_\\\&\\\\\.\\\\\\\‘ ‘

3Q

a"
2AA~~ -

M. J. lvuts 4:10., Pulmishcrs. 10 Cents a Com,
(JAMES SULLIVAN, PHOPRIKTOB). $1 00 a Year-

03.
THE RED REBEL OF THE
REVOLUTION.

llama“. Bonnet ofthoWuotm'lQ.”
BY COL. PRENTIBS INGRAHAM.

Amos or “ luau, mi Inn-mun." “ I0!!!-
zmu, m morass.”_lm, m

CHAPTER I.
A HAN’B on!

“no; In samw mm sm- aon A—n-o— ! aqua—m”

 

 

2 The Shadow Silver Ship.

p."

 

beautiful madam as a witch. then the lads would
hang both you and me.”
“ True, once their superstition and malice are

point of his Cutlass and muzzle of his pistol, for
while one hand rested upon the hilt of his good
blade, the other pla ed with the butt of the fire-

arou<ed and they are capable of anything; but : arm stuck in his re silk sash.

how did you arrange it, good Guiteau."

“’Shl captain, don’t call me good, for I am I

as wicked as man can be—as wicked as you are,
my captain.”

H Sir l”

“ Don‘t get angry, captain, for I was just

showing you by comparison how little I deserved 5

the word ood applied to me.

“ Did not the boatswain tell you, captain,
what we had decided on?” asked the spokesman
nervously.

“He said that you all attributed the ill-for-
tune we have had of late to my Wife‘s presence
on hon rd and her prayers for our souls.”

“ Yes, sir, and we do, for we know she be a
witch. sir, one to work ill-omen upon us, and

“Once was good, and my mother was went I you know. captain, that the only way to break

to use. the word to me often; but, I fell, and I '
do not wish to hear myself called good Guiteau."

“It was a mistake, I admit, Boatswain Gui-
teau, for you are as black 8. hearted wretch as
ever sailed under the black flag.”

“ Witness now my act against your beautiful
wife, for which you are to pay me so well; but,
I bartered my soul to Satan long ago for gold,
so can do no worse.”

“ How did you arrange it with the men, I
asked,” and Captain Ravel, the Rover, seemed
nettied at the man’s words.

“ Well, sir, you know all seamen are super-
stitious, and we pirates doubly so, and when I
hinted that we had made no captures of late,
that not a single deed of good fortune had come
to us since our captain had taken his beautiful
wife a-cruising on the schooner, the men began
to think.

“ Then I told them that prayers upon a pirate
ship were like curses, for they were but a cause
of ill—omen to us, and I hinted that the captain’s
lady was always praying, and last I said I really
believed that she had bewitched you.

“ Then the men began to talk among them-
selves, and after a few days I saw that it did not
require more than a suggestion by me that your
wife was really a witch to have the men threaten
her life, and t ey will come to you today and
demand that you cast her into the sea.”

“ yhen they come I will promise to get rid of

her. -

“But, captain, it’s hard, sir, to take her life,
so let you and me save our guilty souls by cast-
ing her adrift in a boat, for the men will ardly
demand more.

“ And she me be picked up?”

“ Hardly like y, sir, and if so what do you
care. for you have gotten rid of her at last, and
should you meet agaiu,why the men towed you
to do as you did is all the plea you need.”

“ All right, I’d rather do that for it would
ease m conscience to feel that I did not will.
fully ta 9 her life.”

“ But the men told me, sir, to break the news
to on, and see, they are mastering to come aft
an demand that you got rid of beautiful madam
as a witch.” .

The two stood upon the deck of an armed
craft, sailin quietly along ovor a southern son.

She had at rakish, wicked look that natur-
ally belonged to the free rovers of a century 0,
and her captain and his crew were a typical es
of mercilen buccaneers.

The men were rigged out gaudin in many
different costumes, armed to the teeth, and
counted among them whites, West Indians and
negroes, the former including Americans, Eng-
lish, Portuguese and Spaniards.

The boatcwain, Guiteau, was an Englishman,
in ucradin under a French name, and the
chic of this awless lot of humanity was at one
time a priest, then an ex-naval officer of Great
Britain, who had followed the bent of an evil
_ nature, and disgracing his name and rank had
hoisted a flag more congenial to his wicked
humors.

He had won the love of a beautiful girl, the
daughter of an American planter, and had wed-
ded her, to then tear from his face the mask of
hypocrisy and come out in his true colors as
Ross Ravel, Buccaneer. ,

True to her love the young wife had not de-
serted the man who had cruel] deceived her,
and strove hard to win him bac to a different
life: but after a year had passed she gave it up,
and, dra ged down to his level, went on board of
his vemerith him.

This did not suit the buccaneer, and so he
sought to get rid of her to carry out certain
other plans he had in View, and in Boutswaiu
Guiteau he found a ready tool, while be selected
a. time when his first officer, a young American
whom he had forced into piracy, and of whom
he stood in certain awe, was away in Havana
getting certain needed stores and equipments
for the pirate craft. '

And so it was that the men, with the seed of
suspicion and superstition sown by Guiteau
against the beautiful wife of the pirate captain,
had pronounced her a witch and demanded that
she be at once gotten rid of.

As the crew advanced toward where he stood
upon the quarter-deck, Captain Ravel turned to
meet them and demanded sternly:

“ Well men, what is your demand of me?"

He was a handsome man, dashing in bearing
and dressed gorgeously, just such a one to win
the heart of an innocent young girl who believed
him a man of honor. '

He was a cod actor too, and faced the men

 

with no sh ow upon his face, and more as
though homcut to meet their demand at'the

a spell of witchcraft is to put the evil heart to
death."

The pirate chief seemed deeply moved, and at
last said, while his voice quivered with feigned
emotion: -

“ My men, I know the powers of those possess-
ing the bane of witchcraft, and though [lave
my wife most dearly, and ho that she would
bring us only good fortune, feel that I must
give her up, that I must yield to your demand,
for I too have felt her evil power.”

The men moviad uneasily, and the chief, after
a pause continued:

“ But, men, I would not be the one to take her
life, nor would you stain youir hands with her
blood, and yet she must go from us, and if you
will consent that I set her adrift in the lifeboat,
I will do so this very ni;ht.

“ Then if she be a witch let her save herself,
and if not she must die, and we must have her
life recorded against us.

“ Do you say yes, men, to my wish?”

The men glanced uneasily toward the cabin,
as though expecting the appearance of the wo-
man they were plotting against, and then their
sppkesman, having read consent in the eyes of
n , responded:

“ We agree, air, if she be set adrift before
night comes on.”

“ It shall be done, and I will now go and tell
her of her doom,” and the cruel outlaw chief
turned and descended to the cabin.

CHAPTER II. '
'rnn BUCCANEER’S BRIDE.
ALL unconscious of the diaboliCal plot against
her, Cleo Ravel, the unfortunate wife of a
irate, sat in the luxurious cabin of her hus-
iand's vessel. her hands idly running over the
strings of a handsome harp, her solace in her
hours of sadness.

Her surroundings were strange, yet beautiful,
for the cabin furniture and appomtments par-
took of a hundred piratical captures, and the
best had been stripped from every prize to adorn
the sea home of the buccaneer’s bride.

Velvet and silken draperies, embroidered
ottomans, the richest of carpets, with brie-a-
brac from many lands were seen upon all sides.

The cabin was very large, taking up the en-
tire breadth and some twenty-five feet of the
after end of the vessel, with forward of it two
large state—rooms.

And here lived the woman whose loveliness of
face and form had won for her the name of
“ Clio the Beautiful,” a woman who had refused
honorable suitors by the score to become fas-
cinated with an adventurer, whom afterward
she found out she had been warned against with
truth. for she had become the bride o a pirate.

Now as she sat therghumming matches of an
{illegallad dear to her girlhood, her husband on-

 

She saw at a lance that his face was wor-
ried and ceasing r music she said anxiously:
“ Is aught going wrong, Ravel?”

“ Yes, Clio, there is everything goin wrong.”

“ My husband! What can you mean

He threw himself into an easy-chair with a
groan and buried his faca in his hands.

Quickly she was by his side and dropping upon
her knees she asked with loving tone:

“ Tell me, Ravel, what is the matter!”

“ Clio, the men have mutinied,” he said almost
fiercely.

“ Mutiniedl So bad as that?” and her face
turned white with dread.

“ Yes, and worse; they make a demand upon
me that I cannot resist.

“ Ah, Ravel! tell me all, for your looks. your
words pomt to me,” and her voice quiverod with
sudden an uish.

“ It is 0 you that I must speak, Clio, for our
actions, your words have done all the harm.

“ Oh, Ravel! what have I done!”

“You havetalked to the men of their crimes,
of prayer—yes, have 'prayed for them, and pro-
tending to tell their ortuncs to f hten them.
ylpu h’pve predicted only death an disastenfor
t

“ And now, say that you are an evil
ink“; in a boontifu form masked under a lovely

it My Gad 1”” '

“ They say that you are—”

“ What!” and she drew herself up proudly
and faced her accuser.

“Great God. Cliol the crew call you switch
and demand your life,”'oricd the buccsnecr cap-

1!.
The woman sprung to her feet white with
terror, and stood trembling violently.

 

-

She saw at a glance all that the charge was,
all that it meant.

In those days su witches were believed.
in, and the fate of t ose thus accused was often
appalling.

She saw now that her actions, intended to

turn them from their crimes, might readily be
misconstrued by the wicked, superstitious fiends
who composed her husband’s crew.

No wonder then that she cowered in terror
before him, for what meant not that fearful.
change to her.

She tried to speak, but not a word could she.
Utter.

At last the man, actin his part well to‘

deceive her as to his own fee ings,.said:

“ Clio, I argued with them, pleaded with
them and threatened, but all to no pu use.

“ I then told them to sacrifice my Ii 9, if they'
would first let me place on on shore in safety.

“ They refused, and so came to tell you all.”

“'But you can, you will protect me, Ravel?”

Her voice was firm now with hope as she-
uttei-ed the words.

“ Alas, Clio, what could ldo, more than to
die with you?”

“I have seen your men mutiny on two sepa-
rate occasions, and each time one man quel ed.
the disturbance.”

:: %ou ,refer to Belmont, my lieutenant?”

cs. '

“ He did quell the mutiny, but had to kill
seVeral of the men.” ‘

“ And can you not do the same, Ravel? for it
will be their ' es, or death to me.”

“ Ah, Clio, the mutiny when quelled by
Brandt Belmont was not caused by superstition,

‘but a fightto put to death prisoners we had

taken.

“ Now the worst fear of man, superstitious
dread, arouses these demons and they demanded
that I give you n for death.”

“ Then I must ie, Ravel?" ’

There was something so pathetic, so resigned
in the words and tone in which they were utter—
ed, that the guilty man felt h smote hard,
and shuddered.

Then he said:

'“ I- will tell you, Clio, what I did do.”

“ Yes, Ravel?” and sheclutched eager] at his
words of hope as a drowning man wo at a

Itraw.

“ l persuaded them not to put you to death.”

“ God bless you, Ra vel.”

“ But, Clio, instead, to set you adrift in an open
boat." I;

“ My God!” ‘

“ Don’t feel that you are lost, Clio, for we arc
near the coast of Mexico. _

“ I thought that we were near the middle of
the Gulf.” ,. - i

“ Oh, no. just off-shore, though the men do
not know it, and I will take the lifeboat and
slip in some provisions and food for you, and a
couple of ours, for we will not set you adrift be-
fore night, and I will come near, 99 as to keep
you in view until 1 have seen the tide take you
near shore. '

“ Then I will note the spot and come for on
before long, for the. coast near here is inhab ted
and you can readily find a place of refuge.

“ lf you are not pleased with this plan, Clio,
then I will defend you with my life and we can
die to ether. '

“ N}?! no! Ravel, make me one promise!"

it Yes.” V

“ When you come after me, promise to give up
forever on; life of crime, and gladly will I do
as on sh.

‘yYes, I romise, Clio.”

“ Swear ti”

“1 dol”

“Enough! go on deck and leave me alone in
my prayers. ' .

' u an hour I will be ready; but there 15
great risk as it is, Ravel.”

“ And here it is certain death.”

“ True, I abide by your plan, Ravel,” and
sinking into her seat she looked the very picture
of woe, and the buccaneer fled from the cabin
to shut cut the form crouching in prayer from
his sight.

 

CHAPTER III.
AD .

Fon a long while after the buooancsr‘ left the
cabin his conscience stung with remorse, the
beautiful form of Clio was bent in prayer. ‘

At  she arose from her knees, and though
he}- fhce was deathly pale she was perfectly
on m.

She had conquered her emotion and was ready
to abide t‘he resulfio t her ‘ u t
enseseta u prep-room cries-
voy-ge, be it to life or death, and her first act
was to secrete about her rson ‘many jewels and
rich trinkets which had In lavished u :3 her
by her husband and the. crew, when rst she
came on board the outlay craft. -' _

But how changed, since then..had she become
in their thoughts. ‘ '

Then like a star of good omen to the hnccaneer
craft, she had new become a feared, hated being,
agitated to, be allied V «to Satan, in truth, a

c . '
At last the shadows began todeepen in at

   

i
l
l
l
l

_ -_..._~._ _ ' «-
fi.Mw.--..-i..

-—) .. 

wv -._..-

3:

«mi?

 

 

n» m

l

 

 

. AA...”

 “.71... ~;-.~;l..,- _. . 

, .........._.- 1......

 

 

M-

 

The' Shadow Silver Ship. 3

 

cabin and she knew that night was near at
hand.

No, there was a deep, rumbling sound, and it
was an approaching storm that had so soon
darkened sea and skies.

Surely the crew would not send her of! adrift
in face of the coming tempest.

Ah, yes, for they had no pity for such as she,
no heart for a witch.

A tread upon the companionwny and her hus-
band entered.

But he had not come alone, for he had feared
to trust himself in her resence.

Behind him came is private officers and

several men.
- She had started toward him, believing him
alone, as though to thr0w herself into his arms;
but now she saw him draw back and heard his
coldly-spoken words:

“ Clio, the men believe that you have be-
witched the ship and them, and that is why we
capture no more rises.

“ They deman that you be set adrift in the
face of this coming tempest, and if you are a
witch, then save youmelf from death, and if not
then your blood must be upon our heads.

“ Clio, the boat is ready for you alongside,
and We have come for you. Are you ready?"

Of course he was playing a part, to still better
be able to savs her, and so she too must act, not
show what she felt.

“I am ready for the sacrifice you doom me
to,” she said with forced calmness, and she tried
to catch the eye of her husband.

But he would not meet her gaze, and more,
held back and motioned to his lieutenant to lead
her to the deck.

She shrunk back from the lieutenant, and
walked alone, following her guilty husband to
the deck.

The men stood there in a group, grim, stern,
silent yet uneasy.

The heavens were overcast with inky clouds,
and the vessel was gliding slowly along under
reefed sail, driven by a ight breeze, for the
storm was coming, yet miles away.

On the side towed a small boat taken from a
prize, and in it were a pair of oars, a small cask
and a bundle.

But the boat was light and frail, it seemed,
even for a quiet sea.

The men had become so overwhelmed with
their superstitious fears that they shuddered as
she came on deck.

Facing them she said in a firm voice, while
her eyes rested in a fixed look upon the face of
her irate husband:

“ en, you call me a witch and sentence me to

‘be turned adrift in that frail boat in the face of

yonder tempest!

“ Woe be unto you all, if my death follows
this cruel act of yours!”

The men shrunk from her as though froma
pestilential blast, but uttered no word in re-
sponse to her warning, while her husband stood
as though chained to the deck.

“ I am ready, sirs! have some of you the
courage to escort the Sea Witch to her boat?”

Her voice was becoming hard and bitter now,
and her eyes had a look in them that seemed to
read the guilty soul of Ravel the Rover.

But yet she did not grieve now, she uttered
no cemplaint, for her heart seemed turned to
stone wrth the discovery that if the crew be—
lieved her a witch her husband also was not
guiltless of a like belief.

Not one of the crew stepped forward to aid
her, and she walked fearlessly to the side of the
schooner and went up the gangway steps to the
tog of the bulwarks. .

here she hesitated an instant and glancmg
over the pirate crew until her eyes fell upon the
chief. she cried in startlng tones:

“ Buccaneers, the Sea itch goes to her doom,
but yours will quickly follow .’”

In an instant she went d0wn the gan y and
stepped into the boat towing alongmde, while
several seamen sprung forward and cast loose
the paint”.

A moment more and she was adrift upon the
broad Gulf of Mexico, far from the land and
with a tempest rushing down upon her with ir-
resistible fury.

Away glided the pirate craft leaving the boat
dancing in its wake while her crew gathered in
groups and gazed after her. '

There on the quarterdeck stood‘ the chief, si-
lent, fiallid and with a look of almost fright
upon is handsome, cruel face.

He had accomplished his purpose and gotten
rid of the woman who had become his bride,
giving up all for him, pirate though he was.

But those threatening words rung wildly in
his ears, seeming to yet fill the air as they had
when sent from the white lips of the doomed
woman.

He saw her seize her cars, and they broke in
two, for he had had them cut in twain.

Then she grasped at the cask, and next the
bundle.

There were but a few drinks of water in the
one, only a mouthful of food in the other.

He saw that she knew that he had betrayed
her, that he had been the one to wish to get rid
of her, to have her die. .

He beheld her shake her tiny chnched fist

after him, and he knew that she was uttering
maledictions upon his head.

He knew that her love had turned to hatred
of the fiercest kind.

Yet he could not turn his gaze from her, and
he watched her in the gathering darkness of the
coming storm and night.

At last he could stand it no more and he
rushed down into his cabin to shut out the ter-
rible sight, for now he realized how dearly he
had really loved the woman he had sentenced to
death. .

Yet he dared not call upon the men to go back
and pick her up, for they did believe her a
witch, and did he give such an order they
would at once turn upon him be well knew.

At length the roaring without told him that
the storm was almost upon them, and he rushed
upon deck, glad, in a struggle with the tempest
to drive away his bitter thoughts.

His first glance was at the storm, and then
astern.

The storm was coming on in fury, driving
a huge wall of foam before it, and the little
boat was in its path, the woman standing like
astatue facing the tempest and as though in
defiance of its power to harm her.

Another moment and the skiff was no longer
in sight, and the pirate craft was battling With
the storm.

 

CHAPTER IV.
rm: serna smr.

UPON the coast of Mexico one calm morning,
several days after the cruel desertion of Clio by
her pirate husband, a small boat drifted ashore
and was caught by some Mexican fishermen
whose hamlet was near.

The boat had proven after all to be stench
enough to resist wind and wave, and it had thus
preserved the life of its single occupant who in
that short while had seemedto grow from youth
to age, for her eyes were sunken, her cheeks bol-
low and her wealth of black hair ~had become
white as snow in the ordeal through which she
had passrd.

Unable to speak, nearer deal than alive, she was
taken by the kind fishermen, who r ised her
as not one of their class, to the hacienda of a
rich Mexican ranchero, who with his family
dwelt not far distant.

Back to health she was nursed, and then as
she was homeless and friendless, she was offered
the lace of governess in the family, and thus
dwe ing among kind strangers in a strange land
her life was passed until years had gone by.

The ranchero was also a wealthy miner, and
he had orders to collect for the Government of
Spain a large amount of silver bullion from the
miners in Mexico, and, with other treas—
ure demanded from the people by Spain, to take
all by a barque to Cadiz.

The ranchero obeyed his orders so far as get-
ting a swift-sailin vessel, loading her with sil-
ver bullion and ot er treasure, and setting sail
was concerned; but he never reached Cadiz.

To enjoy the voyage he carried his family
with him, and of course the beautiful white-
haired governess, old before her time, and to
whom they had all become deeply attached.

She had told a simple story, of how her hus-
band had been commander of a vessel and she
had escaped wreck in the little boat in whiohshe
had come ashore.

N 0 one doubted her and all were glad to have
her remain, as she had said that she had no
kindred or friends to whom she could go.

And the fleet barque set sail, under a silent
old skipper with a small crew, for the sai ng of
so valuable a cargo was kept secret as possible
and it was hoped that no enemy had learned of
the duty she was sent 11 D.

But the secret had asked out, and both sea
outlaws and war vessels w nation was the
enemy of S ain, lay in wait out in the Gulf for
the Silver S ip.

Sighted by a cruiser a chase began at once,
and though a storm blew the ursner and pur-
sued far of! the course, they di not lose sight of
each other by day or night.

Then, to make matters worse for the barqli‘ie,
fever broke out among the crew, and quic ly
spread tothe cabin, when the ranchero was the
first to 0.

Then is wife followed and his daughter next,
and though she had devoted her every energy to
nursing them the beautiful governess sees
the epidemic, but was alone left of the once
happy family from the Mexican hacienda.

Atlast the persistent pursuer was thrown off
by the ba us, which had fled far off her course,
and throng the fever had become short handed,
with hardly men enough to work the ship.

The next morning another pursuer hove in
sight, and another, and a hot chase began, and
was continued for days.

. Within range they fired steadily upon the fly-

ing barque, but as long as the shot struck no

gitfil part of his vessel the undaunted skipper
e on.

.His taifrail and bulwarks were cut almost to
piecesLthe spars had big shes in them, the
sails w'ere filled with shot-ho es, while the crew,

 

by death and wounds, remained but a handful.
They could onlyl let the barqne keep on her

 

‘ course before the wind, her best sailing point,

and even when it came on to blow a gale not a
stitch of canvas could be taken in.

And yet in her wake hung her relentless pur—
suer, for the other had been dropped out of sight
astern.

At last the hull of the vessel became almost a
wreck, and yet the daring old Spanish skipper
stood at his wheel, determined to hold on until
he too fell.

And this came later on, and the snow~haired
Woman. who had been called by the pirate crew
a Sea Witch,remained unharmed,calm and seem-
ingly without fear.

As ni ht came on she seemed to feel that the
end of t e gallant barque was near.

The pursuer was gaining then, but a black-
looking tempest was also sweeping down upon
the devoted craft.

Soon they came, and together, the darkness,
the storm and the pursuer, all in one mad rush
it seemed.

The masts, cut and shattered, went overboard
as the storm stuck the barque, her decks were
swe t clean of the crew who still remained, and
the hull drove away in the blackness, a wreck
upon the sea while the crew of the cruiser had
to look to t eir own safety and give up the
Silver Ship.

Days passed away but the wreck of the Silver
Ship still floated, and of all that had been on
board but one remained alive, and that wasthe
woman, the Sea. Witch.

Other, were there, the old skipper and others
of the crew, but they were dea , and the wreck
was at the mercy of the winds and waves.

Then one day a sail appeared in sight, and
the woman gave a cry of joy.

But that cry of joy soon after became a wail
of woe, as her vision told her that the vessel
was but too well known to, her.

“ My God have mere 1 after all I have passed
through is it to be my ate to again fall into the
bands of that cruel man whom onceI idolized
but now hate with the hatred of a fiend!

“Yes, it is his vessel, for I know her very
outline of bull, spars, and sails, and my fate
will be a fearful one indeed.

“ Ah! can I not hide from them, for far better
be it to be left here on this wreck, after the
have robbed it of its treasure, than to be in the
merciless power.”

So sayin she sped away from the deck to the
cabin, a sought a hiding-place in a large
chest, without thinking that its contents of
velveta, laces, silks and other articles of value
would cause the buccaneers to prize it highly.

But so it was, and too late she realised her
mistake as she heard the command to carry the
chest to the cabin of the irate craft.

She shuddered as she elt it home away, and

.tben, as the bearers left it in the chief’s cabin

and departed, she sprung out of her-hiding lace
and darted into what she knew was the c ief‘s
storerobm of his treasures. ,

There was ample hiding-room there, and she
knew that she could subsist for da 3 with what
she could pilfer from the cabin ta is when no
one was there.

Once the vessel sought an anchorage and she
could make her escape she was sure.

And from her concealment she heard thepi—
rate lieutenant tell the captain of a secure
hidin place for the treasure, On an island in
the ribbean Sea where once he had been
wrecked.

And she learned that the pirate craft was not
seaworthy, so would sail at once for the island
and then go in search of another vessel to heat
away the treasure.

And from her hiding—place the unfortunate
woman heard the anchor let fall 08 the island,
and then the bullion and other treasure was
removed.

She heard the men talking of an aged priest
found there, and that he was to bury the trees-
ure with certain rites that would bring eternal
curses upon any one who would return alone for
the riches and thus defraud his comrades.

When all the crew had gone ashore to join in
these rites she slipped from her hiding-place, snd
with what things she cared to take from the
cabin, lowered herself from the stern ports
and swam shoreward, for she was a tireless
swimmer.

She had discovered that her husband, Ron
Ravel was no longer chief, but in his stead
Brandt Belmont, the buccaneer lieutenant who
was away from the schooner when she was set
adrift several years before.

Still she dared not make her presence known,
and yet felt that she could fludarefuge upon
the island with the aged priest. '

She reached the shore, gained a clifl and from

it looked down upon the weird ceremony going -

on over the treasure, which was being sunk in a
pool out of sight.

The first words uttered by the priest and she
started. dropped on her knees and with clasped
hangs listened to every sound that came from
h pa-

Then she mid in a voice that was hoarse with

pressed emotion: , ,
mgAh, yes, his white hair and heard are fa
sud his priestly garb clothes a black heart;
he cannot deceive me

 

    

’4

“ No, no, they do not know him, but 1 do, and
would recognize him under any disguise.

“ But why is he here, masquerading as an old
priest before his men?

“ Some strange change has come, and Ross
Ravel no longer is the buccaneer chief.

“ Yes, and I remain here with him, for re-
venge is sweet to me now.”

A loud “ Amen ” from the rocks above startled
the priest and irates alike, and as the latter re-
turned to their vessel they were followed by
mocking words and laughter from the woman’s
lips which struck terror to their hearts, but not
more dread was felt by one of them than that
which came upon the one in priestly garb, who
fled to his cabin like a haunted mun.

CHAPTER V.
A WIZARD AND a WITCH.

" Raan, tell me again all that happened after
you——or I left the vessel.”

The one who asked the question was the one—
time lovely woman who had won the name of
Clio the Beautiful.

Still beautiful she was, but with her snow-
white hair, large black eyes, and long snowy
eyelashes and eyebrows, her beauty was of a
weird kind that would create awe in the beholder
rather than admiration.

Her form was still faultless, her face darkly
bronzed, and her dress of velvet and silk of gor-
geous colors, while her arm wrists, neck and

n'rers were simpl covered with jewels.
he one she a dressed was Ross Ravel, the
one-time pirate priest who had set the woman
adrift in the little boat at sea under pretense
that she was a. witch.

When he had seen the pirate vessel coming he
had donned a white wi and heard, dressed in
the garb of a priest, wit an appalling mixture
of the wizard added, which had filled the hue-
caneers with a superstitious dread of him, and
gertali nly prevented all possibility of recognition

y t em.

Now he was only dressed in a sailor suit, his
own hair and heard, wern long, Were dark, and
his face was the same handsome, cruel one of
years before.

The two were seated upon a cliff overlooking
the Sea in all directions, and inlaan giving a
view of a fertile basin, for it was hardly a val-

 

le .

ll‘he island was a large one, seemingly from
the seaa solid rock, with no anchors e near,
and surrounded by reefs and sunken roc s.

But Within was the fertile vale, with grass
and trees, a deep, crystal pool, sending a tiny
rivulet to the ocean, and goats were seen feeding
near the stream. -

In one end of the basin stood a einst the rocks
a small chapel with its cross, an it had evident-
ly been built from the wreckage of vessels cast
upon the island to their doom.

Than these two :10 other person was visible
upon the island, and it did indeed seem like
witchcraft that they had again met, and under
such weird circumstances.

“ You seem strangely interested in my story,
Clio—”

“ There, you will call me Clio, when you know
Iam now Selall the Sea Witch, and I always
call on Father Felix, you know.”

“ es; but I have to d you my story over and
over again.”

“True, and I like to hear it, for it tells me
that I iris judged you.

“ When I remained on this island it was to
make you feel my revenge; but when you tell
me that you did not wronlix me, then am I
happy "indeed, and I like to car it again and

a v

in.

ax“ Well, I’ll tell you again that the boat‘was a
life-boat, though none of the crew knew it, and
if you found the cask empty and the bundle with
no food in it, then one of those fiends had taken
all out.

“ N o, I meant you to be saved, and I headed
the vessel away in the storm to be near you
when I came about.

“ Several of the crew were in my plot, and
the were on deck that night, and at we
con d not find you and I gave you up for est.

“ When we went to the rendezvous and that
accnrsed fellow Belmont rejoined us, he heard
all, and so he raised a mutiny, took my vessel
from me, and in punishment, he said, for my
sending you adrift in an open boat, he did the
same b me.

“ He sailed away in my vessel leaving me
adrift in an open boat upon the waters.”

“Then you know just how I, a poor woman,
.mffered.”

“ Ah, yes, I felt all; but after days of drifting
my boat touched this island and I was saved.

‘ ‘ I found that a missionary ship had been here
before me, a chapel built and plenty of stores
left on hand to make me com’ortable, and so I
lived here, and determined if any one visited
the island, to play the part of a hermit priest.

“ To my horror, after a lon stay here, I dis-
covered in a vessel heading or the island, my
own pirate craft.

“ I hastily disguised to self, and met Belmont,
the usurpor captain and is men.

“None knew me, and so I pMended to he an
“Manning toting-amen so they

 

 

were content to have me bury their treasure
with certain rites, until they could return for

it.

“ I felt that some of them would return, so I
made the curses to fall upon such as fearful as I
could, for I saw for myself riches untold if I
could only get them from the island.

“ The crew left, as you know, in fear and
trembling, and your strange coming here helped
out in the awe they felt, and, as you know,
alarmed me also, for from playing) the part of a
wizard priest I seemed to have rought before
me a veritable witch of the sea.

“ You know the rest so why say more, for we
are united again and the future is before us.”

“ Yes, but the treasure?”

“That must be ours when we can get it away
from the island.” ‘

“ We can sail in your boat, hidden in the
rocky cavern, and return with a vessel to carry
off the treasure, and in a far-away land kings
will not live more luxuriously than we.”

“Yes; but let us abide our time yet longer,
for in spite of my curses to fall upon the one
who would come here to rob his mates, some of
that crew will come back, unless all went down
in the craft that night, which you say was-o
unseaworthy.”

“ Yes, they were working the pumps day and
night, and the hull had come to be but a shell.”

“ She may have gone down, and yet she may
not: but certain it is that Belmont or some of
the crew will come here for the treasure.”

“ And then?"

“ Then we must simply not let them have it.”

“ But how can it be prevented?”

“I am sure, if they come, only a few, from
three to five, will comprise the party, for they
wish to make the amount for each as large as
possible, and there are hardly more than that
number, even in that dare-devil crew, who would
brave that dread curse.

“ Then we must pretend to receive them well
and get rid of the leaders, for I can do it, while
the others must be forced under the spell of
witch craft and thus we will command them
body and soul.” -

“ And then i” .

“ We can take their vessel , which will doubt-
less be a small one, load it thh the treasure and
sail for Havana.

“ Once in that city we need fear nothing from
those who go with us, for dead men tell no tales,
and we will‘be rich beyond all our thoughts of
riches.”

“ So be itl tte die is cast between us, and I
accept what the end may be."

“ nd I,” and for a moment no. word was
spoken between the two; but had either regard-
ed the face of the other they would have read
there a look sinister, deceitful and full of devil-
try, for both the man and the woman wars bold-
liy playing a part, and a dangerous, daring part

5 was.

'And each trusted the other, for the man saw
not the revenge in the depths of the woman’s
heart, and she saw not that his lane for the fu-
ture did not include her after a 8 had ceased to
be useful to him.

“ Sail he!” suddenly called out the man in the
professional tones of u seamen, nud’his gaze was
fixed upon a white speck vialble far away off
on the Inc horizon.

The woman’s eyes also beheld the tiny white
speck, and together they watched it until it
rose into the proportiovs of a handsome
vessel.

“ It is a brig, and she sails like the wind, to
rise as rapidly as she has above the horizon,”
said theWizard.

“ Yes, and she is armed,” the woman answer-

“ She is, and her decks are crowded with men
—my God! it must be Belmont, returned in a
new vessel, so our treasure is lost to us.”

“ Perhaps, and yet it may not be.”

" Wait and see. ’

“ The brig is headin straight for the isllnd.”

“ True, but will not able to land to-da or
tonight, in the face of yonder rising storm, and
the woman pointed to clouds that denoted a
coming tempests ,

“ Well, she will run in close and then Stand
away after landing a boat’s crew perhaps! but
if she does not land, then the treasure must be
placed this night where they cannot find ith
too late, for they will have time to land a host’s
crew before the storm.

“ nick! on must not be seen butstand ready
to be p me n my work of witchcraft and I will
venture to put on my garb of the Wizard
Priest,” and the two plotters hastened down into
the vale and disappeared in the little chapel, the
rear of which led into norms in the cliffs where
they dwelt.

 

CHAPTER VI.
wanna A SPELL. , .
Tn vessel sighted by the two stl'ange beings
upon the island cliff was ale 0 brig, and at her
peak floated the flag of Great rltaiu.
She had, as the Wizard Priest had said come
had been

'onllks the wind, after her top-ails

seen rising above the horison.
A more beautiful on ft had never floated even
a black flag, which was generally haunted above

 

 

The Shadow Silver Ship.

x

the_decks of the trimmest and most rakish of sea
cruisers.

From the tip of her exceedin ly long and

ncil-like bowsprit, to her taflraiE from water-

ine to trucks she was a model of symmetry, grace
and beaut .

Her hul was lean forward, with a swell amid-
ships and gaunt as a deer-hound aft, which
rendered her both speedy and stench.

Upon her sharp iron prow, keen as a sword»-

blade, and under the bowsprit, wasa strange '

flgurehead.

It was that of a woman with dark flowing
hair and _ bronzed skin, and a dress of red, at face
and figure made to represent a witch.

In her right hand she held a real sword, point-
ing ahead, and in her left, the mouthpiece press-
ed to her li , a trumpet from which she was
supposed to blowing a gale of wind over the

sea.

The feet of this beautiful carved piece of work
rested upon a human skull, as though in defiance
of death, and thus the figurehead told her name
of “ The Wind Witch.”

The brig was armed with a flue battery. and
her crew were neatly dressed in the garb of the
royal navy of Great Britain.

Upon her quarter-deck stood several officers,
all in the royal uniform exce 1; one, and he wore
the orgeous attire of a cave ier.

“ n the face of this rising storm, Captain
Maybrick, it would be madness to anchor near
the island, sir, so it will be well to stand ofl for
plenty of sea room,” said the man in cavalier
costume, and who was a man of particularly
flue physique and handsome face, bronzed to the
hue, however of a sailor who had long buffeted
with the winds and waves.

“ I am so anxious to begin work, Captain Bel-
mont, that I think it would be Well to have you
go ashore in a boat, with, so , a dozen men, to
get the treasure tcgether. while I stand of! with
the bri until this storm blows over, for it looks

. like ugly weather for several dsgto me.”

“ It does, sir, and it mi ht be t as you say
for me to land with a t’s crew and begin
wolr‘k," responded the man addressed as Captain

mont.

“Very well, get ready and I’ll order a boat
lowered and ready, and stand in as near as you
deem it safe.” .

Half an hour after a cutter containing eight
oarsmen, a coxswain, and Captain Belmont In
the stern sheets was rowing toward the island.
while the brig was running away with all speed
to give herself plenty of sea room in which to
meet the threatening storm.

The one in cavalier dress took the tiller-ropes
as the cutter neared the island, and seemingly
well acquainted with the waters avoided many
a sunken rock which would have dashed the
boat to pieces to have struck.

Reaching a shelf of rock jutting . from the
island cliffs, the boat’s rty sprung ashore, and,
direzted by Captain Be mont. dragged the cutter
far up beyond the reach of the sea and made it
fast there.

Some packages were then taken from the boat,
and the crew, all armed. followed Captain Be -
mont up the steep cliff path to the summit of the
rocky wall, when a murmur of admiration came
from the men as they beheld the secluded and
love] vale below.

“ me, men, we must not halt hero, for the
storm is almost upon us, and we'll seek shelter of
the priest who dwells in yonder little chapel,”
uni Captain Belmont pointed with his cutlass to
the tiny chapel.

They quickly followed their leader down the
steep path and crossing the vale coal halted at
the door of the cha l. .

Just as Captain filmont knocked with the hilt
of his cutlass, there came a blinding flash of
lightning, followed b a crash of thunder that
shook the island, for t s storm was bursting now
upon theses. not far distant. _

But, though the men were startled by the vivid
glare and the thunder, they were more so by

caring in a deep voice from within tho solemn-
ly uttered words:

“ He who knocks for entrance into this sacred
tabernacle, is perjuer before ' and map,
for he has come hither to rob his comrades in
crime of their riches. s -

i“ It is you, Captain Brandt Belmont, tho
pirate, for it is given unto me tone thy now
accurssd face.”

“ Thy now accursed face.” .

The last four words cnmo lib on edit) from
the cliffs, or from the gin 3nd  in a shrill,
Stringefvoice, unlike tin:l defigzgrice that had
spo en rom within thec ape -

At the words, and the echo Belmont. Who had
seemed uneasy, and whose see was very m,
shrunk back like one struck a 1710'. while
the crew gazed in terror about them and “p0.
their leader. '

But Belmont recovered bim'df quickly and
1818Mr harshly, and in tones meant to be do.

an .:

“ So be it that I am Belmont the Buccaneer,
Sir Wizard Priest, and that I come for my
treasure hidden here and-r thy "nt cur-e; thy
black art should tell the. that I alone mm of
all my crew, and hence spa sole heir to the rich.
left here under thy b“? ‘

 

\. -.,,-v$,_j./-”- Mi t 3,32 ‘- ,

wr. pug-r “MW. ._. ..

Wu“. I

 

r
l.
l

 

 

 

 

l

A,”

sham, _ a-

«N», I

 

r
l.
l

 

“ -  me. x ,

 
  
  
   
  
   
 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

_ ._. Rafi...” ._.»

The Shadow Silver Ship.

 

 

 

From his rock lookout in the cliff the Wizard
had seen that the brig}, as she came near, carried
the British flag, and is glass showed him that
her officers and crew were certainly not pirates,
so be made some shrewd guesses as to the exact
reason of the cruiser’s coming, and, with her, his
0L1 lieutenant, Belmont.

He therefore said, in response to the outlaw
officer’s hint, that his “ black art” should have
told him that he alone survived his crew:

“ The storm is upon us, so step within the
portals of this sacred but, you and your English
crew, and let me tell you that I do know that
thy vessel met with reverses, but thou art not
the sole survivor, Brandt Belmont.”

“Hal how know you this, old Gray Beard?”
quickly asked the pirate officer.

“ By m art.”

“No! ornesca and his crew have been here
already; but if they are before meand have that
treasure, I will strangle thee, priest. wizard or
devil that thou art I" and the pirate oflicer stepped
nearer to the Wizard, as though to carry out his
threat, when a voice, from whence none knew,
uttered the words, solemnly spoken:

“ Thou shalt do no murder!

Belmont shrunk back as though confronted by
a ghost, and glanced uneasily around him; Ill-5
men became very nervous at their surroundings,
while the wild raging of the storm without more
deeply impressed them.

“ I have no fear of thee, Belmont the Bum
near, though thy hands be red with blood.

“No; Fornesca has not been here, but saidI
not that thou wert not the sole survivor of thy
crew!

“ I beheld thy lieutenant and his men safe as
thou art, and they also will come for their share
of booty, and then will be the time to take it
from its hiding-place and enrich ye all.

“ But tell me now thy story, and mark me
well, when thou speakest falsely, that moment
will my art make it known to me.

“I would know from thy Own lips, Belmont
the Buccaneer, thy story, and why thou hast
come here claiming to be the sole survivor of
thy crew, come to claim uucounted riches, come
w th British seamen at your back?

“ Speak, Belmont, for I would hear thy tale,
and remember that thou art known to me in
heart, as I read thy face now.”

The outlaw officer shuddered, and turned his
e es anxiously upon his men, as though to see if
t ey would upho (1 him in any act of violence he
mi ht attempt.

ut he saw that they were impressed by the

white hair beard and priestly garb of the man,
and awed  his supposed powers in the black
art, and so e decided to temporise and then be
governed by circumstances as to his future
counse.

 

CHAPTER VII.
m wrzann’s THREAT.
“ You would hear my story, holy father,
wouldst then, and yet you say thou wilt know

, If I should tell thee falsely!” said the pirate.

“ Yes, I will know.”

“ Yes, we will know!” came from the strange
voice, and it again startled Belmont and the
English tars.

“ If you know, why need I tell thee my
story!" persisted Belmont.

“That I maysee just how far thou wilt tell
the truth, Belmont, the Buccaneer.”

“ So be it, father; thou shalt hear all I have to
tell.

“ You recall when last I was here I”

“ With thy pirate ship and crew, after thou
hadst found the wreck of a Silver Ship.

“ Thy vessel was unseawortby, you feared she
would sink in the next gale, and Fornesca, thy
lieutenant, led thee here to bury thy treasure,
that thou mightest return later in a "stench
craft, and et thy riches.

“I hid t ose riches from mortal sight, with
certain rites of church and witchcraft, and
upon the one of th crew, or thyself, who would
come along to his mates, placed an ever-
lasting curse. .

“ on your vessel sailed away before a fierce
gale, and now thou art here in; but tell me
what has happened from the me then left this
isle and now return.

“ I await your story my son ”

The outlaw officer he stood motionlem and
silent while the Wizard Priest uttered his rc-
sums of what he knew of the pirates’ last visit
to the island; but the English tars were cer-
fainly messy under his deep voice and piercing

ook.

“There is littb to tell, father, more than
that, as I knew, my craft was so unsea-
worth that she went down in a gale some time
after ving this isle, forcing us to take to our
hosts.

“One boat with its crew was dragged down
with the vessel, but the other two, ornesoa’s
and mine, kept afloat, but became separated,
and ass storm soon after swept the seas, I sup-

that he and his men were lost-were

‘ I said that I sawll‘ornesoaandhismsnes-
“pedesth.”
‘Very well, granted, it would make longer

them out when I divide, so I care not whether
he be alive or dead.

“As for my boat, we were picked up by a
British cruiser, recognised by an oflcer on
board, who had once been Ravel’s prisoner, and
so our story of being honest shipwrecked mar-
iners was known to be false and we were put in
irons and taken to London.

“ Our trialof course wasa mockery, butit end-
ed in our being found guilty and sentenced to
death.

“I am young, holy father, fond of life and
cared not to die, so I ged an audience with
the kin and offered to give him vast, riches in
return or my life and pardon.

“ I convinced the king that I meant what I
said, so I was given the chance to prove my
words, while my boat’s crew died at the end of
a ro before I left England.

“ he king had just had built a fleet yacht for
himself, an superbly armed and equipped, so
he put a favorite officer in command, sent me
aboard in irons, and the craft sailed for this
island and was known as the Silvor Ship.

“ I was to get the treasure, and when on board
the brig Wind Witch, I was to receive my r-
don and become the captain’s guest to w at-
ever port I desired to disembark, and also to
have a snug sum to support me.

” The captain, a gallant fellow, made me his
guest in anticipation, convinced that I would
not play him false, and hence you see me here
now dressed asa cavalier, having landed with
those good lads, to get the treasure ready to ship
on the brig’s return, for we feared several days
of bad weather which would keep her well of! at
sea, for, as you know, holy father, these are
dan erous waters.

“ ow you have my story, and I await your
comments.”

Belmont had spoken in an offhand, free and
easy manner natural to him, and the Wizard
was sure that he had told the truth.

But he said: .

“ I have heard your story; but was the boat
of Fornesca as stench asyonrs, was it as well
provided for a fight of days with the seal”

“ By the king’s crown, holy father, I do
believe indeed that thou art a wizard—yes, ou
must surely be, after all I saw and heard w en
I was here before, and also then called me by
name.”

“ Your words indicate that the boat of the
Senor Fornesca was not then what yours was?”

“True, mine was the life-boat, his the 10 .
boat, and I had picked men with me, wllgi
water, rovisions, sails and cars.”

“ And) he?”

“ If he found fresh water in his casks and food

in the lockers it was contrar to my orders, for

Fornesca was a vile wrench, t e boon companion

of those in the boat with him, his fellows in the
most dastardly crimes, crimes which I would
shrink from.

“So, holy father, if the long-boat with For-
nesca and his men reached port in safety, then it
was nothing short of a miracle that caused them
to do so.”

“ Might they not have been picked up as you
were!”

“ True, that might have been, and as your art
tells you they’are safe. it must have been thecase.

“ Lorne, Sir Wizard, now tell me if you intend
to refuse toallow me my treasure?” '
There was a threatening look in the eyes of
Belmont as he asked the question.

But the Wizard Priest replied in a low, dis-
tinct tone:

“Belmont, not one peso of that treasuredo
you touch until Fornesca and his men are known
to be dead.

“ When the king’s brig returns here I shall
tell her captain that if he dares la finger is n
that treasure to remove it from this island en
will I use my art in all its terrors to make his
vessel a harmless cruiser.

“ He shall be under a spell, his vessel and his
crew, and no hail of other craft shall they an-
swer, no port shall they enter, _no gun shall they
fire at a foe that crosses their path upon the
seas.

“Havenlea shall she wander the broad blue
waters, from sea to sea, and though with an
armed deck beneath their feet, and trained men
in war, they shall fly like cowards from a craft
that flies a peaceful merchant fla .

“ I swear to you, Belmont the uccaneer, that
my curse, my anathemas shall ring in the ears
(I every man on yonder craft, and she shall be
burned for in vain as she flies the seas like a
shadow of a ship, a specter, not daring toenter
a harborage, not daring to answer a hail, but
flying the seas indeed like a wind witch. ’

“I defy you, I dare you now, Belmont the
Buccaneer, to rob this island of its treasure, you
and your king’s captain and his crew.

“ Defy me f you dare. and see what the ven-
geance of the Wisard Priest will be.”

“ Yes, see what the yen es of the Whard
Priest will be,” echoed t e voice in thesirin

startling tones.

In sp to of his wonderful nerve Belmont the
Buccaneer was cowed before the man he had de-
fied. while his men with cries of terror fled from
the chapel, and he followed them.

 

division of the riches, did I not intend to leave

Once ouuide and they mw that the storm had

E swept by, and reachi the our they beheld the
I bri coming rapidly ck toward the island,
1 un( er a full pressure of sail.

i “ If Captain Maybrick dare defy that wizard,
i I dare, and the treasure will be ours,” said Bel-v
I molut savagely, his nerve once more under conc—
l tro r

” Oh, sir! but that fearful oath, that threat!
' To be a havenless cruiser, never entering rt,
I never hailing or answering a hail, 1! ing rom
1 every craft we meet, to be but a Sha Ship—-
My God! Captain Maybrick will not dare to
defy that man of the black art, sir; us, never!”
said the coxswain, in impassioned words.

“ No, never!” echoed the men, their faces
blanched with dread.

“ But Captain Maybrick will dare do as I do,”
was the determined answer of Belmont, as he
led the way to his boat to go out and pilot the
captain to the island to face the Wizard 8 threat.

CHAPTER VIII.
UNDER a CLOUD.

As Belmont the Buccaneer had told the Wizard
Priest, the British king had been tempted into
promisin him his life and a pardon, b the be-
lief thatt e rover would give over to is royal
treasury the vast treasure hidden in the rock
island in the Caribbean Sea.

There had been that in the bearing and words
of the buccaneer- which convinced the king that
Belmont was making no idle promises.

So he could aflord to give him the chance for
life, while he, the king, took the chance for en-

 

riching himself, especrally as his new yacht was
just about completed, and if the pirate captain
failed to make good his promise there was the
yard-arm of the brig to hang him up to, thus
carrying out the original sentence.

The brig was found to have been most proper-
ly named the Wind Witch, for she distanced all
vessels that tried their speed with her, while,
though splendidly armed and manned, the or-
ders of her captain were to run on all occasions
and risk no battle unless absolutely necessar .

The truth was, with the wars upon his ban 1:
with his neighbors, and his American Coloniesin
revolt, the king‘s treasury was at a low ebb, and
he needed money sadly, sowhy not a pirate
treasure, the value of which was said to be
enormous.

Sir St. George Maybrick, selected as the com-
mander of the brig, was a particular favorite
with his Majesty, and was a flue sailor as well,
one who could be intrusted with any service to
perform.

