This proposition was of course joyfully accepted, and very soon the _Revenge_ was manned with a complete crew of competent desperadoes.
All these operations took a good deal of time, and, at last, when everything was ready for Bonnet to start out on his piratical cruise, he received information which caused him to change his mind, and to set forth on an errand of a very different kind.

He had supposed that Blackbeard, whom he had never forgiven for the shameful and treacherous manner in which he had treated him, was still on shore enjoying himself, but he was told by the captain of a small trading vessel that the old pirate was preparing for another cruise, and that he was then in Ocracoke Inlet.

Now Bonnet folded his arms and stamped his feet upon the quarter-deck.

The time had come for him to show that the name of his vessel meant something.

Never before had he had an opportunity for revenging himself on anybody, but now that hour had arrived.