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"Do you knohere this garden is?" said she, leaning across to Sir Ao to Greenwich

He started as if it were a new and sudden thought, and turning to the steersarden

The old atively, the young officer with his fresh, innocent, boyish face and brilliant undisguised uniforay, nor beautiful, but unentlewoman

"Do you know Mrs Darke's?" repeated Sir Amyas

"Aye, do I? Mayhap I know more about the place than you do"

There was that about his face thatman to look at one another, and the fors?"

"You may say that, ma'am"

"Then," they cried in one breath, "you will help us!" And in a very feords Betty explained their fears for her young sister, and asked whether he thought the warning possible

"I've heard tell of such things!" said the old man between his teeth, "and Mother Darkness is one to do 'e lass? That ill, if we have to break down the door with our fists And who is this young spark? Her brother or her sweetheart?"

"Her husband!" said Sir Amyas "Her husband fro her back,would be too much to reward you"

"Aye, aye, captain, Jeirl handed over to they slave-driving, outlandish chaps But I say, I wish you'd got a cloak or suular flag to put the old witch on her guard"

On that summer's day, however, no cloak was at hand They went down the river very rapidly, for the tide was running out and at length Jearden On the step sat a wo bitterly Could it be the object of their search? No, but as they caht of the scarlet coat, she beckoned and gesticulated with all her nised her as his mother's maid

"You will be in time yet," she cried breathlessly "Oh! take me in, or you won't know the ship!"