With these remarks, we dismiss them from our tale.
Surly Dick now began to entertain sanguine hopes that he would be pardoned, and that he would yet live to enjoy the undivided booty which he alone knew lay concealed in the Isle of Palms; for, now that he had heard Henry's account of the landing of Gascoyne on the island, he never doubted that the pirates would fly in haste from a spot that was no longer unknown to others, and that they would be too much afraid of being captured to venture to return to it.
It was, then, with a feeling of no small concern, that the pirate heard the lookout shout on the afternoon referred to, "Sail ho!" "Where away ?" "On the lea beam." The course of the frigate was at once changed, and she ran down towards the strange sail.
"A schooner, sir," observed the second lieutenant to Mr.Mulroy.
"It looks marvelously like the Foam, _alias_ the Avenger," observed the latter.

"Beat to quarters.

If this rascally pirate has indeed been thrown in our way again, we will give him a warm reception.

Why, the villain has actually altered his course, and is standing towards us." "Don't you think it is just possible," suggested Henry Stuart, "that Gascoyne may have captured the vessel from his mate, and now comes to meet us as a friend ?" "I don't know that," said Mulroy, in an excited tone; for he could not easily forget the rough usage his vessel had received at the hands of the bold pirate.

"I don't know that.