When the attempt failed, I was taken prisoner and deported to America for twenty years servitude.

I came over with a bunch of others on the same ship with Sanchez." "The _Romping Betsy_ ?" "Yes.

There was a rich planter, and his niece also aboard.

He was coming home with a chest of money--fifty thousand pounds--realized from a big sale of tobacco in London, and the young woman was returning from attending school in England.

Sanchez was aboard to gain possession of both." Watkins nodded, too deeply interested in the narrative to interrupt.
"He pretended to be of the Spanish nobility, an ex-naval officer, and tried all the way over to make love to this Dorothy Fairfax.