The Lady and the Pirate

"Avast! Jean Lafitte," I cried. "Shorten all sail, and bear across,

west-by-west."

"Aye! Aye! Sir," came the response from my bold crew.

"Why don't we run in and board her?" demanded L'Olonnois. However,

seeing that I had laid hold of the steering line where I sat, and was

heading the Sea Rover across the Louisiana side, away from the

city's water-front, he subsided.

"We'll cast anchor yonder where the holding ground is good," I

explained. "To-night we'll send off the long boat with a boarding

party. And marry!" I added, "it shall go hard, but we'll hold yon

varlet to his accounting!"