. Kate Bonnet; the romance of a pirate's daughter. aken prizes, I have burned ships, I havemade my name a terror. Now his voice grew stronger and his tonesmore angry. Not a pirate! he cried. Go ask thegalleons and the merchantmen I have strippedand burned; go ask their crews, now wander-ing in misery upon desert shores, if they be notalready dead. And by what right, I ask, doyou come to such an one as I am and declarethat, having put me in the position of aprisoner on your ship, you will take away myown? Blackbeard gazed at him with half-closedeyes, a malicious smile upon his face. < I have
. Kate Bonnet; the romance of a pirate's daughter. aken prizes, I have burned ships, I havemade my name a terror. Now his voice grew stronger and his tonesmore angry. Not a pirate! he cried. Go ask thegalleons and the merchantmen I have strippedand burned; go ask their crews, now wander-ing in misery upon desert shores, if they be notalready dead. And by what right, I ask, doyou come to such an one as I am and declarethat, having put me in the position of aprisoner on your ship, you will take away myown? Blackbeard gazed at him with half-closedeyes, a malicious smile upon his face. < I have no right, he said; I need noright; I am a pirate! At these words Bonnets legs weakened underhim, and he sank down upon the bench. As hedid so he glanced at Ben Greenway as if he were14 201 KATE BONNET the only person on earth to whom he could lookfor help, but to his amazement he saw beforehim a face almost jubilant, and beheld theScotchman, his eyes uplifted and his handsclasped as if in thankful prayer. 202 CHAPTER XIX THE NEW FIRST LIEUTENANT. HEX the boat of the Revengewas pulled back to that vesselBonnet did not go in it; itwas Blaekbeard who sat in the stern and heldthe tiller, while one of his own men sat by hirn.\Yhen Blaekbeard stepped on deck he an-nounced, much to the delight of the crew andthe consternation of Paul Bittern, that the Re-venge now belonged to him, and that all thecrew who were fit to be kept on board such afine vessel would be retained, and that he him-self, for the present at least, would take com-mand of the ship, would haul down that brand-new bit of womans work at the masthead andfly in its place his own black, ragged Jolly Roger,dreaded wherever seen upon the sea. At thisa shout went up from the crew; the heart ofevery scoundrel among them swelled with joy atthe idea of sailing, fighting, and pillaging underthe bloody Blaekbeard. But the sailing-master stood aghast. He had 203 KATE BONNET known very well what was going to happen; hehad talked it
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