The Governor of Pennsylvania, recognizing the impending danger and the necessity of prompt action, sent to Sandy Hook, where there was a British man-of-war, the _Phoenix_, and urged that this vessel should come down into Delaware Bay and put an end to the pirate ship which was ravaging those waters.

Considering that Worley had not been engaged in piracy for much more than four weeks, he had created a reputation for enterprise and industry, which gave him a very important position as a commerce destroyer, and a large man-of-war did not think that he was too small game for her to hunt down, and so she set forth to capture or destroy the audacious Worley.

But never a Worley of any kind did she see.

While the _Phoenix_ was sailing along the coast, examining all the coves and harbors of New Jersey and Pennsylvania, the _New York's Revenge_ put out to sea, and then proceeded southward to discover a more undisturbed field of operation.
We will now leave Worley's vessel sailing southward, and go for a time to Charles Town, where some very important events were taking place.

The Governor of South Carolina had been very much afraid that the pirates in general would take some sort of revenge for the capture of Stede Bonnet, who was then in prison awaiting trial, and that if he should be executed, Charles Town might be visited by an overpowering piratical force, and he applied to England to have a war-vessel sent to the harbor.