. Kate Bonnet; the romance of a pirate's daughter. rty Satan! exclaimed Dickory, ashe gazed after Blackbeards boat. I wouldkill him if I could. i Say not so, Dickory, said Captain Bonnet,speaking gravely. That great pirate is not aman of breeding, and he speaks with disesteemalike of friend and enemy, but he is the famousBlackbeard, and we must treat him with honouralthough he pays us none. I had deemed, said Greenway calmly, that ye were goin to be the maist unholy sin-ner that ever blackened this fair earth; but notonly did ye tell a pious lie for the sake o goodDickory, but, compared wi tha
. Kate Bonnet; the romance of a pirate's daughter. rty Satan! exclaimed Dickory, ashe gazed after Blackbeards boat. I wouldkill him if I could. i Say not so, Dickory, said Captain Bonnet,speaking gravely. That great pirate is not aman of breeding, and he speaks with disesteemalike of friend and enemy, but he is the famousBlackbeard, and we must treat him with honouralthough he pays us none. I had deemed, said Greenway calmly, that ye were goin to be the maist unholy sin-ner that ever blackened this fair earth; but notonly did ye tell a pious lie for the sake o goodDickory, but, compared wi that monstrosity, yeare a saint graved in marble, Master Bonnet, awhite and shapely saint. Blackbeards boat was not rowed to his ves-sel, but his men pulled steadily shoreward. With the wild crew of the*Revenge, freshfrom sea and their appetites whetted for jovialriot, and with Blackbeard, his war-paint on,to lead them into every turbulent excess, therewere wild times in the town of Belize that night. 193 CHAPTER XVIII I HAVE NO RIGHT; I AM A PIRATE. has been made plain, CaptainBonnet of the Revenge was apunctilious man when the rulesof society were concerned, be that society official,high-toned, or piratical. Thus it was a positiveduty, in his mind, to return Blackbeards visiton the next day, but until afternoon he was notable to do so on account of the difficulty of get-ting a sober and decently behaved boats crewwho should row him over. Black Paul, the sailing-master, had returnedto his vessel early in the morning, feeling the ne-cessity of keeping watch over the cargo, but mostof the men came over much later, while some ofthem did not come at all. Bonnet was greatly inclined to punish withan unwonted severity this breach of rules, butBlack Paul assured him that it was always thecustom for the crew of a newly arrived vesselto go ashore and have a good time, and that ifthey were denied this privilege they would be 194 I AM A PIRATE sure to mutiny, and lie might be left without a
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