fury. At once did Noel Stanwood reply, and a silence that could be felt rested upon all. “Captain Caldwell, and you, Lord Ers- kine, and you, brother officers, I wish to say, upon my honor, not a hint of this ‘was known to me until my irons were taken off and I was brought here before you.” “A likely story this, Sir Pirate,” hissed Caspar Caldwell. But unhecding him, Noel Stanwood con- tinued: “As, however, it so happens that lam a prisoner on board, sentenced to a life impris- onment for crimes I am guiltless of, as 1 first captured the craft from her pirate mas- ter, and thrice saved her from capture by once saved her from being wrecked, and while her commander cap- tured for the British king an armed prize, and ‘a merchantman, for which I received no prize money, | may say with justice that she is the very vessel I hold a claim upon, and owing no allegiance to George the Third, but every allegiance to my native land and its people, I shall accept the command thus tendered me by this patriot crew—” A wild cheering here drowned the voice | of the speaker, but moving his hand for silence, he continued: “T shall accept the command of this brig, thus offered me by an American crew, in justice to them, as a duty to my country, and an honor to myself, but wpon con- ditions.” ‘That I am to be hanged, I suppose, Sir Pirate?” again sneered Caspar Caldwell. Again unheeding him, Noel Stanwood re- sumed! ‘My conditions; my men, are that Cap- tain Caldwell, his officers and his honored passenger, Lord Erskine Enders, and those of the warrant officers and Englishmen among the crew who so desire, shall be landed in safety, with all of their belong- ings, upon the coast of England.” **Betver hang the cap’n,” shouted a voice, and instantly it was taken up, and a roar of cries came: “Hang him!” “Hang Caldwell!” ‘String up the Britisher!” «* Yard-arm Caspar Caldwell!” + **Hang him!” “ Kill him!” ' “Shoot him, lads!” ‘* Silence!” Above the voices rung that of Noel Stan- wood, and he fronted the wild crowd of shouters. ‘*Men, I will have none of this, so put me back in my irons, as I 5 iid only under the conditions I have named, to command this brig.” “Captain Caldwell lied at the trial, to hang you, sir,” cried one. ; “He was mean to you, sir, and meant to. be worse.” “You have heard my alternative, men, so _ what is your answer?” “That we would let the devil himself go free, to have you for our captain, sir,” cried Jack Ross’s manly tones, and he swayed the excited men his way. “Yes, Jack Ross says right, eh, men?” chimed in Nick Norcross, and then came in _ chorus: «Yes, yes!” ‘Three cheers for our rebel captain!” . They were given with a will, and spring- ing upon the quarter-deck, Noel Stanwood raised his tarpaulin and said: ‘*Men, I thank you, and you and I will make a name for our splendid vessel,” faces of the dead. honor and fame were dashed by one fell blow to the ground. was glad to bave so many Americans in his crew, for he would soon get them killed off, and put brave Britons in their place. his Englishmen, and put the work upon the Americans, cases, warrant officers, because they were Englishmen, aud not an American on board had been advanced in the slightest, while those whom Lord Erskine had appointed while commander, he had removed on petty charges for his own favorites. crew, and the man whom he had done al! in his power to send to the yard-arm, and whom he had had in bis power as @ prisoner, was now his master. tesy, whom he had removed from his state- room in the ward-room to be chained, double- ironed, to_a ring-bolt forward among the men, now had it in his power to make him suffer, and instead, had bade him welcome as his guest, there before Noel Stanwood, and in a speech- less rage he turned upon his heel and_stfode toward the cabin. The Shadow Silver Ship. cece ree =a Then turning to the officers of the brig, he continued: ‘“‘Oaptain Caldwell, you and your officers are my guests for the cruise, if you will only give me your parole not to interfere in any manner whatever with the working of this brig. “T hope you will give me the pledge?” All eyes turned upon Captain Caldwell. His face had turned to the hue seen on the His pride, his ambition, his dreams of He remembered how he had said that he Already while in command he had _ spared He had made incompetent men, in most Now he was face to face with an outraged A man to whom he had refused any cour- Words would not come to him as he stood CHAPTER XXXIV. A CHANGE OF MASTERS, ‘* Srop, sir!” It was Lord Erskine who confronted Caspar Caldwell as he walked toward the cabin, and his voice was stern and threatening, Captain Caldwell started, and would have stepped to one side and continued on his way, but Lord Erskine still faced him and said sternly: ‘Captain Caldwell, as man to man, sir, I speak, and I demand that ycu show that you are not devoid of all manhood by facing this gentleman, this crew, and speaking for your officers, if not for yourself. ‘‘Your’ vessel has been taken from you peacefully when in an hour more she would have been captured by force of arms from your enemies surrounding you upon the sea. ‘The prisoner placed in command accept- ed his captaincy only on conditions that you and your officers, myself and those of your crew who so desired, should be safely land- ed upon English soil. «Then he asks for your parole, our parole, and makes us his guests for the cruise. **Do you, Captain Caldwell, in the face of all this, dare to turn your back upon him, to enter his cabin, leaving your officers and | men at his mercy and to the fury of a justly enraged crew? ‘«[ demand, sir, as your superior in rank, if not your commander now, that you act as a king's officer should, as a man at least.” The withering sarcasm of the angry noble- man. made Caspar Caldwell fairly writhe, and his officers almost pitied him under the scathing rebuke of Lord Erskine, who when aroused was known to be a very dangerous man. For a moment Caspar Caldwell could not, or would not speak. Then he said huskily: ‘‘My command has been taken from me, sir, Ve a band of mutineers, who have placed a pirate prisoner as captain over them, and itis not my desire or my intention to accept any favor from a criminal and an out- law, so thake what terms you can, while I retire to my cabin to await your report. ‘As for you, my Lord Erskine Enders, | now is not the time to resent your insulting words.” a es ‘Oh, any time for that, Caldwell,” was the indifferent reply as Caspar Caldwell again moved on, x a‘ Ry. 7 } posts, while Lord Erskine steppe and said: Tleave you, Lieutenant Bonair, to 8 good man, too, so says But now it was Noel Stanwood who halted him, and his hand fell heavily upon the shoulder of the British officer. ‘* Hold! ‘«You refused my hospitality in the cabin, and you shall now accept it forward. ‘“Mr. Norcross, put this man in the irons you just removed from me.” A murmur ran around upon all sides, while Caspar Caldwell gave utterance to a mingled cry of horror and anger. Then he dropped his hand, which was raised with his sword in it, but with an ex- hibition of streagth that was marvelous, it was wienched from his hand, thrown to the deck, and the blade broken from the hilt b the heel of Noel Stanwood, who said et strange calmness: “ You are unworthy, sir, to carry the wea- on. “Mr, Norcross, obey my command, sir.” In an ifstant the unfortunate captain was seized and dragged forward, while clear rung the command: ‘© your posts, lads, for a better look at our sea neighbors ” to their The crew with a cheer sprun forward ‘Captain Stanwood, for myself let me thank you most sincerely for your extreme kindyess.” ‘“¥You are more than welcome, Lord Ers-~ kine.” ‘And permit me, my dear Stanwood, to offer my hand-in congratulation at your €s- cape, and gratitude for your action toward me,” said Lieutenant deeply pained at the loss of the brig and the utter discomfiture of Caspar Caldweil, could not but be glad of the escape of Stanwood, and thankful that himself and his brother officers had not been put in irons and sent below. onair, who, though If there were any sore-heads among the group of officers, none felt bad envugh to wish to follow the example of their captain, and they came forward to a man, and thank- ing Stanwood, gave their parole and were told to keep their present quarters until their arrival in neland. ‘‘Now go forward, Norcross, and rouse those poor fellows you drugged into uncon- sciousness, and see if any of them care to ship under the new flag, for as Americans have had to serve under the British ensign, @ return of the compliment is but fair. ‘«Those who do not, and who show a dis- position to be ugly, confine below decks, but all who wish to serve as seamen, allow them to do so.” When Norcross had gone on his mission, turning to Lord Erskine and the group of officers, Stanwood continued: ‘‘T am very sorry, gentlemen, that Captain Caldwell forced me to take the steps that [ did with him, and which you all witnessed. was not my fault, ‘‘ He has been my bitter foe, why 1 know not, except that I am an American; but I meant to treat him with marked respect had he allowed it. . ; ‘Now, I must see first what those vessels are, for if they should be foes, then I am in rather close quarters.” ‘+ Permit me to relieve your mind, Captain Stanwood, for I happen to know that those vessels are American cruisers, or privateers, | sent out by General Washington to capture this brig, especially to rescue you, sir, from your unjust and cruel sentence—see, each one carries a red light at her foretop, and it would be well for us to send up the same, as we are getting well in range now.” The speaker was Jack Ross, and all lis- tened with deep attention to his words, while Lord Erskine’s face was the picture of inno- cence. As Lord Erskine had hinted as much to Noel Stanwood, and Jack Ross now avowed the nature of the five cruisers, the young captain was convinced that there was some- thing in the red signals, and so said: “fam glad of your explanation, Mr. Ross, ‘and permit me to request that you serve as. pat S rst officer, Mr. Norcross being second, while the others I will appoint in good time. Oh, Mr. Norcross, I have just made you os 4 second officer; but what say the warrant of- ficers and men below?” or i ‘The boatswain, sir, isan American and would gladly
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Scent etn al jae ve The Shadow Silver Ship. have joined us if we had not been afraid to try him. The others are growlers and very sore over it, while about one-half of the sea- men are glad to be with us.” “That is fortunate, so bid the boatswain continue his duties as such, and those of the men who are with us send to their posts, while the others keep below under guard. Lord Erskine, I am happy to have had a bloodless victory.” ‘* You are fortunate, indeed, Captain Stan- ‘wood, and I congratulate you,” was the an- swer; and just then up to the foretop went a Jarge blood-red Jantern to match the signal lights shown upon the five other vessels, now verging toward a common center with the brig the object of their attraction. CHAPTER XXXYV. THE RED REBEL. Tre sending up of the red light on board the brig, to the foretop, seemed to bea sur- prise to the other vessels, to judge from the movements on board, as on each craft a red lantern was waved, beginning with the large ship and then going the rounds. This was not doneSupon the Sea Shadower, for Noel Stanwood determined to make no mistake. The nearest vessel to him now was the ship, not over half a league away, and the furthest off of the other four was not over two miles. Then came the sound of the drum on the ship, beating to quarters, and it was followed by a like call on the others. ‘«Mr. Ross, I shall bring the ship to, for I do not care to receive a broadside from our own people, if they are so, as you believe,” said Stanwood. ‘* It is the best plan, sir, and if they see we offer no resistance, no shot will be fired at us,” responded Jack Ross, who had, with Nick Norcross, taken his promotion very coolly, though delighted at being so ap- pointed. The brig was accordingly brought to, and the crew stood at the guns, ready for action, yet not expecting to go into a combat, from what Jack Ross had said to them about the vessels, Lord Erskine and Lieutenant Brainard Bonair stood apart, talking together in a low tone, and the other British officers were in a group aft, also conversing, and their theme ‘was the unwarrantable conduct of Captain Caldwell, for whom not an atom of sym- pathy was felt. s In fact it was the general belief that Cap- tain Stanwood had been very lenient with him, considering all the circumstances of the case, and his own situation. The brig, while lying to, was calmly awaiting the arrival of the other vessels, pre- pared to meet friends or foes. The men were willing to fight, if so their commanders ordered it, and the brig had only lost about a score of men, all told, through the change of masters. That Noel Stanwood was an idol amon the men, all could see, and he certainly ha won the admiration of his British guests. So far he had not entered the cabin even, but Grimes had been ordered to make Lord Erskine and Lieutenant Bonair comfortable therein, and a state-room was fitted up for the new captain. The vessels pow were very near, and with gu run out, their men at the guns, battle anterns in place and all ready, were coming down upon the brig. It certainly was a most critical moment, and yet Noel Stanwood was perfectly cool and glanced over his ship and crew with th- Jook of & man who meant to greet them as friends if they so proved, or enemies if it was necessary 80 to do. Nearer and nearer until the lar j within hailing distance, cas. fay Then came the hail: “ Brig ahoy ie * Ahoy, the ship!” «« What brig is that?” «The Sea Shadower, from Boston and pound to London.’ « You are surrounded wy foes and it would be madness to resist, so I suppose you sur- render?” “Who and tg Mes ? «The armed clipper Iron Wing, Capt John Paul of the American Navy.” en “Ah, glad to meet you, Captain Paul, and to know that you are of the American Navy,” “Ts not that a British brig?” ‘She was until an hour ago, sir, when she changed hands.” ‘Ha! what do you mean, and is there not an American prisoner on board in irons, Captain Noel Stanwood?” ‘* There is a prisoner on board, sir, and in irons; but it is Captain Caspar Caldwell the British commander, and it is Noel Stanwood who is now speaking with you. “Will you not come aboard, sir?” ‘With pleasure,” and the armed clipper | was now luffed near the brig and a boat soon after shot out from her side, while the brig and three ‘schooners care up and formed a circle around the Sea Shadower. Captain Paul was met at the gangway by Noel Stanwood who, in a few words, told him all that had happened. The American commander of the Iron Wing was amazed and delighted, and asked to call the commanders of the other vessels aboard, whom he had not met, and said: ‘¢T had my orders from General Washing- ton to put to seain all haste and look you up, and the ofticer who brought my dis- patches informed me that similar instructions had been given to the captain of a brig and iwo schooners, but it seems we have one more than I expected.” ‘Permit me, Captain Stanwood, to request that you show the hospitality of the ship to | your comrades in arms, “The truth is, Captain Paul, I happened to fit out the larder and sideboard of the bri; for my own comfort, and our modest frien here seems to be afraid to ask you all as guests, but I will do so, and beg that you hail the different craft for your captains to | come on board.” The manrer of Lord Erskine showed that he meant all that he said, so that Captain Paul at Stan wood's request hailed: ‘* Ho! the brig Racer, ahoy!” ‘Ahoy the British brig Sea Shadower,” came the response. ‘Tam Captain Pau) of the armed clipper Iron Wing, and for Captain Stanwood of this brig, ask your presence on board,” “Ay, ay, sir.” Then the schooner Brimstone was hailed with nearly the same conversation en: next the Spray’s captain being called aboard. Captain Paw? then called out, as the fourth vessel unknown by name to him: “‘ Ahoy, the schooner!” ma ay, sir.” ‘* What schooner is that?” “The American privateer Spitfire, Captain Nathan Dale, out on a hunt for the craft that had Captain Noel Stanwood on board as a prisoner.” ; ‘Ay, ay, sir, you are cruising in a good cause, so Captain Noel Stanwood requests you to come on board the brig.” “Ay, ay. sir, at once,” " As the different captains boarded the brig, they were met by Captain Paul, who then led them to the cabin where Noel Stanwood had gone and presented them to him, after which he introduced Lord Erskine, Lieuten- ant Bonair and his first officer, Jack Ross. ‘*Gentlemen, I have asked Lord Erskine Enders, and Lieutenant Brainard Bonair of the British Navy to remain and meet you, also as witnesses that my statement of the case to you 1s a correct one, ‘*] may say that I regret putting you to so much trouble to attempt my rescue, and then forestalling you in it, but that is the fault of my splendid crew, for they took the ship and then placed me in command, when | was forced to put Captain Caldwell in my ua- fortunate situation as a prisoner.” Then, modestly, rapidly and clearly, Noel Stanwood told his story, and the five Ameri- can commanders heard all with amazement and pleasure, and Captain Dale came very near giving away the part played in the in- tended rescue by Ethel and Pearl, but was checked by a touch and a warning look from Jack Ross. “The truth is, gentlemen, I was just. fit- ting out for sea, when I learned about the sentence of Captain Stanwood, and was told that he was to be taken out to England in this brig, and other American vessels were going to try and entrap the craft and rescue him. I saw the schooner Spray here, and her captain told me his orders, so I joined 21 ons and have become one of the capturing orce.” | - Refreshments were then served, and Lord Erskine told his story of Noe) Stanwood’s ad- ventures, from his joining the brig on the coast of Peru and saving them from the pi- | rates, up to that night’s adventure, adding: ‘‘T am an Englishman, gentlemen, a king’s officer, and 1 intend to do my best for my country, but Iam ftee to confess that I be- lieve that you Americans will gain your inde- | pendence. May I ask you to drink the health of Captain Noel Stanwood, a man true as steel to friend or foe?” The toast was drank with a bumper, and Captain John Paul proposed the health of Lord Erskine and Lieutenant Bonair, and added: ‘‘T am glad, gentlemen, that you have fallen into such safe hands and good company as Captain Noel Stanwood, for whom I pre- dict a glorious career.” After some furiher conversation the five captains took their: leave, for the wind was rising and the clouds were threatening now to break in storm, and as the Sea Shadower moved away once more in her interrupted course, the Iron Wing led off with a cheer from her crew and thirteen guns in honor of Noel Stanwood, the Racer followed suit, then 'the Brimstone and the Spray, and last the Spitfire, when the Sea Sbadower answered | the salutes, burned a blue light and sent up to the peak the new flag of the struggling | patriots, a flag which had been presented by the commander of the clipper, who, when on a schooner, had been the very one whose ves- sel Noel Stanwood had refused to fire on or attack, when carrying the brig to Boston in | company with the two prizes. | And as the beautifu vessel, under reefed gails, sprung away on ber course across the sea, Noel Stanwood said in a low earnest tone to his faithful friend and lieutenant: ‘* Now, Jack, we are on aship that will win us fame and fortune, and strike a blow for our loved land. «Once I have landed these British officers and men, and the Red Rebel, as I was called | in the military court, shall be heard of from sea to sea, from land to land.” And this, from the lirs of Noel Stanwood, was no idle threat. CHAPTER XXXVI. PEARL LEARNS A SECRET. Tue brig had sailed, and Ethel, Pearl and Mr. Stanwood were to be in suspense until they heard the result of the going of the American cruisers after her. Several days after the departure of the | brig the frigate returned from her run to | Halifax, with Paul Revere on board, and Pearl went to her home to be with her father. Of the mysterious disappearance of the butler she said nothing to compromise her- self, so that Mr. Revere considered also that the Press Gang had picked up his butler, and discovering him to have been a thief, and a spy upon his household, he considered ita very good riddance. The papers found in his room from Frank Farley, paying him money and giving him certain written instructions, Pearl had kept ; future reference, except one, with po : signatures, stating that he was to keep his eye upon Paul Revere and his daughter, which was proof enough of the butler being & Spy- Mr. Revere reported that the frigate, when coming in, off Marblehead, had seen three vessels flying the American flag, a brig and two schooners, seemingly cruising to- gether, but of course they were not foolish enough to venture within range of a broad- side of a large vessel. The day after the arrival of her father he made earnest inquiries after the prisoner, Noel Stanwood and Lord Erskine. Pearl told him of the sailing of the brig, and more, she said: ‘‘ Lord Erskine bas promised to me his in- fluence with the king, father, to get a pardon for Noel, and I believe that he will get him set free.” “T think not, for the king will not pardon on American at this time, you may be cer- n. “But when will the earl return?” “ The earl?” | ‘Yes, Lord Erskine is, now, that his father is dead, Earl of Edmondfield, and
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4 ; VS a & ee } Q en { , ina Bh € my « oe Yon! % f i. (aa » 1 wets bate Bost ba 4 wo i 23 \ +s ee * a ae ir? + r ny. : F b a | a . hi a “ki ee 7 “a ~ by, Jal ee ; a fia) x Pe’, ni ‘yas ie * aay o sf a i » +70 4 me 's a —-eginning to tell upon them, ut one day the frigate British King came into port with a schooner in tow. The schooner was nearly dismantled and badly scarred up, and under the British flag, union down in derision, floated the American flag. Phe schooner was the American privateer Spray, which had run in by night into a coast harborage, to discover in the morning the British frigate ly half a mile from her, the crew busy getting out spars ashore. -She'attempted to fly, but the frigate gave her a broadside, and the schooner became almost a wreck. ; When the commander of the British King came ashore at the club that evening, he had a piece of startling intelligence to make known, to the effect that the captain of his prize informed him that he, with four other vessels, had been lying in wait for the British brig Sea Shadower, and had run ber into a triangular trap, from which she could not have escaped; but, upon the brig offering no resistance, they ran down to her and were invited aboard, io discover that she had shipped in Boston a crew of picked men, — three- fourths of whom had been Americans. "These had seized the brig, placed the prisoner, Noel Stanwood, in command, and hois ing the ‘‘Rebel” flag had gone on a cruise, or a piratical expedition, the captain of the British frigate could only guess which. f P - What the captain of the schooner, Spray, had told him about Noel Stanwood’s. treat- | cers to aid you | The Shadow Silver Ship. 23. ment of the officers he seemed to forget, as he said that Captain Caldwell had been placed in irons, and doubtless the rest of the officers, while the American would doubtless vent his spite upon the brig’s commander, as he had been known to be his foe. With this startling news to tell, Paul Revere went home earlier than was his wont from the club, and Pearl heard it from her father’s lips. She could scarcely sleep that night for joy, and after breakfast hastened over to the Stanwood cottage, bursting int@ the room where Mrs. Stanwood sat with her face radiant, while she cried: “Oh, Ethel! oh, Mrs. Stanwood! Noel is free!” ‘Then, as sodn as she could collect her breath she told the news, and after a long talk together it was decided that Mrs. Stan- wood should go down to the military prison and endeavor to see the captain of the American privateer, Spray. Tbe girls anxiously awaited her return, and the moment that they saw her face they knew that she had been successful. Shd had been refused by the commandant, but Prince Paul Revere coming along had, through his influence gained her access, pro- viding a guard should be present. The captain bad greeted. her pleasantly, said the fortunes of war were against him, but that in a small schooner surrendering to ‘a frigate there was no dishonor. He had run into the little harbor for new spars, and had found the frigate there, pilot- ed in by some traitor American. Then he told of orders received from | General Washington, to go in search of. the Sea Shadower, and what had followed, meeting the American privateer, Spitfire, Captain Dale, and the boarding of the brig, and meeting Captain Noel. Stanwood, Lord Erskine, and Lieutenant Bonair, as also the newly-appointed officers of the brig under her new flag, Jack Ross and Dick Nor- cross. Just why Captain Caldwell had been placed in coo he made known, and also that it was Captain Stanwood’s intention to land the British officers and men somewhere upon the English Coast, after which he would cruise as an American privateer. With this news the three were delighted, and yet there was a shadow spon their joy, for they knew that if Noel Stanwood was captured by a British vessel he would be hanged. And more, he was daily in danger of death upon the high seas, and then Frank Farle in a large brig, well armed and manned, h gone to sea and might catch Noel with his iminished crew, Still, he was for the present free, and that was a cause of thanks, though as yet no news had come of the arrival of Lord Erskine in England, with the others of the brig who had been officers and seainen of the king. And there bad been ample time to dak even had the brig been a slow vessel. So it was that the news spread over the town, the Americans, rejoicing, the English rulers in a rage, and the commander of the British forces branded Noel Stanwood in a ‘‘ Special Order,” as ‘‘ The escaped convict and Red Rebel of the Revolution.” CHAPTER XXXIX. " A TIMELY WARNING, - burst upon the brig Sea Shadower and sent her flying on her course across the ocean. ~ _ Lord Erskine and Lieutenant Bonair, with several of the middies, approached Noel Stanwood, and the former spoke for all and said; ‘Captain Stanwood, we are anxious to help you out, until you get your officers ap- pointed and crew orga ‘et and will do regular watch duty on the brig on the ‘tun over, only asking to be rclieved if you should attack a king’s ship, should you meet one in your run across, . ie 4 ces _‘“We do this as in duty bound for the kindness shown us, and also for the safety of the vessel, knowing that with but two offi- . rou you cannot do yourself or your vessel justice, “* We await your answer, sir.” a z 7% a i ‘* And shall have it at once, Lord Erskine, for I accept with thanks the generous offer of yourself and friends, and feel that my offi- cers will be glad to yield place to yourseif and Lieutenant Bonair as seniors, as it will the better instruct them in their duties.” “Gentlemen, please hold yourselves ready for duty, and in return permit me to say that I will not raise the American colors over the brig until you are safely Janded in Eng- | land, nor will I engage in any action, or capture any prize while you are my guests aboard.” “‘We certainly could not ask so much, and you are most generous, sir, and we thank you,” and with this Lord Erskine, | Lieutenant Bonair and four middies reported for duty, both Jack Ross and Nick Norcross gladly yielding them precedence under the circumstances. Through the night the storm raged, but it had swept around and was favorable to the brig, ‘and she went flying along on her course. When the sun rose the next morning no colors went up to the peak of the brig, and the men made no comment, for they under-- stood the situation pertectly. In the cabin were Lord Erskine, Lieu- —— Bonair and Stanwood, and the latter said: “*It is not my wish to be harsh to Captain Caldwell, gentlemen, and Lieutenant Bonair, as Lord Erskine’s relations with bim are strained, | beg you to go to him and say that if he will give his parole to make no trouble, I will be glad to drop the past and’ entertain him as my guest.” This message Bonair bore to the captain. He found him in an ugly mood, chafing under his irons, and refusing to taste the food placed before him. . ‘Well, sir, you have come to show me that if I was not true tomy king, I could also enjoy the freedom of this pirate ship,” he said, savagely. ‘*Captain Caldwell, I never insult a pris: oner, nor strike @ man when he is down, so I make reply to you, sir, only that you hav- ing lost your ship are no longer my com- mander, so I beg you to be more choice in your language, as you would not dare, under other circumstances, all things being equal, to cast the reflection that I was disloyal to my king, because I, not like you, are not in irons. “But I came not to quarrel, sir, but to bear a message.” “‘From whom?” ** Captain Noel Stanwood, sir.” “ Captain? You mean Mister Stanwood, or Sailor Noel Stanwood?” _ ‘** No, sir, I mean just what I say, Captain Noel Stanwood sends you a message.” ‘* Well, what says the pirate chief?” “That he has no desire to be harsh with you, and, if you will give your parole to cause no trouble on board the ship he wil! be glad to free you and ask you to accepta berth in the cabin as his guest.” _ “ He is kind, in my own ship! but I refuse, sir, L refuse, and so tell the devilish pirate.” “Ah! you prefer to be a martyr, to tell our king how much you suffered for ove of him; but, Captain Caldwell, I fear you will not find officers or men who will uphold your course. For your sake I am sorry you will not be reasonable, and I bid you good-morning.” — ’ The irate officer gnashed his teeth with fury as the lieutenant left, and instantly re- . ... | gretted that he had not yielded, for the irons THe storm which had been threatening, | uel , were galling to him. “No, I will stand it; and my king will ap- preciate my sufferings, while I can make out a case against Erskine Enders, Bonair and any officer who has accepted favors from this pirate Stanwood.” 5 Aad Such was his determination. _ But when Lieutenant Bonair returned and reported the result of his visit, Lord Erskine said with sarcasm: SHE EE gait 5 He is playing the martyr to hurt the rest of us.” . et a “Then his fog pau Sans at once,” was the stern reply of Noel Stanwood, and he called for Jack Ross. Tr om ie **Mr, Ross, J wish rou to go and release Captain Caldwell f his eet Say to him that there isa Sw pi in the cabia, nother in the ward-room, anda hammock in the steerage at his service, so to take his.
