“Aye, aye, sir; off she goes.”
“The pirate is coming about, now, Mr. Kane,” said the skipper, then. “I think I can tell you what her game is now.”
“Well, what is it?”
“Why, sir, that pirate fellow means to run up alongside of us. The Shadow is enough faster than we are for him to do that with ease, and with this smooth sea it will be like running a baby-farm. When he has done that, he’ll either make fast to us and board us, or he’ll riddle us with those half-pound shot at his leisure, sir.”
CHAPTER XIV.
THE ABDUCTION OF BESSIE HARLAN.
From the deck of the Goalong, Bessie Harlan watched the maneuvering of the pirate craft with an intensity which amounted almost to fascination.
It had not occurred to her thus far to feel personal fear. She remembered another occasion when she had met the pirate, and she recalled that she had been treated with the utmost consideration at that time, and now it did not occur to her that the rover of the sea would visit personal harm upon any of them.