CONTENTSCHAPTER I. TWO YOUNG PEOPLE, A SHIP, AND A FISH II. A FRUIT-BASKET AND A FRIEND III. THE TWO CLOCKS IV. ON THE QUARTER-DECK V. AN UNSUCCESSFUL ERRAND VI. A PAIR OF SHOES AND STOCKINGS VII. KATE PLANS VIII. BEN GREENWAY IS CONVINCED THAT BONNET IS A PIRATE IX. DICKORY SETS FORTH X. CAPTAIN CHRISTOPHER VINCE XI. BAD WEATHER XII. FACE TO FACE XIII. CAPTAIN BONNET GOES TO CHURCH XIV. A GIRL TO THE FRONT XV. THE GOVERNOR OF JAMAICA XVI. A QUESTION OF ETIQUETTE XVII. AN ORNAMENTED BEARD XVIII. I HAVE NO RIGHT; I AM A PIRATE XIX. THE NEW FIRST LIEUTENANT XX. ONE NORTH, ONE SOUTH XXI. A PROJECTED MARRIAGE XXII. BLADE TO BLADE XXIII. THE ADDRESS OF THE LETTER XXIV. BELIZE XXV. WISE MR. DELAPLAINE XXVI. DICKORY STRETCHES HIS LEGS XXVII. A GIRL WHO LAUGHED XXVIII. LUCILLA'S SHIP XXIX. CAPTAIN ICHABOD XXX. DAME CHARTER MAKES A FRIEND XXXI. MR. DELAPLAINE LEADS A BOARDING PARTY XXXII. THE DELIVERY OF THE LETTER XXXIII. BLACKBEARD GIVES GREENWAY SOME DIFFICULT WORK XXXIV. CAPTAIN THOMAS OF THE ROYAL JAMES XXXV. A CHAPTER OF HAPPENINGS XXXVI. THE TIDE DECIDES XXXVII. BONNET AND GREENWAY PART COMPANYXXXVIII. AGAIN DICKORY WAS THERE XXXIX. THE BLESSINGS WHICH COME FROM THE DEATH OF THE WICKED XL. CAPTAIN ICHABOD PUTS THE CASECHAPTER ITWO YOUNG PEOPLE, A SHIP, AND A FISHThe month was September and the place was in the neighbourhood ofBridgetown, in the island of Barbadoes. The seventeenth century was notseventeen years old, but the girl who walked slowly down to the riverbank was three years its senior. She carried a fishing-rod and line, andher name was Kate Bonnet. She was a bright-faced, quick-moving youngperson, and apparently did not expect to catch many fish, for she had nobasket in which to carry away her finny prizes. Nor, apparently, did shehave any bait, except that which was upon her hook and which had beenaffixed there by one of the servants at her home, not far away. In fact,Mistress Kate was too nicely dressed and her gloves were too clean tohave much to do with fish or bait, but she seated herself on a littlerock in a shady spot not far from the water and threw forth her line.Then she gazed about her; a little up the river and a good deal down theriver.