'The same. He hath engaged a cabin for me, and hath purchased clothes—and'——
'Is it possible,' said the Mate, 'that you do not know where you are, and whither you are going?'
'I am going, under the special care of the Captain, to the city of Boston, in New England, to my cousin, Mr. Eykin, a gentleman of credit and substance of that town.'
He gazed at me with wonder.
'I will speak to the Captain,' he said, and left me standing there.
Presently he returned. 'Come with me,' he said.
'You are Alice Eykin?' said the Captain, who had with him a paper from which he read.
'That is my name.'
'On a certain day in July, your father being a preacher in the army of the Duke of Monmouth, you walked with a procession of girls bearing flags which you presented to that rebel?'