CHAPTER XXXVII.
BONNET AND GREENWAY PART COMPANY It was three days after this memorable combat--for the vessels engaged in it needed considerable repairs--when Mr.Rhett of Charles Town sailed down the Cape Fear River with his five vessels--the two with which he had entered it, the pirate Royal James, and the two prizes of the latter, which had waited quietly up the river to see how matters were going to turn out.
On the Henry sailed the pirate Thomas, now discovered to be the notorious Stede Bonnet, and a very quiet and respectful man he was.

As has been seen before, Bonnet was a man able to adapt himself to circumstances.

There never was a more demure counting-house clerk than was Bonnet at Belize; there never was an humbler dependent than the almost unnoticed Bonnet after he had joined Blackbeard's fleet before Charles Town, and there never was a more deferential and respectful prisoner than Stede Bonnet on board the Henry.

It was really touching to see how this cursing and raging pirate deported himself as a meek and uncomplaining gentleman.
There was no prison-house in Charles Town, but Stede Bonnet's wicked crew, including Ben Greenway--for his captors were not making any distinctions in regard to common men taken on a pirate ship--were clapped into the watch-house--and a crowded and uncomfortable place it was--and put under a heavy and military guard.

The authorities were, however, making distinctions where gentlemen of family and owners of landed estates were concerned, no matter if they did happen to be taken on a pirate ship, and Major Bonnet of Barbadoes was lodged in the provost marshal's house, in comfortable quarters, with only two sentinels outside to make him understand he was a prisoner.
The capture of this celebrated pirate created a sensation in Charles Town, and many of the citizens were not slow to pay the unfortunate prisoner the attentions due to his former position in society.