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Adown the street "Captain Ralph Percy!" he cried "Myacross the neck The Governor commands your attendance at once, sir"

"Where is the Governor? Where are all the people?" I demanded

"At the fort They are all at the fort or on the bank below Oh, sirs, a woeful day for us all!"

"A woeful day!" I exclainized as one of the commander's servants, a felloith the soul of a French valet de chauns!" he quavered "Alackaday! what can a few sakers and deainst who out pikes and cutlasses! Woe's ht of naked steel hath ever made me sick!"

I drew er, and flashed it before him "Does 't make you sick?" I asked "You shall be sicker yet, if you do not speak to so fro ship! It hath ten culverins, beside fowlers and murderers, sabers, falcons, and bases!"

I took him by the collar and shook hied to say as I set him down "This tialleys will have us!"

"It's the Spaniard at last," I said "Come on!"

When we reached the river bank before the fort, it was to find confusion worse confounded The gates of the palisade were open, and through theesses, and officers, while the bank itself was thronged with the generality Ancient planters, Smith's men, Dale'sthe little eyases we inerons, Dutch sawlassworkers,--all seethed to and fro, all talked at once, and all looked down the river Out of the babel of voices these words came to us over and over: "The Spaniard!" "The Inquisition!" "The galleys!" They were the words oftenest heard at that tiht

But where was the Spaniard? On the river, hugging the shore, were es, shallops, sloops, and pinnaces, and beyond theer, then in port; on these three, of which the largest, the Due Return, was of but eighty tons burthen, theorders But there was no other ship, no bark, galleon, orordnance, and the hated yellow flag flaunting above