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Wise Mr. Delaplaine 263 XXVI. Dickory stretches his legs 276 XXVII. A girl who laughed 280 XXVIII. Lucilla's ship 295 XXIX. Captain Ichabod 308 XXX. Dame Charter makes a friend 320 XXXI. Mr. Delaplaine leads a boarding party 330 XXXII. The delivery of the letter 341 XXXIII. Blackbeard gives Greenway some difficult work 357 XXXIV. Captain Thomas of the Royal James 364 XXXV. A chapter of happenings 373 XXXVI. The tide decides 381 XXXVII. Bonnet and Greenway part company 392 XXXVIII. Again Dickory was there 399 XXXIX. The blessings which come from the death of the wicked 405 XL. Captain Ichabod puts the case 409   RECENT FICTION.  

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

	FACING PAGE
"Oh, Kate!" said Dickory, "you should have seen that wonderful pirate fight"	Frontispiece
"If you talk to me like that I will cut you down where you stand!"	46
"He is my father!" said Kate	124
"Haste ye! haste ye," cried Dickory, "they will leave you behind"	155
"Take that," he feebly said, "and swear that it shall be delivered"	241
Kate and her father in the warehouse	260
Lucilla rescues Dickory	337
In an instant Dickory was there	403

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KATE BONNET

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CHAPTER I

TWO YOUNG PEOPLE, A SHIP, AND A FISH

The month was September and the place was in the neighbourhood of Bridgetown, in the island of Barbadoes. The seventeenth century was not seventeen years old, but the girl who walked slowly down to the river bank was three years its senior. She carried a fishing-rod and line, and her name was Kate Bonnet. She was a bright-faced, quick-moving young person, and apparently did not expect to catch many