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et. BS 2 t choice, but that I shall be more pleased if he will come into the cabin. Tell him that I demand no parole from him, unless he desires to give it of his own free w il; but that if he causes irouble with his. brother officers, my officers or any of the crew of this ship, or in- sults me or one of my officers on duty, that I shal] hang him to the yard-arm five minutes after he is guilty of the offense.” ‘“*By the Lord Harry, but Captain Stan- bs wood is in deadly earnest this time,” said Jack Ross to his friend Dick, who was officer of the deck, , Then he went upon his errand. a Captain Caldwell scowled at him as he en- tered his confined quarters; but Jack Ross was not the man to mind that, so took a seat Ba" and drew the keys of the irons from his ie pocket, ‘‘ What do you mean todo, Sir Mutineer?” savagely said the British officer, ‘Captain Caldwell, I bear to, you a mes- sage from Captain Stanwood, with an order from him to take off your irons.’ ‘*T care to receive no message from him, : and I ask not to be set free.” en) Without heeding this interruption, Officer ‘ Ross continued: “Captain Stanwood told me to say to you that there are three quarters at your service, in the cabin, where he would be most glad to have you come, in the ward-room, or a ham- mock in the steerage, at your own will. ‘Whichever you are pleased to accept, will please him; but should you, now that I have unlocked your irons, insult any officer 5 , of this ship, seek a quarrel with any of your a brother officers, or create any trouble among ‘ the men, he will hang you to the brig’s yard- arm five minutes aftér such offense is com- i ; mitted. ie ; . ‘‘You are free, sir, and if you will per- / ' mit me to say so, I beg to tell you that Noel Stanwood, as you should know, is not.a man to trifle with, or make an idle threat,” Bae With this Jack Ross walked away, and “ee ordered the marine on guard to no longer ire ‘old watch over the British captain. ie Caspar Caldwell stood in silence a moment, 3 and then, as though having made up his i! mind to ‘his course, he smiled in a sinister, wicked way and walked on deck. He cared not to be thrown in companion- on ship with Stanwood, Lord Erskine, or Brain- ra: ard Bonair, so took up his quarters in the ae ward-room, where officers Ross and Nor- cross, besides his own comrades, had state- rooms. And it was with no pleasure that his junior officers accepted the honor done them. Upon deck he neither looked toward Stan- wood, nor spoke to Lord Erskine or Lieu- tenant Bonair, and yet with all others ap- peared to be very friendly. “That fellow means mischief, Bonair,” said Lord Erskine one day, referring to Cap- 4 tain Cald well, whom he had noticed to be fh. rowing very familiar with the junior offi- Pee eee @ e cers of the brig when under his command. ni **T have observed his actions, my lord, ae anda ree with you.” tee ou had better have one of the officers hee warn him, for Stanwood meant all that he said.” “Yes, and Stanwood knows every act of bis, oe Caldwell is bl.nd enough not to ar T will ae Percy to give him a hint, and also will I hint to those young fools’ that they are toying with the end of a repe,” and Lieutenant Bonair went off in search of Junior Lieutenant Percy. ct . CHAPTER XL. A DUEL AT 8EA, te Noel Stanwood knew that 0 Caspar Caldwell meant trouble, he di er _ show it by any act or word. e had the crew show the respect to the British captain, due his rank, waenever they met bim on deck, and he would also salute bs, him, eee in silence, when they passed | . ~~ each other, ie oe _ The brig was makin od progress, and ne es Erskine b pt. intel a ase on the } of the En aaah channel as the best fete to land them all, and in this selection had been g The Shadow Silver Ship. brig into the midst of a hostile fleet when she should venture into English waters. Between himself and Stanwood the warm- est friendship had sprung up, and he had told the young privateer captain that he loved his sister, and hoped one day to return and claim her hand, but this, of course, was to be held as a secret between them. He hai also given Stanwood warning that he was sure that Caldwell was up to mis- chief, but the American made no reply and smiled blancly. True to his promise he had not hoisted the flag of the American States, and he ‘had avoided every vessel met with at sea, Lord Erskine and the other officers who had volunteered to serve on the brig, did their duties well, and Stanwood had selected a third officer, or lieutenant from among his men, with four junior officers to serve as midshipmen, Tne warrant officers had also been ap- pointed, ani the very best men selected for the posts. These were all learning their exact duties, while the crew were drilled daily and the discipline of the vessel became so thorough that Lord Erskine said that it was not ex- celled on board of a single frigate in the. Royal Navy. One night, when nearing the English Coast, Lieutenant Percy was on duty as officer of the deck, and by a coincidence every officer on watch at the time was an Englishman. Lord Erskine and Bonair had retired, and Noel Stanwood had also gone into the cabin and was supposed to be asleep, | The men on watch happened also to be the Englishmen who had joined the brig’s crew after her seizure by the Americans, and, whether accident or design, it did look as though matters were looking very bad for those in command, should the Britishers on board attempt to seize the vessel. Soon out of the ward-room came a cloaked form and advancing toward the young lieu- tenant, asked in a low tone: “Percy, are you still a fool?” **No, Captain Caldwell, I am simply just, and true to my pledged word,” ‘*Bah! a parole given under force and of no account.” ‘Lord Erskine and ‘Lieutenant Bonair do not so consider it, sir,’ ** They are as great fools as you are. You still refuse, then?” ‘* I do, sir, and as an officer on duty, unless you refrain from tempting me to dishonor myself, I shall call for Captain Stanwoed, ** Do so, for I wish to speak to him—go, and ask him to come on deck.” In surprise the young officer turned, and as he ‘did soa stunning blow was dealt him and he fell to the deck, “i the same time Captain Caldwell called ou ‘ To, British bulldogs! to the deck, for the brig is ours!” There was a rushing of many feet, cries, oaths, struggling, yet not a shot was fired, as a stream of men poured out of the ward- room, steerage and hatches and Captain Caldwell sprung forward to make fast the companion way. He started back in alarm as two bayonets met him, and he heard the stern command: ‘* You are a prisoner, sir!” He drew his ney and pulled trigger, but the powder flashed in the pan.* Then he turned to find Captain Noel Stan- wood on deck, and the crew going to quar- ters. ‘‘My God! I have been betrayed,” he groaned, ‘*No, sir, you have simply been under watch, and the drug you supposed put in the men’s food at supper was not dangerous, bein Bat ti the men pretended to be overcome by it, as did my men in ward-room and steerage, and you, with seven brainless fools hind hold rank as king's midshipmen, and enty men who. believed that they could ee the ship, a tay them to go free, plotted to tuke her. ‘Lieutenant Percy suffered because he was too honorable to jan you, Pe I am glad to see that he was mere-y stunne “ Now, Yaptain Caspar patent I should "Sia theo te flintlock only were used.— va fi k firearms only * d, not caring to run the Tus A : carry out my threat and hang you, yes, and every one who joined in your plot; but in- stead I wil] put your allies in irons, and you, sir, I will give a chance fer your life, for I chi allenge you to a mortal combat. on this dec kK. ** You have boasted that had you been my adversary instead of Lieutenant Brule, you would have killed me, and you pride your- self upon your skill with the sword, “Take your own weapon, sir, and by the battle-lanterns we will settle the quarrel be- tween us,” and the Red Rebel faced the British officer with a look that showed the duel should end the life of one of them then and there. Caspar Caldwell was almost crushed by his failure. He had believed his success assured, and yet in the moment of seeming triumph he had met with failure, Officer Jack Ross had played his part well, ; for the moment that the English crew be- i lieved they were masters of the deck, and went below to iron the supposed unconscious Americans, they had been seized, and in an instant found themselves in irons, 3 So it had been in the ward-room and steer- Be a age, and when Lord Erskine and Lieutenant Bonair, all unconscious of trouble until aroused by rushing feet, came on deck, Noel Stanwood was master of the situation and, they heard all that he said to the crestfallen Englishman, ‘Tf you mean, sir, that if I kill you I shall receive’ my vessel back, ladly will I meet you in mortal combat,” fairly hissed Caspar Caldwell. ‘I did not mean that, sir, but lam not going to be particular about -trifles, so will grant it as you wish, so get ready, sir, as I oe. ay know Lieutenant Bonair will act for you, and Officer Ross for me. : ‘‘T am now ready, permit me to add,” and ~ a the battle-lanterns were brought and placed ae so as to wholly illumine the brig’s quarter- ec Captain Caldwell was_not long in prepar- ing, Pei soon faced the Red Rebel, sword in han At a word from lieutenant Bonair the blades. crossed, and the scene was a pictur- esque and thrilling one in the =p ag of the British officer and the Red Rebel for mas- ter it some of the crew had felt anxious, and he the mutineer officers hopeful at the compact ion made by Noel Stanwood with Captain Cald- Petes" well, the views of both at once changed, for ae they saw that the American was playing i with the British commander. eo i In a minute after the sword of the Red a Rebel crossed that of the British captain, the ae latter was disarmed, Stanwood's foot upon Mor : the blade and the point of bis weapon at the a oe heart of Caspar Caldwell. vig “I will not kill you, sir, but you go ee into irons, and I will so. land you upon aes. your native land,” afd Noel Stanwood turned away, when all expected to see him drive his sword through the Englishman's breast. er In an instant Captain Caldwell was seized are heavily ironed, while Lord Erskine ee sai “Stanwood, my noble friend, your pa- Pipe tience passeth ‘all understanding. for I would have surely killed him we { been in your nae lace.” ; ee As J would also have done, ” Lieutenant ag Bonair added. ¢ Two nights after, the brig landed the party on the English Coast, and, as he had threat- ened, though he freed the others, Caspar Cald- well was left in heavy irons, and the keys were taken away in the Sea ower, y when, Rebel Rover of tl American flag, she set ay sail as a Rebel Rover of the Revolution. CHAPTER XLI. CS a THE RED REBEL’S RED WORK. _ ease = Wuen che spring drew uear, General — Washington began to press his lines closer and closer around Boston. ab ea vA Provisions had become so scarce that there i ¥ was absolute suffering, and when at last 2 Washington threw a force upon Dorchester Heights and erected works, Lord Howe had no alternative but to give uptryingtudee mH fend the place any longe Eseiy } nid not dislodge the Finding that he c Ph isep ct from Dorchester Heights, and » ee at sas f
