. Kate Bonnet; the romance of a pirate's daughter. d a little he might haveheard more, but he did not wait; he quicklyturned, and away he went in his boat. Andaway went Martin Newcombe after him. Butas the younger man was barefooted, the otherone could not keep up with him, and the canoewas pushed off before he reached the watersedge. Stop, you young rascal! cried New-combe. Where is Kate Bonnet? Stop! andtell me where she is! Troubled as he was at the tale he was goingto tell, Dickory laughed aloud, and he paddleddown the river as few in that region had everpaddled before. Madam Bonnet went i
. Kate Bonnet; the romance of a pirate's daughter. d a little he might haveheard more, but he did not wait; he quicklyturned, and away he went in his boat. Andaway went Martin Newcombe after him. Butas the younger man was barefooted, the otherone could not keep up with him, and the canoewas pushed off before he reached the watersedge. Stop, you young rascal! cried New-combe. Where is Kate Bonnet? Stop! andtell me where she is! Troubled as he was at the tale he was goingto tell, Dickory laughed aloud, and he paddleddown the river as few in that region had everpaddled before. Madam Bonnet went into her house, and ifshe had met a maid-servant, it might have beenbad for that poor woman. She was not troubledabout Kate. She knew the young man to beDickory Charter, and she was quite sure that her 59 KATE BONNET step-daughter was iu his mothers cottage. Whyshe happened to be there, and what had becomeof the recreant Bonnet, the equally recreantyoung woman could come and tell her whenevershe saw fit. 60 CHAPTER VI A PAIR OF SHOES AND STOCKINGS. HE tide was running down, and Dick-ory made a swift passage to the on the pier the man fromwhom he had borrowed the rope, he stopped toreturn him his property, and thinking that thegood people of the town should know that, nomatter what had befallen Major Bonnet, hisdaughter had not gone with him and was safeamong friends, he mentioned these facts to theman, but with very few details, being in a hurryto return with his message. Before he turned into the inlet, Dickory wascalled from the shore, and to his surprise he sawhis mother standing on the bank in front of amass of bushes, which concealed her from herhouse. Come here, Dickory, she said, and tellme what you have heard! Her son told his doleful tale. I fear me, mother, he said, that Major 61 KATE BONNET Bonnets ship has gone on some secret and badbusiness, and that he is mixed up in it. Elsewhy did he desert his daughter! And if he in-tended to take her with him, that
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