"And if Mr.Delaplaine and the two ladies will get into my boat, I will quickly take you to the town and show you where you may find Captain Bonnet and learn all you wish to know." "And Dickory," cried Dame Charter, "my son Dickory! Did they give you no news of him ?" "Come along, come along," said the captain, "my men are waiting in the boat.

I asked no questions, but in ten minutes you can ask a hundred if you like." When the little party reached the town it attracted a great deal of attention from the rough roisterers who were strolling about or gambling in shady places.

When the captain of the Belinda mentioned, here and there, that these newcomers were the family of Blackbeard's factor, who now had charge of that pirate's interests in the town, no one dared to treat the elderly gentleman, the pretty young lady, or the rotund dame with the slightest disrespect.

The name of the great pirate was a safe protection even when he who bore it was leagues and leagues away.
At the door of the storehouse Ben Greenway stood waiting.

He would have hurried down to the pier had it not been that he was afraid to leave Bonnet; afraid that this shamefaced ex-pirate would have hurried away to hide himself from his daughter and his friends.