It may be years before I gets a chance, but if ever I does I shall make a run for it, whatever the risk may be.

I speaks free to you, ma'am, for I feel sure as you won't say a word to no man, for it would cost me my life if they thought that I wasn't with them willing.' "'I will not tell any one, Peter, you may be sure,' she said; 'but I do not think you will ever have a chance of getting away--no one ever does who once comes here.' "Well, in time, lad, she lets out bit by bit a little about herself.

She had been on her way out to join her father, who was an officer of the East Indy Company, when the ship was taken by the pirates.

The men was all killed, but she and some other women was taken on board the pirate and at last brought there.

The French captain took a fancy to her from the first, and after she had been there a year brought a Spanish priest they captured on board a ship and he married them.