I would have told him to capture your father, and to bring him here to me.

It cannot be that he is in his right mind!" Now Kate was weeping; the terrible words "destroy him," and the assurance that if she had thought sooner of appealing to the Governor, much misery, or at least the thought of misery, might have been spared her, so affected her that she could not control herself.
The Governor did not attempt to console her.

Her sorrow was natural, and it was her right.
When she looked up again she spoke about what she had come to ask him for; the authority to bring back her father wherever she might find him, and to defend him from the attacks of all persons, whoever they might be, until she reached Jamaica.

And then she told him how she would seek for her father on every sea.
The Governor sat and pondered.

The father of such a girl should be saved from the terrible fate awaiting him, if the thing could possibly be done.