"What you say, kind captain, redounds to your honour, and I thank you for your noble consideration, but I feel bound to tell you that there was never anything between me and Captain Vince, and he is now dead." The young pirate stepped back suddenly and opened wide his eyes.

"What!" he exclaimed, "and all the time you were--" "Not free," she interrupted with a smile, "for I have a lover on the island of Barbadoes." "Barbadoes," repeated Captain Ichabod, and he bade Kate a most courteous farewell.
All the good-byes had been said and good wishes had been wished, when, just as he was about to descend to his boat, Captain Ichabod turned to Lucilla.

"And it is truly to Barbadoes you go ?" he asked.
"Yes," said she, "I think we shall certainly do that." Now his face flushed.

"And do you care for that fellow in the cocked hat ?" Here was a cruel situation for poor Lucilla.

She must lie or lose two men.