THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES REBEL & THE ROVER by "HARRY HAZEL" *> THE CELEBRATED "HARRY HAZEL" SERIES! THE OR, THE KING'S CRUISERS. A THRILLING TALE OF THE SEA, JL. BY HARRY HAZEL O AUTHOR OF "GALLANT TOM, OR THE PERILS OP THE OCEAN," "THE BRIGAND, OB THE MOUNTAIN CHIEF," "THE FLYING ARTILLERIST," "YANKEE JACK, OR THE _ PERILS OF A PRIVATEERSMAN," "THE THREE PIRATES, OR THE CRUISE OF THE TORNADO," "THE FLYING YANKEE," "RED KING, OR THE CORSAIB CHIEFTAIN," " SYLVIA SEABURY, OR THE YANKEES IN JAPAN," " THE FLYING DUTCHMAN," ."THE DOOMED SHIP," "JACK JUNK," "HARRY HELM," "HARRY TEMPEST," "SWEENY TODD," " GALLOPING GUS," "THE GOLD SEEKERS," "RALPH RUNNION," "OLD PUT, OR DAYS OF SEVENTY-SIX," "THE YANKEE MIDDY," " VALDEZ, THE PIRATE," "REBEL BRIDE," "PIRATE'S SON," ETC. I. B. PETEKSON & BROTHERS, 306 CHESTNUT STREET. ?s A. I 5"! THE REBEL AND THE ROVER, CHAPTER I. Tk Mysterious Craft The Pirates'. Cemetery A Heavi Corpse An Interesting Scene Cruisers Descried The Bnrial and the Inscription The Young Spy A Shrewd Surmise- The Rebel and the Royalist's Daughter A Fa tal Row Our Hero in Trouble. "With roomy deck and guns of mighty strength, Whose low lard mouths each mountain billow laves, Deep in her draught and warlike in her length. She seems a sea-wasp flying on the waters," IT was a midsummer's eve of the year A. D. 1772. (a period which will be perpetuated in the annals of our national history, ) just as the sun had sunk behind the loftiest of the trio of hills, oi the good old town of Boston, that a long, rakish clipper built schooner, beautifully modelled, of about one hundred arid twenty tons burthen, mounting ten twelve pound carronades, besides a long eighteen pounder, ffjounted on a pivot forward, serving as a bow-chaser, and another of twenty-four pound, long gun, serving as a stern-chaser, was descried beating up the bay, under lull sail, against a freshly blowing southwest breeze. She carried a complement of sixty men, each of whom appeared to be armed with a cutlass, or a brace of pistols. Altogether she was the most mysterious and formidable looking craft that had been seen in our waters for many a year, and various were the surmises of the few fishermen and others who had a fair view of her as she stretched across from shore to shore. Under the lee of a bold sand bluff, known as Long Island Head, she tacked and held her course for Point Shirley. So swifty did the craft skim over the light billows, 1hat she seemed indeed 'a sea- wasp flying on the waves. On entering the narrow channel which divides Deer Island from Point Shirley she gracefully rounded to, and, in an incredibly brief space of time was moored in the stream, every sail snugly furled, and every rope neatlv belayed, on the simultaneous action 8 THE REBEL AXD THE ROYER. of her crew. This being accomplished several of the crew commenced holystoning the deck, scraping the masts, polishing the guns, while others were employed in rigging up a hoisting tackle over the main hatchway. As soon as the latter service was performed, the hatch was opened, the fall lowered, and in a few moments two long, rough deal boxes were hoisted upon deck, and then carefully lowered into the schooner's cutter, which had been brought around to the gangway foi their reception. By command of a young officer, the cutter was mann ed by twelve oarsmen, and after the former had taken his position in the stern of the boat, she put off, and her course was directed towards the northeasterly part of the island before mentioned. On reaching the shore, the officer, with six of his men, ascended an eminence overlooking the broad expanse of the bay. Here they halted, the leader, with the sheath of his scimetar, marked out a narrow strip of earth in the form of an oblong square, when the men, with spades that they had borne thither upon their shoulders, commenced digging within the prescribed lines, In less than half an hour they had ex cavated the earth to the depth of seven or eight feet. In the meantime, the other half of the cutter's crew had borne to the spot the two rude coffins dne of which required the united effort of six men, while the other, although larger in its dimensions, was borne with comparative ease by four of their number. With strong cords, with which they were provided, the heaviest but smallest coffin was first lowered into the hastily made grave, and after a layer of earth was thrown in, the larger but less weighty coffin was lowered and made to cover the first. While the grave was being filled, the leader of the party stojd upon a large rock, a few yards distant, surveying the ocean with a glass. It was yet twilight, and the moon, nearly at her full, shone brightly upon the wavy waters. "Be lively my lads," shouted the young man, whose gold-embroidered jacket, scarlet cap, and costly trappings, bespoke him an officer of rank. He was quite a youth, yet of commanding and prepossessing appearance. A thin, Tight moustache curled gracefully over his well formed mouth, which was the only evidence that nature had given him a beard. "Why in a such haste, lieutenant?" asked a gruff voice. "There'i time enough to finish the job of stowing away the old man decently ; besides, my old timbers are almost sprung with hugging the d d heavy corpses ! That first one was a reg'lar back breaker !" " Peace, boatswain !" returned the young officer "There's * sail in sight !" "One o' them d d lubberly fishermen we overhauled this .norning!" suggested the boatswain. " More likely one of the king's cruisers in search of us/ said th* young officer. " One of the king's cruisers !" repeated the boatswain, with a sneer 01 contempt. "The king's cruisers be d d ! What have we to fear from one o' the king's cruisers. Why, under commander Kidd, I've done my thare in sending two of 'em to deep soundings !" THE REBEL AND THE ROYER. 9 " Right, Bossle ; and a like thing may again be done under one equally as brave and as strong in nerve, as even the polished King oi ihe Freebooters," returned the lieutenant. " Humph ! the youth's well enough considering his lack of expe rience," grunted the boatswain ; "but, in my may o' thinking hi hasn't the arm to strike a blow the voice to give a command nor the pluck to do the like of my renowned old chief. Ever cursed be the d d old Englishmen who had the audacity to hang so bold a man in chaina, as if he had been a very dog I' 1 " Wait, Bossle," said the lieutenant ; "you haven't yet had an oppor tunity of seeing the mettle of our new chief put to the test. 1 ' " Old Nick'll send him a chance to display his courage soon enough, I warrant you. I never knew an independent jover promoted to the first command without a battle within forty-eight hours afterwards !" " Then it is high time our job was finished, and we aboard to make preparations,'' replied the officer, taking another survey of the wide watery expanse through his glass, "for I now distinctly discern another sail just hove in sight. If she prove not a companion of the first, then I'm no judge of water-craft. So, bear a hand, boys.'' " Avast there, lieutenant begging your pardon,'' said Bossle, raising his tarpaulin ; "let's finish thejob decently, or old Gaspardo's ghost will appear on our quarter deck one o' these foggy nights. As for those crui sers, if cruisers they are, I've no iear their getting up with this wind and tide." "The wind's fast hauling round to the eastward, returned the lieutenant. "Depend upon it we shall smell gunpowder before the rnoon goes down. So, be lively, boys.'' "Ay, ay, sir," responded Bossle, who with his comrades, worked with a hearty good will. The grave was quickly filled up the turf replaced, and a rude slab of slate was put at its head, in which was inscribed in uncouth and scarcely legible characters, the following epitaph : "Here lyes GASPARDO GONCILZAO Mt. 50. The storm has hushed the battle's o'er Caspar, the Rover, lives no more To hear the cannon's mighty roar." " Bravo, excellent !'' shouted the lieutenant, on reading the inscrip tion. "Why don't you add "this stone is erected to his memory by Boatswain Bossle, poet ]" " Don't ma^e fun o' my lines, lieutenant," returned Bossle. "Consider it's my first attempt many a great poet has done worse on a first trial.' " Methinks you must have had a great respect for the traitor,'' sugges ted the officer. 10 THE REBEL AND THE ROVER, " I loved him as the swordfish loves the whale. He deserved death It will prove a lesson, for his successors at least, not to make so merry with instruments of death. Poor Joey, he's maimed for life he'll have to splice on half a yard of timber for a leg." " Then why do you prepare that stone ? It must have cost you aours of labor," said the lieutenant. " Don't you see, sir, that it will prevent any curious visitors to tnia island from disturbing old Gaspar's grave ?'' returned the boatswain. "This stone tells them what's beneath, and should they dig up enough they will find there's no deception, and will have sufficient decency to cover him up again : besides, we want a mark for that cursed heavy corpse under him 1 ? 1 ' " True true I comprehend,'' said the luff "Now let's get aboard with all possible despatch.'' The men gathered up their spades and utensils ; the officer took another survey of the moonlit bay with his glass ; then all repaired to the boat, and rowed speedily off to the schooner. These remarkable and decidedly suspicious proceedings were viewed by other human eyes than those who were participators. Concealed in the shade of a clump of trees, of stunted growth, not more than sixty yards distant, stood a youth not more than twenty years of age, leaning upon a fowling piece ; while, crouched at his feet, was a large, noble, full-blooded Newfoundland dog, which impatiently kept quiet only by the stern command of his master. The young man had handsome features, a clear, intelligent eye, and a high and broad forehead, partially concealed by tho curly brown hair, which played in the breeze around it. When he first descried the warlike looking craft beating up the harbour, he was not without his suspicion as to her character, and he at once determined to observe every movement of the strange vessel and her crew. With this view he had crept as near to the scene of the stranger's last operations, already described, as prudence for his safety would per mit. If he entertained a single doubt as to the character of those men, before their vessel came to anchd*r, that doubt was dispelled after witnessing the burial scene. He was in a position to note each and every particular. What struck him more forcibly was the singular fact, that while six men were required to carry and to lower into the vault, which had been dug, and that with exceeding difficulty, the lesser cof fin, to appearance at least, only four participated in the management of the larger one, which they managed with ordinary effort. A part of the conversation, too, of the strange visitors to this island, fell upon his ear, causing him to suspect more than we, as a romancer, feel justified in revealing in this chapter, although our readers shall be satisfied if they repress any curiosity we may have excited for a little time. After the participants in this half real, half mock funeral service had left the shore of the islet, the young spy upon the party, hied with alacrity towards the newly-made grave, and there copied info a memoran dum book the inscription upon tfee rude tombstone. He then measured, by pacing the ground, the distance from three or four prominent objects THE REBEL AND THE ROYER. 11 to the grave, and carefully noting down the results, he hastened his foot- Bteps towards a little cove at the southerly part of the island, where a light sail-boat was hauled upon the pebbled beach. Placing his fowling- piece, ammunition and game in the stern of the little boat, he plied his shoulders to the bow, shoved her afloat, leaped in, hoisted mainsail and jib, and took his place at the helm. The moon had now become obscured by dark clouds ; the wind had veered round to the south-east, and blew with no little violence. The little bark, like a white sea-bird glided over the foam-crested waves with great rapidity towards the tri-mountain town, the lights of which the young helmsman could just discern through the. fast thickening shadows of night. A light, displayed on the battery beneath ihe frowning walls of the old fortress on Fort Hill, was his beacon, and in the course of half an hour he ran his boat safely on the little beach just south of "The Mole," as the singularly shaped pier, on which was plan ted the battery, was then called. After securing his boat from the tide, he ascended the oval shaped hill, lugging his game and hunting paraphernalia, but had no sooner reach ed its summit, when his eye caught the graceful form of a maiden run ning towards him, closely followed by a person, in an undress military suit, who, when he saw that he was likely to encounter a stranger, sui- denly gave up the pursuit, and started off at the top of his speed in a contrary direction. " Therese !" " George !" These are the explanations uttered as the youthful pair unexpectedly met, and embraced, as if Cupid had already made considerable progress in entwining their hearts together. The maiden seemed almost breath less with fear, and some moments elapsed ere she could give utterance to a word. " 0, George, I have had such a fright !" she at length said. " So it appears : but who is the wretch whom 1 saw pursuing you ?'' he asked. " Question me not now, George, you shall know all in due time,'* she replied. "Therese," he continued with an earnest expression, "I know not why I meet you here, and at this inauspicious hour. This is neither the time nor place appointed for our meeting. I trust all goea well ?" " No, George, 1 ' answered Therese, speaking in subdued tones ; " had all been well I should not have ventured thus far from home, with out a protector, although I suspect I have had a spy upon my actions.'' " He who but now I saw 2" <" The same." " I now partially comprehend, and M " Say no more of that now,'' she interrupted, "for I am here to warn you of impending danger." " 1 fear nothing," answered the youth, grasping the barrel of his gnu more firmly, " Pray what have I to fear ?" " More than I should dare reveal, did I not know that it were izn- poisible you should betray me.' ; 12 THE REBEL AND THE ROVER. _ . * " Betray you, Therese !" ejaculated the youth, startled evun at th thought of such an action. "Sooner would I sever this right arm from my body ; tear the tongue from my mouth by the roots : ay, even lay down my life." I know it, George I know it ; but talk not thus," entreated the rnaideu, earnestly ; " let me tell you that the British General and my father have held a long interview this afternoon in the library.'' . " Is there anything strange in that 1 ?" " Indeed there is, George, 7 ' replied Therese, "and you would think so, too, were you familiar with their recent enmity towards each other ; but this is all over now and they meet in terms of apparent friendship for reasons that I cannot fully explain. Suffice it to say I had a strong presentiment that you were to be the subject of their conversation arid 1 ventured to to to '' The young girl hesitated. "To listen to all they .had to say," said the youth, finishing the sentence which Therese found- it difficult to stammer out. " Precisely, George," said she ; "and altho' I frankly confess I felt not a little ashamed of the act, I am not sorry for it, for my worst appre hensions were realized : and, if you will but heed my advice, you will either secrete yourself for a time, or hie away to some place beyond tha reach of those insolent red-coats. I tremble for the consequences should you now fall into their hands." " What !"' he exclaimed ; "would they dare lay the weight of their hands upon me for chastising that insolent epauletted puppy, that Cap. tain Thornberg 1 a chastisement that he so richly deserved ! Let hirn dare give me a second provocation, and I'll wring the very nose frorn the dastardly coward's face !" " That is not their sole reason, George, for drsiring to crush you." " What other can they have ?" he eagerly asked. '' The General affirmed to my father that he had positive informa tion that you were a member of an organized band called "Liberty Boys," who held meetings in some secret place in town, which they had as yet been unable to discover, but that they had a clue to it, and they were determined to break it up at every hazard !* " Then will they walk over the dead bodies of the Liberty Boys !*' said the youth. " Be not rash, George !" entreated Therese. "For my sake I beseech you !" " For thy sake, dearest Therese, 1 would sacrifice my life, but liberty and that honor I prize above all earthly things !" said the young man with enthusiasm, as he gently pressed the small, delicate hand of hia love within his own. " Be not my father's enemy ?'' said Therese, entreatingly. " Your lightest wish has the power to subdue my resentment even for the men who are seeking my life, but let them beware how they seek to compromise my honor." " If my lightest wish, George, has power to influence, you will nc longer hesitate to do that for which I have exposed myself at an hour, unbecoming a maiden to be abroad alone I 1 ' THE REBEL AND THE ROYER. _18 " But it is cowardly to flee.'' " Not when there is a vile conspiracy to entrap you," resumed The- rese ; "for, ere this Thornberg is in possession of a warrant from the general officer for your arrest. Besides, my father has forbidden me ever to see you again !'' " But you have not obeyed him !'' "Nor 'will I, George, when to warn you of danger it becomes ne cessary. 1 ' " Noble, generous girl !'' exclaimed the ardent youth ; " and yet mo- thinks it is your duty to heed the councils of him to whom you owe ev erything,'' " Ah ! gladly would I, did I not know he has been deceived by oth ers,'' answered the maiden. "Moreover, he would coerce me to bestow my hand where it is impossible I can over bestow my heart. For this alone has he forfeited that claim to my obedience which otherwise I feel that I might owe him " " To whom, Therese, might I venture to enquire, would he give this hand ?" said George, as he ventured to press it to his lips. " To your worst enemy ; he whom I despise as heartily as I regard you.'' " Can it be possible that he would lend his countenance to your be trothal to that unmitigated villain and poltroon, Thornberg ?'' " Were he not completely under the influence and blinded by the arts of pretended friends, such a thing were impossible. But, George, I blush to say that it is too true. Thornberg *s your rival as certainly as he is your deadly foe. Question me not now, how I obtained more in formation than 1 intended to reveal at present, but doubt not the truth of % what you have heard.'' " I believe all," replied George, tl Then I am sure you will act accordingly, and act promptly too." " Alas ! Therese, you prompt me to flee at a time when my heart prompts me to remain." " How can that be ?'' " You would have me fly at the very time when, by your own admis sion, you are in imminent danger," argued the impassioned .lover. "No, Therese, bid me not go while you are in peril ; let me brave to their very teeth the plotters against your happiness.'' " And thus sacrifice your own life," added Therese. t ' If they sacrifice me, I can show the world that I can bear my fate like a man.'' " Nay, nay, talk not thus," she entreated, " if your bosom contains one spark of love for poor Therese. You have the means to get beyond their reach ; a^rail yourself of them ; and when these troublous times have passed, my father will have come to his sober senses, and you will have naught to iear. Moreover, let me assure you, this hand, pledged to you on my last birthday is now and forever yours, suffer what I may in your absence ! Therefore, George, fly at once, lest even to-night, you are dragged to a dungeon." The maiden poke with an earnestness that much startled her young lover. 14 THE REBEL AND THE ROVER. He knew that eke was endowed with stronger mental faculties than was usual in her sex, but he knew not the heroic fire which inspired that little heart when fully aroused. " I will obey you, my love," he replied, " but not until I have escort ed you safely to your father's mansion." " Do not go with me, George ; you know that we have to pass the barracks, and you can't do so safely." " Then is there more necessity for my accompanying you, for I am acquainted with a little alley by which I can not only avoid the barracks but shorten the distance. Besides, I should consider myself but a meaa lover, to leave you to thread these narrow streets, when at every step you are liable to insult from the ruffianly soldiers, whose very presence in this once peaceful town is contamination. In this, Therese, I must have my own way. When once you are safely within your father'' gate, I will away I know not whither." After having disburthened himself of all his hunting traps, except his gun, the heroic girl took the arm of the noble youth, and together they proceeded towards the home of the former. Slowly they descended the hill, and proceeded through a long, narrow and crooked street, (the streets of Boston have ever been such) and then entered a dark, dismal lane which was little traversed especially in the eight time. ^ As they passed through, the sounds of boisterous mirth, proceeding from low dance-houses, fell upon their ears, which had a tendency to quicken the footsteps of our friends, George and Therese. They had nearly gained the street, when three soldiers, in red coats, suddenly sprang upon them, two of them seizing our hero, and the third attempting to drag away Therese. George, with one single effort, released his arms from their grasp, and raising the but of his gun, he dealt so severe a blow upou the head of one of the miscreants that he fell to the earth, never to rise again. The deed so appalled the other that he ran for dear life. Meanwhile Therese had been struggling to release herself from the embrace of the third villain, who strove to drag her down the iciley. Our hero, after annihilating one, and frightening the other, flew to the rescue of his beloved. He seized the wretch tightly by the throat, and by one effort succeed ed in overthrowing his antagonist, and in his fall his head struck the corner of a stone step, which stretched him senseless upon the ground. So sudden was this atrdcious attack defeated, and so little noise was made, that the people of the neighborhood were not alarmed until our hero and heroine had reached the street beyond. The cries of " murder ! murder !" now fell upon the ears. The alarm being generally given, the inhabitants from all quarters of the town hastened towards the scene. The military too, from the barracks, were quickly on the spot, having been aroused by the discomfitted runaway. Qreat was the indignation expressed by the soldiers, on beholding one of their comrades a corpse, and another lying apparently dead, whose THE REBEL AND THE ROYER. blood was fast oozing from a ghastly gash in the back of the head, populace did not join in the anathemas, of the soldiery, and, satisfying their curiosity, turned homeward, as if they cared little h many casualties should occur to the insolent, hireling soldiery quartered in their midst by a tyranical king and an overbearing ministry. Captain Thornberg, a proud, unscrupulous officer, who has before been alluded to, was early on the spot ; in truth, he was within twenty rods at the time of the attack, and felt no little chagrin at the defeat of the assassins, but he had not the courage to engage, or the desire to be known in such a dastardly 'action. He blustered about with a swaggering air. and demanded if any one knew or had seen the murderers. The runaway soldier walked up to his commander and said, in a cockney brogue. " Andy Villiams and Thady O'Toole, and myself Captin, vere taking a quiet bit iv a valk for hour ealths, ven ve vere hattacked by six or height men, harmed vith knives and pistils. Poor Andy and Thady the willians kilt on the spot, and vould ha' kilt me, 'ad I not run to give the halarm.'' " You run then, did you?'' asked Captain Tj|farnberg. " I 'ad no veapons, Captain, and I alvays runs ven I 'as no veapons, an' ven the hodds is gin von,' 1 replied the soldier. 