CHAPTER XXX.
More Leave-Taking--Deep Designs--Bumpus in a New Capacity

CHAPTER XXXI.
The Ambush--The Escape--Retributive Justice--And Conclusion




GASCOYNE,

THE SANDAL-WOOD TRADER.




CHAPTER I.

THE SCHOONER.


The great Pacific is the scene of our story. On a beautiful morning,
many years ago, a little schooner might have been seen floating, light
and graceful as a seamew, on the breast of the slumbering ocean. She was
one of those low, black-hulled vessels, with raking, taper masts,
trimly-cut sails, and elegant form, which we are accustomed to associate
with the idea of a yacht or a pirate.

She might have been the former, as far as appearance went; for the sails
and deck were white as snow, and every portion of brass and copper above