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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org/license - - -Title: The First Capture - or Hauling Down the Flag of England - -Author: Harry Castlemon - -Release Date: February 17, 2013 [EBook #42113] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE FIRST CAPTURE *** - - - - -Produced by Greg Bergquist, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -file was produced from images generously made available -by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) - - - - - - - - - - THE FIRST CAPTURE - - OR - - _Hauling Down the Flag of England_ - - BY HARRY CASTLEMON - - _Author of "The Gunboat Series," "Houseboat Series," - "War Series," Etc., Etc._ - - - _ILLUSTRATED_ - - THE SAALFIELD PUBLISHING CO. - NEW YORK AKRON, O. CHICAGO - - COPYRIGHT, 1900, - BY - THE SAALFIELD PUBLISHING CO. - - - - - CONTENTS. - - - Chapter Page - - I. The Battle of Lexington 5 - - II. Enoch's Home 18 - - III. Zeke Lewis 30 - - IV. Zeke's Proposition 42 - - V. A Rebellion in the Court-room 56 - - VI. Getting ready for the Fray 69 - - VII. The Bucket of Yeast 82 - - VIII. Under Way 95 - - IX. The "Aggressive" Tory 108 - - X. A Visit to the Jail 121 - - XI. A Plan that did not Work 133 - - XII. Different Opinions 145 - - XIII. The Cheer 158 - - XIV. The Chase 171 - - XV. Hauling down the Flag of England 183 - - XVI. After the Battle 196 - - XVII. Zeke's Exhibition of Strength 209 - - XVIII. What to do with the Schooner 222 - - XIX. Conclusion 235 - - - - -THE FIRST CAPTURE - - - - -CHAPTER I. - -THE BATTLE OF LEXINGTON. - - -It happened on the morning of the 9th day of May. The little village of -Machias in the far away colony of Maine was lively enough as far as -fishing towns go, but on this particular time it was in a regular -turmoil. Men had jumped up leaving their breakfast half eaten and ran -out bareheaded to gather round a courier, who, sitting on a horse that -had his head down and his flanks heaving as if he were almost exhausted, -was telling them of a fight which had occurred just twenty days before. -There was nothing to indicate that the men were excited except their -pale faces and clenched hands, but the looks they turned upon one -another had a volume of meaning in them. What had the messenger to -communicate that had incited such a feeling among those who listened to -him? He was describing the battle of Lexington which had been fought and -won by the patriots on the 19th day of April. We did not have any -telegraph in those days, and the only way the people could hold -communication with one another was by messengers, mounted on fleet -horses, who rode from village to village with the news. - -The courier was so impatient to tell what he knew that he could not talk -fast enough, but the substance of his story was as follows: - - General Gage, the commander of the British troops who were - quartered in Boston about this time, had become a tyrant in the - eyes of the people. When spring opened he had a force of three - thousand five hundred men. Boston was the headquarters of the - rebellion. He determined with this force to nip the insurrection in - the bud, and his first move was to seize and destroy the stores of - the patriots at Concord, a little village located about six miles - from Lexington. To carry out this plan he sent forth eight hundred - men under the command of Colonel Smith and Major Pitcairn with - orders to "seize, burn and otherwise render useless" everything in - the shape of munitions of war that they could find. He supposed he - went about it secretly, but the ever-vigilant patriots were awake - to all his movements. A watch was established at Concord, and - everywhere the minute-men were ready with "burnished muskets, - fixed bayonets, and well-filled cartouches." - -They left Boston about midnight, but it so happened that the minute-men -became aware of their expedition almost as soon as it was ready to -start. Paul Revere was there and ready to undertake his famous midnight -ride. No sooner was the trampling of soldiers heard than two lights were -hung in the steeple of Christ Church in Charlestown. Paul Revere saw the -lights, and he forthwith mounted his horse and started to carry the -warning to every village in Middlesex.[1] The British did not see the -beacon fire blazing above them, but marched away silent and still, -arresting everybody that came in their way "to prevent the intelligence -of their expedition being given." - -[Footnote 1: - - "He said to a friend, 'If the British march - By land or sea from the town to-night, - Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch - Of the Old North Tower as a signal light-- - One if by land, two if by sea, - And I on the opposite shore will be - Ready to ride and spread the alarm - Through every Middlesex village and farm - For the country folk to be up and to arm.'"] - -As the day began to dawn in the east the British reached Lexington, and -there they found a company of minute-men gathered on the green. To say -that they were amazed at the sight would be putting it very mildly; but -Major Pitcairn, after a short consultation with his superior officer, -rode up and flourished his sword as if he meant to annihilate the -minute-men then and there. His officers followed him and his troops came -close behind him in double quick time. But the patriots stood their -ground, and the redcoats shouted angrily at them-- - -"Disperse, you villains! Lay down your arms! Why don't you disperse, you -rebels?" - -But our men had not come out there to be dispersed by shouting. Utterly -ignorant of the ways of civilized warfare they continued to hold their -ground, and for a time it looked as though there was going to be -bloodshed sure enough. Major Pitcairn did not care to come too close to -them but wheeled his horse, discharged his pistol and shouted "Fire!" -and the British obeyed him. The front rank fired, and when the smoke -cleared away, seven men, the first martyrs of the Revolution, were found -weltering in their blood. That was too much for the patriots. They did -not suppose that the British were going to shoot them down like dogs. -They scattered in every direction, and the redcoats, having nothing -further to oppose them, kept on and destroyed the stores. - -"Colonel, I don't like the way those rebels retreated," said Major -Pitcairn, as he kept a close watch upon the neighboring hills. "They -fell back as though they would come again." - -"If they were soldiers we would know how to take them," replied Colonel -Smith. "But being rebels, we have nothing further to fear from them." - -Major Pitcairn, however, kept a bright lookout, and very soon he became -uneasy at the rapidity with which the militia increased in numbers. He -called the attention of his superior to it, and very shortly the latter -gave the order to retreat; and it was not a moment too soon. The whole -region flew to arms, for remember that Paul Revere had aroused to -vigilance the inmates of every house he came to, and from every one -there came a man or boy who was strong enough to handle a rifle, and -hurried to the help of his countrymen. It seems that Colonel Smith had -more to contend with than mere rebels. It appeared, too, that one who -afterwards wrote about that battle was there to have seen it for he -tells us in his poem: - - "And so through the night rode Paul Revere, - And so through the night went his cry of alarm - To every Middlesex village and farm-- - A cry of defiance and not of fear, - A voice in the darkness, a knock at the door, - And a word that shall echo for evermore. - For, borne on the night-wings of the Past, - Through all our history to the last, - In the hours of our darkness, peril, and need, - Will the people waken to listen, to hear - The hurrying foot-beats of that steed, - And the midnight message of Paul Revere." - -The minute-men gathered as if by magic. They did not come out and form -themselves in line for the purpose of being shot down by the redcoats, -but remembering their skulking habits which they learned while fighting -the Indians, they hid behind trees, fences, and rocks, in front, flank, -and rear, and poured so galling a fire upon the Britishers that if it -had not been for reinforcements not one of those eight hundred men would -ever have reached the city alive. As one of their officers expressed it: -"the militia seemed to have dropped from the clouds," and the flower of -that British army must have surrendered to those patriots if relief had -not arrived. Their retreat was regarded as a defeat and a flight, and -at every corner were heard the jeers and mockings of the people -regarding that "great British army at Boston who had been beaten by a -flock of Yankees." At any rate the jubilee trumpet was sounded -proclaiming "Liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants -thereof." The power of all the royal governors was broken, from -Massachusetts to Georgia. - -This was the substance of the news which was brought to Machias twenty -days after the fight. The people were both astonished and -angry--astonished to know that the British soldiers, who had been -regarded as invulnerable, could be outdone with American bullets, and -angry to learn that so many of their friends[2] should have been killed -during their conflict with them. - -[Footnote 2: Lossing says: "The British lost 65 killed, 18 wounded, and -28 made prisoners; in all 273. The Americans lost 59 killed, 39 wounded, -and 5 missing; in all 103.] - -"This thing has got to be settled now," said Zeke Lewis, turning away -and flourishing his fists in the air. "That is too many of our men to go -up after fighting those redcoats. Boston has been standing all the -brunt of tyranny so far, and we had