When she saw the visitor she thought it could not be the pirate captain, but some one whom he had sent in his place.

He was more soberly dressed than when he first came on board, and his manners were even milder.

The mind of Kate Bonnet was so worked up by the trouble that had come upon her that she felt very much as she did when she hung over the side of her father's vessel at Bridgetown, ready to drop into the darkness and the water when the signal should sound.

She had an object now, as she had had then, and again she must risk everything.

On her second look at Captain Ichabod, which embarrassed him very much, she was ready to trust him.
"Dame Charter," she whispered, "we must do it or never see them again." So, when they had talked about it for a quarter of an hour, it was agreed that they would sail with Captain Ichabod.
When the sloop Restless made ready to sail the next day there was a fine flurry in the harbour.