THE GOVERNOR OF JAMAICA The Governor of Jamaica was much interested in the visit of Kate Bonnet, whom he saw alone in a room adjoining the public apartments.

He had met her two or three times before, and had been forced to admit that the young girls of Barbadoes must be pretty and piquant in an extraordinary degree, and he had not wondered that his friend, Captain Vince, should have spoken of her in such an enthusiastic manner.
But now she was different.

Her sorrow had given her dignity and had added to her beauty.

She quickly told her tale, and he started upright in his chair as he heard it.
"Do you mean," he exclaimed, "that that pirate, after whom I sent the Badger, is your father?
It amazes me! The similarity of names did not strike me; I never imagined any connection between you and the captain of that pirate ship." "That's what Captain Vince said when I last saw him," remarked Kate.
"It must have astounded him to know it," exclaimed the Governor, "and I wonder, knowing it, that he consented to obey my orders; and had I been in his place I would have preferred to be dismissed from the service rather than to sail after your father and to destroy him.

If I had known what I know now, my orders to Captain Vince would have been very different from what they were.