better join in. Now there's that--" - -The man suddenly paused and looked about him. Almost every face he saw -was that of a patriot, but there were a few who were known to be Tories, -and it would not do to express his thoughts too freely before them. - -"Go on, Zeke," said a friend at his elbow. "There's what?" - -"When I get you fellows all by yourselves I will explain things to you," -said Zeke, after holding a short consultation with a young man who stood -close beside him. "There are too many Britishers here." - -"Yes; and they ought to be shot down as those redcoats were at -Lexington," said another. - -Any one who had been there could easily have picked out the Tories by -the expression of their faces. They were amazed by the news. British -soldiers whipped by a mob! They would have been glad to deny it if they -could, but there were too many stalwart sailors standing around whose -opinions differed from their own, and they thought it would be the part -of wisdom to keep their thoughts to themselves. They turned toward their -homes, but they had plenty of opportunity to exchange ideas with one -another. - -The most of those who had listened to the messenger's news also turned -away when he got through speaking and walked with their heads on their -breasts and their eyes fastened thoughtfully on the ground. Among them -was one, Enoch Crosby by name, who seemed to think that the world was -coming to an end because the British soldiers had been fired upon; but -he did not believe as the Tories did by any means. He was an American; -he could not forget that. - -Among all the boys of his acquaintance there was no one more loyal to -King George than he was. His father had been an officer in the service -of the crown before he died, and Enoch believed that a monarch who had -been selected to reign over a country, was placed there by divine right. -The people had nothing to do with it except to hold themselves in -readiness to obey his orders. He had English blood in his veins, and, -although he felt the soil of America under his feet, he had been, -almost ever since he could remember, a good and loyal subject of Great -Britain, and hoped some day to serve King George with his sword. To have -all this thing wiped out in a day by a fight, was rather more than the -boy could live up under. - -But he was an American. It came upon him with a force sometimes that -almost took his breath away. He could still be loyal to his sovereign -and ready to smite hip and thigh any one who said anything against him, -but his sailor's love of fair play would not let him stand by and see -his neighbors imposed upon. - -Enoch had been watching this thing for two years and all the while he -felt the ropes of tyranny growing tighter. Ever since General Gage had -taken up his quarters in Boston he had been growing more and more severe -in his treatment of the patriots. The Stamp Act, the Boston Massacre, -The Tea Party, and the conduct of his soldiers in destroying the ice on -which the boys were accustomed to spend their half holidays--all these -were galling to Enoch, and he hoped that the time would soon come when -something would induce the King to do differently. But when Christopher -Snyder was killed by Richardson for looking on at a mob who were engaged -in throwing clods and stones at him, and Governor Hutchinson refused to -sign Richardson's death warrant, it opened the eyes of Enoch and he -began to see things in a plainer light. The man was put into prison, but -at the end of two years was pardoned out by the King. Enoch found that -it was necessary to fight in order to secure his rights, and it cost him -a long and severe struggle to come to that conclusion. He was thinking -about these things as he walked slowly homeward and went into the house. -His mother, with snowy hair and steel-bowed spectacles, raised her eyes -from her knitting, and one glance was enough to show her that something -had gone wrong with Enoch. - -If there was anybody on earth Enoch loved it was his mother. All her -surroundings bore evidence to that fact. Enoch was a sailor--he had made -a good many trips along the coast in little trading vessels--but when he -was at home he was not idle. His mother had enough from the earnings of -her husband to support her in as good a style as she cared to live; the -raiment of herself and son was neat and comely, but that did not prevent -her from sticking close to the New England maxim: "Those who do not work -should not eat." She had plainly brought Enoch up with the same ideas, -for when he was ashore he was always at work at something. - -Mrs. Crosby did not go out to listen to the news the messenger had to -bring, but Enoch went, and the face he brought back with him excited his -mother's alarm at once. Like her son she had been waiting for this day, -but she little dreamed that it would come so soon. - -"What is it, boy?" she asked, dropping her knitting into her lap. "That -man's horse seems to be near tired out. Has he come far?" - -"He came from out west somewhere," said Enoch, dropping into the nearest -chair. "But I don't know whether he came from Lexington or not." - -"What should be going on at Lexington?" asked Mrs. Crosby; although -something told her that the news the messenger brought was worse than -any she had heard yet. - -"They have had a fight out there," said Enoch, resting his head on his -hands. "King George can make up his mind to one thing, and that is, he -had better keep his men at home. The provincials whipped them because -they destroyed property that did not belong to them." - -"And they did have a fight sure enough?" said his mother. - -"They had such a fight as they used to have with the Indians. They -killed almost three hundred of them." - -Mrs. Crosby settled back in her chair and looked at Enoch without -speaking. - - - - -CHAPTER II. - -ENOCH'S HOME. - - -"Enoch," said his mother, rising from her chair after a moment's pause -and leading the way toward the kitchen, "breakfast is ready and waiting. -While you are eating it I shall be pleased to hear something more about -this fight. It looks to me now as though we had got to do battle with -the King." - -"That is the way it looks to me, too," said the boy. - -The Crosby house would have been an object worth seeing if it had stood -in this century. It was a double house built of logs, the places where -they met being chinked with clay and the roof was thatched with long -grass or rye straw. The windows consisted of small lead frames set with -diamond plates of glass hung so that they opened inward instead of -outward. As the building stood facing the south the "sun shone squarely -in at noon," and gave warning that the dinner hour was approaching. - -There were two rooms in which Mrs. Crosby took delight--her "best room" -and her kitchen. The best room was used only on state occasions, that -is, when the minister came to see them or some old-time friends dropped -in for an hour or two. The andirons were of brass and shone so brightly -that one could see his face in them, and in summer time the fireplace -was always kept garnished with asparagus and hollyhocks. On the rude -mantelpiece stood the high candlesticks made of the same material, and -close beside them lay the tray and the snuffers. Here also was the -library, small, it is true, for reading in those days was undertaken for -improvement and not for pleasure. Books were scarce and cost money; but -among them could be found the family Bible, Watts' Poems, Young's Night -Thoughts, and Milton's Paradise Lost. - -The best room for the family was in the kitchen, and that was where -Enoch always liked to be. Sometimes in winter when he did not have to go -to sea he read one of the well-thumbed volumes by the aid of a tallow -dip. The blaze in the fireplace was always piled high, but even this was -but little if any shelter from the cold. The places where the chinking -did not fit were numerous, and the way the cold wind poured into the -room made the words of an old writer perfectly apparent: "While one side -of the inmate was toasting the other was freezing." To make matters -still worse "the smoke escaping into the room by no means favored study -or any other employment requiring the use of the eyes." - -When Enoch followed his mother into the kitchen he saw there a -well-filled table which had often made him hungry when he did not want -anything to eat; but it had little effect upon him now. There was hot -salt pork, vegetables, and bannocks,[3] which were all their simple -tastes required. In the place of tea they had milk; for those one -hundred and forty men had long ago thrown the tea overboard in Boston -harbor, and all that Mrs. Crosby had left was some tied up in a paper -and stowed away in one of her bureau drawers. Before they seated -themselves at the table they took their stand behind their chairs with -bowed and reverent heads, while his mother offered up thanks to the -Giver of all good for the provisions set before them. This was a plan -always followed in Enoch's home. When his mother was away, at a quilting -bee or sitting up with a sick person, Enoch never forgot the custom, but -offered up prayers himself. - -[Footnote 3: Bannocks are something like the present "hoecakes" of the -South--merely flat cakes of Indian meal or rye, wet with water and baked -over the hot coals on the hearth.] - -"Now, boy, I should like to hear something about that fight," said Mrs. -Crosby, seating herself in her chair. "Have we got to fight the King, -sure enough?" - -"The things indicate that fact," said Enoch, helping his mother to a -piece of the pork and to a potato which had been baked in the ashes on -the hearth. "King George has not acted right with us anyway. When young -Snyder