You have been right in your suspicions,--_I am Durward the pirate!_ Nay, do not shrink from me in that way, Mary.

I have kept this secret from you long, because I feared to lose the old friendship that has existed between us since we were children.

I have deceived you in _this thing only_.

I have taken advantage of your ignorance to make you suppose that I was merely a smuggler, and that, in consequence of being an outlaw, it was necessary for me to conceal my name and my movements.
You have kept my secret, Mary, and have tried to win me back to honest ways; but you little knew the strength of the net I had wrapped around me.

You did not know that I was a pirate!" Gascoyne paused, and bent his head as if in thought.