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The Shadow Silver Ship. 25 ce that their guns commanded the city, he was PS pal yarn iy aa that your old enemy, Frank | fleet going out, was dispatched by Lord hi : : ; 3 “ . a | driven aboard his ships, and with many | “% 9) cathe in truly & very fine vessel, and fitted out | Howe in chase of the American cruiser. a families started for Halifax, thus evacuating ‘i Boston, and being thereby defeated by Gen- eral Washington. News had come in during the first months : of the new year of 1776, of the career of a wonderful brig that was preying upon Eng- lish commerce, and a vessel that arrived F bearing paroled prisoners. reported that the B og craft was known as the Red Rebel, a nick- Lom name which the British had given to her at his own expense, and bringing in several poems = the king, he was made a captain in the yal avy. éd rage at discovering your brother’s escape nearly threw him into a fever, but he has promised his Majesty to capture the Red Rebel for him, and those are my instructions, too, from my king; so you see Noel will have three of us especially after him, not to speak of those who will always be anx- ious to haul down the Red Rebel’s colors. ‘Tf he is to be taken, I rather hope the honor will fall to me, for various reasons which, if you cannot guess, ask cur sweet friend, Miss Pearl Revere, to of her, This vessel carried a heavy armament, sailed like the wind, was fully manned, and was known as the ‘‘ Merciless.” She drove the Red Rebel from the start, which was off Halifax Harbor, and the admiral, seeing her gain upon the fleet American, though slowly, regretted that he had not sent the Merciless at once in chase The night was coming on as the two “a captain, guess for you.” dropped the land from sight, and the Merci- i The brig Red Rebel was flying the Ameri-] . guch was the letter which Ethel Stanwood | less was steadily gaining, though the Ameri- et can flag at her peak, and the private colors | received upon Christmas eve,.and she could | C82 appeared to be sailing her very_best. a of her commander at the fore—a blood-red | not but admit it was the best ‘‘ Christmas Slowly the British. vessel gained, until a Re, flag, in the center of which were a pair of gift” she had ever received. couple of hours after dark she was in range an) broken manacles in black. Mrs. Stanwood wept tears of joy-over it, | and opened fire with her bow- pivot. It was an odd design for a flag, but it spoke volumes. ’ The news of the Red Rebe! having abroad , hy as a foe to Great Britain reached our home in | Boston before it did any other. we A dispatch ship arrived from London, and a a letter came thereby addressed to Paul idl Revere. ; ; ma Upon breaking the seal Paul Revere dis- a covered a letter inclosed bearing the ad- tae. dress: i “MISS ETHEL STANWOOD, a ig | “REFUGE CorTTaGE, light at the fame the Red Rebel, her lover, was making for himself Soon after news began to arrive from abroad, and it became very evident that the Red Rebel was spreading terror along the whole English Coast. It was known that the Bulldog brig-of- war, under command of Oaptain Erskine Enders, Earl of Edmondfield, had sailed in search of the Red Rebel. It was also known that the king had made Frank Farley a captain in the Royal Navy, and sent him after the Red Rebel. Then it became known that Captain Cas- her decks. the waters. down to board. The British were wild with shot must have done terrible damage. She fired several more shots, and bore and Pearl clapped her little hands with de-| _ The American replied, but his shot fell short, and it was another hour before his guns reached the Englishman. But the British craft had done the Red Rebel no damage, until at last a shot struck As if by magic, she turned and lay upon joy, for the But suddenly a red light was burned upon the American, illumining his decks Jike day, and her men were seen stripped to the waist, ca 8 : “ Boston, | par Caldwell was in command of a fleet, | 2nd at their guns. ¥ a “‘ Kind courtesy of . splendidly-armed vessel, and had the one | And more, she was now under fightin i aim in view, the capture and hanging of | Sails, began to move through the waters, an tia ‘Miss Peart Revere.” the Red Rebel. sent a broadside, a raking fire, upon the Mer- ciless. And yet March came and Lord Howe was evacuating Boston, but no report had yet been received of the capture of Noel Stan- wood and his vessel, though rumors were rife of the damage he was doing to British commerce. And also it became known that the strange, weird craft, the Shadow Silver Ship, had not been lost, for once more had she appear- ed in the offing off Boston, in broad daylight, ae This letter was given to Pearl to deliver, : _andshe hastened to the Stanwood cottage With it. It was Christmas Eve, and better news could not have been received, to relieve the a suspense of Mrs, Stanwood and the two iy ae young girls. ; mm ‘It was from Lord Erskine Enders, Earl of Edmondfield, and it was very interesting decks of the Briton. and the effect was appalling. Every gun seemed to have been aimed by a dead shot, for two guns were dismounted, the bulwarks gashed terribly, a topmast shot away, and a dozen men lay dead upon the Quickly the American bore down upon the Englishman, pouring in a terrible fire, Nearer and nearer she came, until the roar me te reading. » PY ; J rd, distancing ev ft | of the guns of the two combatants were ie a The letter began by. giving the story of the atone shestice thes, aon me ee awful, and heard by the distant fleet at of GI seizure of the a y its American crew, the anchor in Halifax, all felt that at last the ma | pes epreungen’ os oe] Stanwood captain, and CHAPTER XLII Red Rebel was to be taken. ar” = een a 2 of Spiilse’ Wb the witant etbOMtD XO Poi?. Nearer at, nearer gerne tee ayes er | Lorp Hows was permitted by Washington | MOVINS Tapidiy, avoiding broadsides, an young sailor, and ended by hoping to be in America before very long and once more in the king’s service, while it said: “ When we were landed that night upon British soi one to his threa tain Stanwood left Cald- well in irons, and carried the keys with him, “It wastwo days before we could get him freed from them, and when I reached London I placed the to sail from Boston, with his soldiers, his navy, and the sympathizers of the king. The fleet moved out of Boston Bay ma- jestically, and as the prows were turned to the northeast a white sail appeared, com- ap ty of an inlet down toward Cape Cod. The vessel was a brig, and armed, and at with a fire that was most deadly streaming from the muzzles of her guns. Nearer and nearer, until at last she was laid alongside of the Englishman, and a tal} form, wearing a glistening boarding helmet, leaped upon the decks of the Merciless. ‘Boarders, follow me!” had been his cry, oe ontiBut though ait Klodess to me the King was in a | the penk fluttered the flag of the infant ma: | 424 he had been obeyed mith such an irre- a rage with your Brother; — ey Caldwell’s course | tion, and at the fore a blood-red flag with a tae ark Gokoba: “snes tt A ae ee |S yey right, and looked upon him as a martyr. i : ‘n- 4 be iat 1E eat, ne ie was, news brought in mp dispatches | D#it of broken manacles in black in it. edniend. The brig sailed along in majestic style, and unheeding the frigate consort in the rear of the fleet of merchant craft, swept by and sent a shot at the outpost guards of the squadron. She dipped her flag toward Boston, fired a salute of thirteen guns, and then ran close in toward a British sloop-of-war and sent a shot from ‘a large pivot-gun mounted forward, crashing into the enemy’s decks. os he guard-vessels turned upon her, but she was too fleet for them, and her long range Gives saenee damage where she escaped eir fire. roved to his that he would not be able to old Boston pe longer, and that his Colonies were in great danger of being lost to him, “Then too the loss of the brig was a ReAy ce, as the king had built his hopes upon the Sea Shadower being able to run down the lost Silver Ship, and thus solving that mystery of the sea, ; “Since then, however, word has been received that a boat wes picked up peering the name of the Wind Witch, and with two dead bodies in it. and a half-written statement that the Silver Ship hac Is have since reported that the p is still afloat. terms,—Have at you, sir!” as it were, her great speed enabling her to sail at will around the fleet, which could not but go at a slow pace, with its numerous vessels. That those on the fleet might be at no loss as to who their foe was, the signals ran up “> the brig, until all gazing upon her “THE RED REBEL.” 2 To Mish coast 1 an uproar, and between the whole ng " in Da Jones, English- ebts, : men escaped, taliated upon the British by land- eevets edn t and giving Us a taste of fire and sword as some of our cruel naval officers did on the n shores, “ eareer will not meet an end tobe dante hak dete: my friend, Noel is amply Ss had RA hie i 19) 9 able to takmanrerce and bis sbip. _The fleetest vessels of the squadron were “You mAh coe fo. ear of pie a pn ayy dispatched after the daring chai: and vet #60, in command o ido ag oh syne ded she | With no other result than to sail for nothing of my queen, and you may a ot ge i : hi eb Oe guess who ei nd so it went on during the sail to Hali- | arrived in Boston to sprea * yt Py ill give Bb vad wey nb ly eens fax, the British fleet was shadowed ‘all the | Red Rebel Gis to sea 19-mor- : eh = a any command also ated, Boston is our port.” as he sailed. bis ot a vessel that carried women or chil- uh The speaker was the man in the helmet, and as he spoke he crosse lass of Captain Caldwell with his own, But the terms were not equal, for the Merciless was the larger sbip, carried four guns and fifty more men, and Captain Cald- well was not a match for Noel Stanwood, the Red Rebel, who cut him to the deck with a mighty blow of his cutlass, and then with his own hands hauled down the colors of The two vessels lost sight of each ot astorm the next night, ¢ “Now, Caspar Caldwell, we meet upon what I will call, for courtesy’s sake, equal istening the cut- : Great Britain. upon the eoast by night. So it went on through the night, the daring is ss “Hig Gove certainly must be greatly grati- | yegs ne hadow! Thank Heaven the brig is not much fied at jeivh record he is m . for be has | * el haunting the enemy, shadowing them hurt, and they fired at random, so my brave “But get on the prize, Jack, and follow, or we will have the whole British fleet upon us. ‘Repair as you sail, and if we ge separ- With these orders, as soon as the prisoners were in irons and a prize crew put on board under Lieutenant Jack Ross, the Red Rebel headed oe saat also repairing damages her ip the Mercile d the fame of the | The next night flashes like the firing of W as | captain, an c f: ut m the sea, and of ; rig of tonnage and well armed and | Gren or was not armed, was fired upon by they grew. brigh ional A. bye se be gota an .| Sle tg altered from & noted merchant racing beetle only those craft that could 4 0 ggg ment unti # Re it could be — SeiPyand it Caldwell cannetvould warn him to steer | GCs ant on nti] et last @ hricatiecac: | een py the. Watchers, and they were many, Same any Su ey | So it went on until at last a brig-of-war, t two were ¢ in the fiercest : the Hed Rebel, in spite ‘of his far eresier | one that had arrived in Boston to meet the oF coopias isiie: engaged sdembaie: wee
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The Shadow Silver Ship. For more ‘than an hour the fight raged, the vessels coming nearer and nearer together, ‘until at last the flashes of the guns seemed to be commingled, _ Then the distant roar ceased, and the red flashes were seen no more, darkness hiding all from view. And anxious hearts were in Boston that night, for it was reported that one of the combatants was the Red Rebel, seen lying in wait near Nahant in the afternoon for some foe, And after her action with the Merciless, and with her crew lessened by those sent on the prize under Jack Ross, it was feared that the Red Rebel had more than met his match. But at last the darkness lifted from the sea, the sun rose clear, and coming up the ‘bay were seen two vessels. One was the Red Rebel and she was in the "va a, The other was an unknown craft, larger than the brig, and her British ensign was beneath the Stars.and Stripes. Both the vessels showed that they had been in a fierce combat, and the Britisher looked as though he had been badly worsted, As they were saluted by the Castle the Red Rebel signaled his name, and also: ‘*Have as prize British brig-of-war Relent- less, Captain Frank Farley, who is mortally wounded.” nt & An hour after the anchors were let fall, and Captain Noel Stanwood went to head- uarters and reported his capture of the erciless, and the death of Captain Casper Caldwell, and the capture of the Relentless and mortally wounding of her captain, Frank Farley, formerly a Boston merchant. From there he went to the cottage on the hill, and the welcome that he received, I leave for the kind reader to imagine, for my pen is incapable of doing a description of the meeting justice... After spending some time with his mother and sister, Noel Stanwood wended his way to the Revere Mansion, where he knew that some one awaited to greet and honor him. | He had been already told by Ethel that Prince Paul Revere was an honored friend of the American commander, having in re- ality never been loyal to the king, but ap- parently so, and if correspondence with the patriot leaders all the while. But, though this was the belief, Ethel hinted that Paul Revere had switched over to the Americans when he saw that in cling- ing to the British he wis going down with a a po Sea Noel Stanwood was perfectly willing, how- ever, to give Paul Revere’s loyalty the benefit of the doubt, for his sweet daughter's sake. He was met at the parlor door by Pearl, and here too the curtain must be lowered to shut out the scene of joy. At last the lovers were broken in apon by the arrival of Paul Revere. . He greeted the now famous Rebel Rover quietly, but with no enthusiasm. But Noel was not to be rebuffed, and boldl told Mr. Revere of his deep love for his daughter, and that she had promised to be- come his wife at an early day, with her Sather’s consent ! - Then did Paul Revere turn upon the young sailor, and his answer came in these “words: ec Wii ss “Captain Noel Stanwood, you ask for my consent for you to claim my daughter as our wife, ie -“T shall give it, sir, only when you return to Boston with the Shadow Silver Ship as your prize. “Now, sir, you have my answer, so if you love her, go and win her hand!” ' _ “To win sucha prize, sir, I would struggle against the impossible, sir, and I go to know my fate,” and with a farewell to Pearl, who ‘was in tears, the Red Rebel left the mansion, _ Ten days after, and without seeing Pearl again, he set sail, _ The Red Rebel had gone to capture the Silver Ship—a Shadow of the Sea! Miya) 1A 4 i} aa : : vat Ds CHAPTER XLIII. ~ 4) “A CRIME ATONED. atte the two Red Re 4 SUE bh) og SRO ee , 3 Am 1 prisoners found on board Cte Weteioke and Helentes, the bel was manned with her full com- plement, and no craft ever sailed from port better fitted for a desperate cruise than did the vessel over whose destinies Noel Stan- wood held sway. Ignoring ali efforts to make a hero of him, the young sailor had gone on board his vessel and devoted himself to work, and so it was that ten days after the alternative given | him by Paul Revere, he sailed from Boston Bay in search of the Shadow Silver Ship. People. wondered, but said that he had gone to scek greater fame. His two valuable prizes, turned over to the Government, were being fitted out as cruisers, and with the Americans in Boston, an army was there to protect it, and the forts were strengthened to beat off any force that might attempt to attack the town, A few days after the sailing of the brig Red Rebel, Frank Farley sent for Paul Re- pr for he had been told that he could not ive. Paul Revere did not go to see him until a second and more urgent summons came. Then he passed through the grounds and éntered the mansion adjoining his own, which had once been the home of tbe Stan- woods, and where Frank Farley dwelt, and had been carried upon his coming into port wounded and a prisoner, for the surgeons had said that he could not live. ‘*You sent for me, Captain Farley?” and Paul Revere seemed strangely nervous. | “Yes; sit close, for 1 am dying, and we must be alone.” Then he continued: ’ ‘*T wish to review my past, our past, Paul, for I desire to atone for the evil I have done, You loved the mother of Noel Stanwood, as i did, and together we made a plot to get rid of him. It well might have succeeded, but he escaped death -at the hands of the man who was to have killed him, although vou |- paid for the work. He came back. just as you were about to steal from him the woman e loved, and who loved him, aud you never forgave him. You pretended to, but you never did. As we were both in that crime together, my lips were sealed; but I know that you were the one who prevented me from marrying Ethel Noel, for you got me taken off to sea.ona long voyage, by drug- ging my Wine—nay, do not deny it, for [ know, and it matters nothing now. Butt got my revenge, for the wife you recently married; you know, I was the cause of her leaving you, she and her child, I cared for her for | ges while you searched in vain for her, and. then married that Cuban_ heiress, the mother of your daughter Pearl. Your first wife died when your son was twelve — of age, and then, after [ had buried er, I sent the boy to sea. That was the last Lever saw of him until he crossed my path as first lieutenant of Noel Stanwood’s brig. is name is Jack Ross, and a brave, noble fellow he is. To carry out my revenge, I have ar- ranged for him to know his parentage .and that Pearl is his half-sister. And more, I have arranged for Noel Stanwood to know that I did rob his father, that every dollar I have made belongs to the wife, son and daughter of the late Stacey Stanwoud, my partner, I am a rich man, Paul, and, ex- cepting this home, all my wealth is in Eng- land, and it all goes to Noel Stanwood. ‘‘Now, Paul Revere, when I am dead, all this will be known to Mrs. Stanwood, her son and daughter, your son, Jack Ross vere, and your daughter Pearl.” 7 ‘No, no, for God’s sake do not say that I plotted the death of Stacey Stanw to win his wife,” and the strong man trembled with fear and anguish of spirit. _ ‘‘Upon one condition will I hide that which Stacey Stanwood never told even to i wife, that we hired an assassin to ‘kill im,” bakanges FA" OY ‘‘ Name the condition.” _ ar? “That you give the hand of your daugh- ter to Noel Stanwood upon his return.” “Yes, yes, 1 will.” . “ Swear to it!” oe O. > ‘ . reo F Ne 7 cui? “Tf you break your oath I will haunt you, and in some way 1 will make the truth known,” reas A ; ‘‘T will keep my oath, so help me God!” , ake iy I ris Lies ay ps : dad “‘T will gladly acknowl im now.”. _ This, well—now [can ab inp ace whi others.” ‘Who are they?” ‘*Mrs. Stanwood, Ethel and Pearl.” * You would not—”* **No, no, I would only ask them to for- give me,” ‘*T will fetch them at once.” ‘* Do so, for life is fleeting with me. Two hours after Frank Parley was dead, but he had heard from the lips of Mrs. ' Stanwood, Ethel and Pearl that his pasi | crimes were forgiven. And when it became known that he bad left his fortune to the Stanwoods, then pev- ple knew that he had in reality wronged them bitterly. ” CHAPTER XLIV. A HAVENLESS ORAFT. Tur Red Rebel left Boston with an object in view. That object was ‘to win further fame by — solving the mystery of the Shadow Silver ip. Captain Noel Stanwood was a patriot ‘to the very soul; but while looking for prizes he could also search for the mystery which had foiled every one who had attempted its solution. Lieutenaut Jack Ross was his fast friend and adviser, and the two decided that the Shadow must be found. Poor Dick Norcross had died on the deck of the brig, in the battle with Caldwell’s ship, and there were but few of the old crew left, for death had held high carnival upon the deck of the Red. Rebel’s craft, in the bat- tles she had fought. re aE AN But the crew who remained were ready to follow the fortunes of a rising star; they cared not where he might lead. So with a.bundred tried men and true, Stanwood began the most important cruise of his life, to find the Shadow Silver Ship. What he had at stake in her capiure only Jack Ross really knew, and he had said: “If it were to capture the Devil, Captain Stanwood, I would say for such a prize as Pearl Revere, go in avd win, and body, heart, hand and soul I am with you, so now let us find this Specter of the Sea.” The men were as willing for once to drop ; superstitious dread_under such a leader, as was Jack Ross, for Noel Stanwood hid noth- ing from them as to the purpose of his cruise, 7 Taking from a book a description of the weird craft, the number of times she had been seen, and just when and where, and also the Jatitude and longitude where he nad picked up the boat of the Wind Witch, with its two corpses and the half-finished: state- ment that the strange véssel had gone down, Stanwood drew his calculations as to the best place to find the specter brig. He had noted’ that there was no quill pen or ink-horn in the boat with the two dead men, so how could the statement have been written there ? : eh Then, too, the Shadow Silver Ship, had been seen since the finding of that boat. _ Putting all things together the captain and his tieutenant decided to sail for southern seas, and, a few weeks after leaving Boston found him in the waters of the ‘West Indies. Then a calm fell upon the vessel, and for one entire week it lasted, =... One morning, at dawn, while the brig was thus becalmed, the lookout at the mast-head shouted out almost wildly: pL aile's; **Sail ho!” LMP AS Siete Be rc * Tt brought Stanwood on deck, and then in the gray dawn could be seen a vessel cruising toward them. - - Then it put about, as though discovering the breeze and sailed away. For the brig there was not a breath ‘of air, but, when the faa coat wih way seen the stranger had a good bieez@. Boon it came to the Red Rebel and she stood away in chase of ‘what all now saw was none other than the’ ‘Shadow Silver Ship! +. ERROR oy ips Bey or She had gained some five miles start of the American brig, and now was a chance to | see if she was going to drop the phenomensl pre of the seas, as she bad all other, ves- if 80, ryt: nek indeed be a wind witch, or véritable 8 ow ship. Inia Saat eel te: tant) But, a3 the wind increased, it could be 4 hy or z be i me Va tt } ee =e f wi geen 5 PORTE LION ~ elas aN
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PEATE DPT or = The Shadow Silver Ship. _°en224”—uoNnnn™-p>”>0nNr-'-°>]N"]"#71V1”0°:-w0--"!OooHnmnannm”>mn>o>™">—>—«*"."*V.ern0NOEE520—000—0—— mm Dammann neta | ; ; oe Secs Ship pyeemes also to yaw rom her course; and more—she ‘did not ¥ stand up to the wind as well as the Red Eilanetkrasee eT semetaciaie i) ot ety be Be: Rebel, .which was as stiff as a church EELAH, & steeple. ' “ The Sea Witch.” oe Then, as not more than two miles divided the «wo vessels after a chase from dawn ie until sunset, it was seen that the mysterious { my own hand, - &71 Alr-Line Lake the Young Engfneéer. f } mem it | 579 The Chimney Spy; or, Broadway Billy’s Surprise-Pa' ‘If treasure te found on this island, remember Boz The Boe amex f sD ys y’s Surpri rty, 605 William © Broadway; or, The Boy Detective "s Big Inning. 615 Fighting Harry the Chief of Chained Cyclone, 28 Broadway Billy’s Dead Act. 640 Barebrek. Beth, the Centeur of the Circle. 647 Typewriter Tilly, the Merchant’s Ward. This was all, and the search for the treas- BY BRAOCEBRIDGE HEMYNG. ure began, 89 Island Jim; or, The Pet of the Family. It was never found, and no one knows | _91 The Captain of the Club; or. The Rival Athletes, ! craft began to set more satl | where those two hid it after it was taken | 14 Jack Markeway in New York. As the crew. of the Shadow Silver Ship from the depths of the little pool. sz hea mss east up aloft the Red Rebel | Rack to Boston’ sailed the Red Rebel and z=: ‘ : . his prize, and one morning the good people F py, fod! “they” ate” fndeed! “n” skeleton | fot the town found at anchor there the brig crew! of Noel Stanwood. But, nothing daitited: Stanwood held on | But, the Wind Witch; in bad cohdition, d i ee eee we ema ; had been deserted at sea, and had then gone. | $33 Bgd-Gkim Tomi ,or. the Demon's Teall. s Sous : dome beneath the waves. gia kw. neues Noel Stanwood, however, had solved the | mae mystery, and he won his prize, the hand of | $73 Black Buckskin: of. The Masked Mea of Death Canyon, | | 485 Little Lightfoot, the Pilot of the Woods, seen that the Red Rebel was holding her| Two moldering bodies were found. One | BY J. ©. COWDRIOK, own at least. was that of the Wizard—one timesthe Buc- | 8¢¢ stlver-Mask, the Manor o/s REE : a Then, at length, the wind freshened into | caneer Ravel—and the other. was she whO 420 ThenciectivesApprenticas or, A Boy Withee Name. : id half a gale and the brig seemed to,be slowly, | was once known as Clio the Beautiful, and | 424 andy Sam, tue Street Scot, oo a but, oh so slowly, gaining upon the Shadow | later, as Seelah the Sea_Witch.. 467 Dinca Dan, tbe Dai ‘Dude a id Craft. | A paper was found near which read: B06 Kredit falple, the Prince of the eed 506 Iedlight Ralph, : the Road. iW As the wind "finally {ncréased to a gale, the ! | B14 Brea le. a ‘Sea Rebel decidedly gained, as all on board Ip pete oe a was lost, s0 we 324 he nein Detect ee ey.” ig could see. | “I killed him to hayeamy revenge,-and now die by — 4 ae hy Heed abe, iL Dosth Basket. | BY LIFUT. H. D. PERRY, U. 8. N. 76 The Boy Runaway; or..The Buccaneer of the Bay. iso The Sea Trailer: or, A Vow Well Kept. 192 Captain Kit; or, The Mystery of antl Point. BY HARRY WAZARD. 828 Arkansaw Jack; or, The Scourge of the Mines. = +4 Red-Skin Tom; or, The Demon’s Trail. MS until at dawn the wind had gone down to a | five-knot breeze and the sea was'smooth. Poast Revere: The Red Rebel bad eer bs Tae gun, and ) And Jack Ross Revere found a father, and By would not, for he saw that the Shadow Ship one who intended to atone for the past for te ee y was to be solved without. 818 Cimarron Jack, the King-Pin of Rifte-Shote. his devotion to his son y nD tectl -_ e was now only a cable’s length astern, : : Bae es ee ent Feteetivs. | ae | ow e Canyon Pards. L a and steadily gaining. So Noel and Pearl were married, and . BY FREDERICK DEWEY. a . ) / i udind ce Half an hour after he ran alongside, grap- when the war ended Ethel Stanwood | BY HARRY S&T. GEORGE. ‘ welcomed to their home, where she and her | Ba nels were thrown and he leaped on board, $9 Roaring Ralph Rockwood, the r ig tlass in hand, fol.owed by Jack Ross and | other lived with them, Lord Erskine, | 3o Reortns Birney ak edhinge 5) Kentucky. : Bs Pee ~ F y and and she became the bride of the noble.man | _59 Old iickory ¢ v, Pandy Ellie's Sexlp. 