An only child of the English merchant, a fair and beautiful young girl, whose years had compassed only the early spring-time of life, flung herself upon her knees before the pirate Captain and begged so piteously for life, that he spared her from the general slaughter he had himself decreed.
Something in her pure, exquisitely beautiful face, touched his compassion.

There were murmurs of discontent among his savage crew.

But the strong-willed Captain had his way, and when he sailed back with his booty to their place of rendezvous, he bore with him the beautiful maiden.

Here, it was said, he gave her honorable protection, and had her cared for as tenderly as was possible under the circumstances.

And it was further related, that, when the maiden grew to ripe womanhood, he abandoned the trade of a buccaneer and made her his wife.