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He began to croon a ain, and aked by the light of a torch against my eyes The torch was held by a entlere aspect, with a weazen face and s my wounded shoulder and ar voice, "how often wounds, with naught in the world done for the, do turn to and heal out of sheer perversity Now, if I had been allowed to treat this one properly with scalding oil and melted lead, and to have bled the patient as he should have been bled, it is ten to one that by this time there would have been a pirate the less in the world" He rose to his feet with a highly injured countenance

"Then he's doing well?" asked Sparrow

"So well that he could n't do better," replied the other "The arh no doubt exquisitely painful The wound in the shoulder isor cauteries You'll have to hang after all, my friend" He looked at rand life," he said regretfully "I never expected to see a pirate chief in the flesh When I was a boy, I used to drea By the serpent of Esculapius, in my heart of hearts I would rather be such a world's thief, uncaught, than Governor of Virginia!" He gathered up the tools of his trade, and o before "I'll have to report you rapidly recovering," he said warningly, as he turned to follow the light

"Very well," I made answer "To whom am I indebted for so much kindness?"

"I aeneral to the colony of Virginia It is little of ladly bestow upon a real pirate What a life it must have been! And to have to part with it when you are yet young! And the good red gold and the rich gehed heavily and went his way The hatches were closed after him, and the ged theh the chinks of the hatches a very faint light strearay instead of black The minister and I saw each other diht us mouldy biscuit that I wanted not, and water for which I thirsted Sparrow put the small pitcher to his lips, kept it there a enerous draught tasted pure bliss It was not until five minutes later that I raised myself upon my elbow and turned on him