was killed in Boston because he happened to be near a mob who -were throwing stones at Richardson, the King went and pardoned out -Richardson, who had been put into prison for it, after he had been there -for two years. That does not look as though he felt very kindly toward -us, does it?" - -"And then the tea," said his mother, who came as near being angry as she -could whenever she thought of that. Like all old ladies she loved the -"cup which cheers but does not inebriate," and she could not bear to -have it taken away from her. "The King ought not to have taxed us for -that." - -"He might if he would allow us to be represented in Parliament," said -Enoch, "but he would not do it. If we have got to be taxed to help carry -on the government of Great Britain, we want some men of our own over -there to see about it." - -"Now tell me about the fight. You said we killed almost three hundred of -them." - -"Why, mother, you say 'we' as though you were there and helped shoot at -those redcoats," said Enoch. - -"Of course I do, my son. If your father were here now, he would have -taken that old flint-lock down and had it put in running order before -this time," said his mother, pointing to the weapon which occupied its -usual position over the fireplace. "We are Americans, and whenever we -are shot at, we must shoot in return." - -Enoch was delighted to hear his mother talk in this way. It showed that -she was not loyal enough to King George to fight against her own -countrymen at any rate. The boy began and told the history of the fight -as he had heard it from the messenger, and, as he talked and told how -the minute-men had concealed themselves behind every rock and tree that -they came to, his mother's eyes sparkled, and she said that she almost -wished that she had been a man and lived in Lexington so that she could -have been there too. - -"I really wish I had been there," said Enoch, glancing affectionately at -the old flint-lock as he said this. "Of course I could not shoot with -those who hunt squirrels every day, but I could have made a noise. And -to talk about those British soldiers being invulnerable! I tell you they -could not stand before the minute-men." - -"And to think that we should be called '_rebels_,'" said his mother, who -could scarcely restrain herself. - -"But I say we are not rebels," said Enoch emphatically. "The people in -Boston told the King just what they wanted to do, and he turned around -and made them do something else. There was not any more loyal paper -gotten up than they sent to him." - -A long talk on such matters as these occupied them while they were at -breakfast, and just as Enoch arose there came a sound like the rattling -of a stick between the pickets of the front fence. The boys had not -learned to whistle in those days to let a comrade know that there was -some one outside waiting for him. Whistling is easier, but the boys made -each other known in spite of it. - -"That is Caleb Young," said Enoch. "I know him by the way he rattles his -stick. I hope we shall hear something more about that fight." - -Enoch put on his hat and went out, and there he saw Caleb, dressed after -the fashion of a seafaring man as he was himself, leaning on the gate -and whistling softly to himself. - -"Have you got anything more to tell about it?" said Enoch, coming up to -him. - -"No more than what the courier has already told," said Caleb. "But say! -there is something in the wind." - -"I gained an idea from something Zeke said that he was thinking of -something else," said Enoch, sinking his voice to a whisper because -Caleb did the same. "He would not tell us what it was because there were -too many Tories near." - -"No, but he was thinking and talking about it since, and he has made up -his mind that we are going to do something to equal that battle of -Lexington in some way," said Caleb. "He has been talking to that Joseph -Wheaton, and he has been advising Zeke what to do. He says it is not -right for those Boston people to take all the hard knocks while we get -none of them." - -"That is what I say. If we are going to hang, we will all hang -together." - -"But we are not going to hang--none of us," said Caleb, striking the -nearest picket with his closed hand. "There are three vessels in the -harbor----" - -"Yes; and I am going to keep away from them," said Enoch, pushing -himself away from the fence. "You don't make a pirate out of me. I have -made my living honestly and I intend to keep on doing it." - -"That is me," said Caleb. "I have worked for every cent I have and I am -not ashamed to let everybody know it; but if we can capture that vessel -we will show the Boston people that they are not alone in this -business." - -"What vessel do you mean?" - -"I mean the Margaretta. She is here as convoy for those two sloops that -are loading with lumber, and she is in the service of the crown. If we -can get her we will have the sloops easy enough." - -"Why, Caleb, that would be piracy," said Enoch, fairly aghast at the -proposition. "The Margaretta has not done anything to us." - -"Of course she has not, but she is in the service of the King. Those men -who went out to destroy those stores were in the service of the King, -too; but they got neatly whipped for their pains. Zeke and Joseph -Wheaton would not have proposed that plan if they did not think we would -make something by it. You ought to have heard mother talk to me while we -were at breakfast. She said that if father was alive now he would have -taken his old flint-lock down and shot every Tory he could find." - -"I guess I know about what your mother said, for mine talked to me in -the same way," said Enoch, with a laugh. "Are you one of those who are -going to capture that schooner?" - -"I am! I am one of the fifteen men and boys who have agreed to be on -hand when they hear a cheer sounded. That is going to be our rallying -cry, and we must all go to where we hear it. What are you going to do? -You are not a Tory." - -"Don't you call me that," said Enoch, opening the gate and coming out to -meet his friend. "When that cheer is sounded you will see me on hand. -When do you propose to take the schooner?" - -"Why as to that we have not had a chance to talk it over," said Caleb. -"Zeke only spoke of it just a little while ago to see how many men we -could raise; and to-night--here come two of those Tories now," continued -Caleb, pushing his hat on the back of his head and shoving up his -sleeves. "Now let us see what they have got to say about that fight at -Lexington. I do not wish them any harm, but I would like to know that -they had been there and I kneeling a little way off with my father's -flint-lock in my hand." - -"Then you would not have heard anything about that fight," said Enoch, -with a laugh. Caleb was noted for his sharp shooting, and if he had got -a bead on one of those fellows it would have been all over with him. "I -will bet you I would have shot pretty close to him," Caleb added. - -"Now don't you go to picking a fuss with them," said Enoch in a lower -tone, "because I will not have it." - -"Oh, I will pick no fuss with them at all," said Caleb, turning his back -to the approaching boys and resting his elbow on the fence. "But they -must not say anything against the minute-men. If they do somebody will -get licked." - -The two boys came nearer, and presently drew up beside the fence beside -which Enoch and Caleb stood. They did not expect any greeting, for that -happened long ago to have gone out of style between the Tories and the -Provincials. Whenever they met on the street they looked straight ahead -as if there was nobody there. They did not want to speak to each other -for the chances were that there would be a game of fisticuffs before -they got through with it. - -These boys were evidently better off in the world than Enoch and his -friend. They wore cocked hats, neat velvet coats, knee-breeches, silk -stockings, and low shoes with huge silver buckles. But their queues were -what they prided themselves upon. They were neatly combed and hung down -upon their coat collars. The arms of their coats were "slashed" in -several places to show the fine quality of their underwear. If they had -been boys in our day we should have been obliged to introduce them with -cigarettes in their hands. - -These sprucely dressed young fellows were Tories of the worst -description, but they followed in the footsteps of their fathers. One -was a "passive" Tory and the other was an "aggressive" Tory. How these -two men differed in opinion and actions shall be told further on. - - - - -CHAPTER III. - -ZEKE LEWIS. - - -Have you ever met a New England man whom your grandparents used to -regard as the very personification of all that was utterly worthless so -far as the labor with his hands was concerned? We do not mean by saying -this that Zeke Lewis was lazy--the old folks had a milder term for it. -He was always at work at something, but he was shiftless. Nothing that -he could do appeared to get him ahead any. Work always looked for him; -he never looked for work. If anybody wanted a pair of shoes mended Zeke -was always the man looked for. He was generally to be found at the -tavern (Zeke did not drink any, we'll say that much for him), or loafing -around the corner grocery, and he was always "lying on his oars," that -is, ready to pull in any direction in which work was to be found. Zeke -would work early and late upon those shoes until he got them done, and -he carried his money straight to his wife, who had the faculty of making -a shilling go farther than he would. If a vessel was ready to sail, -either up or down the coast or on a fishing trip, Zeke always got the -first berth. He could do more work in less time and with less