I took no life, Kate, if it could be helped, and when I had stripped a ship of her goods, I put her people upon shore before I burned her." Kate bowed her head in her hands.

"And of all this you are proud, my father, you are proud of it!" "Indeed am I, daughter," said he; "and had you seen me in my glory you would have been proud of me.

Perhaps yet--" In an instant she had clapped her hand over his mouth.

"You shall not say it!" she exclaimed.

"I have seized upon you and I shall hold you.