4 " Verily, Captain Thornberg,'' said t a broad-brim gentleman in the crowd ; "verily I do attest that wicked man epeakest not the truth unto thee." ' "What do you know of the affair ?" questioned Thornberg, startled to hear that there were witnesses to the scene besides himself and his hired assassins. " Verily, I w'as an eye-witness," replied the Quaker, "and can tell more than thou wouldst like to hear." " What mean you ? Speak, insolence, or 111 have you hanged !" ;hreatened Thornberg, with a bullying air, and drawing his sword. " Put up thy weapon, ungracious man. It hath no terrors in my sight," said the Quaker with imperturbable gravity. "Thou knowest the wicked hath falsified unto the wicked in this matter.'' " You're an insolent knave to say it, 1 ' said Thornberg, "and your duakership shall hear from me again." With this threat, the officer perceiving that the crowd entirely sympathized with the bold Gluaker, turned upon his heel, and followed the soldiers who were now bearing the two bodies into the barracks. In the meantime our hero and heroine were pursuing their way to wards the home of the latter with unusual haste for lovers, and soon arrived at the entrance of an aristocratic looking mansion at the north part then the court end of the town. " Tarry not a moment," urged the maiden, to her lover, as he man ifested some reluctance to leave her. " But one moment, Therese, ere I bid you a long farewell, for I have a presentiment that years will pass away before I shall again be blessed in your presence V ' Go, I beseech you,'' the said, wiping an unbidden tear from her eye, 16 THE REBEL AND THE ROVER. and then taking a richly jeweled locket from her bosom, which was sus pended to a gold chain ; "but first accept this ; Ipse not the contents whatever may become of the casket." With these words she fell upon his neck received his last embrace his last kiss and in one moment more was in the presence of her father. Her father was a rich merchant largely engaged in his commercial intercourse with the mother country, where he had resided until he had attained the age of thirty, when he embarked to try his fortune in the American town of Boston, which, even at that early period, was looked upon by the British crown, as one of the brightest jewels upon this con tinent. It is not surprising, therefore, that the merchant Merwin, not having had much intercourse with those choice spirits of Liberty, who had the boldness to set the great revolutionary ball in motion, did at this junc ture adhere to the avowed policy of England towards her colonies, and oppose those great rebellious demonstrations which made us an independ ent people. George Winchester the youthful lover of the wealthy aristocrat's daughter resided not far distant with a widowed aunt, whose rather indigent circumstances had compelled her to live in a small tenement, in a somewhat obscure street, although she was a descendant of a noble house. George's father was once an officer of high rank in the British navy, but in a desperate conflict with a vessel belonging to the fleet of the notorious Blaskbeard, his head was severed irom his body by a chain shot from his desperate foe. The fact that the youth's father had once served the king, did not dwter him from espousing the cause of the Liberty boys, and enrolling his name early on the rebel list ; besides, he had another reason for throwing ofF his allegiance to the crown : he had been taught to be- lievo that the British government, for no plausible or substantial reason, had absolutely refused to bestow the annuity, usually granted to the progeny of officers who lost their lives in the battles of their country upon him, notwithstanding the due efforts of his relatives to accomplish that object. . . Gladly would we here detail a variety of remarkable incidents which led to an affectionate intimacy between the wealthy royalist's beautiful daughter and the young orphan rebel ; but our narration would excludi from our "yarn'' an equal number of more important, more entertaining events of those stirring times ; besides, we desire to introduce nothing which will interrupt the straight-forward course of this "ower true tale.'' When George Winchester found himself alone, he turned to retrace his steps. He walked slowly along, occasionally turning arouad to gaze at the noble mansion which contained his soul's idol. So sad was his heart, and so intent were his thoughts upon that love ly vision which he so recently communed wkh, that he was not aware that, instead, of seeking a place of refuge, his footsteps were leading him THE REBEL AND THE ROVER. 17 into the very jaws of danger ; nor was he aroused to a sense of his un- cautiousness until, on turning a street running at right angles with the one he had traversed, he came upon a patrol of British soldiers, the officer of which ordered him to be arrested in the name of the king. To have attempted a resistance would have been death on the spot, 'arid to attempt a flight would have been equally fatal ! Without a murmur he submitted to his fate ; hig arms were bound lightly, and ht was dragged along the streets to the barracks, when he was thrust into the guard house by order of a relentless ruffian, who wai none other than his would-be rival, Captain Thornberg. On the following morning George was carried before a military tri bunal, charged with having assassinated two of the king's soldiers. The evidence of 'the lying cockney, together with the corroborative testimony of Thornberg as to the position of affairs when the alarm was given, went far to show, in the minds of the tribunal, that the in nocent man was really guilty, when in fact his accuser was responsible for the death of the soldiers. There was no conflicting testimony, for Thornberg took especial care to have the examination made as privately and summarily as possible. The result was, young Winchester was ordered to be sent to England, charged with being a rebel and assassin, there to be tried and executed, which, in all probability would have been done hre, had not the home government issued a decree ordering all who were gailty of treason, murder, and other high offences in the colonies, to be sent to Great Britain for final trial. 18 THE REBEL AND THE ROVER. CHAPTER II. Arrival of the King's Cruisers. The Salute. The Captain's Barge and her crew. The Governor of the Colony. Cheers for his Ex cellency "no go.'' Symptoms of a Row. The Cruiser's Cham pion. Challenge of the Sailmaker's Apprentice. The Ring, the Combat, and the Victory. Bully Briton loses caste. The "Lob ster Backs'' and the Dispersion of the Crowd. The British rein forcement. THE blazing sun of a summer's day was at its meridian, when the usually peaceable citizens of the three-hilled city were startled from their propriety by a heavy cannonading in the harbor. Peal upon peal from brazen throats of a score of guns, in rapid suc cession, reverberated through the narrow streets, causing frail tenements to tremble and panes of glass to shiver with each successive concussion. It was the day succeeding the one on which occurred the summary trial of George Winchester. Throngs of people, with hurried footsteps made their way towards the wharves some out of mere curiosity, surmising the cause of the firing ; others, with fear and trembling whether or not a foreign squadron had arrived, and had actually commenced bombarding the town. Presently the intelligence flew like the wind through the town that the ".King's Cruisers" had arrived, and they were but firing the accus tomed salute, which was responded to from the heavy calibred guns on " The Mole." The King's Cruisers had been daily expected in port by the Governor of the colony, with a detachment of troops sent out by the ministry, for the purpose of overawing the rebellious spirits, and if possible breaking up anti-loyal clubs that might exist or might be organized. One of the cruisers was a brig of some two hundred tons burthen, carrying twelve medium guns and a crew of eighty men ; the other was a brigantine, carrying eight guns and sixty men. With flags and streamers flying, and guns firing, trfey gallantly sailed up the harbor, and rounded too off Long wharf, and dropped their anchors. The yards were manned, each sail was snugly furled, and everything above the decks of both vessels was put in as neat trim as if they were in waiting for wind and tide to take them to sea. Presently the commander of the brig, dressed in full uniform, appear- THE REBEL AND THE ROVER. 19 ed on deck : a barge, manned by eight sailors, with oars a-peak, was ready to receive him at the gangway steps. A chubby, rosy-cheeked lad, with laughing blue eyes a miniature specimen of an old salt, took his station as coxswain, with an air of confidence that indicated he was no novice in that capacity. The officer, a tall, portly, full-blooded Englishman, an excellent per sonification of a true John Bull, with a lordly step strided towards the gangway, descended the steps, and took his seat beside the happy look ing boy. " To the pier, Robert, just this side of the battery," said the com mander, pointing to the wharf, where, not long afterwards occurred a scene which will be known as long as republics have an existence, viz; making use of Boston harbor for a teapot. " Ay, ay, sir," responded Master Merry Hobby, (as the sailors desig nated him,) touching his cap with that peculiar air known only to Jack Tars, and which landlubbers would find it difficult to imitate. At a signal the boat was shoved off, and each rower shipped his oar at the same moment and commenced rowing in time with the motions of the little cockswain's head, very much in the same manner and for the same purpose that the leader of an orchestra wields his baton. Swiftly flew the light barge over the waveless water, and in a few moments dropped alongside the pier, and the dignified commander dis embarked. He had no sooner set his feet upon terra firma, when a carriage, with horses superbly caparisoned, and with an ensignia of nobility emblazoned upon the door of the carnage, and upon the harness ornaments, moved rapidly through the throng of curious spectators, and halted at the place where the captain had landed. A footman, in livery, leaped from his post behind the carriage, open ed the door, and let down the iron steps. A vigorous looking, elderly gentleman, with frosty hair neatly tied up in a queue, wearing velvet breeches, golden knee and shoe buckles, and an aristocratic-looking chapeau, with a gold-headed cane, alighted from the vehicle with the assistance of the footman. " The Governor ! the Governor !'' sang out several persons in the crowd, when one ventured to propose : " Three cheers for the Governor !'' A few feeble responses only were heard, which clearly indicated that fthis functionary of royalitjT was not, just at that particular juncture in the affairs of the colony, very popular with the masses of the people. To break the spell under which the crowd seemed to be affected, an old sailor, with a voice like a stentor, cried out " Skulk home, you d d rambellious landlubbers ! you that can't give a a few hearty cheers for the Gov'ner ! blast my toplights, if I shouldn't like to square away my spars at half a dozen o' the best o' ye ! Come, lads," said he, addressing his shipmates, "let's see what we can do in the Gov'nor's 'onor. Now then, altogether, my 'earties thiee cheers for the Gov'nor." The sailors in the boat cheered most vociferously. The Governor THE REBEL AND THE ROYER. acknowledged the compliment by doffing his chapeau and making a very condescending bow. The commander of the brig was recognized by the highest dignitary in the colony, invited to take a seat with him in the coach, when the vehicle rolled off towards the mansion of the executive. No sooner was the carriage out of sight, than the British tar, who had proposed cheering for the Governor, began berating the crowd after his fashion, for their lack of respect for a true scion of English nobility. " Don't ye know yer duty, ye lubberly swabs?'' continued the sailor. "Ain't ye ashamed of yerselves, ye cowardly landlubbers !'' "Who do you call cowardly V ejaculated a sail-maker's apprentice, who stood, with his shirt sleeves rolled up, at the open window of a sail loft, where he had observed the entire proceedings. " All of ye rebel crew, from that beef-eating butcher, (pointing to a gigantic individual in a white frock) down to the likes of you, you can vas tailor you ninth part of a man. If I'd a 'alf dozen of ye within reach o' my spars, shiver my hulk if I wouldn't make slush on ye !" The boy's head disappeared suddenly from the window, and the boat's crew sent up peals of laughter, thinking that their champion had frightened the youth away ; but their merriment suddenly ceased, when, at the next moment the sail-maker's boy darted through the crowd, and stood undaunted within an oar's length of the brig's barge. " Now, Bully Briton, 1 ' said the br?ve youth, "I'll give you a fail chance to make your boasts current. We rebels, as you call UB, crow after the victory's won !'' The challenger was quite a stripling, slightly built to appearance, but the sinews of his arms told of muscular strength, and his compressed lips and fiery eye bespoke a confidence which quailed not before, any one of that boat's crew, the Englishmen were almost wonder stricken to see a lad of nineteen daring the bully of the brig's crew to a single contest. " How many of ye are there ?'' asked the bragging sailor. " Just as many as your tarry toplights can see in me !" answered the apprentice, placing his small, but solid mawlers in the first position oi the science of self-defence." " May I be slung aloft to slush the main-mast, if I didn't hope there were as many on ye as there as reef-points in the old brig's main-top sail !'' replied the tar, as he leaped ashore to chastise him who he deem ed would prove but a child in his hands. He was followed on shore by all the crew except the young coxswain. " A ring ! a ring ! let's have fair play !" shouted the bystanders. A ring was quickly formed the crew of the barge mingled with the landsmen, eager to see the fight, while the combatants were preparing for the seemingly unequal consest. Bully Briton looked as if he determined to make short work of the contest, and he got under weigh man-o'-war-fashion, and bore down upon his diminutive antagonist, very much as a British line-of-battle-shit would attempt to run down a Yankee Privateer one of the Baltimore- elipper models. He bolted towards him with mawlers raised and would have crushed THE REBEL AND THE ROYER. 21 his antagonist with them, had they descended with full force upon his head : but the sharp eye of the youth saw his manoeuvre, and instead of attempting lo parry the blow, or retreat from his position, he crouched down, and broached broadside under the bully's portly counter, which had the effect to make his fist fall upon vacant air, and his body to measure its length in the mud, where it left its impression. A general shout of laughter rent the air at the result of this unique performance of the sprightly boy. The discomfitted sailor gathered himself up, all the time blowing lika a porpoise and spitting soft mud from his tobacco mill. After wiping his top-lights clear, he espied his little foe, with arms a- kimbo, braced up ready for a second attack. He bore down again upon his foe, like an enraged bull, taking good care, however, to defend his bulk-head from being again run into. He let fly his fists with considerable spirit towards the boy's head, but somehow or other the head was never where the fists were, but kept bobbing up and down like a buoy in a chopped sea, which so bewildet- ed the brig's champion, that he hauled off for- the purpose of obtaining more correct bearings of the ^nemy. Having taken a long breath 01 two, he made a lee-lurch at the boy with the expectation of getting him within his arms, when he would give him a bear-like hug, but the youth evaded the noose, got in his rear before Bull's clumsy hulk could wear about, and planted such a hammer-like blow beneath his right ear that he fell as heavily as any bull of another species under the stroke of a two-hande'd iron sledge. Shouts again rent the air, and the young sail-maker was declared the victor ! for Bull was too much damaged in his upper warks to obtain an upright position. Soon as the shouts of victory had died away, a drum and fife was heard, and a company of red-coats turned the corner of King street, in to India street, under a forced march for the scene of the mid-day dis turbances. " The red-coats ! the red-coats ! the lobster-backs are down upon us!" cried the boys of the throng. "Run ! run ! for your lives, or we shall be in the lobsters' claws." There was a general stampade the multitude disappeared in a tan gent ; the young hero clambered up the sail loft stairs, and resumed his work of making grommets ; the cruiser's men, after having tumbled their bruised champion into the boat, quickly plied their oars, and were soon treading the deck of the brig. The story of the combat was faithfully told to all hands, and from that day their bully lost caste, and the meanest man aboard would never after permit himself to be bullied by him. In the meantime the two companies of troops had disembarked frem the cruisers and had landed at the Mole. The company which had been despatched to quell the row, and to arrest any disturbers of the peace, found everything unusually quiet, where but a few moments previous were gathered hundreds. They continued on their march, and joining the newly arrived com* 2 22 THE REBEL AND THE ROVER. paniea, escorted them through the principal streets of the town, th music playing the national airs of Old England. They finally arrived at the barracks, where the rank and file took up their quarters, while the epauletted gentlemen of each corps were pro vided with more sumptuous quarters at the old Province House a man sion which the reader can see to this day, if he will but take pains to pass through a narrow archway on Washington street nearly opposite the Old South Church. CHAPTER III. The Governor's Mansion. His Excellency and the Commander of the Cruiser closeted together. The Instructions. Arrival of the wealthy Merchant. Domestic Troubles. Hypocrisy of the Gov- Intrusive Quaker. NOT far from Pemberton Hill in ' the days that tried men's souls' stood a large and handsome mansion, which, compared with the houses round, might be considered the palace of a nabob or nobleman. It was far, however, from being the palace of a nabob, for its occupant was really "poor as a church mouse," though he wore fine raiment and fared sumptuously every da*y ; neither was he to our republican standard, a nobleman, although he descended from a noble house had noble blood in his veins that is, according to the English standard of the quality of blood. A man can only be noble who performs noble acts. The colonial governor of Massachusetts, of that period, could not stoop from his high position to do an act of justice to perform a noble deed ; therefore the occupant of this palace, clearly, was not what he claimed to be, a nobleman. Had he possessed the pure soul of a Washington, a Franklin, a Han cock or an Adams, he might with better grace assumed to be noble. The mansion we have alluded to was, truly, occupied at the time of which we write by His Majesty's executive functionary lor the Massa chusetts colony. Let us for a moment take a peep inside. In a sumptuous, even gorgeously furnished apartment, sat the lordly Governor, and the commander of H. M. brig Prometheus, closeted alone. They had been in earnest conversation for some time, on matteri touching several prisoners, which were to be taken out to England, to be there tried for capital offences ; among whom was the bold rebel, George "Winchester, as the Governor styled .him. Also, much passed between them regarding the piratical schooner, which had been cruising upon the coast, capturing and destroying every defenceless craft which they eould overhaul ; the naval commander de claring it his belief that she was at that very moment in the Bay ; and he stated as the grounds of his belief, that he had seen a vessel, pel 1 - THE REBEL AND THE ROYER. 