As for Captain Rule, he would probably say Nantes." "In what manner did you come from Nantes ?" continued Cuffe, without betraying resentment at an answer that might be deemed impertinent; or surprise, as if he found it difficult to comprehend.

"You did not make the journey on horseback, I should think ?" "Oh, I begin to understand you, Captain Cuffe.

Why, if the truth must be said, we came in the lugger the Few-Folly." "I supposed as much.

And when you went to visit this aunt where did you leave the lugger ?" "We didn't leave her at all, sir; being under her canvas, our feet were no sooner in the boat and the line cast off than she left us as if we had been stuck up like a tree on dry ground." "Where did this happen ?" "Afloat, of course, Captain Cuffe; such a thing would hardly come to pass ashore." "All that I understand; but you say the prisoner left his vessel in order to visit an aunt of the young woman's; thence he went into the Bay for the sole purpose of finding the young woman herself.

Now, this is an important fact, as it concerns the prisoner's motives and may affect his life.