7 his men. ' 108 Daring Davy ; or, The Truil of the der Wolf, ae. P : : who, though a foe, had been the truest friend | 166 Hickory Harry ¢ or, The Trepper-Brigade’s Spy, f a And such a sight as met their view. of the Red Rebel of the Revolution. 7% Thunderbolt Tomy or, the Woil-Heraer, BS The Shadow Ship was weather worn, her. | a white sails torn in many places, and her rig: | THE END. | BY J. W. OSBON. ; ie 469 The Rival Giants of Nowhar’. i Ce aay Bn ee oat ee ack : ae ao . agi My h Paes Rs ‘ : é 5ST Old Buckeye, the ae e f t the helm stood a man whopaid no hee g qi! H if D Lib owder , the Boy Miner , i 609 Bolly Dorrit, the \ etersn Detecti : J a ss to the boarders, and upon the deck were CahieS nali-vIMe rary. 620 Littie Ligitning’s Lengue; or, The Mystery oftse Island. *, ; Py two-score men, all listless’ and gazing with | 688 Plucky Pau}, the Boy Prospector, i SNe no amazement at the Red Rebel’s crew. BY BUOKSKIN SAM (Major Sam. 8, Halt.) / BY MAJOR E. L. ST. VRAIN. 4 ; hod A man in officer’s uniform, paced the deck, | 884 Old Roeky's “Boyeess or, Benito, the Young Home | aoe a. us Pedro Sp ths Bar Bante BS iw a telescope under his arm, and to him Noel | | 246 Giant George; or, The Ang’! ofthe Range. | 94 807% Leadville Nic 7 ee Boy Sport q ae 275 Arizona Jack ¢ or, Giant George’s Pard. 812 Redtop Rube, t e Vigilante Prince. Bee. Stanwood addressed himself. oie arin: ‘ot outa ae | $85 Brimstone. Hob, sod His Lightning Horse 4 ee “‘ What brig is this?” | 807 The Biranme Purdy on tints Bese Deak Bente” | $53 Tombstone Tom, the Arisova Boy of“ Sand." ; tae. te 4 . Th 1 ntul: f Taba. { uranrro Dave, t ung (thant ten Teatier, a, lear Havenless Silver Ship, Water | 32 rccning bat the Cudde to he Red wed White eel B71 Kingholt Chris, the ¥mng Hnrd-Shell Detective. B- ite ry re ZPene wr Ape Roensway’s Troe 890 Jaguar J of the Mountuin Mail-Line, D has $44 Th , Rattlesnake, the Tonk: ag oe, | aes «Where from?” SAS Gila Weld a, Bitrate ike Pence . ; Say *« London, then from the Treasure Island.” | HH tt “sieiy the Boy ra dias age oat BY EDWARD 8. ELLIS. (erg is : “ec Where bound ”” 875 0 © hho, the Gree Ao Thro fears aga § Bol uricom sop ~ 3 » sti, tie ; ihe. t. ves of t . ie “Sailing under a’ curse of the Wizard | Boe rit meo am ‘ he Feds ' or, The Deleagered Ranch. 3° Nat Hoda tor, the Fe Fate of the Sioux Captives a iT, Pecan ‘s Ram; An Priest and Seelah, the witch, to enter no |’ 414 Th a ; Groma' Deweers r ca: 98 The eae Wise or, The Enchanted Island. ‘port, never drop. anchor, jo fly from . every, 427 The Thte Tratlerss or, Old Rocky on the Rampage, 182 The Hunted Hunter; or, The Strange Horsem ; Y Lave ca tuted us.’ 442 Bluff BA; or, The Lynx of the Leona. 254 The Half-Blood; or, Tha Panther of the Pinna. i ou ba p 455 Little Lone Star: or, The Belle of the Cibolo, 271 The Huge Hunter; or, The Steain Prairie Man. ‘You havea crew of madmen?” 634 Cache Carl, the Chico Gignt. : -¥ ae aoe ISCELLANEOUS AUTHORS, “a Yes, all are mad, I guess; so a The Av abeese a oy ; MISCE OU , * buceaneer, Belmont, led us to it, and when ‘gor b 9? the Romory't viv The Prince of Mother 4 The Wild-Horse Hunters, By Capt. Meyuo Rela and x $ ce © treot. erick er. we reached the island and looked for the 1Z § The Vaga pe fve; or, Bowery Bo Bob's Boom, 9 Ady rentures of Baron Munchausen,. é ok izard and the it mee ur irre the Street-Boy Detective, 12 Gulliver's Travela. By Dean =wift. 4 treasure of ne kill bas S 400 éLawszert Shadow ¢ or, Luke’s Legacy, 14 Aladdin: or, The Wonderful Lamp. 3, ey killed our captai t:'| 228 dounte Soo ee : . (2 Mostrati \ a cursed u hi plain, 494 wurly Bi ; im the ‘nme aa 4g ) re So it Crusoe. —s Tes: i George Maybrick, and they sent us to sea Bee SHEA pia the, Koone Ferry 18 me RS En a = with no,officers but Belmont, the Buccaneer, 3h Jack 3 Sugicern the Batch Boy Detective: a ‘giactsdilbeidincd ¢ acy “ret ened “oenceieadeus q . Ove 0 “ and their unrelenting curse. Belmont went | B26 North Rives Nat, the Pie Don emaeerit Galrioo. By SW. Piece - 2 mad months ago, and sprung into the sea one | 544 Wrest Keri bettas ofthe Sixth Wari. . 86 The Boy Chewn tot, The Queen of the Arena. By Frank % night, and I was boatswain, but am. captain | 551 Nick Nettle, th Bor shaw “3 8% Ned "Wylde, the Boy Scout. By Texas Jack. or. now. Our men have died of fever, have 2 +4 ne Ja chy as x oma - agahe Deleatl ry f ike a Bey Rifles; or, The Uniergrouod Camp. By Archie -> On e-Liwn ¥ sprung into the sea, and you see all that re- Fe Ste bree Fete “the , ky 95 The Rk e Rival Roverss ot, The Freebooters of the Mlssisaippt a VKeO'= § rt . Haze main of us. You have come upon us, 80 | Ron Wide away Hert, the Street-Steerer 98 Nobi= bin Heed, the Outlawed Rarl: or, The Merry Men of Green- bat shali we do now?” | @t ey Whistling Jacob, the Detective’s Ald. - wood. Prof. Gildersleeve, q whats / oes Buck Bumblebee, the Harlem Hummer. 105 Old Re , the Hunter; or, The Crow Captive. By Captala 7 “Yes, I have come to break this accursed | 689 ® amin Bod ts Ezpreee rnin Ferret ls eye tot’ a9 Hamilion & abees, Abe Cade of beak: By b : er; or, 00} a The . arten Saxe. spell upon you, to save dhe to veut A au nt om . P Ppery Set. 124 Tippy, the NYexan: or, Tle Young Champion, By George : -§ vessel to that island and hang the fiendish bY Wiki 6 ep amenn: 128 The he'Young ® iGO E Pins ios erated. by a beings who have thus aaa ‘you. Come, The Diamond Sport? or, The rts Face of Bed Rock. Sam? or, The Adventures of a Friend! Bor. P ‘a e my men; come, lads all; I break the spell of Rat) Captain sftyster yg duly & 148 Shorr mp Rares ote endless By J. a witchcraft upon mn ou; for I found a boat with | it 1 Daley ares pert rom Dane f nian 227 pene Darrell, ‘Trapper: or, The Groen Ranger of the Yel: f Sia in it, and a statement that | $94 Tron Fern, the Mun of Fire. ve 7 Biss Dick § or, The Yellow Chios V vay eae oe EN 2 - who ad so long fled from theirfellowmen. 28 eran bir rate, ulige Chit Vengontce. a. a Wisnedh . tiie oe oa That after a long talk with Noel Stan- ist The nd or, pgs bod Retribution. The © Scones: a Ryne * wae pe ‘wood in the cabin, the captain of the Shadow | #89 The Goldvsecker Guldet or, The Lnt Mountaly. Bes Wiityeacs rit Dawid Druids RE ah aters, the Bov Fe y H. = : Bhip consented to pilot the Red Rebel to the BY GEORGE WALDo BROWNE. he Dead Detective’ Double. By Gomid Carton Treasure Island, and ten days after, the two EE ATES A New Issue Every Tuesday. “4 vessels dropped anchor, one quiet afternoon, 5 he Bred Iaider: or, The 1 ye ; The Half-Dime Library 1s for sale by all newsdealers, Svo — off the uiax of the Wizard Priest 5 The Miner's o1,Diaay Roth's Dees” cvate per copy, or sent by matt on reeerpi of abx conte each. PEN A boat went ashore and the pane was bt The Golden ue Bleach q ck to the Reseas, BEADLE AND ADAMS, Publishers, ive 7a Dandy deo Roek’s Bival; or, The taunted Mald of Taos, 98 William Street, New York, ? 7 5 P : Pak vid ae ae Pee 7 ™ —. ep . - =
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ine pe EBA REE Wumbers —------- Dime American Young America, ‘Birthday of Washington, lot on the Battlefield, e Italian Struggle, andence, ountry, Equality of Man, ter of the Revo'n, The Fruits of the War, The Sewing-Machine, The Meatery of Lif e ° e, The Ups and Downs, The Truly Great, ly Re and Ris’g, r ur Natal Day, Solferino, ie War the ane of berty. rge of pion} Brigade, After. the Ba {The Glass Railroad, [Case of Mr. Macbeth, \Prof. on Phrenology, Annabel Lee. pe on’s Name, or Boy’s Syren, Union and its Results, Our Country's Future, The Statesman’s Labors, rue Immortality. t the Childless. ‘Weep, Our Country’s Glory, Dnion a Household, The Scholars Bell, oaes Chant, wability of Christianity, ‘Whe True Higher Law, ‘fhe One Great Need, Ship and the Bird, ‘ecumseh’s Speech, Sa eg fae! ae en a op Rashtal Man’ s Story, tenes Por haha Man, ‘oor, : the Eclipse, es of the Law, lang! 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Deborah Lee, Fanaticism Instability of Successful |'Th Agriculture, ~~ [ e, The Fin and Ire he Pr, Music of of abor, loner Gocupation, ee ty ’ Zy “file A Shot at anid Daring Dime Stump Speaker, No. 8. Hon. J. M. Stubbs’ Views | The ese to | Happincet, Local R | Local Fe ie | on the Situation, : on Schwackheimer on nom from feeptiat, s oman’ . , All for a Nomination e Value eet. |. De Old Qoeap,. nearia The Sea,the Sea, the open | Be Sure You are Star an dog. Be gg rel ‘Be of Good Cheer, Stay, Where You Belong, | © Crabbed Folks, (Shrew, e’s What You Make It, | Taming "Masculine "'s My Money, Farmers, four Country mm. Conscience, of cone
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BEADLES:DIME-[IBRARY, Published Every Wednesday. Hach Issue ios athe and Sold at the si bl Price n Price of Ten Cents. No Double Numbers, BUFFALO BILL NOVELS. ; By Colonel Prentiss Ingraham. 994 Buffalo Bill’s Lone Hand. ° * 88 Buffalo Biil’s Marked Bullet. Buffalo Bill’s Life Raffle, Buffalo Bill's Relentless Trail. (964 Buffa’o Biil’s Tnvincibles. 860 Buffalo Bill’s Blue Belt Brigade, 6 Boffale Bill’s Volunteer Vigilantes. 050 Buffalo Bill at Bay, Buffalo Bill’s Block Game. Buffalo Bill s Black Pard, , 927 Buffalo Bili’s Bluff; or, Dusky Dick the Sport. ‘oat Buffalo Bill’s 's Quandary or, Velvet Bill’s Vow. 15 Buffalo Bill the Surgeon-Scout. Buffalo Bill’s League; or, Red Butterfly. Buffalo Bill’s Tangled Trail. Buffalo Bill’s Rough Riders. Baffalo Bill's Secret Ally, 890 Buffalo Bill’s Life-Stake 882 The Three Bills: Buffalo ‘Bill Wild Bill and Band- box Bill; or, The Bravo in Broadcloth, 874 Buffalo ‘ill’s Buckskin Braves. 869 Buffalo Bill’s Road-Agent Round-up, '868 Buffalo Bill’s Death Charm. 1857 Duffalo Bill’s Royal Flush. 851 Buffalo Bill's Double Dilemma, 845 Buffalo Bill’ 's Redskin Ruse, Buffalo Bill’s Best a: 6 Buffalo Bi'l’s Red 812 Buffalo Bil’s Deathknell. 794 Buffalo Bill’s Winning Hand : 787 Buffalo Bill’s Dead Shot. ‘bed 781 Buffalo Bill's ere 777 Buffalo Bill’s Spy Shadower. 789 Buffalo Bill’s Sweepstake. 765 Baffato Bill’s Dozen; or, Silk Ribbon Sam, 761 Buffalo Bill’s Mascot. 757 Buffalo Bill’s Double, 730 Buffalo Bill’s Big Four; or, Custer’s Shadow, 7483 Buffalo Bill's Flush Hand, 739 Buffalo Bill's Blind: or, The Masked Driver, 735 Buffalo Bill and His Merry Men. '731 Buffalo Bill’s Beagles: or, Silk Lasso Sam, 727 Buffalo Bill’s Body Guard. 722 Buffalo Bill on the War- mint 716 Buffalo Bilil’s Scout Sh (0 Buffalo Bill Baffled: or. The fe Degerter Desperado, Buffalo Lill’s Buckskin Brotherhood fa Huffalo Bill’s lind Trail; or, Mustang ng Madge. Buffalo Bill’s Swoop; or, The King of the Mines. The ej ha: bpore or, The Tigress of Texas, (653 Lasso Ki e; or, Buck Taylor in Texas. (649 Batted E Bill s- Chie of Cowboys; or, Rin 3 cae 644 Buffalo Bill’s Bonanza; or, Si ver Circle Knights, a Bil’s Grip; or, “Gath Bound to Custer. Buffalo Bill’s Pi) ge: or, The League of Three. 389 Wild Wits Gold Trail; or, The Deapetake Dozen. 175 Wild Bill’s Trump Card; or, The India: 368 Wild Bill, the Pistol Dead Shot, By Buffalo Bill. The Dread Shot Four. Page — the Lasso King Ranca King Dead-Shot. White Beaver ’s Still Hunt, ; 807 Wild Bill, the Wild West Duelist. Wild Bi L e Dead-Center Stot. Buffalo Bil’s Gold King. ‘009 The Dead Shot Nine; or, My his of the Plains. 414 Red Renard, the ‘indian Detec' rd; or, Borderie Retribution. is Wh The van thers: or, tie Beaver’s Trail. te Beaver, the Exile of the Platte. ® Wild Bill, il, the "Whirlwind of t e ‘West. oe k, the Prairie Rattle The Pi Sharp; or, T esoldier's Sweetheart. ° pos Bullet Svort; or, Knights of the Overland, Death-Traiier, the Chiet of Scouts. Pgs Leon Lewis, Ned Buntline, ete. (Ge Rona Burs Seer Fans or. Bervic to the Rescue. Bu alo Bi l’s yes tgiol oF. I Daredeath Dick. ail; fy 8 a Bi'l’s First , The Express Rider. WB Buttle Bill's Seeanee Scout Dashing Dand u oO 8 era or andy. EB "2 Butfalo Bill, the Buckskin King. 4 BY HAROLD PAYNE, . ss3 ‘The Man from Mexico in New York. 72 The King-Pin Shark; aah Thad Burr’s Ten metices 861 ‘The Tenderloin Bi yo ba The rere City $44 Track Chicago. 836 The Policy Broker's Blind. 829 The Frisco Sharper’s Cool Hand. : 821 The Tramp Shadower’s Backer. . 613 The Sham potter's Shrewd Scheme. 808 The Grand Street Gold-Dust Sbharpers. 798 Detective Burr’s Luna ic Witness 98 The Wall Street SD 's Snap. ‘ Thad Burr’s Death Dro: cg: Me ane de Burr Amovg The New York Thugs. 728 Detective Burr, the Headquarters Spec ‘713 Detective Burr's Spirit Chase. ‘ leon Detective Burr’s Seven Clues. Thad Durr, the Jnzingiblever, The “L} » Clue, on The Matchless Detective. 80 XZ, the Fatal PRE or, Burr’s Master Case. t BY COL. THOMAS a. MONSTERY, , peaks 's Spy.” eb tne Byoemssice sae mek Cham mpion Sn or, Th ¢ Monarchs of the Show, 50 £) Rubio Bravo, King of the Swordsmen. BY J W. 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Boss of the Tigers. 