pressed on board that d--d fellow Pritchard's sloop-of-war. It was
he came off and gave us warning that the Shark was coming round
upon us the day Kennedy was done; and he told us how Kennedy had
given the information. The gipsies and Kennedy had some quarrel
besides. This Gab went to the East Indies in the same ship with
your younker, and, sapperment! knew him well, though the other did
not remember him. Gab kept out of his eye though, as he had served
the States against England, and was a deserter to boot; and he
sent us word directly, that we might know of his being here,
though it does not concern us a rope's end.'

'So, then, really, and in sober earnest, he is actually in this
country, Hatteraick, between friend and friend?' asked Glossin,
seriously.

'Wetter and donner, yaw! What do you take me for?'

'For a bloodthirsty, fearless miscreant!' thought Glossin
internally; but said aloud, 'And which of your people was it that
shot young Hazlewood?'

'Sturmwetter!' said the Captain, 'do ye think we were mad? none of
US, man. Gott! the country was too hot for the trade already with
that d-d frolic of Brown's, attacking what you call Woodbourne
House.'

'Why, I am told,' said Glossin, 'it was Brown who shot Hazlewood?'

'Not our lieutenant, I promise you; for he was laid six feet deep
at Derncleugh the day before the thing happened. Tausend deyvils,