. Kate Bonnet; the romance of a pirate's daughter. ro-posed arrangement. As the Revenge sailed on over sunny seas orunder lowering clouds, Dickory was no strangerto the binnacle, and the compass always toldhim that they were sailing eastward. He hadonce asked Blackbeard where they now wereby the chart, but that gracious gentleman of themidnight beard had given him oaths for an-swers, and had told him that if the captain knewwhere the ship was on any particular hour orminute nobody else on that ship need troublehis head about it. But at last the course of theRevenge was changed a little, and sh
. Kate Bonnet; the romance of a pirate's daughter. ro-posed arrangement. As the Revenge sailed on over sunny seas orunder lowering clouds, Dickory was no strangerto the binnacle, and the compass always toldhim that they were sailing eastward. He hadonce asked Blackbeard where they now wereby the chart, but that gracious gentleman of themidnight beard had given him oaths for an-swers, and had told him that if the captain knewwhere the ship was on any particular hour orminute nobody else on that ship need troublehis head about it. But at last the course of theRevenge was changed a little, and she sailednorthward. Then Dickory spoke with one ofthe mildest of the mates upon the subject oftheir progress, and the man made known to himthat they were now about half-way through theWindward passage. Dickory started back. Heknew something of the geography of those seas. Why, then, he cried, we have passedJamaica! Of course we have, said the man, and ifit had not been for Dickorys uniform he wouldhave sworn at him. 229 CHAPTER XXII BLADE TO BLADE. Badger sailed from Jamaica shemoved among the islands ofthe Caribbean Sea as if she had been a modernvessel propelled by a steam-engine. That whichrepresented a steam-engine in this case was thefiery brain of Captain Christopher Vince of hisMajestys navy. More than winds, more thancurrents, this brain made its power felt upon thecourse and progress of the vessel. Calling at every port where informationmight possibly be gained, hailing every sloop orship or fishing-smack which might have sightedthe pirate ship Revenge, with a constant lookoutfor a black flag, Captain Vince kept his enginesteadily at work. But it was not in pursuit of a ship that theswift keel of the Badger cut through the sea,this way and that, now on a long course, nowdoubling back again, like a hound fancying hehas got the scent of a hare, then raging wildly 230 BLADE TO BLADE • when he finds the scent is false; it was in pur-suit of a woman that every sail was spr
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