. Kate Bonnet; the romance of a pirate's daughter. anting, to mercan-tile pursuits, to domestic joys. Here, now, was to be a voyage of matter what his plans were; no matter whathe said; no matter what he might lose, or howhe might suffer by being taken into captivityand being carried away, Major Stede Bonnet,late of Bridgetown and still later connected withsome erratic voyages upon the high seas, was tobe taken prisoner by his daughter and carriedaway to Spanish Town, where the actions of hisdisordered mind were to be condoned and wherehe would be safe from all vengeful Vinces andf
. Kate Bonnet; the romance of a pirate's daughter. anting, to mercan-tile pursuits, to domestic joys. Here, now, was to be a voyage of matter what his plans were; no matter whathe said; no matter what he might lose, or howhe might suffer by being taken into captivityand being carried away, Major Stede Bonnet,late of Bridgetown and still later connected withsome erratic voyages upon the high seas, was tobe taken prisoner by his daughter and carriedaway to Spanish Town, where the actions of hisdisordered mind were to be condoned and wherehe would be safe from all vengeful Vinces andfrom all temptations of the flaunting skull andbones. It was a bright morning when, with a fairwind upon her starboard bow, the sloop Belinda,bearing the jubilant three, sailed southward onher course to the coast of Honduras; and it wasupon that same morning that the good ship Re-venge, bearing the pirate Blackbeard and hishandsomely uniformed lieutenant, sailed north-ward, the same fair wind upon her port bow. 222 CHAPTER XXI A PROJECTED MARRIAGE. TRAXGE as it may appear,Dickory Charter was not avery unhappy young fellowas lie stood in his fine uniform on the quarter-deck of the Revenge, the fresh breeze ruffling hisbrown curls when he lifted his heavy cocked , he was leaving behind him his friends,Captain Bonnet and Ben Greenway, with whomthe wayward Blackbeard would allow no wordof leave-taking; true, he was going, he knewnot where, and in the power of a man noted thenew world over for his savage eccentricities;and true, he might soon be sailing, hour by hour,farther and farther away from the island onwhich dwelt the angel Kate—that angel Kate andhis mother. But none of these considerationscould keep down the glad feeling that he wasgoing, that he was moving. Moreover, in answerto one of his impassioned appeals to be set ashoreat Jamaica, Blackbeard had said to him that ifhe should get tired of him he did not see, at that 223 KATE BOXXET moment, any reason why he sh
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