Do either of you know," glancing at the young men impartially, but apparently not noticing the bad weather, "if in a reasonable time a vessel will leave here for Jamaica ?" Dickory knew well, but he would not answer; Kate had no right to put such a thing upon him.

Newcombe, however, did not hesitate.

"It is very hard for me to say," he made reply, "but there is a merchantman, the King and Queen, which sails from here in three days for Jamaica.

I know this, for I send some goods; and I wish, Mistress Bonnet, that I could say something against your sailing in her, but I cannot; for, since you will not let me take care of you, your uncle is surely the best one in the world to do it; and as to the vessel, I know she is a safe one." "But you could not go sailing away in any vessel by yourself," cried Dame Charter, "no matter how safe she may be." "Oh, no!" cried Kate; "and the more we talk about our plan the more fully it reveals itself to me in all its various parts.

I am going to ask you to go with me, my dear Dame Charter," and as she spoke she seized both of the hands of the other.