23 fectly answering her description, suddenly leave her moorings, ran through Shirley Gut, and under a cloud of canvas bear away for the eastern shore of the Bay. " What ! dare she show herself in our very harbor ?" ejaculated the Governor. " I have no doubt the vessel I saw was the Pirate, Blue Dragon !" an swered the commander. " Then why in the name of St. George and the Dragon, didn't you give chase and capture this bold pirate ?" asked the Governor, earnestly. " Had your Excellency but seen how like a .huge white bird she skimmed away, and had known the bad condition and poor sailing qualities of the cruisers, laden as we were with ammunition, and soldiers and their traps , you would have said that such a chass were worse than a wild-goose one." " Enough, captain your reasons are obvious," said the Governor, " but you must see that the cruisers are in sailing trim by sunrise to morrow. When you hear the morning gun, weigh anchor, and in your way seaward take a look into every inlet of both capes where a vessel can ride. Let not this scourge of the coast escape your vigilance. Should you be so lucky as to make her your prize, your fortune is made. Send her at once into this port, with despatches to me, under the con voy of the brigantine, while you in the brig, continue on your voyage to London.'' " Your excellency's command shall be fulfilled," said the officer. " Some time during the night I will see that the prisoners are safely aboard the brig ; be prepared to receive them." " Why not this afternoon, your Excellency, it would save much time," <*uggested the commander. " That, you must know, would prove a somewhat dangerous experi ment in the present disaffected state of the town," replied the governor in a subdued tone. " A mob force I am apprehensive might be raised to attempt a rescue, especially should it be discovered that one of the chief favorites of the disloyal clubs is among the prisoners to be sent home for trial. I tell you s captain, it will scarcely be credited in Eng land, when they are told what a rebellious spirit there is abroad. Why sir, I, their ruler, am hardly safe when I venture abroad. They even sneer at the coat-of-arms on the panel of my carriage door ; and laugh at my servants because they wear the livery of a nobleman. Bui a day will come when they shall be made to feel their folly these treasonous rebels." The interview was here interrupted by the entrance of a servant, who announced the name of Morton Merwin. " Ah ! the nabob merchant show him in,'' said his Excellency. The servant departed. " I'm always at home to Merwin., captain," continued the Governor. " Although an imbecile old man, he is, I believe, truly loyal ; besides his coffers, when our treasury is low are, quite a convenient resource, I do assure you." At this moment, Mr. Merwin, the father of Theresa, entered the Si THE REBEL AND THE ROYER. _ library with a countenance that told plainly as words could express it of a heart of sorrow. " Captain Lacy, Mr. Merwin," said the Governor, introducing the merchant to the officer. " Be seated my friend." The old gentleman sat down and sighed deeply ' You look ill, or rather I should say, sad, Mr. Merwin I trust no alamity has befallen you." " Alas ! alas !" essayed the merchant, as he strove to stay the un bidden tears that came profusely from his eyes. " My daughter my daughter I" " Merciful Heavens !" exclaimed his Excellency, " your daughter is not dead !'' " No. but I fear - n " I hope nothing serious has happened to the beautiful Theresa ?" said the Governor, enquiringly. " She heard, but this morning, of the arrest of George Winchester, and of the decree of the tribunal.'' " These things have quite distracted the poor girl.'' " Prithee, what is the rebel Winchester to her ?" queried the Governor, somewhat changing his tone. " Would to Heaven he was nothing to her! 1 ' replied the merchant; " but somehow or other the hot-headed youth has fairly stolen the girl's heart, and turned her head. Since the news of his arrest she has thought of nothing talked of nothing, but the unfortunate youth. In deed, your Excellency, she is inconsolable ! and should he be sent to England, or be executed here, you take the life of my beloved child !'' " Pooh ! pooh ! nonsense ! ;> muttered the Governor, sneeringly ; '' when once the youth is out of the way her love for him will soon fade out, de pend upon it ; but I trust, friend Merwin,'' continued he, seriously ; " I trust you do not countenance your daughter's love for a rebel ?'' " Not I, indeed !'' replied the merchant ; " but on the other hand, 1 have done all that in a father's power lies to dissuade her from giving the slightest encouragement to the reckless youth ; but what father ever has power to control the affections of a daughter when once firmly fixed ! I had promised her hand to Thornberg, thinking that so agreeable a gen tleman's love might be reciprocal ; but I was mistaken, his very name, mentioned in her presence, causes her to shrink as if a venomous reptile was hissing at her feet ; ay, the very blood forsakes her cheeks, and seems to freeze in her veins. I cannot bear to see my child my only child thus. Rather would I consent to her betrothal to my bitterest foe, than to see her unhappy much more than that she should be taken from me." " My friend, you look upon this trifling matter too seriously," suggested the Governor. " Ah ! your Excellency/' continued the merchant ; ' it'* no trifling matter. Could you but know how dearly I love my Thereae, you would think me too calm, too indifferent. To lose her would make her fathej a wretched old man, and dme him quickly to his grave ! There would THE REBEL AND THE ROYER. 25 be naught remaining to bind me to earth! It was almost my death blow when my bright boy left his home, never more to return. I wa& sustained under that blow, for Providence has spared my much loved daughter she has lived to bless me to this day and now she is oh God ! 'tis more than I can bear to think of she is distracted her mind is almost on the very verge of insanity !" " I pray thee, my friend, be calm,'' said the Governor; " if there is anything in my power to accomplish, to end these supposed evils, you aie liberty to command my services. 1 ' " Thanks ! thanks ! your Excellency !'' said the merchant, with a i expression of gratitude lighting up his saddened features. " You can do all that I desire.'' " And pray what is that ?" " Liberate that reckless boy that George Winchester !'' ' Ah 1 that my friend is beyond my perogative I said anything in my power/' remarked the Governor. " I cannot believe the youth guilty of the two crimes with which he is charged," said the merchant. " Your belief cannot alter the decree of a tribunal, Mr. Merwin.'' " Treasonous he may be, but he is no murderer !" declared the mer chant with emphasis. " You make an unwarrantable declaration, my friend,'' said the Gov ernor, striving to suppress an angry feeling which had nearly found vent in words. " No, sir, 1 have evidence, which though it may be regarded lightly by you is as conclusive to my mind as if it came from an angel in heaven !'' '' Indeed ! what is the character of this evidence ?'' asked the Gov- erner. " On the night of the alleged assassination of the two soldiers, young Winchester, while accompanying a female to her father's house was attacked by three or four ruffians in red coats. He defended himself and his charge most heroically, slaying two of the wretches on the spot ! This, I believe to be nothing but the truth, your Excellency.'* ' Impossible, my friend ! you must have been deceived !" returned the Governor " Your informant, I suppose, is the female who accom panied him ?'' " Your Excellency is right." ' Some woman of doubtful reputation eh Mr. Merwin ?" " No, sir !" contradicted the merchant, jumping to his feet in anger. " No, sir ! THAT FEMALE WAS MY OWN DAUGHTER !" and he brought his fist with a tremendous force upon the table before him. "I I I beg ten thousand pardons, Mr. Merwin! I I be seated my friend,' 1 stammered the Governor, scarcely knowing how to quell the tempest of indignation he had so unwittingly raised. His Excellency made so many apologies that, his convenient friend finally became pacified and resumed his seat, and the conversation was renewed. " I could not have suspected that the female was your daughter," re- 26 THE REBEL AND THE ROVER. marked the Governor, " in consideration of the locality of the murder, affray, fight, or whatever you please to call it. You must confess, Mr. Merwin, that ladies are not often een in that vicinity, either with or without a protector, after nightfall.'' " Very true, sir,' replied the merchant, " but my daughter's explana tion has entirely satisfied me on that point.'' " Your daughter should have been summoned to the examination." " True, your Excellency, but we were not even informed of his ar rest, when at the same time we heard of his being ordered by the court, to be sent to the old country for trial. Furthermore, I learned that the examination was conducted in a private manner, and in the most indecent hate.'' " This matter shall be enquired into," said the Governor. " Then you will countermand the order for sending the youth to England ?" said Merwin, enquiringly. " This alone will pacify my child." " I must first ascertain how far my prerogative extends in a case like this," said the Governor ; " but rest assured it shall have my most favor able consideration more I cannot promise until I have looked into the authorities. As regards your daughter's unhappy frame of mind, it is my advice that you make an effort to console her not by holding out a hope that her fond desires will be realized, but by impressing her with a sense of that duty which she owes you ; teach her to under stand the true character of her rebel lover that he is *a wretch, a criminal, and not deserving one thought of her virtuous mind, rr.uch more the possessor of her hand, worthy to be possessed by any noble*- man. Talk to her after this fashion, and my word for it she will mend apace.' 1 The old gentleman shook his head as if not relishing advice, which he well knew he had no heart to put in practice. " Say to me that all shall be done to save the wayward youth in your power, and then I shall go to my daughter with a lighter heart than when I left her," said the anxious parent, as he arose to depart. " Rely upon my favor," answered the Governor. " Then is there much hope for my beloved child." The merchant bade his Excellency a good morning and retired. His carriage, which was in waiting at the gate, speedily conveyed him home, when he acquainted the inconsolable Therese with his partially successful mission to the Governor. Mr. Merwin had hardly passed beyond the door of the Governor'i reception room, when his Excellency said to Captain Lacey, who had been an interested spectator during the whole interview, "That imbecile old nabob is well nigh in his dotage. He's an old fool as well as a confounded bore ; but I find it good policy to humor him." " But," asked Lacey, " do you really intend to change your design of sending this rebel prisoner to England ?'' " Never ! I'm not such an impolitic old dotard as that," answered the Governor. " But, captain, I desire that he be conveyed as secretly as possible ; for it is quite essential for me to keep on good terms with THE REBEL AND THE ROVER. 27 the merchant's cofiers ; as for the old fool, stripped of his wealth, I heartily despise. I shall have word given out, that the prisoner he takes such a paternal interest in, is confined at Castle William. Say nothing, captain, to discredit such a report, should you chance to hear it." " You can rely upon me, your Excellency," said the commander, ris ing. " I will bid your Excellency adieu, for I perceive that it is past the hour when I should have been aboard the brig." " But you will remain and dine with me ?' said the Governor. " I thank your Excellency, but you must excuse me. If the cruis ers are for sea to-morrow morning, I must to my post of duty. There is much to be done before another morning's dawn." " If you cannot tarry, captain, here are the despatches to the minis try which I spoke to you of," resumed the Governor, placing in the officer's hands a sealed packet. " Be sure, captain, to let me have a good account of those accursed Freebooters. They have too long been suf fered to rove on our coast. Besides, it would have a good effect upon the rebels of Boston, could they be sent here that we might have the satis faction of stringing them up before the populace ; at the same time giving them to understand that the fate of a pirate shall be the fate of a traitor to the King !" The captain here took his leave, promising th'at every effort should be made to capture the daring Freebooter, and to obey strictly his other commissions. At the outer door Captain Lacey ran afoul of a tall, broad-brimmed gentleman being no other than the bold Quaker who had something of an encounter, it will be recollected, with Thornberg, at the time of the afiray in which our hero was a formidable party. " Out of my way !'' said Captain Lacey, as soon as he discovered that the obstacle he had come in such sudden contact with was a lank Quaker. "Verily," said Broadbrim, "I mightest have said the same to thee, on ly the spirit moveth me not to speak so harshly.'' The Quaker passed on into his hall as if nothing more was necessary lo be said, and turning his amply covered head neither to the right or to the left. He reached the door of the Governor's apartment, and without being announced or removing his capacious tile, he stood erect before the chief magistrate of the colony. i. " Governor," said he, li I came to give thee warning and good coun sel." " We'll, Broadbrim, be brief, for my time is precious." " Then let it be known unto thee that a multitude of strong men are rising up againt thee: for it is said that thou thirsteth for blood; ay, verily, for the blood of the innocent boy thou has cast into prison. The people have much affection for the youth, and I warn thee that thy life hath uot security one hour even, after his death !" " If he is guilty, ought riot his life to be forfeited 1" asked the Gover- Bor. " Verily, he should suffer," replied the Quaker : "but George Win- 28 THE REBEL AND THE ROVER. cheater, the innocent, suffereth in prison, while the guilty man stalketh abroad, ay, even under the light of thy countenance.'' " To whom do you allude ?" inquired the Governor. " Thy friend, Captain Thornberg." " 'Tis lalse, and you know it, lying Quaker !" exclaimed the Gover nor in a rage. "Begone from my presence, and be wary of thy slander ous tongue, or you shall be hanged !" " Verily, I shall depart from under thy roof. Thou wilt not listen to he words of the truth, therefore I leave thee to thy certain destruction." Uttering these words with solemn gravity, Broadbrim turned slowly upon his heel, and walked moderately forth from the gubernatorial man sion. CHAPTER IV. The Cruisers Underweigh. Huzza for Merry England. The Handsome Student. The Captain and the noble Middy. Shriek from the Stranger. Peeping into Harbors. Sail ho! The Crui sers becalmed. ' Out with the Boats'. A slow Chase. The pale Student resolves to be a Hero in the strife. MORNING dawned old Sol arose in all its refulgent splendor, bathing in golden light the Cross of St. George, as its ample folds were simul taneously displayed at the main peaks of the King's Cruisers, and at the truck of the flag-staff on Fort Hill, while from the throats of deep- mouthed cannon belched forth smoke and flame, rivalling the thunder- ings of Jupiter in his angriest mood. Both vessels had weighed anchor the brigantine under topsail, top gallant sail, main-sail and jib, wore round and stood seaward while the brig was lying-to on the Moat, in waiting for the barge, which was to take off several passengers, and among others Captain Thornberg, who had been commissioned with the charge of the prisoners. There was another passenger, who had but that morning secured a berth on board the brig, who attracted no little attention as the barge drew alongside the brig and he ascended the gangway steps and stood upon the quar ter deck. He had been introduced to the captain as Herman Percival, by a lady with whom the former was intimate. She gave the officer to understand that he was a young student, bound for the university at Oxford, for the purpose of finishing his education. The chief cause of his attract ing the attention of officers and crew was his handsome features, hii remarkably clear and delicate complexion, and dove-like eyes. He was a healthy looking youth though remarkably effeminate ; and had he not wore upon his upper lip a thin, soft and sunny brown mustache, one would have sworn he was a woman in man's apparrel ; but when he took of his tasselled cap to wipe the perspiration from his marble brow, he displayed a head of glossy black hair cut close all around, but curl ing in short ringlets over his head, seeming as if it would curl in spite of THE REBEL AND THE ROYER. 29 combs and brushes. His voice was very much like that of a boy of sixteen, not effeminate, but a deep contralto, and the words were forced from his throat; as if he had been practicing elocutionary art. "Huzza for merry England !' 7 he shouted, waving his cap above his head, as the brig wore round, and fired the signal gun for starting. Under fore and main topsails, topgallant-sails, royals, courses, stay sails, jib, and spanker, His Majesty's brie Prometheus howled alontain Lacey that his brother captain had descried something which he p* ye\ had been unable to discern. " Hillo ! aloft there !'' cried out Lacey to a midshipman in the PVM-V top. "Any strange sail in sight "?" " No, sir." " Keep a bright look-out to the south-east !" said the captain. " Ay, ay, sir," was the response. Fifteen minutes elapsed, she keeping her course under a light breeze, when the middy cried : " Sail ho !'' The commander, without parley, jumped into the main rigging, with glass in hand, and taking a survey beyond a tongue of land extending from the cape, he descried the sails and rigging of a schooner, apparent ly lying to for the corning down of the brigantine. The hull of the for mer was yet concealed from view by the land, but in a fw momenta was in full view. d " By Jupiter ! it is the Pirate !" exclaimed the captain, leaping upon the quarter deck. This sudden and unexpected announcement startled every man on the brig's deck, and every eye was strained to catch a glimpse of the bold freebooter. Presently the schooner was seen to wear around, and bear outwardly. " Crowd on every stitch of canvass, Mr. Mason," said Lacey to the ailing-master " the devil shows us his tail !" THE REBEL AND THE ROVER. 31 The brig changed her course, and all three vessels were now crowd ing on due east. The brigantine being less than half a league astern of the Pirate, while the brig was nearly a league. It was now about four bells P. M., and as the day advanced the wind lulled, and there was but a gentle summer breeze blowing. The surface of the ocean was scarcely ruffled, yet there was a long ground swell 'which kept the vessels rolling, so that the guns of the brig ^occasionally reached the water's surface. In another hour it was a perfect calm, and the sails hung loosely from the spars of each vessel. " Out with the boats !" cried the captain. " If we don't overhau the devil before the stars begin to glimmer, he'll surely escape us." The brig's boats were lowered and manned with full crews ; a line was run out, and with hearty pulls they commenced towing the ves sel. Notwithstanding her deep draught she moved through the water at a rate of three knots. By keeping the boats on a line with' the bri gantine, they were concealed from the Pirates view. Soon, how ever, they were near the stern of the brigantine, and were obliged to show themselves so that the brig could shoot by. Captain Lacey hailed the brigantine, and after a short parley con cerning the anticipated battle, her boats, fully manned, were added to those of the brig, By the combined efforts of both sets of crews, the brig made tolerable headway, and was perceptibly gaining on the schoon- or, notwithstanding her boats were out, and the buccaneers plying their oars with long and graceful sweeps as if their lives depended upon their escape from the British cruisers. " We shall have hot work soon, lads !" said the brig's commander, as he walked fore and aft the deck, addressing the men. " Remember, that we have no honorable foe to deal with, but the enemy of all who dare venture upon the sea robbers ! murderers ! bloody, ruthless devils Remember, too, that if we chance to be overpowered though I appre hend no such disgraceful result is awaiting us we are doomed men we shall be compelled to walk the plank with thirty-two pound shots chained to our ancles ! In a word, they give no quarter they will sell their lives dearly ! Let us show them that Britons' lives are as dear as theirs. 1 ' At this moment a flash was seen to issue from the schooner's stern, and a shot was seen riccochetting over the water, towards them, but fell short several rods ahead of the foremost boat. " Pull, pull, my hearties !'' cried the captain, to the boat's crew, as he watched the progress of the heavy shot from the bow of the brig " Pull away ! we shall be aboard of the devil's craft soon. 1 ' Orders were now given for clearing the deck for action the guns were shotted, boarding pikes, cutlasses and muskets were brought on deck, and arranged in order, and everything alow and aloft put in readi ness for a desperate battle." " Pipe all hands to quarters, Mr. Marlin, ' said the captain, The boatswain's whistle screamed, its shrill note penetrating every part of the vessel, summoning the seamen to duty. Promptly they re sponded to the call, and every tar was soon at his post. A sraaU com. 32 THE REBEL AND THE ROVER. pany of marines were under arms below, ready to rush to the deck at the first roll of the drum. From the midst of the bustling scene on deck the valiant Cap tain Thornberg was suddenly missing. The first gun from the Pi rate seemed to be his signal for vanishing beneath the deck. Whether he thought his august, portly presence took up too much room on the brigs quarter, or whether he entertained any fear for his personal safety, we shall leave the reader to infer from subsequent proceedings. Cer tain it is, that he locked himself in his state-room, and tumbled into his berth, his limbs shaking and his teeth chattering, as if he were seized with a sudden fit of ague. The young, handsome student, however, still remained on deck, watching the stirring busy scene before him, and occasionally glancing his mild clear eye towards the schooner. The delicate crimson tints, which had imparted beauty and freshness to his cheeks, had vanished, and there was a slight quivering of the lip observable. " You have never witnessed a sea-fight," observed Captain Lacey, as he observed that the youth's countenance had grown pale. " Never, sir !" he answered, the words almost sticking in his throat. " You can go below," said the captain, who seemed to have taken an interest in his delicate looking passenger ; " and I advise you to do so as soon or before we commence the battle. I perceive the gallant cap tain of the guards has already stowed his portly carcass out of sight. There will be less danger below, my lad." The officer turned away to resume his duty, and the youth, with a tear glistening in his eye, as he gazed into the clear blue vault above, said, inaudibly " To Heaven I look for protection in the hour of peril ! Oh ! God ! inspire me with courage, and nerve my arm for the strife !" A moment more flitted by, and the youth dashed the tear from his eye, started .to his feet, walked across the deck and descended into the cabin. In a few minutes he reappeared and walked the deck with a firm step. He had strapped a belt around his waist, and had provided himself with a pair of pistols and stilletto. His cheeks were no longer pale, but were suffused with a crimson glow ; the lips no longer quiver ed, but were firmly compressed ; the eyes no longer beamed mildly, but shot forth their latent fire". His whole bearing seemed that of a young hero resolving to " do or die !" The captain smiled approvingly upon his show of courage ; and with his own hand he buckled a light but keen sabre to the side of Herman Percival. Never did the ocean look calmer, or more beautiful ; but there w%s a storm gathering in the heavens ; the elements were soon to rage with violence. The small cloud not a span in length was yet unperceived by the ciuisers or the pirates, so intent were they all in preparing for viotorv w death ' THE REBEL AND THE ROVER. 