He was a man of means, had beenreared in
the royal navy, from a middy‘ of ten years,
came of an old family, and held influence at

court.

The secret leaked out, however, that the king
had granted promise of pardon to the Buccaneer
Belmont, in‘ return for his treasure, and that
the Wind Witch was to go on the voyage to
bring back the gold.

State secrets even.will leak out, and so when
the beautiful brig sailed, all anxiously began to
count the time until she was due in rt.

As orders were given Ca tain aybrick to
touch at Boston on the way ome, bringing dis-
patches and paying wrtain money into the
cramped exchequer of the Colonies, the kin
anxiously awaited news by each incoming v
of the arrival in an American port of the Wind
Witch.

But days passed and no word of the brig's ar-
rival at Boston came, but instead vessels com-
ing ' to English ports reported a “ specter ship ”
a oat.

Too many superstitous people faithfully be—
lieved at that day in phantom craft at sea, as
thoroughly sothey did ghosts ashore, to doubt the
stories brought in by mariners of this weird ves-
sel seen in American waters.

There were many who scouted at the idea also,
but the incomin ships brought too many stories
about this won erful phantom ship, and from
reliable sources too, to permit longer doubt that
such a craft was afloat, to all intents and pur.
poses, as as a rsnces went, the “ very
ghogt of a brig,” she in reality what she
in t.

hen came news that proved the weird sailor
of the seas to be none other than the Wind Witch,
or her ghost.
The king was startled, anxious and angry.
Had his trusted captain, Sir St. Georg; Hay-
hrick failed in his pledge of honor to ' king,
a lawless rover himself! '
Such was the idea suggested to his Majesty
a); the rivals at court of the young naval osp-

n. .

Then those friendly to Haybrick, suggested
that if he had gotten the treasure there would
be no need for him to turn pirate.

Upon this the king concluded that the bucca-
neer was the traitor, that he had gotten posses-
sion of the vemel in some way, murdered Sir

and those of his ofllcers and crew who
woul not join him in his lale course, and
had hoisted the black flag over the

This ssemedtohethemost manna ,wsyet
regsrdifi the aflair, until when a

 

theskippes-swho ad seen tbephantom ii at
seawerebronghtbeforetbeking save-de
vemelosmeinfit was discovered that “silk

 

 

 

 6

 

,. The Shadow Silver Ship.

 

was the fac-sz'mile of the Wind Witch, but

showed no national colors, but instead at the

peak floated a flag with a blue field and the

Reproduction of the vessel's flgurehead of the
ind Witch standing upon a human skull.

This convinced all that the brig was surely
the Wind Witch, for she had gone to sea from
London flying that flag from her mizzen top.

The only difference in the real brig and the
phantom, was that this mysterious craft was not
painted black, but white, even her spars being
“of the same snowy whiteness as hull and sails.

That she had not developed into a pirate there
"was proof of in the fact that she ran from every
Vessel she came near, even from merchant-men,
bever hailed, if suddenly in fog, or darkness.
coming upon a craft, and never returned the
fire of any cruiser that had met her upon the
898.3.

She would hover about s. vessel for awhile,
always afar off, and then sail away, but al-
ways without a hall, a signal or a return shot,
if fired upon.

Her crew were seen to go to their work, and
sail would be set, or taken in, as the wind re—
quired, and with an nlacrity and skill which
made old tars shake their heads ominously, and
swear that the brig was a specter, and her crew
but ghosts.

Thus it was that the king could no longer
doubt, and yet what had his Silver Ship be-
come.

The interest awakened by the mysterious
craft was in everybody’s mind, and soon the
common topic of the people, when they met,
was the mystery of the “ Shadow Silver Ship,”
as the Wind icth became popularly known,
since all had become convinced that the “ shadow
craft" seen by so many mariners, was none
other than the beautiful vessel sent by the king
after the pirate treasure.

Nor was this awe about the Shadow Silver

‘ Ship alone felt upon the English shores, for

it was even greater upon the American Coast,
and from Halifax to the Gulf of Mexico few
there were in the Atlantic ports who had not
heard of this weird mystery of the sea, and the
boldest scaman cared not to cross the path of
this ocean specter, though it fled from every
craft that carried sail, it was asserted.

The war of the Revolution had begun in
America, and Boston Harbor and its surround-
lngs had become the central theater of action.

Several battles of importance had been fought

by the Colonists against the British, and Gen-'

eral W'ashin ton had besieged Lord Howe and
his forces in oston, so that the Americans had
struck a hard blow for liberty from royal rule,
and the tccsin of war was echoing from Massa-
chusetts to the Carolinas.

To aid the gallant heroes fight the battles
upon land, there were brave American sailors
afloat, in what vessels they could secure. to
harass English commerce, and fl ht British
cruisers when they met them on the igh sons. 1

One day there sailed into Boston Harbor,
some half a year after the real breaking out of
the war, a brig flying our flag at half-mast.

It was a craft that already had a history, for
once it had been a famous pirate schooner, and
captured bya young American, had been bought
by the British, changed into a brig, and sent to
cruise in South American waters.

Now she returned to port, the British flag at
half-mast, in token of distress on board, her
crew reduced to a dozen men for duty, while her
commander wore the dress of-a common sailor,
and had been released from irons as a prisoner,
to bring the vessel home.

And so under a cloud, as it were, the British
brig-of—wnr Shark, sailed into Boston Bay, and
dropped anchor, while old sailors who gazed
upon her storm-beaten and shot-scarred bull
and rigging, and her general air of misfortune,
shook t eir heads ominonsl , as though they
knew that a still deeper pull of gloom was to
fall upon the ill-omened craft.

CHAPTER IX.
UNDER rm: snanow OF THE YARD—ARM.

A HAN was under trial for his life, facing his
accusors. .

A young man, with a face that even his worst
foe could not find a trace of crime upon, a face
to admire r t and to command, was before
a tribun 0 British omcers, to be tried upon
charges which, if proven, would send him to the
yard-arm to die an ignominious death.

The prisoner was the one in sailor garb, who
had been actin captain of the British brig-of-
war, which h come into port with flag at
half-mast, and seemingly in dire distress.

His looks, his bearing showed the American.
and though in the dress of a common seamen he
looked like one born to command.

Tall, elegant in form, courtly in manner and
handsome, he rivetqi the gaze of every eye as
he rose and,to the Various charges, for there were
sovors pleaded:

“ Not guilty as accused.”

For the purpose of “ exam e,” to intimidate
their American fees, the B tish commandant
had ordered the court-martial held in public
snd‘thore had gathered to witness what promised
to be is" remarkable trial, the most rominent
subjocfi of the English king, and the t blood

 

of the Americans whom desire, or the chances
of war had kept in the city of Boston during the
siege of it by the patriots under Washington.

In a prominent part of the court—r0011) sat a
group more deeply interested than all others in
the proceedings.

One was a man of striking appearance, an
American boasting of the best blood in the
Colonies, possessing riches, and known from his
courtly manners, elegant style of dress and
lavish entertainment of his friends as “ Prince ”
Paul Revere.

He was a man with a history, and many stood
in awe of him, but there was one whose slave he
was and that one was his beautiful daughter,
Pearl, who sat near him, and by the side of an-
other maiden as lovely in face and form as her-
self, and whose striking resemblance to the pris-
oner proved her relationship to him of sister.

Upon the other side of the maiden sat a woman
with sad, yet comely face, and whose hair, be-
ginning to whiten, indicated that she had passed
the two-score mile-post of life.

She was neatly dressed in deep black, and her
large, magnificent e es were fixed upon the
prisoner, her son, wit a mingled look of hope
and despair.

Often did the gaze of “ Prince” Paul Revere,
the prominent American gentleman whose sym-
pathy with the king caused him to be a promi-
nent personage in British eyes, wander to the
face of the matron and rest there an instant,
and there were those among the older ones who
saw his look who remembered that there had been
a romance in the lives of the two many years
before.

They recalled h0w pretty Ethel Noel had been
engaged to handsome Stacey Stanwood, who had
been reported lost at sea, but returned the very
night appointed for the marriage of his lady-
love to Paul Revere, and with just a moment to
spare to prevent the common .

Paul Revere had been equal to the occasion,
for he bowed to his cruel fate, gave the hand of
Ethel N091 to the man whose memory he knew
she loved far more than she did himself, and left
the elegant home of the Noels.

For years he was absent from the country,
and one day returned with a lovely Cuban bride,

who had died soon after the birth of her ,1
daughter, the young maiden who now set in the ;

court-room by the side of Ethel Noel, the
daughter of her father‘s lost lady-love.

Those who looked back into the past recalled
also that where there had always been but a cold
intimacy between Paul Revere and the Stan-
woods, his daughter owed her life to Noel Stan-
wood, the son of the handsome sea captain who

had won Ethel Noel back from the very thres- ;

hold of her marriage with another, and the
three, Noel and Ethel Stanwood and Pearl
Revere had been the best of friends.

WhateVer his feelings wane, or had been in the ,
far by-gone, now that Captain Stacey Stanwood =

was in his grave at the bottom of the sea, and

his son Noel a irisoner, charged with terrible ,

crimes, Prince uul Revere had come to the

trial, and with his daughter was with the sor- ,
rowing mother and sister of the unfortunate i

young sailor.

There were also two more among the group
deserving passing mention, for both of them
were British officers givin by their presence
friendly aid to the Stanw s, who were known
to be American patriots. _ ;

Once the Stan woods had held exalted position

in the community, but when Captain Stanwood .

was lost at sea, his partner in business proclaim-
ed that bad speculations had ruined him, and
the mother and children went from their elegant
home, the grounds of which all Joined those of
the Revere mansion, to live in an humble cot-
tags.
Noel went to sea and the aristocratic and
wealthy friends, in success, deserted the widow
and her children in poverty, With the exception
of a very few.

The two officers referred to were in the full
uniform of Britain’s king, one wearing the rank
of ca tain, the other that of a lieutenant in the
Rolya Navy. .

he captain was Lord Erskine EnderS, a
gallant officer, one whose family could look back

upon their career for centuries with great pride, .

and who possessed rent wealth.

Captain Lord E inc Eudora had lately servad
upon the bri -of-war Shark in South American
waters, and {badly wounded had come home a
short while previous to the trial of Sailor Noel
Stanwood who bad. though a prisoner, brought
the unfortunate vessel back to port.

Whatever the charges against the prisoner, he
had returned his firm friend. and at once sought
to befriend the mother and sister.

The other ofiicer was a lieutenant on the
frigate British King, which had been also in
southern Waters, and at the time the brig Shark
was there, and he, too, the firm friend of Lord
Erskine was also in sympathy with the prlw'nel‘
and his kindred.

Another group seated apart were in naval:

uniform their ranks varyin from commodore
to midsliipman, and then $here were several
human present, and from these ofiloers and men
it was said the testimony would come that would
send the young sailor to the yard-arm.

l
[ Remembering Noel Stanwood as a dashing
j young captain of one of his father’s vessels, in
3 their days of prosperity, and a handsome, genial,
{ generous fe110w, his former associates in high
i life in Boston had assembled tosee him on trial
for crimes that it was said would cost him his
i e.

. So it was that a very distinguished assemblage
had gathered at the trial of a man who had
written hero after his name on numerous occa-
sions, and who now was under a cloud that had
blackened it.

Of all present the prisoner seemed the least
moved, except when he glanced over toward his
mother and sister, and then a cloud would sweep
over his manly, noble facc, yet only for an in-
stant.

He set apart, with his ankles and wrists in
inanacles, and every eye was upon him, and
none could fail to admire his cool courage in the
face of his accusers.

At last all was ready; the judgeosdvocate, a
stern old martinet commodore, was in his seat,
and the court was ready to try “Noel Stan-
wood, American sailor, for mutiny, piracy, con-
spiracy against the king, and the murder of a.
superior ofl‘icer.”

CHAPTER X.
GUILTY, OR NOT GUILTY.

TEE proceedings opened in the court by the
reading of the charges against the prisoner, who,
in answer thereto arose, unmindful of his clank-
ing chains, and said in a voice that was as clear
as the tones of a bell:

“ I plead not guilty to the charges as therein
stated."

Then it was shown that after the loss of his
fortune Noel Stanwood had accepted the position
as skipper of a trading schooner along the coast,
and while so serving had captured, with the aid
of a wrecked boat’s crew he had picked up at
sea, and a sergeant and a squad of marines who
had taken passage on his vessel, a famous buc-
caneer known as Captain Crimson and his
. schooner.

The capture had been b a cunning device of
’ the young skipper who al owed the pirates to
board. without knowing of his extra help in the
shipwrecked crew and marines, and the outlaw
craft had been taken after a hot hand-to-hand
l fight, and brought into port as a prize.

It was this schooner which had been refitted
l and changed into n brig, and under the name of
g his Majesty’s hrig-of-war Shark, had sailed for

 

 

Southern seas. . .

Some months after the sailing cf the brig the
y( ung hero had struck down and left for dead
his father‘s former partner, Frank Farley, from,
the said Farley asserted. no other motive than
to wish to kill him, and had escaped to sea in a.
barque that day to sail for Monte Video, having
been purchased by the GOVQI’DIIIEIit there.

Having deliVered the barque to it: owners,
and afraid to come home, as be deemed Frank
Farley dead, it was alleged that the prisoner
“'oined a band of. PernVian pirates, but from
bad treatment by them escaped and swam out
to the brig-(;.f-war Shark one night, while said
I vessel was anchored in a small harbor whither
‘ she had gone to fill her water-casks.

By warning the brig that Captain Crimson,
the pirate whom he had captured on the Carolina
coast», had escaped and come out in the brig ala-
sailor, but had gotten ashore and was to lead an
attack uycn his old vessel to capture her, the

risonel- hoped to £811) pardon for having, as he
fielieved, taken 13 6 like of merchant Frank
Farley. _ .

The attack of Captain Crimson and his horde
had been beaten off. and as the brig was short-
handed Captain Kane, her commander. bad

l

swain. ,
And the said Stanwood, while in that ca-
city, had insulted the first lieutenant, Sir

radWyD ,Bmle, u n the quarter-deck. and
wresting his sword rom his grasp had broken it

and thrown the pieces into the sea. ,
It was further charged that on account of his

havin savad the brig from the pirates, Captain

Kane ad allowed the prisoner to go ashore at

Callao, and he had challenged Lieutenant Sir

Bradwyn Brule to fight a duel, and had in said

duel taken that ofiicer’s life.

For said not he had been arrested by order of
Commodore Tate, whose ship the British King
was then at Callao, and commanded to be sent
home in irons in the brig Shark. .

It was further stated that tho brig again put
into the pirate buy, on her we home, at
found no outlaws there; but whi e. at anchor
Setting Water. a large goleta filled "i‘h men
ran out of a lagoon down u her and s fierce
fight followed, in which the prisoner ad come
to the rescue with the slightly wounded and sick
which he had gathered to {gnaw him, and having
Pemuaded the guard to allow him  _0 I0.

After doing so he went back to his irons, and
:befimepegvere mentioned in his behalf. doubtless

“3 88 b the risoner. - '

E On accounyt of tlie severe wounding 0‘ Cfiptain

E K3399. Lord. Erskine his firs? beam“. and

l Lieutenant Caspar Caldwell hlfl second. the brig

was left in command of the Senior Mi m

Burt Willis and a small force in 01’0".

 

made the P118011", Noel Stanwood, acting boat- |

 

 

 

 

«"1; rs?- awaiasr. a .  ,

 

 

"? "la. ‘

‘1 ,3»

., x r.

 

 

"f 2"! '5’” ‘W'rfie‘fr‘ka " - m . v, - < s

3.4..

 

 

_ “Var.” Me“ -_i ‘

 

 

The Shadow Silver Ship.

 

 

 0mm

Sailing on her voyage she had been caught in
a hurricane while rounding Cape Horn, and
the great skill of the prisoner as a seaman being
acknowledged. and the vessel in danger of be-
ing lost, Noel Standwood’s irons were taken off
and he was placed in command of the Shark by
Captain Kane, to bring her home.

Touching at a South American ort Lord
Erskine’s wounds had necessitated his ing sent
at once home on a frigate bound to Boston,
while the brig held on her voyage to various

rte as dispatch ship, and so Noel Stanwood

ad commanded her until she dropped anchor in
the harbor, where as she was to be at once fitted
out to 0 on a cruise after the king’s lost Silver
Ship, t e prisoner had been put in irons again
and sent to the town prison to await his trial.

Furthermore it was said that while on the
way to Boston the brig, under her sailor captain,
the prisoner, had captured two French prizes, a
privateer and a merchant craft, and sent them
into port, but be had refused, when the Shark
and her two prizes were together and could
easily have done so, to ca ture or fire on an
American rebel privateer t at was certainly at
their mercy, and boldly stated that as a patriot
he would not raise hand against his own people
and their fight for freedom.

Although all these charges had been made in
public before, and discussed, their reading made
a profound impression.

To the unprejudiced mind it looked as though
the American sailor was a hero after all, in
.spite of some of the ugly charges of piracy,
mutiny, challenging a superior officer to kill
him and allowing an American privateer to go.

But to the Tory eye, and the general observer
among the king’s pnople, who looked at all from
a one-sided view, it seemed that the prisoner
was certainly guilty and should be put to death.

As for the prisoner he did not change color
.during the reading.

He seemed interested, yet hardly more so than
others who were present.

And to all he pleaded “not guilty as charged.”

Then the witnesses were called, but against
the first, intent to kill merchant Frank Farley,
no one appi ared, and all eyes turned upon Lord
Erskine Eu'icrs who coolly met the stares
directed at him, although he understood that
every one know that the reason the said merchant-
failed to appear was because he was lying very
ill at home from a wound received a short while
before in a duel with Lord Erskine.

As Mr. Farley failed to appear the charge
would hays been dismissed had not Lord Erskine
arose and asked, in justice to the prisoner, if a
witness present. when the merchant was left for
dead by Noel Stanwood, might not state the
facts as they were.

The old commodore had great regard for Lord
Erskine, and more, being a poor man fond of
luxurious living, he always knew where to bor-
row a hundred pounds or so, when needed for
his debts, and just at that time owed the young
nobleman a haii-‘lsozne sum, so :‘i‘anted permis-
sion for the witncs$ to appear in justice to the
prisoner. , \

To the amazement of all Pearl Revere was the
witness, and in a clear voice she told how she
had been visiting Ethel Stanwood, and not see-
ing her, Merchant Farley had approached, and
what he said had angered her friend greatly,
and just at that moment Noel Stanwood had ap-
proached and felled the merchant with a sting-
iu blow.

Believing that the merchant was dead, for his
head in falling had struck a stone, she, Pearl
Revere, and Ethel had urged Noel to fly at once;
and yielding to their entreaties, as the barque he
was to command was ready to sail, he had at
once left rt, and then they, the two maidens,
had foundxthat the blow had only stunned Mr.
Farley.

This statement not a soul dared to doubt but
it was thought that Merchant Farley had an

uilty of more than Pearl Revere alleged, and
or the sake of Ethel had been spared. _

Against the charge of piracy the prisoner’s
own testimon woe taken, viz: that he had been
set upon in ontevideo by robbers, who had
wounded and robbed him of his all, and he was
driven to shipping before the mast upon a vessel
bound for Peru.

The vessel was captured by Peruvian pirates,
and to save his life he had joined them; but
taken ill at their retreat he heard, while lying
in his cabin ashore, that Captain Crimson had
escaped from the brig, his old vessel, swam
85110”. and as she was anchored in the little
bay, intended to run out in a goleta and capture

her. , '

He had at once decided to swim out tothe brig
and warn her, which he did, and thus had be-
come acting-blmuwaiu on board of her.

His manner was calm, his words few and to
the point, and many began to feel that the pris-
oner was clearln the dishonor from his name
when Captain arter Kane, a fine-looking old
sea warrior, and the captain of the Shark, was
called as a witness against the prisoner.

CHAPTER XI.
ma 11m gamer.
KAXI’S testimony, if It! to be
against the prisorier, created the impression of

 

"'*~r1‘.‘<;zv,{1w:.,w . >~ .- - I, -

being just the other way, for he told how the
prisoner had swam out through shark-infested
waters to warn the brig of danger, and had risen
from a sick bed to do so, while, but for his ad—
vice being followed in beating off the pirates the
vessel would surely have been taken.

As to his affair with Lieutenant Brule, he
knew nothing more than that, when on and of!
duty Sir Bradwyn Brule had seemed to have a
cause of spite against the prisoner, and one day,
when Lord Erskine was officer of the deck, the
goalirrence had happened which led to the

no .

The captain was still suffering from a wound
which had kept him in his cabin on the whole
vo age, and he was then on crutches.

0rd Erskine Euders, as ofliter of the deck
when the trouble began between Sir Bradwyn
Brule and the prisoner, took the stand and gave
his testimony in a manner that caused much ex-
citement.

It was as follows:

“I was on duty, and Brule, Caldwell and
junior officers on deck, and the brig becalmed.

“ Stanwood was enga ed in work upon the
binnacle light, when Bru e showed amiuiature of
a lady, with a remark that he was engaged to
her, and some uncomplimeutar words.

“ When asked who she was, rule turned to
the prisoner and said that he could tell, at the
same time handing im the miniature.

“‘It was all as quick as a flash, the lie given
b ‘tanwood to Brule, who attacked him with
his sword, was disarmed, the blade broken, the
pieces flung into the sea and a stinging slap
given the officer upon the cheek.

“ Of course I put Stanwood in irons at once,
and reporting it to Captain Kane, was told to
relieve him, as Stanwood was his guest, only
acting boatswaiu, and Brule had provoked
31m purposely to do some not such as he had

one.

“ Stanwood went ashore at Callao, Peru,
and Brule challenged him through. Lieutenant
Caldwell.

“I was Stanworid’s second. and Lieutenant
Bouair, of the British King, Midshipman Lum-
lcy, Surgeon Deas, a coxswam and four seamen
came in the same boat with Brule and Caldwell,
and all of them 1 see present.

“ The first meeting was with swords, and
Stanwood disarmcd Brule and hauled him his
llade, which was accepted with an insulting
reinalrk and a demand for asecond meeting with
pisto s.

“ I demurred, but yielded, and Stanwood kill-
ed the mau, who richly deserved his fate.

“ Commodore Tate, of the British King, un-
aware of the exact situation, ordered Stanwood
sent back in the bug in irons, and it'is lucky for
us that he was, for when again attacked by pi-
rates, when Captain Kane lay wounded on the
deck, I had three wounds, Lieutenant Caldwell
had been sent below severely wounded, two
junior officers were dead, and our crew cut to
pieces, the prisoner whom you are here to hang,
came to the rescue with men hardly able to
stand and saved the ship.

“ Back to his irons then he went, of his own
will, and the men mutinied, when he told the
leaders that it was his wish to return in irons.

“ Again, when Midshipman Burt Willis, feel—
ing that he could do no more to save the brig, so
reported to Captain Kane, Stan wood’s irons were
knocked off and he took command, and the brig
rode out the hurricane off Cape Horn and came
into port with two prizes while under command
of her prisoner captain.

“There are ofllcers on the brig who are not
friendly to the prisoner, for reasons best known
to themselves, but let me here assert that not
one of them can gainsay my testimony of what
I saw and know, unless making false state-
ments.” ‘

Thus the testimony of Lord Erskine ended al~
most with a challenge to any one who would
dare report difl’erenily from what he had done,
and there were those present who felt it.

Lieutenant Caldwell was called then, and the
testimony he gave all came out by questioning,
yet his answers led to the belief that Sir Brad-
wyn Brule had been in the wrong, that he had
sent the challenge, had been spared by his ad-
versary, and then met his death at his hands.

He admitted that the prisoner had done much
to save the brig from the irates, but the court
must judge as to whether tanwood was guilty or
not of willful piracy, himself before joining the
Shark. ' .

As to the brig’s being in dani r 011' Cape Horn,
he was wounded (inflow dec 5, but he thou ht
that she would have den out the storm un er
Midshipman Willie’s command.

About the capture of the two prizas, it only
went to show how readily the rebel , rivateer
could have been taken by the; rig, in
spite of her small crew, for the American of
course did not know that the three vessels had
not two-score men between them all told.

He, Lieutenant Caldwell had not been placed
in command by Captain Kane, when ready to
resume his duties, but served under the risoner’s
orders, and had remonstrated with h m about
not capturing the rebel, and was told to attend
to his own aflairs, and thatas an American he
would not harm a patriot craft. " ’

 

 

Upon this subject Lieutenant Caldwell became

very c immunicative and said all that he could
to cast the stain of being a “ traitor to the
king” upon the prisoner, and all could see that
he was one of the omcers at whom Lord Erskine
had had his flin at the end of his testimony.
. When asked w o the lady was, whose miniature
Sir Bradwyn Brule had shown on the brig's
deck, Lieutenant Caldwell fell back behind his
superior officer by the remark:

“ Lord Erskine came to me personally, and
asked me, asafavor to him, not to name the
lady, should the question as to who she was be
brought up.”

All eyes again turned upon Lord Erskine, but
he did not change color; but something the old
commodore saw in his face caused him topreVent
the question being urged.

Other witnesses were then called, and the at
tentive listeners came to the conclusion that ti!
prisoner could not be found guilty.

But the court took another view, for he was
an American, an av0wed rebel, his own testi-
mony alone stood as tohavin been forced toserve
on a pirate craft to save hisfiife, and most of all
he had proven a traitor to the king in that he
had refused to capture, or even fire upon a rebel
privateer.

The finding therefore of the military court
was against him, and he was adjudged guilty,
but, in consideration for the valuable services
he had rendered the brig and her crew, his
sentence would not be to be hanged to the yard-
arm, but instead he would be sent to England
there to be incarcerated as a prisoner for life.

 

CHAPTER XII.
UNDER ANOTHER nan.

IT was evident that the verdict of the military
court, sentencing sailor Noel Stanwood to an
English prison for life, was receWed by many
present with feelings of pleasure, and a few
were disappointed that he had not been sent to
the gallows. ,

But there Were .msny more who felt that the
only case the court had against the prisoner was
his having allowed a rebel privateer to escape,
and this should not have weighed heavily
in the face of his having saved the brig on three
occasions, brought her to port in safety, and
also captured two prizes of value.

There was a show of animus against the
prisoner on the part of nearly all the officers and
men on the brig and the British King, and it
arose from the fact that an American had ac-
complished so much, and stood as a rebuke to
British naval officers.

Then too the American was of the merchant
service, and more, though not trained as an
officer he had disarmed and spared the life of
the most dangerous sportsman and duelist in the
English service, as had Sir Bradwyn Brule been
known to be.

Also he had shown a deadly aim with the pis-
tol, in the second meeting, and more, a courage
through all that nothing could daunt. When the
decision of the court was made the Americans
all knew that Stanwood suffered because he was
not an Englishman, and that that'ourt retreated
behind a seeming spirit of mercy in that they
had not hanged him.

The prisoner’s face did not change, and
whether it was a joy or regret to him, not a soul
could tell.

He received his sentence in silence and when
asked if he had aught to say against it, respond-
ed in an unmoved voice:

“No more than that as I know I am made to
suffer as an American, I feel proud that I am a
pat-riot, a rebel, if so it pleases the gentlemen of
this august court.”

That Lieutenant Caldwell had hoped that
death would be the penalty, his face plainly
showed, as did the countenance of Lord Erskine
Enders that he considered the punishment an
outrage.

“ Whatdo you think of the sentence, my lord?”
asked one of the court, a pompous little captain
of the Royal Navy.

“ That not to consider that his gallant deeds
more than canceled the one act of his being a
rebel, and thus settin him free, was infamous,”
came the stern rejoin er, and others who heard
the outspoken Words of the nobleman winced
under them, as did the dapper little questioner.

“ But, my lord, the guilt of the prisoner as—"

“ See here, Verney, your verdict settled the
case, so don’t reopen it with me, for I consider it
infamous, as I said, and I shall see to it that the
king gets the entire facts of the case,” and with
this shot Lord Erskine turned away, while he
left behind him a very uneasy feeling in the
minds of some of the court, for Commodore
Tate of the British King frigate, Captain Carter
Kane of the brig Shark, and Lieutenant Bonair
of the frigate. those, with Lord Erskine, most
conversant with the whole facts. seemed to feel
that no punishment should have been meted out
upon the evidence as given, with the merits of.
the case in Smnwood’s favor to offset such acts
of his that were open to censure.

Lord Erskine and Lieutenant Bouair hastened
on after Prince Paul Revere and thethree ladies,
who had gone to the Revere carriagein wait-
ing, and Lord Erskine said cheerily:

 

 

 

’ v

.8 ,

The Shadow Silver Ship.

 

“Do not sorrow over the result, Mrs. Stan-
wood, you and Miss Ethel, for the king shall
know of the affair if I go to England to pre—
sent it to him in full, and I shall bear the names
of men whose influsnce will be felt, that the
punishment was unjust.

“ Do you not agree with me, Mr. Revere?”

“ I cannot see why the fact of being a robe!
was not more than offset by the many services
rendered, and you may count upon any influence
I may have, my lord, to urge upon the king a
pardon.”

“Thank you, my lord, and the pardon we
must have, though it Will doubtless result in
sending a very daring and dangerous foe upon
the seas against us—eh, Bonair?”

“Ye Erskine, I am sure Stanwood would
draw his sword for the patriot cause, once he
was free,” returned Lieutenant Brainard Bonair,
and after seeing the ladies into the carriage,
for Pearl Revere was to drive Mrs. tan wood
and Ethel home, the three gentlemen walked
away upon their respective duties, for Lord
Erskine was busy fitting out the returned brig
for the special mission she was to go upon, and
which was to hunt down the now famous
Shadow Silver Ship.

Orders had come from the king to promote
Lord Erskine toa captaincy, and to send him
upon this mission, in the flee-test vessel that
could be found in American waters.

No expense was to be spared in fitting the
vessel out, and she was to be heavily armed
with the best battery to be found, and equipped
thoroughly, while her crew of a hundred seamen
were to be picked men.

The vessel decided upon before her return from
South American waters, was the brig Shark,
as she was known to be a stanch craft, an able
seaboat and remarkably fleet.

She could, bya new set of spars, carry far
more sail area, and certain alterations in her
hull would add to her speed, it was thought, and
no expense was to be spared.

The duty of selecting his men, Lord Erskine
placed in the hands of a Certain prominent ship-
ping merchant, with orders to pick every man
for his physique and seamanly qualities, and as
many shrunk from going in chase of a specter
craft, each man was to be told the exact
mission that the brig was to sail on, the ca ture
of the Silver Ship, or its mysterious “ Sha ow,”
so that there should be no ignorance pleaded,
once they were at sea, that they did not know
they wars going on a ghost-hunting cruise.

Among the officers of the brig, which was to
be known no longer as the Shark, for Lord
Erskine had appropriately named her the Sea
Shadower, was ieutenant Cas r Caldwell.

The conduct of this officer ord Erskine had
not liked, when it was directed against Stan-
wood, but when he humbled himself to ask for a
junior officer’s berth on board, as he was a
splendid seaman the young ca tain was too just
a man to allow personal fee ings to influence
him, so had offered his name for the position of
second lieutenant, and it was granted by the
naval commandante of the port.

One day a messenger ship arrived direct from
England, and Lord Erskine received a number
of important dispatches which sent him in haste
to the naval commandante.

After a visit of long duration to him he walk-
ed rapidly back to his quarters and his valet
handed h m a note which had just arrived for
him, and it was marked:

“ Pnasonan AND IMPORTANT.”

“ Grimes, get all my traps ready, for Iwill
sail for England just ten days from to—day.

“If any one calls, other than. Lieutenant
Bonair or the oflicers of theSeaShadower, I
am to be excused,” and so saying Lord Erskine
read the note, after which he resumed his hat
and cloak and walked rapidly away in the dire-o
tion of the more handsome houses of the citizens,
turning into a massive ateway that led to the
elegant mansion of Paul van.

 

CHAPTER XIII.
a ram or Pmmns.

THE note which Lord Erskine had received
11 n enterin his quarters, or the voluminous
d Ipatches w ich had come djust before from
London, had cast a deep sha ow upon his face.

He walked along like one half in a dream, and
mechanically spoke to several acquaintances
whom he met.

When ushered into the elegant parlors of the
Revere mansion, he found there Pearl and
Ethel, the latter with hat and cloak on, and
 welcomed him pleasantly, while the former
sai : -

“ It was kind of you, my lord, to come so soon
after thp reception of my note; but you look ill

ny‘

“ I came, Miss Revere, at once, as you re-
quested, and because I have much to do in a
very short while for 1 have just received the
.d intelli once rom home of my noble father’s
death, the quest friend I ever had, not to speak
of his devoted regard for me.”

Thus spoke the dutiful son, who through his
father’s death came into the title of Earl and one
of the larfist fortunes in England. _

“You vs my deepest sympathy, my lord,

 

in your deep affliction,” said Pearl, in her sweet,

frank manner.

h “ And mine, my lord,” and Ethel offered her
ant .

“You are both most kind, and I appreciate
your sincere sympathy. and will tell you that I
am ordered home by the first vessel, and
naturally will have to ask leave for six months,
to arrange my affairs in England.”

“ Then on will not Command the Sea ’
Shadower in her ei-.:ise after that misfortuns
vessel, my lord, which they call the specter of
the King’s Silver Ship?"

“No, Miss Revere, I have just resigned my
place as captain, and the naval commandant
was so good as to say that as another officer was
to be her captain, he preferred to have him get
his orders direct from the king, so he is to send
the l rig to England under Lieutenant Henshaw,
and I will go as passenger in her.”

“I am sorry We are to lose you so soon, my
lord; but I hope you will again come to the
Colonies.”

“ I certainly shall do so, for I am not going to
remain idle in war times, when my bin needs the
swords of his subjects but I am giai that I go
at this time, for it will enable me to personally
place the case of Mr. Sninwiiod before his
I ajesty, and urge for his pardon.”

“Ah, my lord, you are so kind,” said Ethel,
and her eyes filled with tears, while Pearl said

nick y: '
q “Yes, you are always good; but let me tell
you why I wrote you to come to sue me.”

“ I am at your service. Miss Revure.”

“ I heard to—day that Mr. S'anwood was to he
sent to England in a 'l'ew days, and the vessel
had been seemed that he s oulil go in.

“ May I ask if this is the easel”

“ Yes, he was to go in the next dispatch ves-
sel, but the commandant said that he would send
him in the brig \\ ith me."

“ You asked this of course?”

“ Well, I felt that it would perhaps be pleas-
anter for Stanwood to go in the some vessel With
me, and as the commandant is aware that I
have some influence with the king he “as good
enough to grant my request. ‘

“ in fact it was my intention to decide at the
last minute to just cross the sea. and have an au-
dience with the king, and offer to take Mr.
Stanwood with me, so all along had no idea of
trusting him to the tender mercies of others
until his Majesty had heard my story and seen
the proofs, signed by others, that I have secured
of the case.”

“ And you believe, my lord, that the king will
pardon my brother?" Ethel asked.

“ I have that hope, Miss Stanwood, though I
know that much influence will have to be con—
tended with against a pardon, and the king may,
in a sudden humor, refuse, for he is very bitter
just now against Americans.”

“ Then there is considerable doubt as toa par-
don, my lord?” Pearl asked.

“ There is, though I hope for a pardon for Mr.
Stanwood.”

“ gay I ask just when you are to sail, my

0rd
“ On the tenth day from this, I have decided
to sail.”

For some reason, after knowing the date of
the brig’s sailing, both Pearl and Ethel seemed
to show considerable anxiety, and soon after
Lord Erskine arose to take his leave, and said:

“Miss Stanwood, I will call to say good-by
before my departure, and I wish you would tell
your mother that I will do all in my power to
save her nobleson, so that she must not worry
about him.

“ I also gained permission from the com-
mandant today for you and your mother to call
at the prison and see Mr. Stanwood, so on can
do so each evening after dark, for it is at not
to let the general public kn0w that you have the
privilege.

Ethel’s jo was so great that she could not
utter a wor , for thus far the had not been al-
lowed to see the prisoner, an anxious to avoid
thanks Lord Erskine took a hasty leave.

Hardly had he disappeared from the mansion
when Pearl said quick 3':

“ Come, Ethel, save yourself, for we must act
at once.”

“ Yes, but, Pearl, will you carry out your hold
plot that you spoke of, now that Lord Erskine’s
efforts may gain Noel a ardonl”

“ Certainly for if t a king is in an ugly
humor he Will refuse even Lord Erskine, and we
must take no chances.”

“on, Pearl, you are so brave, and yet you
will have to face far more than you think.” '

“ Yet he has to face imprisonment for life.

“No, now is our chance and fortune favored
us in father‘s going last night to Halifax with
Commodore Gates in his flaggbip

“ I will let the servants lieve I am visiting
you and no one will know of our absence.

“ be sailor who came to on, as your
brotlfir’s friend, oflering toms, e an elf'ortto
free eel. must serve us, so go right home and
send olrl Bennett for him to come here and I
will tell my plan, and he can help us.

“ If he fears to make the venture, than we
will in by land in my carriage, for, as I told
you, have father‘s pass from Lord Howe,

 

when he expected to go ihrou h the lines ten
days ago to visit the wounded ritish (dieer in
Wasnngton’s camp.

“ The pass reads:

“‘ Pass Mr. Paul Revere and servant out of, and.
back into the British lines.‘

“It is signed, sealed and good as gold, only
father did not use it, as word came that the cola-r
nel was dead.”

“ But what good can the pass do us, dear
Pearl?“ ’

“ Listen l”

“ I am all ears.”

“ The pass was written on the first of the.
month—so, 1st. Now I will change it to read
13th, which will be to-iiiorrOvr, by making the
3 into a t and the t into an h and putting in the-
flgui'e 3 which can all be easily done, for I have
studied it out.”

“ Oh, Ethel, but—”

“ It is for Noel, remember, and we are doing:
no great harm.

“Then I can make Paul rend Pearl, Mr. read
Ill-'83, and sew mt. or sm'vt. read maid, and I
have a pass for tn-morrow giving ‘Miss Pearl
Revere and maid ’ em. and entrance through
the British lines.”

“ Do you see, my dear?”

“ You have a wonderful head for plotting,
Pearl.”

“ The circumstances of the case demand bold
work, Ethel' but new gro home and send for that.
sailor, Jack Iiosa, and then return and await his
COIIHU".

“ Ifbho refuses to Venture by boat, then we
will go by land and visit the great rebel chief,
'Washington.

“ W bat. an adventure it will be, M, Ethel.”

Ei.i1=..l see-med totally realize the adxenturous
part «if t'.e daring plot as she hastened home;
but if P-Jitl‘l Ravi-re was willing to risk so much
for Noel, certainly she would not fail her brother-
nt such a time.

So Bennett the old servant, who, with key
his wife, had clung to the fortunes of the Stan-
needs in tl‘cir poverty, was sent with a note to
S lll' ir Jack Ross, asking him to come at once to
the Revere Mansion.

Telling her mother of the good news, that;
Lord Erskine had gotten them permission to see.
Noel each evening, and intended to plead for his
pardon in person to the king, but saying nothing
then of Pearl Revere’s bold plot to save the-
prisoner, Ethel hastened back to the home of her
friend, inwardly all excitement, but outwardly
perfectly calm, for she had the courage of her

rother when occasion demanded nerve.

 

CHAPTER XIV.
JACK ROSS, SAILOR.

“ THERE he comes, Pearl.”

“ lie is prompt, and that argues well for us,”
responded Pear , as from the window the form
of akman in sailor garb was seen coming up the
wa .

As the two maidens gazed at his approach
from the library window, a huge watch-dog,
which by some accident had all iped his collar
and gotten into the front yard, ounded from
the piazza directly upon the sailor.

Quick as a flash the sailor drop upon one
knee, seized the savage brute by t e throat, and
hurling him to the round and deftly drawing-
his black silk scarf rom his neck, bound it in a
a few seconds around the mouth of the dog, com-
pletely muzzling him.

Then With a kick he sent him flying toward
the back yard, while he said with a light laugh
to the pontipous butler, who a peered in alarm:

“ G. in your dog, Silk wckings, or he’ll
hurt me.”

“ Yez must be afther bein’ kin to the divil to
make that same dorg turn tail like that, man.”

“ I am his cousin, Irish; butl didn’t hurt your
dog for I thought he was valuable to his master.”

“ And what is it yes is afther wanting here,
Mishter Salt Water?”

“ To see the lad of the house, old Knee
Breeches, so pray te 1 her that Sailor Jack Rosa
awaits her sweet pleasure.”

" Divil a bit will I and divll a bit will the.
loikes 0’ yes see my led y.

“If you don’t hear my message to the lady,
tll’ll ili‘iuzsle you as I did the dog, and be my own

no 'ey.

“ Mahone, show the gentleman into the library
this instant, and be more respectful in future to
in visitors.”

ahone started as though he had been shot at
from an ambush, as be h the voice of hil.
young mistress behind him. ,

The sailor bowed bit, as he defied his tsrv
paulin, and said politely:

‘° Sailor Jack Ross, at your service, miss.

“I was told to come here and see
Revere.”

'“ I am Miss Revere, Mr. Ross, so please come
into the library," and Ethel led the way, While-
Jack slyly winked at Mahone as he passed. but
elicited only a profound bow from fl!“ 9‘”

8.3..
 n.an its” a “n W
sai t e , wa 0 not on.
“ God blamyber ysweet .0111, yes, min; but I
would never have met her bad it not banter ht

 

 

 

.,...,._._. w‘~._g raw ‘

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

..v ' .a =‘.
., n.4-
, .,.

w... fi,-._...,__,

The Shadow Silver Ship.

 

 

 

noble brother, to whom I owe my life more than
one time.”

“ Be seated, Mr. Ross~—-”

“There, miss, please don’t mister me, for I
don’t know how to answer the hail.

" I am plain Jack, miss, Jack Ross at your
service, afloat or ashore.”

“ Well, Jack, we saw your bravery lust now,
and I do not believe one man out of a _thousand
could have put Savage to flight as you did.

“ I hope he did not harm you.”

“ Oh no, miss, for I caught his throat, and
you’ll pardon m having no neck-scarf, for I
loaned it to the 0g.”

“ I have a very handsome one of my Own you
shall have in return, if you will accept it,” said
Pearl, amused with the handsome, frank young
sailor, whose quick victory over Savage they had
admired, and laughed at his conversation with
Mnhone, all of which they had overheard.

“ I’ll accept it with pleasure, miss, and many
thanks to you; but I’ll bring you a souvenir for
your wedding the next voyage I make to foreign
lands.”

Pearl’s face flushed and Ethel laughed, while
geek Ross took the scat which was urged upon

lln. -

“ Mr. Ross—”

“ Jack, miss.”

“ Well, Jack, Miss Stanwood tells me that you
came and asked her if some lot could not be
arranged— Pray stepto the cor and see if Ma-
Lone is not outside.” .

The last was said in a whisper, and Jack
glided across the room, threw open the door and
sent Mahone sprawling upon the hull floor, for
he had his car at the keyhole, and the door
opened outward.

“Mister Mahone, your mistress would like
you to go and unmuzzle the dog and muzzle
yourself, for you are dangerous to run at
lar e.’

'Ighe two girls could not restrain their laughter,
while Mahone gathered himself together and
slipped away as fast as his legs could carry him,
muttering prayers for the damnation of the
sailor’s; soul.

With alight laugh Jack closed the door and
returned to his seat, and Pearl continued:

“ You wished to enter into a plot for the
own of Mr Stanwoodf”

“ es, miss, for his escape if it could be
arranged quietly, or his rescue, that failing.

" You see, miss, I was a risoner to Ca tain
Crimson, and was to be ma e walk the plan the
very night following his capture by Captain
Stanwood.

" When the brig went to southern waters I
was in her, so it was Captain Noel Stanwood
saved us twice from the pirates and once in a
hurricane.

“ Now the men of the brig, the old crew, don’t
want to see him sent to prison, and I called on
Miss Ethel to ask her if she could not plot with
with me his escape.

“ She could tell we no way, and so I said
we would raise a mob, storm the prison and
have him out in a few minutes, and all arranged
for his escape.

“ But Miss Ethel said it would cost many lives
and must not bedone, and she knew her brother
would not wish it, so I gave up the idea, and
with a mate, also true to the captain, was study-
ing up another u when I got the note calling
me here, and I ope your two pretty heads to-
gether can see the way clear to save the young
captain, for he’s a patriot, true is steel. and I
wish to serve under him at an the deck of an
armed craft to fight the ritish,” and Jack Ross
stopped short, as he felt that he might have over-
shot the mark, having heard that Pearl‘s father
was an American upholder of the king.

“I admire you, my man, for expreming your
views frankly, and it is because we have confi-
dence in you that Miss Stanwood and myself de-
sire your aid in rescuing Captain Stanwood,"
said earl.

" I am yours to command, ladies, Jack Ross,
sailor an American patriot, and ready to risk
my 9 to save the best captain that ever trod a
deck for I have seen him serve.

“in-t say what I can do, and P11 go to
work.”

" Well, we wish you to see General Washing-
ton, Jack."

“ So do I want to see him, lady, but he can do
nothing for Master Neel.”

“ Yes, we think he can—4n one way.”

“ You. have got some plan stowed in your

head, miss.”

“Yes, wewishtoseeif you can reach Gon-
oral Washington and state the case to him!"

“ I could do so, miss, by going to sea and run-
ninfindnwn to Lynn, and thus go by land across
to mbridge, where the patriot chief is now
said to be quartered, miss.”

“ You would not attempt to go by land,
than!”

“ I could not get through the British lines,
miss, and would he shot, maybe, by the Ameri-

Icans if I did.

“ It's mfer to go by sea, by far, ladies.”

“ But you must have a good boat?"

“Yes, min, a stiff craft that can sail like the
Wind, for I’ve got to run the ntlet of the bar-
bor boat, and a frigate, a b and a schooner

haven-1,. . h- -,. ,u. .,
»'s‘-‘lm‘w4.

craft, you know.”
“ Do you know if you could get such a boat?”
“ There’s a shallop there now that run in past
allttllie guard boats a. week ago, and sailed like a
m '1.

for his crew will not sail with him, so he’s will«
log to sell out for a small price and go home as
best he can.”

“ What do you mean by a small price,
Jack?”

“ Well, miSs, I’ve got several hundreds laid up
and guess I can buy her with it.”

“ No, not a dollar of your money must you
touch, for I have ample, and will give you three
hundred pounds, and more if you need it, so buy
your shallop and be ready to start.”

“ When, miss?"

“ To-night. if possible.”

“ And the duty I am to perform, miss.”

“ Go to General Washington and state the
case of Captain Stanwood as it is.

“ Tell him that just ten nights from now the
brig-of-war, Sea Shallower, the fleetest sailing
craft in the Exi~lish Navy, sails for England,
having been fitte. out, armed and manned to go
in search of the mysterious vessel known as the
Shadow Silver Ship.”

“ Yes, miss.”

“And tell him that upon that vessel, a pris
oner in irons, will be Captain Noel Stanwood,
on his way to England to serve a sentence for
life for crimes he is guiltless of.”

“ Yes, miss.”

“And tell him if he can send several fleet
American privateers out to lie in wait for the

splendid craft for his country’s service: but that
there is one person on board, a passenger, who
must be allowed to go free, and that is Lord
Erskine Enders.”

“ The plan is a good one, miss, and would
work all right if I was known.

“ But not a soul do I know in the patriot lines,
and I would not be believed or trusted in, and
it would take some one of influence to cause
General Washington to act in the matter.

“ But I can et the shallop, and a mate and
be all ready on y you must send some one that
can prove all is as you state by showing their
authorit .”

Quick y came the responso:

“You are right, Jack; but I know General
Washington, and I will go myself.”

“ You, lady?”

“Yes, so get your shallop ready and I will
board her to-night.”

“Not alone, Pearl, for I will go too,” said
Ethel in a decided tone.

 

CHAPTER XV.
ran incur vnnruait.

JACK Ross was dumb with amazement at the
decision of the two young ladies.

He had expected some American known to
Washington as a sym athizer, and whom the
maidens knew and con (1 get to go along, would
have to be his passenger; but that he would
have two such beautiful girls to protect through
the danger of running the gantlet at night he
neither expecteo or cared for.

So he at once began to urge against it.

But Pearl Revere was not one to yield, once
she had made up her mind as to her courSe.

“ The shallop is a safe vessel, is it not?”

“Yes, lady, perfectly to.”

“ And has a cabin!”

;‘ One of the neatest little cabins you ever saw,
m 33.
“ Well, we are both good sailors and will go.