831 Shadowing the London Detectives 817 Plush Velvet, the Prince of Spotters, 803 The Bogus Broker's Right Bower. 788 The Night-Hawk Detective. 779 Silk Rrbbon’s Crush-out. 766 Detective Zach, the Broadway Spotter, Meg The Dark Lantern Detective, 736 The Never-Fail Detective. 724 Captain Hercules, the Strong Arm Detective, 711 Dan Damon, the Gilt-Edee Detective, 701 Silver Steye, the Branded Sport. 694 Gideon Grip, the Secret Shadower, / 684 Velvet Van, the Mystery Shadower. | 678 The Dude Desperado 871 Jason Clew, the Silk-Handed Ferret, ; 664 Monk Morel, the Men-Hunter, 654 Sol Sphinx, the Ferret Detective, 612 Red Pard and Yellow. | 608 Silent Sara, the Shadow Sphinx. - Captain Sid, the Shasta Ferret. 79 Ol Cormorant, the Bowery Shadow. 309 Captain Cobra, the Hooded Mystery. 55u Danton: the Shadow Sharp. 550 Silk Hand, the Mohave Ferret. 543 The Magnate Detective. 532 Jack Javert. the Independent Detective, 523 Reynard of Red Jack: or, The Lost Detective 512 Ca Stain Velvet’s Big Stake. 505 Phil Fox, the Genteel Spotter. 4% Richard Redfire. the Two Worlds’ Detective. = Sinshine Sam, a Chip of the Old Block, 480 Hawkspear. the Man with a Secret, 468 Coldgrip in Deadwood. 460 Captain Coldgrip. the Detective. 453 Captain irom, kA 8 Long Trail. 447 Voicano, the isco Spy. 441 The California Sharp. 4%4 Lucifer Lynx, the W wosdbe Detective, 421 Father Ferret, the Frisco Shadow. 413 Captain Coldgrip : in New York, 407 Captain Coldgrip’s Nerve; or, Injun Nick. 400 Captain Coldgrip; or. The New York Spotter. 892 The Lost Bonanza; or, The Boot of ye Hound. ee The Bonanza Band: or, Dread Don of Cool Clan. ajor Blister, the Sport of Two Cities, 68 Keen Kennard, the Shasta Shadow. 852 The Desperate Dozen. 347 Denver Duke, the Man with “ Sand,” 340 Cool Conrad. the Dakota Detective. 885 Flash Dan, the Nabob, or, Blades of Bowie Bar, 821 California Claude, the Lone Bandit, 294 Broadcloth Burt. the Denver Dandy, 941 The Shadow Sport from Frisco, BY WILLIAM HM. MANNING, 948 The Red-Gloved Detective. 931 Frisco Fran at Glory Gulch, 920 The Montana Miner in New York, 908 The Doomsday-Den Detective. 899 The Double-Quick Detective. 893 Yellow Gid, of Dark Divide. ‘885 The Expert Detective’s oe 875 Trapping the Race-Track Judge. 864 The Police Special’s Dilemma, _849 The Gentee! Sharper’s Combine 841 Graydon's Double Deal 838 The Sport Detective’s Grip, 823 The Athlete Sport About Town, 808 TheCrook-Detective’s Pull. 790 Plunger Pete, the Race Track Detective, 782 Royal Rock, the Round-up Detective. v4 Steve Starr, the Dock Detective. 764 The New York me Shadower. 738 Detective Claxton, the Record Breaker. 714 Gabe Gall, the Gambolier from aa : Euan, 703 = te Saul, the Samaritan Su 692 Dead-Shot Paul, the Deep-Ran ge plore. 655 Strawberry Sam, the Man with the mark, 646 Dark John, the Grim Guard, . 688 Murdock, the Dread Detective. 623 Dangerous Dave, the Never-Beaten Detective. 611 Alxali Ab the Game Chicken from 596 Rustler Rube; the Round-Up ‘Detective, | 585 Dan Dixon’s Double, 57o Steady, Hand. the Napoleon Detectives 563 bey Te Zeke, the Hotspur of Honeysuckie. | ; kbone, — 521 Paradi oi ot. artar, the witen With Nine Even: 506 Uncle Honest, the pomenaaees Ce Hornets’ Nest. 498 Central Pacific pan the Mail Train Spy. 492 Border Bullet, Prairie Sharpshooter, 486 Kansas Kitten, the Nort Northwest Detective. 479 Gladiator Gabe, Samson of Sassajack. 470 The Duke of Dakota. 463 Gold Gauntlet: the Gulch Gladiator, 455 ed Yellov Tall) Hust 437 Deep Duke: or, The Man of 427 The Rivals of Montana Mill 415 Hot Heart, the Detective § ‘BY NED BUNTLINE, 657 Long Tom, the Privateer. 633 The Sea Spy, 621 The Red rivateer; or, The Midshipman Rover, | 584 Fire Feather, the Bneeaneer King, 517 Buffalo Bill's First Trail 361 Tombstone Dick. the Train Pilot. 122 Saul Sabberday, the Idici BP: 111 oo Smugg'er (xptain: or. The Skipper’s rime, | 2 he Sea Gon on om he Queen of the Isle. White Wigan. The Seminole Prophgt. ' | ! 847 Hiram Hawk, the Harlem Detective, | { "| 1004 Buffalo Bis: Death Deal. | 1005 Woot-Hills Frank. By Jos. , 1006 bes Old B dy’ Lanby verten: ei a "998 Canta | Rr om ont Ror i aR WT ea eee Ts ay ALBERT W, AIKEN’S NOVELS. Dick Talbot Serics, 991 Dick Talbot at the Mines: or, Kentuck, the Sport, | 983 Rocky Mountain Rob. 976 Overland Kit; or, The Idyl of White Pine. 741 Diek talhot’s Close Call, 737 Dick Talbot in Apache Lond. 733 Dick Talbot. the Rancb King. 729 Dick Talbot’s Clean-Out, '25 Dick Talbot in No Man’s Camp, 854 Dick Talbot; or,. 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RB Old Sobersides, the Detective of St. Louis. 425 White-Horse Wheeler, the Revenue Detective, 118 The Double Edged Detective. 7 Maverick Mark. the Man from Nowhere, 98 Silky steele, the Stay-in Sport. 84 Toe Spotter-Sport’s Neck-Tie Party. 70 High-Water Mark; or, Silver-Tip Sid. #62 Riata Rob, the Range Champion. 355 The Cowboy Chief’s Sure-Shot. 848 The Rival Red-Hat rts. $37 Curly Kid, the Cheyenne Sport. ®€24 The Soft Hand Detective, 815 The Soft Hand’s Clutch, 809 Dan Dunn, the Soft-Mand Sport. 796 The*Frisco Detective’s Thug-Tangle. «89 Sam Cary, the River Sport, ¥80 The Dead Sport’s Double. 471 Prinee John, Detective Special. 763 Dandy Don, the Denver Detective. 354 the Man from Texas; or, Dangerfield, Doctor Detective. 744 Sweepstakes Sam, the Silver Sport. 720 The et Six; or, Oid Halcyon. 712 The Man of Silky | 205 Bantam Bob, the Beauty from B 698 Kent Kasson, the Preacher Sport. 688 Bob Breeze, the Rounder Detective, 675 Steel Surry, the Sport from Sunrisé, 668 Solemn Saul’s Luck Streak 661 The Get-There Sharp, SF Eee ee ue eae Geedive | ee opher Gabe, ol ve, | 636 Dandy Ditine Bi ? the etective. ay et he'Moum' aineer, 617 ‘The Grip Sack Sharp’s Even up. 597 Big Bandy, the Brigadier of Betahatone Butte, 588 Sandy sands, the Sharp,from Snap City. 576 Silver-Toogued Sid: or, Grip Sack Sharp’s Sweep, 664 The Grip-Sack Sharp; or, The Seraphs of Sodom, 655 Grip-Sack Sid, the Sample Sport. 547 Vhe Buried Detective; or, Sa:l’s Six Sensations. 541 Major Magnet, the Man of Nerve. §35 Dandy Dutch, the Decorator from Dead-Lift t27 Dandy Andy, the Diamond Detective. 14 Gabe Gunn, the Grizzly from Ginseng, Solemn Saul, the Sad Man from San Saba. 495 Rattiepate Rob; or, The Roundhead’s Reprisal , 488 The Thorcugnbred Sport. 474 Dadd -Rye, the. Desnot of Dew Drop. nics Old ugh and Ready, the Sage of Sundown Duteb Dan. the Pilgrim from Spitzenberg. 443 A Cool Hand; or, Pistol Johnny’s Picnic, $438 (.clahoma Nick. Bs hing Leo; or, Sam’s Dandy Pard. % The Ghost Detective; or, The Secret Service Spy. 16 Monte Jim. the Black Sheep of Bismarck. 9 Rob Roy Ranch; or, The Imps of Pan Handle. ™ “ne Nameless Sport. % Deedly Aim, the Duke of Derringers. ® Dark Durg, the Ishmael of the Hills. 72 Captain Crisp, the Man with a Record, Roval Fiusd: or, Dan Brown's Lig Game. 250 Juroving Jerry, the Gamecock from Sundown, £55 Stormy Steve, the Mad Athlete. 841 Nor’ West Nick, the Border Detective, 345 Wesked Mark, the Mounted Detective. >oread Bagle Sam, the Hercules Hide slunter, Bs Ouispa Charley, the Gola Nugget Sport, B17 Frank Lightfoot, tre Miner Detective. fo Moke itorner, the Boss Roustabeut. , 236 Pistol Joinny; or, O..e Man in a Thousand, 283 Sicek Sam, the Devil of the Mines. | 237 Death Tran Diggings: or, A Man ’Way Back 219 Kiephant Tom. of Durango. ped Spitfire Saul, a at ate — The Old tov of Tombstone. Ru Phare of the Placers; or, Joaquin’s Death Hunt » 180 Old °49; or. ‘fhe Amazon of Arizona. 170 Sweet William, the ‘rapper Detective. 165 Joaquin. the Terrible - Joaquin, the Seddie King. : 1 Equinox Tom, the ae 4 of Red Rock. 119 Alabama Joe; or, The Yazoo Man-Hunters, 105 Dan Brown of Denver; or, The Detective. 88 Biz George; or, The Five Oytiaw Brothers. 71 Captain Goot Blade; or, Mississippi Man Shark. 67 The Boy Jockey; or, Honesty vs. Crookedness. 60 Jack Rabint, tne Prairie Sport. BY WM. G. PATTEN. 810 Fire-Eye, the Thug’s Terror. 79 Old Neht-Hawk, the Crook Shadower. 768 The Prin e of New York Crooks. 756 Old Burke, the Madison Square Detective. 747 Double-voice Dan's Doubie Disguise. 715 Double-Voice Dan on Deck. %02 Double-Voice Dan, the Always-on-Deck Detective $96 Double-Voice Dan, the Go-it Alone Detective, 689 The Sparkler Sharp. 678 Hurricaue Hal, the Cowboy Hotspur, 66% Oid True Blue, the Trusty. 663 The Giant weet or, Sold to Satan. 956 Old Piug ay the Rougb and Ready. ‘645 Gold Glove Gid, the Man of Grit. 1 Aztec Jack, the Desert Nomad, - 1 Colonel Cool, the Santa Fe Sharp. } 602 Captain Nameless. the Mountain Mystery. — ¥71 Old Dismal, the cs 5 Detective. ‘45 Hustler Harry, the Cowboy Sport. ; BY GEORGE ©. JENKS. The Arizona Detective. 4 Silver Sam. the Shasta Sport. _ 80 The Silver Sport’s Double. 88 ‘Phe Race-Gourse Detective: B The Hayseed Detective. ~ | 2 M2 Captain Corden, the ‘Twister Detective 55 Wha P.te the Broneho-Buster ve. (PA Foarless San, the, Grund Combination Detective, 9 Ba.ton Reb. the port Detective. B72 Janni,, joo, the dovkevy Detective, 4 Yind Sharp, the Rustler ‘ _. Rocket, the Tent Detective. eath-Grip, the Tenderfoot Detective Drummer- We. chien The Giant Horseman. ss Eye; the | Pacific Detective. a BY WILLIAM BR. EYSTER. 916 Two Dead-Square Sports. 902 Soft Velvet, the Man from Sandrock, 891 Genteel Jim, Sport-at-Large. 881 The Clubman-Crook’s Cat’s-paw. 867 The Frisco Sport. 852 The Stranger Sport’s Shake-up. 828 Kirk King, the Man from Kirby. 818 Gentleman Dave, the Dead Game Sport 783 The King-Pin Tramp. 767 The Sport of Silver Bend. 718 See: Bedrock’s Big Bounce. 707 The Rival Rovers. 687 Double Cinch Dan, the Sport With a Charm, 677 Mr. Jackson, the Gent fram Jaybira. 659 Gilt-Edge John ; or, Roldan and His Rovers, 650 Luck ster’s Lone Hand. 634 Old Handcart’s Big Dump. 622 The All Around Sports. 603 Desert Alf, the® Man With the Cougar. 590 Gentle Jack, the High Roller from Humbug, 578 Seven Shot Steve, the Sport with a Smile, 568 The Dude Detective. ; 558 Hurrah Harry, the High Horse from Halcyon, 549 Belshazzar Brick, the f of Blue Blazes. 533 , the Sport Witha Scar, © 508 The Dude from Denver, ; 478 Pinnacle Pete; or, The Fool from Way Back. 459 Maidy Sunshine, the Man of Three Lives. 429 Hair Trigger Tom of Red Bend, . : 402 Snapshot Sam; or, The Angels’ Flat Racket, 896 The Piper Detective; or, The Gilt Edge Gang. 375 Royal George, the Taree in One, 356 Three Handsome Sports; or, The Combination. 383 Derringer Dick, the Man with the Drop. 268 Magic Mike. “he Man of Frills. : 229 Captain Cutsteeve; or, The Little Sport. 214 The Two Cool Sports; or, Gertie of the Gulch, 182 Hands Up; or, The Knights of the Canyon. 160 Soft Hand, Sharp: or, The Man with the Sand. 145 Pistol Pards; or, The Silent Sport from Cinnabar BY NED BUNTLINE. 657 Long Tom, the Privateer. 638 The Sea Spy. 621 The Red Privateer; or, The Midshipman Rover, 584 Fire Feather, the Buccaneer King, 517 Buffalo Bill’s First Trail. 861 Tombstone Dick, the Train Pilot. 122 Saul Sabberday, the Idiot § ‘& 111 The Smuggler Captain; or, The'Skipper’s Crime, 18 The Sea Bandit; or, The Quéen of the Isle. 16 The White Wizard; or, The Seminole Prophet. BY JACKSON KNOX—‘*' Old Hawk,” 838 Old Grips Still Hunt. 827 Detective Walden’s Web. 778 Tbe Butler Detective; or, Old Grip’s Grip 779 The Showman Dete tive. 762 Old Grip, the Detective, 740 Captiin Clew, the Fighting Detective, 732 The Hurricane Detective. 643 Cas‘lemaince, the Silent Sifter. 616 Magnus, the Weird Detective, 606 The Drop Detective. 595 Wellborn. the Upper Crust Detective. 582 Joram, the Detective Expert, 574 Old Faicon’s Double. 561 The Tuuge King; or, The Falcon Detective’s Foe, 548 Falconbridge. the Sphinx Detecrive. 535 Old Falcon'’s Foe: or, The Detective’s Swell Job. 515 Short-Stop Maje, the Diamond Field Detective, 599 Old Falcon, the Thunderbolt Detective, 501 Springsteel Steve, the Retired Detective, 4% The Detective's Spy. 485 Rowlock. the Harbor Detective, 477 Dead-arm Brandt, 457 Mainwaring. the Salamander, ° 462 The Cireus Detective. 451 Griplock, the Rocket Detective. 444 The Magic Detective; or, The Hidden Hand, 424 Hawk Heron’s Deputy, 886 Hawk Heron, the Falcon Detective, BY J. ©, COWDRICK. 752 The Su t Sport of Daisy Drift. bit Bhorif Buillv-ood, the Rephlator of Raspberry e wood, the ator 0 A 5@8 The Dominie Detective. a 591 Duke Daniels, the Society Detective, 580 Shadowing a Shadow, 1 565 Prince Paul, the Postman Detective. 557 The Mountain, Graybeards; or, Riddles’ Riddle, er 499 Twilight Charlie, the ad Sport. M 478 Gilbert of Gotham, the Steel-arm Detective, 452 Rainbow Rub, the Tulip from Texas, 436 Kentucky Jean, the Sport from Yellow Pine. 422 Blue Grass Burt, the Gold Star Detective, 390 The Giant Cupid: or Cibuta John’s Jubilee. . BY EDWARD WILLETT. 488 Flush Fred, the River abarp. 268 The Canyon King; or, a Price on his Head, 348 Dan Dillon, King of Crosscut. 3387 Old Gabe, the Mountain Tramp. 4 Terrapin Dick, the Wildwood Detective. 