CHAPTER TWELVE.
HOW WE SAILED INTO LEITH.
A strange joy seized me as I sighted the unknown ship.

For my heart told me she was no friend, and I was just in the humour for a fight.

I was one too many on board the _Misericorde_; and a brush with the Queen's foes just now would comfort me amazingly.

And yet, when I came to think of it, she lay in nearer the English coast than we, and was like enough to be no Queen's enemy after all, but a Queen's cruiser on the look-out for suspicious craft like ours.

For we floated no colours aloft.