have felt some remorse at the grief and pain he had caused in the heart of the poor girl what have you done this for mr dock are you sailing away with me from my parents won t you please to inform me perhaps if you will tell me what you want i can help you to get it perhaps you can replied dock musing but we won t talk about that to night won t you tell me where you are going pleaded i hardly know myself but don t go to being frightened for i tell you again no one shall hurt you there is one of those little state rooms that you can have all to yourself you may go in there and lock yourself in but you haven t had any supper the flag or o i don t want any supper if you only tell me mr dock what you mean to do with me that is all i will ask i guess we won t talk about that to night send a man down to get some supper for you and we will talk over all these things to morrow could not induce the evil man to disclose his plans to her and she gave up the point in despair but his solemn assurance that she should not be was some comfort to her though she felt that she could not trust him in his rude manner he had attempted to be kind to her he was not a nor a for his language was as respectful as his natural would allow him to use she sat down in the gloom of the dirty cabin to think of the grief and anxiety which awaited her parents when her absence should be discovered she thought her mother might suppose she had gone to s island in the flag and she might not be missed till a late hour in the evening she concluded that had made the sion without the young of cape ann her for he would not wish to disappoint the rest of the party she wept when she thought of her mother � the fond and devoted one who seemed to live only for her she would think that her daughter was drowned for no one could possibly suspect that she had been carried off by the evil man � by him who had saved her father s life poor was as sad and miserable as she could be and the long gloomy night before her looked like an age of sorrow and dock went on deck and presently one of the two men who formed the crew of the came down into the cabin and made a fire in the little or cooking stove which was fastened to the floor in one corner of the dingy den can you tell me where we are going asked of this man i can t miss i don t know anything about it replied the sailor i wash my hands of this business don t you know what mr dock is going to do with me the flag or i have no miss but he says he ain t going to hurt you you see we sailors have to mind tlie n and we don t know about his business but i ll this to you miss he shan t do you no hurt and me is agreed on this point my father and mother will be terribly when i don t come home sighed i shouldn t wonder if they was but i don t see as we can do anything about it we ll see that you ain t hurt and if you ll keep still we ll find out what can be done for you thank you sobbed don t cry miss may be we shall be able to do for you before morning if you will we ll keep a and see now miss what can you eat for your supper we haven t got much but i ll do the best i can for you i ll a for you or give you some tea and toast i don t wish for anything replied but dove the man who did the cooking spoke so kindly to her and pressed her so hard that she finally consented to take some tea and toast which the young op cape ann he prepared for her with much difficulty and rather to please dove than hei she partook though very of the food and then went to her state room the door behind her dock and his men took their by turns but nothing was said about when they went on deck dove and made an emphatic protest against the high crime which dock was and in which they had been compelled to take a part dove you never saw a thousand dollars in all your life said the nor you neither i don t ask either of you to do or say anything but i will give you a dollars apiece to keep your places in the vessel for three or four days more or may be a week yes and i will give you the vessel besides the men were tempted by this magnificent offer as they regarded it dock then assured them that should be treated like a lady and not a hair of her head and that she should be restored to her parents within three or four days they agreed to let him know decision in the and the flag ob dock wont down into the cabin again taking the lantern down from the beam on which it hung lie placed it upon the table a bottle of ink a pen and some paper from his state room he wrote for about two hours and then after going on deck he turned in perhaps slept a little � she could not tell in the morning whether she had 