trouble -than any two men you could find. And he was brave, too. No one ever saw -Zeke refuse to go where duty called him. - -He was just such a man as you would expect to see after this description -of his way of doing business. He was tall, and so round-shouldered that -he did not look as though he had any chest at all; he was strong; so -strong that when he got hold of a rope everybody knew he was there. -There were two things about him that were noticeable--his smiling, -good-natured face and his queue, which was always freshly combed and -looked as though it had come from the hands of a dresser. But then his -wife always attended to that. She took it down and combed it every day. - -Zeke was always in straits where money was concerned. No matter how hard -he worked or how little money he spent upon himself he never could make -both ends meet. One night he came home after a hard day's work in the -hay-field. He found his wife sitting in the kitchen engaged in knitting, -but she made no efforts at all to get supper for her husband. Zeke -thought she looked a little paler than usual, but then he was used to -that. The patient little woman never had a word of fault to find with -him. She believed that Zeke was doing his best, and with that she was -satisfied. - -"Sick?" asked Zeke. - -"No, I am not ill," answered his wife. "I feel as well as usual." - -"Something is the matter with you and I know it," said Zeke. "I guess I -will have to go to work and get my own supper. I am hungry." - -"You will not find a crust of bread in the house," said his wife. - -"You don't tell me!" exclaimed Zeke. - -"I have looked the house over and I cannot find anything. You ate the -last this morning." - -"Bussin' on it!" gasped Zeke, backing toward the nearest chair. "And you -did not have any?" - -"I thought you were at work in the field and would need it more than I. -So I let you take it all." - -"Whew!" whistled Zeke. "And I thought there was not more than enough to -keep a hen from starving when I ate it. Mr. Howard owes me five -shillings, but I don't like to ask him for it." - -"Are you working for that man? Then you will never get your money." - -"What for won't I?" - -"Because he will cheat you out of it just as he has cheated everybody -else who has worked for him." - -"Eh? Do you see these arms?" asked Zeke, getting upon his feet and -stretching himself so that his wife could see on all sides of him. "I -have not often slung these arms about loose and reckless since I went to -school to old Parson Stebbins, and then I slung them at Jeems Howard -because I thought he had tried to take my knickerbockers[4] away from -me. He has not forgotten that, I am proud to say. My wages will come due -on Saturday night and I shall get every cent that is coming to me. But -you must have something to eat. Bussin' on it! Why did you not tell -me?" - -[Footnote 4: Marbles.] - -Zeke went out into his woodshed where he kept his shoemaker's tools and -began to gather them up in his arms. A pang shot through him while he -did so, for he could not help thinking what he was going to do if -somebody came to him with shoes to mend while the tools were gone. - -"It can't be helped," said he, with a long-drawn sigh. "She took me for -better or worst when she married me, and she has had the worst all the -time. I will go and see Jeems Howard about them, and see what he will -give me until next Saturday. He is the only one around here that I know -of who has got any money." - -As soon as he had gathered up all his tools Zeke went out of the back -door, for he did not want his wife to see him; but there were others -that saw him as he walked along the street, and every one wanted to know -where he was going to mend shoes. For in those days the cobblers always -came to a person's house and did their work there. Zeke always gave some -good-natured reply, for no one ever expected anything else of him, and -in a few minutes he had walked through Mr. Howard's yard and come up to -the back steps. - -"I want to see if you will lend me five shillings on these tools until -Saturday night," said he, when he had brought the man for whom he was at -work to the door. "We want something to eat at our house." - -If the man had possessed the semblance of a heart he would have pulled -out some money and given it to Zeke; but all was fish that came to his -net, and he forthwith began to haggle with him in order to get them as -cheap as possible. Zeke wanted more for them than he could afford to -give, and he concluded that two and a half shillings were all he could -pay. He insisted so strongly upon it that Zeke was about to close with -his offer, when a new actor appeared upon the scene. It was Jeremiah -O'Brien, of whom we shall have something more to say as our story -progresses. Something told him that Zeke was in trouble, and he opened -the gate and went in. Like all the rest of the patriots he had but -little love for men of Howard's opinion, and he was not anyway backward -about beginning his business. - -"Zeke, what are you doing with your tools here?" he asked. - -"I want to sell them until next Saturday night," returned Zeke. - -"How much are you going to get for them?" - -"I want five shillings, but Jeems allows that he can't give more than -two and a half." - -"They are worth two pounds if they are worth anything," said O'Brien -emphatically. - -"I know they are. Just see that knife. It is sharp----" - -"Pick up your tools and come with me," interrupted O'Brien. - -"Where are you going?" - -"Pick up your tools and come with me," insisted O'Brien. "I don't want -to tell you twice." - -Zeke smiled, drew himself up to his full height and looked at O'Brien. -The latter returned his gaze with interest and Zeke finally thought -better of it, gathered up his tools from the step where had placed them -and followed him out to the gate. - -"Look here," said O'Brien, when they reached the street. "The next time -you want to sell your tools that you make a living with, I want you to -come to me. Don't go to that old Tory, who is bound to cheat you out of -everything you have. You say your wife has not had anything to eat?" - -"Not a smell," said Zeke looking down at the ground. "She gave me all -she had for breakfast and never has had a bite all day." - -"Well, lay your tools down here," said O'Brien, when they came to Zeke's -house. "They can stay there until you come back." - -"Bussin' on it!" exclaimed Zeke. "What are you going to do?" - -"We will go up to the grocery and get some provisions. I am going to -send out a vessel next week and you can pay me then." - -This made everything all right in Zeke's estimation. He wanted credit, -but he little knew how he could get it unless he was regularly employed -in some business that would pay him in the end. Of course, when he was -at sea on one of Mr. O'Brien's vessels, his wife could go to the store -and get anything she pleased; but Zeke knew it was not so while he was -working for James Howard. The old Tory was a cheat, and nobody except -Zeke or some other fellow who happened to be "hard up" would work for -him. He accompanied O'Brien to the grocery store and got everything he -wanted. When he came back into his wife's presence he looked more like -himself. - -This little episode will give the reader a pretty good idea of the kind -of life Zeke Lewis led at Machias. Nothing bothered him. His wife being -out of provisions was the nearest thing that came to throwing him off -his balance; and when the goods obtained in this way were gone, why, -then he would go to work at something and earn some more. - -We have said that nothing bothered Zeke Lewis. That was what all the -people about Machias said, and they had known him for a long time. A man -who would not wake up from his shiftless habits and go to work at -something in order to support his wife, who depended on him for -everything, was not of much use in the world; but on this particular -morning, after listening to the story of the battle of Lexington, Zeke -began to take a little interest in matters. In fact the people had -never seen him so worked up before. He held a short but earnest -consultation with Joseph Wheaton, attended eagerly to what the man had -to say, and then walked away with his head up, his fingers moving -convulsively, and now and then he lifted his hands and brought them -together with a loud slap. - -"What's the matter with you, Zeke?" asked one of his companions who -walked by his side. - -"Are there any Tories around here?" exclaimed Zeke, casting his eye -behind him. "Then I guess I can speak out here as well as anywhere. I -say we ought to go to work and do something to equal those fellows in -Boston." - -"But there are no troops here," said his companion. "These Tories will -not come out so that we can shoot them down as they did at Concord." - -"No matter for that. They have got some property here, and we can -capture it as well as not." - -"I am in for that. Where is it?" - -"You know that the Margaretta is here to protect two sloops that are -loading up with lumber for the crown. What is the reason we cannot -capture her?" - -"It would be all right if we could do it; but suppose we should fail? -Have you forgotten what the penalty for piracy is?" - -"No, I have not forgotten it, and furthermore, I know that we are not -going to fail. I will make one of half a dozen men that will capture her -to-night. Where are the rest of you?" he continued, glancing around at -the men who had come up, one by one, to listen to what he had to say. -"Are you all Tories? If you are not, say you will join in." - -"She lies some little distance from the wharf," said one of his -auditors. - -"Are there not plenty of boats that we could get to take us out to her?" -asked