“ You get the shallop and take her 0! the
cottage of Mrs. Stanwood after nightfall. and
we will have what we need in the way of stores
and bedumg ready to take on board.

“ Then, when (you think best to sail, come up
to the cot or ‘us and you’ll not find us
either cowa , or in the way, I’ll. pledge you,
Jack.”

“ But, lady—”

“ Now Jack, Captain Stanwood must not be
taken to England, and the patriots must cap-
ture a fine vessel-of-war, so we are determined
and it is useless to further argue against it." '

“ Not a word more will I say, miss, for you
are captain.” '

“ Then wait until I get you the money, and
then lose no time.”

Ten minutes after Jack Ross was on his way
down to the harbor.

There, not far ofl-shore lay at anchor a small
shallop of ten tons, and as pretty a craft as a
sailor’s eye would wish to look upon.

It was or first voyage, and all about her was
in rfect shape.

pen the deck sat her skipper, an old weather-
beaten sailor, who had won fame by boldly run-
ing in under fire of forts. vessels and guard-
boats and after coolly dropping anchor told the
officer who boarded him that he was too deaf
and near blind to know that they were firing at

him.
Hehad acargoofv stables and fresh mean,
which sold well to the ieged soldiers, but he

wastoldnottoagainput tossa,sohsdismi-sd

 

“The old skipper kiHH'S he could not get out, i

brig, he can rescue Captain Stanwood and get a i

in the bay below, for they board all outgoing  his crew and was waiting for something to turn

{ up in his favor.

i And something did “ turn up ” in the shape of
3 Jack Ross, who, after some talk with the old
i skipper, bought his shallop for a hundred and
l fifty pounds, and told the old man to get per-
misaon of the harbor captain to take her over to
a certain anchorage and unbend her sails so as
to lav her up.

“When you get there, begin work, only don‘t
dismantle her too fast, old led, and about good
dark just row ashore in line with a white cottage
on the hill, and I’ll be there With the bal=»nce or
your money, for here are titty pounds as a proo
of good faith.” -

The old man promised, and a short while be-
fore sunset, Peurl and Ethel, who were at the
Stanwml cottage. saw the little shallop anchor
and her skipper begin to strip her of her can-
vas.

Soon after dark the old skipper camn ashore
in his light skiff. and there stood Jack Ross, and
with him a young man. also in sailor garb.

“ You don’t want no pilot for your v. ork,
stranger?” asked the skipper.

“Not I, for l was born on the bay and know
it as I do my good mother’s face,” answered
Jack.

“ You are going to have a rough night.”

“ I’m glad of it.” and the skipper then said:

“ I’ve got confidence in you, lad, and if you’ll
accept a hand free, I‘ll go, for I want to git
home.”

” It’s a go, so I’ll take you and my mate out
so you can get to work, and I’ll come ashore for
my passengers.”

u Nick Norcross, the young sailor, and old Skip-
per Wclby were rowed out to the shallop, and
l returning ashore, Jack Ross decided to hide his
i ours, in case any one should stroll along, and
1‘ going behind a large rock near came full upon:
crouching form.
The man attempted to run. but the young
sailor was upon him quick as a flash, and with a
E pistol thrust into his face cried: _
" “ New, sir, who, are you that is watching
“me?”
E “ Oh, suri I’m afther bein’ Mahone, with a
i message from the leddies, sur, up at the cottage,
‘ and they sint me to say you was not to come up,
j sur, but I would come down along With ’em.”
3 “ Mahone, I have no more confidence in you
? than 1 have in your master’s dog. so I’ll be on
g the safe side.
" Come, into that beat, sir, and I‘ll stand no

 

nonseiiSe.”
i “ Oh Howly Saint Patrick, but I’ll be kilt,
I sure. for—”
“ Either get into that boat, orsay your prayers,
for I am in earnest.”
The Irishman obeyed the first order, and
taking his cars the saiIOr pulled back to the
shall-1p.
“ Nick.”
I “ Ah y, Jack.”

“I’ve got something here I wish you to gag
‘ and bind securely and then stow forward.”
i Mahone groaned. but was yanked out of the
i beat by Nick’s strong arm, while Ros at once
i revved back to the shore.
| Going up to the cabin he found the two girls
and Mrs. Stanwood awaiting him.

said Mrs. Stanwood.

“ After I round Deer Island, madam. it will
not take me ion to run under the lee of Nahant,
and I hardly think we’ll get the full force of the
storm under several hours.”

“God grant it, sir; but Miss Revere and my
daughter are determined to go, as it is to save
my poor boy, and I feel that Heaven W111 pro-
tect on in the good work."

“Yes, madam, we’ll go throu h, even if we
do see a little pewder burnt meet a rough
sea and gale,- but the shall is as fast as a bird,
and stiff. as a church, an for the cruise I’ve
named her the Two Angels, after the young
ladies.”

Soon after, loaded with stores and bundles,
for their comfort, Jack led the way down to the
shore, while hire. Stanwood, old Bennett and
Lucy followed.

Farewells were said when they reached the
shore, and with a fervent prayer for their pro-
tection, Mrs. Stanwood saw them row away in
with.an h ll h pedl h l

cingtes‘na opteystep igtyon
board and descended into the cabin, both ex-
claiming at its comfort.

Jack introduced Skipper Welby and Nick
Norcross. and then, as all was ready, ordered the
anchor up. - m

“ We’ll start under as little sail as possible, so
as not to attract attention, but be ready to
dreu her up lively, skipper, you and Nick, if we
have to run for it, and with this stiff breese she
will fairly fly.

“ There, we are off, so now go forward, please,
and look out for the guard-boats.”

A moment more the shallop was upon ls. way
to run the dangerous gautlot.

CHAPTER XVI.
mime run Gm.
TH! home of Widow Stanwood was I: an
elevation, not very far from where, at that timg

 

 

“Oh. sir, but it will be a bad night at sea.” ‘

 

  

10

was .a very large fortification across Boston
_ Neck, and the shallop had been brought to an-
chor within easy rifle~range of the guns.

Upon heading out from the anchorage Jack
Ross had to lay his course for Governor’s Island,
intending to then neat down the harbor, past
Castle Island for the wind came from the sea.

Vihen Cast e Island was dropped a mile astern
he could lay his course upon the port tack di-
rectly between Deer Island and Nick’s Mate.

To round Deer Island and then square away
with the wind over the starboard stern quarter
Would have logged him about seven miles, with
a run of six more before he could get under the
lee of Nahant, with three miles more into Lynn
Harbor.

This was the course which Jack Ross meant to
take, and in asking old Skipper W'elby for his
opinion he gave the same, only remarking:

“ But thar’s ther sloo f-wur anchored at
the head 0’ Governor’s sland, lad, and thcr
Castle, with a brig to seaward down 0’ Castle,
not to speak 0’ a frigate off the landward point
0’ Thomson’s, and niayhap the bay cruisin -
schooner a- hidin’ somewhar around SpectacI
Island, not to speak 0’ ther guard-boats.”

“ Oh, I knows, for I cum in among ’em, and
give ’cm a chance ter burn powder as yer
knows.”

“Yes, I do know, for I was on Dorchester
Neck and saw you run in, and you did it well,
skipper, so says Jack Ross.”

‘ 'ell, maybe I did, and right whar yer hand
be on ther tiller yer’ll find two bullets stuck, one
from a musket on ther schooner, and t’other
from a officer’s pistol in one o’ ther guard-
boats.”

“ I am very glad to have you along, skipper,
I assure you, for if we are hunted, then you
know what to do if I go under, and Nick don’t
know the bay.

” But the ladies are coming on deck now, and
they can stay until it begins to get warm, I
guess.”

The two girls now came upon deck, and were
given seats in the cockpit, to windward, and
made comfortable, for the night was cold and
the wind piercing.

The skies were overcast now with the blackest
of clouds, but the lights of. the town were plain-
] visible, with others on Castle Island and a
s oop-of-war lying near.

The wind was already blowing half a gale,
and threatening a fierce sea storm before the
night was over, while the bay had begun to
choppy and foam-crested. -

“ I cannot see how you can find our way in
such darkness, Captain Jack,” said earl, glanc-
ing about her.

‘Same as you can, miss, in your own home-
youuds of a dark night,” was the answer,
while Ethel remarked:

“ And the darkness is better for our purpose,
is it not?”

“Yes, miss, only I wish the shallop’s sails
were not so new, for she looks like a. ghost
against the blackness.”

“ It is an ugly night, but you must not mind
us, Captain Jack, for we are both good sailors
never sea’sick, and can lend a. hand if need be.”

“Just like your brother, miss, and as brave
when the need comes.

“ 1 am proud to have on along, and I’ll do
my best to run Two Ange s through.”

“ Meaning the shallop, of course," Pearl said,
pleasantly.

“ The shallop Two Angels, miss, and Two
Angels she carries,” was the gallant reply, and
Pearl returned:

" We must not talk to you now, for you have
all you can do.”

But Jack Rossdid not seem to hear her words,
as his 9 es were bent ahead.

in Die '1’

“Ay' fly.”

“ Is not that a. guard-boat under sail ahead!”
“ y, ay, sir—jib hid her from me.”

“ ou must keep your eyes open then for-
ward.”

The words were so stern that the two maidens
could hardly believe they came from the lips of
Jack Rosa; but they shoWed he could be in
deadly earnest when the time came for it.

“ Ay, ay, sir,” promptly answered Nick Nor-
cross, who felt he was in the wrong, while the
old skipper muttered:

“ I has good eyes, but that oun captain has
got telescopes in his head, by erus 0.!”

Had the uard-boat been sooner seen the
shallop coul have held up closer and passed
over a cable’s len th further away than was
now possible, and t was evident that she had
not been seen by the watch though she soon
must be.

r “ Shallop ahoyl what craft is that, and where
bound?” called out a. loud voice from the boat
just a moment later.

"Dispatch boat from the fortification in the
Neck to the castle, sir,” was the perfectly cool
response of Jack Ross, and both Pearl and Ethel
breathed more freely, for there was no longer
any doubt as totbe elmsman having been the
very man they needed for the work.

“ You don’t look like a dispatch boat. Lay
to, or I’ll fire into you 1” ‘

‘Ay, ay, sir! if you will come up ‘into the

  

The Shadow Silver Ship.

l
I

 

wind, I’ll round to under your Ice, and send my
boat ,aboard, for it is too rough to come along‘
side.‘

“ He will discover us if you do,” cried Pearl.

But Jack Ross did not heed her and let the
shallop fall off a trifle as though to jibe and fol-
low out his words, for he saw that the guard-
bont had already come up into the wind.

But a moment after he was flying along as
rapidly as before.

“ Ho, you lubbcrly skipper! Round to! round
to!” yelled the officer on the guard-boat.

“ Ay, ay, sir; my sheet-rope is jammed, but it
will be free in a minute—that is, we will,” and
the last words were uttered to the two maidens.

The guard-boat waited awhile longer, and then

une a scattering fire after the shallop, now out
9 range.

Ja-t-k Ross laughed, and said quietly:

“ That gives the alarm, and I will have to run
between Bird Island and Governor’s, stretching
over toward Apple Island and then beat up."

The firing of the guard—boat did give the alarm
to the sloop-of-war, on board of which the drums
beat to quarters, and yet the shallop had shot by
her before being discovered, and was far away
when her port side was illumined by a flash, and
a. shot came flying over the topinast of the little
fugitive craft.

“ Good for you, sloop-of—war- but you’ll only
get one more in at us,” said jack Ross, and he
held up so as to get the upper end of Governor’s
Island between him and the fire.

One more shot the sloop did get, but it flew
wild, and the shallop was heading toward the
rear end of Apple Island and fairly flying like a.
bird, pointing right into the Wind’s eye.

The other guard—boats about the harbor an-
swered the alarm now by burning blue lights,
while the frigate and brig an5wered the signals
from the sloopof-war by also sending up rock-
ets.

But no one seemed to know just what the
trouble was, or where to look for the cause of
the firing.

The Wind was increasing to a gale, and blow-
ing as cold as Greenland, with the spray- blown
from the wave-crests stinging like a knife-cut
where it struck the faces of those exposed, and
freezing on the decks as it fell.

Muflled up completely, yet Pearl and Ethel
could realize how bitter was the night.

As for Jack Ross, he seemed not to heed the
cold, and bad cast aside his storm—coat, appear-
in in his stout jacket, and with tarpaulin

u led down over his eyes, rested his gloved

and upon the tiller, while, crouchin low, he
kept his eyes fastened upon the course at end.

CHAPTER XVII.
THROUGH FIRE AND TEMPEST.

FINDING that he could not pass to windward
of Apple Island, Jack Ross lost no time in try-
ing to do so, but put about on the starboard
iack and pointed for the sea shore of Governor’s

slaud.

“Ahoy at the helm!” came from Nick Nor-
cross.

“ Ay ay, sir.”

“ A guard-boat putting out from Governor‘s.”

“ I see her now; but do you locate the Bay
Guard schooner?”

“ No, sir.”

“ I seen a light coming eastward of Spectacle,
air, and moving.

“ They has doused the’r glim now, but it must
ha’ been ther schooner a-comin’ up to j’ine in
ther fireworks,” said the old skipper.

“ Donbtless,” and Jack Ross showed no sign
of knowing that it it proved to be the schooner,
she could head him off from rounding Deer
Island, and with her light draught follow him
across to Nahant.

But Pearl realized it, and said:

“If the schooner is coming in, and off Specta-
cle Island, she can head us off, sir, can she not?”

“ It is about the worst place she could be for
us, and I did hope she was somewhere in Nan-
tasket Road; but the bad weather has driven
her in for a better anchorage, I guess.”

“ If it should prove to be the schooner, what
is to be done?” asked Ethel Stanwood, calmly,
thou h her heart throbbed violently with dread.

“ e will wait and sea, miss; but just now
I’ve got that uard-boat upon my hands.”

This seem a hint for silence, and the maidens
took it, while the shallc flow on her way, send‘
ing the spray flying hig from her sharp, high
bows, where, unmindfnl ot' the cold and drench-
ing they received, the skipper and Nick N orcross
were crouching down on the watch.

‘ “ You see how ther guard-boat heads, cap’n?”
called back’the skipper.

 

“ . y.

“ Ybu is standin’ in almighty close toward the
east landin’,” came’the skipper’s warning from
forward a moment af ter,

“That is my intention,” was the only answer
vouchsai’cd by the young sailor, who had now
become the stern, skillful commander.

A moment after, just as the guard-boat slight-
ly changed her course, all on the shallop were
startled by Jack Ross’s loud hail:

“Ho, the ard-boat, ahoyl”

“ Ay ay, Sirz”

“ Have you just left the island?”

 

“ Ay ay, sir.”

“ is Lord Howe there, can you tell me?"

“ No, he is on board the frigate, British King
to-nigbt.”

“ Thank you, sir, she lies north of Spectacle
Island, I believe?” '

“ Siie dO‘s; but what craft is that?”

“ The shallop Rescue, just impressed to send
down after Lord Howe. Is that you, Trigg? I.
am Lieutenant Caldwell, of the Sea Shadower.”

“ Ay ay, Caldwell; but what the devil is the.
row in the harbor?”

“ Washington is moving upon the town,” and
the shallop was beyond the distance to say more.
Just then Skipper Welby came aft, and said:

“ Cap’n, yonder do be ther schooner, and she
have got us; but 1 don’t feel no more uneasy, for
he as holds thcr helm what kin lie as you kin,
thar hain’t no danger but that he c’u’d scoot
past Saint Peter at ther heavenly gates with
Cap’n Kyd ther Pirit in tow.

“ Cap’n, I are proud 0’ yer, and Zeke Welby'
from Kennebcc never goes back on his word.

“ Thar be ther schooner, jist six p’ints off yer
lee how,” and Skipper Zeke Welby returned to
his post.

The merry laugh at his words from Jack Ross.
was contagious, and the two girls joined in,
while Pearl laid slyly:

“As Skipper Zeke Welby of Kennebec says,
you seem to have a story for every new-comer,
Captain Jack Ross.”

‘ You certainly fooled Captain Trigg, whom I
once knew,” Ethel added.

“ Well, we have now got to fool Captain San--
ford, of the Bay Guard schooner Ocean Out»
post, and that will not be so easy— Ho, for-
ward l”

“ AY! 8?, Sir'”

“ Set her flying jib and topsail.”

“ Will she stand it, Jacki"

" She must, Nick.’

“She’ll stand anything, this hour craft will,
by gosh, and you bet the skipper at that tiller
knows,” said Zeke \Velh in commingled ad-
miration for his late WW: and the young sailor.

“ He plans ahead, and he already has some
bold plot formed,” whispered Pearl to Ethel.

“ I have erfect confidence in him, and I be-
lieve the sc ooner is all we have to fear now,”
Ethel said. .

Hardly had she spoken when from the sloop—
of war up the harbor went up rockets in rapid
succession, green, blue, white, red, until two-
score or more had gone up.

“ Ah! I can read your signals, Sir Britisher,
and it tells us that we are passing between
Apple and Governor’s Island, and heading sea-
ward between Deer Island and Nick’s Mate.

“ See, the brig answers, also the frigate—yes,
and there goes the response from the schooner
that she is between Deer Island and Spectacle,
to head us off.”

All on the shallop had seen the various rocket
signals., and the maidens, as the schooner Ocean
Outpost, showed her exact position, felt like all
hope was gone.

“ We are in a box, skiquiper, but Jack knows
what he is about,” said ick Norcross to Zeke
Welby who answered:

“ If he don’t, then may I never see old Kenne-
bec’s blue waters again—your mate are a won-r
der as a liar and a sailor, two mighty good var—
tues when they is needed.”

The course that the shullop was now on was
directly toward the little schooner-of—war.

The latter was north by cost of Spectacle
Island, about a mile and a half from the lower
end of Deer Island, which Jack Ross had hoped
to round, and thus make to sea.

The shallop was due north of Spectacle Island,
running on a course directly for the schooner,
from which she was a mile distant.

Not a light was visible n n the shallop,
while the schooner’s light coul be seen.

Still Jack Ross , felt that he could not hope
that he was not discovered by the guard cruiser.

If there was any doubt about this, it was at
once dispelled b the sudden burning of blue
lights upon the nails, which illumined the bay
with a weird glare, and ere its light died away,
others on the guard-boat they had cased last,
upon the frigate British King, upon 1: e schooner
and again upon Castle Island, made the bay as
bri ht as day for a moment.

here was the shallop, plainly seen now, and '

under full sail rushing on a course that showed
she meant to try and dash by the schooner out;
to sea.

The light revealed the fine face of the yonn
helmsman, calm as a May morn, fearlesb an
determined, and the eyes of Pearl and Ethel
were fastened upon it for some trace of fear, or
anxiet .

The look they saw there gave them hope; but,
hope died away when they realized that the
schooner was directly in their course and cauld
never be passed.

At least it so seemed to them.

The skipper and Nick forward had devoted
their eyes to taking in the whole situation during
the burning of the blue lights. .

The result of this was the hail from Nick Nor-

ross:
“Ahoy, the helm!”
“ A7. 8!, Nick.” and the voice was mumed»

C

 

O

 

 

l

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1" ~ sad-‘3 A f

.fllra"

a}.

 

 

 

 

 

The Shadow Silver Ship. 11

_.

 

“ There is a guard-boat lying close in toward
Deer Island Point, and she’s one of the large,
rough-weather crafts.”

“ I saw her, Nick.”

“ And there’s another near the schooner, cap—
ting, with a second to her port bow and a few
cable-lengths away, and they are heading so
as ter cut yer of! fer seaward, while ther frigate
«loos as much for yer on t’other side, with three
guard-boats a-comiu’ down on yer astarn.”

" I got a glimpse of our surroundings, skip-
pet, and they are not cheering—oh! there comes
a gun from the Castle!”

A: Jack Ross spoke there came a bright flash
from the Castle fort and a shot went over the
shallo .

A ingment after the large,sea-going guard-boat
ofi‘ Deer Island Point fired a twelvepound shot
from its bow howitzer, and Captain Trigg, who
had now realized how cleverly he had been de-
ceived in the shallop, sent a. six-pound shot frOm
his bows, for his guard—boat had turned and was
in chase. .

To show that she meant to be formidable the
schooner opened fire as a demand for the shallop
to come to, and following the roar of her long
eighteen came the deep boom of a heavy gun
from the frigate at anchor to the southwest of
Castle island and a mile and a half away.

“ Bark away, bulldogs and pups, but you
have not caught us yet,” cried Jack Ross, and
then he continued rapidly:

“You should be below, ladies, but then the
danger would hardly be lessened unless we were
in reach of small-arms.” .

" No, we will remain on deck,” said Pearl.

“ By all means, for we will not have you risk
danger we shrink from,” Ethel rejoined.

“ ou’re plucky; but if I had no ladies on
board I’d make that schooner believe I intended
to come to astern, and before she could get
around in chase we would be half a mile away
and it would take crack shooting to hit us
then.”

“ But you will not do this with us on board?”

“ No, miss, I will not let you take chances on
a shot I can avoid.”

“ You surely do not intend to surrender,
Captain Ross?“ cried Pearl.

“ Not I miss! but with those craft astern,
and the schooner and her guard-boat cuttin us
off from rounding the point of Deer Island, ’ve
got to try another plan.”

“ Heaven help us! I can see no other.”

“ Nor I,” said Ethel.

“ I think I do,” was the cool remark of the
young sailor, and he called I to the old skipper
and Nick to lower the topsoil and flying-jib and
soon after they had done so the storm of wind
broke furiously upon them.

 

CHAPTER XVIII.
'mn summer’s FLIGHT.

Born Ethel Stanwood and Pearl had now be-
gun, in fully realize how desperate the under-
taking they bud ventured upon was becoming.

'Tl-e storm was certainly 11 their favor, with
the cold also, but it was a. terrible nighttobe
aid-call even in a large vessel, and the cree mg
of the guard-boats out from under the lee o the
islands, and the coming in of the schooner for a
safer anchorage, showed that their commanders
fully understood how terrible their expen-
ence was to he did they remain exposed to the
cold and the tempest.

Only the see-going guard-boats. were now
abroad, and these Would have been in a place of
refuge but for the alarm caused by the shallop’s
bold run out. , _

If taken, Pearl began to feel how terrible it
would be for her father, who would at once he
looked upon with suspicion, while she would be
regarded as a. spy, il‘r“? being Americans, and
Ethel, as the sister of Noel Stanwood, would be
made to suffer, she was sure.

In view of this fact she spoke to Jack Ross
about it, with an explanation of the dangers.

“ I felt that you did not really know the great
risk, miss“, but I thought of it all beforehand,
and I am not uneasy, now, as to the result.”

“330 you mean that you can escape!”

“It’s just what I intend to do, ladies, so trust
Jack Boss to do it.”
frlfézgsmave perfect confidence in you, my good

Jack bowed and turned to the ski r and
Nick who now made their way aft. ppe

He had shortened sail in time, and he could
not but feel that the shallop had then all she
could stand, With mainsail and jib, and more
than many another much larger craft would
have carried; but she must bear it, be well
knew. .

“ Skip ,r, have you ever been through Shir-
ley Gut

“Ba , lad, do you mean it!" excitedly said
the ol skipper.

“ I do mean just that. Do you know the
G

ut.”
“ I’ve been through in boats smaller than this
craft.”

“ You told me she draws three feet three,
when in ballast!”
“ To the inch, lad.”
“ With this tide at the shallowest part of the

; channel through the Gut, on the bar, there is
| four feet.”

“ Nine inches to spare, lad, under her keel.”

“ We’ll make it, so ease ofl.’ sheets as I’ll head

her for the pass.”
. “ You knOW best, captain,” and old Zeke
! Walby and Nick stood by the sheet-ropes and
the shallop’s course was suddenly changed, and
she went driving away directly for the channel
known as Shirley Gut, and which was between
Point Shirley and the head of Deer Island.

“Stind by to lower her eak, Nick, when I
need it, and you, Skipper eke, keep forward
and watch the approach, for I want all your aid
now.

“ You’ll git it and welcome, capting; but what
about that prisoner forward, for he are a’ most
skeert ter death, and hill” friz with the cold.”

“ Lady! I had forgotten we had a passenger.”

“ A passenger?” cried Ethel and Pearl together.

“Yes; it is Mahone, your butler, Miss
Revere.”

“ Mahonel and here 3’” -

“Oh, I was sure you did not know he was not
at home on duty; but, I found him sp ing be-
hind a rock where I landed, so I just rou ht
him aboard and told Nick to gag and bind him,
and I had forgotten him, but will have them
bundle him into the cabin now, or he’ll freeze”

“ Ho intended to play the spy u n us.”

“ He did play it, miss—no, ick, you and
skipper Zeke bring that Irish gentleman aft and
bundle him into the cabin."

They (.irngged aft with great difficulty Ma—
hone with fright and cold, not to speak of sea-
sickness, for the shallop was plunging and heel-
ing terribly under her tremendous pressure of
canvas.

“ Take the gag out of his mouth, Nick, and
throw something over him to keep him warm——
there now stand by the. peak halyard.”

Neither Pearl nor Ethel uttered a word in
their amazement, and now turned their atten-
tion wholly to the daring young helmsman.

The change in the course of the shallop had
not been noticed for some little time from the
guard-boats or schooner, and then the increas-
ing fury of the storm had caused them to look
to their own safety.

But when at last, it was seen that the shallop
was making for Shirley Gut, she was given up
for lost, for the sail she carried caused her to
look like a vessel double her tonnage and to 0
through such a channel was set down as utter y
impossible.

So they all, the schooner and three guard-
boats, headed for Shirley Gut to be under lee of
Deer Island and send boats in to take off who-
ever happened to be upon the wreck, for it was
a foregone Conclusion that the shallop was rush-
ing to her destruction, or rather hard aground
in the Gut.

But the schooner and the in guard—boat,
the one coming up from Deer Is and Point, open-
ed flre hotly, and the Castle, a ain gettin the
range of the shallop, also sent er shots ying
fast and furious after the flying fugitive craft.

“ It will be accident if we are hit,” answered
Jack Ross coolly, and as he spoke a shot passed
through the mainsail.

“ I told you so, and they cannot do it again,”
he added quickly; and his words were verified,
as the shallo was untouched, though a few iron'
messengers ell ver near her.

“ Am I aiming right, skipper?”

“ You be, straight as a arrer, lad, and if er
keel don’t interfere with ther bottom, we’l go
through slick,” was the reply.

“ The water is shoaling fast. Lower away
the peak, Nick, for she’s hard to manage now
with so little water under her.”

“ Ay, ay, sir; lowered it is!” came in Nick’s
professional sailor tones, and the result was at
once marked in the sailing of the shallo , which
no longer bent so.to the fierce wind, an held a
more evon course.

“ Skipper, you and Nick do all you can to
single reef her while we are in the as, for we
won’t dare carry so much sail outsi e.”

“ Ay, ay, capting, Jist as you says, but this
here craft can’t be downed by no canvas yer kin
set on her spars.”

“ I am glad to know this: but see! we are in
smoother water. under the lee of Deer Island,
and once through the Gut we can lay our course
straight for Lynn Harbor.”

"Yus, lad, once we 91! through we kin,” and

Captain Zeke’s words implied a grave doubt that
the shallop would ever “ git through,” as he ex-
pressed it. .
“ hould we fail, ladies, let me tell you that
the boat belonging to the shallop, and now on
deck, is a life—skit, and has a stump most and
leg-of-mutton sail.

‘ In it we can continue the run on to Lynn,
though of course the voyage will be avery nasty
one, cold and wet for you.”

‘;But we will not mind it if the boat will carry

us.

“ It will carry a dozen, Miss Revere, and we
are not half that number.”

"Yes, with Mahone.”

.“ Ah, yes, I had forgotten him; but we’ll take
him alon , too, and make him a present to Gen-
eral Was in ton, as a specimen of a wild Irish-
man,” and ack’s light laugh showed that he

 

l
l
|

 

 

was not imbued with the slightest idea of fail-
ure.

The firing of the Castle new ceased, but the
sea~guard boat and schooner still kept it up,
though with no more damage to the shallop.

Skipper Zeke Welby and Nick Norcross had
been reefing the mainsuil as best they could,
and then a call from Jack Ross told them that
the moment of greatest danger had come.

“ Throw the lead, Nick.”

“ Ay, ay, sir.”

“ Skipper, keep your eyes ahead.”

“ I’ll do it, sir, but in this darkness I can’t see
nothin'.”

“ I will feel my way through then— What is
it, Nick?”

“ One fathom I” sung out Nick Norcross.

By swerving from his course a few points
both to seaward and windward, and markin
the calls of Nick Norcross with the lead, Jac
Ross got his idea. of just where the channel was
and it was shown by the sailing of the shallop.

“ Quarter less six,” sung out the leadsman.

(6 Ay' ay.”

“ Five feet!”

“All right, sir.”

“ Quarter less five!”

“ I hearl”

“ Half less five.”

“ Ay, ay, sir.”

“Four eet I ” and Nick’s voice raised almost
to excitement.

“ I know it, sir,” came the cool response, and
the skipper muttered to Nick:

“Mate, thet lad are cooler than this freezin’
night he.”

“ Four feet 1”

(t  !”

“ apart” less six,” almost shrieked Nick.

“ e are over,” and, as he uttered the word
a shot from the schooner tore along the decks o
the shallop, followed by a yell of terror from
Mahone.

 

CHAPTER XIX.
AN ALLY IN EARNEST.

“ ANYBODY hit?” called out Jack Ross, and
for the first time his voice showed anxiety.

“ Oh yis, suri I’m kilt intoirely, ' cried
Mahone. 1

“ Nick, you’ll have to gag that follow again,
for he is reviving.”

“ But, may he not have been wounded, sir!”

“ N 0, Miss Revere for the shot out along the
deck. I feared that ick or Skipper Zeke might
be; ,but Irish is all right, far safer than you
Irv.

“ And there is no more danger of capture?”

“Not a bit, for I will lufi'.‘ now and roof, and
then we can go flying for L rm, and be at
anchor long before dawn so i you wish to
into the cabin I’ll put Irish forward in t e
steerage.”

“ No, we preferto remain on deck; but will not
the schooner follow us

“ She draws five feet and a half, so will have
to go around Deer Island and that will give us
over a league start.”

“ And the guard-boats!”

“ Not one of them will dare venture through
the pass into this see.”

The sails were new single reefed and the shal-
lop shot out into what was certainly a very
rough sea.

But she proved herself a splendid sea boat and
wept plunging along through the waves in fine
sty e.

The fire in the little cook stove in the caboose
was now lighted by the old skipper and a cup of
hot coffee and a sandwich given to the two girls,
who ate with a relish.

Jack Ross also ate heartily, while the skipper,
Zeke, took the tiller, and when the {pung sailor
went forward for a talk with Nick orcross, he
said:

“ Leddies, does yer know thet lad are ther
beartenest one I ever seen i” t

“ How so, Skipper Welby?” asked Pearl.

“ Waal, jist look at ther run he made this
night.”

“ It was wonderful, sir.”

“ It were a miracle miss.”

“ And [have heard that you made a daring
run into port in your vessel also, skipper?”

“ It were jist a little boasting, miss, for show
ther Britishers they couldn’t catch a live Yankee
ef he were old and jaded.

“ Yer see, I had no reason ter run for it, as I
only had things ter eat aboard ter‘sell ’em, and
folks said I hadn’t oughter take provender fer
ther inemy.

“ But yer see I did thet fer git in, for I had a
purpose in goin’ thar, though Lord love yer when
I got in I Ijist Seen ther thing couldn’t be did.”

‘ May ask what it was?"

“ Waal. miss, seein’ as you is Amerikins, and
I is out 0’ Boating, I don’t mind telling yer that
a friend 0’ mine are thar in jail.

“I sailed with his pa years a , and he were
my best friend and give me a in life, and
the son, who were a lad then, jumped over-
board one day, when I fell from the yard-arm
and aged me from sinking, for I was buried by
m .

xSoarthetssmeladare in prison, Ijist run



 

 

’12

 

The Shadow Silver Ship.

 

in ter see what I c’u’d do ter git him out, don’t
you see?”

“ May I ask his name?”

“Noel Stanwood, miss.”

“ I am his sister, sir, and this very night have
we left Boston in this shallop to try and save my
poor brother.

“ How strange, sir, that we should thus
meet,” said Ethel, holding out her hand, and as
Jack Ross now came aft they all talked over the
strange coincidence of being upon the very same
service which had brought the old skipper in
reality to Boston.

The old skipper seemed more than delighted at
the chance of meeting Noel Sianwood’s sister.
and then, after hearing of the intention of the
maidens, to visit General Washington and get
him to dispatch vessels to capture the brig-of-
war Sea Shadower, he remarked:

“ I guess as how the general kin do it, and
will; but has yer decided, ladies, how yer is ter
git back inter osting, for not for a thousand in
Continental money would 1 have yer run ther
same course in ag’in, though the lad here could
do it, oh he could do it, after what I see him do
to—night.”

The idea of returning had not been taken into
consideration by Pearl or Ethel.

To get to VVashington’s quarters was their
gesifie, and after that they could see to getting

ac .

Then they re retted that they had not brought
the pass of Mr. svere, and chan ed it as Pearl
had suggested. for they could easi y have passed
back into the British lines with it.

In silence they looked at their brave young
preserver, wondering what he thought of the re-
turn as they came, for it seemed, with this
object accomplished, they would not have the

courage to run such a gantlet again, though,
like Skipper Zeke Welby, after what the had
seen they did not doubt but Jack Ross wou d get
them home in safety.

“I thought of the going back, miss, and my
idea was that you better take some coaster in,
going in a disguise I could rig up for you.”

“ Lad, you talk eddicated, for that’s the idee
exactly. Now when I run in with green stores
and fresh meats for the Britishers in Boating,
they thought it were ter make an honest penn ;
but, as I told you, I had a big aim in view, on y
it did not pay out as I wanted.

“The Britishers Wanted me to go ag’in and
get a cargo, but feedin’ them was not my legiti-
mate business, so I was glad to sell out the
shallop; while now I know what it were
wanted for, I jist begs to return the money.”

“ Not a dollar of it, Skip er Zeke for neither

. of us will hear to that,” sai Pearl, decidedly.

“ Waal, m’am, I’ll tell you my plan, and it
are founded on ther lad‘s idee here of dis-
guises.

“While you is in the patriot camp I kin run
to a place I know and git a cargo of chickens,
mutton, beef, pork and vegetables, for some
poor patriots needs money, and the Britishers

as get it. I

“ Then we kin start back, and you leddies and
the lads kin go in disguises, while I goes as cap-
ting when we sight Bosting.

“I’ll make no secret of it, but run to ther
fri ate and tell ’em I has fresh feeding for ’em,
an so on up to the town.”

“But they may know that the shallop is the
same that gave them such a chase to-night,”
suggested Nick Norcross. ,

‘ So be it if they does, and I’ll jist tell ’em it
are m way, as I wants tor keep the’r guns from
gittin rusty, and ther sailors from goin’ tor
sleep on watch.

“ Oh, we’ll pass we will: and if we should be
held, why t e leddies knows some big gun
amen ther Britishers they kin send for and go
in wit out making ther leetle v’iage public, don’t
you see?”

“ You are a good plotter, Skipper Zeke, and

our plan will work like a charm," said Jack

“Yes. and should the shallop be held, there is
one British omcer we can send for who can
save us trouble, for I would not hesitate to tell
him the truth, as he would never betray us,”
Pearl said.

“The skipper might. when hailed going in.
state that 0 had a car 0 of fresh provisions
for the hrig-of-war Sea hadowor,” suggested
Ethel, knowing that Pearl referred to Lord
Erskine Enders as the one who would protect
them.

“ That he the craft that is fittin out to hunt
gar a ship's ghost, be’ant it?” as ed Skipper

eke.

“Yes, she is to sail in search of the Silver
Ship, or its ghost, if so you wish to call it,
Ski r Welbg.”

“ aal, led ion and lads, I has sailed the blue
waters many a year, but I never want! tor run
across that craft again." i

“ Again!” said all in chorus.

“ Them is my words.”

“ You have seen the Specter Silver Ship
than!" Pearl asked, with real interest.

" Yes, miss, and from the deck 0’ this very
shallop. ‘

“ It were the night before I run inter Boating
Bay, and we was sailing slowly along when

 

:urldenly we seen astern of us a large white
rug.

“ We was all skeert I kin tell you, but thar
she come, and fast as yer knows this shallop to
be, that white craft glided right by us.

“She wasn’t nigh a quarter of a mile away
and the night was starlight, the sea smooth and
a six-knot breeze going.

“But she were making all of ten, and I seizes
my trumpet and hails her.

“ But no answering hail came and I had not
the grit to do it ug in for it did seem ter me
like callin’ on dead folks ter speak to me.

“ So the shadow brig jist sailed on and went
out o’ sight in a fog-bank some half-hour after,
and I never wants ter see her ag’in—

“Sail, hol Look tharl" and as old Skip er
Zeke uttered the words he pointed towar a
vessel that had hove in sight sceminglylikea
cloud from out the sea.

And the vessel looked strangely like the ghost
of a brig, for it seemed hardly to be real.

CHAPTER XX.
A SPECTER OF THE SEA.

Tm: shallop had been holdin upon her course,
ointed for Bass Pouit, cross mg the open sea
etween Deer Island and Nahant, a run of some

five miles where she felt the full force of wind
and wave from the ocean.

It was the object of Jack Boss to get the
shallop out of the rough waters and fierce winds
as soon as possibly by running for Bass Point on
N ahant, and thus keeping close inshore to be un-
der the lee of that remarkable peninsula which
forms the sea wall, or arm, of Lynn Harbor.

The shallop was behaving well, but the cold
was intense, the decks slippery with ice, and
forward the bows of the craft were getting
hfimvy from the spray freezing as it burst upon
t em.

The gale was from the eastward, by a point
north, so Nahant would be a fine lee once the
shallop got under its shelter, and, as near as he
could guess in the darkness, Jack Ross was
heading for Bass Point, with the hope of hitting
in between there and Black Rock, at least.

So interested had all become in discovering in
Skip r Zeke Welby an earnest ally in the rescue
of oel Stanwood, that not one of the three
men had been on the lookout, as they otherwise
would have been.

And a ain the piercing cold had made them
all crouc close down in the roomy cockpit of
the shallop, While the young skipper had re-
sumed his heavy overcoat, and was taking it as
comfortable, after the gantlet he had so dar-
ingly run.

So it was that just as Skipper Zeke had fin-
ished telling of his meeting with the Shadow
Silver Ship, he had involuntarily cast his eyes
out over the waters to behold the very object of
his conversation.

Every eye was at once riveted upon the vessel
at which he inted, and Jack Ross instinctively
let the she] op fall of! several points, as though
to give her a wider berth. _

‘ It’s a brig, or a ghost of one,” said Nick
Norcross, in a suppressed voice.

“It’s the Shadow Silver Ship, for no other
craft is like that,” and the voice of the young
skipper had lost some of its ring, showing that
even he was deeply impressed with the si ht.

“ That’s ther craft, folks,” whisper Zeke,
and he added:

“ Speak out, if
thet bain’t no
Ship.”

“ That is certainly a weird, strange craft—e
brig " Pearl said.

u It’s a brig, miss, but the called the lost
treasure craft, which was br g-rigged, the Sil-
ver Ship, and so this shadow or specter is also
called so," explained Nick N orcross.

“ What do you make of it, Captain Rosa!”
asked Ethel. "

" That it is the strangest craft I ever set eyes
on, Miss Stanwood.”

“ Do they see us?" whispered Pearl.

The strange craft was as white as snow, hull,
spars and nails, and she was fairly surging along
with the gals over her port beam, carrying con-
siderable canvas for such a sea and wind.

She was to windward of the shallo , heading
so as to pass within a con la of cab es’ length,
and, but for the fact that oss had let his bowl
fall off several points, she would have been much
nearer.

She up rod to have run close inshore to Na-
hant w ch was now not a mile distant.

“I shall hail her,” suddenl declared Jack
Ross, and loud, clear and ringing was his voice
as he shouted:

“ Ahoy the brig! aho X”

Not a sound came n so, no creaking
block was heard, and the strange craft was now
dead abeam the shallop.

“ Ho, the Shadow Si ver Shi ahovl ah—o—yl
a—h—o—y l" and the voice of ack Ross, even in
the teeth of the gale, would have been heard
twice the distance

But no answer came from the weird brig to
the hall from the little shallop.

“Don’t hail again sir, pray do not,” urged
Pearl. awed bv the sight o the strange craft
and its flying by in such dreadsilenco.

 

er sees her, so as ter show
iar—for I sees the Shadow

 

“ Certainly not, miss.”

“It will do no use— See thatl”

As he spoke Skipper Zeke Welby pointed to
the shadow craft, which suddenly wore up into
the wind, and with her sails trimmed flat, with-
out a sound of an order, the creaking of a block
or fluttering of canvas, went dashing away di-
rectly out into the blackness of the tempest-
swept sea.

For some minutes not a word was spoken by
those upon the shallop, and then the silence
was broken by Jack Ross with:

“See! there rises Nahant, and you notice we
are running into quiet waters.’

His words were a relief, and all gazed eagerly
at the black outline which was now kn0wn to
be Nahant, and was each moment becoming
more and more alee to them.

Along sped the shallop. however. far enough
off-shore to get the pressure of the ale upon her
sails, though the sea no longer roke wildly
about her.

An hour after the two maidens, utterly worn
out. were seated before a large blazing fire in a
comfortable room of the Iaveru, eating a warm
supper, while Jack Ross had already “ turned
in” also in pleasant quarters—Skipper Zeke and
Nick Norcross having remained on board the
shallop, as the old skipper said:

“ To keep the Irish spy from ittin' lonesome.”

If there u as anything which ahone did wish
just at that time it was to be lonesome.

He had made up his mind, when he saw Jack
Ross visit the Revere mansion. that some mis-
chief was up, and if he could discover a secret
upon his young mistress, he would make her pay,
a round sum for him to keep it, and get more
from Ethel, and the sailor, too.

So he had determined to play the spy, after he
had been caught with his ear at the keyhole, for
he was sure that it meant his discharge to be
thus surprised.

Then he thought he might make a discovery,
which his master, Prince Paul Revere, would be
glad to know and pay for.

So it was that Mahone had started upon a spy.
ing expedition with no thought of taking a voy-
age, and the upshot of which voyage he had no
means of even guessing, for he stood in holy awe
of the young sailor.

“ Keep him; Nick, until we return; and, Skip-
per Zeke, don t fail to meet us at the inlet near
the farmhouse you spoke of in Saugus River,
for it will save us much time.

“ We will leave the carriage to come on with-
out us while we await your coming there,” said
Jack Ross as he left the shallop, to accompany
Ethel and Pearl ashore to the tavern in the little
town, intending to make the ijourney to Wash-
ington’s headquarters by Vehic e. ,

CHAPTER XXI.
TEE PATRIOT cnmr.

Ir was a long way around to go to the head»

guarters of the triot chief. who was not far

istant in a straig t line from the home of Pearl
Revere; but then, to get through the British
lines there had to be a reason for, and neither of
the maidens cared to have the English com mand-
ers know that they entered the lines of the
American Army.

For. Pearl to have done so would surely have
gotten her father, as an American, into serious
trouble; while, with her brother in prison, and
an avowed “ rebel,” Ethel and her mother would
have been the sufferers.

So it was that they took the b' chances of
running out by boat. at ni ht, an making a
gunk movement upon Wash ngton’s quarters via

ynn.

The two girls, after their terrible adventure
and hardships of the night, retiring as they did
shortly before dawn were glad to slee in their
darkened room until called. and this ack Ross
did not allow until a late hour.

He, meanwhile, had secured a vehicle to carry
them across country, and at noon aroused the
two daring maidens and stated all was ready
for their journey.

“And the aballop?" Pearl askedusho came
into the breakfast room where a substantial
meal was awaiting them.

“ She has gone off already after a cargo, from
the coast farms, misc.”

“ And Mahoue?”

“ Took the voyage in ther shallop.”

“But what can we do with the unfortunate

man?”

“ Well, Miss Revere, my mate Nick fright-
ened him into a confession that he meant to
know what you were about and force money
from you to keep the secret, and from Miss
Stanwood too."

“ How could he be so vile?” said Pearl indir
nant .

“ e was worse, for he meant to go to your
father and if not well paid. to threaten to tell
Lord Howe that he was actipg as a. spy, sending
his dispatches through on.

“ This seems incredib o.”

“ But is true. and 00 take him back to Boston
would just destroy all, so I will see that he me.
on an extended cruise.

“ You mean him no bodily harm!" quickly
asked Ethel.

“Oh no, miss; but [can give him a chance to

 

 

 

 

 

 

, i. -- r— . , - fwmsni._WQM-':"~i;'1'f.‘ -»-.- raw-.7.» _-. v v

The Shadow Silver Ship.

_ rhidwbnfiw...“ mo ._‘.-~.,..

13.

 

 

cruise in an American privateer which is bein
fitted out in an inlet near to go into Englis
waters and prey on the British merchantmen.”

“Very well, that will not be so had and he
deserves really severe punishment,” said Pearl,
and half an hour after, entering the carriage
in the rear yard of the tavern, to attract no at-
tention, the three were driven away upon their
we to the patriot camps.

like driver was told to take the stage-road
from Salem to Boston as far as Powder House
Hill, where they would branch of! from the
turnpike and see the banks of the Mystic River
above, where they had been told by the land-
lord of the tavern they would find a ferryman
who had a boat in which he could carry them up
to where a farmer dwelt on the Somerville shore
of the river, and from thence they could make
their way again by vehicle to the quarters of
Washington, then near Cambridge.

The river was reached, and the ferryman
soon had his boat read , the driver of the
vehicle being told to remain there until their re-
turn.

As it was sunset when they reached the farm-
house on the other shore of the Mystic River,
the three adventurers decided to remain there
until the following morning, when the farmer

romised to drive them on to Washington’s

eadquarters.
> They were now where the ragged uniforms of
the Continental soldiers were seen instead of the
flashing costumes of the British, and though
halted a score of times on the road, and by
boats on the river, Jack Ross always received
word to continue on his way, when he made the

e rt:
‘ Two ladies to visit General Washington
upon matters of importance.”

The next morning the farmer, who had been
given a note from his friend the landlord of the
tavern at Lynn, and a promise of generous pay
from Ross, had his wagon ready and started
upon the way to the army camp.

As he made a weekly trip with provisions he
knew the road well, and in good time was halted
by the sentry at the headquarters camp, and
soon after the three invaders of the patriot lines
stood in the presence of the great chief who is
now, a century after, known as the “ Father of
His Country.”

Jack Ross saluted profoundly, andvsaid:

“General Washington, I am but an humble
sailor, late in the Royal Navy, and serve only as
an escort to these two ladies, who in confidence
will tell you who they are and make known
their mission.”

“Is it not strange, sir, that a' British sailor

.should present himself here in the American
lines?” said General Washington somewhat
sternly.

“ I was a sailor, sir, as I wished you to under-
stand, in the king’s navy; but, I am an Ameri-
can, and when my vessel returned from a long
voyage a few weeks ago, I left the ship with an
honorable discharge, intending to seek service
in the American Navv.” ’

“ Ah! I am glad to hear of such determination,
sir; but let me new greet your companions,”
and the general walked over to where the two
maidens stood awaiting his pleasure.

His kindly greeting embo dened Pearl Revere
to at once give her name and that of her fair
companion.

“ Your name is well known to me, Miss Re-
vere; and I now recall having met you and your
father a year ago. I am glad to meet you again,
and you also, Miss Stanwood. May I ask if

on are a relative of the young American sailor,
col Stanwood, whom a British military court
has lately punished so severely, inispite of his
valuable services, simply because he had the
courage of his convictions to declare himself a
patriot!” .
“I am the sister of Noel Stanwood, General
bfiyou to save him
b no idea that you

chshin-“ton, and it is to
that we ave come; but I
knew of him?” .

“ Oh, yes; Captain Stanwood is too gallant a
man for his light to be hid under a bushel, and
we go. news from our enemies in n in a
roundabout way.” .

“ And my father, General Washington, you
must also know, is in sympath _w1th the British
rule, thou h an American, w do I am as 0,“.
rulers cal us, a Rebel heart and soul,” said

' rl. '
Peg Yes, Miss Revere, Iwas pained to know that
your father had cast his lot With the foes or his
native land; but if he Went as his convictions
dictated none can blame him; but now tell me
how it is that you expect me a patriot commsn.
der, to save a prisoner un er sentence of the
British and in their wer,” and General Wash-
ington smiled, but 11 (led, quickly:

‘First tell me, please, when you left Boston,
and how did you reach our lines? "

Pearl Revere then told the story, from the
waiting for Jack Ross up to their arrival at
General Washington’s headquarters. ’ .

