Like a wise fellow, he did not give the tempter a second opportunity, but, seizing the hand of his companion, said: "Come along, Alice; we'll go seek for Bumpus." Half an hour afterwards the widow stood at the jail door.

The jailer was an intimate friend, and considerately retired during the interview.
"O Gascoyne! has it come to this ?" She sat down beside the pirate, and grasped one of his manacled hands in both of hers.
"Even so, Mary; my hour has come.

I do not complain of my doom.

I have brought it on myself." "But why not try to escape ?" said Mrs.Stuart, earnestly.

"There are some here who could aid you in the matter." Here the widow attempted to reason with Gascoyne, as her son had done before, but with similar want of success.