33 CHAPTER V. The deck of the Blue Dragon. Arthur Brunei, the young Chieftain. The way he gained his position. Approach of the Brig, The First Shot and the first, Blood. The Combat. The Storm. Vic tory of the Buccaneers. THE deck of the bold Buccaneer presented a scene of activity and energy scarcely equalled on board of either of the cruisers. Arthur Brunei, the youngest chief of the Pirates, began to display that tact and energy which was predicted by his lieutenant to Bossle, the boatswain, on the occasion of the suspicious interment. Every man aboard in spired by their new commander's bearing, and his encouraging speech, worked with a hearty will, and put her deck in better fighting condition than any pirate aboard had ever seen it. The rneri in the boats pulled with alacrity, cheered by the manly ring of their chiefs voice. " The brig is last gaining upon us," said the lieutenant, who had just been taking an observation through his glass. " And the brigantine V inquired Brunei. " Nearly a league astern making no perceptible headway," was the answer. " That is well/' said the chief. " They don't yet suspect my design : but keep a sharp look-out, Sedley, and report the first change in their mancBuvre, Manuel," said he, addressing the gunner, " toss another stern chaser towards the brig, just to measure the distance." " Si, capitan,'' replied the gunner, an old Spanish pirate, who had done service under several of the most noted corsair chiefs the world ever knew. " Shall I damage the boats, or try the thickness of her hull between wind and water ?'' " No, Manuel," replied Brunei, " do not cripple the brig or her boata just now. When we have led the brig on this wild-goose chase sufficient ly far from the brigantine, to answer our purpose, then we'll show her the calibre of our guns." " Si, si, Senor Capitan I understand !" said the gunner, chuckling at the thought of his chief's design, which had thus been revealed to him. " Fire over him," said the chief. " Si, si, Senor." The Spaniard elevated the long gun, and taking good aim, he seized the torch, and flourishing it over his head he applied it to the piece. When the smoke cleared away, the chief exclaimed "By St. lago ! a capital shot, Manuel ! you have spoiled the cruiser's fo're-royal yard, for one end of it, I perceive, is sent down without order. 1 ' The gunner gave a gratified grin, and went forward. " What's the distance between the cruisers, now, Sedley ?"' enquired the chief. " About four miles, as nearly as I can judge by their position with re erence to the land," was the reply. " Enough," said Brunei. " Bossle," he continued, turning, to the 34 THE REBEL AND THE ROVER. boatswain, " order in the boats i.et it be done as quickly and as quietly as possible.'' " Ay, ay, sir/' replied the old pirate, and gazing for a moment with an expression of pride upon the animated features of his chief he turned to obey the order. " That's a chief, now, after my own heart, Manuel," said Bossle to the gunner, after he had ordered in the boats. " We shall soon become reconciled to the loss' of old Gaspar." " Si, si,'' answered the Spaniard, " but he wants a Spanish temper to become a true rover. I know the youth lacks not courage." " Courage !" repeated the boatswain ; " he'll fight like a lion, or may I be d d for judgment. I tell you he'd grapple with the devil himself without flinching. "We've made a good choice, depend upon it. I can see by his sparkling lights that he's full of fight as a young bloodhound. Oh, we'll have rare sport under our valiant leader, and we are to have a taste pretty shortly. See, how nobly he bears himself and not yet five days a commander.'' The boatswain spake with much truth ; indeed he was not extrava gant in the encomiums he lavished upon their youthful chieftain. Truly, Arthur Brunei was no ordinary being, either in those qualities which command the subserviency of those less intellectually endowed, or in that courage or coolness requisite in the excitement of battle, or in other gieat perils. He also possessed more pleasing qualities than is frequent ly allowed to man, and had the power to win friends where he might expect foes. He was a truly handsome man an Adonis in form and feature an open, and apparently honest countenance, and not that fienaish, serpent-like expression which every pirate is supposed to have strongly marked upon his features. There was an absence even of those hairy appendages, the moustache, the imperial and whiskers, with which piratical heroes are invariably painted. Truly, he looked as anti-pirati cal as possible, if we except the pistols, the sabre, and yataghan, which he carried about his person. His age was scarcely twenty-two years, and yet he h*d gained the command of the pirate schooner, by first shooting old Graspardo, his predecessor, and then proclaiming himself Chief! It appeared that he had an old and bitter grudge against the blood thirsty GaspaiJo, and long had he sought for a reasonable apology to slay him ; but a good and sufficient one did not occur until the night previous to the burial scene already described. The tragedy occurred while the buccaneers were enjoying a grand bacchanalian revel in the cabin of the Blue Dragon. Being inflamed with wine, old Gaspar, with that diabolical recklessness which had ever characterized him, drew a loaded pistol from his belt and discharged it under the table. The ball took effect in the leg of a pirate, seated apposite, and so shocking was the wound, the surgeon declared amputa tion necessary to save the man's life. Arthur Brunei, who sat beside the wounded man, on hearing him utter a heart-rending groan, and be- nulding the shattered limb, arose from his seat, drew his pistol, and with the utmost coolness and ^liberation, aimed it at the head of the reckless THE REBEL AND THE ROVER. 30 offender and fired. The ball reached his brain, arid Gaspardo (sfoncilazo, the brutal Chief, fell upon the floor a corpse ! '' Death to him who scruples not to maim any of us without a provo cation !'' was his exclamation, and justification for the deed, as he pulled the fatal trigger. " The avengement is just !" cried the second lieutenant. " Such a brute deserved not to live ! Let us drink a flagon to the avenger !" he shouted, as he filled up a golden goblet to the brim. Those of the crew who had witnessed the foul deed of their old Chief, and saw how summarily he had been avenged by the first lieutenant, followed the example of the second lieutenant, and drank ofF a full bumper in honor of the avenger. That night, Arthur Brunei was raised to the first command of the Blue Dragon, and proclaimed Chieftain of the Free Rovers of the A-tlantic I But we are digressing from the true course of* our yarn, and we now return to the Corsair vessel, whose boats had dropped alongside, and now lay drifting with the tide, while the brig, making all headway possible with four boats, was fast approaching. When within a hundred yards a shot from the Prometheus came whizzing over the Pirate's deck, and the Cross of St. George was now displayed from her main peak. Simultaneously was run up to the main truck of the schooner, the blood- red flag of the buccaneers, bearing upon it, as a device, a blue dragon. " Fight coolly, men, until we come to close quarters, then fight like devils !" said the chief as he walked the deck. " Let victory or death be our motto ! Those who will fight for victory, can only escape to be Qung in chains.'' These words had scarcely escaped his lips when a shot from the brig skipped across the water and was buried in the stout bulwark of the schooner. Another and another followed in quick succession, and one of the pirates fell upon the deck, his body being cut nearly in twain by an eighteen pound shot. Not a gun as yet had been discharged from the Blue Dragon's battery, although every piece was double-shotted, and by each crouched a gun ner with a lighted match, ready to pour death and destruction upon their English enemies. Young Brunei hurried fore and aft the decks uttering rapid command* to his impatient men. " Fire not a gun until I give the signal !" was his stern order. " Then aim with precision and blaze away ! Better will it be to lose a man or two than suffer ourselves to be captured !" Meanwhile a good sailing breeze had sprung up, and the brig was now bearing down upon the larboard quarter of the schooner, and at intervals firing her bow-chasers. "When within hailing distance she wore away so as to present her whole starboard battery broadside to the Pirate. " Schooner ahoy !" shouted Captain Lacey, through his trumpet, ihewing his head just above the tafirail. " Hillo !'' answered Brunei in a trumpet tone, boldly stepping upon the taffrail, thus displaying his" whole figure to his enemy. 36 THE REBEL AND THE ROYER. " Surrender ! and send your boat aboard ?" commanded Lacey. . " To whom T cried the Pirate Chief. " To His Majesty's brig Prometheus, Lacey, commander !" answered the Englishman. " There's no escape for you ! Be lively or I'll blow you out of the water !" " Ay, ay, sir presently,'' replied Brunei, who ordered his light gig around to the larboard gangway, simply to procrastinate, for the tw vessels were still nearing each other. " Strike that bloody ensign !" commanded the Englishman pompous ly, who flattered himself that he had overawed the Jouccaneers. and they were about to surrender themselves into his hands without resist ance. om is that particu lar period of my existence an almost perfect blank in my life. My friend pardon the liberty I take in calling you so it is strongly im pressed on my senses that you have given me a clue to my father !" " Your iather ?" " Even so. The coincidence, at least, is remarkable, that I was lost to my only parents at home, at the same period that this Mr. Merwin lost his only son !" " 'Tis singular ay, wonderful !'' exclaimed our hero. " But/' continued the bold Pirate, "were I sure that my suspicions were correct, I should be at loss whether to exult or mourn. Should I ever find a father, I could scarcely approach him. I could not claim to be the prodigal son, for he was no pirate, such as I am ! the cursed, the condemned of all mankind. I could not bear his curses ! though Grod knows, there is some palliation for my desperate career ! He knows too, that I have often prayed with a sincere heart, to be relieved from the bondage the worse than bondage which binds me, body and soul, to a band of ocean marauders ! 46 THE REBEL AND THE RO\TER. George Winchester was startled, indeed, on hearing the words thai fell from the lips of the strange being before him. Can it be possible, thought he, that this self-condemned man is the long lost son of Mortor Merwin ! the brother of Therese-r-the brother of his betrothed a pirate, too ! It is possible ay, more, it is very probable. He scanned Brunei's features with a scrutinizing gaze. Yes there was a strong family resemblance and it was that resemblance he now saw but to clearly, first interested him in the bold buccaneer, who faad generously rescued him and his companions in misery from -out the hands of their oppressors, and from a watery grave ; and who had, thus far, shown them all the hospitality that they could have expected had they been rescued by their warmest friends. " Then you believe or at least suppose that Morton Merwin is your father?" asked our hero, breaking the silence which had intervened. " How can I think otherwise, when, added to the coincidence named, I was struck with the features of this miniature, that they resembled one whom I do remember in my early boyhood, notwithstanding that gloomy blank in my life which afterwards occurred." ' I confess you have good grounds for your suppositions ;" remarked Winchester ; " and as another proof, allow me to say that in you I dis covered, when first we met, a close resemblance to the Merwin family." " It would flatter my vanity to know that, even in the smallest par- Scalar, I resembled the original of this picture," replied Brunei. " But tell me, what is the age of this fair creature ?" " Seventeen.'' " 1 have a faint resemblance of an infant, that prattled and played in my mother's arms, but whether a brother or sister I cannot recollect.' 7 " Your career must, indeed, kave been a mysteriously strange one." remarked Winchester. " Alas ! it has been a wicked one," replied Brunei, emphatically. ".Would to Heaven I could live o'er again the past ten years of my earthly career. If you have patience, after we have finished our morning's repast, I will relate the important events of my somewhat - anomalous history, which, I trust may in some degree, palliate my con duct in your judgment. These events are as startling as they are sin gular.' 1 " Be assured, sir, that nothing could afford me greater gratification, lor my curiosity was never so greatly excited," replied our hero : ' but I am at a loss to know why you repose in me, an entire stranger to you, such unlimited confidence 1" The chieftain was about to reply, when he was interrupted by the entrance of Juba, followed by three others, bearing viands for the table, which having been arranged properly upon the table, Brunei ordered Juba to summon Sedley, the lieutenant, to breakfast, while he repaired to his state-room for the purpose of inviting the interesting youth to par take also, but finding him still in deep repose, he determined not to awake him. THE REBEL AND THE ROVER, 47 The lieutenant entered, and he was introduced by the chief to young Winchester. Sedley grasped his hand as if he desired that they should become better acquainted. " I think we have met before," said our liero. " I have not the slightest recollection of your countenance.'' " I may be mistaken/' said Winchester, gazing at him, when it sud denly occurred to his mind the time and place when he had not only heard his voice, but saw his features distinctly. It WHS but a few days previously the place Deer Island the occasion, the bural ofGaspardo Their conversations now turned upon other matters, principally as to the progress of the schooner, the weather and other subjects, The breakfast being concluded, the lieutenant returned to his dut^s M officer of the deck, when the chief commenced h'B narration. , 48 THE REBEL AND THE ItOTER. CHAPTER VIII. THE CHIEF'S NARRATIVE. Arthur BrunePs Boyhood Days. Recollections of his Parents and his Home. Is carried away by Strangers. His sickness and Re covery. The Island Home. Arthur accidentally kills the Chief of the Free Rovers. Departure of the Schooner. Her protracted Absence. Two vessels are descried. Capture of a Spanish Gal- , leon by a Brigantine. Chase from a British Cruiser. The Brigantine hoists the Free Rovers Flag. Great rejoicing ashore. The desperate battle. Victory of the Brigantine. The Boy a Hero but a Pirate! UNDISTURBED by the presence of a third person, Arthur Brunei nar rated to his guest for as such he had thus treated young Winchester those events which had led him in league with the most formidable band of Pirates, at that period known on the American coast or upon the Spanish Main. " My earliest recollections," began the Pirate Chief, " are such as to convince me that I was born in affluence ; for I have distinct im pressions of a large mansion, sumptuously furnished of servants in livery of horses, carriages, and their appurtenances. I remember a tall, good natured gentleman, whom I called father, but I cannot rec ollect his features or any thing more regarding him, except what I have stated. My mother, however, I have so distinct a remembrance of, that time can never efface her lineaments from my memory. That she was beautiful, to my childish eyes, I know ; that she was kind and good, and indulgent, and loved me with a mother's love, I fully believe; that her features were very like those of that miniature, though she appeared somewhat older, I cannot doubt, and that impression is con firmed by the fact of the picture's so suddenly attracting my attention when I accidentally discovered it, otherwise I should not have taken it irom your possession. I remember, too, though indistinctly, a middle- THE REBEL AND THE ROVER. 4? aged woman who used t take me occasionally from home to visit her own iriend. She I suppose, was my nurse. On one occasion, she led me to a house, where there were a great number of persons, male and female I have since thought of doubtfulj reputation. It was there I must have been put to sleep, for I remember not, after that of having seen my mother or my home again. I have faint recollections of awak ing in a truly novel place for one of my years It was the cabin of a vessel. There were rough voices pistols and swords hung from their belts, and they were dressed very unlike any people that I had seen. I was unhappy, as you may suppose, and cried for my mother. " A beautiful lady soothed me with sweatmeats, and beguiled my heart with toys. Indeed, I was her only care : and as I did so, thoughts of home and its endearments less and less occupied my mind. Who this lady was I will make known to you in the course of my narrative. Some time after that 1 was taken sick, and as I have been informed, and remained in a prostrate condition for many months, and, for aught I know, for several years. At any rate, this period of my life, was to me a period of darkness and gloom ; and each event prior to my illness seems to me more like a vision than a reality. But enough of this ; I will narrate those events which occurred subsequent to my sickness, and which I can speak of with certainty. "I was now a youth of ten years of age, and lived on a small but beautiful island. My constant companion was the lady to whom I have before alluded. She taught me to call her mother, and I was called Arthur Arthur Brunei. I think Arthur was my original name, but the sirname I think was not given to me rightfully. Besides one re spectable looking stone house, there were six small tenements, rudely but massively constructed, clustered together. These composed our island hamlet. Our household consisted of my new mother, whom my pseudo father called the Lady 'Bel, six mulatto servants, two males and four females. The smaller tenements were occupied each by two mulatto servants, but occasionally the schooner belonging to our haven arrived, and then all our houses would be filled, and our little village would present quite a bustling, animated scene. On such occasions our family would be augmented by the three officers of the schoonet Captain Brunei, and his two lieutenants, Gaspardo Goncilazo and Carlo Dupres. During the stay of the vessel in port, the whole time scarcely ceasing night or day, would be spent in merry-making sing ing, dancing, gaming, fencing, targel-shooting, and I may add, eating and drinking lo an almost beastly excess. They usually tarried some two or three weeks, when they would set sail, and frequently three or six months elapsed before their return. " During their absence our ham let seemed almost deserted. Then would Lady 'Bel, or as the seamen called her, Q,ueen of the Isle, devote several hours each day in teach ing me reading, writing, arithmetic, geography, grammar, &c. These studies were pursued in the Spanish language, but she taught me to epeak English also, a language which seemed far more natural to me than the Spanish, for I knew it was my childish prattle. Captain Brunei always addressed his wife, as well as myself, in English. 50 THE REBEL AND THE ROVER. When I was about eleven years of age, the second great incident ol my life occurred. One day when Captain Brunei was playing familiar ly with me, as was his wont immediately after breakfast, he patted me on the head, and said " Well, my boy, you will soon be stout enough to go to sea in the schooner." " Oh, yes," replied I, pleased with such a prospect, " Don Carlos says I am stout enough already." " Think you can handle a weapon like this?" he asked, as he drew his heavy cutlass, and flourishing it over his head, he placed it in my comparatively tiny grasp. With both hands I was just enabled to raise it above my head and strike it upon the table. " Bravo ! bravo !'' he cried. " You shall have one that you can wield." " Thank you, sir," said I, for I was delighted at the thought of strut ting about with a sword by my side as did the captain and his lieuten ants ; " and I should like one of them, too," I remarked, pointing to the brace of pistols in his belt. " What, do you think those little fingers are big enough to fire such a weapon as this 1" and he placed in my hands a heavy boarding pistol. I took the weapon, and without the slightest hesitation cocked it as I had often seen the sailors do when practising at target, and without any definite idea of the dangerous weapon, or in what direction its muzzle was aimed, I pulled the trigger the report almost stunned me and oh. horror ! I heard Captain Brunei utter an agonizing shriek, and saw him fall upon the floor ! My mother, who was sitting near by, jumped to her feet instantly, uttering shrieks, and heart-rending cries of " Oh, God ! he's dead ! he's dead ! my chief is dead ! Oh, Arthur, do you know what you have done ? Look ! you have killed your father !" I stood aghast for a few moments, and then gave vent to my feelings by loud screams, accompanied by a flood of tears though, even then 1 was not fully sensible of the enormity of the deed I had accidentally committed. I had never seen a man shot, or killed in any manner had never seen, to my recollection, a dead man, or one in the agonies of death in truth my ideas of death were somewhat vague. I, perhaps, was more terrified at the cries of my mother, than J-n be holding Brunei's form stretched out before me, with blood gushing from his wounds The ball had penetrated his left breast near the region of the heart. The cries of my mother brought Carlos and several of the servants into the room. He did not cry out nor shriek as did my mother ; but kneeling on the floor he lifted the head of his wounded chief into his arms. The sight of that ghastly countenance would have appalled me had I been a few years older, but a thought had not yet entered my mind that the effect of that careless act of mine was to send his soul into eternitv. " With a handkerchief, the lieutenant stopped the gushing THE REBEL AND THE ROYER. 51 ~ t of blood from the wound, when the -dying man began to utter some ex pressions, and, as I thought afterward, very strange ones, considering that he knew his la&t moments were at hand. " The d 1 will take his own soon, lieutenant I've got my quietus that's certain 'twas an accident the boy shot me but I was d d\ fool enough to let him take my pistol ! 'Twas all accidental, mind that old Nick '11 be along shortly. Carlos, J shall name you as my sue cessor hear it, 'Bel?" " But, chief, I have hope that this wound is not so serious as you ap prehend," said the lieutenant. "Ah, 'tis enough !" he groaned. " My chance of life isn't worth that of a pirate in the hands of an English hangman ! But I'd rather die by the hand of the boy than be- hung up in a gibbet !" Meanwhile the Lady 'Bel was sobbing, and uttering most wild and piteous exclamations. " 'T,is no use taking on so, 'Bel, 1 ' essayed the dying man ; " the devil's boatswain has summoned my soul to his quarters and there's no such thing as refusing duty when his whistle screams ! He can't pipe us down but once, and all of our profession are bound that way eh, Car los?'' and he gave a ghastly smile. " This is not the time to talk in that manner, chief/' said Carlos. <( If your life is so brief, as you apprehend, now is the time to give directions as to your " " Talk not of that," interrupted the chief; "but take good care of that boy ! Oh ! curse this pain ! why couldn't that ball have whizzed through me an inch lower down !" and, notwithstanding his levity and profanity, he appeared to be writhing in pain. The Lady 'Bel wiped her eyes, and taking a golden crucifix from her neck, she held it before the eyes of the dying man. " Hell and furies !'' he exclaimed, his eyes starting from their sockets ; " take that bauble from my sight ! Satan is my master not Him who bore that !'' The woman obeyed him, and placed it in her bosom, after perceiving that the Christian's emblem seemed rather to torture him than to sooth his brain. " There, 'Bel,'' resumed the dying man, in broken sentences, " I'm glad ha ! ha ! to see your bright toplights dry pump no more there see, you look but 'tis growing dark ah ! my eyes are grow ing dim let me take your hand. Yes, I feel it, now the boy, 'Bel let him not be harmed my life isn't worth a farewell, 'Bel the boy the boy '' "With these words, repeated at intervals until his latest breath, Cap tain Brunei expired. On the following day his body was rolled up in a piece of canvas, and lashed around with rope yarns ; several heavy shot were then suspended to his heels, and without further ceremony his body was taken to a high projecting cliff, beneath which was a perpetu al whirlpool, where the waters were ever, in fair weather or foul, lashed into a fury, and therein precipitated. This place was called " The Devil's Fountain," and although not an THE REBEL AND THE ROVER. hundred yards in circumference, a boat, however staunch and strongly manned could not have lived within it twenty seconds. 