It was paid over.

Then this British sea-captain gave up his security, who with his wife was tortured and killed, enduring his torments with the stoicism of a North American Indian.

The instrument of his death was a red-hot ramrod.
The _Elizabeth_, with thirty tons of flax in her hold, sailed to Sydney.

But Stewart's exploit had been a little too outrageous, even for the South Pacific of those days.

He was arrested and tried by order of Governor Darling, who, it is only fair to say, did his best to have him hanged.