I am very wicked, Greenway; you never would admit it and you do not admit it now, but I am wicked, and I could prove it to you if fortune would give me opportunity." And Captain Bonnet sat up very straight in his chair and his eyes flashed as they very often had flashed as he trod the deck of the Revenge.
At this moment there was a knock at the door and the captain of the Belinda came in.
"Good-day, sir!" said that burly seaman.

"And this is Captain Bonnet, I am sure, for I have seen him before, though garbed in another fashion, and I come to bring you news.

I have just arrived at this port in my sloop, and I bring with me from Kingston your daughter, Mistress Kate Bonnet, her uncle, Mr.Delaplaine, and a good dame named Charter." Stede Bonnet turned pale as he had never turned pale before.
"My daughter!" he gasped.

"My daughter Kate ?" "Yes," said the captain; "she is on my ship, yearning and moaning to see you." "From Kingston ?" murmured Bonnet.
"Yes," said the other, "and on fire to see you since she heard you were here." "Master Bonnet," exclaimed Ben Greenway, rising, "we must hasten to that vessel; perhaps this good captain will now tak' us there in his boat." Bonnet fixed his eyes upon the floor.

"Ben Greenway," he said, "I cannot.