Zeke. "Some of you are afraid of being killed. That is what is the -matter with you." - -"If the others are afraid of being shot at I am not," said Mr. O'Brien. -"What are your plans, Zeke? But first let us go somewhere so that we can -talk without being overheard." - -It put a different look on the matter when Mr. O'Brien began to inquire -into Zeke's scheme. If he was not afraid to undertake it the rest were -not. They crowded up around Zeke to hear what he had to propose. - - - - -CHAPTER IV. - -ZEKE'S PROPOSITION. - - -"But first I want to see if there are any Tories around here," said -Zeke, stopping in his walk and coming back to gaze fixedly into the face -of every man who was following him. "We don't want to talk too loud for -fear that everything we say will go straight to the ears of that -schooner's crew. If there is any man here who can't be trusted let him -say so and go back where he belongs." - -There were probably a dozen men and boys in the crowd, and every one of -them wore a white face as he looked at it; but it was an expression of -"defiance and not of fear." Every one of them believed in capturing the -schooner, but every one, too, if we may except Zeke and O'Brien and -perhaps Joseph Wheaton, who was the first man to conceive of the thing, -could not help thinking what their fate would be if they failed. The -act they were about to perform was piracy, and they could not make -anything else out of it. To board and capture a schooner which had come -into their harbor on a friendly mission was something the law did not -bear them out in. - -"I guess we are all true blue," said Zeke, as he pushed a man out of his -way and planted himself fairly in the middle of the group, "and I guess -we can talk here as well as anywhere else, if we talk low. We want to -keep the Tories from knowing or suspecting anything about it." - -"Do you want to seize the schooner?" asked Mr. O'Brien. - -"Exactly," said Zeke. - -"And you are going to take her out from under that flag whether the crew -is willing or not?" - -"Certainly. That cross of St. George does not stay above her after we -get her into our hands." - -"And what will we do if they resist us?" - -"Then they just make up their minds that they are going to keep company -with those fellows at Lexington." - -"Hear, hear!" shouted one of the auditors. - -"Silence!" whispered Zeke in a low tone. "Don't say anything to arouse -the suspicions of the Tories. We want to get this thing done before they -know a thing about it. We will send them to keep company with the three -hundred and more who fought our fellows at Lexington," continued Zeke, -turning to O'Brien, "and those of us who have guns will get them; and -the rest will gather up clubs, pitchforks and anything else that we can -make a good fight with. If we can once get a footing on her deck, she is -ours." - -"Some of the officers will be coming off to church to-morrow," said Mr. -O'Brien. - -"That is just what I was thinking of, but I had not time to get that -far," said Zeke. "We can just go in after them and seize them in their -seats, and then go back and finish those fellows left on the vessel." - -"I don't believe in any killing," said one. - -"You don't!" exclaimed Zeke turning fiercely upon him. - -"No, sir, I don't. Piracy is bad enough, but when it comes to killing -folks that were put there by the king to look out for their vessel, I -say I don't believe in it." - -"Then you have no business here in this crowd," said Zeke, taking off -his hat and dashing it to the ground. A moment afterward he stepped -forward and seized the man by both wrists. He did not attempt to throw -him down, but he crossed his hands on his chest and held him there as if -he had been in a vise. "And you don't want to hear what our plans are -either. Get away from here." - -"Hold on," said the man, who was but an infant in Zeke's grasp. "Let me -get through with what I was going to say. I don't believe in killing -folks that are standing up for their rights, but if we are too many for -them, why, then they will give up." - -"Well, that is a little more sensible," said Zeke, releasing his hold -upon the man. "If they give up that is all we want. I did not mean to -hurt you, Zeb, but you don't want to talk that way in this crowd. Old -Zeke has got his dander riz now, and any one who does not want to do as -I say in this matter can just get right out." - -"But what will we do with the schooner after we get her?" said Mr. -O'Brien, who wanted to know just how the thing was coming out before he -went into it. - -"We will make a man-of-war out of her," said Zeke. "We will capture -those two sloops now loading up with lumber the first thing we do; then -we will go to sea and capture every one who floats the cross of St. -George at her peak." - -"Hear, hear!" shouted that enthusiastic auditor again. - -"I like your pluck, Jacob, because I know you will stand up to the rack -when the time comes; but I would a little rather you would keep still -now. All you fellows who want to go with me to capture that schooner -step over this way." - -Zeke walked away half a dozen paces, and when he turned about he found -the entire group at his heels. - -"I knew we were all true blue," said Zeke, striking his palms together. - -"I do not believe in killing men who are standing up for their rights," -said Zeb, who stepped over as promptly as the others did. "We must get -up a crowd that is bigger than theirs, and then she will give up to -us." - -"I believe in that, too," assented Zeke. "Now, as we have not got any -fife or drum to call us together, let every one who hears a cheer -sounded to-morrow come a-running to the wharf where that schooner lies, -and bring along everybody that you think will aid in capturing her; but -mind you, don't say a word to any of the Tories. Bring with you -everything that you can put your hands on that will do to knock a man -down with. We will have some small boats there ready to take us aboard -of her, and when the schooner is our own, we will see what we will do -next. That is about all we want to decide on to-day." - -"I declare, who would have thought there was so much in Zeke?" said one, -as he stood looking after him as he moved down the road. O'Brien and -Wheaton went with him, and they were talking earnestly about something. - -"I tell you I thought there was a good deal in him when he grabbed me by -the arms," said Zeb, who had not yet got through rubbing the place where -Zeke's sinewy hands had clasped. "I felt as if I had let a forty-foot -barn fall on me. If he deals with the schooner's crew as he dealt with -me, they are ours, sure enough." - -"And to think that that man would let his wife starve," said another. -"He has got something in him. It may be that young fellow they call -Wheaton is at the bottom of it." - -Caleb Young was there during the talk, and he was satisfied that war was -coming. He was well acquainted with most of the officers and crew -composing the company of the schooner, and he knew that they would never -surrender their vessel without making a desperate resistance. She was -armed, she had small arms aboard, and her crew were sufficiently trained -to stand by their captain. - -As for the men who had talked so bravely about capturing her--they had -no captain. Everything thus far was going along as Zeke had planned it; -but when it come to a clash of arms, Caleb wanted somebody on hand who -knew what he was about to take command of him. He was bound to go for he -had been one of the first to follow Zeke when he stepped off a few -paces; but he really wished he knew who was going to order the thing -when he stood before the schooner's company. - -"If I am going into this thing Enoch Crosby has got to go too," said he -as he bent his steps toward his friend's house. "He is a good boy, and I -know he will fight if the worst comes. I want to know what he thinks -about this piracy business." - -When Caleb had almost reached Enoch's house he began looking around for -a stick with which to attract the boy's attention by rattling between -the pickets. After a short search he found one, and Enoch was prompt to -answer the summons. They had but fairly got started on the subject of -seizing the schooner when the two young Tories, which were the objects -of especial hatred to them, came in sight. They would rather have seen -almost any one else than James Howard and Emerson Miller. The sober look -on the latter's face showed that they were not much elated, and the -reason was because they did not like to believe that British regulars -had been whipped by minute-men. Young Howard, who was always the first -to speak wherever he might be, opened the conversation. - -"Well, what do you fellows think of that fight?" said he. - -"We came out on purpose to hear you express an opinion," said Enoch. -"What do you think of it?" - -"I can tell you that in short order," said James. "Every one of those -men who had guns in their hands at Lexington are going to be hung." - -"You will catch them first, will you not?" - -"Oh, that is easy enough," said Emerson. "When the regulars get to -running around with ropes in their hands and calling for the men who -were engaged in that massacre, everybody will be willing to tell on his -neighbor. If Caleb was in the fight you would say, 'Here's one of -them.'" - -"Don't you wish you were there?" asked James, with a grin. - -"Yes, I do," said Caleb, promptly. "But I would have been on the side of -the minute-men." - -"That may be a Britisher's way of doing business, to tell on all those -who were in the fight, but it is not our way," said Enoch, quietly. -"This thing has gone too far to admit of hanging. You will need an army -to take them." - -"Well, have we not got one, I