KATE BONNET

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. TWO YOUNG PEOPLE, A SHIP, AND A FISH

II. A FRUIT-BASKET AND A FRIEND

III. THE TWO CLOCKS

IV. ON THE QUARTER-DECK

V. AN UNSUCCESSFUL ERRAND

VI. A PAIR OF SHOES AND STOCKINGS

VII. KATE PLANS

VIII. BEN GREENWAY IS CONVINCED THAT BONNET IS A PIRATE

IX. DICKORY SETS FORTH

X. CAPTAIN CHRISTOPHER VINCE

XI. BAD WEATHER

XII. FACE TO FACE

XIII. CAPTAIN BONNET GOES TO CHURCH

XIV. A GIRL TO THE FRONT

XV. THE GOVERNOR OF JAMAICA

XVI. A QUESTION OF ETIQUETTE

XVII. AN ORNAMENTED BEARD

XVIII. I HAVE NO RIGHT; I AM A PIRATE

XIX. THE NEW FIRST LIEUTENANT

XX. ONE NORTH, ONE SOUTH

XXI. A PROJECTED MARRIAGE

XXII. BLADE TO BLADE

XXIII. THE ADDRESS OF THE LETTER

XXIV. BELIZE

XXV. WISE MR. DELAPLAINE

XXVI. DICKORY STRETCHES HIS LEGS

XXVII. A GIRL WHO LAUGHED

XXVIII. LUCILLA'S SHIP

XXIX. CAPTAIN ICHABOD

XXX. DAME CHARTER MAKES A FRIEND

XXXI. MR. DELAPLAINE LEADS A BOARDING PARTY

XXXII. THE DELIVERY OF THE LETTER

XXXIII. BLACKBEARD GIVES GREENWAY SOME DIFFICULT WORK

XXXIV. CAPTAIN THOMAS OF THE ROYAL JAMES

XXXV. A CHAPTER OF HAPPENINGS

XXXVI. THE TIDE DECIDES

XXXVII. BONNET AND GREENWAY PART COMPANY

XXXVIII. AGAIN DICKORY WAS THERE

XXXIX. THE BLESSINGS WHICH COME FROM THE DEATH OF THE WICKED

XL. CAPTAIN ICHABOD PUTS THE CASE



CHAPTER I

TWO YOUNG PEOPLE, A SHIP, AND A FISH


The month was September and the place was in the neighbourhood of
Bridgetown, in the island of Barbadoes. The seventeenth century was not
seventeen years old, but the girl who walked slowly down to the river
bank was three years its senior. She carried a fishing-rod and line, and
her name was Kate Bonnet. She was a bright-faced, quick-moving young
person, and apparently did not expect to catch many fish, for she had no
basket in which to carry away her finny prizes. Nor, apparently, did she
have any bait, except that which was upon her hook and which had been
affixed there by one of the servants at her home, not far away. In fact,
Mistress Kate was too nicely dressed and her gloves were too clean to
have much to do with fish or bait, but she seated herself on a little
rock in a shady spot not far from the water and threw forth her line.
Then she gazed about her; a little up the river and a good deal down the
river.