You would lay her aboard, and see what has happened!" The captain frowned and turned away.

For a long time he paid no further attention to Robert, all his skill and energy concentrated upon the effort to save his ship.

But it became evident even to Robert's inexperienced eye that the schooner was stricken mortally.

The guns of the sloop had not raked and slashed her in vain.

A pirate she had been, but a pirate she would be no more.