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"Stand by, lads!" he roared "Level at the cliff yonder, but let no ain and mark the flash!"

Helpless in my bonds and crushed beneath Tressady's knee I heard a stir and rustle to right and left of ers and thereafter--silence And, ony of dread, well knohence that ht was to hear save the rustle of stealthy arth one spoke, loud-voiced: "What now, Captain? Us can't bide here all night"

"How many are we, Purdy?"

"Thirty and nine, Captain"

"Then do you take ten and scale the starboard cliff and you, Abner, with other ten take the cliff to larboard I'll bide here wi' the rest and so we'll have 'eh, Cap'n!"

"My hook is s, or I'll show ye a liver yet and be--"

He stopped all at once as, faint at first yetthe flesh with horror, a cry that waxed and swelled louder and louder to a hideous screa to an awful bubblingTressady to stare away across Deliverance whence this dreadful cry had coreat chin; then beyond these shining sands was the thunderous roar of a great gun, a furious rattle of small-arle shots in rapid succession Hereupon rose shouts and cries of dismay: "Lord love us we'm beset! O Cap'n, we be took fore and aft What shall us do, Cap'n? Yon was a gun What o' the ship, Cap'n--what o' the ship?"

"Yonder--look yonder! Who co towards Deliverance Beach with his glittering hook

Twisting my head as I lay, I looked whither he pointed, and saw one that ran towards us, yet in s like a drunken ain, and soation!" cries Tressady "'Tis s--you Toation!" And off he went at a run At his going wasfor stealing away in the boats, others for taking to the woods, and all clean forgetting ation was hailing feebly, and was coht see hi under hi Tressady, he stopped and hailed hier! The devil's aboard us, Roger--Penfeather's on us--Penfeather's took the ship--I'm all that's left alive! They killed Sol first--did ye--hear hier? O did ye hear--"