Several times when, fearing she was tiring the
chief she ssid that she would avoid certain de-
tail. the general said: ”

“ No, no; I must know all.

And so be heard of even the attack of the dog
upon Jack Bess, Mahone’s conduct and capture

1291’?  mm. .s '

Zeke’s shallop.
“ And so you were the cause of all that firing =
night before last, were you, young ladies? [
“ You are indeed heroines, and I know not
what to say in praise of your splendid pluck and
the ne: ve and skill of our sailor friend here, Mr.
Ross.

“ You may be sure, Mr. Ross, that you will
not be forgotten.”

“It is my desire, General Washington, to let
my country hear of me if I can only get on board
of an American vessel-of-war, sir.”

“ I will see thagegou do, if you return here
after having escor your fair charges back to
their homes.”

 Oh, sir, I thank you,” said the delighted
am or.

Then General Washington called for a staff
officer to enter the room, and gave him certain
instructions to attend to.

In half an hour the officer returned and made
his report, and General Washington said:

“ I am lad to report that there are three
vessels available for the service of seeking to
capture the brig, and word shall be sent to their
respective commanders at once to prepare for
seu,so, Mr. Ross, pray give me the exact tonnage,
armament and crew of the Sea. Shadowerf”

This the young sailor did, and added:

“ Pardon me, General Washington, but if not
considered obtrusive, I would 11 'e to make a
suggestion, sir.”

“ Certainly, Mr. Ross, I wish all the infor-
mation, suggestions and advice I can get," said
the chief with a smile.

‘_‘ 1 wish to say, sir, that having sailed in the
brig, when she was the Shark, that 1 know her
to be a Very fleet craft, and she will be faster
now, as her topiiiasts have been lengthened, and
new and longer spars have been given her, so
that to capture her two vessels should be Well
apart and far out at sea in her course, and a
third astern of her so as to catch her in a
triangle between them, for she will be no easy
craft to take.”

“ Your suggestion, Mr. Ross, is a good one,
and I shall see that it is made to the command-
ers of the respective vessels, for we have not
only to rescue Captain Stanwood; but capture
so fine a craft as you state the Sea Shadower to
be.

After some further conversation, General
Washington was so convinced that the Sea
Shadower would be a hard vessel to capture,
that he decided to send another courier at once
to New York, where an American vessel-of-
war, once a fleet clipper ship, was almost ready
for sea, and have her also lie in wait for the
British brig.

. Then, armed with a pass from General Wash-
ington, to give them safe and speedy permit
through the American lines, the trio started
upon their return, the general saying earnestly:

“ Remember, Mr. Ross, you must use Strategy
in getting again into Boston with your charges,
for no second time could you pass through in
safety the gantlet you did in coming out.

“ Permit me also to add that when you need
an officer’s berth u u an American vessel, you
have my full permission to refer to me.

The face of the young sailor flushed with
pride, and then they departed, delighted with
their visit to the great chief, and with hope that
the Sea Shadower would be taken ere she reach-
ed England with her prisoner.

 

CHAPTERXXII.
nomnwann BOUND.

THE morning after leaving the Continental
Headquarters, the vehicle secured from the
tavern landlord, drew up ata comfortable farm-
house upon the Saugus River, and some miles
from where the stream emptied into Lynn Har-

her.

It was to this place Skipper Zeke had directed
Jack R088 to go, and they were warmly wel-
comed by the farmer who after the vehicle had
driven on its way back to the tavern, told the
visitors that the skipper of the shallop was then
getting his stores on board so as to be ready to
sail during the ni ht. the shallop then being in
hiding a couple 0 miles away in an inlet.

After a good supper at the farm-house, the
party entered a boat and were rowed by the far-
:iaer to the hidilng-pliace 23 tgie iskbaglopéghere

ey were warm we com ac
Zeke and Nick Nth-cross. y pper

The maidens at once went into the cabin of the
shallop, for they were very tired after their hard
gaunt, while Jack set to work to help get ready

or sea.

He saw a large vessel anchored near, and Skip-
per Zeke told him that it was acraf t being fitted
ou‘t‘ secretly as a privateer, and added:

They is waiting for her crew to arrive, lad,
but I have shipped one man on board, though
he_won’t do no work until she gits out to sea,
bein’ as he is ter be kept in irons.”

“ You mean Irish!”

“ Yas, lad that is the crittur I means. and he
ought ter thank me, fer of course lie'l git his
grub and pay, and prise-money, too, if the

 

 

schooner capters prizes, and maybe if she’s ca -
tered by the Britishers he may git hung, fgr

pirits.

“ Yes, but they will not dare to do that, Skip-r
per Zeke; but how is she of! for officers!”

“ Maybe you c’u’d git a berth if yer comeback
arter the rim into Bosting.”

“ It’s a chance I’ll bear in mind, ski per, if
you’ll introduce me to the captain, and I’ rather
go as a foremast hand than not get to sea soon,
for our country needs all the aid we can give her
new.”

“ She does, lad, and we’ll go over and see Ca
ting Dale, fer his name be Dan Dale, and I’ll to
you confidential like I has a interest in the
schooner, so my word goes for something.

“rBut you seen Washington, the gals tells
me.

“ Yes, and he was most kind to me.”

“ Waal, waali I’d give much to see him; but
let me tell you right now that I want to give
back the money you paid me for the shallop,
for she’s no good to the leddies arter we return,
and I now know how I kin git out, by pretendin’
tor run arter green food for ’em, don’t yer see?

“ Come, I will hev it so, and I be no man to
fool, and I jist sw0w I won’t tech a dollar for
what I has done for Capting Noel, so here’s the
money and the shallop’s mine.”

“Keep it to see if we get in all right, for if
taken you must not lose the craft.”

“No, I’ll take no risk, and sobere is the cash.”

Argument was useless, so Jack Ross had to
take back the money and then the old skipper
told him of the disguises he had for the whole
party except himself to return in the shallop.

“ Ohi they’ll fit, and don’t {Sn forgit it, lad,
fer they is a lot 0’ things as longed to some
play actors that got wrecked on Nahant and
Farmer Lewis, with whom yer took supper bed
’em stowed away, as I know d, and got ’em from
him to-day.

“ But we’ll go now and See Capting Dale, for
we has ne’er about got the cargo aboard, and I
kin tell yer it will fetch big money, so the gals
needn’t feel bad fer fear I may lose suthing.”

The visit to the privateer schooner was made
and Captiin Dale, 9. ty pical American sailor,
fearless and determined, said he would be only
too glad to have Jack Ross as Second officer, for
Skipper Zeke had told him of the run out of
Boston Harbor, and he added that he would
keep the berth open ten days for him.

“I’ll tell you, captain, if I can I’ll be back
sooner, but try and get to sea before that time,
say in six days, for the brig of war Sea Shadow-
er sails for England in just ten days, and if you
could help capture her it would be a big thing
for the patriots.”

“ I’ll try my best, thank you forrthe sugges-
tion, Mr. Ross,” was the reply of Captain Dale,
and he made up his mind that he would try con-
clusions with the Sea Shad0wer, for he really
had a well—armed, swift and fine schooner to
take out under the flag of the new nation.

As the wind had switched around to the south-
east, making it a beat to Boston, and they knew
that the shallop would not arrive until morning,
Jack Ross and Skipper Zeke decided to remain
in the inlet all night and start the following
day, for it was their desire to run up the harbor
about twilight, or just before.

80 word was given to Pearl and Ethel to
turn in,” and make themselves comfortable for
the night, the three men occupying the steerage
and which was by no means unpleasant quar-
tors.

The next morning the shallop dropped down the
Saugus and entering the open waters headed for
Boston under a head wind blowing some seven

riots.

With time to spare, and sailing splendidly,
she rounded the group of islands at that time
knewn as The Graves, ran down into Nantasket
Roads, and with the wind over her port quar-
ter, boldly headed up the bay.

The coast-guard schooner Ocean Outpost was
descried far down toward Hingham Harbor, so
nothing was to be feared from her, and the
frigate British King had moved her position up
off the city, while the brig-of-warSea Shadower
had dro down the harbor and was anchored
north 0 pwtwcle Island.

She- was about ready to sail, but the sloop-of-
war having been sent to sea in chase of a v
sighted of! outer Brewster Island, and flying the
“ Gridiron Flag,” the Sea Shadower had taken
sentinel duty until her return, for the frigate
had no up to town to refit for a cruise to the

Caro nas.

Upon the deck, pacing to and fro, with the
air of one who was chief of all be surveyed, was
Lieutenant Caspar Caldwell, the officer who had
been so bitter against Noel Stanwood in his tas-
tiinony. '

A triumphant smile was upon his face, for the
day before, when ordered to drop down to the
brig’s present anchorage, the lieutenant, who
was the senior in rank, and after
kins’s resignation had. been in command, had
been taken serious ill with fever, so that Cas-
par Csldwell fou himself the Sea Shadowsr‘s
captain, to his great ov and pride.

There was no possi ility that his senior oflosr
would be able to sail in the brig, so the admiral
commanding the station had promoted him to a

senior lieutensncy, and told him that he should

" "rm .‘ '3: 

-._ 2:9:‘22‘31‘Z.  : a" ‘ 

I
and the terrible gantlot they had run in Skipper ' they threatens ter hang all Americans afloat al’?

‘1: *jrréafwé; .

 

  

 
 

714:

The Shadow Silver Ship. '

 

command the bri
Shadow Silver hip, but Lieutenant Bonair
had been ordered to the brig as his first officer,
.a circumstance which Caldwell did not exactly
like, but could not avoid.

Lord Erskine had sent all his baggage aboard,
and had taken up his quarters already in the
brig, as an honored passenger and dispatch
bearer to the king, and what pleased Caldwell
the more was the fact that Noel Stanwood had
also been sent in irons to the brig, and was then
below decks.

A certain rumor that the rescue of the pris-
oner from the jail might be attempted by the
American populace in the town, had decided
the commandant in placing him where he would
be safe from rescue.

“ Send Lieutenant Bonair to me, Mr. Ban-
croft,” he said after a long look through his
glass at a craft which was coming up the bay.

The gaunior lieutenant addressed obeyed and
when rainard Bonair came on deck, “ Cap-
tain ” Caldwell as be was now called by courtesy,
holding the rank he did, said: _ ,

“ Lieutenant Bonair ,you were on, the frigate
the other night when that Yankee shallop ran
out to sea!”

“ Yes, sir.”

“ There comes a shallop up the hay now, and
from the description I had given me of her by
Captain Trigg of the guard-boat, I think that
must be the infernal Yankee returning.”

Lieutenant Bonair took the glass and after a
short look through it said:

“ Yes, sir, it is the very craft, for you know
it was found out to have been the new shallop
which an old Yankee skipper ran in some weeks
ago with provisions, risking our fire just for
more bravado, though he said that he did not
hear our firing upon him and too near blind to
See.”

“ The accursed Yankees are full of tricks; but
I shall bring that fellow to.”

“ Certainly, air, and my word for it you will
find him loaded down with fresh provisions,
meat and vegetables, and just what we need to
stow the brig with.”

“Yes, I’ll take his provisions and put him in
irons for his running out the other night.

“ Have a gun cleared to bring him to.”

The order was obeyed and a moment after a.
shot was fired across the bows of the incoming-
shallop.

 

CHAPTER XXIII.
A FRIEND IN NEED.

THE shallop was some quarter of a mile away
when the gun was fired irom the brig, to bring
her to, and at once she changed her course,
which would have carried her some distance
away from the Sea Shadower.

The change brought 'her directly toward the
British vessel, and soon Captain Caldwell

oiled:

“ Ho the shallop.”

“ Ay, ay, capting."

“ Come up under my Ice, and if you knocx an
ounce of paint of! my brig I’ll blow you out of
the water.”

“ Ay, ay, capting,” was the undisturbed
reply, and a moment after the shallop glided
alongside of the brig and was made fast with—
out even scra ing the shining paint of the
pretty war~cra t.

Upon the deck of the shallop five people were
visible. an old man at the tiller, weather-beaten
and shrewd-faced, and seated in the cockpit
was a white-haired woman, wearing large spec—
tacles and knitting a stocking with all the com—
posure in the worl , in spite of its being a really
cold day.

By her side sat a young girl, with an old-
fashioned sun-bonnet on, and her face seemed a
long way back in it, and yet looked fresh and
pretty, while a mass of fiery red curls hung
down her back.

Both were plainly but neatly dressed, and the
young girl was winding a ball of yarn.

Forward, ready to obey the orders of the old
skipper, were ‘two young sailors, of the hall'-
farmer, half-seaman style, for they wore top-
boots. pea-jackets and worsted caps pulled down
over their ears and foreheads.

Their faces were not of the cleanest, and they
did not appear to be very bright specimens of
youthful manhood, as they stood gazing up at
the brig with open-mouthed wonder.

“ Well, sir, who and what are you!” de-
manded Captain Caldwell, stcmly, as he looked
down on the group upon the deck of the shallop.

“ If yer means who I be, I’m proud to tell yer
I be Skipper Zeke Welby, o’ Kennebec; but if

or means who ther craft be, it are the Kenne-

shallop Honey Bee, bound inter Boating
with a cargo 0’ fresh beef, mutton, pigs, poul-
try. eggs, potatoes, turnips and sich garden
truck as on Britishers is hungry fer jist now,
seein’ as ineral George Washington has get
yer in a tight corner.”
. “ Well, your cargo is welcome, but not your
observations about that arch-rebel, Washinan.

“But who else have you aboard?”

“ My old lady, Jemima Welby, darter Pa-
tience Ann, and them two gawk lads as don’t
know beans when that bag he opened, at yer

 

l
in her cruise in search of the f jedges ’em by your Boating chaps, though they

be’ant sich durned fools as they looks."

A laugh greeted Skipper Zeke’s words about
the crew of his shallop, and then Captain Cald-
well asked:

“ Is not this the shallop that ran in a few
weeks age under fire?”

‘(  be.”

“ You were her skipper then i”

“ I are the man, capting.”

“ I thought it was said you were very deaf?”

“My hearin’ have improved pretty smart.”

“ I guess so; but why did you take such
chances when you had provisions to sell to the
British?" ' _

Skipper Zeke laughed and replied:

“ W aal, I bad a. new boat, and so I jist wanted
ter see what she’d do.

“Then I be a Yankee, and so thought I’d jist
give the Britishers a stir up.”

“ And this is the same craft that ran out three
nights age under fire?”

“ Did yer see her, capting?”

“ My officers did. ’

“ Didn’t she go like a streak o’ greased light-
hing?”

“ You admit this was the craft then?”

“ Of course it Were the Honey Bee.”

“ And what was our purpose?”

“ Was], on ting, made a good thing in king’s
gold by my ast run, and so I concluded I’d git
another cargo, but they wouldn’t let me go out,
so I jist took chances, and here I is ag’in with
beef mutton, fowls, turnips, water—”

“ ilence, sir, and let me tell you that I con—
fiscate your cargo and shall put you in irons,”
savagely said Caldwell, who felt that the Yan-
kee was inwardly laughing at him.

“See here, capting, this be my boat, paid for
with my inouey, and when I do be friendly to
you Britishers to bring in provisions and keep
you from starving you talks about taking my
craft and putting me in irons."

It was evident that Captain Caldwell meant
to do just as he said, for his was a. mean nature,
and by confiscatin'g the cargo it cost him noth-
ing out of his own pocket for provxsions, and as
he had the authority, or rather the power. he
could keep the skipper under his guns: until he
got ready to sai , or send the shallop up to town
as a prize, he oving captured the fleet craft
which had set the whole British force, ashore
and afloat, in alarm a few nights before,

“ Oh, sir, you will not let him do this cruel
not, you, sir, whon I recognize now as Lord
Erskine, who was at our house once?”

Lord Erskine Emu-rs had come on deck and
been a silent observer of all that had occurred.

Now, as he was addressed by name, he started
and gazed fixedly into the face of the speaker,
whom the skipper had said was his daughter,
Patience Ann W elby.

“ Well, I declar’, be you Lord Erskine Enders
arter all?

“ I do recognize younow, sir, and you hain’t
the one to let that upstart young ofiicer put my
old man in irons.”

It was the “old woman ” who spoke now, and
again'Lord Erskine started, his face flushed, and
he said quickly:

“ Ah yes, my good friends, I recall you now,”
and turning to the brig’s commander be con-
tinned:

“ Caldwell, I will be responsible for these peo—
ple, so get what provisions you need and let the
shallop go on her way.”

“ Pardon me, my lord, but I cannot do so.”

“ And why, sir?" and Lord Erskine’s eyes
brightened with anger.

“ I may be held responsible for them,” Cald-
well replied.

“ But I will be responsible for them, I said.”

“That does not please me, so I will hold them
and their craft.”

“ Do you decline, sir, upon your own responsi-
bility?”

“ My lord, I am in command of this brig, you
but a passenger, and—7’ .

“ Hold! sir! Are you‘aware that my resigna-
tion was accepted at my own option to give up
my command, or not?

‘ You also must know, sir, that I rank you,
holding as I do the king’s commission of captain,
and 1 shall take the responsibility of at once re-
lieving you from duty, if you will to test your

wer against mine?’

Caspar Caldwell winced under the words of
the nobleman, who he knew would not assert
that the option to resign or resume his com-
mand of the brig was left with him, unless it
was so, and he hastily said:

“ I beg your pardon, my lord, but I thought
your resignation of the captaincy of the brig
was decided, so I said what I did.”

“ Then permit me to tell you that if it is my
pleasure to resume command of this brig at any
time from now until she sails from England in
search of the lost Silver Ship, I can do so, as you
will be informed by inquiry of the admiral.

“ But I desire to say nothing of this for your
sake, unless forced to do so.” _

“ Again I ask pardon, my lord.”

“ And is my guarantee for this shallop and
her crew to be taken, sir?"

" Certainly, my lord."

“ Thank you, and I beg thatyou get what pro-

 

 

visions you need at once,for I shall sail up to the
town in the shallop as I wish to protect these
good people from being again molested, and
more, secure a permit for the skipperto leave
port at will for other provisions, which our
forces certainly need most sadly.”

Caspar Caldwell bit his lips viciously, but
ave orders to an officer to purchase all needed
resh supplies, and get them aboard.

And right there did Skipper Zeke get in his
quiet little reVenge by charging double the price
he had intended to for his “ green goods,” as he
called his cargo.

After an hour’s delay the shallop cut loose in
the gathering twilight, and Lord Erskine was
upon her deck as she named toward the city.

“I suppose you know that I recognize you both
now,” he said quietly, as he took a seat in the
cock it.

“ es, my lord, and we owe you a debt no
thanks of ours can ever repay,’ earnestly said
Ethel Stanwood, who was masquerading as
“ Darter Patience Ann.”

“ No, you have saved us from more than we
can tell," and the “ Old Lady Welby ” spoke now.
in the full, rich tones of Pearl Revere.

CHAPTER XXIV.
TRUE as srnnL.

FOR some moments after the words of thanks
to Lord Erskine Enders, no word was spoken,
and then heit was who broke the Silence.

He did not wish to refer to their strange and
incomprehensible situation, in disguise and on a
coasting shallop. bound into port, as he did not
know just who Skipper Zeke was, or how far he
and the two young men could be trusted. and he
was anxious not to compromise his Own dignity
in the matter.

So he Said:

“I presume you have had a pleasant voyage,
though it was but a short one.”

“ Well, as to the 'pleasure, my lord, I can
not speak; but we ha. what we deem a sucmss-
full voyage,” replied Pearl, for Ethel remained
si ent.

“ You do not mean to say that you were in
this stullop when she ran out the other night
through fire and tempest?”

“IYes, we were upon her,” was the smiling
"3P .Y-

“ I have heard it spoken of as the most daring
gantlot that any craft could run and live
through it. Certainly it was a tearful ordeal for
you to pass; through young ladies.”

“The excitement kept us up, my lord.”

“ “'ell. let me con ratulate your skipper here
upon a nerve and ski 1 that was wonderful.”

“See here, stranger, I hain’t a man to wear
no duds that don’t belong to me, and though I
thanks you all the same, and admires you as one
0’ the squarcst Britishers as ever ShI‘VCii a king,
I’ll say that thet young: lad there, Master Jack
Ross. are the man as did that gai'itictarunuing,”
said Skipper Zeke.

“ Ah: that accounts for the voice then, for I
was with Captain Trigg in his guard-boat when
you passed. ,, 3

“ So you are the hero, sir?” * "

“Yes, my lord, I am Jack Ross, late boat-
8wain on the Shark, and to whom you were
always most kind, sir.

“ I would not re-ship because I am an Ameri~
can, and I gave up my prize-money and went
ashore, unwilling longer to serve against my
own people.”

“ I honor you for it, Ross, and I congratulate
you as a hero, for few men could do what you
did that night.

“ It would get you an officer’s berth in the
Royal Navy did you cure to remain, and your
deed of daring but carried out the idea I had
formed of you.

“ There is something behind your being an
ordinary sailor, J ack Ross.”

The face of the young sailor flushed crimson,
but he made no reply, and Lord Erskine con-
tinued:

“ I think, now that penetrating disguises is
in order, that I can trace the faCe of Coxswain
Nick Norcross under that innocent countenance,
also a sailor of the Shark when I was her lieu-
tenant?”

“ Yes, my lord, I am Nick Norcross, ex-cox-
Swain, and I also being an American.1eft the
service just as Mate Jack did,” said Nick
frankly.

“I congratulate you 11 upon your disguises,
and are fain to ask if SEipper Zeke here is his
natural self, or also in disguise?” said Lord
Erskine with a smile.

“ He’s his nat’ral self, my lord, for I calls yet
so ’cnuse others does, though jist why a man
should be called by ther same name as ther Great
Jehovah my dear old mother taught me to pray
to long a o, the Lord only knows why; but,
here I is, o d Zeke Welby, from Kennebec, owner
0’ this leetle craft, Honey Bee, and at resent
sarvin’ on board as helmsman, the Jack

being captain, sir, at your service eternally.”
Lord Erskine. saw that be had discovered a
character in Skipper Zeke, and he knew that it
was just such honest. independent, plucky ma-
oing to
for he

terial as he was made of, that was
make the Colonies free from English
was one of the few who looked ahead.

 

 

 

 

 

The Shadow Silver Ship.

. «a v 1., .-  «a»... - . N
v . ‘. ~w.-~—.v-

-. _ » .......

.,.,_ . m ~ .
- -1. ,_.___..,,.,_,.,.. ..... ., . .,_,, . ..,_ M . H, . ._ ,.

15

 

 

He made no comment as to why the young
ladies were on the shallop and in disguise, but

sald.

“ Well, Skipper Zeke, I will secure for you a
pass to trike your vessel out again without hav-
ing to run such a deadly gantlet as you did
coming in some weeks ago and going a few
nights since.” .

“ Thank you, my lord: but I guess it’s better
for Skipper Zeke to take no passes, and when
they see he has come in ag’in with a cargo of
provisions for ’em, the Britishers won’t git in the
we. 0’ my going out for another, I guesses.”

‘ Not unless they see a deeper design under
your going in and out than to bringin provisions,
but I’ll see to it that you are not molested, for
there will be some such feeling felt against on
.as was shown by Lieutenant Caldwdl t ay,
for creating the disturbance you did the other
night.”

“I thank you, my lord, and I’ll git out 0’ port
soon as I km, for it do begin to grow a trifle
cloudy for the shallop, I guesses.”

“ And, Ross, let me suggest that you and Nor-
.cross take a berth on the brig.”

“ The Shark, my lord?”

“That was, now the Sea Shadower.”

“ I do not wish to serve the king, my lord,
nor does Nick here.”

“ Very well I merely offered the suggestion.

“ She sails for England in just Six days now,
and I can arrange for you to ship for the voyage
across if you like, forI go in her as a passen-

er.

“ I regret having had to humiliate Lieutenant
Caldwell as I did awhile since, but he was run-
nin over with pride and meant to hold the
‘shallop, which could but end in the discovery
that four persons on board were masquerading,
and hence I acted as I did.

“Miss Revere, I called to see you yesterday
and was told that you were visiting Miss Stan-
wood, so I went to your home, Miss Ethel, to be
told by old Lucy that you were away from home
for the day.

“Miss Revere, there is some anxiety felt at
xii-gr home for the butler, Mahone, who has
id'i'N‘ii‘l'lOIVJY disa peered.”

.lf’mlll Ethel and earth-1t that Lord Erskine,
.5” u quiet way, real: pleasure in biasing them
and knew more than he could really admit, so
l‘erirl said:

" Lord Erskine, can I trust you with a
secret?”

H 1 never betray a secret, Miss Revere, but is
i; not best that I should not know it?”

h I would feel better to tell you the truth, you
have been so more than kind to us.”

“ No, let me remain in ignorance, please, at
least for the present.”_ and the look on the face
mt the nobleman convuiced Pearl that he meant
must. he said, so she answerelz-

“Just as you deem best, my lord.”

The twilight was now beginning to cast the
bay and city into obscurity and a guard-boat
“as seen putting out to hen the shallop off, the
Castle ying no attention to the little vessel as
she ha been seen to run alongside the brig.

As the guard-boatfeached the shallop the
officer in command hailed sharply:

“Ho that shallopl come to and give an ac-
count of yourself or I Will flre into you.”

Lord Erskine atone and answered the bail
“with:

“ Ahoy the guard—boat! \

“ There is no need of harsh measures, sir, for
did you not see that the brig brought the shal-
lop to? .

“ I am Lord Erskine Enders, sir."

The officer’s. tone and manner changed at
once and he said:

“1’ humbly beg pardon, m lord, but I
thought I recognized the era t that gave us
such achase a few nights ago."

“ It is all right, 311',” and the shallop held on
her way to a secluded anchorage of! the hill on
which stood the cottage of Widow Stanwood.

“Make your Quarters on the shallop for a
few days, Boss, You. and Norcross, and you
will be safe. for SklPPel' Zeke and his crew
'will be protected. .

“Now place. those ladies and their luggage
ashore, and I Will accompany them.”

This was done and in the darkness Lord Ers-
kine and the two young girls made their wn up
to the cottage, where their coming made Kira.
Stanwood happy beyond expression as she had
lived in the most dreadful suspense since their
departure, having kn0wn that the firing. and
tempest was faced by the little shallop in its

flight.

 

CHAPTER XXV.

Loan assume LEAR.le A snout.

WHEN Widow Stanwood had recovered from
her emotion at the return of her daughter and
Pearl, she told the latter that half a. dozen ser-
:vants had come from the Revere Mansion to see
her, as all was excitement on account of the
mvsterious disappearance of Mahone, the butler.

He had put on his great-coat for a walk, he
said, as no one of the mansion was to be a
home, and he had not returned since, and all
search for him had been unavailing.

He had been supposed. so thought the other

)

!

 

servants, to have been seized by the press-gang
and taken on board some vesselaof-war to serve
as a. sailor.

Mrs. Stanwood had explained Pearl’s not be-
ing at the Cottage, when the messengers came,
as best she could, and she added:

“What I was to sa to-morrow I could not
guess, and I am so g ad that you are home
again, Pearl, as the servants might have grown
snsriicious.”

We will, with Lord Erskine’s consent, press
him into service after tea, and walk over to the
mansion, so that I can allay any suspicion of
the Servants,” said Pearl.

“ I am wholly at your service, Miss Revere,”
assured the nobleman, and as the widow left
the room to get tea, she having entertained
Lord Erskine while the maidens were reversing
their disguises and changing back to their sweet
selves, Pearl now said: '

“ My lord, I saw that you did not wish me to
tell you before Ross and the others, what both
Ethel and I deem it now our duty to make
known to you, in explanation of our very re-
markable adventure, as it must appear in your
e es.”

y“ No I have no right to know, and my confi-
dence in Miss Revere and Miss Stanwood is so
great that I have no suspicion regarding their
actions.”

“You are most kind to say so; but we will
tell you the truth; and as it is in confidence, and
rests between we three, there will be no danger
of being betrayed, or of your being compromised
by hearing our secret.”

“Remember, I am a British ofllcer, and tell
me nothing you are not perfectly willing I
should know."

“ We are not treating you as a British officer,-
my lord, but as Captain Erskine Enders, our
warm friend, such as you have proven yourself
to be.”

“ Then as Lord Enders I will hear your secret.
and so consider Captain Enders not present,”
was the smiling reply, and he added:

“I could not permit you to compromise your-
selves, in admitting my knowledge of your
affairs, before others, or to compromise me as a
British officer, by telling me your secret, and so
I checked you in the shallop somewhat rudely,
perhaps.” _

Well, my lord, I Wish to tell you that, with
every confidence in you, your influence, and
willingness to aid in the pardon of Captain
Stanwood, as you have suggested that after all
it might hang upon the humor of the king, we
decided to try another plan for the rescue of
Noel.”

“ Just as I felt once,” was the quiet remark.

“ The sailor—this in confidence, remember, as
to others named, also.”

“ Certainly.”

“Jock Ross came to see Ethel to propose a
plan for Captain Stanwood’s rescue, and, as it
would cause bloodshed we would not listen to it;
but we decided to get his aid in aplan we had
formed ourselves, which seemed feasible. and
that was the capture of the brig on her run to
England.”

Lord Erskine smiled, and Pearl asked:

“ You do not believe it can be done?”

“I think it impossible; but let me hear your
whole plan.” .

Then he heard of J ack’s coming to the man-
sion, his con uering the immense brute savage
and the Iris s y, Mahone, and the plan that
had been decid upon.

“The coming of the shallop, capture of Ma-
hone by Jack Ross, and the running of the fear-
ful gantlet was all told, as afterward the trip to
the headquarters of Washington, after the dis-
cover of the fact that Skipper Zeke had run
into fioston for the very purpose of trying to
rescue Noel Stanwood, ani would not accept a
dollar in money for his services, and handed
back the moneyvpaid him for the shallop.”

“ You Americans are made of the right mate-
rial, from high to low,” said Lord Erskine.

“ The king will discover that truth also,” said
Pearl. with a wicked look.

“ His Majesty possesses the knowledge already,
Miss Revere, and is made wiser every day.

redict the freedom of America, conquered by
orce of arms, for I know your people: but what
a little rebel you are and your father so loyal,”
and Lord Erskine returned the wicked look of
Pearl with interest.

“Yes, I am a sad rebel, I guess, and apa,
well, he sticks to the king, so we never d us:
politics.”

“If he knew what his hopeful daughter had
began about the past few days, he would go mad,

ear.

5’ But the deed is done, and I must tell you just
what it is.” ' '

‘: You new Washington, then?”

' Yes. for I had met him before, and always
liked the splendid-looking calm-faced Virginian,
and now 1 do not wonder that he is the idol of
the American Arm .”

“ I also admire ban, Miss Revore, and he will
be a great man before this revolution comes to
an end, for I do not believe that the struggle is
to be a short one. What said the commander
iii-chief of ou rebels?"

“ We to] him that the brig was to sail on a

 

certain date and asked if he could not send
Several vessels of war to intercept her.”

" Ah? you said several?”

“ Yes, for we had an idea of what the capabil-
ities of the brig are, for you remember Jack Ross
was along.”

“ Yes, and as you said several vessels there
maybe the trifle of a possibility that the brig
may be taken, but I doubt it.”

“ Yet why?” ‘

“ In the first place there is no better 9 nipped
vessel afloat in the way of battery, sma l-arma
and munitions of war. She has a large crew,
and now that Bonair is her first lufl’, a full com-
plement of officers, and the men were picked for
a special purpose, you know, so are not easily
alarmed at a force even superior. Again, her old
topmasts were replaced by others some ten feet
longer, and her bowsprit is a dozen feet greater
in length than the old one, her bows and gal!
being also increased at the same proportion, as
also her squaresail yards, which allows her to
spread one-third more canvas than she did, and
she was a very fleet craft then, as you have
heard.

~ “The stern, which dragged water a little be-
fore, has been changed, so that helps her speed,
and her bows have been sha bed, I may say
until they are almost like a knife-blade.

“Sacha. craft, you see, will be able to run
awayfrom any vessel she cannot whip.”

“ on do not give us much hope.”

“ As you say several vessels are to go, then
they may entrap her.”

“Remember, your name was given, my lord,
as one to be set free in case of her capture—to
be sent, in fact, directly on toEngland and land-
ed with all your belongings.

“This was our stipulation, and such were the in-
structions Washington gave the different cap-
tains, for we told him the sad errand that car-
ried you abroad, and he said that he remembered
your father pleasantly in the French and Indian
wars, when he was colonel of dragoons, and had
been a. dashing officer and splendid comrade.

" He asked if you were not like him?”

“ He was most kind to speak thus of my
father. .

"‘ He did not tell you that when my father
fell wounded from his horse, he risked his life
to bear him from the field?” ‘

“ No, he said nothing of this, my lord.”

“That showed his modest nature; but it is
true, and the name of George Washington of
Virginia has ever been a treasured one in our
home in England,” and the young noble spoke
with deepest feeling.

 

CHAPTER XXVI.
LORD ERSKINE owns A nmr.

“I MUST say, Miss Revere, that I more than
appreciate the kindness of yourself and Miss
Stanwood, in having provided for my escape and
comfprt, in case the brig is captured, and I thank

on.

“ It was our duty, my lord, after all you have
done for Captain Stanwood.”

“ Well, many would not have so considered
it, or even thought of it; but would it not com-
promise me with my own people, when the
facts become known ?”

“We thought of that, and s ke to General
Washington about it, and he said that the order
should be to protect you, as a passenger on the
brig.”

“ Ah, ever generous; but now let me tell you,
that as I seem to havedashed our hopes down
as far as the capture of the ‘ a Shadower is
concerned, let me raise them by simply giving
you a hint.”

“ We are all attention, my lord, and will take
a hint with more than pleasure,” Ethel said
naively.

“ I only wish to say that should the American
privateers not capture the brig, I hardly believe
that Ca tain Noel Stanwood will ever land in
Englani .

“More I cannot say; but I wish you to use
your influence with both Jack Ross and Nor-
crossto have them go to—morrow and ship on
board the brig.”

“ A British vessel?”

“ Yes, and I ask it as a special favor to Cap-
tain Stanwood, so that they may be near him.

“ Now beg them to do this, but they must not
know that I urge it, and more, you can
promise that they will not be the sufl’erers.

“This is all I will say, more than that you
must have hope.”

Mrs. Stanwood now entered to announce tea,
and both Ethel and Pearl felt impressed with
what Lord Erskine had given as a hint.

After tea the three walked over to the Revere
Mansion, and the servants seemed greatly ro-
lieved by the sight of their mistress, whose con-
tinued absence they could not understand.

At the request of Pearl, Lord Erskine went to
the butlcr’s room, which had been kept securely
locked by the housekeeper, and a short examin-
ation showed that the butler was certainly given
to thieving, as certain pieces of silver plate, from
old sets never used, Were hidden away in out-of-
the—way places, and there was a sum of money
also which Pearl remembered that her father
thought had been stolen, with the silver, by

 
  

.4.

'.v"a."«;.‘a

 

 

 
 

16

burglars who were supposed to have broken into
the house one night.

Mahone then was the pretended burglar, and
more, it was shown that he was in the pay of
Merchant Frank Farley, to glean all the in-
formation he could regarding Pearl and her
intimac with Ethel Stanwood.

‘5 Inc the door and leave the things for my
father to see upon his return," Pearl had order-
ed, and then she added in a low tone to Ethel:

“ I have no sympathy now for the fellow, and
he deserves his fate.

“ He will not dare come back here again
know'ing our discovery, and we are well rid 0
him.

“ And it is better to let them believe, as they
now do, that he is avvictim of the Press Gang,”
Ethel returned.

“Far better," and telling the housekeeper that
she would remain several days longer at the cot-
tage with Ethel, Pearl left her elegant home to
the care of the servants, and returned in com-

ny with her devoted friend and Lord

rskine.

Mrs. Stanwood then told of her visit to her
son in the prison, and that he was hopeful and
bade her not despond, while he had inquired

rticularly after his sister, Pearl and Lord

rskine.

Another visit to him, however, had been pre-
vented by his having been sent from the rison
on board the brig, but Lord Erskine to d her
that he would see that she and also Ethel should
see him to say farewell before the brig sailed.

Soon after he took his leave and looked in at
the Military Club to see if any late news of im-
portance had been received, and found the
whole place in an uproar of excitement, over the
fact that an hour before the mysterious craft
known as the Silver Ship, or its Shadow, had
run into Nantasket Roads, as far as Beacon
Island, and afzer putting about had headed out
to sea.

Several vessels coming in had been overhauled
and passed by the fleet Shadow, and when she
put about she had stood by and on out to a,
answering no hail, and with her crew seemin i
not conscious of the existence of another era t

near.

She had not passed up the harbor to where
she could get a view of the Sea Shadower at
anchor, but had been seen by the armed schooner
Ocean Outpost, which had been just north of
Hangman’s Island, and the little cruiser had
crowded on sail and gone in pursuit of the sea.
mystery.

“ There is something strange about this craft
after all, for what can she be?” mused Lord
Erskine as he made his way down to the
South Battery, where*he had told the coxswain
of the brig to meet him.

The boat was there, and having reported the
fact at headquarters that Skipper Zeke of the
Honey Bee had meant no harm to the king in
running his shallop in and out of the ba as he
had, but was simply an eccentric old ankee
skipper, he ordered the coxswain to steer for
the shallop.

Skipper Zeke was aboard, having just drop-
gdanchor after a run to the frigate British

ing and the sloop-of-war, on board of which
he had sold all his cargo.

The two sailors were also on the shallop still
looking like simple country lads and Iiord
Erskine, going into the cabin told Skipper Zeke
that the best thing he could do was to shi a
couple of seamen to help him man the sha op
and run out the next day, or even that night.

“ As for you, Jack, and Norcross, Miss Stan~
wood wishes to see you up at the cottage, and so
under no circumstances must you leave the
town, and my best wishes attend you, for I
gnow, that you will do as Miss Ethel deems

est.

Then taming to Skipper Zeke, hecontinued:

“ Now, skipper, I Wish your report, and those
of Ross and Norcross regarding the seeing of
the Shadow Silver Ship, which the ladies told
me you saw the night you ran out?”

“ Yer shall have it, capting, jisc as I seen
her,” and the skipper told his story, which the
two young men corroborated in every particu-

“She is a m stery indeed, and some day it
must be solved ’ and shaking hands in cod-by
with all three Lord Erskine returned to is boat
and was rapidly rowed down the bay to the

bri .

(gaptain Cald well greeted him upon his return,
for he was nervous y anxious, for fear that he
might be relieved of duty, and he knew that a
word from Lord Erskine would cut off his head,
figuratively speaking.

“My lord, I hope, sir, you did not deem it
necessary to make any report of my rude con
duct toward you this afternoon?” he said, apolo-
getically. .

“ No, Captain Caldwell, I never hold ill-will,
and my rebuke of your conduct ended the matter
as far as I am concerned.

“I hear that the Silver Ship was seen down
the bay!” , .

“Yes, my lord, but without orders .I dared
not g) in chase.”

“ on were right, sir; but we sail within a
few days now and then your chance will come

. ‘ » ,_ , ,5. « ‘f',‘ . ~ .l~ 5: -‘
mi.  *- i.» was!“ «*- 'i‘ 2'2"“:  y".

 

The Shadow Silver Ship.

to win fame as a commander of what I be-
lieve to be the fleetest and best appointed vessel
afloat.

“ Good-night, Captain Caldwell,” and Lord
Erskine descended to the cabin, leaving Caspar
Caldwell delighted at the fact that his uords
had been overlooked, but just in the same ratio
of joy at his escape from being relieved from
duty on the brig, was his increased hatred of the
man who had been too honorable to censure him
to his superiors.

CHAPTER XXVII.
A SAILOB’S PLEDGE.

IT was a cause of great congratulation to both
Ethel and Pearl, to discc ver that their absence
from the town had not been known out of the
cottage and to thOSe who had gone upon the
shallop with them.

They sent old Bennett after breakfast the next
morning, down to find where the shallop lay and
to ask Jack Ross and Norcross to call at the cot-
ta 0 that evening.

ennett returned with the information that
the shallop had sailed at dawn, so he had gone
to the former quarters of Jack Ross and found
him there, so had delivered the message and the
two sailors would call after dark.

It was a pleasure to know that old Skipper
Zeke had put to sea, and had gone without cre-
ating any such an excitement as his first coming
in and running out before had done.

The brig could be seen lying at anchor down
the bay, and the talk of the town was, so said
Bennett, the appearance in Nantasket Roads the
night before of the Specter Ship.

‘ She ran right in like a ghost, took a look at
the brig which was fitted up to capture her, and
then put to sea again, her crew beckoning to
the Sea Shadower to follow her out into the
ocean."

Such was old Bennett's story, as he had heard
it, and as also stated that there was the most in-
tense excitement in the town about the appear-
ance of the Shadow Ship in the. oiling, and
wonder that the brig had been afraid to pursue
her. '

People were talking about the brig already,
and her officers and crew, and commenting- that
if Lord Erskine had been in command he would
have at once given chase to the ghostly craft.

The action of the commander of the schooner-
of-war Ocean Outpost was highly commended,
for he had, with his small vessel and a crew of
half a hundred men, gone at once in pursuit.

But the Ocean Outpost had not been seen since,
and many predicted that he never would be
again, for it was certain destruction to a craft,
and death to the crew, to follow an ocean phan-

 

tom.

Thus the day passed, and soon after nightfall
a boat landed on the shore near the cottage of
Widow Stanwood, and two persons went up to
the little house.

They were Jack Ross and Nick Norcross, and
they were at once ushered into the parlor, where
the maidens met them as they might old friends.

" The sha110p has gone?” said Pearl, inquir-

ingl .

“ Yes, Miss Revere. After the visit of Lord
Erskine to the shallop last night, Skipper Zeke
concluded it would be safer for him to sail for
home and thus be sure of saving his vessel, so I

ot him a. couple of Portland lads who were in
hiding from the British ress-gang, and the
Honey Bee flew away at awn, presumably to
bring in another cargo of fresh provisions, but I
do not think Skip r Zeke will return again,
until General Was ington drives Lord Howe
out of the town.”

" And what had Lord Erskine to say to you,
J ack?” ‘

, “ He wished us all good luck, miss, and bade
iis fart-Well, for he sails on the bri , you know.”

‘ “ Yes, and both Ethel and 1 Me a great
favor to ask of you and Nick Norcross.”

“ Granted, of course, Miss Revere, and for
both of us. for Nick will not say no.”

“ Not I,” said Nick, warmly.

“ But you do not know how much we are
goin to ask of you?"

“ t cannot be more than to run the gantlet
again which we are ready to do on call.”

“ on may think it a harder task.”

“ You knowI said granted for both of us.
Miss Revere, so you have but to say what it is.”

“ To ship on the Sea Shadower for the cruise
to England.”

itgoth the sailors started at the bold propo-
s on.

“It is a king’s ship, Miss Revere and Miss
Stanwoodi” ‘

“ Yes. and Captain Stanwood gOes on it as a
prisoner, and you can shi for the run to Eng-

and only, for Lord Ersk no can arrange that
for on,

“ hould the privateers craJiture the brig, then
you will be already on has to shi in the new
service, and of course Ca tain tan wood, to
whom both Ethel and I wil write, getting you
to secretly givs hi the letters. can clear you of
having been there_ or other purpose than to save

im. -

“ If the the givateers do not capture the brig
than you will in England when he is, and
his friends, you may aid him to escape, forI will

 

r»: to“...  V ..,..- -, .
’l"’n.ll{i"_ n L’r‘rkfiy" -. ” 3h 415‘" "‘ r

 

place. in your hands one thousand five hundred
pounds, which will go a long way toward aiding
his escape, especially where it will not be thought
that he has friends.

“ Then you three together can enter the service
of the patriots, once Captain StanWood is free.”

“ Had I not given my promise, Miss Revere,
your pleading and able argument in favor of
our going, would have decided us, for I know
Nick will go if I do.”

“I am with you, mate, so do not consider me
in your pliedges worth referring to.” was the an-
Swer of i ick N orcross.

“ Then ou will ship on the brig!"

“ Yes, iss Revere, we will watch for the
first boat that comes up in the morning, and re-
turn in her to ship for the exuise, and if they
will not take us for that only, we’ll make it a.
year, for the war, or eternity, and let them hold
us it they can after we drop anchor in the
Thames.” ,

“ You mean that you would desert!”

“ Certainly, for we are not going to serve the
king but Captain Stanwood.”

“ It seems terrible to ask so much of you,”
said Ethel.

“ It is little enough I assure on, Miss Ethel,
and the Captain of the brig wil regret it more
than we do.”

“ But may not Lord Erskine, seeing us aboard,
be sus iciousl” asked Nick,

“ ell, if he is, he is too good a friend of Cap-
tain Stanwmd to say‘a word, I can vouch for-
that, if he Was certain we shipped only to rescue
him,” rejoined Jack ROSS.

As no entreaty could force either Ross or Nor-
cross to touch a dollar for themselves, Pearl was
forced to yield to their u ishes and place in their-
keeping twelve hundred pounds to be used for-
the rescue of Noel Stanwood.

Then farewells were said, and the brave sail-
ors took their leave, and the next sunset found
them on the hrig’s books as “ first-class seamen,
shipped for the cruise of the bri Sea Shadower
in search of the mysterious vesse known as the
Shadow Silver Ship.”

CHAPTER XXVIII.
THE SEA snsnowsn se'rs BAIL.

THE excitement about the appearance of
the Shadow Silver Ship off the harbor did
not abate in Boston in the least, as several
days passed by and the little schooner did
not return.

The. Americans were pressing the siege.
more closely each day, and that also was
cause for excitement, and the British began
to feel that the “ rebels” were by no means
fees to he despised.

More help had been expected from Eng
land, but it had not come, provisions were
few and high-priced, and the British knew
that they were in a city where their enemies
outnumbered them in spite of the fact that
Lord Howe had over ten thousand soldiers
and a fleet under his command.

The British general had expressed the sit~
nation fully in his dispatches to England,
which Lord Erskine was to be the bearer of
on board the fleet brig Sea Shadower.

The day before the sailing of the brig the
cutter, manned by four oarsmen, landed at.
the little pier near the Stanwood cottage and
Lord Ers'ine sprung ashore and ascended
the hill.

Ina short while he returned with three
ladies, all closely vailed, and giving them
seats in the cutter it pulled for the brig,
which had now come up to an anchorage of
the town to take on her last supplies.

Reaching the brig Lord Erskine aided the
ladies to the deck and led them into the
cabin where he left them with the remark:

" He shall come hither at once.”

A moment after, with the clanking of
chains, Noel Stanwood entered the room,
accompanied by two marines who remained

standing at the companionway until Lord.

Erskine appeared and ordered them to await
on deck. and the prisoner was alone with his
mother, sister and Pearl Revere.

Half an hour after the ladies came from

the cabin, the marines took the prisoner once' '

more in charge and Lord Erskine escorted
the visitors to the deck. Captain Caldwell not
being visible, for he had Wisely decided to

. go ashore at the time of the visit, leavin

Lieutenant Bonair in charge of the deck, an
who was greeted by Mrs. Stanwood and the
two maidens with real friendship.

Lord Erskine had accepted Mrs. Stap~
wood' invitation to return and have supper
with them, as it was the last night in port,
after which he had promised Lord Howe to
call and get his latest dispatches before
going aboard the brig, which was to sail
with the early morning tide.

i
z!-

.-. w‘qerswuw- «a», z, w,

 

 

 

  
   

 

5.

.5 .a. .M-Nmr'.»  .. w

verb-r. .3

"' -:.:-~.$~ ~<¢‘.>.¢2"'WA4§1-gk.flfi‘V\-afibv  / a;

 

 

 

 

I

 

The Shadow Silver Ship. 1'7

 

 

Upon the deck both Jack Ross and Nick
Norcross were visible, but not a sign showed
that they knew the visitors any more than
did any of the rest of the seamen.

As they were about to depart, Lieutenant
Bonair said-

“ Delay a moment, my lord. and see what
the schooner has to say for herself, for you-
der comes the Ocean Outpost.”

There, not half a mile away, was visible
the schooner known as the Bay Guard, and
which had gone in chase of the Shadow Sil-
ver Ship.

