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wt ol wr = wr fhe COP : poard it will help me in a plot I have to capture Bazil, [ shall pretend to be a merchantman, Keep all your crew below but seven or eight men, *‘'When hescomes alongside then we must make fast and carry him by boarding.” ‘‘My young friend, you are a remarkable man, and just consider myself, my officers and my men under your command.” ‘No, sir, [ wish you to be captain.” ** Not I, for I shall remain in the cabin, and have nothing to do with it,” Thus urged it was decided by Clifford to take the younger officers and the men of the cap- tain’s crew, while the latter and his senior offi- cers would remain in the cabin and join in the combat if needed. So the crew were sent below, and the schooner was put away in seeming flight, for the pirate was coming rapidly on in chase. Allthrough the night the chase lasted until just at dawn, under the hot fire of the bucca- neer, the schooner hove to; the outlaw craft ran alongside, and the first man to spring on board *was Bazil, the Buccaneer, cutlass in hand, He was met by the Wizard Sailor, who crossed blades with him, and called out: ** Honest tars, on deck! Drive these pirate dogs into the sea!” The shock of surprise for the moment almost paralyzed the pirates; then they sprung back upon their own deck, to try and cast off the grapnels; when they saw the numbers they had to fight. But, the Americans followed, and a fearful combat ensued, until the pirates beheld their jJeader run through by the blade of the Wizard Sailor, and fall to the deck, Then arose wild cries for quarter, but, ere the maddened tars heeded the ery, many more of the lawless band fell upon the decks of both vessels, But, the Wizard Sailor had won the victory, and Bazil the Buccaneer was wounded anda prisoner, : CHAPTER XXIV. CONCLUSION. No words can portray the scene that followed the finding by Clifford Sweegan of his sister Kate on the ‘pirate schooner, and he and Cap- tain Chadwick listened to her story with amazé- ment at her adventure, and joy at her having been so fortunately rescued from the power of the sea outlaw, Tn the three weeks which Kate had been on board the pirate craft, Bazil bad treated her well, and Mrs, Henshaw had recovered and was almost herself once more, _ Kate had told Bazil all that she knew regard- ing herself and brother not being bis children, and he made the demand toknow where his wife Was, but this she would not tell under promises Of release or threats. Then came the capture of the buccaneer. and as he lay in the ward-room badly wounded. he sent for the Wizard Sailor, the surgeon of Cap- tain Chadwick’s vessel having told him that he not live, ‘*] shall cheat the yard-arm of its prey, boy by dying, and as I am told by the surgeon i cannot live, let me do at Jeast one good deed for that brave sister of yours and yourself, ‘I wish to tell you that your father was an Englishman, once @ naval officer, who married your mother, an American lady, and gave up the sea, settling in New York, A younger sis- ter of his came out and joined him there. and She is now living on the Hudson above New York City. ‘Her name is Creola Kane, or was, for she May have married. ’ * Your father’s father was a baronet, and your father having toree elder brothers never €xpected td become Sir Clifford Kane: but his : brothers died without issue, and he was on his way to England to get his inheritance, when his syaeel Was dismasted*in a tornado, and being ppchihe South, was wrecked on the coast of 4% 1 By a strange fatality you and your sister fione survived the wreck, your parents | both being lost. My wife adopted you, and T was gone to bring you up upon a pirate deck, then make Known who you were and get paid to keep the seeret; but’ she learned to love you, so has never told you your history, but she has a box of papers with ‘all the proofs of what I say, and I have revenge on her now in telling you. “Wherever the treasure is she took from ty vessel, that box gontains the proof of what gay. The Wizard Sailor. ‘*T have nothing further to say to you—go/” Without a word Clifford Kane, his sister, Captain Chadwick and Harvey and Clarence Lynn left the pirate to his meditations, for he had said that he wished to have witnesses to his confession, and the Wizard Sauor had asked the others named to come in, As Clifford insisted upon turning the pirate schooner, which was a splendil vessel, over to Captain Chadwick in place of his own, the latter yielded and went on board with his officers and crew, excepting a dozen men loaned to the Wizard Sailor to aid in working his craft back to port, Then the two vessels set sailandin good time ran into Boston side by side and a report of the Capture was made, and also the prisoners were Sent ashore, excepting the bucecaneer chief who was looked upon as dying so was allowed to re- main on Clifford’s schooner. The next morning, however, it was found that the chief, though severely wounded, had been shamming, for he had been able in the night to master his guard, slip through the open port and swim ashoro, or drown, it was not known which, Then the schooner sailed for M—— and Mrs. Sweegan had both of her adopted children to welcome back, and to hear their separate stories, She admitted the truth of what Bazil had said, but the box of *‘ proof” had been buried with the treasure on the island, After a week at home, in which he saw Creola Carr daily, Clifford Kane, as I must now call him, left with Harvoy and Clarence Lynn, to go after his schooner, That beautiful craft was soon afloat upon the seas and winning fame and fortune for her gallant young commander, who, when the war ended could match Creola Carr’s riches by his own. In due tine they were married, and it was a double wedding, too, for Harvey Lynn and Kate Kane were wedded at the same time, and neither the brother or sister seemed to care for the kindred across the water whom they had never known, so happy were they in their American homes, As for Mrs, Sweegan, she who had been known as the Sorceress of Overlook, she built her a stone mansion upon the cliff, in which she dwelt in quiet seclusion until her death. The mansion still stands there, deserted now, and known as the Haunted Manor of Overlook. Kenton Carr, once afloat, seemed to have nothing more to dread, and, under the evil in- fluence of Red ee the Rover, went from bad to worse until, at the end of the war—and be- fore, it was said—he turned his vessel into a buccaneer, but was one day run down at sea by a frigate, and was never heard of afterward. At least so went the story of bis and Red Ralph, the Rover’s end. The commodore of Harborage Hall lived to a green Old age, and was wont to divide his time betwen his home, where Clifford and Creola lived, and the home that had once been Miss Creola Kane’s, his old sweetheart, and which Harvey Lynn bought after his marriage with Kate,.and where Clarence, who remained a bachelor, lived with his brother and his beau- tiful wife. 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