would like to know?" asked James. "There -will be more men here in a little while, and then you fellows will want -to keep dark. What were those fellows talking about that were gathered -on the corner so long? We wanted to go over there but did not dare." - -"It is just as well that you did not go over," said Caleb. "You would -not have heard anything anyway." - -"We heard somebody howling 'Hear, hear!' at the top of his voice," said -Emerson. "I guess we would have heard something from him." - -"No, we would not," said James. "Don't you know that they do not talk -when Tories are around? They are afraid we will tell of them." - -"And it is a mighty fine reputation for you to have," said Enoch, in -disgust. "If I could not keep still in regard to what my neighbors do, I -would go out and hang myself." - -"Oh, you will hang easy enough," said James, with a laugh. "Don't you -worry about that. I will be one of the first to grab the rope and pull -you up." - -Just how it happened Enoch could not have told to save his life. The -place whereon James was standing became suddenly vacant and the spot -where his face was occupied by his heels. He fell like a tree struck -by a whirlwind, and his head came in violent contact with the ground. He -lay there for a second or two as if he did not have his wits about him, -and Caleb stood over him ready to receive him when he got up. Seeing no -move on his part, he turned to face Emerson. - -[Illustration: Caleb stood over him ready to receive him when he got -up.] - -"Let us hear one word out of your head and I will put you down, too," -said he. - -"Go away," said Emerson, tremblingly. "I have not done anything to you, -and I want you to let me alone. There is a magistrate in this town----" - -"Go on," said Caleb. "You can get to the magistrate as soon as you -please and tell him for me----" - -By this time Enoch began to recover himself. He unlatched the gate, and -seizing Caleb around the waist fairly lifted him from the ground and -carried him inside. Then he shut the gate and looked over at Emerson. - -"You had better go on your way," said he. "Pick up your comrade and go -about your business." - -"But I would like first to hear him say that he would like to haul Enoch -up with a rope," said Caleb, trying hard to get on his feet. "I will -knock him down as often as he can say it." - -These words Caleb was obliged to shout over his shoulder, for Enoch, -still retaining his hold upon him, was carrying him along the walk -toward the entrance of the kitchen. He pushed him into the house, and -then closed the door behind him. - -Having seen his enemy disposed of Emerson bent over James Howard to see -if he was still alive. To his joy the prostrate boy opened his eyes and -stared about him in a vacant manner. - -"That cowardly provincial is gone now," said Emerson. "Enoch took him -into the house with him." - -"I never will put up with such a blow from a boy who is down on the -king," said James, sitting up on the ground. "The young rebel strikes an -awful whack, does he not? We will go and see the magistrate about it at -once. I am all dirt, I suppose?" - -"No, but your queue is full of it," said Emerson, brushing it off as -well as he could. "I wish we dared lick him." - -"So do I, but we can't touch him now. Wait until those reinforcements -come up here that father was talking about last night, and I will have -revenge for all that boy's actions. Help me up. Now we will go and see -father about it the first thing we do. These rebels are coming to a high -pitch when they can strike a gentleman for something he has said." - -The young Tories had started out for a walk but they did not take it. -They turned about and went back the same way they came, and in a few -minutes drew up at Mr. Howard's gate. The old gentleman was at home, -sitting in his easy-chair, but he was not taking life pleasantly. There -was a scowl on his forehead, for he was thinking about the battle of -Lexington. There was one thing about it he said to his wife: Those -rebels had got to be whipped into submission, or he and his family must -go back to England. How he wished he possessed the power to wipe all -those who were in rebellion from the face of the earth! Would not he -make a scattering among them before the sun set? While he was thinking -about it the boys came up to the gate. If such a thing were possible his -son James' face presented a worse appearance than his own. In addition -to the scowl which it wore, there was a lump under his eye which now -began to grow black. Mr. Howard knew well enough what was the matter. - - - - -CHAPTER V. - -A REBELLION IN THE COURT-ROOM. - - -"Father, look at my face," said James, who was the first to begin the -conversation. "Just look at it." - -"Yes, I see it," said the old gentleman, angrily. "You have been having -an argument with some of those young rebels and you have got the -knock-down end of it. I will wager that Caleb Young and Enoch Crosby -know something about it." - -"They were both there," said James, seating himself on the steps, "but -Caleb was the only one who struck me. Now, father, what am I going to do -about it? I can't go around with my face this way." - -"Do you mean to say that you gave up to Caleb and that he struck you -only once?" exclaimed Mr. Howard. "You would make a pretty fight, you -would." - -"But, father, you don't know anything about the strength in that -fellow's arms," whined James. "I would just as soon have a horse kick -me. I want to see the magistrate about this." - -"Let us go up there at once," said Mr. Howard, putting on his hat. "We -don't want to let the grass grow under our feet until this thing is -settled. These young rebels are getting altogether too brash. They want -to be shut up for a while. I wish I had them in England. When they were -there, they would find themselves among gentlemen, and they could not -talk as they pleased." - -"Do you believe you can put him under lock and key for hitting me?" said -James. He began to be all excitement now. To see Caleb Young put in jail -for what he had done would be ample recompense for him. - -"I assure you that I am going to try it. How did the argument begin in -the first place?" - -James hesitated when his father propounded this question. When he came -to think the matter over he found that he had given Caleb good reason -for knocking him down. He might have to make the complaint under oath -when he came before the magistrate, and he concluded that it was best -to tell the truth while he was about it. - -"I said that all those who were in that massacre would be hung some -day," began James. - -"Good enough. You told him the truth." - -"And I told him that if he were there I would be one of the first to -grab the rope and haul him up," continued James. "Caleb or Enoch, I have -forgotten which one, replied that if he went and talked that way about -his neighbors, he ought to be hanged." - -"And he knocked you down for that?" exclaimed Mr. Howard. "You did -perfectly right in saying what you did, and if I were magistrate I would -shut him up for two or three days at least." - -These last words were spoken as they were passing along the streets -toward the magistrate's office. There were many people loitering about, -for the news of the battle of Lexington had not been thoroughly -discussed, and the inhabitants of Machias could not get over it. Every -one knew what was the matter with James without any telling. The -provincials smiled and nodded their heads in a way that showed young -Howard that he was served just right, while the Tories grew angrier than -ever, and insisted on hearing all about it. Before reaching the -magistrate's office James began to think that he was something of a hero -in town, and fully expected to see Caleb shut up for a long time. - -When they arrived at their journey's end they found the magistrate there -as well as two constables, who were hanging around for a chance to serve -some papers which were slowly being made out for them. The magistrate -was surprised when he saw such a company of men coming into his office, -for be it known that a good many people, both Tories and provincials, -had turned about and gone with them. They wanted to see what was going -to be done in regard to it. - -"Bless us!" he exclaimed, when he saw James' battered face. "What have -you been doing?" - -"I have not been doing anything," said James, in an injured tone. "A -young rebel got mad at me for something I had said and knocked me down." - -"Aha! A young rebel!" said the magistrate, the scowl deepening upon his -forehead; for he was one of those "aggressive" Tories who believed in -making war upon all those people who did not hold to his own opinions. -"Do you want to make out a complaint against him? I will fine him a -pound at least. These rebels have got to be kept within bounds. I will -make out the papers right away. Here are two constables ready to serve -them," he added, speaking in a low tone to Mr. Howard. "You had better -have two go with them, for there are some rebels around here and maybe -they will stand by to protect him." - -The magistrate made a great flourish and prepared to go on with his -warrant, while James and his father took time to look about upon the -crowd that had followed them in. There were more rebels than Tories in -the party, and that was easy enough to be seen. Some of the former -exchanged a few words in whispered consultation and then went out, but -the Tories stood their ground. - -"There!" said the magistrate, who at last turned about with the -completed document in his hand. "Kelly, take this, go up to Young's -house and arrest Caleb in the name of the king. I need not add that if -he does not come you will call upon any man present