. Kate Bonnet; the romance of a pirate's daughter. But Bonnet quailed not before fate, beforethe enemy, or before his crew; if he heard an-other word of surrender he would fire the maga-zine and blow the ship to the sky with every manin it. Raising his cutlass in air, he was aboutto bring it down upon* one of the cowards heberated, when suddenly he was seized by twopowerful hands, which pinned his arms behindhim. TVith a scream of rage, he turned his head 390 THE TIDE DECIDES and found that he was in the grasp of BenGreenway. Let go your sword, Master Bonnet, saidBen; it is o no use to ye now,
. Kate Bonnet; the romance of a pirate's daughter. But Bonnet quailed not before fate, beforethe enemy, or before his crew; if he heard an-other word of surrender he would fire the maga-zine and blow the ship to the sky with every manin it. Raising his cutlass in air, he was aboutto bring it down upon* one of the cowards heberated, when suddenly he was seized by twopowerful hands, which pinned his arms behindhim. TVith a scream of rage, he turned his head 390 THE TIDE DECIDES and found that he was in the grasp of BenGreenway. Let go your sword, Master Bonnet, saidBen; it is o no use to ye now, for ye cannaget awa from me. Im nae older than ye are,though I look it, an Ive got the harder mus-cles. Ye may be makin your way steadily ansurely to the gates o hell an it mayna be possi-ble that I can prevent ye, but Im not goin tolet ye tumble in by accident so long as Ive gottwo arms left to me. Pale, haggard, and writhing, Stede Bonnetwas disarmed, and die Jolly Roger came down. 391 CHAPTER XXXVII BONNET AND GREENWAY PART COMPANY .p° T was three days after thismemorable combat — for thevessels engaged in it neededconsiderable repairs—when Mr. Khett of CharlesTown sailed down the Cape Fear River withhis five vessels—the two with which he had en-tered it, the } (irate Royal James, and the twoprizes of the latter, which had waited quietlyup the river to see how matters were going toturn out. On the Henry sailed the pirate Thomas, nowdiscovered to be the notorious Stede Bonnet, anda very quiet and respectful man he was. As hasbeen seen before, Bonnet was a man able to adapthimself to circumstances. There never was amore demure counting-house clerk than wasBonnet at Belize; there never was an humblerdependent than the almost unnoticed Bonnetafter he had joined Blackbeards fleet beforeCharles Town, and there never was a more 392 BONNET AND GREENWAY SEPARATE deferential and respectful prisoner than StedeBonnet on board the Henry. It was reallytouching to see how thi
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