1 witnessed the casting of the body into this fearful place : for a mo ment after it struck the surface it whirled so rapidly around that it ap peared like a circular object. When it reached the centre of the pool it was swallowed up in an instant. I am quite certain that the captain's death was not much lamented, for the men continued their sports as before, and I heard several casual expressions fall from the lips of the men, indicating that they were glad to be rid of him, and that his first lieutenant, Carlos Duprez, was much to be preferred for their chief. His wife, too, the Lady 'Bel, I am sure did not mourn his loss only on the day of his death and thai of his being cast into the sea ; and on the day following the final disposition of his remains, she told me, henceforth, to call Carlos my father ! for, gaid she, he is your father, because he is now my husband ! I, of course, was not old enough to see the slightest impropriety in this, and I acquiesced in her wishes ; besides, I had quite as great au affection lor Carlos, as I had ever had for him I had accidentally sent out oi the world, with expressions of levity and profanity upon his lips almost to his latest breath. In a few days after this event the schooner went to sea -Don Carlos Duprez had been proclaimed Chief, and Gaspardo Goncilazo was pro moted to the first lieutenancy. Our little island hamlet once more resumed its wonted peacefulness, and I recommenced my studies the Lady "Bel being my teacher as before, her time having been otherwise occupied, during the whole time the schooner remained in port. Weeks rolled on even months passed away, and the schooner did not return , and situated as we were, there was no possibility of receiving any tidings from her, as no other vessel, to my knowledge, was known to enter our haven. The Lady 'Bel, after four or five months had elapsed, began to express her apprehensions as to the fate of the vessel ; and, as we were, in a great degree, supplied with the luxuries and even the necessaries of life from the schooner, we entertained fears that our stock of provisions must soon be exhausted, and no means left us for a supply in the fu ture. The Lady 'Bel now ordered the servants, male and female, to explore the island for game to catch fish, turtles, crabs, &c. ; and, for a long time we were compelled, with the exception of the fruit we gathered, to subsist almost entirely upon this description of food. Our stock of bread, flour, tea, cofiee, sugar and wines, were complete ly exhausted, and things, I assure you, began to assume a somewhat uneomfor table if not a de&perate aspect in our little isolated home, for, under penalty of a death of torture, we were prohibited from hailing or even boarding any strange vessel that might chance to pass near the island. Yet, despite all our deprivations, we had at our hands the naaans oi THE REBEL AND THE ROVER. 53 sustaining life in the shell-fish, birds and fruit, with which the islet abounded , besides, we had never quite despaired of again hailing the arrival of our schooner. So long a time had now elapsed some fifteen or sixteen months that we abandoned the usual custom of keeping a look-out on the most ele- viated point of the island, for the purpose of having little time to prepar* (or the reception of our people, in case the schooner should be descried. Some three or four weeks subsequent to the discontinuance of this practice, at mid-day, the distant booming of heavy cannon startled our ears. In a body, we all rushed toward the look-out, with the high hope that the firing proceeded from the schooner, but we were destined to be sadly disappointed. Instead of the object we had hoped to see, we descried a large ship, coming down from the southwest under full sail, evidently endeavoring to escape from an armed brigantine, also under full sail. The larger vessel was soon ascertained to be a Spanish galleon, which proved to be a dull-sailer, compared to the brigantine. The distance between them gradually lessened ; and, nowithstanding the galleon, apparently, had no very formidable means of defence, she obstinately kept on her course, while the shot, at every discharge from the two bow-chasers of the brigantine, told fearfully upon the spars and rigging of the galleon. In less than half an hour after we had first descried the two vessels, the brigantine had ranged abreast the galleon, not fifty yards distant, so far as we could judge, and here poured a whole broadside into the ship. The mizen-mast went by the board, and with it the Spanish flag which was flying from the mizen-peak. The firing now ceased, and as soon as the smoke rolled away, we saw a cutter leave the brigantine, filled with men, which run alongside tke galletrtt As the cutter's men clambered over the ship's rail, they were met with considerable resistance from the galleon's crew, armed with pistols ajid muskets the flashes of which we could distinctly see, but oould hear no report. While the conflict was raging on the deck the brigantine run along side and grappled with the galleon. Soon after this the contest seemed to be decided in favor of the brigantine, for we could no longer discern the flashes of small arms, or other symptoms of the fight. At this time, during the chase, the brigantine had a red flag at mast head without any device. For two long hours these two vessels lay, side by side, peaceably as was the waveless ocean at the time. At the expiration of this period, the brigantine pushed off, and had sailed about a cable's length ahead of the galleon, when, suddenly, a huge column of smoke and flame burst forth from amidships the galleon, and in a few moments she was in a perfect blaze from stem to stern, and from th water-line to the main truck. Spar af:er spar fell with a crash, until nothing but her burning hulk 4 54 THE REBEL AND THE ROVER. remained. We watched her until she was burned to the water's edge, and then suddenly disappear beneath the ocean's smooth surface, send ing up as she went down a mass of smoke and steam ! It was now nearly four o'clock in the afternoon. A dead calm rested upon the ocean, not even the softest zephyr disturbing its mirror-like sur face. The brigantine, which had destroyed the galleon, and undoubtedly all of the crew, lay like a stationary object upon the glassy sea, ahout a league's distance from our haven, in a westerly direction. Thus mo tionless she lay until about an hour before sunset, when a fresh breeze from the eastward suddenly sprung up. The brigantine's sails, which had hurtg idly to the spars, were now close-hauled, and she took a south-easterly course, or as close in the wind's eye as it was possible, which brought her in a short space of time within half a mile of the most southerly point of the islet. She then went in stays and close-hauled upon the other tack, as if intending to beat into our little inlet. Meanwhile, on the easterly side of the island, we had descried a sail, which on her near approach wediscovered to be an armed brig, sailing before the wind, under a full press of canvass, even to her studden-sails and royals. Her course, in a short time, brought her abreast the northerly part of the island, while the brigantine held a course nearly E. N. E. A high bluff intervening the vessels had apparently not discerned each other, until the brig had shot past the point, where they found themselves within reach of an eighteen pound carronade of each other. At this moment, the brigantine' suddenly went about, and stood di rectly for the narrow channel which led to our haven. The brig immediately took in her studden-sails and courses, hauled into the wind, fired one of her bow-chasers, and up went the British en sign to the main-peak. The brigantine kept the deviceless red flag floating at her main truck, and, instead of responding to the shot which the brig had to&sed into her cabin window, by the way of a card, inviting her to hea^e-to, she reso lutely kept on her course, followed by the cruiser. It was very evident that the brigantine wished to avoid the engage ment with the somewhat formidable-looking stranger, for although it was a dangerous place to navigate, she bowled on with every rag of sail set that she could carry when close-hauled. The chase acted with more prudence, as we thought, for we regarded both as strangers to our channel. She had an eye to those ugly looking reefs which well nigh encom passed the island, and which, whether in calm or in storm, kept the water in a constant foamy agitation. With these dangers in view she began taking in sail the fore and main royals, fore and main top-gallant sails, were almost simultaneous ly clewed up and furled closely to the yards down went jib and flying- jib, and the brig stood in under main and fore-topmast-staysail, following as near as possible in the wake of the brigantine. THE REBEL AND THE ROVER. 55 Hie latter fired not a gun, but led on the stranger to the haven or littlo bay, from which there was hardly a hope of escape. It was to us, almost a miracle that the brigantine run that rocky gauntlet, under full sail in safety. . When nearly within hailing distance of the narrow entrance, formed by the high, rocky blufT on either side, down went the meaningless red flag, and up went the bunting of the Free Rovers ! that ensign which was familiar to us, as the one which floated at the schooner's mast-head when she sailed, but through some casuality or other had been trans ferred to the brigantine ! The sight of the flag filled our people with joy ; they made the wel kin ring with their exulting shouts, in heartfelt greeting of that en sign, which they had begun to despair of ever seeing again. Though floating over a strange vessel, and though that vessel was being pursued into her very den by a formidable brig, with a superior armament and a superior force, these facts did not in any degree mar the pleasure which all manifested in beholding the return, as they had every reason to suppose, of our own people. Both men and women, as the prow of the brigantine penetrated the narrow inlet, gave one simultaneous huzza ! and then ran to arm them- s"elues with, muskets, pistols, sabres, and such other weapons as they could lay their hand upon, to assist the brigantine in expelling the dan gerous intruders so closely at hand. I was, at this critical juncture in the affairs of the inlet, a boy of thirteen years of age, and had acquired considerable skill in the use of fire-arms, and also in wielding the light rapid and common sabre. I, too, the youngest of the party, on this emergent occasion, had arm ed myself with a carbine, a brace of pistols, and a light cutlass. No idea had ever occured to my mind, notwithstanding all I had wit nessed that day in the offing, that our cause might possibly Jje morally or legally wrong. I had been taught to believe that all mankind were the enemies of our little band of Free Rovers, and were endeavoring to pursue them to destruction, and, therefore, we were fully justified in attacking or repelling any force, whether it came in our way or otherwise. I say that it was my conscientious belief that we were in the right, either in our offensive or defensive policy, and that all the rest of the nations of the world were clearly in the wrong. As yet I had not the least knowledge touching the law of nations nor had I been taught to consider that other governments were based upon more humane principles than the simple though sanguinary ones which governed ours. Is it strange that I, when the first great opportunity presented it self, to try the skill and strength of my youthful arm in the strife, ehould join with hearty enthusiasm, to repel an enemy that was about to invade our island home. I had likewise been taught to regard the English as the most dan gerous, most formidable and most unscrupulous enemy, because vessel after vessel, belonging to former fleets of the Free Rovers^ had been 56 THE REBEL AND THE ROVER. captured by the bold British Islanders and destroyed ; their crews taken, tortured, and hung in chains ! Under such teachings, my friend, and at such a tender age instilled into my mind, was it possible that I could have escaped being other than what I became, and what I am a Free Rover. But I am digressing. Our whole shore force, consisting only of a score of mulatto men and women, besides Lady 'Bel and myself, quick ly assembled on the southerly bluff which commanded the inlet. The brig slowly approached, and having discovered that they should probably have to encounter a land force as well as the force on board the brigantine, most of the crew sheltered themselves while passing the narrow opening. And, for the time being, it was fortunate that they did so, for a vol ley ol muskets and pistol balls rattled upon their deck like a shower of hail. Several men who had remained on deck, were shot down at the first fire, including the helsman. His place was quickly supplied by another and another, 'and even another of those courageous seamen, as fast as our shot picked them off The brig, however, soon got beyond the reach of any further an noyance from us at that point, and boldly entered the haven, where her crew must either conquer or suffer total annihilation. The decks of both vessels were apparently well cleared for action. The drums on board the cruiser were now heard beating to quarters, and even her officers' commands reached our ears. Scores of men hurried to the deck and manned both larboard and starboard batteries, fore and aft. It was evident that the brig, so far as men and calibre of guns were concerned, possessed the superiority ; but, fortunately for us, our little force on shore had facilities for annoying the enemy with impunity from concealed places and otherwise. The battle commenced by a broadside from each vessel, fired almost simultaneously another and another followed, until the bay was so thick with smoke that it was quite impossible for one to discern the one from the other, yet the firing was kept up incessantly. Meanwhile, we could perceive from the shore that the vessels were slowly approaching each other and it was inevitable, as it seemed to us, that the battle must be decided hand to hand upon the deck of one or other of the vessels. Occasionally, whenever we caught a glimpse thro' the dense smoke of any object aboard the brig, we would fire, and frequently with effect. Presently we saw, above the dense atmosphere, that both ensigns floated within a pistol shot of each other ; and it was certain that a most bloody conflict for the mastery wag on the eve of taking place. We now distinctly heard cries of boarders away ! repel boarders . and other commands, commingled with the rattle of musketry, clashing of swords, hideous groans and direful curses, which gave us to under- THE REBEL AND THE ROVER. 57 jzx- Btand that the sanguinary scene the fight at close quarters had com menced raging. The artillery thundered only at intervals, and soon ceased altogether, leaving the work to be finished by smaller but no less dangerous and deadly weapons ! The smoke from the heavy guns had partially rolled away, enabling our party to disc ern in some degree the position of the combatans. It was the first time I ever had an opportunity of witnessing a battle- and I thought then it would be a bl esssing if I never wiinessed another ; yet I could not help exulting or despairing, as I saw the suc cesses or reverses of our people, and I more than once wished myself in a position where I might strike a few blows for our cause. The ringing and clashing of steel and the sharp cracking of small fire arms, together with the anathemas of maddened men, ad the groans of expiring ones, strangely excited me. In what manner you can judge by immediate subsequent incidents. la the midst of the battle, and while it raged the hottest, the Lady 'Bel came among us looking more like a conquering hero than a woman. She was elegantly attired, a la Amazon, and armed with a jewel-hil- ted sword, a superb brace of pistols, elegantly mounted, and a light arquebus. With the dignity of a queen, she ordered our party both men and women, to man the two small boats, which were used for crossing the bay and sometimes used for purposes of hunting and fishing. * At this point in Brunei's narrative to Winchester, Juba entered the cabin, and whispering a few words in his master's ear, he arose, and begging his guest to excuse him until evening, when he would resume the nau*tion, h*. left the cabin and went on deck. 58 THE REBEL AND THE ROYER. CHAPTER IX. / THE CHIEF'S NARRATIVE RESUMED. An Interesting Interview between the Buccaneer Chief and George Winchester. The former resolves to change his career. A bold measure concluded upon. The Listener. A summary execution. A Disturbance quelled. A long Night Watch upon deck. IT was evening : a gentle easterly breeze wafted the corsair's barque over the smooth billows at a speed of five knots. The moon had not yet risen, but the deep blue sky was radiant with myriads of stars, which seemed to twinkle with unusual lustre. Besides the helmsman, and the look out on the weather-bow, there were but two persons on the Blue Dragon's deck. These were seated near the companion-way, each enjoying the smoke of a richly flavored cigarilla. " I can have no better opportunity than this, 1 ' remarked the Corsair Chief to his guest, " to finish narrating the great incidents of my event ful career. If you are not already wearied with my story I will resume it." " Be assured, sir, I am deeply interested in it. Nothing at this time, could give me more pleasure," replied Winchester. " Art sure of that ?" queried Brunei. " Methinks the original of that picture which you wear nearest the heart, might if she were pres ent, be rather more interesting what say you ?" " I allude only to possibilities," was the other's reply. " In my experience I have learned almost to believe that all things are possible but to my narrative.'' Brunei resumed as follows : " I think I last told you that my mother, the Lady 'Bel,' attired in dn Amazonian costume, appeared among us, to lead us on to the conflict. She jumped into the foremost boat, and I took a place beside her resolved to do my part, youthful as I was, in the battle so terrifically raging THE REBEL AND THE ROVER. * 59 within two hundred yards of us ; for who knows, said I to myself, but my tiny arm may decide the contest in favor of those with whom I sympathized. The Lady 'Bel just as we were embarking, turned round, and discov ering me, said in peremptory tones " Not you, Arthur ! ashore with you leap quick ! you will be in danger and in our way !" " Where you go, mother, I WILL go !" said I with so bold an emphasis and in so determined a manner that she urged me no further to leap ashore. I had no such thought that my little person could be an in.cumbrano% and when I, for the first time, openly rebelled against her authority, all the mulatoes applauded and it seemed to stimulate them with courage for the fight The fast deepening twilight shades together with the smoky atmo sphere, now prevented us from discerning the vessel of the Free Rovers from that of the enemy. , Whether good or bad fortune directed our course, we landed at the larboard gangway of the brig instead of the brigantine as we had hoped ; but there was no time to change our position, nor safety in doing so, we quickly clambered up the brig's side to the enemy's deck. The battle was raging with terrible severity along the whole length of the starboard bulwarks and tafirail, our people being kept at bay by muskets and boarding pikes, and the tide of battle seemed to be turning in our enemy's favor. Amidships, the point where the battle raged hottest, we rushed upon the Britons with naked sabres. They turned little dreaming of an attack in their rear and less did they expect to encounter such a foe ; for when they beheld the peuliar char acter of our force mulato men and mulato women, as ugly looking as it is possible to conceive, led on by a stately lady, who looked like a se cond Joan of Arc it struck terror to their hearts ! Many were absolutely unmanned at our appearance for at was im possible for them to know whether we were a part of a formidable band, or comprised the whole strength of the $ree Rovers' allies. I saw the Lady 'Bel contending fiercely wherever the fight seemed hottest, and beneath her keen sabre many a Briton fell. Near her I felt my place to be, and boy as I was, my arm did noma execution and I flattered myself that I was already a hero, and 1 cut and slashed like a Trojan. Towards the close of the conflict I became separated from the Lady 'Bel, having been struck down, in the melee, though not seriously in jured. Before I regained my feet I had looked upward and saw the British flag flying at the peak directly over my head. A thought suddenly occurred to my mind that it was my duty to humble the proud emblem of Britain, although I had but a confuied notion of what its effect might be. I ran towards the halliards, severed them with a blow, and the c; *i of St. George came down upon the run ! 