Even the account of the unusual manner in which he and Kate had disembarked from the pirate vessel was given without curtailment, nor with any attention to the approving grunts of Ben Greenway.

When he came to speak of the letter which Mr.
Newcombe had written her, and which had thrown her into such despair on account of its shortcomings, Captain Bonnet burst into a fury of execration.
"And she never got my letter ?" he cried, "and knew not what had happened to me.

It is that wife of mine, that cruel wild-cat! I sent the letter to my house, thinking, of course, it would find my daughter there.

For where else should she be ?" "An' a maist extraordinary wise mon ye were to do that," said Ben Greenway, "for ye might hae known, if ye had ever thought o' it at all, that the place where your wife was, was the place where your daughter couldna be, an' ye no' wi' her.

If ye had spoke to me about it, it would hae gone to Mr.Newcombe, an' then ye'd hae known that she'd be sure to get it." At this a slight cloud passed over Dickory's face, and, in spite of the misfortunes which had followed upon the non-delivery of her father's letter, he could not help congratulating himself that it had not been sent to the care of that man Newcombe.