All awaited anxiously her approach, and
when she was in hail, Lieutenant Bonair
called out:

“ Ahoy the Outpost!"

“ Ay ay, sir!”

“ Ah, Turpin, that is you, is it? But
where is the Shadow Ship?’

“Bonair, that craft is not made of wood
and iron, but is a specter.

“ She sailed ahead of me, just out of
range, and at night fairly haunted me until I
put back on account of the impression she
made on the men.

“ I’ll anchor near and come aboard to tell
{on all about it tonight, and also I wish to
ct you know that 1 was chased by two rebel
privateers, so look out for them, as they are
in your track,” and‘the Ocean Outpost passed
on to her anchorage.

The maidens and Lord Erskine exchanged
looks that meant much, at the report of the
rebel cruisers, and then took their departure
from the brig, and escorting them home, it
was nine o’clock before the nobleman arose
to leave the cottage.

He bade farewell to Mrs. Stanwood, tell-
ing her to have every hope of her son’s being
pardoned by the king, grasped Pearl‘s hand
warmly, and did not release his grip upon
the tiny hand of Ethel until she had gone
with him to the outer door.

“ Ethel, I have only to ask you if one day
I may come back to see yOu, whether my
duty to my king calls me here or not?”

Her lips parted, and a word was uttered
that few could have caught.

But Lord Erskine heard it, and said fer-
venti :

” died bless you, Ethel, and I will come.”

Then he was gone. and Ethel Stanwood
felt that she was beloved by the man whom
she had made her hero and her idol.

The next morning the girls arose early, for
the roar of cannon from the harbor shook the
town, and going out upon the little pine-clad
hill-top, they behold the Sea Shadower mov-
ing majestically toward the open sea.

She was crowded with canvas, white as
snow, from deck to truck, and with a stiff
off-shore breeze flew down the harbor, salut-
ing the frigate British King, the schooner,
sloop-of-Wal‘ and the Castle, while she receiv-
ed hearty cheers from the decks of each.

As the Castle returned, the salute, the sun
rose from the sea and painted the harbor with
its rosy rays, while fa ling full upon the Sea
Shadower. it gave h‘f“ the appearance of heme
a crimson craft, while the cfiect was adds
to from the volumes of smoke from her guns
enveloping her hull, and floating seaward
with her as upon a bank of clouds.

u AhLme, Pearl, how strange, how beauti.
full" cried Ethel. .

" Yes, what a weirdly strikin
has—like a red thD- My GOG!
not prophetic, an ill-omen!"

“ Heaven grant not, Pearl, for onder
craft holds for me nearly all that I ho d dear
in this world.”

“And for me, Ethel. so our hopes are
yionder together,” was the sad reply of Pearl

8.

E23] then Mrs. Stanwood joined them, and
the three stood watching the brig until she
sped on past Beacon. Island, and became a
mere speck on the horizon, that, also, to soon
fade from sight. . , .

The brig had sailed, bearing the prisoner
awa in chains, to a livmg death, a dungeon

for 'fe.

effect she
hope it is

—.————

CHAPTER XXIX. ”

um'rnrrn on “ BEA REBELS. .
Agt‘iiingt the bank in the Hudson River a
lar clipper ship lay moored, avessel that
be swept across the seas like the sWift racer
the wits, while carrying a ifnerchant flag, for

r ' ‘ hadbeen oneo peace. __

f” 331:3]: Iflue craft had lowered her British

ensign, hauled down her merchant colors,
and was being metamorphosed into a vessel-
ofqvar.

Upon her decks had already been placed a
formidable battery, she had been more heav-
ily spurred than before, and her bulwarks had
been pierced for a broadside of ten guns.

Upon her decks were over a hundred men
at work putting in the finishing touches, and
piles of boxes, bales and racks were ashore
ready to be stowed aboard

Suddenly a horseman dashed up, his horse
showing the eifects of hard riding, and dis-
mounting he was halted by the sentinel on
duty at the gangway.

“ Let him pass, sir, for he is a courier,"
sternly said a gray-haired officer in the uni-
form of the colonists’ navy, who was pacing
the deck.

“Are you Captain Paul, sir, of the armed
clipper Iron Wing, sir?”

“ I am, sir.”

“ Then I have dispatches for you from
General Washington, whose camp I left
forty-eight hours ago.”

“Ah! come into the cabin and warm up
with a glass of grog, while I look over the
dispatches, and your horse shall be stabled at
yonder farm.”

And giving the necessary orders Captain
Paul led the man into the cabin, bade the
young oflicor who had come as courier be
seated and placed a decanter of brandy and
glasses before him.

Then he broke the official seal of the new
States and read:

“ Curran JOHN PAUL,
“ Oom’g Amer’can ClipperQ/i War, _
"Iron Wing:

“ Slkt—I am instructed by General Ge orze Wash-
ington, Commander-in-Chief Continental Arinies,_to
state that from information ust received by him
from a reliable source, that e thinks it Will be
possible for you to capture, or aid in the capture of
the British brig-of—war Sea ShadOWer.

“The said brig was once the pirate schooner of
Captain Crimson, and known as the Red Shark, but
was captured by an American merchant captain
then in the British service, by the name of Noe
Stanwood, and she was altered into a brig.

"She has been refitted. armed and manned by
over a hundred men, and a full complement of offi—
cers, carries fifteen guns, six to a broadside and
three pivots.

“The brig is known to be remarkabl fleet, and
sails from Boston upon the mornlugo the seven-
teenth proximo. .

“ The commander-in-chicf hopes that your vessel
is near enough ready for sea for you to be able to
get into the brig‘s course, and head her off, and
orders have been also dispatched to the privateer
brig Racer, ten guns, now fitting out at Sat: Harbor,
Long: Island, the privateer schooner Brimstone
eight guns, now lyiu in the Connecticut Rive", an:
preparing for sea, an the outer Spray, now having

er battery put on board in the Kennebee River. to
also get away in time to lie in wait for the Sea
Shadower and endeavor to entrap her.

“ Should the other vessels named oross your path,
you will act as commodore, and each of the fleet
will be known to one another by hoisting a red flag
at the fore.

“These instructions are also forwarded to the
other commanders, and it is the earnest he of the
commander-in-chief that this splendid Bri ish brig
will be captured, and Captain Noel Stanwood a
patriot prisoner on board, will be rescued from is
sentence of a life imprisonment, which he is to be
taken to England to serve out.

“If captured, there will be on board the brig a
certain nobleman, going as passenger to England.
and this gentleman. with his servant and all his
effects, are to o unmolested, while one of the
privateers, whic one you deem best suited for
he purpose, will carry him to the English Coast
with all dispatch.

“ A response b Lieutenant Boykin. as to whether
your clipper wii be armed and ready for sea in
time, is respectfully requested by General Washing-
n. r'

" By command
“ Gsoaan WASHINGTON,
“ Commander-Madman
can,
H Aid’.‘!

Captain_Paul read the letter through with
a brightening face, and when he had finished
it he said, earnestly:

“ The Iron Wing shall be read to sail, sir,
for I shall _work on her day and night, and
get to sea Within three days, which will give
me time to reach the cruising-ground I need.

“ The other vessels, the Racer, Brimstone
and Spray I hope will be on hand, for I know
that British craft well, and we must have her
for our new navy without fail."

_Hav1ng remained for some hours to rest,
Lieutenant Boykin started upon his return to
the patriot army headquarters, and General
Washington enjoyed the satisfaction of know-
Lng that a quartetlte off fihne vessels would soon

eascainsearcio teBr" '
Shzdgwer. itish brig Sea

u there was one other that Gener
Washington knew not of, that had her ores:

 

 

working day and night to get their craft
ready for s at.

That one was the privateer schooner Spit-
fire, under Captain Dale, and in which Skip-
yer Zeke Welby held a financial as well as a
patriotic interest.

With his two new men Skipper Zeke had
sailed away from Boston, presumably for an~
other cargo of fresh provisions, but. in reality
to trust the shallop no more in reach of a
British gun.

He had headed for the Saugns River, and
had run' up to the inlet where the Spitfire was
at anchor, and reported to Captain Dale that
he was unable to bring back with him Jack
Ross, and which was a great regret to the
privateersman.

The skipper also told Captain Dale that
the brigof-war Sea Shadower was to sail on
a given date, having Noel Stanwood on board
as a prisoner.

“If you c’u’d only rescue that lad, Dale,
yer‘d make me as happy as a boy, and of yer
c’u’d captcr ther brig, then yer’d have ther
fastest keel afloat, bar none,” said Zeke.

“Except the Shadow Ship.”

“ Lordy, I hain‘t including ghosts.”

“ You really believe that white, spectral-
looking craft to be a ghost-ship, then?”

“Waal, I really do, for if it hain’t ther
ghost 0' a craft, durned ef it‘s any real craft,
for I knows a human from a spook, and the
same of ships.”

“ Well, I’ll get to sea in time, Skipper
Zeke, for I received word that my crew would
arrive to-morrow, and I’ll try and capture
tShe brig, so as to run down the Shadow

hip.”

Two days after, Skipper Zeke saw the
Sittfire spread her sails and fly seaward, and
lac then went on his way toward the Kenne-

ec.

And upon the ocean a quintette of armed
Sea Rebels were lying in wait for the Sea
Shadower.

 

‘ CHAPTER XXX.
THE SEA SHADOWER snAnownn.

THE wildest expectations of Lord Erskine,
and his hopes did not meet the reality of
what the brig under her improvements and
new rig accomplished in the way of speed,
when she cast the Castle astcrn on her run
out.

The coast-guard schooner known as the
Ocean Outpost, was a fleet craft, and having
rested, as it were, after her chase of the
Shadow Silver Ship, she was ready to start
upon her cruise among the islands and in
the adjacent waters to Boston Bay.

Her commander, Captain Turpin, saluted
the brig as she went by, but he had been
most anxious to try conclusions with her,
and so, without appearing to be ready, all
was in readiness for her to fall away astern
of the Sea Shadower for a race out to the
Beacon, or The Graves.*

The captain, his officers and men all felt
that they would have a joke upon Captain
Caldwell and his crew, for it was believed
that the Ocean Outpost could hold her own,
if not creep up on the brig.

The schooner was at once crowded with
canvas and went rushing on after the brie,
and her coming was discovered by Lord
Lennox, who was wistfully leaning against
the taifrail and gazing astern, after the salute
to the Castle had been returned.

“Pardon me, Caldwell, but you have a
chance to take the conceit out of Turpin if
you will, for I saw that he was ready for us
when we came by.” .

“Egad, but ’d like to, but how, my
lord?”

“He is starting out on his cruise for the
day—see, his schooner is literally loaded
with sail, so if you keep the brig close he
can creep up and when he passes, then show
him that we waited for him,” and Lord Era.
kine, a thorough sportsman, was delighted at
the chance of a race. ’

“ Thank you, my lord, I’ll soon have the
brig sailing at her worst,” and Caldwell
hastily gave his orders, the result of which,
by hauling a shee too flat, and letting slack
another sail, while the helmsman did not

 

'Sinco me the harbor of Boston and Bay have
materially changed. Several of the islands down
on a map by British Engineers. made in 1774, have
disappeared wholly and others have formed, while
new names have also taken the place of old on’eI
in a few Tn Amati

W ‘7... ski. -mf. ‘ _- 1 gfiw ‘

a. e '- - '- r.  “x-‘F:~E-,-.HV' - _.-..;a ;*i,.-;.. . “.vi

 

  
 
   
     
    

 
    
    
       
   

i  abiding pinch: Martians“, arbor.

   

      
 
 

" is

steer particularly’well, the schooner was seen
to be holding her own. '

"‘ Drop a cable over her bows,” suggested
Lord Erskine, and this being done the brig
dropped to much slower speed and the pretty
schooner came creeping up on her in fine
at le.

J’The tidewas with them, the wind from
northwest and blowing fresh, and the sight
of the two racing vessels was a beautiful
one.

Captain Turpin was in an ecstas of de-'

light at the performance of his vesse .

He had spun by frigates, sloops-of-war,
brigs and sohooners, when running in and
out, and was proud of his little flyer, as he
called his schooner; but he was absolutely
-deli hted when he saw himself creeping upon
the amous brig.

“Pass her to windward, sir?" asked his
'lieutepant, as the schooner bowled along in
the Wake of the brig

“ Yes, we will b anket him, shoot b him,
and run out past the beacon well a cad—-
this is grand, grand,” and Captain Turpin
rubbed his han s in glee.

The bri now’ had Rainsforth Island
abreast of it, to the south, and was in Nan-
tasket Roads, with the sharp bowsprit‘of the
schooner even with‘the taffrail and crawling
up, while she would when abeam be not one-
half pistol-shot away.

The crew of the brig stood in silence, but
the grin on their faces was not seen by the
men on the schooner.

Nearer and nearer crept the schooner until

they were abeam and their quarter-decks 5

were within easy conversing distance.

“ Well, Tur 1n, did some last dispatches
come in for Old Erskine, that you came‘
after us?" asked Captain Caldwell.

“ Oh no, I was merely going on my regu-
lar rounds and thought I would run down
with you. Your brig ssilp‘well, Caldwell,
for few craft can keep abeam of the Ocean
Outpost as she does,” and a broad smile was
upon every face on the schooner.

" Ah, yes, she does sail well, as you shall
see, for as you have no later dispatches for
us, we shal not wait for you as we have been
doing. Let the brig go ahead, Mr. Bonair.”
" A laugh from the quarter-deck of the
schooner greeted Captain Caldwell‘s words,
and it faded away into a look of wonder
gher‘; Lieutenant Bonair’s fine, voice was

our : ‘

“ Haul in that dragging cable over the lee

hows there. . o

“ Haul taut on the squaresail sheet and the!
jib-sheets, and slack away on the main boom
and; forcscil.

.“ That’s it, lads, now she’ll give the wind
3 chance at her. and you can give the schoon-
er’s men a good b cheer.”

A perfect roar roke from the brig‘s crew,
which no longer held back, shot away from
. the schooner at; a pace that made Captain

Turpin green With envy.
, “ Thank you, my lord, for the chance you
gave us to drag urpin‘s feathers in the
net,” said Caldwell in great glee, and rais-
ing his voice, he called out:
” Ho, Turpin!”
u  a put
“Just tell them back in town that we
waited for you, please.” ' ' .
“I believe our internal Craft is akin to
the Shadow hip," came back the answer
' from the disappointed Turpin, and his words
hrou’ ht a smile even to the and face of Lord
'Ersk no, saddened at the memory of his
dead father, and the fact thcti he was leaving
behind him, perhaps forever,.the woman he
loved withhlgis £11101?) lacs? anggoul. I
When 3‘ a top a sland
out of sight astern, the a‘fternoonlagaas Creep-
ing on, and with an after-dinner cigar in his

lips, Lord Erskine paced the deck for isomc >
lime ' ‘ colt .’ and the .wind steady and stron ‘ bgt
ac ,*

Then he took his glass and swept the' sea,
mot ahead but asters. '

 His q . eye detected a sail far away
over the starboard quarter a can is of points,
as though coming out of Cape od Bay.

, “ That . is one of them. he said calmly,
and than he turned his glass upon the other
side of ‘Boston Boy. ‘

 ‘ 9Y9!» and that . is another, coming on a
,Muru whichmnlt have hrou t  of
.  . .“Thepnehi the direction at Gape'eod is
=  my.  the other it song, lthink,”

 

 
       
  

. /  ' ti
.g,»

The ShadOw Silver Ship.

and a strange smile was u on his face as he
continued to pace to an ro.

Captain Caldwell. feeling safe now in his
command, was enjoying the dignity of his
position in his cabin.

“Putting on airs,” the milldies said, and
they had gotten it very nearly correct.

He was a man of low caliber, and the fact
that he had stepped in a few weeks from the
obscurity of a junior lieutenancy to the cap-
taincy of the finest brig afloat almost turned
his head, and gave him a power that was
dangerous to intrust in the hands of such a
man.

As a lieutenant, with masters over him, he
was an excellent officer, cool, skillful and
brave. ,

But as a commander he was one to lose his
head, so to speak. and it was well that he had
such a fine Specimen of the thorough sailor as
his first luff, Brainard Bonair.

And more, it was particularly fortunate
that the presence of Lord Erskine on board
was a check to him.

If seen by the lookout aloft. the two sails
were not reported, and Lord Erskine glanced
upward to see who the man was.

It was Jack Ross.

“ Well,‘he has no orders to report vessels
for astern, I believe.

“Now for a glance ahead with what is
left us of the doylight,”'and Lord Erskine
leveled his glass ahead.

Just as he did so, the lookout who saw his
act suddenly called out:

“ Sail, ho!” ‘ l

“ He saw her before, but reported her when
he knew I would discover her.

“ It is alarge schooner, and she is directly
in our course.” i

Just then Lieutenant Bonair, who was oth-
cer of the deck, called out in answer to the
lookout’s hail: '

“ Whercawav, my man?”

“ Dead ahead. sir.” .

“ Ay, ay. What do you ,make her out
from aloft?" ‘

“ A large schooner, sir.”

“Then armed, of course, and a British
cruiser or a rebel privateer. _

“ Keep your eye on her, my man."

" Sail, ho!”

“ Ab! and whereaway?”

“ Three points oil the lee bow, sir.”

“ Ay, ayl also in our conrse, so watch

her.” i
“Ay, ay. sir— Sail, ho!” .
“Alli: they are getting. numerous, my

lord,” said Lieutenant Bonair with a laugh,

and calling out to the man aloft, he asked:

b “ Where is she, and what do you make of
er?" '

‘° Three points off the windward bow, sir,
and also a schooner."

“ And the first?"

“ Still holds dead ahead, sir.”

“ All schobners?"

“ Ay, cg, sir.”

"Andi eir course?”

“The one dead ahead, sir, seems to be
laying to. and the two others movmg under
shortened sail toward the brig."

“ Ay, try, this craft has nothing to fear
from them. ’ r v

“The Sea Shadower is shadowed," mut-‘
tered Lard Erskine to himself, and be swept
the horizon with his dglass, taking in the
three vessels ahead on the two coming on
ra idly astern. '

hen he added:
" General Washington is in earnest.”

W

CHAPTER XXXI. ' ‘
IN CLosn quanrrzns. '
Tm: sun set with the brig in s trianglelof

danger, as it were.
T e sun went down clear, the weather was

away over in the eastward were some
ugly—looking clouds that betokened rough
weather. ' _ v

The three vessels ahead seemed almost in
a line with each other, .tbecenter one being
perhaps a mile or so further off. '

All, seemed, to be ,undershortened sail, and
the were on courses which, if the brig re-
am sad stationary, would bring memoirecb

ly to her within three hours or so. .

Lieutenant Boualr’reportcd thesituation to
Captain Onldwcll, and asked italic hadmot
best-r stand any to immature: north, to

 

 

 

that in the darkness he could dodge them
while they were yet far off.

The ansv:er from the cabin was that he
must hold his course as he then was, and
that there was nothing to fear for the brig.

Lieutenant Bonair again reported half an
hour after that two vessels were coming on.
astern, as though in chase, but far enough
apartto head 0% the brig, did she now at-
tempt to run north or south."

Captain Caldwell put on his great-coat
and came on deck to have a look at the situ-
atiou.

He took a close glance around, said that
he did not believe there was anything to fear '
if the five vessels proved to be all cruisers,
and if they were any of them merchantmen
then there was a chance for the brig to cap“
ture a prize.

So saying, he returned to the cabin, not
liking the cold winds he encountered on v

eck.

Thither Lord Erskine followed him, for it _
was near the supper hour. and throwing ofi
his cloak, for the two occupied the cabin to
getlier. he said:

“Caldwell, I am going to ask a favor of

on.” * '

“ Well. my lord ?"

"  is for that poor fellow Stanwood.”

u ’cs'n

“ You know him to be a gentleman, or, to
put it from the standpoint of some. to have
been a gentleman before he lost his fortune.

“ You are also aware of the very remark.
able services he has rendered the Government '
and that you. as well as I and many more,
owe our lives to him on more than one occa‘
sron."

“To what does all this tend. my lord?”
asked Captain Caldwell, with some show of
impatience.

“.You shall hear, sir, for [wish you to
fully understand the situation from my stand-
point. and there is ample time, for it is half
an hour before supper and you are not end

aged just now.” ' ' '

Caldwell hit his lip like a man vexed, but
Lord Erskine continued:

“Now, you must know, in your inmost
heart, that the trial of Stanwood was a farce,
as it was decided to hang him, only there
was too strong influence to back him for the
military court\ to go that far, so they com-
promised.” ‘

t “Your influence, my lord, for instance.”

“ Yes. and I do possess some little, as‘I
informed the gentlemen of that military court
they should discover.”

Caspar Caldwell winced at this, for his
rank as captain might still hang by a slender
thread. t -

"As I said, it was a farce, and now that
Stanwood is on his we to a- life imprison-
ment, and there is no anger of his in
mid-ocean, I beg, as he is my friend, that
you allow him to be free for the vovage and
accept the hospitality of the cabin, for as you
know I am, though a passenger, partly your
host." ' . ’ '

This was true, for Lord Erskine had, at
his own expense, most generally stocked the
catfin larders. and engaged the cook. while
his servant, Grimes, did the services'for both
Caldwell andrhimself.

“ I am sorry I cannot grant your requests
in lord, but I hhve no desire to sitatt is
With a~condemned criminal, nor to allo a '
man who should have been hangedtto Ago
fdréeek from his irons, having the liberty of the

c ." ‘ v

“As you please, sir; the cabin is yours, .
so at our service wholly— Grime-l” .

“ es, my lor .” . I, ‘
“ Transfer my bag go .to the ward-room,
the state-room a hi 3 Lieutenant Bonair
being vacant, and shall mess there for the
balance of the voyage.” /  ’-
“ Yes, sir. . r

“ But, my lord. you sure] will not make
yaviilmclf thus uncomfortab e?” urged 0de-
we ' W  

»“As I spent months as an oficer ottbis r '
ship in the ward-room, I know that the oar; .
ters are comfortable. andI shall bein p -' ~'
ant company with Bonair and-bis men."

"lcnnnot permit you totenre. , lord.”
said\ Caspar Caldwo l, whee-knew t his
own supplies were very scant and mean. and g
he knew how generous weretbose‘ot Lord
Erskine, and “W” the» rare old mines, ‘ I,
such as he had-h at inner. I  ‘  .

  
    
      
  
     
    
   
       
         
    
  

   
   
     
    
    
   
   
    
     
 
    
    

  

.‘eral re

' when

.‘ I "I dnn’t

‘altlnlln

“The/Shadow Silver Ship. '

19.

 

 

But he added:

“And all on account of that criminal,
Stanwood.” ‘

“Lieutenant Caspar Caldwell, when you
referred to Captain Noel Stanwood, awhile
since, as a criminal, and a man who should
have been hanged, I passed it over; but now
I notice it, only to say that if you offer an-
other insult to my friend, now in irons on
board this brig, I shall make it a personal
matter with you the moment we reach Eng-
land.

“ Good-evening, sir.”

In vain did the noxv frightened captain
call to Lord Erskine to return, that he
begged to offer an apology, for he had been
too hasty. v

Lord Erskine left the cabin, and Grimes
transferred his belongings to the ward-room.

 

Gas or Caldwell cursed himself mentally
fora 001, for the bottle of delicious wine]
set out for the evening meal. Grimes took I
with him, and the cook dropped supper half— ,
finished, and transferred his quarters to the 1
ward-room, greatly to the delight of the 0111- i
cers of that mess. _

Lord Erskine was not a man to be bullied, ,
and he saw that Captain CaldWell had de-
termined to persecute his prisoner, and more, ,
make him, Erskine, feel that he having ,
sailed as a passenger, had no authority ,1
aboard the brig once she was out of port.

A sailor cock was sent for to get the cap»
taiu’s super, and a meager meal it was, 
while Lo Erskine’s wines and ediblee were
lavishly placed out for the benefit of the ,r
ward-room mess, and his high-priced cooki
served up a supper that made the hearts of i
the ofilcers happy by catering to their appe- 
tites. - i

Soon after supper Lord Erskine, having:
been made most comfortable in the ward_
room. ste ped up to the otficerof the deck, ~
Brainard lonair, and asked permission to see
the prisoner. V

It was Cheerfully granted. and making his .
wav to the quarters of the warrant ofllcersfl
Lord Erskine found Neel Stanwood there,
ironed to a Irinrvbolt. and with manacles
upon ankles in .Wi‘lStS, this having been,
ordered by C plain Caldwell after sailing;
from Boston. . . . f

But the, proud spirit of the prisoner was '

not broken, and be greeted his visitor cheer-
.full .
' "glanw‘ood, my unfortunate friend, I ,
called to say that had hoped to better your ’
condition once. We were under way, but
Caldwell refused to allow you to go free, or
be confined in the cabin, where, as there
were but me of us, there was plenty of.
room."

“You are. most kind, my lord, but I to
you do not have troublc'wrth Captain .al .
well on my account. ’ Baldfitemwood.

“ No fear of that. my friend.”

“Yes, but there is, for I heard the men
laughing about how you snubbed the cap-
tain, and had left the cabin."

"1 am just as comfortable where Iam,
and the company is far preferable; but as I
know that a voyage to one in your condition
is most wearing. let me give you a ray of
hope, and that is the fact 0 therelbein sev-
bel enemies shadowing the Sea had-
ower, and to rescue you Is their ultimate

“lull In (39:, they have the brig now in very
close “afters. ,— Goodnight,” and Lord *
Erskine left a ray_of hope in the prisoner’s
hurt ma; gunned bl! face mtb Joy. “

CHAPTER XXXIL .
. nun nexus. . .
Caldwell ,was in every; bad humor
went ondeckafaer the frugal supper
i. own stores. ,
hefifiln "tend and his mulish nature‘
mm upkeep mini it. thoughhe knew that
word Erskine was a: dangerous man to have

“fill‘ln‘englt that he could not. becomured
becbhse he did not set the prisoner free to
enjoy the it of the ship, and how 1h.“
1m would ban id in his act by the Adam.

on

tor ham angered Lord
 could have, made his
no”; in. every diaerem; manner than what

, dangerous position, a circle, as Lieutenant

 and that they had a common purpose in view

': fitted, armed and sp.endidly equipped. the

settler, she as sucha spice
:1 f
er,

against you.

.but it will. be well to call the mentoquar-
J foresees to. fight it out.”

 

’heidld' game minnows. Mela. nit."

W" 303th» Who

was-@3001

watch in a short while when eight bells l
struck.

“ 1 would not like it, sir, were it not that
I have perfect confidence in myself and in
the brig,” said CaldWelI, haughtily.

“ You see, sir, that as we shortened sail,
according to your orders, the vessels astern
have crept up well, and those ahead are
stretched out so that we are pretty well sur-
rounded, should they all be enemies.”

This startled Casper Caldwell exceedingly.
He felt that he had been enjoying his dignity
in the cabin, headless of the reports sent from
the deck that his vessel was running into
close quarters.

He now saw that the craft on his star. .
board quarter was a large vessel, and sailing :
well, whileshe was not much overa league
away.

.The one on lhe port stern quarter was fully
a league and a half distant, and a brig.

Then there was a large schooner dead ahead,
two leagues distant, with one on each bow
half a dozen points, and equally as far off.

But it placed the Sea Shadower in a very

Bonair had said.

There were many clouds to the windward,
and there would certainly be a blow before
morning; but now a moon just entering its
third quarter showed all the craft in sight,

seemed evident.

They could not be all British crafts, and
if Americans, how was it possible for them
to he in that latitude together?

"What do on make of them, Bonatr?"
asked Caldwe somewhat anxiously.

“ That they are Americans, sir.”

“But how is that possible!"

“Well, sir, the Americans are getting a
navy rapidly, and also a number of pri-
vateers afloat.”

“ But here are five vessels."

“True, sir. and my idea is that asit has
been known for a couple of weeks that the
brig,wouid sail to-da , that she has been re-

Yankees concluded that they wanted her, so
sent every available craft to head her 013 and
surround her. ,

“We should have run for it when these
vessels were sighted ahead.”

“ I fear no rebel craft, Mr. ,Bon,air.‘?
“Very true, sir; but there are five here
n0w.”

“ldo not believe they are all Americans
-—-do you my Lord Erskine?”

Caspar Caldwell had humbled himself to
address Lord Erskine, who when he came
on deck. had walked away to himself.

“I beg pardon, sir, but did you speak to.
me?” , ‘ 2

“Yes, mylord, I asked your opinion as,
to those five vessels." ’

“I observe, sir, what has doubtless e -
coped the attention of both Lieutenant
Bonair and yourself.” ,

“ Yes. sir?” - ' a

“ Just before sweet I noticed that each of
the five carried a large red flag at the tom.”

“ Indeed ‘2" ~

“They did ‘

“This would seem tube a signal.“

“More so, when as you now observe they
each carry a red light at the fore.” -

“ You are right, my lord. and this proves
that the vessels are all under the same flag-—
was it the rebel flag, my lord?” -,

“It was too far to distinguish more than
that they were large and of crimsonhue.”

“Thou you think the brig is in atight
place?” , ,

“ I would consider any other vessel as
good as ea tured, but the brig is such a fleet

id battery and

a large crew, do the chances are that she may
run the outlet.” " , ,

“Par on, my lord, but I would like to
you/deem it best to hold on Y" '

o, for you run, into the circle of fire

from - five foes," while if you wear around,

square away. before the wind and run for

it you bring, but the two beeselsto leeward

"I thank you; and will trike. your advise;

“ Certainly, Captain Caldwell, and it is
unfortunate that cocci. the schooner: is not

 

in the place of the lat e , care-tiger who“
guns must be‘heavy ages},      j,

,x'faperuhe at

“How would it do to beat up to wind-
ward?"

“No, you could not do it. fast as the
brig is, without getting into close quarters
with two of them, while to run before the
‘wind you can cross the line all of a mile
away from the square-rigger, and half that
much more away from the schooner."

“That is so. my lord, and I will call the
men to quarters, prepare the brig for action,
then square away and run for it.

“Mr. Bonair, prepare the brig for action,
sir!” -,

“ Ay, ay, sir," and the order was given.

Then, to the amazement of all the officers
of the brig the men formed in column and
marched back to the quarter-deck, and at
their head was Jack Ross. -

CHAPTER XXXIII.
THE CREW OF THE SEA SHADOWER.

” WHAT does this mean?

“‘ Go to quarters you devils!" roared Cas-
par Caldweil, as he saw the men, almost :0
a man, march aft and confront him as he
stood upon the quarter‘deck; Lord Erskine
and Lieutenant Bonair near, and the other
officers of the brig, a dozen in number.

' grouped not far distant.

Jack Ross replied, and his voice was dis-
tinctly heard, while what he said was to the
point.

“I have the. honor, Captain Caldwell. to
be chosen the mouth-piece of my mates,
though I am but a new man aboard ship."

“Well, sir, I ordered you to go to quar-
ters. a ‘

“ Why do you not obey?"

“ That is just whatmy mates desire me to
make known to you, Captain Caldwell, and
I beg to say that they believe the vessels in
sight to be American cruisers.”

“I know them to be, sir, and I desire to '
cut through their line."

“ You will have to secure another crew
then. Captain Caldwell, for it so happens
that the warrant officers are all Englishmen,
while out oi the one hundred seamen you
shipped, seventy of them are Americans. ”

“ Ha! mutiny?

“ Do you mean to mutiny, you devils?"
yelled Captain Caldwell, livid with rage.

“No, Captain Caldwell, there will he no
mutiny, for that time has passed. as every
one of your warrant officers, and the ten .
English seamen are all lying drugged below ‘
decks, and we, the Americans, are masters
herc— Hold! if you attempt any act of vio-,
lenco you will be swung up to the ardlvarm;
that I will tell you frankly; but so mit, you ‘
and 'our officers, and your lives shall be
spared \

" We are in deadly earnest, Captain Cald~
wall.” ' ,

“ To turn this craft into a pirate,” sneered
Caspar Caldwell, who felt that he was utter-
ly at the mercy of the crew. , ,

He had his sword alone on, and the several 
ofllcers on watch had their weapons; but
Lord Erskine and the others had not their
side-arms on, and it was noticed that the
marines had their muskets and stood at a
“ ready."

“Captain Caldwell. you are mistaken. sir.
{07' we do not intend to turn this brig into a
‘pirate, but simply to change masters and

a s.

é{‘Norcrosa, please bring the one whom we
have decided shall command the brig."

N'mk Norcross went below, and the silence
that followed was painful. Caspar Caldwell
pacing the deck like a caged lion, while Lieu-
tenant Bonair stood ready to die in defending
the brig if necessary. » v _

The other omcers grouped together worse in
awful suspense. and powerless;

‘11: for Lord Erskine. he stood with
wheel calmly surveying the teens, it e one
who held. no interest in what was  g

in . l _ 9 h _ 
Thus sereral moments passed “my. my} , I. .

then CaSpar Caldwell, grown ‘ g a,

whee??? toward the ore: and   I, 
‘ ilyougoto Memo!" 1  
“ We will not, sir?” firmly respondedJaok‘

"Thaleh‘all run you throu A thehenrt. -
8h;  ,"a _ Captain Cal well stepped
terms. wt, his sword agitatdhdtgp , , a.
I But Jack did murmurs, pullth ., 
 awqutctwsmfie  

of t
l

 

 

~._..s...

20

“Do not throw your life away, Captain
Caldwell."

At this moment Nick Norcross returned,
and there by his side was the prisoner, Noel
Stanwood, but no longer in irons.

“Men, what does this mean?" and he
glanced over the crew and then at the group
of officers.

“ It means, sir, that the crew shipped for
this British brig happened to be mostly
Americans, and that we have decided to be
masters here, haul down the ensign of a
king, and hoist the Stars and Stripes of our
new nation, while you, Captain Noel Stan’
wood, we greet as our commander.”

A wild cheer followed the words of Jack
Ross, and the heart of Caspar Caldwell al-
most ceased to heat, so intense was his
fury.

At once did Noel Stanwood reply, and a
silence that could be felt rested upon all.

“Captain Caldwell, and you, Lord Ers-
kine, and you, brother officers, I wish to say,
upon my honor, not a hint of this was
knOWn to me until my irons were taken off
and I was brought here before 'ou.”

“A likely story this, Sir irate,” hissed
Caspar Caldwell.

But unhecding him, Noel Stanwood con-
tinued:

“As, however, it so happens that I am a
prisoner on board, sentenced to a life impris-
onment for crimes I am guiltless of, as I
first captured the craft from her pirate mas-
ter, and thrice saved her from capture by
buccaneers, once saved her from being
wrecked, and while her commander cap-
tured for the British king an armed prize,
and a merchantman, for which I received
no prize money, I may say with justice that
she is the very vessol I hold a claim upon,
and owing no allegiance to George the Third,
but every allegiance to my native land and
its eople, I shall accept the command thus
ten ered me by this patriot crew—”

A wild cheering here drowned the voice
of the speaker, but moving his hand for
silence, he continued:

“ I shall accept the command of this brig,
thus offered me by an American crew. in
justice to them, as a duty to my country,
and an honor to myself, but upon con-
ditions."

“That I am to be hanged, I suppose, Sir
Pirate?" again sneered Caspar Caidwcll.

Again unheeding him, Noel Stanwood re-
sumedl

"My conditions, my men, are that Cap-
tain Caldwell, his oflicers and his honored
passenger, Lord Erskine Enders, and those
of the warrant officers and Englishmen
among the crew who so desire, shall be
lande in safety, with all of their belong-
ings, upon the coast of England.”

“Better hang the ca ’n,” shouted a voice,
and instantly it was ta ‘en up, and a roar of
cries came:

“ Hang him i”

“ Hang Caldwell!”

“ String up the Britisher!”

“ Yard-arm Caspar CaldWelll” '

“ Hang himi”

“ Kill him!”

“ Shoot him, lads!”

“ Silencel"

Above the voices rung that of Noel Stan-
wood, and he fronted the wild crowd of
shooters.

” Men, I will have none of this, so put me
back in my irons, as I acce t, only under
the conditions I have named), to command
this brig."

“Captain Caldwell lied at the trial, to
hangHyou, sir,” cried one.

“ .e was mean to you, sir, and meant to
bewbrse.” '

“You have heard my alternative, men, so
what is your answer?"

“That we would let the devil himself go
free, to have you for our captain, sir,” cried
Jack Rosa’s manly tense, and he swayed the
excited men his way.

“Yes, Jack Ross says right, eh, men?”
chimed in Nick Norcross, and then came in
chorus:

“ Yes, yes!”

“ Three cheers for our rebel captain i" .

They were given with a will, and spring-
in upon the quarter-deck, Noel Stanwood
raised his tarpaulin and said:

“ Men, I thank you, and you and I will
make a name for our splendid vessel.”

 

Then turning to the officers of the brig, he
continued:

" Captain Caldwell, you and your officers
are. my guests for the cruise, if you will only
give me your parole not to interfere in any
manner whatever with the working of this
brig.

“ I hope you will give me the pledge?”

All eyes turned upon Captain Caldwell.

His face had turned to the hue seen on the
faces of the dead.

His pride, his ambition, his dreams of
honor and fame were dashed by one fell blow
to the ground.

He remembered how he had said that he
was glad to have so many Americans in his
crew, for he would soon get them killed off,
and put brave Britons in their place.

Already while in command he had spared
his Englishmen, and put the work upon the
Americans.

He had made incompetent men, in most
cases, warrant officers, because they were
Englishmen, and not an American on board
had been advanced in the slightest, while
those whom Lord Erskine had appointed
while commander, he had removed on petty
charges for his own favorites.

Now he was face to face with an outraged
crew, and the man whom he had done all in
his power to send to the yard-arm, and whom
he had had in his power as a prisoner, was
now his master.

A man to whom he had refused any cour-
tesy, whom he had removed from his state-
room in the ward-room to be chained, double-
ironed, to a. ring-bolt forward among the
men, now hatl it in his power to make him
suffer, and instead, had bade him welcome as
his guest.

Words would not come to him as he stood
there before Noel Stanwood, and in a speech-
less rage he turned upon his heel and sti‘ode
toward the cabin.

CHAPTER XXXIV.
A CHANGE OF MASTERS.

“ STOP, sirl”

It was Lord Erskine who confronted Caspar
Caldwell as he walked toward the cabin, and
his voice was stern and threatening.

Captain Caldwell started, and would have
stepped to one side and continued on his
way, but Lord Erskine still faced him and
said sternly:

“ Captain Caldwell, as man to man, sir, I
speak, and I demand that you show that you
are not devoid of all manhood by facing this
gentleman, this crew, and speaking for your
officers, if not for yourself.

“ Your vessel has been taken from you
peacefully when in an hour more she would
have been captured by force of arms from
your enemies surrounding you upon the sea.

“ The prisoner placed in command accept-
ed his captaincy only on conditions that you
and your officers, myself and those of your
crew who so desired, should be safely land-
ed upon English soil.

“ Then he asks for your parole, our parole,
and makes us his guests for the cruise.

“ Do you, Captain Caldwell, in the face of
all this, dare to turn your back upon him, to
enter his cabin, leaving your officers and
men at his mercy and to the fury of a justly
enra ed crew?

“ demand, sir, as your superior in rank,
if not your commander now, that you act as
a king’s officer should, as a man at least.”

The withering sarcasm of the angry noble-
man made Caspar Caldwell fairly Writhe,
and his officers almost pitied him under the
scathin rebuke of Lord Erskine, who when
ar0use was known to be a very dangerous
man. .

For a moment Caspar Caldwell could not,
or would not speak.

Then he said huskily:

“My command has been taken from me,
sir, b a band of mutineers, who have
place apirate prisoner as captain over them,
and it is not my desire or my intention to
accept any favor from a criminal and an out-
law, so I leave you, Lieutenant Bonair, to
make what terms you can. while I retire to
my cabin to await your report.

“As for you, my Lord Erskine Enders,
now is not the time to resent your insulting
words.”

“ 0h, any time for that, Caldwell,” was the
indifferent reply as Caspar Caldwell again
moved on. ,

 

The Shadow Silver Ship.

But now it was Noel Stanwood whohalted
him, and his hand fell heavily upon the
shoulder of the British officer.

“ l-Ioldt

“You refused my hospitalityin the cabin...
and you shall now accept it forward.

“ Mr. Norcross, put this man in the irons.
you just removed from me.”

A murmur ran around upon all sides,
while Caspar Caldwell gave utterance to a
mingled cry of horror and anger.

Then he dropped his hand, which was
raised with his sword in it, but with an exv
hibition of streugth that was marvelous, it
was wrenched from his hand, thrown to the
deck, and the blade broken from the hilt by
the heel of Noel Stanwood, who said with
strange calmness:

“ You are unworthy, sir, to carry the wea—
pon.

"Mr. Norcross, obey my command, air.”

In an instant the unfortunate captain was
seized and dragged forward, while clear rung
the command:

“ To your posts, lads, for a better look at
our sea. neighbors ”

The crew with a cheer sprung to their
posts, while Lord Erskine stepped forward
and said:

“ Captain Stanwood, for myself let me
thank you most sincerely for your extreme
kind ess."

“ on are more than welcome, Lord Ers-v
kine.”

“And permit me, my dear Stanwood, to
offer my hand in congratulation at your es“
cape, and gratitude for your action toward
me,” said Lieutenant Bonair, who, though
deeply pained at the loss of the brig and the
utter discomtiture of Caspar Caldwell, could
not but be glad of the escape of Stanwood,
and thankful that himself and his brother
officers had not been put in irons and sent
below.

If there were any sore-heads among the
group of officers, none felt bad enough to
wish to follow the example of their captain,
and they came forward to a man, and thank-
ing Stanwood, gave their parole and were
told to kee their present quarters until their
arrival in ngland.

“ Now go forward, Norcross, and rouse
those poor fellows you drugged into uncon-
sciousness, and see if any of them care to
ship under the new flag, for as Americans
have had to serve under the British ensign, a,
return of the compliment is but fair.

“ Those who do not, and who show a dis-
position to be ugly, confine below decks, but
all who wish to serve as seamen, allow them
to do so.”

When Norcross had gone on his mission,
turning to Lord Erskine and the group of
officers, Stanwood continued:

“ I am very sorry, gentlemen, that Captain
Caldwell forced me to take the steps that I
did with him, and which you all witnessed
was not my fault.

” He has been my bitter foe, why I know
not, except that I am an American; but I
meant to treat him with marked respect had
he allowed it.

“ Now, I must see first what those vessels
are, for if they should be foes, then I am in
rather close quarters.”

“ Permit me to relieve your mind. Captain
Stanwood, for I happen to know that those
vessels are American cruisers, or privateers,
sent out by General Washington to capture
this brig, especially to rescue you, sir, from
your unjust and cruel sentence—see, each
one carries a red light at her foretop, and it
would be well for us to send up the same, as
we are getting well in ran e now.”

The speaker was Jack 08%, and all lis—
tened with deep attention to his words, while
Lord Erskine’s face was the picture of inno-
cenCe.

As Lord Erskine had hinted as much to
Noel Stanwood, and Jack Ross now avowed
the nature of the five cruisers, the young
captain was convinced that there was some-
thin in the red signals, and so said:

“ am glad of your explanation, Mr. Ross,
and permit me to retfiest that you serve as
my first officer, Mr. orcross being second,
w ile the others I will appoint in good time.
Oh, Mr. Norcross, I have just made you In
second officer; but what say the warrant o -
fleets and men below?”

“ The boatswain, sir, is an American and
a good man, too, so says he would gladly

 

,:

i
.
i
'l
i
.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Shadow Silver Ship.

 

 

 

21

 

 

have joined us if we had not been afraid to
try him. The others are growlers and very
sore over it, while about one-half of the sea-
men are glad to be with us.”

“ That is fortunate, so bid the boatswain
continue his duties as such, and those of the
men who are with us send to their posts,
while the others keep below under guard.
'Lord Erskine, I am happy to have had a
bloodless victory.”

“ You are fortunate. indeed, Captain Stan-
wood, and I congratulate you,” was the an-
swer; and just then up to the foretop went a
large blood-red lantern to match the signal
lights shown upon the five other vessels, now
verging toward a. common center with the
brig the object of their attraction.

CHAPTER XXXV.
Tun RED REBEL.

THE sending up of the red light on board
the brig, to the i'oretop, seemed to be a sur-
prise to the other vessels, to judge from the
movoments on board. as on each craft a red
lantern was waved. beginning with the large
ship and then going the rounds.

This was not (lone:upon the Sea Shadower,
for Noel Stanwood determined to make no
mistake.

The nearest vessel to him now was the
ship, not over half a league away, and the
furthest off of the other four was not over
two miles.

Then came the sound of the drum on the
ship, heating to quarters, and it was followed
by a like call on the others.

“Mr. Ross, I shall bring the ship to, for I
do not care to receive a broadside from our
own people, if they are so, as you believe,”
said Stanwood.

“ It is the best plan, sir, and if they Sce we
offer no resistance, no shot will be fired at
us,” responded Jack Ross, who had, with
Nick Norcross, taken his promotion very
coolly, though delighted at being so ap-
pointed.

The brig was accordingly brought to, and
the crew stood at the guns, ready for action,
yet not expecting to go into a combat, from
what Jack Ross had said to them about the
vessels.

Lord Erskine and Lieutenant Brainard
Bonair stood apart, talking together in a low
tone, and the other British ofilCers were in a
group aft, also Conversing. and their theme
was the unwarrantable conduct of Captain
Caldwell, for whom not an atom of sym-
pathy was felt. _

In fact it was the general belief that Cap-
tain Stanwood had been very lenient with
him, considering all the circumstances of the
case, and his own situation.

The brig, while 1 ing to, was calmly
awaiting the arrival o the other vessels, pre-
pared to meet friends or foes.

The men were willing to fight, if so their
commanders ordered it, and the brig had
only lost about a score of men, all told,
through the change of masters.

That Noel Stanwood was an idol amon
the men. all could see, and he certainly h
won the admiration of his British guests.

So far he had not entered the cabin even,
but Grimes had been ordered to make Lord
Erskine and Lieutenant Bonair comfortable
therein. and a state-room was fitted up for
the new captain.

The vessels now were very near, and with

' guns run out. their men at the guns, battle
anterns in place and all ready, were coming
down upon the brig.

It certainly W88 3 most critical moment,
and yet N031 Stanwood was perfect] cool
and glanced over his ship and crew w m the
look of a man who meant to greet them as
friends if they 80 proved, or enemies if it
was necessar so to do.

Nearer an nearer until the lar '
within hailing distance. so 3111p "a.

Then came the hail:

u Brig ahoy!”

 

‘ Ahoy, the ship!”
" What brig is that?”

“ The Sea Shadower, from Boston and
bound to London.’

“ You are Surrounded brv foes and it would
be madness to resist, so Inppoge you Bur-
render?"

" Who and vahstrare ytiuf”

" The arme c ipper ron Win , on
John Paul of the American Navy.’s pain

u Ah, glad to meet you, Captain Pu]. and

 

to know that you are of the American
Navy.”

" Is not that a. British brig?”

" She was until an hour ago, sir, when she
changed hands.”

“ Ha! What do you mean, and is there not
an American prisoner on board in irons,
Captain Noel Stanwood?”

“ There is a prisoner on board, sir, and in

irons; but it is Captain Caspar Caldwell the
British commander, and it is Noel Stanwood
who is now speaking with you.

“ Will you not COIJiC aboard, sir?"

“ With pleasure,” and the armed clipper‘ ,
was now luffed near the brig and a boat soon 5

after shot out from her side, while the brig

and three 'schooners carre up and formed a ,

circle around the Sea Shadower.

Captain Paul was met at the gangway by
Noel Stanwood who, in a few words, told
him all that had happened.

The American commander of the Iron
Wing was amazed and delighted, and asked
to call the commanders of the other vessels
aboard, whom he had not met, and said:

“ I had my orders from General Washing-
ton to put to sea in all haste and look you
up, and the oflicer who brought my dis-
patches informed me that similar instructions
had been given to the captain of a brig and
two schooners, but it seems we have one
more than I expected."

“ Permit me, Captain Stanwood, to request
that you show the hospitality of the ship to
your comrades in arms.

“ The truth is, Captain Paul, I happened
to fit out the larder and sideboard of the bri
for my own comfort, and our modest frien
here seems to be afraid to ask you all as

guests, but I will do so, and beg that you '
hail the different craft for your captains to i

come on board."

The manner of Lord Erskine showed that
he meant all that he said, so that Captain
Paul at Stanwood‘s request hailed;

“ Ho! the brig Racer, ahoyl”

“Ahoy the British brig Sea Shadower,”
came the response.

