Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-04-16

Now they all came up and heard these words of Lucilla.
 "Yes, indeed" said Capt Ichabod, t'you may not suppose it, but your daughter and I are about to marry, and will plant sugar together. Now, want to buy a plantation. Where is that young man who was born here, be- dad? ?"
 Dickory advanced, laughing. Here was fine opportunity, miraculous opportunity, of disposing of the Bonnet estate, which was part of the business which had brought him here. So he told the beaming captain that he knew of a fine plantation up the river, which he thought would suit him.
 Very good said Capt. Ichabod. ''I have a boat here: let LIS go and look at the place, and if it suits us will buy it, bedad."
 So with Mrs. Mander and her hus- band beside her, and with Lucilla and the captain by her, the boat was rowed up the river, with Diclory and young Lena in the bow.
 When the boat reached the Bonnet estate it was run up on the shore near the shady spot where Kate Bonnet had once caught 8 fish. Then they all stepped out upon the little beach, even the oarsmen made the boat fast and joined the party, who started to walk up to the house. Suddenly Capt. Icha- bod stopped and said to Mr. Mander:: T don't care to walk up that hill, you know; and if you and your good wife will look over that house and cast your eyes about the place, I will buy it., if you say so; you know good deal more about such things than I do, bedad. suppose, of course, that will suit your"
 It suited Lucilla exactly. They sat in the shade in the very place where Kate had sat when she saw Master NeWcombe crossing the bridge.
 A small boat came down the river, rowed by young man. As he passed the old Bonnet property he carelessly cast his eyes shoreward, but his heart took no interest in what he saw there. What did it matter to him if two lovers sat there in the shade, close to the rivers brink? His sad soul now took no interest in lovers. He had just been up the river to arrange for the sale of his plantation to one of his neighbors. He had decided to leave the island of Barbadoes and to return to England.
 The house suited Capt. Ichabod ex- actly, when Mrs. Mander told him about 1t, and Lucilla agreed with him. because she was always accustomed to trust her mother in such things:
 So they all got into the boat and rowed back to Dickory's old home, and on the way Capt. Ichabod told Dickory that when they returned together to the town he would pay him for the plantation, having brought specie suf- fcient for the purpose.
 It was upon fine morning that the ex-pirate Ichabod thus addressed citi- zen of the town: sa
 '.Yes, sir, I know we'll who once lived in the house I own. I knew the man myself; I knew him at Belize. He was dastardly knave. and would have played false to the sun, the moon, and the stars had they shown him an op- portunity, bedad, But I also knew his daughter; she sailed on my ship for many days, and her presence blessed the very boards she trod on She is most noble lady; and if you will not admit, sir, that her sweet spirit and pure soul have not banished from this earth every taint of wickedness left here by her father, then, sir, bedad, stand where you are and draw!"
 THE END.