nation of Mynheer Krause; and that
in consequence of this, all those who took off their hats to Mynheer
Krause but two days before, and kept them on when they met Mynheer
Engelback, now kept them on when they met Mynheer Krause, and pulled
them off very politely to Mynheer Krause's very particular friend,
Mynheer Engelback.

CHAPTER FIFTY THREE.

TRIAL AND EXECUTION OF TWO OF THE PRINCIPAL PERSONAGES IN OUR HISTORY.

We left Sir Robert Barclay on the deck of the cutter, the ladies and
women sent down below, and Mr Vanslyperken on the point of being
dragged aft by two of Sir Robert's men. The crew of the Yungfrau, at
the time, were on the lower deck, some assisting the wounded men, others
talking with Jemmy Salisbury and his wife, whom they were astonished to
find among the assailants.

"Why, Jemmy, how did you get a berth among those chaps?"

"I'll tell you," said Moggy, interrupting: "when he was last at
Portsmouth, they heard him playing his fiddle and singing, and they took
such a fancy to him, that they were determined to have him to amuse them
in the cave. So one evening, they _kidnapped_ him, took him away by
main force, and kept him a prisoner ever since."

"That's carrying the joke rather too far," observed one of the men.

"Mein, Gott! yes," replied the corporal.

"But I am at liberty again now, at all events," replied Jemmy, taking
the cue from his wife; "and if that chap, Vanslyperken, don't command
the cutter any more, which I've a notion he will not, I shall enter as
boatswain--heh, Dick?"

"Yes," replied Short, who was swinging in his hammock.

"Well--when I found that Jemmy couldn't be found, that my dear, darling
duck of a husband--my jewel, a box of diamonds, (ar'n't you, my Jemmy?)
didn't I tear my hair, and run about the streets, like a mad woman,"
continued Moggy. "At last I met with Nancy Corbett, whose husband is
one of the gang, and she told me where he was, fiddle and all, and I
persuaded her to let me go to him, and that's why we both are here."

This was a good intention of Moggy's, and as there was nobody who took
the trouble to disprove it, it was received as not the least apocryphal.
But now Mr Vanslyperken was dragged past them by two of the
conspirators, and all the men of the Yungfrau followed on deck, to see
what was to take place.

When Mr Vanslyperken had been brought aft, his legs tattered, and he
could hardly stand. His face was livid, and his lips white with fe