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"Stand away--back all!" cried a voice "Gi'e ue!" and the muzzle of a caliver was thrust intobefore me

"Hold off!" says he, whereupon they shrank back from me, one and all, before his levelled pistol, and there caasp, and letting fall the caliver he stared atround on them, "'Tis no more than--ha, way for Sir Rupert--make way for the Captain, there!"

"Pray what's to do, Master Penfeather?" de forith draord and the three gentleht but a stoay rogue, Sir Rupert, and one beknown toa curl of his great peruke, "How co with the watch?"

"Look'ee, reat to-do of gurgling and clasping his throat where I had squeezed him) "look'ee, sirs, at h done for by yon ht o' harrips me from behind and would ha' murdered me as he murdered t'others!"

"Ha!" cried Sir Rupert, "The rave charge beside!"

Now as I leaned there against the ure flit down the quarter-ladder and fain would have fled, yet seeing this vain, hung ony of mortified pride

"And you know this man, you say, Master Adam?" questioned Sir Rupert

"Aye I do, sir, for a desperate fellow, and so dothhi done, Sir Rupert starts back with sword-point raised

"By heaven!" he cried, "How cometh this fellow aboard?"

"A stoay as I said, sir," quoth Adam "You mind him very well, it seehtly with his sword as I stood between ue stood i' the pillory!"

"Aye!" I nodded, scowling at his dainty person "And you're the one that setin turn "O a very desperate fellow as you say, Master Ada" Hereupon I laughed and was kicked (unseen) therefor by Ada where she stood hard by, "You have seen this fellow, I think"