MADAME RECAMIER HAS A PLAN

"THE HARD FEATURES OF KIDD WERE THRUST THROUGH"

"'HERE'S A KETTLE OF FISH,' SAID KIDD"

"'EVERY BLOOMIN' MILLION WAS REPRESENTED BY A CERTIFIED CHECK, AN'
PAYABLE IN LONDON'"

QUEEN ELIZABETH DESIRES AN AXE AND ONE HOUR OF HER OLDEN POWER

"'THE COMMITTEE ON TREACHERY IS READY TO REPORT'"

"'YOU ARE VERY MUCH MISTAKEN, SIR WALTER'"

"IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT SHYLOCK HAD STOLEN UP THE GANG-PLANK"

JUDGE BLACKSTONE REFUSES TO CLIMB TO THE MIZZENTOP

SHEM IN THE LOOKOUT

CAPTAIN KIDD CONSENTS TO BE CROSS-EXAMINED BY PORTIA

KIDD'S COMPANIONS ENDEAVORING TO RESTORE EVAPORATED PORTIONS OF HIS
ANATOMY WITH A STEAM-ATOMIZER

"'HE TOLD US WE WERE GOING TO PARIS'"

"'YOU ARE A VERY CLEAR-HEADED YOUNG WOMAN, LIZZIE,' SAID MRS. NOAH"

"'THAT OUGHT TO BE A LESSON TO YOU'"

"THE PIRATES MADE A MAD DASH DOWN THE ROUGH, ROCKY HILL-SIDE"

"'NOW, MY CHILD,' SAID MRS. NOAH, FIRMLY, 'I DO NOT WISH ANY WORDS'"

"A GREAT HELPLESS HULK TEN FEET TO THE REAR"

THE PURSUIT OF THE HOUSE-BOAT

I

THE ASSOCIATED SHADES TAKE ACTION

The House-boat of the Associated Shades, formerly located upon the River
Styx, as the reader may possibly remember, had been torn from its moorings
and navigated out into unknown seas by that vengeful pirate Captain Kidd,
aided and abetted by some of the most ruffianly inhabitants of Hades. Like
a thief in the night had they come, and for no better reason than that the
Captain had been unanimously voted a shade too shady to associate with
self-respecting spirits had they made off with the happy floating
club-house of their betters; and worst of all, with them, by force of
circumstances over which they had no control, had sailed also the fair
Queen Elizabeth, the spirited Xanthippe, and every other strong-minded and
beautiful woman of Erebean society, whereby the men thereof were rendered
desolate.

"I can't stand it!" cried Raleigh, desperately, as with his accustomed
grace he presided over a special meeting of the club, called on the bank
of the inky Stygian stream, at the point where the missing boat had been
moored. "Think of it, gentlemen, Elizabeth of England, Calpurnia of Rome,
Ophelia of Denmark, and every precious jewel in our social diadem gone,
vanished completely; and with whom? Kidd, of all men in the universe!
Kidd, the pirate, the ruffian--"

"Don't take on so, my dear Sir Walter," said Socrate