Quartermaster, lock the door." Noakes spent the night on board Blakely's ship, a prisoner under strict guard.

Early in the morning Capt.

Ned called in all the sea-captains in the harbor and invited them, with nautical ceremony, to be present on board his ship at nine o'clock to witness the hanging of Noakes at the yard-arm! "What! The man has not been tried." "Of course he hasn't.

But didn't he kill the nigger ?" "Certainly he did; but you are not thinking of hanging him without a trial ?" "Trial! What do I want to try him for, if he killed the nigger ?" "Oh, Capt.

Ned, this will never do.