Beadle's Dime Novels No. 208: The Ocean Outlaw — page 47: what you’re looking at

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where the fallen man-had disappeared, “I'll bet my eyes that it’s one of those chaps we have been looking for, and he has taken this tumble while trying to get a look at his visitors. There, be has come up, and is swimming like all ereation toward the shore. Ahoy! Shipmate, wait a minute and we can give you a better berth than you have cot there, and among respeotable men into the bar- gain.” In another moment, the boat was alongside of the swimmer, who was quickly hauled aboard, disarmed, an1 stretched at length on the bottom, when he was politely reminded that he was expected to remain quiet, “Now. give way with a will, boys!” said Howard, ‘*for I should not wonder much if there were more birds of this fellow's stamp where he comes from.” _ “If there is, we can accommoilate one or two more of them with a berth, by stowing them a little,” answered Allen, laughing. “Yes, fill them up, one right on top of the other, and then we could take a cargo of the rascals,” said Stand- isa. ‘‘And they are in pretty good demand at Havana just now,” put in Sampson, with a grin. ** Suppose you ques- tien that chap a little, Mr. Iloward, and maybe you can learn where his.skipper has gone.” Rollins at first refused to say anything that wonld give a clue to his master’s present whereabouts; but he at length intimated that Ralph Gray had abandoned hiscamp, | becuuse he fenred betrayal from one of his men who had deserted, and hinted that he might be found somewhere in the vicinity of St. Augustine. a Tiss was enough for Howard, who rightly conjectured that the buceaneer intended to hang about among the Bahama Islands, and that neighborhood, until he heart some report from his camp; and, as he had the watch- man wlio had been left there, in his own possession, hie thenght it probable that the first intelligence that reached Cuptain Grey, in regard to his island, woull be conveyed in the Windsor. The voyage between the two islands was accomnplishe COM|COOOXS.COM