to help you." - -"I don't know as I had better go up there alone," whispered the -constable. "The rebels are out in full force." - -"Then take Nolton with you. You surely do not need two constables to -arrest a boy! Take notice of the way he acts and I will fine him for -that, too." - -The constables went out reluctantly, for they were about to undertake -something which the magistrate himself would have shrunk from if he had -been in their place. After thinking a moment Mr. Howard drew nearer to -the judge. - -"You spoke of fining that boy just now," said he. "What is there to -hinder you from shutting him up for three or four days? If the rebels -are to be held within bounds, I don't know of a better way of doing than -that." - -"That is what I think," whispered the magistrate. "But you can't do that -for assault and battery. If you could prove that he tried to kill James, -why then----" - -"How do we know that he did not try to kill him?" asked Mr. Howard. "He -knocked him down and there he let him lie." - -"Well, we will see about it when he comes. I will shut him up if I can." - -Meanwhile the two constables had gone on toward Caleb Young's house, -where they found his mother, who was overcome with alarm when they told -her that they had come for the purpose of arresting her son. Caleb was -not at home, she said; she had not seen him since that man brought the -news of the battle of Lexington. She guessed he was down at Crosby's -house; but what did they want to arrest him for? The constables gave her -no satisfaction on this point, but came out and hurried toward Enoch's. -They entered without ceremony[5] and found Caleb seated at the table -with his friend enjoying breakfast. He had left home before breakfast -was ready. - -[Footnote 5: The constables were not in the habit of knocking at a -private house. They heralded their approach by the command: "Open in the -name of the King!" and then went in and did their business.] - -"Ah! Here you are," said Kelly. "Come on. We want you." - -It was just what Caleb expected. The boys had been obliged to tell Mrs. -Crosby that they had a skirmish with James Howard in front of the -house, because she knew it all along. The tussle that Enoch made in -getting Caleb into the house had told her that there was something -unusual going on, and she was anxious to know all about it. - -"I am ready," said Caleb, "at any time you are." - -"Caleb, you did not kill him?" exclaimed Mrs. Crosby. - -"Oh no," replied Caleb, with a laugh. "I told you that I just knocked -him down. It will teach him better than to talk of hauling honest boys -up with a rope." - -Enoch had sat there talking with Caleb while the latter was eating his -breakfast, and had never thought of saying a word; but when he saw his -friend rise to his feet and pick up his hat, he took it as a signal that -it was high time he was doing something. He jumped up and ran out of the -house bareheaded and hurried off to find Zeke Lewis. He burst open the -door without waiting to knock, and caught Zeke in the act of picking his -teeth after enjoying a comfortable breakfast. - -"Say, Zeke, the Tories have come to arrest Caleb!" said he, so -impatient to tell what he knew that he could scarcely speak the words -plainly. - -"Do tell!" exclaimed Zeke. "What has he been a-doing of?" - -"He knocked down James Howard," said Enoch. - -"Serves him right. He has been saying something that he had no business -to say. What did he get out this time." - -Enoch repeated the conversation that his friend had with James, and Zeke -all the time nodded his head as if he knew all about it. When Enoch had -finished Zeke wanted to know how he could assist him. - -"They are going to fine him for hitting that cowardly Tory, and Caleb -has not got any money," said he. "He will have to go to jail, and I will -wager that that is where James wants him to be." - -"He ain't got no money, ain't he? Well, I have been that way myself, and -we will see what we can do to help him out." - -It was strange what an uproar the giving of a warrant for the arrest of -Caleb Young made in the village. Those "rebels" who had pushed their way -out of the court-room while James was making his complaint had found -plenty of friends to tell it to, and by the time they reached the street -they saw any number of people, all hastening with eager footsteps toward -the magistrate's office. When Zeke and Enoch arrived in front of the -store, in the back part of which the judge held his court, they found -the apartment jammed and the highway for twenty feet each way was packed -full. - -"Zeke," said a companion, "you don't get a show here." - -"I must," replied Zeke. "I have got to see that fellow out." - -"Well, get in if you can and if you want any help, just sing out." - -It was a matter of some difficulty for Zeke to work his way through the -crowd and up within sight of the magistrate's desk, but his size and -weight had a good deal to do with it, and Enoch kept close behind him. -When he got near enough to the desk he could hear that the magistrate -was talking to the prisoner. - -"And so you knocked James down?" was the question he heard. - -"Yes, sir, I did," answered Caleb. "He said that----" - -"I don't want to hear what he said," interrupted the magistrate. "I want -to know what you did. You knocked him down and left him lying there. You -did not care whether you killed him or not. I shall have to fine you one -pound and costs." - -If the magistrate had said that he would fine Caleb one hundred pounds -he would have stood just about as much chance of getting it as he did to -fine him one pound. Caleb had never seen so much money in his life, and -he wondered where in the world it was to come from. Seeing that he -hesitated, the magistrate went on. - -"If you cannot pay that one pound I shall have to shut you up for twenty -days," said he. "You will then pay it at the rate of one shilling a day. -I think if more of you rebels were shut up, we should have peace here in -the colonies." - -Zeke had heard all he wanted to hear. It was enough for him to know that -the magistrate wanted to shut up the rebels for a while, and that was -more than they had power to do. Working his way further toward the desk -he seized Caleb by the arm and pulled him back by his side; after which -he placed his arms on his hips and looked at the magistrate as if to ask -him what he was going to do about it. - -"What do you mean by such work as that?" demanded the judge. "We have -two constables here----" - -"I don't care if you have a dozen," replied Zeke, and his composure was -not in the least ruffled by what had happened. "That boy ain't a-going -to be shut up, and, furthermore, he has not money to pay his fine. You -know that as well as I do. The only thing you can do, judge, is to let -him go." - -"Hear, hear!" exclaimed one of Zeke's supporters. - -"Keep silence in the court-room," exclaimed the magistrate. "Kelly, you -and Norton arrest the first man who interrupts me. Zeke Lewis, I will -fine you ten pounds and----" - -"You will fine nobody nothing," said Zeke. "Come on, Caleb. Let us go -home." - -"C-C-Caleb, don't you stir one peg from where you are," stammered the -magistrate. "Norton, arrest him if he moves." - -He was evidently frightened, for it was all he could do to keep up a -steady tone of voice. On looking around he could see no Tories present -except the constables. The others had gone out as soon as Zeke made a -move, and there was no one left to help him. Zeke showed what he thought -of the magistrate's order by pulling Caleb's arm through his own and -starting for the door with him. The provincials moved on one side to let -him pass, and two or three of them gave him a cheer. The magistrate was -utterly confounded. He called upon the constables to do their duty, but -none of them moved from his place. A glance into the eyes of the -"rebels" standing around was enough to satisfy them that they had better -keep their hands off. That was the first rebellion that had ever taken -place in Machias. - - - - -CHAPTER VI. - -GETTING READY FOR THE FRAY. - - -"Three cheers for Zeke Lewis and Caleb Young!" shouted one of the -provincials, when they came out of the door and appeared upon the -street. - -"No, no, lads," said Zeke, raising his hand as if to stop the -demonstration. "We have got him out of being fined or going to jail, but -remember that we are not done with it yet. It will not be long before we -shall see some British regulars up here to ask us what we mean by it. We -have got to fight, and we may as well make up our minds to it first as -last." - -"Hear, hear!" shouted three or four of those who stood around him. "If -the regulars come at us, we'll serve them worse than they did at -Lexington. Three cheers for them!" - -The cheers were given in spite of what Zeke had said, and some of them -persisted in shaking Caleb by the hand. They passed on, and in a few -minutes were out of the crowd and started toward home. There were three -of them who kept Caleb company to see that he reached the presence of -his mother in safety, they were Mr. O'Brien, Joseph Wheaton and Enoch -Crosby. They did not have much to say about what had happened in the -court-room, but Caleb knew why they went with him. On their way to his -house they passed within plain sight of the harbor, and the first thing -that attracted their attention was the schooner Margaretta, riding -proudly at her anchorage, and flying the flag of England from her peak. -Zeke thought this a good time to exhibit his hostility to that flag, -which he did by shaking his fist at it. - -"If it had not been for Wheaton here, I would not have thought of taking -that schooner," said he. - -"I had an idea that somebody besides you thought