60 * THE REBEL AND THE ROVER. A loud huzza came from the brigantine, but the Britons were dismay ed, thinking undoubtedly, that the flag had been struck by one of their own officers. A pistol was snapped in my face by a midshipman ; but the weapon missing fire, he threw it at me with such force that I staggered back* ward several paces. The middy, who had the temerity to do this, in three seconds more, fell lifeless upon deck ! I had shot him with one of my pistols. Another officer, perceiving the flag down, rushed forward for the purpose of again raisiag it aloft. I met him on the spot, and inflicted a severe blow upon his wrist. He dropped the halliards and drew his sword upon me, but ere the intended blow was struck I had run him through with my keen-edged sabre. It was subsequently shown that he was the commander of the brig, and his conqueror was LITTLE I ! The British flag was down the chief officers lay weltering in their gore two thirds of the crew were either dead or wounded ; and it was not long ere the conquerors despatched those who remained. The victory was completed. The Free Rovers had triumphed ! and great was the rejoicing of the -conquerors. The Lady 'Bel came out of the strife with but slight injuries, and so did I ; but it seemed almost miraculous that either of us escaped the weapons of our obstinate enemies. I was declared by loud acclamation, the hero of the fight, because I had cut down the flag under which our enemies fought, and had abso lutely slain their commander ! And was I not a hero ? As may reasonably be supposed I was petted, praisedand flattered be yond my deserts. That I felt proud of my young laurels I need not deny ; but that which was substantially gratifying to me, was, I received a midship man's warrant in the service oi the Free Rovers, in consideration of my exploits ; and I assure you no boy-subject of King George ever receiv ed a middy's appointment with more pride and pleasure than I did. The first vessel in which I Bailed was the cruiser, on the deck of which I felt that I had won a never-dying fame. Yes, my friend, before I became fourteen years of age, I strutted on a brig's quarter deck with all the importance and pomposity of an Ad miral of the Blue ! On the second cruise we captured this schooner, and before I reached the age of seventeen I became her second in command, and but one week since I shot my superior officer for his most unjustifiable conduct in maiming one of the men for life, and thus attained to the position ol Chief of the Free Rovers or Pirates, as we are termed by the great powers of the earth. I need not dwell upon the incidents of our recent cruise upon the coast of New England and in Massachusetts Bay ; the most important of which was our desperate engagement with and final destruction (d His Majesty's cruiser Prometheus, from which we released your compa ions first from tyrannical power, and then from a watery grave. THE REBEL AND THE ROVER. fit Neither do 1 desire to narrate to you at this time the many desperate battles fought prior to the cruise, with vessels belorigiig to almost every maratime power traversing the Atlantic and the gulf of Mexico. That our career has been a ruthless one I cannot deny. No quarter has ever been given those of our band who have fallen into the hands of others ; so we have given no quarter to those whom we have captured. But to speak the truth, it has ever been my desire, in opposition to all with whom I have associated during my ocean career, with the exce}>- tion of Sedly, my present lieutenant, to spare the effusion of blood. Under the despotic Gaspardo, Sedley and myself have more than once been threatened with death at the yard-arm for attempting to save even the life of helpless women and children ; and on one occasion the death-" plank was actually prepared for us because we refused to order it pre pared for a beautiful Castilian Maiden and her lover : but nearly the whole crew sustained us Garpardo countermanded his sanguinary man date, and the hapless lovers were set. ashore upon an almost uninhabited island in the Carribean sea. For this and other reasons I had long sought an opportunity to rid our band of this tyrannical monster. Fortunately that opportunity arrived he committed a murderous act without a provocation I shot him through the head, and the crew sus^ tained me in the bold and summary act. Since that hour I have held the chief command ; how long I shall hold it, will depend upon the events of the next forty-eight hours ; for I have sworn that I will suffer even a death of torture, rather than that a single person, who may hereafter chance to fall into our hands by cap ture, shall be put to death. With this declaration to you I have concluded my narrative. Some few events, which may he interesting to you, I will relate at an other time.' 1 The chief was about to turn away, when Winchester seized him by the hand, and said, " Never did I expect it would he a pleasure to me to extend my hand to one whose acknowledged career has been that of a Corsair's ; but you have uttered a declaration that would be humane in many a European monarch to imitate. Heaven will commend you for this resolution, and may it lead you to renounce this roving life altogether ! You were never born to be a leader of outlaws ! God grant that a more humane aad honorable career be opened to you !'' " Amen, with all my heart '." essayed the other in accents of humility. " My arm my life, even, is at your service, if it can assist in releas- mg you from this sinful career !" said our hero. " Thanks your arm may he required !" returned the chief, " and also the arms of your companions ! for, be k known, I have resolved upon a bold step if it fail, my death is certain, and all those who aid me stand in the same perilous position. Let me say further, that with out taking the step I have fully determined upon, I have not the power much longer to shield you and your companions from the more blood thirsty portion of my band. Already have their clamors reached me C2 THE REBEL AND THE ROVER. through my lieutenant. Tue pirate's motto ever has been ' Dead men tell no tales !' and upon that motto they intend still to act !" " It is not, chief, that I may save this to me almost worthless life, but to strike a blow for the cause of humanity, that I tender you my weak services," remarked Winchester ; " and what nobler cause is there than to rescue men from a career which has ever been regarded as hellish in the sight of Heaven and of the nations of the earth. I must fiere re mark, too, that history furnishes no parallel to yours, inasmuch as not a single instance is known where a Corsair has repented of his course, and abandoned a ruthless career for a more humane one.' 1 " Such a change, in all probability, would not be contemplated by me," replied Brunei, " had not my many leisure hours been devoted to the reading of history, and the laws of the several civilized nations of the earth. I have become sensible, ay, fully convinced, notwithstand ing my early education and the demoralizing influences which have surrounded me, that the Buccaneer is pursued justly condemned by civilized powers. I am sensible, indeed, -that we are the worst class of outlaws known to the world, and deserve that ignominous punishment which we fail not to receive whenever taken.'' " How many men do you count upon to aid you in the perilous un dertaking you have hinted ?" asked Winchester. "One,only the lieutenant, already mentioned I hope for others," an swered the chief. " But these men appear much attached to you ?'' " So long as I enact the part of a bloody pirate, they will obey my behests. But they have already become suspicious that it is my inten tion to change the sanguinary policy hitherto pursued. You will re member that I was called upon the deck this morning it was to an swer a demand of a deputation from the crew ; first, to deliver to their vengeance a poor, weak boy, who fell into our hands the same time you did ; and secondly to afford them a forenoon's pastime in making you and your companions walk the plank. I satisfied this, as they thought reasonable demand, by stating to them that, considering you were now refugees from British power, would undoubtedly required accessions to our ranks having been twice decimated during the last cruise we had better not throw away the present opportunity to obtain recruits. As for the boy I promised to be answerable for him until his recovery ; and if then he did not swear fealty to us his fate was sealed." " To what boy do you allude V eagerly asked Winchester. "He who so bravely defended his life at the time I interfered for the preservation oi you and your fellow prisoners. 1 ' " If my eyes deceived me not he fell lifeless upon the deck, and his body was taken aboard of this vessel by one of your men." " Ho was not dead he had only fell into a swoon, through fright, weakness or some other cause." " Then he lives ?'' " He does !" " Thank heaven for that !" ejaculated Winchester ; "for in that youth, though I had scarcely opportunity for scanning his features closely, I feel a 'deep interest which I cannot account for.' 1 THE REBEL AND THE ROVER. 63 " And I, too, believe me," added the chief, "have conceived so great a liking for him, that my crew should have my heart's blood ere they should harm a single hair of his head." '* Where is he now V asked our hero. "' In my own state-room, where he shall be well cared for until he is enabled to appear on deck ?" "Is he quite ill?" " My servant who attends to his wants, thinks that he is now merelj laboring under the usual effects of the rolling and pitching of a vessel upon a novice on the " The chief suddenly broke off the sentence, for this attention was at the moment arrested by some suspicious movement at the main hatch way. Through the dimness of the evening could just be perceived the head of a man above the combings of a hatch, and appeared as if there for the purpose of listening to the conversation of the chief and his guest. Brunei eyed the head with the stealthiness of a cat about to spring upon its prey. Presently a hand was lifted above the head, and in it was distinctly seen a pistol." " As I said before,'' remarked Brunei, as if for the purpose of attract-^ ing only the attention of the listener ; "I believe that many of our crew are jealous of my lenity " The head stretched forward several inches evidently striving to catch the words which fell from the chief's lips. " towards those who are taken 'in battle. Moreover,'' contin ued Brunei, slowly drawing a pistol from his belt, and cautiously cock ing it behind his back, "none deserve death so richly as listeners !" With the last words the chief raised the pistol, and aiming it to the object his eye had been firmly fastened upon for several minutes, he pulled the trigger ! The head dropped beneath the hatch, like a heavy, inanimate object. All below seemed to be put in a sudden confusion, and a- score or more pirates rushed upon deck to ascertain if any serious trouble was brewing, the foremost of whom was Bossle, the Boatswain, who ran aft, exclaiming " The gunner ! the gunner ! Manuel's shot ! death to him who shot __ " Peace, Boatswain !" commanded the chief. " Answer my ques tions !'' " Ay, chief," said Bossle, ceasing his clamorous exclamations. " Did you say that our chief gunner is dead T' queried Brunei. " He lies upon the hammock deck with his brains blown out ! come below, chief, and you shall see for yourself,'' said Bossle. " Did you observe him when he fell, boatswain ?" " I did chief." " Now tell me, and tell me truly, boatswain what was the gunner doing in the hatchway ?'' " Star-gazing, I s'pose." " What ! with a pistol ? How is this answer me was he not listening to the conversation of persons on the deck ?" demanded tb chief sternly, as he drew another pistol from his belt 64 THE REBEL AND THE ROVER. " I think he was, sir.'* " Precisely, sir he was listening contrary to the regulations of our band listening to his chief; and, had you been in his place, you would have met with a like fate. I shot him and am alone responsible for his death !" " He was an old comrade, sir a skillful gunner a '' "" Peace, boatswain ;'' commanded the chief, interrupting Bossle ; " never mind what he was the man deserved his fate, as you and all of ye know let that suffice. Pipe all hands below, except the watch on deck !" The boatswain obeyed the order, and his shrill whistle soon cleared the deck of the buccaneers, save the helmsman and look-out and the chief and his friend. " I watch to-night !'' remarked Brunei to Winchester. " To-morrow morning the decisive blow will be given. The aid of yourself and com panions may or may not be wanted during the night I will convey arms to your room. My signal for your appearance on deck will be the firing of a pistol ! Adieu, for the night." Our hero, bidding that strange man a cordial good night, repaired be low to communicate with his companions regarding the movements of the chief, which he pretty accurately understood from the strange in terview already in the possession of the reader. That night Arthur Brunei slept not. He paced the deck, watching the hatchways with a suspicious gaze, and regarding the slightest noise proceeding from below of unusual import during his silent watch. Morning dawned the moon paled at the approach of Aurora the stars grew dim, ere the faithful watcher dared to leave his post. The lieutenant was called, and the chief went below for a brief repose. THE REBEL AND THE ROVER. 65 CHAPTER X. The Buccaneer Band assembled on Deck. Bold Policy of the Chief. His Renunciation. Declares the Crew Disbanded. The Pirates express their opinion against sparing the lives of the Prisoners. Dissent of Brunei. Treason Declared. To Arms ! To Arms ! Undaunted behavior of the Chief. A brief metlwd of overpowering superior numbers .' The Chief Victorious. AT four bells in the forenoon watch, the boatswain's shrill notes were heard throughout the vessel, piping all hands on deck. The crew appeared without arms of any description, for it was a regulation well understood by all on board, that whenever the guns and other weapons were stowed, and the schooner in her accustomed disguise, no arms should be carrit. by the men, unless the ordinary sailor's sheath-knife. Each of the higher officers, however, could carry a light i j pier, or a brace of pistols. On this occasion, the chief and his lieu tenant were entirely unarmed. The men, according to the chiefs directions communicated through his boatswain, were ranged in lines, athwart the deck about amidships, facing their principal officers, who stood on the quarter-deck, forward of the companion-way. As soon as all the band had assembled, the Chief stepped forward a pace, and assuming an unusually dignified attitude, began the curious drama by addressing them in serious tones as follows : "My brave companions: (a dead silence was maintained to hear what the chief had te present.) I have assembled you together thia morning for a high and noble purpose. It is for the greatest good and happiness to us all, as I firmly believe, though it may, as I trust not, meet with your utter disapproval and condemnation. "First of all, however, as I intimated last evening, I wish to satisfy you if possible, in regard to the prisoners now in our hands. Each of you make known your desire 1" " Death to them all ."' promptly answered one of the oldest buccan eers. " That is my decree !" said a hoary-headed veteran. " I, who have sailed under many a noted chief, never heard such a question put be fore. I say, death ! and the sooner the better '" 86 THE REBEL AND THE ROVER. " So say I !'' growled a third. " We shall surely be betrayed into the hands of our enemies if we adopt the policy of taking prisoners into our band, or suffer them to es cape," remarked a fourth. " I say, death to them all !'' declared a fifth. " Vengeance on that white-livered boy who shot the brave Roderigo !'' exclaimed a young Spaniard. Here was a pause of some ten seconds. " Speak speak every man of ye !" commanded the chief, his eyes beginning to flash angrily. " I would know all your minds then ye shall know mine !" " If these men will solemnly swear to bind themselves forever to our band, it were better to spare their lives ?" said a young Englishman. ' We have before relied on the oaths of men, why not again?" " Not prisoners !" grunted the hoary-headed veteran. " I care not,' 7 returned the Englishman ; " I shall give my voice in favor of sparing their lives." " And so do I decide. We spill human gore enough to satiate the most bloody-thirsty wretch of us all, I should suppose, without taking the lives of men who can do us no possible harm, and may be of essentia: service to us !" said an Italian. " I decide upon their summary execution," said another. " I care not what disposition is made of them," declared a Cuban Creole. " Why not leave the matter for the decision of the chief,' 1 said the boatswain's mate. ' What ! what shall we abandon our right in this matter ?" ejaculat ed the old pirate who had proclaimed death. " Ye're fools, shipmates, to do that. Cling to your rights or we are lost! 1 say let us decide this matter among ourselves !" Without further debate the men severally expressed their opinion or decision ; the result proving that a considerable majority of the bucca neers were in favor of immediate execution of those whom the chief had determined and sworn to protect even at the hazard of his own life. " I have heard ye all,'' resumed the chief: " and right glad am I to know that among ye there are a few little less inhuman than blood hounds. I am a man of few words as ye well know, but those words shall be spoken boldly, though I knew that not one of ye would raise your voice in unison with mine. Here me the lives of these men shall be spared. Your chief declares it, despite your decision. Moreover, we, as an organized band of buccaneers, have committed our last act ol piracy. From this moment, henceforth and forever, I renounce the Cor sair's life, and declare this band dissolved." The pirates stood amazed ! and stared with an incredulous look upon their bold chief, who had spoken to them as never man dare to speak before. " Our chief must be mad, he's insane ! his brain is turned !" said they one to another. " He would not dare thus to speak were he in hi right mind.'' THE REBEL AND THE ROVER. _67 " Flatter not yourselves with the idea that your chief has lost his senses, when in fact he has just recovered them. I have been mad you have been mad, comrades, in so long continuing his hellish life ; and ye who are determined to pursue it are worse than mad. Re nounce, then, this insane, this worse than beastly life, and become men ; and I doubt not we shall find occupations better suited to our natures less dangerous and infinitely more agreeable than the ruthless one we have so long followed. Ye have all abundance of treasure therefore seek no more through deeds of blood." '* If we disband, comrades, we shall ere long be dangling at a rope's end ; " remarked one of the veteran buccaneers. " Beware, chief;" suggested the boatswain. " We have always felt proud of you ; " but there's treason in what you've said and proposed." " Ay, treason, treason, treason !" echoed some half dozen voices. " Call it what you will, comrades, I have determined on my course,* said Brunei, undaunted by the menacing threats which came from this pirate band. Those who have the courage to renounce this wicked career I invite to the quarter deck. Those who will not sustain their chief remain as ye are.'' Some half a dozen only of that three score of buccaneers resolutely stepped forward, took places beside their brave leader. A few others would have followed, had they not been intimidated by the sneers and threats of the majority. " Cowards, slaves, fools, miscreants !" exclaim ed the boatswain to those who had gone over to Brunei Jtit" The traitors must die ! To arms ! to arms !" he cried. The pirates precipitately rushed below to arm themselves with the muskets, pikes, pistols and sabres, which were stov/ed in boxes made for the purpose, on the hammock deck below. The chief and his small party stirred not from the spot they first oc cupied. Unarmed and unterrified they stood, as if possessed of courage and power to look down the large mutinous force which was to oppose them. Presently, the adverse party, headed by Bossle, every man of which was fully armed, appeared on deck, and commanded the chief and his supporters to surrender. " Fools !" exclamed Brunei, with a smile of utter contempt upon hig features. " Though unarmed, flatter not yourselves your weapons have any terror in our eyes. Wretches, think ye we are powerless ? Think ye we have not counted the cost and prepared for this hour ? Behold !" he continued, seizing a blazing torch from the hands of Juba, who stood in the companion way, and flourishing it above his head ; " behold ! this is our weapon. Advance but one single step aft, and I will blow you all into eternity. Look ! here is a quintuple train which leads to so many casks of powder ! Throw down your arms and ask for mercy ! Quick ! or as true as there is a God in Heaven, or a demon in hell. I'll blow the ship and all on board to atoms!" The chief spoke in tones of awful solemnity. There was a fearful look of determination in his usually calm but now fiercely dilated eye, which told that mutinous crew his threats were 68 THE REBEL AND THE ROVER. no idle words ! His whole demeanor showed that he was in earnest. The buccaneers heard, saw and felt it ! and their weapons dropped upon the deck, and down they fell upon their knees. " Every man of you now go peaceably below, and leave your weap ons upon the deck. Stay ! those of you who will now willingly re nounce buccaneering may come to the quarter deck," said the chief, still maintaining his fearful position. Some eight or ten gladly accepted the offer of the chief, and came aft ; the greater number, in a dogged manner, obeyed their master's commands by going below. No sooner had the last one disappeared fiom the deck, than the chief ordered the hatchway to be closed. A heavy grated hatch was lifted on, and secured by bolts and locks, the keys of which were taken charge of by the chief. Thus by the courage, firmness and decision of one man, that band ol desperate men were humbled, and made prisoners at his will. CHAPTER XI . Conditional Release of the Buccaneers. Their subsequent Treach ery. The Old Brig. Preparations for another Battle. The Hail and the Response. Effects of a little Grape and Canister. The Battle rages. Close Quarters. Death of ossle, the Boatswain. Tlu Chief wounded. The Buccaneers totally Destroyed. Ex plosion of the Brig. Safety of the Schooner. A few Moral Comments. QUIET reigned on board the Blue Dragon for several days immediate ly succeeding the bold and partially successful stratagem of reclaiming that abandoned crew. The watches were carefully set each under the eye of Brunei or Sed- ley, and every man was armed to quell any demonstration which might be made through the treachery of any one on deck, or by the power oi those below. On the fifth day of the confinement of those who still persisted in THE REBEL AND THE ROVER. pursuing a buccaneering life when they should regain their liberty, the chief approached the grated hatch, and endeavored to persuade them to do as he had done, and renounce piracy forever. " Set us free,' 7 said the boatswain, " and we will obey orders." '* What assurance can you give me 1" " The oath of a pirate to a pirate !" replied Bossle. " That will not do, boatswain, for I am no pirate," declared Brunei. " Then dictate your own terms,'' said the boatswain, " for I'd rather become what the world calls an honest man, than to be cooped up in this hole and so had all my comrades.' 