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PLANS OF ESCAPE.
After that Arabella Bishop went daily to the shed on the wharf with gifts of fruit, and later of money and of wearing apparel for the Spanish prisoners.

But she contrived so to time her visits that Peter Blood never again met her there.

Also his own visits were growing shorter in a measure as his patients healed.

That they all throve and returned to health under his care, whilst fully one third of the wounded in the care of Whacker and Bronson--the two other surgeons--died of their wounds, served to increase the reputation in which this rebel-convict stood in Bridgetown.