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Updated: June 15, 2025
Next morning, when Georgianna came downstairs to prepare Bos'n's breakfast the housekeeper had ceased to "go home nights" since the captain's absence the world outside was a tumbled, driving whirl of white.
"A bos'n's pipe," said Captain Bonnet, a hand cupped at his ear. "Blackbeard has sighted us and is mustering his crew." So faint was the breeze that the command was given to man two boats and take a hawser from the brig to tow her through the inner channel. Before they were in motion, however, the pearly mist began to roll out of the Cherokee swamp as if a great cauldron were steaming.
"But, Uncle Cyrus " Bos'n's eyes grew frightened and moist in a moment, "I ain't going, am I? I don't want to go." "No, no! Course you ain't goin' that is, not for a long while, anyhow," with a sidelong look at the members of the "Board," then present. "But just suppose you and me was startin' on that Europe trip. Who'd you want to say good-by to most of all?"
He must tie their ankles; and, as neckerchiefs had run out, he sought, by the light of matches, the "bos'n's locker" in the fore peak. Here he found spun yarn, and, cutting enough lengths of it, he came up and finished the job, tying knots so hard and seamanly that the strongest fingers of a fellow prisoner could not untie them. Then he went aft. Forsythe was still unconscious.
A few days ago come a letter from the Oliver woman in Concord sayin' that this Henry Thomas, Bos'n's father, wan't dead at all, but had turned up there, havin' learned somehow or 'nother that his wife was gone and that his child had been willed a little bit of land which belonged to her mother.
Georgianna returned to announce: "It's Miss Dawes. She says she wants to see you, Cap'n. She's in the settin' room." The captain drew a long breath. Then, repeating his command to Emmie to stay where she was, he left the room, closing the door behind him. The latter procedure roused Bos'n's indignation. "What made him do that?" she demanded. "I haven't been bad. He NEVER shut me up before!"
Often when she walked home from school, she found him hanging over the front gate, and they talked of various things of Bos'n's progress with her studies, of the school work, and similar topics. He called her by her first name now, although in this there was nothing unusual after a few weeks' acquaintance we Bayporters almost invariably address people by their "front" names.
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