1 " You speak, then for your comrades, as well as for yourself.". " A>, chief." ".Glad I am to see you so humble,'' said Brunei. " Since you leave it .j me to dictate the terms of .your release, listen. .We are now approach ing the Free Rover's Islet ; 1 propose there to set you ashore, sir at a time. You know that there is yet abundance ot treasure concealed in the Golden Cave, of which myself and companions will not share an ingot ; it is at your and your comrades' disposal. All that I claim in return, for my followers and myself, is this schooner, which you are aware is not of the value of one sixth part of the treasures of the cave. Accept these terms, and to-day you will be set at liberty.'' " A. generous offer, chief, but how are we to leave the island, if we are left without a vessel V asked Bossle. " Better far will it be for ye all never to leave it, for should any of ye chance to get away, ye'll surely be hanged. The island is a delight ful one, and if proper means are resorted to, its resources will prove abundant for your subistence. Perchance, the old brig, under Carlos, will yet make her appearance." " Nay chief, that's too much to hope for," said the boatswain. "This is the fifth year of her absence; she went to Davy's locker long ago. 1 dreamed her fate one night, and my dreams always prove true to the letter.'' . " Well, well, I admit there isn't much hope for her re-appearance ; and were it not for the Lady 'Bel, for whom I still retain an affection, I could not wuh again to behold the old hulk. But what is your decis ion II " I must first consult my comrades," remarked Boasle ; " but first let me ask what you propose to do with us in case of our refusal V " Run into the inlet secure the treasures make sail for some un inhabited island set you ashore one by one, where you can do us and the world no more mischief," answered Brunei with earnestness. " By h 11 we'd scuttle or burn the schooner first !" exclaimed Bossle, indignantly. " Any fate but that, chief. Remember although beneath the hatches, we've yet the power to do a deal of mischief drive us to desperation and we'll dare to do anything." '' Then accept the lenient terms already proposed, and in one how I will return for your decision." Brunei then repeated the terms upon which he offered to liberate these unrepentant wretches, and turned away to await their doternuaa- tion. 5 "0 THE REBEL AND .THE ROVER. He had weighed well the matter of putting them beyond his respon- ibility and constant watchfulness, and no plan seemed to him so feasible as the one proposed. He could not make up his mind to destroy them, devils though they were, for he had long participated in their crimes ; partook of the spoili of thSir victories ; shared the same dangers in short had feasted, fought and sported with them, ever since he could wield a sabre, or aim a carbine. To land them on the islet where they might subsist by honest lab or, without placing in their power any availa ble means of doi ng man kind any more injury, or giving them any opportunity for desertion, seemed to Brunei the most safe, most humane, and, indeed, the only plan he could conceive. of for ridding himself of those brutal beings, with whom he determined never to associate, and for whom he had al ways felt a certain degree of detestation. The Blue Dragon had arrived at the islet, and was running up the narrow channel, when the chief went again forward to learn the pi rate's determination. They had ali consented to be landed on condition that thirty casks of rum, and a few oiher stores less consequential to them were landed with them. " You shall have sixty casks," replied the chief, " providing there are as many aboard ; and right glad are we to part with them. Thus hall we rid the schooner of two of the greatest evils which afflict man- aind rum and pirates.'' " You are merry, chief, with the idea of parting with your two best riends," retorted Bossle ; " and I have no doubt when you are once re- ieved of our company, you'll provide yourself with a choice store of good liquors from the first Spaniard or Frenchman you may chance to tall in with." " May Heaven's vengeance fall upon my head if ever I do another act of piracy !" exclaimed Brunei in solemn tones. " Curse me if I care what you do after you have let us out of this infernal hole," said Bossle, "and the sooner you do it we shall be so much more obliged to you.' 7 Without further parley the chief gave direction to his men prepara tory to carrying into effect his design. The schooner having approached the nearest landing place to with- m a cable length's distance, the anchor was let go, and the cutter low ered and brought round to the starboard gangway. The grated hatch was then removed, and six of the pirates were al lowed to come on deck and get into the cutter, which was manned by an equal number of oarsmen, under the command of Sedley, all of whom were armed with a brace of pistols, with orders to shoot down any one who offered violence or made the slightest resistance. In addition to this precaution two eighteen pound carronades, on the quarter deck, had been mounted and heavily charged with grape and canister, and a man was stationed at each gun with a lighted match in his hand, with orders to fire if occasion required. THE REBEL AND THE ROVEK. 71 As soon as the first six had been landed, the cutter returned, and MX more were permitted to come on deck, to be taken on shore. In this manner, in the course of an hour, the last of the buccaneers had left the schooner, and another hour was consumed in landing the many casks of spirits which comprised the vessel's entire stock, besides several other casks and barrels that were included in the conditions mu tually agreed upon. The last article having been landed, and the cutter having run along side, orders were immediately given for weighing anchor, and soon the Blue Dragon was moving slowly down the channel to the open sea. At a league's distance from the island, the light breeze which had wafted her along now died away, and she lay motionless upon the bosom of the smooth ocean. The day passed away night came another morning dawned, and yet she remained apparently in the same spot where she was becalmed. Two men only kept watch on deck, for the heat of a tiopical sun, without a breath of air stirring, was insufferable, and had driven all others below Towards sunset on the second day the look-out having been care less in performing his duty, and the helmsman idling away the hour of the .watch in the shadow of the mainsail the chief came on deck with his glass, for the purpose of scanning the horizon for vessels, and to ob serve if there were any appearances indicating a change in the weather. But ere he had taken a position for observation, he was startled at perceiving a large brig in the channel of the islet, making for the open sea, being towed by two boats. " By heavens, 'tis the old brig !" he exclaimed ; " The devil has got her sure enough, so we've either to fight and conquer, run away from her, or have our throats cut ! Pipe all hands on deck !" said he to the lazy helmsman, who had just come to his senses, " we've no time to lose." The alarm was soon given, and every man rushed upon deck to be hold the unlocked for enemy. Brunei saw, at once, that he had made a great mistake in leaving the island without taking a look into the haven ; and he conjectured rightly that the pirates had unexpectedly found the old cruiser laid up in the inlet, and that they had occupied the time while the schooner lay becalmed in the offing, in putting her in sea-going order. " See that the disguised waist is removed, Mr. Sedley, the port holes opened, and the guns hoisted and rigged in working order." It was an arduous task for that small crew but they worked with such energy, that notwithstanding the intolerable heat, they had pre pared the deck for action in less than an hour after the brig was de scried. Meanwhile the sun had set, and the first shades of twilight were fast creeping over the ocean. The brig approached slowly by the efforts of the oarsmen, while th ichooner remained as stationary as if her best bower and sheet ancnor were out. 72 THE KEBEL AND THE ROYER. It was very evident that by starlight, and by the light of their own fires, the battle would be fought. Eight bells struck, and not a gun had yet been fired, although the brig was within a musket shot distance, now drifting slowly on, for the boats had been ordered in. Presently a voice from the brig's bow, which Brunei recognized as Bossle's was heard aboard the schooner " Ahoy, there schooner ahoy T' There was no response from her antagonist. Thrice the hail was re peated, still no answer. A musket snot from the brig came whizzing over the quarter-deck, followed by the cry of " Blue Dragon, ahoy ! surrender, or we'll blow you to the devil. This is the Free Rover's brig Thunderbolt, Bossle, commander, and be d d to ye." " Mr. Sedley, stand by the long gun !" ordered Brunei ; " slap a round into the demons by way of a response.'' " Ay, ay, sir." " Take good aim fore and aft her deck are you ready ?" ." All ready, sir.*' " Fire !" The heavy g\m was discharged a crash, yells and groans succeeded; and as soon as the smoke cleared away, the effect of the shot was clearly visible a clean breach was made just under the larboard cat head, and the grape and canister had traversed the entire length of the deck ; demolishing every thing in its destructive path.' 1 A volley of musketry, which did little or no injury was the only return made for the disastrous effects of the long gun. " Why don't the rascals give us a taste of their battery ?" ejaculated the lieutenant. " It is my opinion they havn't a big gun on board in working order ; or, perhaps, they are short of ammunition,'' replied the chief. '' Their plan, I now perceive, is to board us. We must avoid that until we give them a few rounds. Let every gun blaze away, for the present and mind, Mr. Sedley, a plenty of grape canister." " Ay, ay, sir." Now the battle commenced in good earnest the battery of the schooner roared, while from the brig could only bs heard the rattle of musketry the crashing of spars and timbers and cries and curses of desperate leaders, and the shrieks and groans of the wounded and dying. Soon the vessels were within pistol shot distance yet the schooner's heavy guns played away until they had made a complete breach through her hull, and shattered a portion of her main deck into fragments. The number of pirates were now reduced to twenty-five, who were able to do duty, but knowing that the schooner had less than that num ber before the fight commenced, they still expected an easy victory by boarding. They, therefore, resorted to grappling, by which they quickly brought the brig almofct broadside to ; but at the instant, the long gun on the quarter deck was discharged directly amongst a group of buccaneer! THE REBEL AND THE ROVER. 73 who stood ready for boarding, and more than half of them were swept into eternity. Six or seven only of all that piratical crew succeeded in gaining a footing upon their antagonist's deck ; and among them was Bossle, be smeared with human gore, still fighting like a bloodhonnd, and growling like a tiger. Brunei rushed towards him sabre in hand, and for some moments, single-handed, they both /ought with desperation, while other despera does engaged the chief's supporters. A chance pistol-shot struck Brunei and he staggered. Bossle rushed on to dispatch him, but his heavy cutlass was warded off by the sabre of Winchester, and the next moment our hero cleaved the head of the bloody monster and he fell lifeless upon the deck. Three pirates only remained, and these, on seeing their leader fall, leaped overboard to avoid death by the keen weapons of their adversa ries. The pirate crew were totally annihilated the victory was complete. Sedley having discovered that the brig was fast settling, ordered his men to cast off the grappling irons, and to man the cutter to tow the schooner ahead of the sinking vessel. This was done with alacrity, but they had gained scarcely a cable's :, distance from the brier, when a tongue of fire shot up through the main hatchway, followed by a terrific explosion, scattering fragments high into the air, and for many miles around. ,. It was a miraculous escape for the schooner, and it seemed as if the ,* hand of Providence guided her beyond reach of the catastrophe. The hulk went down immediately after the explosion, and all that remained were a few floating spars, and other fragments of the brig of the buccaneers. CHAPTER XII. A Short Chapter, which reveals to the Reader some startling facts developing the plot of uur yarn. IT was the still hour of midnight, and serenely beautiful was the sky, the ocean, all around. Like a sea of burnished glass was the wide expanse of water, and so clearly did it reflect the ever-burning lights of the blue expanse, that all appeared like one vast hollow sphere, with the vessel suspended directly in its centre. On the deck of the victorious schooner but two men kept her watch her deck was cleared of all evidence of the recent conflict, and the schooner put in the same neat trim as before. Ir- the gorgeously furnished cabin of the Blue Dragon, lying upon a luxurious couch, his head propped up w^th pillows, was the wounded chieT 74 THE REBEL AXD THE ROYER. Near him sat George Winchester and Lieutenant Sedley, administer ing to his wants, and in the background stood Juba, his negro servant, ready and eager to obey the least order of his master. His wound, a pistol-shot in the breast, had been probed and dressed but there was no possibility of extracting the bullet, which he felt was lodged in the backbone. ' 'Tis a small wound, but His enough," said he, resignedly ; " but my friends I do not fear to die ! but, lest my little strength should soon fail me, I must now see the boy ! Juba. the boy ! lead him hither." Juba darted into the state-room, while Sedley and Winchester arose as if to retire. " Stay, my friends,'' said Brunei, " I have no privacy with this youth that I desire to keep from you. Be seated on the sofa opposite, for I would have you near me, and be witnesses of the revelations I shall break to him.'' The negro now appeared with the sickly-looking boy leaning upon him for support. Sedley stepped forward and assisted him to the couch of the wounded chief. He had recovered from the disease sometimes significantly called Neptune's Curse vulgarly sea-sickness ; but it had reduced him in flesh, and left him so weak that he could scarcely maintain an erect position. This was the first time, too, that he had left the state-room since it was assigned him by Arthur Brunei. A taper light was burning upon the cabin-table, which shed but a feeble and melancholy light upon that solemn scene. " Come hither," said the wounded chief, extending his hand to the youth ; " come closely be not afraid I am soon to die, and have a revelation foi your ear. I must be brief, for I feel that my life-tide is ebbing fast." The youth knelt upon an ottoman aud rested his arm upon the couch. Opposite sat Winchester and Sedley gazing with intense interest upon the scene, and wondering what was to be the sequel of the interview, which they were called upon to bear witness to. " My name," commenced the chief, " is no more Arthur Brunei than yours is Herman Percival !'' The youth seemed startled at this declaration, but he made no reply. " I have good evidence in believing that my name is Arthur Mt-r- win !" " Arthur Merwin !" repeated the youth with surprise, while Winches ter leaped with astonishment to his feet, for he had more than once heard that that was the name of him who had strayed away and lost, or wa& stolen from his home when but a child. ' Yes, I believe myself to be the long lost son of Morton Merwiii. and my friend," addressing Winchester, who had approached a step or two in his surprise, " this boy pardon me I firmly believe, from a ruiniatu.e which you know I have seen, and from a diamond-suidded cross with the name of Therese Merwin engraved upon it, ariu which he wears about his neck to be MY sister ! And I shall assume a brother's perrogative to relieve you of this masculine appendage !'' and THE REBEL AND THE ROYER. he snatched from her lips the mustache which had done so much toward deceiving many on the day she sat out on her perilous voyage. " Oh ! my poor brother, and do I meet you thus ?" she feebly ejacu lated, as she bent her sweet features upon his pallid cheek and kissed him over and over again ; " is there no hope, brother ?" " None, sweet sister !" he replied, while he smoothed back the short curls which hung around her brow, and gazed with mingled pride and pleasure upon her lovely countenance, " I shall die quite happy, now. But it would give me much joy to see you arrayed once more in proper habiliments," he continued, almost playfully, as if forgetting the pain of his wound, and that he was reclining on the very brink of eternity. A slight crimson blush suffused her cheeks as she cast her eyes upon the masculine attire which covered her limbs. " Pardon me, brother if you but knew " she said, hesitatingly ; " the truth is, brother, I adopted it to follow, in misfortune, one I deep ly loved but, alas, I fear he is now no more," and the poor maiden sighed. " He to whom you gave your miniature ?'' queried Brunei. " The same but, tell me, brother, how knew you of that ?'' " The gentleman will speak for himself," said the chief, beckoning to Winchester, who had been standing on tiptoe, scarcely able to restrain his impatience, at the discovery that the mysterious ' youth' was none other than his beloved Therese. On the first intimation from the chief he rushed forward, and the lovers were once more clasped in each other's arms. " Heaven's blessings be upon ye,'' said the chief. " Therese, you have chosen well I have prored your lover he is brave and noble, honest and self-sacrificing. Love him with all the strength of your affections, for he is worthy of a seraph's love." " George, I thought you were dead,'' said Therese, gazing with an almost incredulous look upon his handsome features. ' By what miracle are you here ?" " I o'wre my life to him," said George, looking towards the chief. " He has preserved us both, God only knows how much I am your brother's debtor." < My duty now is here," said Therese, as she turned from Winches ter, auJ again bent over the form of him whom she doubted not was her brother. Joy and sorrow seemed to be striving for the mastery joy, that her lover was yet alive, and that she had found a brother sorrow, that that brother's pallid cheek, his short breathings, and the husky, mournful tones of his voice, all indicated that the sands of his glass was well-nigh run out. These last made her weep, and the tears Sowed freely down her pallid cheeks. " Wee^ not, my sister rather rejoice that you have found a protector in him you have long loved," said the wounded man. " It is but meet that I should be even thus early cut off from the world, after a career of thoughtlessness and sinfulness. My dear brother for so I must be permitted to call you/' he continued, addressing Winchester; " if my Father be living when you -eturn, bear to him my dying words that 76 THE REBEL AND THE ROVER. but for circumstances beyond his power to control, his son would nevo have been a buccanneer. Narrate to him the confession, as it was nar rated to you. Comfort him with the assurance that his son had re nounced the life he had lived, and became a sincere penitent both in word, and in deed when he was the chief of a band, and ere he re ceived his mortal stroke. Promise me this." " Most faithfully will I do as you desire," answered Winchester. " Then I shall die content ! Therese, your hand George, yours ah ! this coldness around my heart freezes me thus do I unite your hands. May God be merciful to you and grant you a life of felicity. Ah ! that icy pang I die I dieGod have mercy ! mercy mer " Thus ended the mortal career of that remarkable man. He who, by a train of circumstances, scarcely intelligible to him self became a buccaneer, and a leader of buccaneers who, when he saw in a clear light, the downward, wretched, ruthless course he was pursuing, had the moral heroism to renounce, even at the sacrifice of his life. And in this great fact, reader this moral regeneration lies the moral of our story. It is one instance towards controverting the old adage, that "a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older ;" or goes to re verse the somewhat hacknied saying, " that as sins proceed they ever multiply, and like figures in arithmetic, the last stands for more than all that went before it." Brunei was truly a penitent, a reformed man before he died, and out of his own sense of right and wrong he tri umphed over that sin to which it may be said he was educated in deed, his contrition was not less than the great evil which had been instilled into him. He trusted not his soul to that weak and slender plank a death- oed repentance ; but his confession and renunciation of a sinful career were made in the full pride and vigor of manhood. It was not by a single action, but in a scries of acts ! CHAPTER XIII. Our Hero and Heroine in comfortable Quarters, Transformation of the Slue Dragon. Departure for New England. A b.it of a Skirmish. Arrival at Marblehead. The Two Fishermen and the British Sentinel. Old Broadbrim. The Sons of Liberty. A few happy Events in Conclusion. EIGHTEEN months have passed away since the occurrence of those singular events which so rapidly succeeded each other, and which we have perhaps too concisely related hi the previous chapters of our ro mance. We now find Lieut Sedley, together with George Winchester and his beautiful bride, (the latter having been united immediately on the ar rival) occupying a small but substantial cottage, surrounded by all that Nature renders beautiful, situated about a league from the chief mari time town on the French isle of Gaudaloupe. THE REBEL AND THE ROVER. 