CHAPTER XXXV.
Captain Tolley and the Storm King.
The next day furnished with a brief note of introduction, Master Raymond, with the aid of a skiff, put himself on the deck of the Storm King.

Captain Tolley received him with due courtesy, wondering who the stranger was.

The Captain was a well-built, athletic, though not very large man, with a face naturally dark in hue, and bronzed by exposure to the southern sun.

As Master Raymond ascertained afterwards, he was the son of an English father and a Spanish mother; and he could speak English, French and Spanish with equal facility.

While he considered himself an Englishman of birth, his nationality sat very loosely upon him; and, if need be, he was just as willing to run up the French or Spanish colors on the Storm King, as the red cross of St.George.
After reading the note of introduction, Captain Tolley gave a keen look at his visitor.