freedom.
She had, however, to Desborough's great delight, chosen to accompany
her father to England, where he was to be sent as a prisoner of high
political consequence.

After waiting many weary days at the camp of the fugitive and deposed
governor at Gwynn's Island, they had been separated from Desborough,
and unceremoniously hustled on board the frigate Radnor, which was
under orders for England. They had stopped long enough at Norfolk to
witness Dunmore's savage and vindictive action in bombarding and
burning that helpless town; and from that point Katharine had been
enabled to send her letter to Seymour, through a friendly American spy,
just before taking departure for their long voyage across the seas.
The orders of the Radnor had been changed at the last moment, however,
and she had been directed to go in pursuit of Jones and the Ranger,
which it was currently reported had got to sea from the Delaware Bay,
bound for Canada and the Newfoundland coast. No vessel being ready for
England at that time, the two prisoners had been transferred,
fortunately for them, to a small ship bound to the naval station at
Barbadoes; and thence, after another weary dreary wait, had been sent
on board his Britannic majesty's ship Yarmouth, Captain John Vincent,
bound home for England. The first lieutenant of this ship happened to
be a certain Patrick Michael Philip O'Neal Drummond, Lord Desborough,
son and heir to the Earl of Desmond! He congratulated himself most
heartily upon his good fortune.

Providence had, then, thrown a lover again at Katharine's feet. Not
that there was anything unusual in that. She might not regard it in a
providential light, however; but he, at least did so, and he had
intended to improve the shining hours of what would be a long cruise,
in the close association permitted by the confined limits of the ship,
to make a final desperate effort to win the heart which had hitherto so
entirely eluded him that he could not flatter himself that he had made
the least impression upon it. His success during the first three or
four days of the cruise had not been brilliant. She had been
unaffectedly glad to see him apparently, and gentle and kind in her
reception,--too kind, he thought, with the circumspection of a
lover,--but that was all. To add to his trials, he soon found himself
not without rivals nearer at home than Seymour. Judging by present
results, Washington, if he had a few regiments of Katharine