77 This lovely spot was assigned to them by the Governor of the Island, to whom George Winchester had confidentially and truihfully related his singular history. The Blue Dragon schooner had been remodelled, refitted, and her name changed to that of " The Vision," and was now lying in readi ness to sail for America, whenever it was thought prudent so to do. It was at this time that the Sons ol Liberty began making their first open resistance to British oppression, of the particulars of which he was constantly advised by the Governor, who, with other distinguished Frenchmen, sympathized warmly with those who were stigmatized as rebels. On the receipt of the news of the conflicts at Lexington and Concord, Winchester determined to run the hazard of reaching New England's shore, and of rejoining the Liberty Boys with whom he had early asso ciated. The command of the schooner devolved upon Sedley, who had en tered enthusiastically into the liberal views of Winchester, and who de clared that the remainder of his days should be devoted to the Ameri can cause, in order to retrieve as far as possible his previous wayward career. TMie schooner, with a picked crew of thirty men, mostly American seamen, sailed from the island late in the month of May. Winchester and his bride were passengers, though our hero did good service during that perilous voyage. Several times did they narrowly escape capture by the King's vessels cruising on the American coast. On the 10th of June "The Vision" entered Massachusetts Bay, when she fell in with a British transport bound to Boston. A sharp engagement took place, but by a few lucky shots from the schooner's long guns, the transport's main topmast, fore top-gallarit-mast, and spanker boom, were carried away, which so crippled her for sail ing, that the schooner soon left her hull down, and under cover of the night run up the Bay, and entered the harbour of Marblehead. After landing our he.ro and heroine, the schooner again set sail and run down the north shore, and Vvas again upon the wide ocean. Sub sequently she joined the French fleet, under D'Estaing, and did good service in the glorious cause which made a nation free. It was at the sunset hour on the evening of the 15th of June, 1775, that a small fishing boat, containing two persons, in the attire of fisher men rowed past the British fleet, lying in Boston Harbor, and landed on the little beach on the south side of " The Mole," the identical spot where George Winchester once landed, after his adventure down the harbour. The fishermen, apparently a father and son, each taking a string of cod and haddock in their hands, began trudging up the steep ascent oi Fort Hill, when they were brought to a stand still by the challenge of a British sentinel. " Who goes there V 78 THE REBEL AND THE ROVER. " Fish ! f-i-s-h ! buy any cod an' 'addock !" cried out the elder fishef man in the natural drawling tones of the fishmongers of that period, " The pass-word '" demanded the red-coated sentinel. " Fresh cod an' 'addock !'' was the fisherman's response. " Back ! back ! my orders are to let no one pass without the word,* aid the sentinel. "Fresh cod an' 'addock !" sang out the fisherman louder than before " Who are ye?" demanded the sentinel. " Subjects of cod an' 'addock." " If ye're the loyal subjects of King George the Third, declare it and ye may pass ! If ye're rebels "' " Fresh cod an' 'addock !" - + ill cried out the fisherman at the top 01 his lungs. " D n yer cod an' 'addock !'' exclaimed the sentinel. " Way with yer, an' don't come bellowin' round 'ere, or ye'll get into the guard-'ouse." " Fayther, the thojer damth cod an' 'addock !'' drawled out the fish- erboy, as he vainly endeavored to separate the long uncombed ringlets which almost concealed the upper part of his face. " Than't I go daown to the boat, fayther, and fotch him up a nice red lobther ?" " The Guvnor'll lorbster me ef I gin one on 'em to his eoger,'' said the fisherman. " Oh ! you've got lobsters for the Governor 'ave ye ?'' " Oh, nithe, big red 'unth moth ath big ath a raal thojer ."' replied the bey. "What d'ye mean, ye young dirty rebel, by such a comparison?'' de manded the indignant sentinel, looking daggers at the boy. " Jeruthalem ! didn't you never thee a battle between red lobterth and green lobterth ?" ejaculated the lisping youth. " Ha, ha ! no I never did,'' said the sentinel, rather pleased at the bare idea of the thing. " Fayther, thall I tell 'im ?" " I don't keer only be quick,'' assented the fisherman. " Well daown to Thquam where we live when we're at hum, we take thixty biled-red lobterth, and tand 'em up in a line jeth like the British thojerth, and tho we cal 'em. Then we keth thickteen green live lobterth, wot we call dam yankee rebelth, an' put them where they kin thee the comp'ny o' British lobterth then the fight commen- theth, and tith the beth fun you ever thaw to thee the thickteen Yan kee lobterth lick the thickty Britith lobterth." " You d d little rebel you !" exclaimed the sentinel, construing the boy's story into an insult " I'd like to pepper you as I would any other son of a rebel !" Things might have assumed a serious aspect had not the officer of the guard appeared, and reprimanded the sentinel for bandying words with a couple of harmless fishermen. After this they were allowed to trudge on their way through the town, singing out, at intervals, the usual cries of the street fishvender. It was now almost dark. They passed on until they reached a fine, THE REBEL AND THE ROYER. 79 noble-looking mansion, before the outer gate of which they halted Sentinels were stationed at each avenue, and officers, in, gorgeous uni forms were eutering or leaving at almost every moment. " Whose house is that ?" asked the elder fisherman of a tall man in a broad-brimmed beaver. " Verily, the sons of Belial doth hold their court there," said the old Quaker, who we have before introduced to the reader. " That righting man, the General Gage, hath his quarters there. It was once the man sion of my afflicted friend, but his house and his goods are confiscated to the crown, and he himself proclaimed a traitor. Verily, this is a world of sin !" " Does he yet live ?" eagerly asked the younger fisherman with good eat, Yea, verily," Where is he to be found ?'' Verily, he tarrieth with the sons of freedom, called rebels, beyond tJi river," replied the Quaker. : Thanks, kind sir," replied the fisher-boy. 1 A word with you in private/' said the elder fisherman. ' Yea, Verily." The trio retired beneath the shade of a huge elm, and after a few moments conversation, carried on in whispering tones, they came forth, and the Quaker made long strides through the street, running west of the Merwin mansion, followed, a few yards in the rear, by the fisher man. The Gluaker entered a humble abode, while his followers halted at the gate. In a moment he came out and said, " all right," and the fisherman entered. An old widow lady, strange to say, danced with ioy, as they entered. She greeted them with the utmost cordiality, and even seemed so far out of her senses as to kiss tho fisherman and his boy, prim as she was, and dirty as they were. A substantial supper was soon spread before them, of which they all partook heartily, especially the fish venders, who ate as if they had lasted for some time. Supper being over, the Quaker and elder fisherman left the house, and the latter taking especial, pains to kiss and embrace the boy ere he departed. That night there was a secret meeting of the Sons of Liberty. The Quaker to whom we have alluded, arose and said he had an ardent and devoted friend to introduce to the favor of the club, one who would be readily recognized as one of its early founders. The- fisherman hereupon arose, and casting off a guise which had served him well, he stood before his friends in the identical garb he wore on the occasion of his last visit to their secret resort. The name of George Winchester was upon almost every tongue, and they rushed forward to greet him. He, that night, felt the cordial grasp of the hand of a Warren, a Hancock, a Quincy, an Adams, and other choice spirits of the revolution. On the next night our hero here toiled on Bunker's Hill, in throw ing up a redoubt, and on the glorious *7th he fonght like one who felt his cause to be truly noble. He stood beside Warren when he fell, ' 80 THE REBEL AND THE ROVER. and he avenged his death by compelling many a Briton to bite th dust. Winchester subsequently joined Washington's army at Cambridge, and as one of the great patriot's staff officers, he stood beside him on Dorchester Heights when the British fleet evacuated the harbor at his command. He, too, entered Boston with his great General, at the head ef the American forces. On the day after the evacuation, Morton Merwin went to take pos session of his mansion. Though bowed down with grief at his many afflictions, he nevertheless had afforded considerable assistance to the American army, in a pecuniary way, and had also rendered some per sonal service. As he walked slowly up the steps of his supposed desert ed mansion, thoughts of his beloved children rushed with full force upon his brain, and quite unmanned him. He sighed deeply, and tears again coursed down his furrowed cheeks. But his sorrows soon changed to gladness, for he had scarcely crossed the threshold, when his daughter, his beloved Therese, was folded to his arms. He now wept tears of joy. The kind old merchant was again happy as a child. Therese, to his surprise, now introduced him to her husband ! Wash ington's Aid-de-camp whom he had frequently met during the recent events, without recognizing in him the rebel hero his daughter s lover ! " I am now amply repaid for all that I have suffered !'' exclaimed the delighted old man. Reader, lest your patience become exhausted, we will forbear enter ing into any explanations or details touching the minor characters we have introduced. Suffice it to say, that it was through the evil imagin ation? of that arch-villain Thornberg, that Morton's property was con fiscated. The wretch, after escaping the late of most of those on board the Prometheus, returned to Boston, where he gave a glowing account of his wonderful valor in battling the buccaneers ! He rejoined his company was afterwards compelled to lead them up the steep heights of old. Bunker there to be slaughtered like so many sheep a swift- winged messenger having overtook him while his back was towards the enemy, he being under full retreat. Touching old Gaspar's grave we have only a word or two to say. The coffin, after the British had sailed from Massachusettss, was unearthed under the direction of our hero. The " heavy corpse" be neath, was raised by dint of great effort. On opening it, an hundred bags of gold were discovered, which subsequently found their way to the American camp ! That it afforded some aid to the great cause ol human freedom we have every reason to believe ! THE SAILOR'S BETROTHED. AFTER having passed through the various preparatory classes requir ed to qualify for the medical profession, and having been dubbed "surg eon"' by that august body, the Royal College of Surgeons, London, I like many other young men, although bursting with impatience to ex ercise my skill and abilities, by virtue of my newly acquired license THE REBEL AND THE ROVER. 81 I knew not where to turn in search of a field sufficiently respectable and lucrative. Week after week flew by, and found me as undecided, as unemployed, as at the first after obtaining my license. Tired of waiting the fulfil- ment of promise which, even when given, were never designed to be ob served, tired of answering advertisements, and of applying for situa tions as assistant to this, or partner to the other, general practioner, I returned to my paternal home in all the glare of my recently acquired honours. There I of course figured for some time the great man ol sundry tea parties, invited and inviting, the hope of my worthy and sanguine parents, the favored beau of certain young ladies, as the young doctor, to the envy of such danglers as had been hangers-on for some years bygone, the star for the time being. Even the sun's rays grow dim, and mine, too, began to wax iaint ; but, chiefly reminded by certain shrugs and wincings whenever I required a replenishment of my purse, and also becoming ashamed of idleneness and the loss of golden time, I once more laid out all oars for active occupation. At the period there was nothing more talked of than the discovery oi the north-west passage, the probability of its being realized, together with the adventures and dangers inseparable from any undertaking of the kind. It is not to be supposed that I, young and burning with the impatience common to all juvenile minds to observe the wonders and grandeur of the- scenery in the far north, and face the perils of othei climes, should escape the temptations held out by the Antarctic Circle. Its charms savouring so jnuch of romance, and requiring of the adven turers who were eager to become the explores of those charms extraor dinary hardihood and courage, were irresistible. However, after many endeavours to be appointed to a new expedition, which was in the course of being set on foot, for the purpose of discovering the much talked-of passage, i was obliged to be meanwhile satisfied with the situation of surgeon in a whaling vessel. At length I departed for the port which the ship was to sail, my mind laden with commissions for articles of fur dress from the Esquimaux, and my chest with the good things provided by my indulgent mother and kind sister, for my comfort on the " high seas." Or arriving at my des tination, I was introduced by my owners to the captain of the vessel, whom I forind a thorough-going sailor. We were to leave port in two days, till which time, getting my medicine-chest overhauled and fitted out, and both it and my own on board and berthed, chiefly occupied my attention. The Minerva the name of what was, I trusted, to form my future secure home for a number of months was a tight and well-rigged ves sel, although of no great dimensions. She had formerly been a letter-of- marque craft, carrying sixteen guns, and seemed to me to have a sort oi " who dare meddle with me" about her which I like. I had always been fond oi looking at shipping and of thinking of a sea-faring life ; and as the Minerva lay with every sail bent, and all the necessary gear m its proper place, she appeared to me to present a perfect maritime model. 82 THE REBEL AND THE ROVER. With such feelings, how much was my pleasure enhanced when th aptaiii gave the orders which caused the gallant brig to bend her bows to the wave, the good ship soon afterwards moving onwards like the swan in silent majesty. . The approach of night hid the receding shore from my vision, when mingled feelings of regret, patriotism, hope, and ambition filled my mind. To aggravate the weight that was within me, I became the victim of sea-sickness ; so that I was obliged to remain below until our arrival at Shetland, where the crew was to b increased for the purposes of the fishery. At our landing-place, which was Lerwick, crowds of men who had arrived in that town from all quarters in those parts, for the purpose of being engaged, were waiting the appearance of the captains of the dif ferent vessels. The young Shetlanders, and all in the northern British isles, consider such a voyage as we were entering upon as a most impor tant matter, and, indeed, accomplishment, in the early life of a man, even leaving out of all question the matter of gain and the means of living through the winter. Accordingly, individual members of almost every family in Shetland and neighboring parts, find their way to Ler wick, accompanied frequently by their female relatives, who remain until those dear to them are shipped and have departed. As each whaler arrives, a sort of market is held, from which the masters pick out the hands most likely to suit them. The day, the hour, at length came, when we were again to plough the deep, although there was some difficulty in getting the new hands on board, so affectionate and clinging were the farewell-takings " One of you call away those piping greenhorns," cried the chief mate, pointing to little groups in which our new men were to be seen close to the place of embarkation ; who, with their relations, were en gaged in all the earnestness and anxiety of bidding adieus. One after another the knots broke up, and gradually we got our people ; some taking their seats with an affectation of carelessness and superiority to the milky emotions of landsmen, which, however, but ill concealed their anguish. Others, to whom, like myself, a sea voyage was new, might be seen still lingering with some dear friend, anxious to be away, yet loth to depart. Almost hidden from our view by a projecting rock, and apart from all the others, I had observed a young couple to whom parting seemed a singularly severe trial : he, a handsome and really a fine active look ing man, of some twenty-three years of age ; she, a modest gentle creature, the strange spectator must at once have pronounced her, and whose beauty was not less apparent, even through her tears. Her years were somewhat fewer than her lover's. The maiden was leaning upon the handsome, manly-looking one's breast, his arm encircling her, as she looked up trustingly into his face, where I thought I could almost dis cern the same soft tokens of affection aud sorrow racing down his cheeks as unquestionably bedewed the damsel's, as he kept wiping them away. I had never beheld such a fond farewell-taking, such an unwillingly severance. THE REBEL AND THE ROVER. 83 The idea flashed across my mind that they might never meet again, and the chief mate was evidently thinking the same thing. " Who is that lingering young man 1" I asked. " I presume he goes with us V " Yes, sir,'' answered the mate ; " he has been engaged as being a remarkably expert harpooner. I am told he was about to get married to a beautiful girl, who, like himself, is a native of Shetland, but -who is of a higher station in life she being the daughter of a wealthy in habitant of Lerwick, whose mercantile transactions and speculations are extensive. Her father has set his face against the match, and iu the meantime it has been pnt off.'' " I do not wonder at the sorrow and concern, in these circumstance! which mark their parting," I observed, more as if speaking to myself, than paying heed to the common-place nature of the remark. " No one will wonder when he knows that the banns were actually proclaimed in church, to be followed by their union in two or three days," said the mate. " But the proud and stern father interfered, and countermanded the marriage ; hence Jamie Lithgow's once more going to the northern seas, a step he had not intended again to take, for he is a clever sail-maker, and could get plenty of employment at home." The mate manifestly felt keenly for the young man and the beauty the Lerwick heiress, as, in fact, May Morrison was called. Yes, even our mate so felt, although at first sight one might have imagined that the severe-looking man was far from having a melting heart. Old Barret, as he was generally designated, behind his back, had been a sailor on board a man-of-war for a series of years, and had been considered as remarkable for his good character as for his height and breadth of beam ; and though now well advanced in life, few could compete with him in strength, activity, and enterprise. He was, indeed, as I thought, a beau ideal of an old tar ; his weather-beaten visage, bronzed by constant exposure to all climes and seasons, was deeply furrowed, as though the torrents which had driven against it had made themselves courses whereby to run off. A few long silver locks streamed from beneath his round glazed hat, adding an air of authority to his countenance ; while few could look at the sparkle of his light gray eyes, so deeply set and shaded by his bushy brows, without thinking of the scenes of danger he had witnessed, and without a sentiment of rever> ence towards him. A deep scar across his brow, which he had received in boarding a French privateer, added a degree of sternness to his other wise authoritative looks and bearing. " No, you need not, doctor, wonder at the sorrow and earnestness of yonder young people,'' said the mate, of whom I have now given the reader some idea. " It is no marvel to me, nor can be to any one who knows anything of what we are about to encounter, that they are loth to say farewell, for, perhaps, they may never meet again. Ours is a wild and dangerous voyage, sir.'' In a few minutes after the mate had spoken these words, the be trothed ones were on the breastwork alongside our brig. ** Well, my lad," said Old Barret, addressing Lithgow, " are you ready to go ?" 84 THE IIEI3EL AND THE ROVER, " Yes, sir," answered the young man ; "and I am much obliged, too, for your indulgence.' 7 " Heaven bless you, sir," cried the young lady. " May you never know the bitterness of parting, unmixed with the hopu of meeting again." " Thank you, my pretty maiden," returned the mate. " Cheer up, sweetheart ! in six months we'll be back again, all well and hearty, \ trust." ' May He, who can, grant it,'' was her reply. Then, looking into her^lover's face, he responded to her by pressing his lips to hers in one fervent kiss, arid then hurried on board. We instantly sailed, the betrothed one, and not a few others on shore, making signs to theii iriemls and such as were dear to them now upon the mighty deep, until distance dimmed their view of us entirely. On returning to her home, Miss Morison received a hurried message cymmanding that she should instantly present herself to her father in his counting-house. On opening the door she found him greatly excited. He seized the terrified girl by the arm, and, in a voice choked with passion, proceeded to catechise and to threaten her. " Is it possible that you, May Morison, have had the effrontery and the meanness to see the low- born fellow, Lithgow, to his ship, and that you actually allowed himto kiss you at parting, before scores of people?'' demanded the father. Morison was a stern, imperious man, and ruled aii around and under him with an unyielding hand. May was an only child, and her mother had been for some time dead. She had consequently been brought up during several years under the care of the housekeeper, who was a dis tant relation, and had been little attended to by her surviving parent ; and although now turnad of eighteen, was regarded by him as yet little more than a child. How and when she came to be admired by the handsome sail-maker, or through what circumstances it was that she reciprocated the gallant youth's love, it is unnecessary to detail, after being told that they were natives of the same town in Shetland. To her excited and austere father's first questions, on her being sum moned to his counting office, the trembling maiden could not for very terror, return an answer ; and, scarcely knowing what she did, she straggled to get out of the place. " Answer me, disobedient girl," said he; " don't think to humbug me with trembling humors, or fainting fits either. Say, ii you have dared to do that which I charge you with.' 7 " Oh, father, have mercy on me !' 7 exclaimed poor May. " You have done it then !' 7 exclaimed Morison. " You a whining hypocritical thing, under the mask of pretended simplicity, hare dared to disgrace me by persisting in shameless flirtations, in the eye of mul titudes, with a worthless, penniless fellow. Hark ye, if ever I again near of your writing or speaking to him or any other body, without my full and asked for permission, you shall instantly quit my house, as pooi as the impudent, audacious scoundrel who had the boldness, the villany I call it, to win the confidence and affections of a silly child, without THE REBEL AXD THE ROVER. 85 ever even saying, " By your leave, air,'' to her father. " Now, begone, and no snivelling ; for well I know what that means by your deceitful wx.'' May tottered out, and made for her room. Her father had always been cold, austere, but he never had acted towards her with such rude ness as now not even when he put a stop to her marriage. A few weeks rolled away, when a young man arrived in Lerwick, immediately proceeding to Mr. Morison's residence, as if to the appoint ed home for him during his sojourn in Shetland ; he being the son of an American merchant with whom the betrothed maiden's father had ex tensive dealings. Wright, the name of the transatlantic correspondent, had not been many days an inmate in the same house with the heroine of our tale, before his attentions to her became pointed. Indeed, ha prolonged his stay beyond the limits he had originally intended, for no other purpose that the datosel could divine except the prosecution of his suit to her. Narrowly watched now by her father, May had to observe the utmost circumspection, and also to yield compliance in in many instances where daughters differently situated would have ad ministered rebuffs. At length, the young gentleman formally intimated his views to Mor rison, who at once signified his approbation ; and, for reasous which may readily be guessed, expressed a strong wish that no delay should take place in regard to the nuptials. The father did not deem it neces sary to speak to his daughter on the subject at this stage of the affair, but significantly desired Wright to inform him if she offered any objec tion to the union. The American speedily informed May of what had passed between him and her parent. " Oh, sir !'' said the alarmed girl, " had you only spoken to me first." " Nay, in tha . dear young lady. I think I should have been doing wrong," returned the suitor. " The love I offer is honorable, and hon- able love can neither seek nor accept concealment. 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