Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-03-28
CHAPTER TX. DICKORY SETS FORTH.

tai of Jamaica, occupied a commodious house in the suburbs of the town, 12 miles up the river from Kingston, the seaport, which establishment was somewhat remarkable from the fact that there were no women in the fam fly. Madam Delaplaine had been dead for several years, and as her husbands fortune had steadily thriven, he now found himself possessor of home in which he could be as independent and as comfortable as if he had been the president and sole member of club.
 Into this quiet and self-satisfled life came, one morning, great surprise in the shape of a beautiful young woman, who entered his office In Spanish Town, and who stated to him that she was the daughter of his only sister, and that she had come to live with him. There was an elderly dame and young man in company with the beau tiful visitor, but MT. Delaplaine took no note of them. With his niece's hands in his own, gazing into the face so like that young face in whose com- pany he had grown from childhood to manhood, MT. Delaplaine saw in a flash, that since the death of his wife until that moment he had never had the least reason to be content with the world or to be satisfied with his lot. This was his sisters child come to live with him!
 When MT Delaplaine sufficiently re- covered his ordinary good sense to un- derstand that there were other things iy1t hoc Ivy nj who had so suddenly appeared before him, he remembered that she had father, and many questions were asked and answered; and he was told who Dame Charter was, and why her son came with her. Then the uncle and the niece walked into the garden, and there talked of Maj. Bonnet. Lit tie did Kate know upon this subject, and nothing could her uncle tell her; but in many and tender words she was assured that this was her home as long as she chose to live m 1t, and that IL was the most fortunate thing in the world that Dame Charter had come with>her and could stay with her. Had this not been so, where could he have found such guardian angel such a
 
 for the young man, 1t was such rare good luck that he had been able to ac- company the two ladies and give them his protection. He was just the per son. MT. Delaplaine believed, who would be invaluable to him either on the plantation or in his counting house. In any case, here was their home; and here, too, was the home of his brother-in-law, Bonnet, whenever he chose to give up his strange fancy for the sea. It was not now to be thought of that Kate or her father, or either one of them, should go back 10 Barbadoes to live with the impossible Madam Bonnet
 If her fathers vessel were in the harbor and he were here with them, or even if she had had good tidings from him, Kate Bonnet would have been a very happy girl, for her present abode was vastly different from any home she had ever known. Her uncle's house on the highlands beyond the town lay in region of cooler breezes and more bracing air than that of Bar badoes. Books and music and the gen. eral air of refinement recalled her early life with her mother, and with the exception of the anxiety about her father. there were no clouds in the bright blue skies of Kate Bonnet But this anxiety vas 8 cloud, and 1t was spreading.
 When the Amanda moved away from the side of the pirate vessel Revenge she hoisted all sail. and got away over