Kate Bonnet The Romance Of A Pirate's Daughter

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



LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

FACING PAGE

"Oh, Kate!" said Dickory, "you should have seen that wonderful pirate
fight" _Frontispiece_

"If you talk to me like that I will cut you down where you stand!" 46

"He is my father!" said Kate 124

"Haste ye! haste ye," cried Dickory, "they will leave you behind" 155

"Take that," he feebly said, "and swear that it shall be delivered" 241

Kate and her father in the warehouse 260

Lucilla rescues Dickory 337

In an instant Dickory was there 403




KATE BONNET




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.

It was truly a pleasant scene which lay before her eyes. Not half a mile
away was the bridge which gave this English settlement its name, and
beyond the river were woods and cultivated fields, with here and there a
little bit of smoke, for it was growing late in the afternoon, when
smoke meant supper. Beyond all this the land rose from the lower ground
near the river and the sea, in terrace after terrace, until the upper
stretches of its woodlands showed clear against the evening sky.

But Mistress Kate Bonnet now gazed steadily down the stream, beyond the
town and the bridge, and paid no more attention to the scenery than the
scenery did to her, although one was quite as beautiful as the other.

There was a bunch of white flowers in the hat of the young girl; not a
very large one, and not a very small one, but of such a size as might be
easily seen from the bridge, had any one happened to be crossing about
that time. And, in fact, as the wearer of the hat and the white flowers
still continued to gaze at the bridge, she saw some one come out upon it
with a quick, buoyant step, and then she saw him stop and gaze steadily
up the river. At this she turned her head, and her eyes went out over
the beautiful landscape and the wide terraces rising above each other
towards the sky.