"I am very glad that I did not bring down my cutlass on you, which I should have done, bedad, had it not been for this young woman." Now up spoke Mr.Delaplaine.

"We have found you, Dickory," he cried, "but what can you tell us of Major Bonnet ?" "Ay, ay," added Captain Ichabod, "there's another one we're after; where's the runaway Sir Nightcap ?" "Alas!" said Dickory, "I do not know.

I escaped from Blackbeard, and since that day have heard nothing.

I had supposed that Captain Bonnet was in your company, Mr.Delaplaine." Now the captain of the Black Swan pushed himself forward.

"Is it Captain Bonnet, lately of the pirate ship Revenge, that you're talking about ?" he asked.