ignals.

"All's well!" cried he. "Cap'n, you will see to the getting up of the
goods."

Taken off his guard, the captain stepped to the hatchway, gave a few
orders, and seemed to recollect something. But the binnacle light was
out, and the pilot had disappeared! The captain caught at the rope by
which his boat had been towing astern. It came in without resistance; it
had been cut!

"We are betrayed!" cried the captain. "Hark! Friends or foes!" as a
number of boats came quickly alongside.

"Surrender in the King's name!" was the response.

* * * * *

The desperate encounter that ensued is written in the history of those
lawless times. Suffice it that the captain and his crew paid the full
penalty of their many crimes.

The pilot, having fulfilled his vow, was no more seen upon that part of
the coast. To have remained would have been to forfeit his life, for
the betrayed smugglers had many friends.

But the old chronicles from which I have compiled this story go on to
say that he secured a berth in the navy, and years afterwards trod the
quarter-deck of a man-of-war.

_Richard Clay & Sons, Limited, London and Bungay._

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