CAPTAIN ICHABOD Kate Bonnet was indeed in a sad case.

She had sailed from Kingston with high hopes and a gay heart, and before she left she had written to Master Martin Newcombe to express her joy that her father had given up his unlawful calling and to say how she was going to sail after him, fold him in her forgiving arms, and bring him back to Jamaica, where she and her uncle would see to it that his past sins were forgiven on account of his irresponsible mind, and where, for the rest of his life, he would tread the paths of peace and probity.

In this letter she had not yielded to the earnest entreaty which was really the object and soul of Master Newcombe's epistle.

Many kind things she said to so kind a friend, but to his offer to make her the queen of his life she made no answer.

She knew she was his very queen, but she would not yet consent to be invested with the royal robes and with the crown.
And when she had reached Belize, how proudly happy she had been! She had seen her father, no longer an outlaw, honest though in mean condition, earning his bread by honourable labour.