5 Flush Fred's Double; or, The Squatters’ League 308 Hemlock Hank, Tough and True. 298 Logger Lem; or, Life in the Pine Woods, 289 Flush Fred’s Full Hand, 274 Flush Fred, the Mississippi Sport. 248 Montana Nat, the Lion of Last-Chance Camp, 222 Bill the Blizzard; or, Red Jack’s Crime. 209 Buck Farley, the Bonanza Prince. 129 Mississippi Mose; or, a Strong Man’s Sacrifice, BY CAPTAIN MAWNE REID. M7 The White: Squaw, 234 The Hunter's Feast. 2i: The Wild Huntress; or, The Squatter. 200 The Rifle Rangers; or. Adventures in Mexico, 74 The Captain of the Rifles; or, The Lake i 66 The Specter Barque, A Tale of the Paci b§. The Scalp Hunters Romance of the Plains. ‘| 519 Old Riddles, the Rock 493 The Scouts of the Séa. ~ Mit 2ecorrese: Wey eee ar BY COL. PRENTISS INGRAHAM. | r 911 ‘The Blue Blockader; or, The Coast Grayhound 906 The Cuban Cruiser. 854 The Ocean Gipsy. 834 The Wild Steer Riders; or, Texas Jack’s Terrora& 839 The Rival Monte Cristos. 805 The Last of the Pirates; or, Dorm Driven. 801 The Water Wolves’ Detective; or, Trapving th@ Grave Ghouls. 791 The Coast-Raider’s Death-Chase, 748 Arizona Charlie, the Crack-shot Detective, 704 Invisible lvan, the Wizard Detective, 685 The Red-skin Sea Rover. 679 Revello, the Pirate Cruiser; or, The Rival Rovers 672 The Red Rapier; or, The Sea Rover's Bride, 662 The Jew Detective; or, The Beautiful Convict. 640 The Rover’s Ret: ibution. 635 The Ex-Buecaneer: or, The Stigma of Sin, 625 Red Wings; or, The Gold Seekers of the Bahamas, 615 The Three tuccaneers. 610 The Red Flag Rover; or, White Wings of the Deep, 605 The Shadow Silver Ship, 600.The Silver Ship; or, The Sea Scouts of °76. 593 The Sea Rebel; or. Red Rovers of the Revolution, 587 Conrad, the Sailor Spy; or. True Hearts of "76. 581 The Outlawed Skipper; or, The Gantlet Runner. 560 The Man from Mexico, | 553 Mack Monte, the Mutineer; or, The Branded Brig. 546 Tk Doomed Whaler: or, The e Wreck, « 530 The Savages of the Sea. §24 The Sea Chaser; or, The Pirate Noble, 510 El Moro, the Corsair Commodore. av ts 457 The Sea Insurgent: or, The Conspirator Son, 446 Ucean Ogre, the Outeast Corsair. | re6 435 The One-Armed Buccaneer, : ; 430 The Fatal Frigate; or, Rivals in Love and Waz. © 869 The New Monte Cristo. 4 893 The Convict Captian. 877 Afloat and Ashore: or, The Corsair Conspirator. 369 The Coast Corsair: or, The Siren of the Sea. 864 The Sea Fugitive: or, The Queen of tne Coast, 341 The Sea Desperado, $36 The Magic Ship; or, Sandy. Hook Freebooters. 325 The Gentleman Pirate ; or. Tne Casco Hermite, 318 The Indian buccaneer; or, The Red Rovers, 307 The Phantom Pirate; or, The Water Wolves, 255 The Pirate Priest; or, The Gambler’s Daughter, 246 Queen Helen, the Amazon of the Over 235 Lightning the Man of Chance. 2% Black Beard, the Buccaneer. 220 The Specter Yacht; or, A Brother's Crime, 210 Buceaneer Bess. the Lioness of the Sea. 205 The Gambler Pirate; or, Lady of the Lagoot, 198 The Skeleton Schooner; or, The Skimmer, z = 184 The Scarlet Schooner : or. The Sea Neme<**, 104 Montezuma, the Merciless. 103 Merle, the Mutineer; or, The Red Anchor «*"*y, BY PHILIP S. WARNE, 80? Dan Dirk, King of No Man’s Land. 583 Captain Adair. the Cattle King. 567 Captam Miduight, the Man of Craft. 544 The Back to Back Pards. 522 The Champion Three. | 502 Bareback buck, the Centaur of the Plaing, 72 Six Foot Si; or, The Man to “ Tie To.” 431 Catifornia Kit, the Always on Hand, 401 Silver Sid; or, A ‘* Daisy ** Bluff, 38) Ticer Dick's Pled e: or, Tne Golden Serpent, 259 Yellow Jack, the Méstizo. 338 Jack Sands, the Poss of the Town. 239 Three of a Kind; or, Dick, Despard and the Sport, 231 Tiger Dick vs. [ron Despard. 207 Old Hard Bead: or, Whirlwind and his Mare. 171 Tiger Dick, the Man of the fron Heart. 114 The Gentleman from Pike, 80 A Man of Nerve; or, Caliban the Dwarf. 54 Always on Hand; or, The Poot-Hills Sport. 29 Tiger Dick, Faro Kiug; or, The Cashier’s Crime, 4 The Kidnapper; or, The Northwest Shanghai, BY CAPTAIN MARK WILTON, 14 $23 Hotspur Hugh; or, The Banded Brothers, = $11.Heavy Hand; or, The Marked Men, , 805 Silver-Plated Sol, the Montana Rover. az 291 Horseshoe Hank, the Man of Big Luck. 4 285 Lightning Bolt, the Canyon Terror, : 276 Texa: Chick. the Southwest Detective. 271 Stonefist, of Big Nugget Bend. 266 Leopard Luke, the ag of Horse-Thieves 263 lron-Armed Abe, the Hunchback Destroyer 258 Bullet Head, the Coloraio Bravo. 237 Long-Haired Max; or, The Black 8, 227 Buckshot Ben, the Man-Hunter of Idaho. 223 Canyon Dave, the Man of the Mountain, 219 The Scorpion Brothers; or, Mad Tom’s Missi¢ 202 Cactus Jack, the Giant Guide. 194 Don Sombrero. the California Road Gent. 176 Lady Jaguar, the Robber Queen. BY OLL COOMES, \ 619 Kit Bandy & Co , the Border Detectiver. . 7 148 One-Armed Alf. the Giant Hunter. ’ . ‘= 99 The Giant Rifienan: or, Wild Camp Life. 43 Dakota Dan, the Reckless Ranger. BY COL, THOMAS H. MONSTERS, _ at an a6 Charapion Sam; or, The Menarchsof the Show. ot 150 E) Rubio Bravo, King of the Swordsmen, ‘ see BY DR. NOEL DUNBAR. 919 The Sea Scout; or, The Patriot teen ; A 886 The King of Crooks. mT ‘ 858 Number One, the Dead-set Detective. 850 The Planter Detective. : 730 Duke Despard, the Gambler Duelist, wh 7 TT Fae es 604 ‘The Detective in Rags; or, The Grim Shadowes, ; 500°The True-Heart Pards. m a new issue erery Wednesday : :, oe Beadle’s Dime Library is paps : a Newsdealers, ten cents per copy, or by oe . receipt of twelve cents ea~ we i Seek ‘ me necineniveet Sf $ LS Cee ee Sab ies Rane - t * 455 “a es, ae
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e SS tywin gp yis wy o Complete | BILL Fach Number fT 5 BUFFALG NOvEIS 979 Buffalo. Bill’s Relentless Trail. Prentiss Ingraham. 973 The Dread Shot Four; or, My Pards of the Mains; By Col. W. F. Cody. 964 Buffalo Bill's Invincibles; or, The Sable Shad- ove 8 Sublime Sacrifice. By Col. P. Ingra- 1am. 900 Buffalo Bill's Blue Belt Brigade; or, By Colonel Sun- flower Sam of Shasta. By Col. P. Ingraham. 956 Buffalo Bill's. Volunteer Vigilantes; or, The Mysterious Man. !n Blue. By Col, P. Ingra- ham. ; 950 Buffalo Bill at Bay; or, The Gold Seeker's Doom. By Col. P, Ingraham. 043 Buffalo Bill’s Block Game; br, The Mounted — of the Overland. By Col..P, Ingra- am 936 Buffalo Bill's. Black Pard; or, The Gola Boomers of the Big Horn. By Col. P. Ingra- ham, 027 Buffalo Bill's Bluff; or, Sport. Dusky Dick, the By Col, P. Ingraham. 921 Buffalo Bill's Quandary; or, Velvet Bill's Vow. By Col. Prentiss Ingraham. 9i5 Buffalo Bill and the Surgeon Scout: or, Go- wan-go, the Redskin Rider. By Col. P, In- graham. 909 Buffalo Bill’s League; or, Red Butterfly. By Col. Prentiss Ingraham. 904 Buffalo Bill's Tangled Trail; or, Gentleman Jack, the Man of Many Masks. By Col. P. Ingraham. 900 Buffalo Bill’s Rough Riders; or, Texas Jack’s Sharp-Shooters. By Col. Prentiss Ingraham. 895 Buffalo Bill’s Secret Ally; or, The Texan's Doubile., By Col. Prentiss Ingraham, 890 Buffalo mie Life-Stake; or, The Pledged Three. [Cos B, ‘Ingraham. 882 The yet Bills; Buffalo Bill, Wild Bill and Band-Box ‘Bill; or, The Bravo nl Broadcloth. By Col. P. Ingraham. 874 Buffalo BUY s Buckskin Braves; or, The Card Queen’s Last Gane, By Col, Pp Ingraham, 869 Buffalo Bill’s Road Agent Round-Up; or, The Mysterious Masked Man in Black. By Col. P. Ingraham. 863 Buffalo Bill's Death-Charm; or, The Man With the Scar, By Col. Prentiss Ingraham. 837 Buffalo Bill’s Royal Flush; or, The Pony Ri- der’s ”Death-Run. ham. ( 851 Buffalo Bill's Double ee or, The Great Scout’s Big Three. “By Col. P. . Ingraham 845 Buffalo Bill's: Redskin se; or, Texas Jack's Death Shot, By Col. Buse: Ingraham. 839 The Ranch Kins hye aang or, Texas Jack's Proxy: By Buffaio Bill 830 Buffalo Hill's Boys in Blue or, The Brimstone Band's Blot-out. By Col. P. Ingraham. 826 Buffalo Bill’s Sharp-Shooters; or, The Surgeon ‘Scout to the Rescue. By Col. 3 ey ae ro Bill’s Best Bower; or, Montebello the mad a King. By Col. Prent tiss signe aura By Cols Prentiss Ingra- ceipt of @000008000 000000000 000000000 7 tiie aaa a. cis scam ne i wee > Sarees Vv + ie Th Beaver’s Still Hunt; or, The Miner Marauder’s Death-Track. By Buffalo Bill. 816 Buffalo Bill’s Red Trail; or, The Road- “Rider | Renegade's Run Down. By Col. P, Ingraham. $12 Buifalo Gill's Death-Knell; or, The Red Hand Riders of the Rockies, Ey Co... P. Ingraham. OT Wild Bil, the Wild Wes: Dueltt : or, The Ghy Mascot of Moonlignt Mine. Ky Luttalo bill, }807 Wild Bill, the Wild West Duelist; or, The Girl Grande Ralph, the Cowboy Chief. By Buf- falo Bill. ( ‘ 704 Buffalo Bill’s Winning Hand; or, The Masked Woman of the Colorado Canyon. By Col. P Ingraham, 78T Buffafo Bill's Dead Shot; or, The Skeleton Scout of the Colorado, By Col. Prentiss Ingraham, 781 Buffalo Bili's.. Brand;. or, .The Brimstone Brotherhood. By Col. Prentiss Ingraham, 777 Buffalo Bill's Spy-Shadower; or, The Masked Men at Grand Canyon. By Col, P. Ingraham. 773 Buffalo Bill’s Ban; or, Cody to the Rescue. By Leon Lewis. ; 769 Buffalo Bill’s Sweepstake; or, ‘ihe Wipe-out at Last Chance. By Col. Prentiss Ingraham, 765 Buffalo Bill’s Dozen; or, Silk Ribbon Sam. By Col. Prentiss Ingraham, 761 Buffalo Bill’s Mascot; or, The Death Valley Victim No. 18. By Col. Prentiss Ingraham. 757 Buffalo Bill's Double; or, The Desperado De- tective. By Col. Prentiss Ingraham. 750 Buffalo Bill’s Big Four; or, Custer’s Shadow, By Col. Prentiss Ingraham. TA3 Buffalo Bill’s Flush Hand; or, Texas. Jack’s Bravos. By Col. Prentiss Ingraham. 739 Buffalo Bill's Blind; or, The Masked Driver of Death’s Canyon, By Col. Prentiss Ingra- ham. 785 Buffalo Bill and His’ Merry Men; or, The Robin Hood Rivals By Col. Prentiss ingra- ham. 731 Buffalo Bill’s Beagies; or, Silk Lasso Sam, By Col. Prentiss Ingraham. 727 Buffalo Bill’s Body Guard; or, The Still Hunt of the Hills. By Col. Prentiss Ingraham, 722 Buffalo Bill on the War Path; or, Silk Lasso Sam, the Will-o’-the-Wisp. By Col. P. In- graham. 716 Buffalo Bill's Seout Shadowers; or, Emer- ald Ed of Devil’s Acre. By Col. P. Ingraham. 710 Buffalo Bill Baffled; or, The Deserter Des- perado’s Defiance. By Col. P. Ingraham. 697 Buffalo Bill’s Buckskin Brotherhood; or, Opening Up a Lost Trail. By Col, P. In- graham. 691 Buffalo Bill’ Blind Trail; or, The Daughter of the Regiment. By Col. ‘Prentiss Ingraham, 682 Buffalo Bill’s Secret Service Trail. By Major Dangerfield Burr. 667 Buffalo os Swoop; or, the King of the Mines. By Col. Prentiss Ingraham. 658 The Cowboy Clan; or, The Tigress of Texas, By Colonel. Prentiss Ingraham. 820 White ‘HE DIME LIBRARY is for sale by all Newsdealers, ten cents per copy, or sent by mail, pre-paid, on re- — price. s Mi ay 653 The Lasso King's! League; or, The Tigers of Texas. By Colonel Prentiss Ingraham. 649 Buck Taylor, the Saddlé King. Buffalo Bill's Chief of Scouts. By Col. P. graham. 644 Buffalo Bill's Bonanza; or, The Knights of the Silver Circle. By Col. «P. Ingraham. 639 The Gold King; or, Montebello, the Magnifi- cent. By Buffalo Bill, — 629 Buffalo Bill's Daring Role; or, ‘Daredeath Dick, King of the Cowboys. By Leon Lewis. 599 The Dead Shot Nine: or, My Pards of’ the Plains. By Buffalo Bill. 517 Buffalo Bill's First Trail; or, Will, Cody, the Pony Express Rider. By Ned Buntline, 414 Red Renard, the Indian. Detective; or, The Gold Buzzards of Colorado. By Buffalo Bill. 401 The One-Armed Pard; or, Red Retribution in Borderland, By Buffalo Bill, 397 The Wizard Brothers; or, Trail. By Buffalo Bill. 894 White Beaver, the Wxile of the Platte; or,. Siete Man's Red Trail. By Buffalo { White Beaver's 362 Buffalo Bill’s Grip; or, Oath-bound to Custer. By Col, Prentiss Ingraham, 829 Buffalo Bill's Pledge; or, The League of ). Three. By Col, P. Ingraham, Wild Bill, the Whirlwind * the West, om Buffalo Bill. 304 Texas Jack, the Prairie Rattler; Queen of the Wild Riders. By Buffalo ay 243 The Pilgrim Sharp; or, The Soldier's Sweet- heart. By Buffalo Bill, Government Scout and Guide. j 189 Wild Bill's Gold Trail; or, The Desperate 5 Dozen. By Cel. P. Ingraham, 175 Wild Bill’s Trump Card; or, The Indian Heiress. By Col. Prentiss In ; 168 Wild Bill, the Pistol Dead Shot; or, Dagger |” Don's Double. By Col. Prentiss Ingraham. ot 158 Buffalo Bill, Chief of Scouts; iad The Doomed \ | Dozen, By "Dr. Frank Powell. : 117 Buffalo Bill's Strange Pard; or, Dashing paneys the Hotspur of the Hills. By Major urr. 92 Buffalo Bill, the Buckskin King;, or, The Amazon of the West. By Majo: Major Dangerfield Burr. y 88 Gold Bullet Sport; or, The Knights of the Overland. By Buffalo Bill. 52 Death Trailer, the Chief of Scouts; er, Life iil Love in a Frontier Fort. B OL NEW ISSUES TO COME. 981 The Gold Lace Sport; or, The Texan | 4 son’s Wide Swath. By Jos. E. Badger, i 982 Chris Crewley’s Winning Hand; or, e Rasgcally Valet’s Double Game. By 4 The a Morris. ft 983 Kid Glove Kris, the Sf By J, C, Cow- / drick, Ready August 984 Buffalo Bill’s ee Raffle; or, The Doomed Three. By Col. P. Ingraham. Ready Sept. 1. Tose cero 000000000