“I am Captain Paul of the armed cli per
Iron Wing, and for Captain Stanwoo of
this brig, ask your presence on board.”

“ Ay, ay, sir.”

Then the schooner Brimstone was hailed
with nearly the same conversation following;
next the Spray’s captain being called aboard.

Captain Paul then called out, as the fourth
vessel unknown by name to him:

“Ahoy, the schooner!”

“ , ay, sir.”

“ hat schooner is that?”

“ The American privateer Spitfire, Captain
Nathan Dale, out on a hunt for the craft that
had Captain Noel Stanwood on board as a
prisoner.” '

" AY. 3y, sir, you are cruising in a good
cause, 80 Captain Noel Stanwood requests
you to come on board the brig.”

“ AY. fig, Sir. at once.” .

ifierent captains boarded the brig.
they were met by Captain Paul, who then led
them to the cabin where Noel Stanwood
had one and presented them to him, after
whic he introduced Lord Erskine. Lieuten-
ant Bonair and his first officer, J uck Ross.

“Gentlemen. I have asked Lord Erskine
Endcrshand Lieutenant Brainard Bonair of
the British Navy to remain and meet on,
also as witnesses that my statement 0 the
case to you is a correct one.

” I may say that I regret putting you to so
much trouble to attempt my rescue, and then
forestalling you in it, but that is the fault of
my splendid crew, for they took the am and
then placed me in command, when was
forced to put Captain Caldwell in my un-
fortunate situation as a prisoner.”

Then, modestly, rapidly and clearly, Noel
Stanwood told his stor , and the five Ameri.
can commanders hear all with amazement
and pleasure, and Captain Dale came very
near giving away the part played in the in-
tended rescue by Ethel and Pearl, but was
checked'by a touch and a warning look from
Jack Ross.

“ The truth is, gentlemen, I was just fit.
ting' out for sea, when I learned about the
sentence of Captain Stanw00d, and was told
that he was to be taken out to England in
this brig, and other American vessels were
going to try and entrap the craft and rescue
him. I saw the schooner Spray here, and
her captain told me his orders, so I joined

forces and have become one of the capturing
force.”

Refreshments were then served, and Lord
Erskine told his story of Noel Stanwood's ad-
ventures. from his joining the brig on the
coast of Peru and saving them from the pi-

: rates. up to that night’s adventure, adding:

“I am an Englishman, gentlemen. a king’s
officer, and I intend to do my best for my
country, but i am free to confess that I be-
liever that you Americans will gain your inde-
pendence. May I ask you to drink the
a health of Captain Noel Stanwood, a mantrue
as steel to friend or foe?"

The toast was drank with a bumper, and
Captain John Paul proposed the health of
Lord Erskine and Lieutenant Bonair, and
' added:

‘ “I am glad, gentlemen, that you have

fallen into such safe hands and good company
as Captain Noel Stanwood, for whom I pre-
diet a glorious career.”

After some further conversation the five
captains took their leave, for the wind was
rising and the clouds were threatening now
to break in storm, and as the Sea Shadower
moved away once more in her interrupted
course, the Iron Wing led off with a cheer
from her crew and thirteen guns in honor of
l Noel Stanwood, the Racer followed suit, then
, the Brimstone and the Spray, and last the
' Spitfire, when the Sea Shadower answered
9 the salutes, burned a blue light and sent up
lto the peak the new flag of the struggling
; patriots, a flag which had been presented by
g the commander of the clipper, who, when on
1 a schooner, had been the very one whose ves-
i sel Noel Stanwood had refused to fire on or
. attack, when carrying the brig to Boston in
; company with the two prizes.

I And as the beautiful vessel, under reefed
‘ Sails. sprung away on her course across the

sea, Noel Stanwood said in a low earnest tone
to his faithful friend and lieutenant:

“ Now, Jack, we are on aship that will win
us fame and fortune, and strike a blow for
our loved land.

“ Once I have landed these British officers
1 and men, and the Red Rebel, as I was called
in the military court, shall be heard of from
sea to sea, from land to land.”

And this, from the lips of Noel Stanwood,
was no idle threat.

CHAPTER XXXVI.
PEARL LEARNS A sncnn'r.

THE brig had sailed, and Ethel, Pearl and
Mr. Stanwood were to be in suspense until
they heard the result of the gomg of the
American cruisers after her.

Several days after the departure of the
brig the frigate returned from her run to
Halifax, with Paul Revere on board, and
Pearl went to her home to bewith her father.

0f the mysterious disappearance of the
butler she said nothing to compromise her-
self, so that Mr. Revere considered also that
the Press Gang had picked up his butler.
and discovering him to have been a thief.
and a spy upon his household, he considered
it a very good riddance.

The papers found in his room from Frank
Farley, paying him money and giving him
certain written instructions, Pearl had kept
for future reference, except one, with no
signatures, stating that he was to keep his
eye upon Paul Revere and his daughter,
which was proof enough of the butler being
a sp .

MI". Revere reported that the frigate,
when coming in, off Marblehead, had seen
three vessels flying the American flag. a brig
and two schooners, seemingly cruising to-
gether, but of course they were not foolish
enough to venture within range of a broad-
side of a large vessel.

The day after the arrival of her father he
made earnest inquiries after the prisoner,
Noel Stanwood and Lord Erskine.

Pearl told him of the sailing of the brig,
and more, she said:

“ Lord Erskine has promised to me his in-
fluence with the king, father, to get a pardon
for Noel, and I believe that he will get him
set free.”

“ I think not, for the king will not pardon
an American at this time, you may be cer-
tain.

" But when will the earl return?"

“ The earl?”

“ Yes, Lord Erskine is. now. that his
father is dead, Earl of Edmondfleld, and

 

 

 

22

ossesses about the largest estate in Eng-
an .”

"He deserves it, sir; but as he did »not
even refer to his greater title, or inheritance,
I did not know to whom you referred when
you spoke of W can't.”

" Well, when does he return?”

“ He hoped within six months at furthest,
and hinted that he intended to fit out a
cruiser for his own command.”

“ Well, he will hardly visit Boston then, I
fear?"

“ Why, father?"

“ That rebel chief Washington will be in
the city before then.

“ I would not say so to others. my child,
but I am sure that the Americans will drive
the British to sea, and then there will be an
American army here.”

" And you, father?”

“ My child, I am sordid enou h to confess
to you that the deep interest felt in the
British cause was, not to lose my vast finan-
cial interests here. -

“ I have hommitted myself in no manner
to the British, save by pecuniary aid now
and then, and I am wise enough to see now
what I did not at first believe'possible, that
the Americans would win, and so I remained
loyal to the king in one sense of the word.

“ But a short while since I began to hedge,
so to steak, and when Washington comes
into Boston .at the head of a victorious
army you will find that he is my friend."

“ Ah, father!” and Pearl felt her face flush

‘ltily, while she was also glad to know

that her father was leaning toward the
patriot cause, though his motive was a selfish
one. ,
“ Of course, 'Pearl, what I sa to you I
would not to other livin soul, or in these
days of bitterness I won d, if suspected, be
no more safe than Noel Stanwood, and every
dollar we have would go, and it is my desire
to make you heiress to a very large fortune
one of these days, which must be matched
by the man who asks you to beliis wife.”

“You seem to forget, "father, that I am
pledved to Noel Stanwood.”

“ Iis imprisonment cancels that engage-
ment of romance between you two.”

.‘" But I have an idea that he will not re-
main long a prisoner, and if the Americans
hold Boston, then he can return.”

“Well, wait until he does return; but he
will never escape from the depths of an Eng-
lish prison, mark my words on it,” and the
words of Paul Revere went deep into the
heart of his daughter.

That afternoon Pearl went - over to the
Stanwood cottage, '

She saw a carriage there, which she knew
to belong to Frank Farley, and neither Mrs.
Stanwood or Lucy were visible, but Ethel
was in the parlor, and had just entered the
room, from what Paul overheard. .

She did not mean to eavesdrop, she yet
meant to protectEthel from a man who
she now knew had the blackests of hearts.

She Would not make her presence knoWn,
but she would keep near in case she was
needed by Ethel. ‘ -

'When Ethel entered the room, she heard‘
' Frank Farley say: ' '

‘ 'f I suppose you are sorry to see me,
Ethel?” v I y

" I cannot saythatit is a pleasure, air,
and I am'isurprised that oushould again
cross the threshold of my ome.”

. “ Well, I come for a purpose, and I will

soon makejit k1: own. - f
’ "Do you not congratulate me upon being
' again'able to be out " i

, “ I am not so wicked, air, as to wish to see
even you suffer, Mr. Farley, and I certainly
am gla, that, you did not ,-die of your
wound."  l  ‘ '

"’Mywound wetness proving fatal. curses
‘upoo that 33m, ere,

‘ “1 balls that homes to kill -‘me.”
“No, or he would have. been successful,

a V “for he isa‘deadly‘ one most, lllr. Farley, ,

, and on brought t 'dnel'up‘on yourself, 1
 ' r5.” '   ,. vi, . I r‘ ‘ . ,
“ Ab! he has told you.” ' 
“Nd, Lord Erskine'dtd not refer to the
raflair; and or: forget that Mr."Rc7ere.“
Lieutenant rainardllOonlmodore Tate and
' others were*prssent=whomiiknow;a' they
“all agree that you forced the quarrel.“ 5) met

 domain  . ,
to unmet“

O

 a.  3
i  smelt-.5, tans-tries

i

revent my appearing against your brother
'oei at his trial.”

“lie did prevent it, did accomplish that
purpOSe without having your life upon his
hands ”

“ Yes, and my testimony would have
hanged your brother ”

“ I do not doubt but that you so desired,
and knowing this Lord Erskine, not wishing
false teeth/tony introduced, decided to prevent
it, and when your name was called, your sur-
geon had to appear for you.”

There was a quiet enjoyment in hitting the
merchant hard raps, and Ethel was deter-
mined not to spare him.

“ Well, I did intend to have Noel sen-
tenced, for a purpose, and then I intended
to have him pardoned, on comlz't'o'ons.”

“ And your conditiOns, sir?"

“ They are open now to be accepted, for it
as in my power to get for him a king’s par-

on.

“For certain services rendered the king,
and his forces here in America, I received an
autograph letter from his Majesty, and it
tells me that any favor I ask shall be
granted.

“ New I am of the same mind now that I
have ever been, that you are to be my wife,
Ethel, and if you will do as I ask, I will
make you a solemn pledge and carry it out
at once.” _ .

“And what is it you ask, sir?"

“ That you give me your written pledge\
to become my wife on my carrying out cer-
tain conditions.”

“ Amd those conditions?” , v

“ That I fit out a craft ind sail at once for
England, obtain the king’s pardon for your
brother,and have him bring me back to Amer-
ica. when he can take the vessel as his own,
and upon a letter from him that I have kept
my promise, that you fulfill your pledge and
become my wife.’

CHAPTER XXXVII.
m unnonmr’s THREAT.

“ WE'LL, Mr. Farley, I only have to say to
your proposal, that I refuse it decided-1y, and
more, that as for the conditions, I would
rather die than become your wife.”

“ By Heaven, irl, you shall rue this,”
cried the maddeneld man.

“ If you could make me do so I feel that I
would; but, you are powerless either to

harm my brother, or to injure me.

“ Time was when I listened to your plead-
ing for me to marry you to save my brother,
and to put my mother back into her old
home to gain for her the life of luxury she
had alwa 3 known. , ‘

“ But did not intend to sacrifice myself,
knowin how cruel would be my fate as your
wife. till, for those I love I can suffer
much. But my brother is now under a life
sentence and on his way to En land, and on
can do him no more harm. on have one
your worst and he has escaped being han ed
as you he (1 he would be. So now, r.
Frank Ear ey, I Wish you to leave my home
apd never cross its threshold again. Go,
a rt” 1 '

But the man did not move. He sat lolling
back in'his chair, gazing at her with a sinis-
ter smile. \

He was not an ill-leaking man, for he was
gentlemanly, dressed in great taste and had
passed his fortygflfth year, yet looked
younger. .-,

It was only when studyin his dark eyes
and gazing behind the runs v of suavity he
always were that one could see his real char.

. Met. “ .

His face was pale now, and he was thinner r

than was his went, from the fact that he had
just risen from his bed of sufferln ». from: the
Wound received in his duel with rd Ers-
kine just'h'eforetho trial of Noel Stanwood;
and which he now know was given him by
the‘noblemsn to prevent his appearing as a
witness against the prisoner; ' , . ,. n

‘r » ‘4 ail, “Ethel Stanwmd, you have- had
your say, so now listen tone; I am ‘not- a
man to be cast idly aside, to be despised and

insulted evoniby a Mutual woman such as:

A u are. You say that I can now do your
other no horns. You are mistaken, as I
will show» you. _ A,
said, salt for England and :carry to the king
certain evidence/t1! a conspiracy on the’. part
offloelhmwwd-to assassinate his Ma est},-

 

  hin to order your: 1 at
, . J I t ‘ “é

twill {It outfthatvessd as I .

TheIShadow Silver Ship.

once into the hands of the hangman. You
know that the king can do this, and if I spend
half of my Very large fortune I will have
your brother hanged. Now I will do more,
for I will show that your mother was in this
conspiracy, and she will be arrested, thrown
into prison and sent to England, also, and be
executed.

“Ethel, my dear, I shall sail for England
within the month, and if you care to check
me you have only to become my wag/e.

" I will leave you now.”

“No! nol no! I will accept your—”
“No! never!”
The last Speaker was Pearl Revere, and

she strode into the room.

In her hand was a rapier which had be-
long to Captain Stacey Stanwood, and was
much prized by his wife, Ethel and Noel.

It was alsokept on a bracket over the man»
tel in the dining-room, and was a magnificent
weaplon.

“ earl! thank Godl” cried Ethel, and she
,sunk into her seat almost overcome.

As for the man, he gnashed an oath be-
tween his tecth, and hissed forth.

“ May I ask why you thus intrude, Miss
Revere?"

Pearl stood just inside of the door, and
the rapier had space to swing in her hand.

Somehow it quickly dawned upon Frank
Farley that he had heard Pearl spoken of by
the otheers as a finished swordswoman. her-
father having taught her the use of weapons
from her girlhood.

She certainly handled the weapon now in
a manner that looked dangerous, and be con-
cluded he would leave the room and the
house, so he said:

“ As you have broken in upon my visit to
Miss Stanwood, I will take my departure.”

"Hold! You shall not leave this room,
Frank Farley, until you have heard what I
have to say‘.

“Sit dowu, sir, or
sword-point,” and Pea
guard.

The man dared not venture, so said with a
sneer- ,-

" I would not be rude to a lady, so what
is it that Miss Revere has to say?”

“Just this, sir: that vou were once the
lover of this lady’s mother, and refused by
her you became revengeful, but )yet did not
have the courage to show your atred; and
pretended friendship.

“ Captain Stacey, feelin sorry for you
made you his partner, an not adollar til
you ever put into the firm. but, the enormous
profits you banked in your own name. .

“In truth, in a few years you became mas-
ter, and when he was lestiat’ see. you ha

ossession of his fortune and pretended that
he was banking. \ ' ' .-

“You took t e elegant home of the Stan.
woods from them, and gave them» the pit-

you shall feel this
r held the rapier on

or.
" Having failed to win the mother, on
strove to marry Ethel, the daughter, an as

her, with the old home for her mother and a
ship for her brother. , l
‘ “ This failing, you tried another rest
and then endeavored to have Noel Stanwood,
sent to the yard—arm. , v.
“ Now you .come here with more thrusts,
and in frightthis, oor girl was about-to ac.
cept your terms w an I decided tofaee you,
and knowing that you arecoward enou h to
attack. a woman, I took down this good lade
to protect Ethel and myself“. w ~ t ' a .,
» " As for year threats they are harmless,
and if you; again come .to this; house,, on
nersecuteltrs. Stanwood and \her daughter,
I will ask my father topi'otect‘them, and you

if oncedie turns upon one. '
f‘There is the doom-sir,

heard my threat—~ oi"   .,, t. .

y The man wnlke around the raplei‘a‘oint

to the door. ‘ V, .. . , ya» -

t Then hemmed and said:
“ Yes. I have heard your

beer mine. : .  5...
~« "Ishallsail Within thornth
land. I shall get possession .
wood, and it h sstster  «become in

and you have

in 7
>353



«nonlinear: to Emmi 
rend.

 

1 VIEW 

the yard-hmwtvmr 

game‘s"?  Stir t 15-7  ’ ,'  i ,- , ~'
I}, ‘ ‘ .-, . ,'

I ,

tance of a few thousands, leaving them really ,

she despised you, yoh tried to force her-to-
beeome your wife ~byoiferingto purchase

know Frank Farley, that-bomb deadlyloe ‘

 

 

.""°~..-.g, .. . .. ,.

 

The Shadow Silver Ship. .

as;
we... ‘

 

“Now she knows what to expect."

With this the man left the room, and he
Was followed by a merry, yet mocking
laugh from Pearl, and that rallied Ethel
from her condition of terror, for her friend
said:

“Barking dogs seldom bite, Ethel, and he
is harmless.”

 

CHAPTER XXXVIII.
NEWS.

A MONTH passed away, and affairs in Bos-
ton town began to look very gloomy for the
British.

General Washington was drawing his
lines closer and closer, and Lord Howe be-

an to feel that the Americans were besieg-
ing him with an earnestness that threatened

ultimately to drive him out of Boston, or to'

capture him and his whole army.

The British soldiers became sullen, and
upon short allowance, their tempers were not
improved and they treated the citizens with
more and more unkindness, in a number
of cases with the greatest cruelty.

The wisdom of Frank Farley was evident
at this juncture, for he had purchased a
prize brought in by an English frigate, under
whose guns it had run in a fog, and decided
to make a special cruise in her.

The craft was a brig, and she was said to
be phenomenally fleet, but Frank Farley ad-
ded improvements to her, increased her
sail, and with his fortune put on board de-
cided to go to sea.

If the English remained the victors,
then he would be an Englishman to the core,
and loyal to the king.

If the Americans triumphed, then he
would naturally go with his own people.

So it was be fitted out this brig, called her

‘ the Relentless, and put to sea in her as a

privateer. .

lie was anxious to have a few prizes to swell
his fortune still more, and asa British Letter
of Marque he could enter London, place his
“ proofs ” before the king, get possesmon of
libel Stanwood, and then return to keep his
threat if Ethel did not accept his terms.

It was a well-laid scheme, and with a fleet,
well-armed, formidable vessel, a crew of
ninety men, and 00d officers under him,
Frank Farley had come a very dangerous
enemy.

The news of his sailing, of course, reached
Ethel and Pearl; but they had already seen
his vessel put to sea. and noted that she was
large enou h to be dreaded.

No wor had come of the arrival of the
brig Sea Shadower in London, nor of the
capture of her by the American cruisers, so
they were still in suspense as regarded the
fate of Noel Stanwood, and this suspense was
be inning to tell upon them,

ut one day the frigate British King came
into port with a schooner in tow.

The schooner was nearly dismantled and
badly scarred up. and under the British flag,
union down in deriswn, floated the American
fla .

The schooner was the American privateer
Spray, which had run In by night into a
coast harborage, to discover in the morning
the British frigate lyiri‘g half a. mile from
her, the crew busy getting out spars ashore.

She attempted to fly, but the frigate gave
her a broadside, and the schooner became
almost a wreck.

When the commander of the British
King came ashore at the club_ that evening,
he had a piece of startling intelligence to
make known. to the effect that the captain
of his prize informed him that he. With four
other vessels, had been lying in wait for
the British brig Sea Shadower, and had
run her into a triangular trap, from which
ghe could not have escaped; but, upon
the brig offering no reelstanqe. they ran
down to her and were muted aboard,
in discover that she had shipped in
Boston a crew of picked men, three-
fourths of whom had been Americans.

These had seized the P118, Placed the
prisoner, Noel Stanwood, in command, and
hoising the “Rebel” fla _ .had 80119 on,“
cruise. or a piratical expe “1011, the “P3313
of the British frigate could only guess
which. ,

What, the captain of the schooner; Spray,
had told him about Noel Stanwood 8 treat.

ment of the officers he seemed to forget, as he
said that Captain Caldwell had been placed
in irons, and doubtless the rest of the officers,
while the American would doubtless vent
his spite tipon the brig’s commander, as he
had been known to be his foe.

With this startling news to tell. Paul
Revere went home earlier than was his went
from the club, and Pearl heard it from her
father’s lips.

She could scarcely sleep that night for joy,
and after breakfast hastened over to the
Stanwood cottage, bursting into the room
where Mrs. Stanwood sat with her face
radiant, while she cried:

“Oh, Ethel! oh, Mrs. Stanwood! Noel is
free!”

Then, as soon as she could collect her
breath she told the news, and after a long
talk together it was decided that Mrs. Stan.
wood should go down to the military prison
and endeavor to see the captain of the
American privateer, Spray.

The girls anxiously awaited her return,
and the moment that they saw her face they
knew that she had been successful.

Slid had been refused by the commandant,
but Prince Paul Revere coming along had,
through his influence gained her access, pro-
viding a guard should be present.

The captain bad greeted. her pleasantly,
said the fortunespf war were against him,
but that in a small schooner surrendering to
a frigate there was no dishonor.

He had run into the little harbor for new
spars, and had found the frigate there, pilot-
ed in by some traitor American.

Then he told of orders received from
- General \Vashington, to go in Search of the
Sea Shadowcr, and what had followed,
meeting the American privateer, Spitfire,
Captain Dale, and the boarding of the brig,
and meeting Captain Noel Stanwood. Lord
Erskine, and Lieutenant Bonair, as also the
newly-appointed officers of the brig under
her new flag, Jack Ross and Dick Nor-
cross.

J ust why Captain Caldwell had been
placed in irons he made known, and also
that it was Captain Stanwood’s intention to
land the British officers and men somewhere
upon the English Coast, after which he
would cruise as an American privateer.

With this news the three were delighted,
and yet there was a shadow u on their joy,
for they knew that if Noel Stanwood Was
captured by a British vessel he would be
hanged.

And more, he was daily in danger of death
upon the high seas, and then Frank Farley
in a large brig, well armed and manned, had
gone to sea and might catch Noel with his

iminished crew. _

Still, he was for the present free, and that
was a cause of thanks, though as yet no news
had come of the arrival of Lord Erskine in
England, with the others ofthe brig who
had been officers and seamen of the king.

And there had been ample time to hear,
even had the brig been a slow vessel.

So it was that the news spread over the
town, the Americans rejoicing, the English
rulers in a rage, and the commander of the
British forces branded Noel Stanwood in a
“ Special Order," as “The escaped convict
and Red Rebel of the Revolution.”

———-_...

CHAPTER XXXIX.
A TIMELY WARNING.

THE storm which had been threatening,
burst upon the brig Sea Shadower and sent
her flyin on her course acress the ocean.

Lord rskine and Lieutenant Bonair, with
several of the iniddies, approached Noel
Staéiwood, and the former spoke for all and
em :

“Captain Stanwood, we are anxious to
help you out, until you get your ofli'cers ap-
pomted and crew organized, and will do
regular watch duty on the brig on the run
over, onl 'askin to be relieved if you should
attack a ing’s 8 ip, should you meet one in
your run across. »

“We do this as in duty bound for the
kindness shown us, and also for the safety of
the vessel, knowing that
cers to aid you you cannot do yourself or
your vessel justice.

“ We await your answer, sir."

 

 

 

with but two 0113- .

“And shall have it at once, Lord Erskine,
for I accept with thanks the generous offer
of yourself and friends, and feel that my offi-
cers will be glad to yield place to yourself
and Lieutenant Bonair as seniors, as it will
the better instruct them in their duties."

“ Gentlemen, please hold yourselves ready
for duty. and in return permit me to say
that I will not raise the American colors over
the brig until you are safely landed in Eng-
land, nor will I engage in any action. or
capture any prize while you are my guests
aboard.”

“ We certainly could not ask so much,
and you are most generous, sir, and we
thank you," and with this Lord Erskine,
Lieutenant Bonair and four middies reported
for duty, both Jack Ross and Nick Norcross
gladly yielding them precedence under the
circumstances.

Through the night the storm raged, but it
had swept around and was favorable to the
brig, and she went flying along on her
course.

When the sun rose the next morning no
colors went up to the peak of the brig, and
the men made no comment, for they under.-
stood the situation perfectly.

In the cabin were Lord Erskine, Lieu-
tenéint Bonair and Stanwood, and the latter
sai 2

“ It is not my wish to be harsh to Captain
Caldwell, gentlemen, and Lieutenant Bonair,
as Lord Erskine’s relations with him are
strained, Ibe you to go to him and say
that if he wil give his parole to make no
trouble1 I will be glad to drop the past and:
entertain him as my guest.”

This message Bonair bore to the captain.

He found him in an ugly mood, chafing
under his irons, and refusing to taste the
food placed before him. _

“Well, sir, you have come to show me
that ifI was not true to my king, I could also
enjoy the freedom of this pirate ship," he
said, savagely.

“ Captain Caldwell, I never insult a prisr
oner, nor strike a man when he is down, so-
I make reply to you, sir, only that you hav-
ing lost your ship are no longer my com-
mander, so I beg you to be more choice in.
your language, as you would not dare, under
other circumstances, all things being equal,
to cast the reflection that I was disloyal to
my king, because I, not like you, are not in
irons.

“But I came not to quarrel, sir, but to
bear a message.”

“ From whom?”

“Captain Noel Stanwood, sir.”

“ Captain? You mean Meter Stanwood,
or Sailor Noel Stanwood f"

“ N o. sir, I mean just what I say, Captain
Neel Stanwood sends you a message.”

“ Well, what says the pirate chief?"

“That he has no desire to be harsh with
you, and, if you will give your parole to
cause no trouble on board the ship he will be
glad to free you and ask you to accept a
berth in the Cabin as his guest.”

“ He is kind,_in my own ship! but I refuse,
sir, I refuse, and so tell the devilish pirate.”

“Ali! you prefer to be a martyr, to tell

our king how much you suffered for
ove of him; but, Captain Caldwell. I fear
you will not find officers or men Who will
uphold your course. For your sake I am
sorry you will not be reasonable, and I bid
you good-morning."

The irate officer gnashed his teeth with
fury as the lieutenant left, and instantly re-
gretted that he had not yielded, for the irons
were galling to him.

“ No, I will stand it; and m king will ap-
preciate my sufferings, while can make out
a case against Erskine Enders, Bonair and
any oflicer who has accepted favors from this
pirate Stanwood."

Such was his determination.

But when Lieutenant Bonair returned and
reported the result of his visit, Lord Erskine
said with sarcasm:

f“ He is playing the martyr to hurt the rest
0 us."

“ Then his mart rdom ends at once,” was
the stern reply 0 Noel Stanwood, and he
called for Jack Ross. .

“Mr. Ross. 1 wish you to go and release
Captain Caldwell from his irons. Say to
him that there IS a state-room in the cabin,
another in the ward-room, and, a hammock in
the steerage at his service, so to take his

 

 

    

24:

The Shadow Silver Ship.

 

 

 

choice. but that I shall be more pleased if he
will come into the cabin. Tell him that I
demand no parole from him, unless he desires
to give it of his own free will; but that if he
causes trouble with his brother officers, my
officers or any of the crew of this ship, or in-
sults me or one of my officers on duty, that I
shall hang him to the yardarm five minutes
after he is guilty of the offense.”

“ By the Lord Harry, but Captain Stan-
wood is in deadly earnest this time,” said
Jack Boss to his friend Dick, who was officer
of the deck.

Then he went upon his errand.

Captain Caldwell scowled at him as he en-
tered his confined quarters; but Jack Ross
was not the man to mind that, so took a seat
and drew the keys of the irons from his
pocket.

“ What do you mean to do, Sir Mutineeri”
savagely said the British officer.

" Captain Caldwell, I bear to you a mes-
sage from Captain Stanwood, with an order
from him to take off your irons.”

“ I care to receive no message from him,
and I ask not to be set free.”

Without heeding this interruption, Officer
Ross continued:

“ Captain Stanwood told me to say to you
that there are three quarters at your service,
in the cabin, where he would be most glad to
have you come, in the ward-room, or a ham—
mock in the steerage, at your own will.

“ Whichever you are pleased to accept,
will please him; but should you, now that I
have unlocked your irons, insult any officer
of this ship, seek a quarrel with any of your
brother officers, or create any trouble among
the men, he will hang you to the brig’s yard-
arm five minutes after such offense is com-
mitted.

“You are free, sir, and if you will per-
mit me to say so, I beg to tell you that Noel
Stanwood. as you should know, is not a man
to trifle with, or make an idle threat.”

With this Jack Ross walked away, and
ordered the marine on guard to no longer
hold watch over the British captain.

Caspar Caldwell stood in silence a moment,
and then, as though having made up his
mind to his course, he smiled in a. sinister,
wicked way and walked on deck.

He cared not to be thrOWn in companion-
ship with Stanwood, Lord Erskine, or Brain-
ard Bonair, so took up his quarters in the
ward-room. where offlccrs Ross and Nor-
cross, besides his own comrades, had state-
rooms.

And it was with no pleasure that his junior
officers acacpted the honor done them.

Upon deck he neither looked toward Stan-
wood, nor spoke to Lord Erskine or Lieu-
tenant Bonair, and yet with all others ap-
peared to be very friendly.

“ That fellow means mischief, Bonair,”
said Lord Erskine one day, referring to Cap-
tain Caldwell, whom he had noticed to be
growing very familiar with the junior offi-
cers of the brig when under his command.

“ I have observed his actions, my lord,
and agree with you.”

“You had better have one of the officers
wean, him, for Stanwood meant all that he
sat .

“Yes, and Stanwood knows every act of
his, though Caldwell is bl.nd enough not to
see it. i
“I will et Percy to give him a hint, and
also will I hint to those young fools that
they are toying with the end of a rope," and
Lieutenant Bonair went off in search of
Junior Lieutenant Percy.

CHAPTER XL.
A DUEL AT nu.

hr Noel Stanwood knew that Ca tain
Caspar Caldwell meant trouble, he di not
show it b any act or word.

He he the crew show the respect to the
British captain, due his rank, whenever they
met him on deck, and he would also salute
him, though in silence, when they passed
each other. ‘

The bri was making good progress. and
Lord Ers ine had selected a place on the
coat of the English channel as the best
place to lend them all, and in thin selection

0 had been guarded, not caring to run the

 

 

brig into the midst of a hostile fleet when
she should venture into English waters.

Between himself and Stanwood the warm-
est friendship had sprung up, and he had
told the young privatcer captain that he loved
his sister, and hole one day to return and
claim her hand, but this, of course, was to be
held as a secret between them.

He had also given Stanwood warning that
he was sure that Caldwell was up to mis-
chief. but the American made no reply and
smiled blandly.

True to his promise he had not hoisted the
flag of the American States, and he had
avoided every vessel met with at sea.

Lord Erskine and the other officers who
had volunteered to serve on the brig, did
their duties well, and Stanwood had selected
a third officer, or lieutenant from among his
men, with four junior oflicers to serve as
midshipmen.

Tne warrant officers had also been ap-
pointed, ani the very best men selected for
the posts.

These were all learning their exact duties,
while the crew were drilled daily and the
discipline of the vessel became so thorough
that Lord Erskine said that it was not ex-
celled on board of a single frigate in the
Royal Navy.

One night,whcn nearing the English Coast,
Lieutenant Percy was on duty as officer of
the deck, and by a coincidence every officer
on watch at the time was an Englishman.

Lord Erskine and Bonair had retired, and
Noel Stanwood had also gone into the cabin
and was supposed to be asleep. '

The men on watch happened also to be
the Englishmen who had joined the brig’s
crew after her seizure by the Americans, and,
whether accident or design, it did look as
though matters were looking very bad for
those in command, should the Britishers on
board attempt to seize the vessel.

Soon out of the ward-room came a cloaked
form and advancing toward the young lieu-
tenant, asked in a low tone:

“Percy, are you still a fool?"

“No, Captain Caldwell, I am simply just,
and true to my pledged word.”

“ Bah! a. parole given under force and of
no account." ,

“Lord Erskine and Lieutenant Bonair do
not so consider it, sir.”

‘.‘ They are as great fools as you are. You
still refuse, then?"

“ I do, sir, and as an officer on duty. unless
you refrain from tempting me to dishonor
myself, I shall call for Captain Stanwood.”

“ Do so, for I wish to speak to him—go,
and ask him to come on deck.”

In sur )rise the young officer turned, and
as he did so a stunning blow was dealt him
and he fell to the deck.

At the same time Captain Caldwell called

ut:
“110, British bulldogs! to the deck, for the
brig is ours!”

There was a rushing of many feet, cries,
oaths, struggling. yet not a shot was fired,
as a stream of men oured out of the ward
room, steerage an hatches and Captain
Caldwell sprung forward to make fast the
companionway.

He started back in alarm as two bayonets
met him, and he heard the stern command:

” You are a prisoner, sirl”

He drew his pistol and pulled trigger, but
the powder flashed in the pan.*

Then he turned to find Captain Noel Stan-
wood on deck, and the crew going to quar~
ters.

“My God! I have been betrayed,” he
groaned.

“No, sir, you have simply been under
watch, and the drug you supposed put in
the men’s food at supper was not dangerous,
bein salt.

” ut the men pretended to be overcome
by it. as did my men in ward-room and
steerage. and you. with seven brainless fools
who hold rank as king's midshipmen, and
twenty men who believed that they could
seize the ship, a ter I allowed them to go
free. plotted to ta e her. '

"Lieutenant Percy suffered because he
was too honorable to join you, and I am glad
to see that he was merer stunned.

“ Now, Chptain Caspar Caldwell, I should

0

 

‘In those days nintlock firearm: only rammed.-
, Amon.

carry out my throat and hang you, yes, and
every one who joined in your plot; but in-
stead I will put your allies iuirons, and you.
sir, Iwill give a chance for your life, for I
challenge you to a mortal combat on this
deck.

“ You have boasted that had you been my
adversary instead of Lieutenant Brule, you
would have killed me, and you pride your-
self upon your skill with the sword.

“Take your own weapon, sir, and by the
battle-lanterns we will settle the quarrel be-
tween us,” and the Red Rebel faced the
British officer with a look that showed the
duel should end the life of one of them then
and there.

Caspar Caldwell was almost crushed by his
failure.

He had believed his success assured, and
yet in the moment of seeming triumph he
had met with failure.

Officer Jack Ross had played his part well,
for the moment that the English crew be-
lieved they were masters of the deck, and
went below to iron the supposed unconscious
Americans, they had been seized, and in an
instant found themselves in irons.

So it had been in the ward-room and steer-
agc, and when Lord Erskine and Lieutenant
Bonair, all unconscious of trouble until
aroused by rushing feet, came on deck, Noel
Stanwood was master of the situation and
they heard all that he said to the crestfullen
Englishman. ‘

“ If you mean, sir, that if I kill you I shall
receive' my vessel back. Igladly will I meet
you in mortal combat,” airly hissed Caspar
Caldwell.

“I did not mean that, sir, but I am not
going to be particular about trifles, so will
grant it as you wish, so get ready, sir, as I
know Lieutenant Bonair will act for you,
and Oflicer Ross for me.

“I am now ready, permit me to add,” and
the battle-lanterns were brought and placed
so as to wholly illumine the brig’s quarter-

ec .

Captain Caldwell was not long in prepar-
ing, and soon faced the Red Rebel, sword in
hand.

At a word from Lieutenant Bonair the
blades crossed. and the scene was a pictur-
es ac and thrilling one in the strap gle of the
British officer and the Red Rebe for mas-
ter .

13f some of the crew had felt anxious, and
the mutineer officers hopeful at the compact
made by Noel Stanwood with Captain Cald-
well, the views of both at once changed, for
they saw that the American was playing
with the British commander.

In a minute after the sword of the Red
Rebel crossed that of the British captain, the
latter was disarmed, Stanwood’s foot upon
the blade and the point of his weapon at the
heart of Caspar Caldwell.

“I will not kill you, sir, but you go
into irons. and I will so land you upon
your native land,” and Noel Stanwood
turned away, when all expected to see him
drive his sword through the Englishman‘s
breast.

In an instant Captain Caldwell was seized
and heavily ironed, while Lord Erskine
said:

“Stanwood, my noble friend, your pa-
tience passeth all understanding. for I would
have surely killed him had I been in your
place.” a

“ As 1 would also have done,” Lieutenant
Bonair added.

Two nights after, the brig landed the party
on the English Coast, and, as he had threat-
ened, though be freed the others, Caspar Cald-
well was left in heavy irons, and the keys
were taken away in the Sea Shadower,
when. hoistin the American flag, she set
sail as a Rebel ver of the Revolution.

CHAPTER XLI.
Tim nan REBEL’s BED wonx.

Within the spring drew near, General
Washington began to press his lines closer
and closer around Boston. .

Provisions had become so scarce that there
was absolute suffering, and when at last
Washington threw a force upon Dorchester
Heights and erected works, Lord Howe had
no alternative but to give up trying to de-
i fend the place any longer. I

Finding that he co'nld not dislodge the
Americans from Dorchcster Heights, and

 

 

t

 

 

‘7‘." a: . n1

 

 

 

 

 

a

that their guns commanded the city, he was
driven aboard his ships, and wrth many
families started for Halifax. thus evacuating
Boston, and being thereby defeated by Gen-
eral Washington.

News had come in during the first months
of the new car of 1776, of the career of a
wonderful rig that was preying upon Eng-
lish commerce, and a vessel that arrived
bearing paroled prisoners. reported that the
craft was known as the Red Rebel, a nick-
name whlch the British had given to her
captain.

The brig Red Rebel was flying the Ameri-
can flag at her eak, and the private colors
of her comman er at the fore—a blood-red
flag, in the center of which were a pair of
broken manacles in black.

It was an odd design for a flag, but it
spoke volumes.

The news of the Red Rebel havin abroad
as a foe to Great Britain reached our ome in
Boston before it did any other.

A dispatch ship arrived from London, and
a letter came thereby addressed to Paul
Revere. .

Upon breaking the seal Paul Revere dis
covered a letter inclcsed bearing the ad-
dress:

“ MISS ETHEL STANWOOD,
“ Barnes: Cornea,

' “ Boston.
" Kind courtesy of

" MISS PEARL REVERE."

This letter was given to Pearl to deliver,
and she hastened to the Stanwood cottage
with it.

It was Christmas Eve. and better news
could not have been received, to relieve the
suspense of Mrs. Stanwood and the two
young girls. .

It was from Lord Erskine Enders. Earl of
Edmondfleid, and it was very interesting
reading. . '

The etter began by g1v1ng the story of the
seizure of the bri by its American crew, the
a pointinent of 061 Stanwood captain, and
all that followed. _

It was one theme of praise to the gallant
young sailor, and ended by hoping to be in
America before very long and once more in
the king’s service, while it said:

“ When we were landed that night 11 n British
soil true to his three:{ Cagtain Stanw left Cain-
well in irons, and car ed t e keys with him.

“ It was two fiiays before we could get mm freed
from them, an when I reached London 1 M the
entire facts before the king.

“ But though all kindness to me the kin was in g
rage with your brother. and saw Caldw is can”.
as right, and looked upon him as a martyr.

“ The trouble was, news brought in my dispntche.

roved to his Majesty that he would not be able to
gold Boston much 10 e . and that his Colonies

were in great danger of ing lost to him.

“ Then too the loss of the brig was a he. one, as

had built his hopes upon the Sea 8 ower-
all): is to run down the lost Silver Ship, and
thus solvi that mystery 0f lat

“ t on. however, word has been received
was?“ was cked up heart the name of the
Wind itch, an with two dead ies in it. and ;
half-written statement that the Silver Ship bu!

wn at sec.
899531: other vessels have since reported that the
Shadow Silver Ship is still afloat. .

“’1 am fitting out a. vessel to take command of,
and may be, as she is very fleet, 1 may be able to
run down this remarkable ocean rrélynstcry.

“Now to your;J broitghlftr s cruise eehe landed us

an the coast n
um His Govomm'isnt certainly must be maxim“.
fled attire id record he is making, for c has
the whole nglish coast in an it roar. and between
his brie and the fdgste‘gffJghril Hg] Jones, Engugh.

ver w e u n g i .

ms‘iymgd uy good authority that the Red
Rebel as your'brot er and his vessel both are known,
has taken scores of . fought several sea com bats
successfully. and retaliated upon the British by land-
ing is :1 our com and giving us a taste of fire and
as some of our cruel naval offloers did on the
Awfdogi; $3531.: his career will not meet an end

be and. but then. my friend. hoe] is amply
able to take care of himself and his ship.

.“ You may expect to hear of me in Boston Harbor
soon, in commando! m brig-ot-wsr, which the king
named for me the Bull , when I had intended she

nil hear the name 0%. my queen. and you may
ess who she is
an“ I Ibo will give you a piece of news just reapind,
that. the king was moved by Captain Coidwe is en-
trcotiss and promises, and sends him to son to-mor-
mw as a full-fledged captain. and in command also
or a brig of large tonnage and well armed and

“She 'is altorcd from a noted merchant racing
Chip. and if Cnidde cannot make a name on her he

connotonan craft: bnstonidwsrn himtostcor
choroftbo BobsLinspitcothhflsrm

k

 

The Shadow Silver Ship.

“Let me tell you, also, that your old enemy, Frank
Farley has been here.
" He came in truly a very flue vessel, and fitted out
at his own ex use, and bringing in several 
y»

g?)- the king, e .vas made a captain in the
8V .

u is e r 9
nearly thargw miifiigiligoiogir gifting!- E83355
his Majesty to capture the Rod Rebel for im, and
those are my instructions, too, from my king; so
you See Noel will have three or us especially after
him, not to s ak of those who will always be anx-
ious to haul own the Red Rebel’s colors.

“ If he is to be taken, I rather hope the honor will
fall to me, for various reasons which. if you cannot
guess, ask our sweet friend, Miss Pearl Revere, to
guess for you."

Such was the letter which Ethel Stanwood
received upon Christmas eve, and she could
not but admit it was the best “Christmas
gift” she had ever received.

Mrs. Stanwood wept tears of 'oy over it,
and Pearl clapped her little han s with de-
light at the fame the Red Rebel, her lover,
was making for himself

Soon after news began to arrive from
abroad. and it became very evident that the
Red Rebel was spreading terror along the
whole English Coast.

It was known that the Bulldog bri of-
war. under command of Captain Ers 'ne
Endcrs, Earl of Edmondfield. had sailed in
search of the Red Rebel.

It was also known that the king had made
Frank Farley acaptain in the Royal Navy,
and sent him after the Red Rebel.

Then it became known that Captain Cas-
par Caldwell was in command of a fleet,
splendidly-armed vessel, and had the one
aim in view, the capture and hanging of
the Red Rebel.

And et March came and Lord Howe was
evacuating Boston, but no report had yet
been received of the capture of Noel Stan-
wood and his vessel, though rumors were
rife of the damage he was doingto British
commerce.

And also it became known that the strange.
Weird craft. the Shadow Silver Ship, had
not been lost, for once more had she appear-
ed in the offing off Boston, in broad daylight,
to sail away seaward, distancing every craft
sent in chase of her.

CHAPTER XLII.
SHADOWED T0 roar.

LORD HOWE was permitted by Washington
to sail from Boston. with his soldiers, his
navy, and the sympathizers of the king.

The fleet moved out of Boston Bay ma-
jestically, and as the prows were turned to
the northeast a white sail appeared, com-
ing‘out of an inlet down toward Cape Cod.

he vessel was a bri . and armed. and at
the peak fluttered the ag of the infant na-
tion, and at the fore it blood-red flag with a
pair of broken manacles in black in it.

The brig sailed along in majestic style,
and unheeding the frigate consort in the rear
of the fleet of merchant craft, swept by and
sent a shot at the outpost guards of the
squadron.

She dipped her flag toward Boston, fired a
salute of thirteen as, and then ran close in
toward a British 3 nop-of-wsr and sent a shot
from a large pivot-gun mounted forward,
crashing into the enemy’s decks.

The guard-vessels turned upon her, but
she was too fleet for them, and her long range
pivot inflicted damage where she escaped
their flre.

So it went on through the night, the daring
vessel haunting the enemy, shadowing them
as It were, her great speed enabling her to
sail at will around the fleet. which could
not but go at a slow pace, with its numerous
vessels.

That those on the fleet might be at no loss
as to who their foe was, the signals ran up
£2331 the brig, until all gazing upon her

“THE RED REBEL."

'The fleetest vessels of the squadron were
dispatched after the daring cruiser, and vet
With no other result than to sail for nothing
tangible. ' r

And so it went on durin the sail to H 1'-
fax, the British fleet was ghadowed all :hle

 

wa .
Not a vessel that carried women or chil-
dren or was not armed, was fired upon by
the Red Rebel, only those craft that could
hit back.
So it went on until at last a brig-of—war,
one that had arrived in Boston to meet the

 

25

fleet going out, was dispatched by Lord
Howe 1n chase of the American cruiser.

This vessel carried a heavy armament,
sailed like the wind, was fully manned, and,
was known as the “Merciless.”

She drove the Red Rebel from the start,
which was off Halifax Harbor, and the
admiral, seeing her gain upon the fleet
American, though slowly, regretted that he
had not sent the Merciless at once in chase
of her.

The night was coming on as the two
dropped the land from sight, and the Merci-
less was steadily gaining, though the Ameri—
can appeared to be sailing her very best.

Slowly the British vessel gained, until a
couple of hours after dark she was in range
and opened tile with her how pivot.

The American replied, but his shot fell
short, and it was another hour before his
guns reached the Englishman.

But the British craft had done the Red
Rebel no damage, until at last a shot struck
her decks.

As if by magic, she turned and lay upon
the waters.

The British were wild with joy, for the
shot must have done terrible damage.

She flred several more shots, and bore
down to board.

But suddenly a red light was burned upon
the American, illumining his decks like day,
and her men were seen stripped to the waist,
and at their guns.

And more, she was now under fighting
sails, began to move through the waters, and
sent a broadside, a raking tire, upon the Mer-
ciless.

Every gun seemed to have been aimed b
a dead shot. for two guns were dismounteir,
the bulwarks gashcd terribly, a to mast shot
away, and a dozen men lay dea upon the
decks of the Briton.

Quickly the American bore down it on
the Englishman, pouring in aterrible re,
and the effect was appalling.

Nearer and nearer she came, until the roar
of the guns of the two combatants were
awful, and heard by the distant fleet at
anchor in Halifax, all felt that at last the
Red Rebel was to be taken.

Nearer and nearer came the Red Rebel.
moving rapidly. avording broathides, and
with a fire that was meet deadly streaming
from the muzzles of her guns.

Nearer and nearer, until at last she was
laid alongside of the Englishman, and a tall
form, wearing a glistening boardin helmet,
leaped upon the decks of the Merci ess.

“Boarders, follow me!" had been his cry,
and he had been obeyed with such an irre-
sistible rush that he was fairly at the ear-
ter deck before much resistance coul be
oflered.

"Now, Caspar Caldwell, we meet upon
what I will call, for courtesy’s sake, equal
terms—Have at you, sir!”

The speaker was the man in the glistening
helmet, and as he spoke he crossed the cut-
iass of Captain Caldwell with his own.

But the terms were not equal, for the
Merciless was the larger ship. carried four
guns and fifty more men. and Captain Cald-
well was not a match for Noel Stanwood,
the Red Rebel, who cut him to the deck with
a mighty blow of his cutlass, and then with
his own hands hauled down the colors of
Great Britain.

" Thank Heaven the brig is not much
hurt, and they fired at random, so my brave
men escaped.

“But get on the prize, Jack. and follow,
or we wi l have the whole British fleet upon

us.

"Repair as you sail. and if we ge separ-
ated, Boston is our port.”

With these orders, as soon as the prisoners
were in irons and a prize crew put on board
under Lieutenant Jack Ross, the Red Rebel
headed southward, also repairing damages
as he sailed. _

The two vessels lost sight of each other in
astorm the next night, and the Merciless
arrived in Boston to spread the fame of the
Red Rebel. _

The next night flashes like the firing of
guns were seen far out upon the sea. and
they grew brighter and brighter, and more
rapid each moment until at last it could be
seen by. the watchers, and they were many,
that two vessels were engaged nth. flames:
of combat.

 

 

26

rm

The) Shadow Silver Ship.

 

For more 'than an hour the fight raged,
the vessels coming nearer and nearer together,
until at last the flashes of the guns seemed to
'be commingled.

