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Entered according to an Act of Congress in the year 1865, by Srnerr & Sauru, in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York.
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within neighboring distance of the house of | menced as cabin-boy under his father, and had | These letters she had received, and also in-
~Steelhand, the Buccaneer ; | |
on Captain Fielding, of the ship Tamiroo, the | gone through the several intermediate grades | formation that the ship was homeward bound.
yy two families had become intimate, and pre-| of a sailor’s advancement, until, on the last But these pleasant anticipations were not to
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i THE MAIDEN'S FLAG OF HOPE. vious to her sailing, it was more than intimated | voyage of the Tamiroo, he was, by consent of | be realized; the cup of bliss so near their lips «
t CHAPTER I.—TERRIBLE TIDINGS. that Stanley Fielding, the captain’s only son, | her owners, promoted to the post of first mate, | was ‘in a moment to be dashed therefrom,
| Ir was in tho year 1820. The maritime had long had an understanding of a most affec- | although scarcely twenty-three years of age. | and the poisoned chalico of disappointment
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tlantic were thrown into a painful state | this understanding was agreeable to the pa-| him in command of a ship, and the husband anguish of Madamo Fielding—and who could
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‘W) towns and cities along tho northern coast of| tionate nature with Geraldine Gray, and that | Full of hope that his next voyage would find| was to usurp its place. Great as was the
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" gence that no less than five vessels sailing un- | gallant young man, with intelligence and judg- | cheered’ his heart on the long and tedious
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itement and anxiety because of intelli-| rents of both, Stanley Fielding was indeed a|of the fairest maiden of Suffolk or Essex, | have a greater than the wife who at one fell
| blow had been bereaved of a beloved husband
der tho American flag, with their entire crews, | ment far beyond his years, and as he had| voyage. On his arrival at Canton, also at Sin- | and a darling son—the direful intelligence
had been attacked and destroyed by lawless pi-! ehosen the sea as his profession, he had com-' gapore, he had written to his dear Geraldine. '! seemed to have a more chilling, blighting in.
rates cruising along the . : fluence upon the beau-
Spanish main. Had = tiful betrothed.
A the names of the ves- Ay, beautiful was
}) sels been given, tho Geraldine Gray. Eigh-
f)\ terrible anxiety would teen summers had well
(4) not have been so grest, nigh ripened her sylph
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for every family that
had a father, brother,
or other friend or rela-
tive, at sea in the ow
latitudes, were fearful-
ly apprehensive that
they might be the be-
reaved ones. So great
was the publicanxiety,
the General Govern-
ment, finally, were in-
“duced to send forthwith
two armed cruisers, to
seek ont. and destroy
these ocean pirates.
Before they started
for sea, the arrival of a
brigantine from Matan-
zas brought the news of
the certain destruction,
by buccaneers, of the
ship Tamiroo, and the
massacre of her crew.
Ru ors were brought
also \-f other depreda-
tions of these monsters
by the same vessel, but
{ nothing definite could
be gained before the
like form into charm-
ing womanhood, and
made her face radiant
with exceeding loveli-
ness. The choicest
gems gathered from
the mines of literature,
had richly stored her
mind, and her own
bright thoughts at
times flashed forth
clothed in language of
beauty and eloquence,
Notwithstanding the
greater portion of her
life had been devoted
to intellectual culture
and certain fashionable
accomplishments, she,
by no means, neglect-
ed the homely but use-
ful acquirements so es-
sential in rendering a
home comfo:
happy — acc
which, in days gonoby,
every intelligent lady
was proud to possess,
but in these more de-
generate times most
young ladies affect to
despise.
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emeers,
brigantine left the port
of Matauzas. The in-
telligence, however, of
the fateof the Tamiroo
—as fine a ship as ever
sailed from the harbor
of Salem—carried | in-
expressible grief to the
hearts of a family re-
siding in a little fish-
ing town on the south-
erly shore of Cape Ann.
A mother had become
widowed, three chil-
dren were rendered fa-
therless, anda daugh-
ter of an esteemed
neighbor had become
almost a maniac, be-
cause of the fate of one
to whom she had sur-
rendered her heart.
Geraldine Gray was
the eldest daughter of
Clarence Gray, a re-
tired. merchant, who
made his summer resi-
dence on the seashore,
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Such was Geraldine
Gray, the Letrothed of
the sailor boy, between
whom an attachment
had been formed even
before he made his first
voyageat sea. He was
her first and only love;
and, despite the atten-
tions and flatteries of
scores of admirers her
heart clung only to the
absent one. Thatlove
was -reciprocated by
young Fielding — she
was the bright star of
his hope in one hemis-
phere or another, and
never was his breast
troubled with a single
doubt that she would
remain forever true.
The heart-crushing
intelligence would, it
was feared, drive the
and in winter at his ‘ > despairing girl to mad-
‘eityhome. Residing STEELHAND, THE BUCCANEER.—‘‘ AND WHO ARE YoU?” ‘1 AM THE SECOND IN COMMAND—THERE LIES THE CHIEF, AND HERE LIES
ness. The paroxysms
HE BLACK FLAG! paroxy!
