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Kate Bonnet

CHAPTER XXIX
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He would take his passengers back to Kingston, but he could not sail upon any wild cruises, nor could he leave Belize immediately.
But Kate took no notice of all this when her uncle had told it to her.
She did not wish to go back to Jamaica; she did not wish to wait at Belize.

It was the clamorous longing of her heart to go after her father and to find him wherever he might be, and she did not care to consider anything else.
Dame Charter added also her supplications.

Her boy was with Blackbeard, and she wished to follow the pirate's ship.

Even if she should never see Major Bonnet--whom she loathed and despised, though never saying so--she would find her Dickory.

She, too, believed that there must be some spark of feeling even in a bloody pirate's heart which would make him understand the love of a mother for her son, and he would let her have her boy.
Mr.Delaplaine sat brooding on the deck.


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