Then the distant roar ceased, and the red
flashes were seen no more, darkness hiding
all from view. V

And anxious hearts were in Boston that
night, for it was reported that one of the
combatants was the Red Rebel. seen lying
in wait near Nahant in the afternoon for
some foe.

And after her action with‘the Merciless,
and with her crew lessened by those sent on
the prize under Jack Ross, it was feared
that the Red Rebel had more than met his
match.

But at last the darkness lifted from the
sea, the sun rose clear, and coming up the
bay were seen two vessels.

One was the Red Rebel and she was in the
van.

The other was an unknown craft, larger
than the brig, and her British ensign was
beneath the Stars and Stripes.

Both the vessels showed that they had been
in'a fierce combat, and the Britisher looked
as though he had been badly worsted.

As they were saluted by the Castle the
Red Rebel signaled his name, and also:

“ Have as prize British brig-of-war Relent.
less, Captain Frank Farley, who is mortally
wounded.”

An hour after the anchors were let fall,
and Captain Noel Stanwood went to head-
fiiarters and reported his capture of the

erciless, and the death of Captain Casper
Caldwell, and, the capturevof the Relentless
and mortally wounding of ' her captain,
Frank Farley, formerly a Boston merchant.

From there he went to the cottage on the
hill, and the welcome that he received, I
leave for the kind reader to imagine, for my
pen is incapable of doing a description of
the meeting justice.

After spending some time with his mother
and sister, Noel Stanwood Wended his way
to the Revere Mansion, where he knew that
some one awaited to greet and honor him.

He had been already told by Ethel that
Prince Paul Revere was an honored friend
of the American commander, having in re-
ality never been loyal to the king, but ap-
parently so, and in correspondence with the
patriot leaders all the while.

But, though this was the belief, Ethel
hinted that Paul Revere had switched over
to the Americans when he saw that in cling-
ing to the British he whs going down with a
sinking ship.

Noe Stanwood was perfectly willing, how-
ever,'_to give Paul Revere's lo alty the benefit
of the doubt, for his sweet aughter's sake.

He was met at the parlor door by Pearl,
and here too the curtain .must be lowered to
shut out the scene of joy.

At last the lovers were broken in upon by
the arrival of Paul Revere.

He greeted the'nOw famous Rebel Rover
quietly. but with no enthusiasm.

But Noel was not to be rebuffed, and boldly
told Mr. Revere of his deep love for his
daughter, and that she had promised to be.
come his wife at an early day, with her

father’s consent! -

Then did Paul Revere turn upon the
young sailor, and his answer came in these
'words: H

“ Captain Noel Stanwood, you ask for my
consent for you to claim my daughter as
your wife.

“ I shall give it, sir, onl when you return
to Boston with the Sha ow Silver Ship as
your rize.

“ ow, sir, you have in answer, so if
you love her, go and win her Land!”

"To win sucha prize, sir, I would struggle
against the impossrble‘, sir, and I oto know
my fate," and with a farewell to earl, who
was in tears, the Red Rebel left the mansion.

Ten days after, and without seeing Pearl
again, he set sail. '

_ The Red Rebel had gone to capture the
Silver Ship—a Shadow ofthe Sea ! .

u—i-‘u—

‘eiur'rsa XLIII.
A 01mm ATONED.

Wr'm American prisoners found on board
the two prizes, Merciless and Relentless, the
Red Rebel was manned with her full com-

 

plement, and no craft ever sailed from port
better fitted for a desperate cruise than did
the vessel over whose destinies Noel Stan-
wood held sway.

Ignoring all efforts to make a hero of him.
the young sailor had gone on board his vessel
and devoted himself to work, and so it was
that ten days after the alternative given
him by Paul Revere. he sailed from Boston
Bay in search of the Shadow Silver Ship.

People wondered, but said that he had
gone to seek greater fame.

His two valuable prizes, turned over to the
Government. were being fitted out as cruisers,
and with the Americans in Boston, an army
was there to protect it, and the forts were
strengthened to heat off any force that might
attempt to attack the town.

A few da 8 after the sailing of the brig
Red Rebel, rank Farle sent for Paul Re-
yere, for he had been tol that he could not
we. ' v

Paul Revere did not go to see him until a
second and more urgent summons came.

Then he passed through the grounds and
entered the mansion adjoining his own,
which had once been the home of the Stan-
woods, and where Frank Farley dwelt, and
had been carried it on his coming into port
wounded and a prisoner, for the surgeons
had said that he could not live.

“ You sent for me, Captain Farley?” and
Paul Revere seemed strangely nervous. ‘

“Yes; sit close, for 1 am dying, and we
must be alone.”

Then he continued:

“ I wish to review my past, our past, Paul,
for I desire to atone for the evil I have done.
You loved the mother of Noel Stanwood, as
I did, and together we made a plot to get rid
of him. It well might have succeeded, but
he escaped death at the hands of the man

who was to have killed him, although you -

paid for the work. He came back just as
you were about to steal from him the woman
he loved, and who loved him, and you never
forgave him. You pretended to, but on
never did. As we were both in that crime
together, my lips were sealed; but I know
that you were the one who prevented me
from marrying Ethel Noel, for you got me
taken off to sea on a long voyage, by drug—
ging my wine—nay, do not deny it, for I
know, and it matters nothing now. But I
got my revenge, for the wife you recently
married, you knew, I was the cause of her
leaving you, she and her child. I cared for
her forgears, while you searched in vain for
her, an then married that Cuban heiress,
the mother of your daughter Pearl. Your
first wife died when your son was twelve
years of age, and then, after I had buried

er, I sent the boy to sea. That was the last
I ever saw of him until he crossed my path as
first lieutenant of Noel Stanwood’s brig. His
name is Jack Ross, and a brave, noble fellow
he is. To carry out my revenge, I have ar-
ranged for him to know his parentage and
that Pearl is his half-sister. And more, I
have arranged for Noel Stanwood to know
that I did rob his father, that every dollar I
have made belon s to the wife, son and
daughter of the ate Stacey Stanwood, my
partner. I am a rich man, Paul, and. ex-
cepting this home, all m wealth is in Eng-
land. and it all goes to oel Stanwood.

“ Now, Paul Revere, when I am dead, all
this will be known to Mrs. Stanwood, her
son and daughter, your son. Jack Ross Re-
vere. and your daughter Pearl.” 4

“No, no, for God’s sake do not as that I
plotted the death of Stacey Stanw to win
his wife,” and the strong man trembled with
fear and anguish of spirit.

“ Upon one condition Will I hide that
which Stacey Stanwood never told even to
his wife, that we hired an assassin to 'kill
him.” i '

“ Name the condition.”

“That on give the hand of your daugh-
ter to Noe Stanwood upon his return.”

“ Yes, yes. 1 will.”

“ Swear to it!"

“ I do.” .

“ If you break your oath I will haunt you.
and in some way I will make the truth
known." ,

“ I Will keep my oath, so help me God!” .

“ So be it. and your son?” '

“ I, will gladly acknowled

‘f It is well—now I. can d
I have seen three others."

him now.”
in peace when

 

“ Who are they?"

“ Mrs. Stanwood, Ethel and Pearl."

" You Would not—” '

“No, no, I would only ask them to for.
give me.”

“ I will fetch them at once.”

“ Do so, for life is fleeting with me.

Two hours after Frank Farley was dead,
but he had heard from the lips of Mrs.
Stanwood, Ethel and Pearl that his past
crimes were forgiven.

And when it became knowu that he had
left his fortune to the Stanwoods, then peo-
ple knew that he had in reality wronged
them bitterly.

D)

 

CHAPTER XLIV.
A HAVENLESS CRAFT.

THE Red Rebel left Boston with an object
in view.

That object was to win further fame by
solving the mystery of the Shadow Silver
Shi .
Cgptain Noel Stanwood was a patriot to
the very soul; but while looking for prizes
he could also search for the mystery which
had foiled every one who had attempted its
solution.

Lieutenant Jack Ross was his fast friend
and adviser, and the two decided that the
Shadow must be found.

Poor Dick Norcross had died on the deck
of the brig, in the battle with Caldwell’s
ship, and there were but few of the old crew
left, for death had held high carnival upon
the deck of the Red Rebel’s craft, in the bat-
tles she had fought.

But the crew who remained were ready to
follow the fortunes of a rising star; they
cared not where he might lead.

So with a bundrr‘d tried men and true,
Stanwood began the most important cruise
of his life, to find the Shadow Silver Ship.

What he had at stake in her capture only
Jack Ross really knew, and he had said:

“ If it were to capture the Devil, Captain
Stanwood, I would say for such a prize as
Pearl Revere, go in and win, and body,
heart, hand and soul I am with you, so now
let us find this Specter of the Sea.”

The men were as willing for once to drop .
superstitious dread under such a leader, as
was Jack Ross, for Noel Stanwood hid noth'
ing from them as to the purpose of his
cruise.

Taking from a book a description of the
weird craft, the number of times she had
been seen, and just when and where, and
also the latitude and longitude where he had
picked up the boat of the Wind Witch, with
its two corpses and the half-finished state-
ment that the strange vessel had gone down,
Stanwood drew his calculations as to the best
place to find the specter brig. ,

He had noted that there was no quill pen
or ink-horn in the boat with the two dead
men, so how could the statement have been
written there .’

Then, too, the Shadow Silver Ship had
been seen since the finding of that boat. _
Putting all things together the captain and
his lieutenant decided to sail for southern
seas, and, a few weeks after leaving Boston
found him in the waters of the ‘West Indies.

Then a calm fell upon the vessel, and for
one entire week it lasted. r

One morning, at dawn, while the bug was
thus becalmed, the lookout at the mast-head
shouted out almost wildly:

"Sail hol" - . _

' It brought Stanwood on deck,land then in
the gray dawn could be seen a vessel cruismg
toward them. . . . .

Then it put about, as though discovering
the breeze and sailed away. i .. h

For the brig there was not a breath of air,
but, when the day brightened, it was seen
that the stranger had a good breeze.

Soon it came to the Red Rebel and she
stood away in chase of what all now_saw
was none other than the Shadow Silver
Bhi l _

She had gained some five miles start of
the American brig, and now Was a chance to
see if she was going to drop the henomenal
sailor of the seas, as she had al other, veg,
leis. , '

If so, she must indeed bea wind witch, or
veritable shadow ship. . A 

But, as the wind increased, it couldbs

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Shadow Silver Ship.

2’7

 

seen that the Red Rebel was holding her
own at least.

Then, at length, the wind freshened into .-

half a gale and the brig seemed to be slowly,
but, oh so slowly, gaining upon the Shadow
Craft.
As the wind finally increased to a gale, the
“Sea Rebel decidedly gained, as all on board
could see.

The Shadow Ship seemed also to yaw
from her course; and more—she did not
stand up to the wind as well as the Red
Rebel, which was as stiff as a church
steeple.

Then, as not more than two miles divided
the tWO vessels after a. chase from dawn
until sunset, it was seen that the mysterious
craft began to set more sail !

As the crew of the Shadow Silver Ship
were seen running up aloft the Red Rebel
captain cried:

“My God! they are indeed a skeleton
crew l’ .

But. nothing daunted, Stanwood held on
in pursuit, and the Red Rebel brig steadily
gained now.

Through the night the chase continued,
until at dawn the wind had gone down to a
five~knot breeze and the sea was smooth.

The Red Rebel had not fired a gun, and
would not, for he saw that the Shadow Ship
mystery was to be solved Without.

He was now only a cable’s length astern,
and steadily gaining.

Half an hour after he ran alongside, grap-
nels were thrown and he leaped on board,
Cutlass in hand, fohowed by Jack Ross and
his men.

And such a sight as met their view.

The Shadow Ship was weather worn, her
white sails torn in many places, and her rig~
ging broken.

But, her crew?

At the helm stood a man who paid no heed
to the boarders, and upon the deck were
two-score men. all listless‘and gazing with
no amazement at the Red Rebel’s crew.

A man in officer’s uniform. paced the deck,
a telescope under his arm. and to him Noel
Stanwood addressed himself.

“ What brig is this?”

“The Havenless Silver
Witch."

4‘ ‘Nhere from?"

“ London, then from the Treasure Island.”

“ Where bound?"

“Sailing under a curse of the Wizard
Priest and Seelah, the witch, to enter no

Ship, Water

'port, never drop anchor,}o fly from every-

"flag. You have captured us.”

“ You have a crew of madmen?"

“Yes. all are mad, I guess; so am I. The
buccaneer, Belmont, led us to it, and when
we reached the island and looked for the
treasure of silver, the Wizard and the Witch
cursed us. They killed our captain, St.
George Maybrick. and they sent us to sea
with no ofiicers but Belmont, the Buccaneer,
and their unrelenting curse. Belmont went
mad months ago, and sprung into the sea one
night, and I was boatswain, but am captain
now. Our men have died of fever, have
sprung into the sea. and you see all that re-
main of us. You have come upon us, so
what shall we do now?" ,

“ Yes, I have come to break this accursed
spell upon you, to save dyou, to carry your
vessel to that island an hano the fiendish
beings who have thus wronged’yon. Come,
In men; come, lads all; I break the spell .of
witchcraft upon on; for I found a boat With
two of your dea in it, and a statement that
the ship had gone down.”

“ Yes, yes, I did that, to prevent war ves-
sels following us— es. yes, I believe that you
canlbreak the spei of witchcraft upon us, ’
excitedly cried the man.

“I do, I have! lads, you are no. longer;

bound in the fetters of superstition i"

The wildest yells of joy broke from the
lips of ’the crew, and at a signal ffrom Stan-
wood his own crew ve three rousing cheers
and jomed in with t e poor. ragged wretches
who had so long fled from their fellowmen.

Then. after a long talk with Noel Stan-
wood in the cabin, the captain of the Shadow
Ship consented to pilot the Red Rebel to the
Treasure Island, and ten days after, the two
vessels drop (1 anchor. one uiet afternoon,
03 the islan of the Wizard nest.

A boat went ashore and the chapel was
visited and searched.

 

 

. ————_—__~ __.._._A_._.

‘ 946 (Hunt. George; or, The Ang'i of the Range.

 

1 had been deserted at sea, and had then gone
" down beneath the waves.

| sat llnndern mu; or.Frio irmnt t.) the Front.

Two molderin
was that of the
cancer Ravel—and the other was she who
was once known as Clio the Beautiful, and
later, as Seelah the Sea Witch.

A paper was found near which read;

“ After the cruiser sailed, our boat was lost, so we
could not leave the island.

" I killed him to have my revenge, and now die by
my own hand. v

‘If treasure to found on this island, remember it f
was stained with blood and tears, so do good with it: g
and save thy soul.

6‘

’ “ The Son Witch.”

This was all, and the search for the treas- g
ure began. I
It was never found. and no one knows ‘
where those two hid it after it was taken ,
from the depths of the little pool. I
Back to Boston sailed the Red Rebel and ‘

l

of the town found at anchor there the brig }
of Noel Stanwood. 1
But, the Wind Witch, in bad condition, F

Noel Stanwood, however, had solved the :
mystery. and he won his prize, the hand of
Pearl Revere. 3

And Jack Ross Revere found a father, and 2
one who intended to atone for the past for 1
his devotion to his son.

So Noel and Pearl were married, and -
when the war ended Ethel Stanwood l
welcomed to their home, where she and her 1
mother lived with them, Lord Erskine. 
and she became the bride of the noble man 1
who, though a foe, had been the truest friend '
of the Red Rebel of the Revolution. 3

l
THE END.

 

Beadle’s Half-Dime library.

BY BUCKIKIN 8AM (Malor 80m. S. Hall.)

984 old Rocky‘s “Boyce” or, Bonito, the Young Hono-
lire-her.

 

975 Arizona Jack 3 or, Giant George"- Yard.

297 The Tarantula of Tao-i or, GiantGoorgo’s Revenge.
807 The Strange I‘m-(l; or, lttle Ben’s Delth Hunt.“
818 Ker-whoop. Ker-whoo: or, The ’l'nrnutuln ni' Tfin. '
82’: Creeping Out. the Cuddo; or. The Red and Winn Pudo.
332 Frio Fred: or, The Tunkawny’s Trust.

344 The Fl rhtlng Trio: or, Rnttiolnuke, tho Tnuhwny.
849 lld oli: or, Biz-Foot Wallace to the Front.

857 The Ranch Raider-Ii or. The Siege o! Fort Pimtory.
86-1 BnnpaShot, the Boy tumor.

375 Ohiota. the Greek: or The Three Thunderbolts.

893 llomgo and the Reds: or, The Baluzuerod Rudi-
Lnrlnt: or Pecan Pete's Big anpngo.
414 The Dally from lienver.
43? 'l'he 'l hree Trgugng or, Old Rocky on tho Datum
lllnfl Bill: or, The Lynx oftho loom.
456 Little Lone Star! or. The Belle of tho Clholo.
684 Cache Curl, the Chico Giant

BY ’0 PIERCE.

89? lloh n’ the Bovrery: or, Tho Prince of Mulbo Suooi-
415 The thond Detective; or. Bowery Boh’orlgyoom.
4!?3 Ilotogur Bob. the Sun-hwy Detective.
4M! The .nwyor'o Shadows or, Luko’o honey.
 g.u{ll)éiloe,llhoYYoun HON-King. '

.ur y nu. t no ,mm on mun Dotoctivo.
504 Five Points run." ’ ‘
609 Jock Jn son, the Butcher Boy Detectivo.
510i Tartar m: or. Five Points Phil’s Menqorio.
536 North River Not. the Pier Detective.
588 “’reutll g Rex, the Pride ofthe Sixth Word.
54-1 {of Flle er, the Stable Boy Detective.
551 h iok Nettle, tho Boy Shadow.
 :‘larlfir Jack. ib‘o‘eogce'g‘ny Ntntive. '

roo yn on. n- n-Own-Hook Dot-uh...

577 Pavement etc the Socvot Sifter.
588 nek-o’<Luntern. tho Under-Sen Pmpoctor.
«on Hie-Awake Bert. the Streetvsueror.
014 Whistling Jacob, the Detective: Ald.
628 Buck Bumblehoo, the Harlem Hummer.
639 flunrlle Raul the Expreu-Truin Ferret.
049 Gnmln Bob, the Bowery Bridger; or, Scpr o Slippory Sol.

BY WM. 0. PATTEN.

489 The Dion-om! Sport: or, Tho Douhlo I'm olBod Book.
519 can“. ‘yoter {onflniu Ono.

bill I! a lure the port from Dmvo'.

58? 0Id club-hell. the Ranger Detoctivs.

004 Iron Fern tho Mm oi Eiro. .

‘19 The Bo rump Detective: or, Tho Douhio Grip Wit-o-
699 Violet nne. tho Volrot Snort. '

041 Diurnal Dave's Dandy Yard.

BY nowann Wins".

10‘? All I to“. tho Steamboat Boy.
I” 'l'oni’n her-weight the Boy champion of tho lusting...
I‘ll Ila-zit Al! or, Foothorwoiqht Among tho Outlaws.
29’ The Pypo teodvzz or, Wouol. the Boy Trump.
_ Ion Phllt or. T o King oiQuutlvillo.
ovln Sport: or, The Pride of Chuchluclr Comp.
8:: Nov—0. tho emotive; or, Kl: Ko- ou‘o Vondmo.
4 Clip tho (lo-Moth" or. Tho out-u leilonion.

 

BY CAPTAIN MAY]! REID.

7" Eli. Dick or.ThoY Ho Chi P V .

81 The Land l’irntoox .or. Thu 14...“?! silk island.
137 The llelslou "and: or, Backwoods Rotrihution.
$89 The 901 ~Ieeker Guide: or, Tho Loot Mon-Mil.

BY GEORGE WALD" BROWNI.

RC “and Rock the Man from Tons.

90 The rend llltler: or. Tho Toxou Duelist.

99 The lecr of Taco: or, Dandy Rock’s Augol.
115 The Mml Miner: or. Dandy Rodz's Doom.
131 The Golden "In": or. Dnndv Rock to tho Mu,

bodies were found. One i
izard—one time the Buc- ,

' ‘90 Broadw-
.51 Bron w. Bi

1 615 Fighting ll-rr the

 

Ill-t Bondy Rock’s Plellet or, Hnnlod to booth.
1?! Daily Book's Rival; or, Tho ilmtod Hold ot Ton.

BY J. C. C(DW'DRICK.

:‘0 DllvoP-lflkp 1h. Mun of Mystery.
 Eli's-Its, thani Golc‘I‘Klng; fr. For SoveBnoYooro‘hDood.
eDel ve I prent (so: or, A Wi on . mm
41-]. glbut. 33...; vr. god-Hot Timo- nt AnleyBIr.
andy Barn, tho Street Scout.
48? Disco Dan. the Dale ' Dude '
Billy. t e Boothluclr Bravo.
ht Ralph, the Prince of the Rood.

[K’- Boodle.
5£4 The Engin oer etccilve.
588 llroadw-y Billy’- ‘lelkllty."
548 Mart, the Night Express Detective.
557 Bromiwn Billy’s lienth Racket.
 %¥.Légf .ukesthe YoungBEnglneei.
e mne ' py; or, rendwuy Bill ’5 Su u-Purt .
one The Boy Pin 1110:]. y M y
605 “'lllimn 0’ Broadway? 0?. The 30! WNW" 31111111138-
.hlrf of Chlinsd Cyclone.
828 Broadway Bil y’s Dead Act.
640 Bur-chick Beill, the Centaur of the Circlo.
647 Typewriter Tilly. the Merchant’- Word.

BY BRAOEBRIDGE HEMYNG.

89 Inland Jim: or. ’Yho Pet of the Family.
91 The Coot-in ofthe. Club; or. The Rival Athiotou.
101 Jack Hurt-Why in New York.

BY LIEUT. ll. 1). PERRY. U. 8. N.
6 The Boy Runaway; or. The Bucrunoor at tho Buy.

17
‘ his prize. and one morning  good   {:0 The Ben Trailer: 0?. A Vow “'ell Kopt.

I Cnptdn Kit: or, The Mystery of Montouk Point.

BY HARRY HAZARD.
8!. Arknnllw Jock: or. The Scourge of the Minn.

7 839 Rod-Skin Tomi or. The Doinnn’o Tmll.
, 842 The Mountain D

evil: or, Yellow Jack. the Outlaw.

BY 001.. A. F. "0LT.

899 Black Bucknkin; or, The Mukod Men of Death Conym.
419 Kenneth, the Knife-King.

1 485 Little Lightl'oot, tho Pilot of the Woods.

BY 1" REDERICK DEW'EY.

H8 Cimnrron Jack, the King-Pin of Rifle-Shots.
478 Tangemund, the Desert Detective.
542 The Canyon I’ll-(ll.

BY HARRY ST. GEORGE.

80 Roaring- Rnl h Roehwood, the Run or.

44 llattlin Bulge: or. The Nighthswho Kentucky.

59 0M lllc 'ory: or, Pundy Ellie's Scalp.
108 During Davy; or. The Trail ofthe Border Wolf.
166 Hickory llurr ; or, The Trenporllrixmle’o Spy.
178 Thunderbolt on; or, the “'oii—Hordu.

BY J. \V. OSBON.

489 The Riv-l Ginntu ofNowlmr’.

49R Fur-tun Burr. tho hinn irom Hard Luck.

58? "Id Bupkeye. the Sierra Shadow.

561 Powder l’llll, the Boy Miner.

609 Holly llorrlt. the ‘ ell-run Detective.

Little Li htninz‘n League; or, The Mystery oi'ino Island.
683 Pluck] uni, the Boy Prospector.

BY MAJGR E. L. ST. VRAIN.

IO. him-ho Pedro tho Boy Bandit.

801 Lendville Nic , the Boy Sport.

ll, .Redtop Rube, the Vigil-nu Prince.

888 irhnltone Bob, and His Lightning Horse QM

a
M
3

 

, .53 Tombstone Tom. the Arizona Boy ol’“Sand."
u' 859 "urn-1w» Hm .-. the Y1 nu.r ~‘ ‘hmm I: n Vi'rmtlor.

871 Kin holt Chris, the Ymng Hurd-Shell Detective.
380 Avn our-he Alf. tho Foothills Guide.
890 Jngunr Joe. nitho Mountdn Moll-Lino.

BY EDWARD S. ELLIS.

6 Bil: flldtlon, Trap er.

8 Seth Jones; 01-, T e Captivol of the Frontier.
I0 Nat Todd : or, The Fate of the Sioux Captlvo.
"I The Frontier Angel.
8 The Boy Mine-re: or, The Enchanted lslund.
l 2 The Hunted Hunter: or, The Strange Hot-omen.
.54 The Half-Blood : or, Tho Panther of tho Hollis.
871 The Huge llunter: or, Tho Ste-in Prairie Mon.

MISCELLAN E08! AUTHORS.

4 The Wild-Horne "Intern. By Cont. Mayne M .90
Frederick Whittaker.
9 Adventure: of Baron Munch-Incl.
18 Gulliver's Travels. Bv Donn .‘wih.
14 Aluddlnr or, Tho Wonderful Lamp.
10 “obi-non Ora-M. (‘27 illustrations.)
18 Slldhld the Sailor. His Seven Voyngou.
DI {he 8e. Serpent; or. The Boy Robin-on Cruooo. 311n-

win.

88 The ocean Bloodhound; or, Tho Rod Pinion ol tho
Con hoot. Br 5. \l'. Piorro.

80 The Boy Clowns or. Tho Quoon oi the Aron. By Iron)

lll.
.8 Ned Wyldo. the Boy Scout. 8 Ton- Inch

51 The Boy Rifles: or. Tho Un orground Cninp. By Anhlo

.. lrono.
9‘ The Riv-l Rover-z or, Tho Fmbootoru of the Mini-mu.
By Linn-Col. Hnuitiuo.
’8 Robin llood. tho Outl-wod hr]: or,1’ho Merry Mon of Gun-
wood. 3 Prof. Gildenleevo.
108 old Ru . the Hum-v: or. no Crow Cantiro. By cw.
Hamilton Holmes. ‘ g
119 The Mod "Inter: or. '1 ho Cave of Death. By Buns”.
1“ Tiny. the Texans or. The Young: Chunpion. Dy Goorg.
Cl

)‘8 Tang-0": Privateer: of, Tho Pirate’s Stronghold. by
Harry C

IV“ .
a. a..." or, Tho Advonturoo ofu Friendlooo Bu. I J.
1‘8 Aim!" Potion. ' y
no? m-ky DIN-rel
lowmno. By Id -
1.] re rennin-[ht tho New Y rrk Boy. I, G. L My...
no [In r. the Guide; nanny Croohtt'l Crooked Troll.
Dy Emil" C. D. men. -

m Rod (Blow. the Onwlyod Tum; or, Tho lulu oi the GM.
1.3”"??? u. ur mouth“: 14..
1 W c Q. o V. VI I0. -
.DS fimhtmfinlmtll.‘ y n no.
8 '7 etu- \'0 or A Do 'sl'i ht br Lilo .

B hummer. Fm.‘ ’ y ‘ "a"

. Y

850 ll’od Ralph. the River Rover; or, Tho Brother’s Ro-
vonn. By Nod Buntlilo.

.35 n-Ithore “cm the Boothinch Doloctlvo. Dy

“'4. Gold-Dust Ton; or, Bon's Donhlo Hatch. By Coot-[o H.

Mono.
‘76 Cd'hnig J}... m TIA“. B" Colo-oi M

418 mil": union,» cmrcn her 3 rs Whihnp.
y on o m . y . .

no The Block em 3 m s m...

484 Conn-rho Did: “a  Three Invbclhll- '9

as titliia'im"... Dad; s» I: Am! no;

I ~ PI, rt. .
9 The!) ha I: Ed i Brooke I'm
us Aria-l 111'. M IR: nun Kain.
‘8‘ WI“ Waters, the 307 For-rot. By minim.
688 The Dead Detectivc’o Double. By Gm” Calm

A New lone Every Tuesday.
Tho “IR-Dill. mnry is for solo by all MS"

out porooyy, or out by mull on moist or six eonio ouch.

DEAD”! AND ADA)“. Publishers.
.8 Willin- ltroot, New York.

:‘l’

 or, The Groon Rangor oftho Yoitv

LEI-1h. ’

05¢

 

 

THE DIME SPEAKERS.

Numbers Each Speaker, 100 pages 12mm, containing from 50 to 75 pieces.

,u‘,____—————_.. n__' ,.

l to 24, inclusive.

 

 

 

 

r"

was .-
o as lngton.
forythe Maine Law,

Non
Bi

   

The Fruits of the War,
The Sewing-Machine,
ill-regulth Lif
e ystcry o e,

The Ups and Downs,
The Trul Great,
Earl Re iring and Ris’g,
A. ard‘s Oration,
True Nationality,
'Our Natal Day,
Solierino,

telli ence the Basis of

he ar, [Liberty

nrge of Light Brigade,

After the Ba 1e,
iThe Glass Railroad,
:Case of Mr. Macbeth,
\Proi'. on l’hrenology,
Annabel Lee,
“’ashhfton’s Name,
The S or Boy‘s Syren,

Dime National

‘Union and its Results,
Our Country’s Future,
The Statesman’s Labors,
Fl‘rue Immortality,
'Let the Childless Weep,
Dar Country’s Glory,
Union a Household,
{indeggndence Bell,
[The holar’s Dignity,
r’I‘hc Cycles of Progress,
A Chrlstmas Chant,
tahility of Christianity,
he True Higher Law,
e One Great Need,

 

 

Dime American Speaker, No. i.

J. J eboom‘s Oration,

A Dutch Cure, -

The Weather

The Heated Term,

Philosoxgly Applied,

An Old alla( ,

Penny Wise, Pound Fool-

True Cleanliness ish,

Sat’d‘y Night’s Snioy’ts,

“. In it Just Cause,’

No Peace with Oppres-
sion,

A Tale of a Mouse,

A Thanksgiving Semen,

The Cost of Riches,

Great Lives Im erishable

The Prophecy or the Y’r

Unfinished Problems,

Honor to the Dead,

Immortalit rot Patriots,

Webster‘s olit’l System,

A Vision in the Forum,

The Press,

Woman’s Rights,

Right of the Governed,

M Ladder,
W’omau,

Alone,
The Rebellion of 1861,
Disunion.

Speaker, No. 2.

Ohio,

Oliver Hazard Perry,

Our Domain,

Svstems of Belief,

The Indian Chief,

The Independent Farmer

Mrs. Grammar’s Ball,

How the Monev Comes,

Future of the ashions,

Loyalty to Liberty,

Our Country First, Last,
and Always,

British Influence,

Defense of Jefferson,

6 Ship and the Bird, National Hatred;
ecumseh’s Speech, ] Murder Will Out,
erritorial Expansion, Strive. for the Best,

ha Hopkins, Early Rising,

Bashful Man’s Story. Dec 3 of Kindness,

Matter-of-FactMan, Gates of Sleep,

ch and Poor The Bugle,

ing the Eclipse, A Hoodish Gem,
ut es of the Law, Purity of the Struggle,
lang! Git UP. Old Age,

e Rats of Li e, Beautiful and True

l Creowning Glory of U. S.. The Worm of the Still,

Three Fools, Man and the Infinite

Washington, Lan ruage of the Eagle,

bur Great Inheritance, Was ington,

Eulogy on Henry Clay, The Deluge.

l

l Dime Patriotic Speaker, No. 3.
merica to the World, Histo of Our Flag

ve of Count , T. F. geagher’s A dress,
' ht of Se -Prescrva- We Owe to the Union,

Cur Cause, [tion, Lincoln’s M

A Kentuckian’s appeal, Last Speech 0 tephen

Kentucky Steadfas , A. Dou las,

Timidity is TreaBOn, Great Be Roland,

The Alarum, The New Year and the
ril 15, 1861, Kin ' Cotton, [Union.

e Spirit of ’61, Batt e Anthem,

The ecious He The Ends of Peace,

The Irish Element, Freedom the Watchword
brain’s Sgeec , Crisis of Our Nation, ‘
Christy‘s peech, but of Christian P»
Let Me Alone, t ots,
Brigand-ier-Generai, Turkey Dan’s nation,
The”? Speech if?“ FE:

n uare es, e nus 0 very,
3h: Union, A Fore ner’s Tribute.
Our Count ‘8 Call, The Li 6 Zouave
The Story 0 an Oak Tree, Catholic Cathe
Ire-g On My Leg, The “ Speculators. ’

Dime Comic Speaker. No. 4.
Rio ergoss on the War, ' A Song of Woe,
file untly Considered, Ward‘s Trip to Richm’d,
lyvnising, Parogfy,
The asp turd the Boot The ountebank,
'Jomlc or No. Compound Interest,
I’m Not a Sin le'Man, A Sermon on the Feet,
L Ward‘s A vice, Old Jock,
The es’ Toilet,
Brian O‘Linn,
‘ iness, v Crockett to Oti‘lce-mekers
8°“ Bihi‘flpwofiuw’u
o o um
‘ Comic Grammar o. 2,
Farewell to the tie,
The Cork Leg, ,_
The Smack in 30.13%
Slick‘s Definition of ~ I ,
Tale of a Hat,
The Debating Club,
A Dutch Sermon, "

 

 

Lecture on W,
In. Male on Umhr'lh.

 

Dime Elocutionist, No. 5.

SEC. I. Panzerer or Tam: Warren—Faults
in Enunciation; How to Avoid Them. Special Rules
and Observations.

SEC. 11. Tar: Aa'r or Omroar. Sheridan's List of
the Passions: Tranquillity, Cheerfulness, Mirth,
Raillery, Buifoonery Joy, Delight, Gravity In-
fiuiry, Attention, Modest , Perplexity, Pity, Grief,

elanchol , Despair car, Shame, Remorse,
Courage, listing, Pride, Obstinacy, Authority,
Commandin , Forbidding, Affirming, Denying,
Difference greeing, Exhorting Judging, Approv-
ing, Acquittin , Condemning caching, Pardon-
ing, Arguing, ismisslng, Refusing Granting, De-
pendence, eneration, Hope, Des re, ve, Re

ct, Giving, Wonder, Admiration, Gratitude, Cu
nositg Persuasior, Tempting. Promising, Affects-
tion, loth, Intoxication, Anger, etc.

SEC. III. Tun: Conrosrm'r ELEMENTS or A}. ORA
Tron-Rules of Com sition as applied to Words
and Phrases, viz.: rity, Propriety, Precision.
Asapplied to Sentences, viz.: Length of Sentence,
Clearness, Unity, Stren th. Fi es of Speech; the
Exordium the Narra ion, t 8 Proposition, the
Confirmation, the Refutation, the Pcroration.

SEC. TV. Rnrmsrm'ra'rrvn Exnncrsss IN Paosn m
Vanna—Transition; A Plea for the Ox; Falstaff‘s
Soliloquy on Honor; the Burial of Lincoln; the
Call and Response; the Bayonet Charge; History
oia Life' the Bu is: the ells; n' Macbet
and the Dag r' amlet’s Solilo uy; Old Things;
Look Upw ; king William Ru us; the Eye; an
Essa Onto Musik; Discoveries of Galileo.

SEC. V. Onsnnvxrross or Goon Aurnoamns.

Dime Humorous Speaker, No. 8.

A Sad Story? Poetry Run Mad,

A Strin o Onions, Right Names,

A Trag 0 Story. Scientific Lectures,

Cats, The Ager,

Courtship, The Cockney,

Debt, The Codfish, -
Devils Fate of Sergeant Thin,
Dow, Jr ’s Lectures, The Features’ Quarrel,
Ego and Echo v Hamerican V uck,
Fashionable Women, The Harp of a Thousand
Fern Th 'tles, Strings,

Good-Na re, The Last of the Sarpints,

Gottlieb Klebcyerg
Schlackenlichter‘s am. e,

The March to Moscow,
The Mysterious Guest,

 

Hosea Bi low‘s inions, The Pumgé
How the oney oes, The Sea- rpent,
Hua-ki—do-ri’s Fourth of The Secret,
July Oration, The Shoemaker
If on Mean No, Say No, The Useful Doctor,
Jo ws on Leap Year, The Waterf
Lay of the Henrecked, To the Bache ors' Union
Lot Skinner’s E egy. Legue,
Matrimony, Uni States Presidents,
Nothing to Do Vagaries of Popping the
Old Caudle‘s Umbrella, Question,
Old Grimes‘s Son, What I Wouldn't Be
Paddle Your Own Canoe, Yankee Doodle Aladdin,
Parody on “ Araby’s Ze Moskeetare,
Daughter," 1933.

Dime Standard Speaker, No. 7.

 

 

 

The World We Live In, John Burns Gettysburg,
Woman‘s Claims,i No Sect in Heaven,
Authors of our L berty. Miss Prude’s Tea-Party,
The Real Con ueror, The Power of an Idea, -
l The Citizen‘s eritage, The Beneflcenoe of the
Italy Suffrage [
The Mechanic, Dream oi! the Revelers,
Nature and Nal rue's God anCyrus Laid the Cable
The Modern Good, [Sun, The Prettiest Hand,
Ossian's Address to the Paradoxical,

Inde ndence Bell—1777, Little Jerry, the Miller,
The eck, The Blarney Stone,
Foggza'fuho hts, The Student of Bonn
The es‘ The Broken Househo
Life, The Bible,

The Idler, The Purse and the Sword
The Unbeliever, My Coming.

The Two Lives True Mo Courage.
The True Scholar What Wm

Judges not Intolliblo, Butter

li'anaticism, 5' Deborah Lee,
instability of Successful The Race,

Agriculture, [Crime, The Pin and Needle,
Ireland, The Modern Punting0
The Foo e Always Con- immortality of the
gusic of bor, [quer, Occupation,

a and Austria, Herorsm and Daring,
Wishing, A Shot at the Decante.
Dime Stump Speaker. No. 8.

Hon. J. M. Stubbs’ Views The Limits to Happiness,
on the Situation, Good-nature a B suing,
Hans Schwsckheimer on Sermon from Hard-shell

Woman’s Strange, Tailfenders, [Ba
sfmmw - $2.23.” °‘ with
e r - _,

The Sea,the Sea, the open Be Sure Warm,
Star Bangled Spanner; Boot Cheer
Stay Where You Belonfi, Crabbed Folks, (shrew.
Life's What You Make , Taming a Masculine
Where’s My Money, Farmers, [Our Country

h from Conscience. gas True Greatness of

’s Relationto Society e Cold-water Man.

 

,-_;_.;. - ~-~~-*--—-»---— ~-—--—-—::a
Permanenc of States, Astronomical,
Libert of ‘geech, The Moon, , ,
New nglan and Union, Duties of America: ‘
The Unseen Battlefield, The n ,
Plea for the Republic, Temptations of Cities,
America, [Fallacy, Broken Resolutions,
“ Ri ht of Secession " a There is no Death.
Life 8 Sunset, Races ~,
Human Nature, A Fruitful Discourse, :

Lawyers,

Wrongs of the Indians,

A pea] in behalf of Am.
rseries of War, [Liberty,

A Lay Sermon,

A Dream,

Dim6 Juvenile

A Bov’s Philoso hy,
Hoe Out Your lébw,
Six-Year-Old’s Protest,
The Suicidal Cat,
A Valediction,
Pop ing Corn,
The ltor,
The Same, in rhyme,
The Fairy Shoemaker,
What Was Learned,
Press On,
The Horse,
The Snake in the Grass,
Tale of the TrOpics,
Bromley’s Speech,
The Same, second extract
The Fisher’s Child,
Shaks arian Scholar,
A Mai en’s Psalm 0! Life,
A Mixture,
Plea for Skates,
Playing Ball,
All W ly
Live for Something,“
Lay of the HenvPecked,
The Outside Dog,
Wolf and Lamb,
you in Little, f m

rogs As or a
Sick Lion, g “8'
Country and Town Ewe,
Man and Woman,
Home,
The Lotus-Planter,
Little Things.
A Baby’s Soliloquy,

Re . ntance
A Piece. for Fig s

otism,
Night A tcr Christmas,
Short gs,
Shrimps on Amusements,

Dime Spread-Eagle Speaker, No. 10.

gen Buster‘s Oration, Drum—head Sermons,
ans Von Spiegel’s 4th, Schnitzerl‘s Philoso
Josh Billin ’3 Advice, “ Woman‘s Righ ’
AHard~she Sermon, Luke Lather,

The Boots, The Hog, i
The Squeezer, Jack gpmtt,

Noah and the Devil, New ugland Tragedy,
A Lover’s Luc ’I‘e An ent Bachelor
Hifalutin Adolg us Jacob W'hittle‘s speech.
Digestion and aradise, Jerks Prognosticates,
Distinctlon’s Disadvant A Word w th Snooks,
Smith, [ages, But Love

 use e, 3......

0 on 1 988 on

Speaking for the Sheriff, l 11 Trovatore,‘

Daldng a Shweat, 4, Kissing in the Street:
Then and Now I: us,

Josh 13mm ‘8 Lectur' , Sligh . Mixed,

Doctor De lister‘s Ann , The 0 ce-seekq

Co meats, Old Bachelors,

Hard ves, s omen,

Dan Bryant’s Speech, 5 The Niarn N

A Colored View, : People Will Talk,
Original Maud Muller, : Swackhamer's

Nobody ; Who Wouldn’t be ire'
Train of Circumstances, . Don'tDe nd on Baddal

Advice : Music or , bor '
The Itching Palm, I The American Mn. ‘
Debate: and Chairman’s Guide No. 1 1
x.—Dmma 80am. m.—Cnmm‘s-Grnsn.
Its Oillce and Usefulness, Ordinary Meeting: ad
Formation of, Assemblies,
Constitution of, The Organization,
By-Laws oi, Order of Drrsiness
Rules of Government, Proceedings,
Local Rules of Order, The “ Quest on." Ron
Local Rules of Doha e. on be Treated,
Subjects of Discussion. The “ Question." How“
wim—tgiow so Dinur‘néod mgemglonsto iderod,
y ere are ew e

Debaters, I Rights at a S or u 1 ,
Pro I uisites to Oratorl- - gem N,

C. .y‘. l
The Logic of Deb-tell Interrupting, a Vboabn ,
The Rhetoric oi Debate. animation of
Maxims to Observe, ve Bod! . Cora , y
The Preliminary Premise, tam-k” or ,4
Order or Argument. ‘  oral '

A Frenchman's Dinner,.‘
Unjust National Acqui‘n.
The Amateur Co an
John Thompson's Dau‘r
House Cleanin$

It Is Not Your use...

Speaker. No. 9.
How the Raven Began!

Black,
A Mother’s Work,
The Same,
Who Rules,
A Sheep Story,
A Little Correspondent,
One Good Turn Deserve
My. Dream, [Another

Raul
I’ll Never Use Tobacco,
Mosai

A e.

The Old Bachelor,

Pm or to Light,

Litt e Jim,

Angelina‘s Lament,
Johnny Shrimps on Boo.

Mew.

ChOICe of Homage

Poor Richard‘s yings,
Who Killed Torn Roper.
Nothing to Do

Honesty Best Policy.
Heaven,

Ho for the Fields,
Fashion on the Brain.
On Shanghals,

A Smile,
Casablanca}.
Homon at ic Soup.
Nose an Eyes,

 

 

Little Sermons, [Rance
Shuttles on Electricity,
The Two Cradles, i
The Ocea J Storm, |
Do mystic—Do ltwd
Little lss,

Base—BallI [Fever
Prescript on (or Sprin:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“awn; f

 

 

 

 

"um! ..

 

 43“” BL;

FOR SCHOOL

WfiE—S ‘ ff...

HOME Eli

Me. I so so Incl-save. I! to us Popular Dining-es ml 'Drmes In seen book. he): vein-e to. in. page... on
poet-paid, on receipt of price, TEN CENTS.

BEADLE AND ADAMS. Publishers, 98 William St, N. Y.

These volumes have been prepared with especial reference to their availability for Exhibitions, being adapted to echooh end psrlors ma
a wheat the furniture of a stage. and suited to SCHOLARS AND YOUNG PEOPLE of every age, both male and female. It is fair to assnms
“no o‘er books in the market. st any price, contain so many useful and available dialogues end dramas of wit. pathos, humor and m

z—f

Dime Dialogues. No. l.

lsethgof the Muses. Fornlne oungisdies.
Getting a Live Englishmen. For {him boys.
Tssso’s Coronation. For male and female.
{gluon For two indies.

reheamal. For six b0
Which will you Choose! FY; two boys.
The Sneen of Me . For two little girls.
The ewParty. or four lsdies.
Three es in Wedded Life. For mele and female.
fire. But es’s Confession. For male and female.
The Mission of the Spirits. For five young ladies.

. For lve kers.
Isoset of Success. or three speakers.

 

Yo America. For three males end two,femsles.

Josefi e's Destiny. For four females, one male.

The oil of the Duel. For three male

Dogmat sm. For three male speakers.

The I orant Confounded. For two boys.

The est You Man. For two males.

The Year‘s Rec oning. Twelve femsl one male.

The Village with One Gentlemen. For ht females
and one male.

Dime Dialogues, No. 8.

The Genius of Liberty. Two males and one female.
Cinderella. or, the Little Glass Slipper.
Doing Good and Buying Bad. For severd abet-esters.

 

 

 

——

 

 

 

 

 

 

BRAD“ MD ADAMS; 98 WILLIAM STmT. N. Y.
General Dime Book i’ublishers.

 

 

 

'The Stub

 

 

 

 

—‘

The Golden Rule. For two males and two femehs.
The Gift of the F Queen. For several fem
goaltewzndtDogeno; tgl‘oz'httwo gehnrsoters.

un uh 'I is e ' y. verel m
The Two Romans. For two melee

the Characters, For three males.

The appi’ Family. For several “ animals.“
The Ba 1: w. For several chereeters.
How to write “ Po ulsr " Stories. For two ask
The New and the 1d. For two males.
A Sensation at Last. For two males.
The Greenhorn. For two males.
The Three Men of Science. For four men
The Old Ledy’e WilL For four males.
The Little Philoso hers. For tn 0 little girl.
How to Find an eir. For five males.
The Virtues. For six young lsdiu.
A Connubial Eclogue.
The Public Mee% For five melee sud one“
The English Trev . For two males

Dime Dialogues. No. 8.

The Hay Queen. For an entire school.
Dress Reform Convention. For ten fem-la.
Keeping Bad Comlifinsny. A Force. For the males.
Courting Under D culties. Two males, one tends
Netio Representatives. A Burlesque. Four-talc
maxi? Draft. For numerous males.
The Cook. For two males.

. For two males and two female...
The Two Romans. For two males.
The Same. Second Scene. For two males
Showing the White Feather. Four melee, one few
The Battle Call. A Becitative. For one male.

 

The Frost . For ten or more person.
in ' e. Forthree maleesnd twofemsl.
Faith, and Charity. For three little 'rls.
Darb  For two males and one emaie.
The y. A Floral Fancy. FOr six little girls.
The Enchanted Princess 2 males, several female.
Honor toWhom Honor in Due. 7 mela and l ferns-h
Rift “° “initial?” “festm‘igfiem
no . on. or we

ogfetown Volunteer. 2 males snd\l team
A See from “Paul Pry." For four males.
The s. For three males end one femsle.
Bee, Clock and Bmom For little
The R31: we . A Collmiuy. or two
moi-m  any"; coilwo Fe" two hour

es 0 us. 0 . or ,

The Reward of Benevolence. gar four mslss.
The Letter. For two males.

Dime Dialogues. No. I
The Three Guesses. For school 0W.
sewmmfit' cart-u filmy

e or as e
The Pi Society. For five boys and so“
W9 12:; "Fo§os:versll£smsle
The oolhovs'gribunsl list 0. HI!

 

 

‘ BEADLE’sileEiuBRARY.

Wished Every Wednesday. Each Issue-Complete and Sold at the Uniform Price of Ten Cents. No Double Number;

 

‘. BUFFALO BILL Novnns.

By Colonel Prentiss Ingraham.

