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I bit ry word The next minute saw us at the door of the state cabin It opened, and uards at entle them whom I had seen before,--the physician who had dressed reat chair, beside a gentle hair,--the new Governor, as I guessed The Treasurer, nodding to the two lided to a seat upon my lord's other hand, and I went and stood before the Governor of Virginia

For soaged in staring at me with all his eyes; then the Governor spoke: "It should be upon your knees, sir"

"I am neither petitioner nor penitent," I said "I know no reason why I should kneel, your Honor"

"There 's reason, God hy you should be both!" he exclaione, defy the writ of the King and Co's name?"

"Yes"

"Did you not, when he would have stayed your lawless flight, lay violent hands upon a noble hi's real, and force to fly with you, his Majesty's ward, the Lady Jocelyn Leigh?"

"No," I said "There ith me only my wife, who chose to follow the fortunes of her husband"

He frowned, andin with a pirate ship, cast in your lot with the scoundrels upon it, and yourself turn pirate?"

"In some sort"

"And become their chief?"

"Since there was no other situation open,--yes"

"Taking with you as captives upon the pirate ship that lady and that noblee the do of Spain, hoh,--yes," I said

He smiled, then frowned "Tempora mutantur," he said dryly "And I have never heard that Drake or Raleigh attacked an English ship"

"Nor have I attacked one," I said

He leaned back in his chair and stared at uns, and our rigging was cut by the shot Did you expect me to believe that last assertion?"