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Updated: June 21, 2025
You see the place where the beach falls here, at the nearest point of the land the island is nearly severed by the water at that spot, and the Water-Witch is safe in the depths of the bay which enters from the northward. There is not a mile between us.
Ludlow was no sooner certain that the cruiser felt the force of the wind, and to gain this assurance needed but a few moments, than he turned his eager look on the brigantine. To the surprise of all who witnessed her temerity, the Water-Witch still showed all her light sails. Swiftly as the ship was now driven through the water, its velocity was greatly outstripped by that of the wind.
But before the sun had fallen to the level of the water, the hull of the Water-Witch had disappeared; and when the day closed, no part of her airy outline was visible, but that which was known to belong to her upper and lighter spars. In a few minutes afterwards, darkness covered the ocean; and the seamen of the royal cruiser were left to pursue their object, at random.
Van Beverout, we are no dealers of the short voyage. Our trade is the concern of life; our world, the Water-Witch. As we have so little of the interests of the land, our philosophy is above its weaknesses. The birth of Eudora was concealed from you, at the will of her grandfather. It might have been resentment; it might have been pride.
I looked up, and saw once more above me a dark ship's hull, and right above my head the white letters, Water-Witch. This would never do. My boat had drifted up the river again with the tide, stern foremost, but a little aslant, and had run against the warp by the schooner's bows. I must pull out again, for otherwise the people on board would hear me.
"We are likely to be shipmates several days, unless you choose to shorten the time, by entering into a capitulation for the Water-Witch; in which case " "You had a proposition to make." Ludlow hesitated, cast an eye behind him, to be certain they were alone, and drew nearer to his captive. "Sir, I will deal with you as becomes a seaman.
"The Water-Witch! the Water-Witch! ahoy!" broke out of the lips of the mariner of the shawl, with a supernatural force, the last cry being drawn out, till he who uttered it sunk back exhausted with the effort. The words were still ringing in the ears of the breathless party on the raft, when a heavy shout swept across the water.
"Our mistress never sleeps;" returned the dealer in contraband, drawing a long breath, like one who had struggled long to repress his interest. "Terms are still in your power. I shall not conceal that the Commissioners of Her Majesty's customs set so high a price on the possession of the Water-Witch, as to embolden me to assume a responsibility from which I might, on any other occasion, shrink.
"Don't you remember leading me down once to admire the lady on her stern? like a water-witch just gilded in the rays of some sunrise she had come up to see, you said." "Yes; and we used to climb her shrouds, we boys, and get through the lubber-hole, before we could spell her name out. She's made of heart of oak: she'll float still when the Frarnie is nothing but sawdust.
The studding-sails of the Water-Witch were no sooner fluttering in the air, than the brigantine slightly changed her course, like some bird whose wing has been touched by the fowler; and her head was seen inclining as much to the south, as the moment before it had pointed northward.
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