994 Buffalo Bill’s Lone Hand.
989 Buffalo Bill’s Marked Bullet.
Buflalo Bill’s Life Raffle.
.. Buffalo Bill’s Relentless Trail.
964 Buffa'o Bill‘s Invincibles.
960 Buffalo Bill’s lilue Belt Brigade.
4 6 3111le Bill's VolunteerVigilantes.
I950 Buffalo Bill at Bay.
‘ Buflalo Bill’s Block Game.
Buffalo Bill s Black Pard.
I927 Bufi‘alo Bill‘s Bluff; or, Dusk Dick the Snort.
.. 921 Buffalo Bill‘s Quandary: or. elvet Bill’s Vow.
15 Buffalo Bill and the Surgeon-Scout.
Buffalo Bill‘s League: or, Red Butterfly.
Buffalo Bill’s Tangled Trail.
Buffalo Bill‘s Rough Riders.
Buffalo Bill's Secret Ally.
890 Buffalo Bill’s Life-Stake.
882 The Three Bills: Buffalo llill.Wlld Bill and Band-
box Bill; or, The Bravo in Broadcloth.
874 Buflalo Hill’s Buckskin Braves.
'869 Buffalo Bill‘s Road-Agent Round-up.
863 Buffalo Bill's Death Charm.
'857 Buffalo Bill’s Royal Flush.
861 Buffalo Bill‘s Double Dilemma.
8415 Buffalo Bill's Redskin Ruse.
830 Buffalo Bill‘s Bovs in Blue.
826 Buffalo Bill's Sha Shooters.
822 Buffalo Bill‘s Best wcr.
816 Buffalo Bi‘l‘s Red Trail.
812 Buflalo Bill’s Death-Knell.
794 Buffalo Bill’s Winning Band
787 Buffalo Bill’s Dead Shot.
781 Buffalo Bill‘s Brand.
777 Buffalo Bill’s gpy Shadower.
759 Buflalo Bill’s weepstake.
765 Biffle Bill's Dozen: or, Silk Ribbon Sam.
761 Buffalo Bill's Mascot.
757 Buffalo Bill‘s Double.
756 Buffalo Bill’s Big Four;or, Custer’s Shadow.
.748 Buflalo Bill’s Flush Band.
739 Buffalo Bill‘s Blind: or. The Masked Driver.
)735 Buffalo Bill and His Merry Men.
731 Buffalo Bill’s Beagles: or Silk Lasso Sam.
72: Buffalo Bill’s Body Guard.
722 Buffalo Bill on the War— th.
716 Buffalo Bill’s Scout Sha owers.
‘710 Buflalo Bill Baffled: or. The Deserter Desperado.
7697 Buffalo Bill's Buckskin Brotherhood.
i091 Huffle Bill's lllind Trail; or, Mustang Madge.
 Buffalo Bill’s Swoop;or. The King of the M nos.
4 The Cowb'iv Clan; or, The Ti was of Texas.
$653 LassoKi '5 Le e;or,Buc Taylor in Texas.
I649 Buffalo Bi ‘3 Chic of Cowboys; or. Buck Taylor
.644 Buffalo Bill’s Bonanza; or. S) ver Circle Knights.
2 Buflalo Bill‘s Grl : or. Oath Bound to Custer.
. Buffalo Bill’s Pl ge: or. The mane of Three.
\‘Cild Bill's Gold Trail; or, The Desperate Dozen.
175 Wild Bill's Trump
N8 Wild Bill, the Pistol Dead Shot.

By Bu il'alo Bill.

78 The Dread Shot Four,
Texas Jack, the Lasso King
The Ranch King Dead—Shot.
White Beaver ’3 Still Hunt.
817 Wild Bill, the Wild West Duelist.
Wild Bill. the Dead—Center Shot.
639 Buffalo Bill’s Gold .
99 The Dead Shot Nine: or. My Pards of the Plains.
.414 Red Renard. the Indian Detective.
km One-Armed Para; or. Borderland Retribution.
‘89? The Wizard Brothers: or. White Beaver’s Trail.
.894 White Beaver. the Exile of the Platte.
9 Wild Bill, the Whirlwind of the West.
Texas Jack. the Prairie Rattler.
The Pilgrim Sharp: or. The Soldier's Sweetheart.
J 83 Gold Bullet Snort: or, Knights of the Overland.
. 52 Death-Trailer. the Chief of Scouts.

By Leon Lewis, Ned Buntllne, etc.

F73 Buffalo Ill's Ban; or. Cody to the Rescue.
,632 31183.10 ’3 Secret Semce Trail.
629 Buffalo Bill‘s Darin Role; or. Daredeath Dick.
.517 Buffalo Bill‘s First rail; or, The Express Rider.
158 Buflalo Bill, Chief of Scouts
)117 Buffalo Bill 3 Strange Ford: or, Dashing Dandy.

“2 Buflalo Bill. the Buckskin King.

BY HAROLD .I’AYNE. -

i833 The Man from Mexico in New York.

9872 The King-Pin Shark: or, Thad Burr’s Ten Strike.
861 The Tenderloin Big Four

853 The Quaker City Crook.

844 Tracked to Chicago.

886 The Policy Broker‘s Blind.

829 The Frisco Sharper‘s Cool Hand.

821 The Tramp Shadower’s Backer.

818 The Sham S otter‘s shrewd Scheme.

906 The Grand tl'eet Gold-Dust Sharpen.

796 Detective Burr‘s Luna. ic Witness

192 The Wall Street Sliaroer’s Snap.
'hai Thad Burt‘s Death Drop.

742 Detective Burr Among the New York Thugs.
734 Detective Burt’s Foil; or. A Woman’s Strategy.
728 Detective Burr. the Headquarters Special.
'713 Detective Burr‘s Spirit Chase.

706 Detwtive Burr’s Seven Clues.

8998 Thad Burr, the Invinciblezor, The “L,” Clue.
M The Mamhless Detective.

‘80 IF. the Fatal Clew: or, Barr's Master Case.

BY COL. TROMAS H. MONSTERY.
995 The Czar’s Sny.‘ , -
. 966 Iron Wrist. the Swordmaster. ' l
' Chem ion Sam: or, The Monarchsof the Show.
l 50 El Ru 0 Bravo, King of the Swordsman.

, BY J w. OSBON.

fl‘flanadrach, the Sport Detective.
52 Gilbert Golds ur the Dandy Sport.
965 Shasta Sam, he Sparkler.
1 I77 Cool Creede. the Dead-Shot.
759 TheS t from St. Louis. _
I6 Boy chard, the Thorouth

Card: or, The indian Heiresu

 

BY CAPTAIN IIO\VARD HOLMES.

929 Gentleman George, the Showman Sport.
912 Genteel Joe‘s Lone Hand.

903 The Train Detective.

896 Kent Keen, the Crook-Crusher.

888 Nightshade in Ne York.

879 Falcon Fl no, the lash Detective.

871 The Croo Cashier.

859 Clew-Hawk Keene‘s Right Bower.

847 Hiram Hawk, the Harlem Detective.
840 Major Bullion. Boss of the Tigers.

88! Shadowing the London Detectives

817 Plush Velvet, the Prince of Spotters.

803 The Bogus Broker’s Right Bower.

788 The Niuht-H‘ka Detective.

779 Silk Ribbon‘s Crush-out.

766 Detective Zach, the Broadway Spotter.
751 The Dark Lantern Dete ctive.

736 The Never-Fail Detective.

724 Captain Hercules, the Strong Arm Detective.
711 Dan Damon, the GiltEd e Detective.

701 Silver Stew, the Brande Sport.

694 Gideon Grip, the Secret Shallowcr.

684 Velvet Van. the Mystery Shadower.

678 The Dude Desperado

671 Jason Clew the Silk-Handed Ferret.

.664 Monk More , the Man-Hunter.

654 Sol S hlnx. the Ferret Detective.
612 Red ard and Yellow.

. 608 Silent Sam the Shadow Sphinx.

592 Ca taln Si , the Shasta Ferret.

579 01 Cormorant, the Bowery Shadow.

569 Captain Cobra, the flooded Mystery.

559 Danton. the Shadow Sharp.

550 Silk Hand, the Mohave Ferret.

543 The Magneto Detective.

5'32 Jack Javert. the Independent Detective.

523 Reynard of Red Jack: or, The Lost Detective
512 Captain Velvet’s Bil: Stake. ‘
505 Phil Fox. the Genteel Spotter.

496 Richard Redflre. the Two Worlds' Detective.

487 sunshine Sam. a Chip of the Old Block.

480 Hawkspear. the Man with a Secret.

468 Coldgrlp in Deadwood.

460 Captain Coldgrip. the Detective.

458 Captain Cold rip's Long Trail.

447 Volcano. the 1500 Spy.

441 The California Sharp.

434 Lucifer Lynx. the \\ oncier Detective.

421 Father Ferret. the Frisco Shadow.

413 Captain Coldgrlp in New York. .

407 Captain Coldgrlp’s Nerve; or. In n Nick.

400 Captain Coldzrip: or. The New ork Spotter.
392 The Lost Bonanza: or, The Boot of Silent Hound.
382 The Bonanza Band: or. Dread Don of Cool Clan.
374 Major Bllsrcr. the S rt of Two Cities.

865 Keen Kennard. the hasta. Shadow.

85? The Des rate Dozen.

317 Denver uke. the Man with “ Sand."

840 Cool Conrad. the Dakota Detective.

335 Flash Dan. the Nabob. or, Blades of Bowie Bar.
821 California Claude, the Lone Bandit.

294 Broadcloth Burt. the Denver Dandy.

941 The Shadow Sport from Frisco.

‘nY WILLIAM H. mannmo.

948 The Red-Gloved Detective.

931 Frisco Frank. at Glory Gulch.

920 The Montana Miner in New York.
9% The Doomsday-Den Detective.

899 The Double-anck Detective.

893 Yellow Gid. of Dark Divide.

885 The Expert Detective‘s Shakenp.
875 Trapg‘ng the Race-Track Judge.
864 The ollce Special’s Dilemma.

819 The Genteel Sharper‘s Combine

'841 Graydon‘s Double Deal.

838 The Sport Detective's Grip;

823 The Athlete Sport About own.

808 TheCrook—Detcctive’s PulL

790 Plunger Pete, the Race Track Detective.

782 Royal Rock, the Round-up Detective.

774 Steve Starr. the Dock Detective.

764 The New York Sb ’5 Shadower.

738 Detective Claxton, t e Record Breaker.

714 Gabe Gall. the Gambolier from Great Hump.
70‘} Spokane Saul. the Samaritan Sus Ct

692 Dead-Shot Paul, the Deep-Ran e ' loner.

655 Strawberry Sam. the Man wit the lrthmark.
616 Dark John, the Grim Guard.

688 Murdock, the Dread Detective.

623 lilanwerous Dave, the Never-Beaten Detective.
611 Alkzfil Abe the Game Chicken from Texas.

596 Rustler Rube; the Round—Up Detective.

585 Dan Dixon’s Double.

570 Steady Hand. the Napoleon of Detectives
568 Wyoming Zeke, the Hotspur of Honeysuckle.
551 Garry Kean the Man with Backbone.

539 Old Doubledark, the Wily Detective.

531 Saddle-Chief Kit, the Prairie Centaur.

52] Paradise Sam. the Nor’-West Pilot.

518 Texas Tartar, the Man With Nine Lives.

506 Uncle Honest. the Peacemaker of Hornets’ Nest.
498 Central Pacific Paul. the Mail Train Spy.

4192 Border Bullet, the Prairie Sharpshooter.

486 Kansas Kitten. the Northwest Detective.

479 Gladiator Gabe, the Samson of Sassajack.

470 The Duke 01' Dakota.

463 Gold Gauntlet“. the Gulch Gladiator.

455 Yank Yellowbird. lhe Tall Hustler of the Hills.
449 Bluff Burke. King of the Rockies.

442 Wild West Walt. the 1101th Veteran

487 Deep Duke: or, The Man of Two Lives.

627 The Rivals of Montana Mill

415 Hot Heart, the Detective Sfpv.

405 Old Baldy the Brigadier 0 Buck Basin.

297 Colorado Rube. the Strong Arm of Hots ur.
979 The Gold Dragoon. or, California Blooghouid.

BY NED BUNTLINE.
657 Doug Tom. the Privateer.
638 The Sea S y,
621 The Red rivateer; or, The Midshipman Rover.
584 Fire Feather, tho Buccaneer King.
517 Buffalo Bill‘s First Trail.
861 Tombstone Dick. the Train Pilot.
122 Saul Sabberdal'. the ldlcl. S y.

111 The Smurzler ' ‘emtain; or. he Skipper‘s Crime. "

18 The Sea Bandit; or The Queen of the Isle.
ill The White yin... mils flemhole W.

ALBERT W. AIKEN’S NOVELS.

i
9 Dick 'l‘albdt Series.
I 991 Dick Talbot at the Mines: or. Kentuch. the Sport.
E 988 Rocky Mountain Rob.
976 Overland Kit: or, The ldyl of White Pine.
741 Dick lalhot’s Close Call.
737 lck Talbot in Apache Land.
733 ick Talbot. the Ranch King.
729 Dick Talbot’s Clean-Out.
725 Dick Talbot in No Man’s Camp.
351 Dick Talbot: 01, The Brand of Crimson Croat
36 Dick Talbot; or. The Death-Shot of Shasta.

Aiken’s Fresh 01‘ Frisco Series.

- $25 Fresh, the Race-Track Sport.
660 The Fresh in Montana: or, Blake's Full Hand.
652 Tue Fresh’s Rustie at Painted City.
647 The Fresh at Santa Fe; «tr, 'l‘hn Simmer: Sharp.
556 Fresh, the Sport: or. The Big Racket at Slide Out.
587 Fresh Against the Field; or. Blake. the Lion.
(97 The Fresh in Texas; or. The Escobedo Millions.
461 The Fresh of Frisco on the Rio Grande.

97 The Fresh in Bit: Walnut Camp; or. Bronze Joell

Aikcn’s Joe Phenlx Selles.

965 Joe Phenix‘s Mascot.

959 Joe Phenix’s Double Deal.

954 Joe Phenlxin Chicago.

949 The Doctor from Texas; or, Joe Phenix's Clue.

944 Joe Pheuix‘s Right Bower.

865 The Female Barber Detective; or, Joe Phenix in

Silver City. 

799 Joe Phen x's Great Blue Diamond Case; or, The

. New York Sport at Long Branch.

793 Joe Phenix’s Decoy; or The Man of Three.

760 Joe Phenix’s Lone Hand.

749 Joe Plicnix‘s Big Bulge.

745 Joe Phenix's Mad Case.

708 Joe Phenix's Siren; or, The Woman Bawkshaw.

700 Joe Phenlx’s Unknown; or Crushing the

681 Joe Pheuix's Specials or. The Actress Detective

687 Joe Plienix in Crazy Camp.

632 Joe Phenix‘s Master Search.

628 Joe Phenix‘s (‘ombinr ; cr,the Dandy Conspintor

020 Joe Phenix’s Silent .Slx. ~

601 Joe Pheuix's Shadow; or.tlle Detective’s Konltor

419 Joe PhenlL, the Kim: of Detectives.

161 Joe Phenlx‘s Great Man Hunt. i

112 Joe Phenix, Private Detective; or, The League.
79 Joe Phenix. the Police Spy.

Aiken’s Miscellaneous Novels.

m The All-Around Athlete.
940 Captain Jack, the Scalper
965 The Hawks and Wolves of New York
932 Detective Gordon’s Grip.
9” Old Sunflower, the Silent Smiter.
an Old Sunflower. the Hayseed Detective. ,
901 The Hotel SWell-Sharp; or, The Siren ShsM'
892 The Countryman Detective. _
876 Gold Button S rt; or, The Miner Shaped
842 Teton Tom. t e Half-Blood.
895 The King-Pin Detective. ‘
814 The New Yorker Among Texas Sports.
775 King Dandy. the Silver Sport. -
758 Gideon’s Origin: Babylon l‘ar.
717 Captain Pat cGowen, the Greencoat Detective.
674 Uncle Sun Up, the Born Detective.
670 The Ll htw eight Detective. ,
665 The ngco Detective; or, The Golden Gm m,
618 Keen Billy, the Sport. '
an Old Benzine the “Hard Case' Detective.
594 Fire Face. the Silver King‘s Foe.
563 The Silver Sh arp Detective.
577 Tom, of Calif ornla; or, Detective's Shadow Act}
570 The Actress Detective: or. The Invisible Band.
562 Lone Hand. the Shadow.
520 The Lone Hand on the Caddo.
490 The Lone Hand in Texas.
475 Chin Chin, the Chinese Detective.
1643 Re heal): gewdi‘feth Pa iii
e is orse o e c c.
425 The Lone Hand; or. The Red River Romania
4% Doc Grip. the Vendetta of Death.
881 The Gy , Gentleman: or. hick Fox. Detective
876 Black ards: m. The Rio Grande High Horse
870 The Dusky Deg; citilveb otgcfiursued to the End.
6630man lei .t e e vs
820 The Genghel Soo tier: or The N. Y. Night Hawk.
252 The Wall Street Hood; or. The Telegn >h Girl.
ans The Double Detective: cr.The Midnight ysterv.
196 La Marmoset, the Lelecuve Queen.
101 The Man from New York. ‘
91 The Winning Osr: or. The Innkeeper sDauzhter.
64 Hunted Down: or, The league 0 Three.
81 The Human Tiger: or. Afleart of Fire.
75 Gentleman George: or. Parlor. Prison and Street.
72 The Phantom Hand: or. The 5th Avenue Heiress.
56 The Indian Mazeppa: or. Madman of the Plains.
49 The Wolf Demon; or. The Kanawha eon.
42 The California Defective; or, The Wile es of N.Y.
81 The New York Sher : or. The Flash ofLi§htnin(
$7 The Spotter Detect ve: or. Girls of New ork.

N EW TSSUES.

1000 Buffalo Bill’s Grim Guard. By Col. Ingrahamd
1 1991 The Brand—Burners of Oimnrron. By John W.

l _ Osbon. .
. 1002 Silver City Sam. By Jos. E.
I

 

 

Badfifr.
1003 Gold Dan; or, Dick Talbot in Uta . By Albert

. W. Aiken.

5 1604 Buffalo Bill‘s Death Deal. Bv Col. Ingraham.

; loot Foot-Hills Frank. By Jos. E. Badger. I
; 1006 The See. Cadet. By Col. P. lnzrahar’

l
' JUST ISSUED.
996 In on Dick. the Shasta Dead Shot. Aiken.
997 Bangui-3815?, tl‘lIP. Sport from Bardth By
; Joe. . if r.
? 998 Capital“ Seawalf, Privateer. By Ned Buntline.
i 999 The Velvet Hand: or, The Iron Grip of In”
i Dick. By Albert W. Aiken.
i A new taste every Wednesday. -
; THE DIME LIBRARY is for sale by In
1 Newsdealers. tnr cents or. can), aris by mail or
receipt of pries- hr-;*'- . . .  “*“I:
31"“ rm mu“.

 

 

 

3
_,
F57
. I,“

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BEADLE’SrDIMErflBRARY.

{4" )WZishai Every Wednesday. Each Issue Complete and
,.

So” at the Uniform Price of Ten Cents. No Double Numbers

 

"w

BY JOSEPII E. BADGER. JR.

$8 Old Sobersides, the Detective of St. Louis.
)3 White-Horse Wheeler, the Revenue Detective.
118 The Double Edged Detective.
'07 Maverick Mark. the Man from Nowhere.
98 Silky Steele, the Stay-in Sport.
84 Tue S tier-S ort‘s Neck-Tie Party.
W High- ‘ater ark; or, Silver-Tip Sid.
362 Riata Rob, the Ran e Cham ion.
$55 The Cawhoy Chiefs Sure-S 0t.
848 The Rival Red-Hat Sports.
,837 Curly Kid. the Cheyenne Sport.
824 The Soft Hand Detective.
815 The Soft Hand’s Clutch.
s19 Dan Dunn. the Soft-Hand Sport.
796 The"Frisco Detectlve‘s Thug-Tangle.
'189 Sam Cary. the River S ort.
180 The Dead Sport’s D911 19.
“4’71 Prince John, Detective S ecial.
763 Dandy Don, the Denver etective.
F54 ihe Man from Texas; or, Dangerfield. the
Doctor Detective.
744 Swee takes Sam, the Silver Sport.
720 The Secret Si_x' or. Old Halcyon.
712 The Man of Sil
7M Bantam Bob. the Beau from Butte.
698 Kent Kasson, the Preac or Sport.
688 Bob Breeze, the Rounder Detective,
675 Steel Sorry, the Sport from Sum-in,
668 Solemn Saul’s Luck Streak
661 The GetrThere Sharp.
651 Silvestip Stave, the Sky Scraper-from Snidyou.
645 Gopher Gabe, Uhsoen Detective,
6w Dandy Darling, tectivo.
8m Mossback Mose the-noud'atneer.
61-7 The Grip SackSharo's Even up.
597 Big Bandy, the Brigadier of Brimstone Butte.
588 Sandy Sands, the Sharp from Snap City.
576 Silver-Tongued Sid: or. Grip Sack Sharp’s Sweep.
564 The GiipSacl: Sharp; or. The Seraphs of Sodom.
556 Grip~Sack Sid, the Sample Sport.
547 The Buried Detective; or, Saul’s Six Sensations,
541 Major Magnet, the Man of Nerve.
585 Dandy Dutch. the Decorator from Dead-Lift
627' Dandy Andy, the Diamond Detective.
514 Gabe Gunn. the Grizzli'lfrom Ginseng.
Solemn Saul. the Sad an from San Saba. .
1. Rattlepate Rob; or. The Roundhead’s Bepnsai
, 188 The Thorn hbred Sport.
, 474 Daddy Dee. ~Eye, the Dermot of Dew Drop.
3,11% Old Rough and Ready, the Sage of Sundown
Dutch Dan. the Pilgrim from Spitzenberg.
443 A Cool Hand: or. Pistol Johnny’s Picnic.
N38 (Manama Nick,
138 Laughing Leo; or. Sam’s Dandy Pard.
W The Ghost Detective: or. The Secret Service Spy.
16 Monte Jim. the Black Sheep of Bismarck.
'19 Rob Roy Ranch: or. The lmps of Pan Handle.-
‘r; 'i"_'e Nameless Sport. .
)5 Deadly Aim. the Duke of Derrmgers.
I? Dark Du . the Ishmael of the Hills.
1’2 Captain gisp. the Man with a Record.
67 A Royal Flush: or, Dan Brown‘s law Game.
360 Jumping Jerry, the Gamecock from Sundown.
355 Stormv Steve, the Mad Athlete.
851 Nor‘ West Nick. the Border Detective.
845 Inked Mark. the MOUTH-(1 Detective.
839 Spread Eagle Sam. the Hercules Hide Hunter.
9.831 Cnispa Charley. the Gold )uggot Sport.
. 817 Frank ilizlitl'oat, the Miner Detective.
{21%.} {Hoke Lioz'ncr. the Boss Roustabc’ut. ,
236 PHin Jonmu'; or. 02.8 Alan in a Thousand.
083 Slué‘K Sam. the. Devil of the Mines. ‘
257 llmth Tran Diggings: or, A Man Way Back
219 Elephant Tom. of Domino.
941 Spitfire Saul. King of the Bustiers.
2‘33 The 01.1 10" of Tombstone. _
201 Pirate of the. I’laccrs: or. Jca um's Death Hunt
180 Old ‘40; or, The Amazon of Ar zona.
170 Sweet William, thn- Trapper Detecuve.
165 Joaquin. the Terrible
154 Joaquin, the Saddle King. .
141 Equinox Tom. the Bully. of Red ROCK.
119 Alabama Joe: or, The azoo Man-Hunters.
105 Dan Brown of Denver: or. The Detective.
88 Big George; or, The Five O tlaw Brothers.
7‘1 Captain Cool Blade: or. Mi lSSlDDl Man Shark.
67 The Boy Jockey; or, Honesty vs. Crookedness.
50 Jack Rabbit. the Prairie Sport.

BY WM. G. PATTEN.

810 Fire-E e. the Thug’s Terror.
7955 Old ht—Hawk, the Crook Shadower.
768 The Prin e of New York Crooks.
756 Old Burke, the Madison Square Detective.
7-17 Double~voice Dan‘s Double Disguise.
715 Double-Voice Dan on Deck.
702 Double~Voice Dan, the Always-on-Deck Detective
396 Double-Voice Dan, the Go-it Alone Detective.
689 The Sparkle-r Sharp.
m Hurricane Hal. the Cowboy Hotspur.
6M Old True Blue, the Trusty.
668 The Giant Sport; or, Sold to Satan.
856 Old Plug glv. the Rough and Ready.
‘648 id Glove did the Man oi’ Grit.
641 we Jack, the escrt Nomad.
631 Colonel Cool, the Santa Fe Sharp.
602 Ca tain Nameless. the Mountain Mystery.
$71 01 Dismal. the Range Detectivr.
‘45 Hustler Harry. the COWboy Sport.
BY GEORGE C. JENKS.
so The Arizona. Detective.
Silver Sam. the Shasta Sport.
The Silver Sport’s Double.
m The Race-C urao Ilvtcctive.
.36 The Hay-flood DC‘TCOHVP.
m Captain Cordon t'w‘ ‘l‘wifiter Detective
'55 mm P. w the lil'ili‘lfilfi'Buswr Detective.
. W6 Fca l‘k‘Sx‘ rlazn. :llt- Gram": Combination Detective.
'- 119 inneov 11m, lllz' Sport Detective.
W2 Jaunl._. Jon, I've. Jul; Troy Detective.
1' W Mad Sharp, the. Rustic? _
5 538  . Rocket. the Tent Detective.
. .26 Death-Grip, the Tenderfoot Detect“!
Drummer (Detecti ve. _
a The Giant Horseman

\

 

bathe Pacific Detective. -.. ..

1

BY WILLIAM R. EYS'I‘ER.

916 Two Dead-Square Sports.

002 Soft Velvet, the Man from Sandrock.

891 Genteel Jim. Sglort-at-Large.

881 The Clubman- ook's Cat‘s-paw.

867 The Frisco Sport.

852 The Stranger S ort‘s Shake-u .

828 Kirk King. the an from Kirgy.

818 Gentleman Dave. the Dead Game Sport

783 The King-Pin Tramp.

767 The Sport of Silver Bend.

718 Uncle Bedrock’s Big Bounce.

707 The Rival Rovers.

687 Double Cinch Dan, the Sport With a Charm.
677 Mr. Jackson, the Gent from Jaybiro.

659 Gilt-EdfiJohnni; or, Roldan and His Rovers.
650 Luck ,ster’s one Hand.

634 Old andcart‘s Big Dump.

622 The All Around Sports.

603 Desert All. the Man With the Cougar.

590 Gentle Jactr, the Hi hRoller from Humbug.
578 Seven Shot Steve, 1; 0 Sport with a Smile.
568 The Dude Detective. ‘

558 Hurrah Harry, the Hi h Home from Halcyon.
549 Bolshazzar Brick, the i113 of Blue Blazes.
538 O n. the Sport WithaScar.

508 The ude from Denver.

478 Pinnacle Pete; or. The Fool from Way Back.
459 Mafor Sunshine, the Man of Three Lives.

429 Ha :- Trigger Tom of Red Bend.

402 Snapshot Sam; or. The gels’ Flat Racket.
396 The Piper Detective; or, he Gilt Edge Gang.
375 Royal Geo e, the Three in One.

356 Thr -e Han some S rts; or, The Combination.
333 Derringer Dick. the an with the Drop.

238 Magic Mike. ‘hc Man of Frills.

229 Captain Clusteevc; or, The Little Sport.

21-1 The Two Cool S orts; or, Gertie of the Gulch.
182 Hands Up; or, he Knights of the Canyon.

160 Soft Hand, Sharp: or. Tho Man with the Sand.
145 Pistol Pards; or, The Silent Sport from Cinnabar

BY NED BUN’I‘LINE.
657 Long Tom, the Privateer.
633 The Sea S y.
621 The Red rivateer; or, The Midshipman Rover.
584 Fire Feather, the Buccaneer King.
517 Buflalo Bill's First Trail.
361 Tombstone Dick, the Train Pilot.
122 San] Sabberday, the Idiot S 
111 The Smuzgicr Captain; or. te'Siripper‘s Crime.
18 The Sea Bandit; or, The Qu n oi‘ the Isle.
16 The White Wizard; or, The Seminole Prophet.

BY JACKSON KNOX—“ 01d Hawk.”

838 Old Grips Still Hunt.

827 Detective Waldcn‘s Web.

778 The Butler Detective‘ or, Old Grip‘s Grip

770 The Showman Dete tive.

762 Old Grip, the Detective.

740 Captain Clew, the Fighting Detective.

732 The Hurricane Detectivm

643 Casflcmninc, the Silent Sifter.

616 Magnus. the Weird Detective.

606 The Drop Detective.

505 Wclibovn. the Upper Crust. Detective.

5% J are m. 1h 0 Detective Expert.

574 Old Falcon" Double.

561 The Thur: King" or. The Falcon Dctective‘n Foe.
548 Falconhridge. the Sphinx Detccrive.

536 Old Falcon s Foo; or. The Detectivl-‘s Swell Job.
515 Short-Stop Main. the Diamond Field Detective.
509 01'! I‘ll! on. the Thunderbolt Detective.

501 Snrinqstcel Steve. the Retired Detective.

4!“ The Detectivc‘s Spy.

485 Rowiock. the Harbor Detective.

4T7 Dead-arm Brandt.

457 Mainwaring. the Salamander.

462 The Circus Detective.

451 Griplock. the Rocket Detective.

444 The Magic Detective; or, The Hidden Hand.

(24 Hawk Heron‘s De my.

386 Hawk Heron. the alcon Detective.

BY J. C. COWBIIICK.

752 The Sus t S rt- of Daisy Drift.

6% Ducats ion, t e Nabob Sport Detective.

612 Sheriff Stiilwood. the Regulator of Raspberry.
598 The Dominic Detective.

591 Duke Daniels. the Society Detective.

580 Shadowing a Shadow.

lrx65 Prince Paul. the Postman Detectiw.

557 The Mountain GraybcardS' or. Riddles’ Riddle.
519 Old Riddles. the Rock Ranger

499 Twilight Charlie, the ad port.

473 Gilbert of Gotham. the Steel-arm Detective.
45? Rainbow Rob, the Tulip from Texas.

436 Kentucky J can. the Sport from Yellow Pine.
422 Blue Grass Burt. the Gold Star Detective.

390 The Giant Cupid: or Cibuta John's Jubilee.

BY EDW A RD WI LLET’I‘.

483 Flush Fred. the River Shag).

368 The Canyon Kins; or. a P ce on his Head.

848 Dan Dillon. King of Crosscut.

337 Old Gabe the Mountain Tram .

327 Terrapin Dick. the Wild wood etective.

815 Flush Fred‘s Double; or, The Squatters' League
9% Hemlock Hank. Touch and True.

298 L‘gxzer Lem: or. Lit-f in the Pine Woods.

289 Flush Fred‘s Full Hand.

274 Flush Fred. the Mississippi Sport.

248 Montana Nat, the Lion of Last Chance Camp.
22? Bill the Blizzard; or. Red Jack’s Crime.

209 Buck Farley. the Bonanza Prince.

129 Mississippi Mose; or, a Strong Man ’3 Sacrifice.

BY 0 A P'I‘A IN MAYNII REID.

$7 The White Squaw.

an The Hunter‘s Feast.

‘21 vi The Wild Huntness; or, The Squattcr.

200 The Rifle Rangers; 0". Adventures in Mexico.
74 The Captain of the Rifles: or, The Lake Queen.
66 The Specter Bnrquc. A Tale of the Pacific.

.55 The 800p Hunter! , 5 Romance ofvthe Plains.

 

BY COL. PRENTISS INGBAIIAM. 

911 The Blue Blockader; or, The Coast Greyhound

906 The Cuban Cruiser.

854 The Ocean Gipsv.

834 The Wild Steer Riderswr, Texas Jack's Terror:

819 The Rival Monte Cristos.

5)!) The Last, of the Pirates; or, Do. In Driven.

801 The Water Wolves‘ Detective; or, Trapping the
Grave Ghouls.

791 The Coast-Raiders Death-Chase.

748 Arizona Charlie. the Crack-shot Detective.

704 invisible iron. the Wizard Detective.

685 The Red-skin Sea Rover.

679 Rave-Ho. the Pirate Cruiser; or. The Rival Rovers

672 The Red Rapier: or, The Sea Rover‘s Bride,

662 The Jew ll: tective; or, The Beautiful Convict.

610 The Rovwr‘s Bet ibution.

($35 The Ex Buccaneer: or, The Stigma of Sin.

625 Red Wings; or. The Gold Seekers of the Bahamas.

615 The Three 1 uccanecrs.

610 The Red Flag Rover; or,White Wings of the Deep.

605 The Shadow Silver Ship.

600 The Silver Ship: or, The Sea Scouts of ‘76.

593 The Sea Rebel: or. Red Rovers of the Revolution

5947 Conrad, the Sailor Spy: or. True Hearts of ’76.

581 The Outlawed Skipper; or, The Gantlet Runner.

560 The Man from Mexico.

553 Mark Monte, the Mutineer; or, e Branded Brig.

516 T}" Doomed Whaler: or, The e Wreck. '

530 The Savazes of the Sea.

5934 The Sea Chaser; or. The Pirate Noble.

510 El Moro, the Corsair Commodore.

(98 The Scouts of the SQ. ' ‘ v'

457 The Sea Insurgent: ornThe Conspirator Son.

446 Ocean Ogre, the Outcalt’Corsair.

43:) The One-Armed Buccaneer.

430 The Fatal Frigate; or, Rivals in Love and War.

399 The New Monte Cristo.

393 The Convict Captian.

877 Afloat nd Ashore: or. The Corsair Conspirator.

369 The C0 t Corsair: or. The Siren of the Sea.

864 The Sea Fugitive: or, The Queen of the Goad.

341 The Sea Desperado,

336 The Magic Snip' or, Sandy Hook Freebootem.

325 The Gentleman Pirate; or. The Casco Her-mitt.

318 The Indian lluccaneer: or. The Red Rovers.

307 The Phantom Pirate; or. The Water Wolves.

255 The Pirate Priest; or. The Gem bier’s Da 1150:.

m ueen Helen, the Amazon of the Over .

235 Lightning the Man of Chance.

224 Black Beard. the Buccaneer.

220 The Specter Yacht; or, A Brother‘s Crime.

210 Buccaneer Bess. the Lioness ot the Sea.

“305 The Gambler Pirate; or, Lady of the Lagoq,

198 The Skeleton Schooner; or. The Shining: b

184 The Scarlet Schooner: or. The Sea Nona-13!.
104 Montezuma. the Merciless.
103 Merle, the Mutineer; or. The Red Anchor vi "1,

BY PHILIP S. WARNE.

80? Dan Dirk King of No Man‘s Land.
583 Captain Adair. the Cattle King.
567 Captain Midnight, the Man of Craft.
544 The Back to Back Pards.
5‘22 The Champion Three.
502 Bareback Luck, the Centaur of the Plains.
472 nix Foot Si; or, The Mun to "Tie To."
431 California Kit, the Always on Hand.
401 Silver Sid; or A “ Daisy " Bluff.
38:1 Tiger Dielr‘s Pled'rc; or, The Golden Serpent.
359 Yellow Jack. the . cstizo.
338 Jack Sands. the lfoss of the Town.
239 Three of a Kind; or, Dick. Despard and the Sport.
$1 Tiger Dick vs. iron Despard.
907 Old Hard Head: or. Whirlwind and his Mare.
171 Tiger Dick. the Man of the Iron Heart.
114 The Gentleman from Pike.
80 A Man of Nerve; or, Caliban the Dwarf.
5: Always on Hand; or. The Foot-Hills Sport.
20 Tiger Dick. Faro Kin ; or, The Cashier‘s Crime.
4 The Kidnappcr; or, he Northwest Shanghai.

BY CAPTAIN MARK WILTON.

323 Hotspur Hugh; or. The Bamle Brothers.
811. Heavy Hand; or, The Marked Men.

305 Silver-Plated Sol, the Montana Rover.

291 Horseshoe Hank. the Man of Big Luck.

285 Lightning: Bolt, the Canyon Terror.

276 Texa: Chick. the Southwest Detective.

271 Stone-fist, of Big Nu ct Bend.

266 Leopard Luke. the n of Horse-Thieves
m3 Iron-Armed Abe, the unchback Destroyer
25S Bullet Head, the Colorado Bravo.

237 Long-Haired Max; or, The Black 0.
227 Buckshot Ben, the Man-Hunter of Ida 10.

2‘23 Canyon Dave, the Man of the Mountain.

219 The Scorpion Brothers; or. Mad Tom‘s Minute
202 Cactus Jack. the Giant Guide.

194 Don Sombrero. the California Road Gent.

176 Ladv Jaguar. the Robber Queen.

B]! OLL COOMES.
619 Kit Bandy & Co . the Border Detectives
148 One—Armed Alf. the Giant Hunter.
99 The Giant Riiieznan: or. Wild Camp Life.
43 Dakota Dan. the Reckless Ranger.

BY con. THOMAS H. MONSTEBYo

2&6 Chum ion Sam: or, The Monarchs of the M-
150 El Ru io Bravo. King of the Swordsman.

BY DR. NOEL DUNBAB.
919 The Sea Scout; or. The Patriot Privates:
886 The King of Crooks. ’
858 Number One. the Dead-set Detective.
$53 'Ighe Planter Detebctge. h‘ D u“.

: uke Des ard. t 0. am er ue .
604 The Detecltive in Rags; or, The Grim 511m
500 The True-Heart Parda

a new issue New Wednesday

Bendie’s Dime Library is' for sale
Newsdeaiers, ten cents per copy, or sent by &
receipt of twelve cents ear“ ._ g

L

y. ;.

.o-Jrfl' '

; pfi'40"‘

Ra'fx'“ t

 

 

 

 

 

 

b—fifix \}
Each Number ‘

k Complete.

 
 

 

 

fliii
iifliifliS

 

 

  
  

Ten Cents a
COPY- “

Till

Mil
iiilalu.

 

 

 

 

 liliil :

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/‘ \
,r \

979 Buffalo Bill‘s Relentless Trail. By Colonel 820 White Beaver’s Still Hunt; or, _'I'he Miner 653 The Lasso King's League; 01'. The Tige" 01'
) Prentiss Ingraham. Maraudor's Death-Track. By Buffalo Bill. Texas. By Colonel Prentiss 111ng

9’3 The Dread Shot Four; 01-. h 816 Buffalo Bill's Red Trail; or, The Road-Rider 649 Buck Taylor. the Saddle King. Buffalo Bill's
2 ‘ l'iuins. liy Col. w. F. 00113:“, Paras or t e Renr-gude's Run Down. By 001.1). lngmham. Chief of Scouts. By Col. P. Ingraham.

964 Buffalo Bill's In i bl ; , . - 812 lilxlmlw Bill“:i Death-Knoll: or, To» Red Hand 644 Buffalo Bill's Bonanza: or, The Knight: of
I ower‘s Sublime gigging: ohkaoifaEeSEi Rulers of the Rockies. 11y CU» 1‘. lllgmhum. the Silver Circle. By Col. 1’. Ingraham.

hum. 07 Wild Bi 1. the Wild Wes: Duel! 't; lr, The Girl' 639 The Gold King: or, Montebello. the Magnifi-

930 Buffalo Bmvs mue Ben Brigade; on Sun_ Muscotof Moonlight Mine. is) lzullalo Bill. cent, By Buffalo Bill.
flower Sam of Shanta. By Col. 1’. Ingraham. 807 Wild Bill. the 'Wllrl W'est Duelist: or, The Girl 629 Buffalo Bill’s Daring Role; or, Daredeath

950 Buffalo Bm's volunteer Vigilanteg; or, The Grunde Ralph, the Cowboy Chief. By Buf— Dick, King of the Cowboys. By [non Lewis.
Mysterious Man. in Blue. By Col. P. Ingra- ml" Bm' ‘ 4 599 The Dead Shot Nine: or, My Ford. of the
ham. 794 Buffalo Bill's Winning Hand; or, The Masked Plains, 13,- Buffalo Bill,

950 Buffalo Bill at Bay; or, The Gold Seeker’s “’0”??? “t “‘0 Comm“ “my” By CO" I" 517 Buffalo Bill’s First Trail: or. Will Cody. the
boom. By Col. P. Ingraham. 797 gfidtkfln, D “h t Th qk I t n Scout Pony Express Rider. By Ned Buntlina.

943 Buffalo Bill‘s Block Gamb: or. The M ted ‘ “or. ' -5 ea“ 0. ‘0" 0* “2 414 Red Renard, the Indian Detective; or The
Miners of me Overland. By Col. P. ‘ifigrw of the Loiomdo. By (.01. Prentiss Inoraham. Gold Buzzards of Colorado. By Buflalo' BBL
Mm 731 Rum“) 13”” andi 0" The “"mSt‘me 401 The One-Armed Paul or Red Retribution in

, - Brotherhood. By Col. Prentiss lngrahnm. , ' '

D36 Burtalo Bm s B"le Pam; on The add 777 81111110 liill'e Spy Shadower' or The Masked Borderlwd' By Burmlo Bl“.

B _ t - 't p . . y
hgllilierfl of the Big Horn. By Col. P. Ingra Men at Grand Canyon. By Col. P. Ingmham. 397 figmwliszyargugarghgrfl: or. White Beaver:

927 Buffalo Bill's Bluff: or, Dulky Dick. the 773 guf’filo Bill'slna’” 0“ COdY ‘0 “‘9 Rm“- 394 White Beaver. the Exile of the Platte; or,
Sport. By Col. P. Ingraham, 769 Byfraleo“Bn‘:w g' t k .Th W. t JgHWronged Man's Red Trail. By Buffalo

921 Buffalo Bill's Quandary; or, Velvet Bil"s u ,0 s weeps? e: 0’3 . e ‘pe'ou 1 -

Vow. By Col. Prentiss: lngraham. ‘ 765 ‘1‘; East 3x?ceb By (’01‘ gfigtlg‘ggogmgam' 362 guffalll) 1311's Grixi; or.h0ath-bound to Custer.

9‘5 Buffalo Bill and th Su eon Scout: or, Go— u “‘0 , ‘9 ozen: 01" ‘ n am‘ y (’0' “muss “gm am'

‘ wan-go, the Redshift RE... By Col. P. 111- By U”- “em‘ss Ingrai‘am- 329 Buffalo Bill's Pledge; or. The League of ,
graham. 701 Buffalo Bill’s Mascotci lor.P Thel Delath Y‘aliey Three. By Col. P. Ingraham.
» . . Victim No. 13. By 0. rent 33 ngra am. 319 W’ld Bill th Whl l ' d f th W t. By

909 Buffalo Bill a Lea. c, or, Red utterfl . B i g 9 1‘ Win 0 9 85
C01. Prentiss Ingrillllan'). B y y 757 Buffalo Bill's Double; or. irhe dIlzesperztdo De- Buffalo Bill,

- , tective. By Col. Prent ss ngr’ am. 304 T J k n P H R “I . Th

904 Buffalo Bill Ta 'I‘rai ' r _ _EX('15 9-0 - )8 r3 1' O a 61'. 01' 6
Jack, the M3,. oP‘fieiny Mgkf‘ genéfifmfo’f 750 Buffalo Bill’s Big Four; or, Custer‘s Shadow. Queen of the Wild Riders. By Buffalo 'Blli.
Ingraham. BY C01. I’X'GDUSS Ingl‘aham- k 243 {he Pilgrim Sharp; or, The; Soldier's Sgeet-

900 Buffalo Burs Rm h Riders: or. Texas Jacks 743 Buffalo Bill’s ‘Fiush Hand; or, Texas Jae 'a cart. By Buffalo Bill, overnment cont
Sharp-Shooters. 15,; Col. Prentiss Ingraham. Bravos- BY C0" menu” Ingraham' and Guide'

89" ' ' - v 139 Buffalo Bill's Blind; or. The Masked Driver 189 Wild Bill's Gold Trail; or. The Desperate

a  1:31;] ziofieiggénfigyingfiaha}§_ Texans 2f Death's Canyon. By Col. Prentiss Ingra- Dozen. By Col. P. Ingraham.
,, . . n _ am- 175 “'iid Bill's Trump Card; or. The Indian

890 rTjiige‘él? $311501”? Siiiiahfil'. The Pledgw 735 Buffalo Bill and His Merry Men: or. The Hem“- BY COL Premi” Inflamm-

‘ ' ' ' Robin H00d Rivals- BY COL Prentiss Ingra‘ 168 Wild Bill. the Pistol Dead Shot: or. Dagger '

882 glied'lll‘ireer‘Slills; Buffalo Bill. Wild Bill and ham, Don’s Double. By Col. Prentiss Ingmham.

- ' i: . ' . . .
BgnCol.miw. Ingrgfiaghe Brmo m. Broadcwm 731 Buffalo Bill’s Beagles; or, Silk Lasso Sam. 158 Buffalo Bill, Chief of Scouts; or, The Doomed

874 Buffalo Burs Bucksk'm Braver or The Card By Col. Prentiss Ingraham. Dozen. By Dr. Frank Powell.

Queizn's Last Game. By Col. 15. Ingrahzxm. 727 Ema” 3”” mailman“ “r' The sun mm 117 113330 tgeillgotsxffingf tlfiarlr‘iilhor'BiPafiggg

869 BuffalolBiii’ilRoadd fientxnogxlid—Up; or, The 722 0‘ :fhe Hull? Byh (’0‘; Pint?” Inggianx; D. Burr. .

Myster out: twice an n ack. By Col. Bu alo Bi on t e a: a. :or. 990 92 Buffalo Em um Buckskin Km .
w. _ r_ _ . . 3.. or, The
P. In-rdha.m. Sam, the Will 0 the Wisp. By Col. P. In- Amazon of me Wen. By Major mn‘erneld

863 Buffalo Bill's Death-Charm: or, The Man graham Burr.

“ith the boar. By Col. Prentiss Ingraham. 716 Buffalo Buys ’Smut Shadowem; or, Emer- 83 Gold Bullet Sport; or, The Knights of the

857 Buffalo Bill's Royal Flush; or. The Pony Ri- ald Ed of Devil 8 Acre- By 00L P- Inzmham- Overland. By Buflalo Bill. '
def-‘5 Death“““”' By (3°1- Prem‘” Ingm‘ 710 Buffalo Bill Baffled; or, The Deserter Des- 52 Death Trailer, the Chief of Scouts; or, Life
ham‘ perado's Defiance. By Col. P. Ingraham.  Love in a Frontier Fort. By Buffalo

- 851 Buffalo Bill's Double Dilemma; or, The Greet 697 Buffalo Burs Buckskin Brotherhood. 0r -
Scouts Big Three. By Col. P. Ingraham. ~ Opening Up a Lost Tm“. By 00L p. In, NEW ISSUES To com

845 Buffalo Bill's Redskin Ruse: or. Texas Jack's graham. , 1 T _

y Death Sh“- BY C°‘- Prams" Ingmham- 691 Buffalo Bill' Blind Trail: or, The Daughter 98 mgtfgfilebgggtipo‘g: 3‘3. '1?  fit!“- .
839 The Ranch King Dead-1311M: 0!". Texas JaCk'S of the Regiment. By Col. Prentiss Ingraham. 982 Ch 1 Cr 1 , W1 Ynmg' H'and o ' T'he
Proxy. By Buffalo Bil . 682 B , r s ew ey s n ; r,

uf'falo Bill a Secret Service Trail. By Major , .

830 Buffalo Bill’s Boys in Blue: or. The Brimstone Dangerfield Bu". $3311.15? Valet 5 Double Cline. BY A. P.
Band's BMW“ By C°L P' “graham 067 Buffalo Bill's Swoop' or the Km: of the 983 Kid Glove Kn. the Sport B J c Cow

828 Eng“: Bii;'§2$.i’;s”£°£;"’ézi °15' $353123?“ Mlnu By 001- PreiUH'Inimham driclc Ready A'uxu-t 26. y ' '

con 0 . . . . ’ .
. . . . ontebeno the 653 The Cowboy Clan: or. The Times of Tons. 984 Buffalo Bill a Life Raine, or, The Doomed
$822 33:51.1?{123} 'n?°3oll.3°r§3nti°s§ laggraham. By Colonel Prentiss Inznham. Three. By Col. P. Ingrahnm. Ready Sept. 1.
“‘ A i

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Q Q / ° ° THE DIME LIBRARY is for sale by all Newadealerl, : : 7::
o o a ‘b\~ : : ten cents per copy, or sent by In“. Pre‘Paid: 0“ ’9' 9 a  28 ° °
: : \Q/ ° ° ceipt 0f Primi- ° ° ~10 6 °
' o 9 ° 6 a 6 °
Q Q  § g . a Q Q \ 3 °
Q o OK / é)
.. g \ ° ° g g 80 h a
. . o i: g y ° ° \ ' J“ °
o o / o Q Q §i \\‘ g c
M .. WSWV MA _ J