of that," said O'Brien, -turning around and shaking Wheaton by the hand. "It did not sound like -you in the first place, but, when somebody else proposed it, you went in -strong for it. What was the reason you did not propose it yourself, -Wheaton?" - -"You see I have not lived here long enough to become acquainted with -everybody as Zeke has," replied Wheaton. "I lived in New York until a -few months ago, and I thought the proposition had better come from an -older inhabitant. They might think that I suggested it just to hear -myself talk; but it would be different coming from Zeke." - -"That is just what he told me," assented Zeke. "And I kept thinking what -a fool I was not to think of it long ago. Wheaton, when we get that -schooner, you must haul down that flag." - -"I will attend to that," said the young man, with a laugh. "If the flag -of England is going to wave over us as an emblem of tyranny, we want it -pulled down. But the fact of the matter is, we have not got any other -flag to be hoisted in the place of it." - -"No matter for that," said Mr. O'Brien. "We will have that flag hauled -down, and that is all we care for. Now, Caleb, go in and see your -mother." - -Caleb was not a boy who had been educated, but he knew enough to thank -Zeke for what he had done; but Zeke patted him on the back and said that -was all right, and pushed him through the gate that led into the yard. - -"Remember now, that when you hear the cheer to-morrow you are to come -down and help capture that schooner," said he. "And bring every friend -you see. We may get her without a fight." - -"No, we won't," replied Caleb. "I know the most of those men who belong -to her, and I know that they will stand by their captain. We shall not -have as many men when we get back as we have when we first go aboard -that schooner." - -"I know them, too," said Zeke, raising his left hand and slapping the -other with it with a report like that of a pistol. "But I would stick a -pitchfork into my own brother if he were there and should resist me. We -are bound to have that schooner." - -All were encouraged to hear Zeke talk in this way and Caleb said he -"hoped so" and went in to see his mother; while Enoch, who had left the -table bareheaded, started homeward on a rapid run. He did not find his -mother as excited as she ought to have been. She was sitting in her -easy-chair with her knitting before her, and looked at Enoch's flushed -face when he came in as calmly as though he had been to the store for -some groceries. - -"Well," she said, and her voice was as steady as usual, "you have had an -exciting scene there in the court-room." - -"What do you know about it?" asked Enoch in surprise. - -"I just judged by your face," replied his mother. "How did Caleb get the -fine that the judge imposed upon him?" - -"That old Tory did not get it," exclaimed the boy. "I tell you we have -got up a rebellion now, and we may have some soldiers to settle with -before we get through with it. It beats anything I ever heard of." - -Enoch then went on and told his mother as nearly as he could what had -happened there in the court-room. His mother's eyes flashed and she laid -down her knitting. He even told her about the plans that had been laid -for seizing the schooner, but did not neglect to caution her not to say -a word about it where the Tories could overhear it. - -"I have agreed to go too, mother," he added. - -"Well," she replied, glancing up at the old flint-lock over the -fireplace, "that rifle will have to be cleaned up. And you will need -some bullets, too. Remember that when your father drew on an Indian -after he came out of the service, he was always sure to bring him." - -"And if I pull on a redcoat with that gun I don't believe he will do any -more shooting at our side of the house," said Enoch, getting up in a -chair and taking the musket down. "It is awful heavy, is it not?" - -"Yes, and that's the kind it needs to bring an enemy down every time you -get a sight at him. Clean it up bright for the least little speck of -rust in it will throw your ball where you don't want it to go. I hope -the Britishers will give up before you have a chance to shoot at them." - -"But if they don't--then what?" - -"You must shoot to hit. Bear in mind that you had an uncle in that fight -at Lexington, and we don't know whether he was killed or not. He did not -miss, either. Every time he pulled on a redcoat he could tell right -where he hit him." - -"Of course I can't shoot with him; but, as Caleb said, I can make a -noise. I can handle the halyards of a sail better than I can handle this -thing." - -The cleaning of the gun occupied Enoch for the next hour, and finally he -got it so that the water came through clean and bright without a -particle of rust in it. He had been outside the kitchen door engaged in -his occupation, and when he came in to tell his mother what he had done, -he found her in front of the fireplace running bullets. - -"Mother, you have no business to do that," he exclaimed. - -"I want to get all the balls solid, for if you run them in haste you -will see little holes in them," she replied. "The bullets thus formed -always go wild, and you cannot do good shooting with them. Now, Enoch, -have you got some powder? That you have in the horn has been there for a -long time, and I fear that it has lost its strength. You had better go -down to the store and lay in a new supply." - -Enoch thought that his mother would have felt a little happier if she -had been a man, so that she could have taken part in seizing the -schooner. He wished that that cheer would sound out now, so that he -could go into danger with his comrades and see Wheaton haul that flag -down; but he checked himself with the thought that that cheer was not to -sound until to-morrow. He wanted to show something else that he had -done, so he continued: - -"I have picked the flint so that it will strike fire every time. Just -see how it works." - -He cocked the flint-lock several times and pulled the trigger, and each -time little sparks of fire shot down into the chamber. The gun was all -right. It only remained for him to hold it true so that the bullets -would reach their mark. - -"That is right, my lad," said his mother, approvingly. "Before we get -through we will show the redcoats that they are making war upon their -brothers. Send one shot, Enoch, to pay them for taxing that tea." - -Enoch accepted some money to pay for the powder he was to buy at the -store, and when he reached the street he saw Caleb coming along as if -somebody had sent for him. His face, whenever he met Enoch, was always -wrinkled up with smiles, and it proved on this occasion to be the news -of what Enoch had already passed through--the getting ready for the -assault upon the Margaretta. - -"I went out to clean the gun and when I came back my mother was running -bullets," said Caleb; and he rubbed his hands together as if he could -hardly wait for the cheer to sound. "She thinks that some of us are -going to get hurt." - -"I guess I have been through the same thing," said Enoch. "I'll wager -that if mother were in my place she would not sleep at all to-night. She -told me to give them one shot and think of the tea they have taxed -against her. Hallo! Here comes Zeke. He walks as though he was in a -hurry." - -"Bussin' on it!" exclaimed Zeke, when he came up. "I would like to know -what the magistrate and Jeems Howard has been aboard that boat for. You -see, we were watching that boat to find out whether or not she was going -to stay at anchorage until to-morrow, and that's the way we happened to -see them." - -"Let them go," said Enoch. "They have probably been telling the captain -about our rebellion there in the court-room." - -"Well, he can't do anything," said Zeke. "If he turns his guns loose on -the town----" - -"He can't do that," said Caleb. "War has not been declared yet." - -"There is no telling what these Britishers will do when once they get -their dander up. But I was just saying, suppose he did turn them loose; -we have got two four-pounders that we could bring to bear on the -schooner, and make her drop down away from there. But I hope that he -won't get away before morning. If he does, I shall be sorry that we did -not attack her to-night." - -"Where are you going in such a hurry, anyway?" asked Enoch. - -"I am going down to see Wheaton about it. If you hear that cheer sounded -to-night you will be on hand, won't you?" - -The boys said emphatically that they would, and then Caleb went on to -tell him what they had done to get ready for the assault, not forgetting -to give all the praise to their mothers. - -"That's right," said Zeke. "If all the boys were as plucky as their -mothers we would have easy times of it. I haven't got any gun to take; -but I have a pitchfork handy, and you will see some red dust on it -before this thing is over." - -"Oh, I hope they won't fight," said Enoch. "We will get a bigger crowd -than they can show----" - -"I don't care how big our crowd is, we are going to have a fight," -interrupted Caleb. "I will wager that you will see some mourning in -Machias before the sun gets where he is now." - -Zeke walked off laughing as if that was a story rather hard to believe, -and the boys kept on their way to the grocery store. They found Emerson -Miller there, but he was not so talkative as he was a little while ago. -The boys did not like the way the storekeeper acted. He was leaning over -the counter talking to Emerson, but when the two entered he straightened -up and moved back to the rear end of the store. - -"I guess you have got some powder, haven't you?" said Enoch. "Well, if -you have, I want a pound of it." - -"I would like to know what all you fellows are getting powder for," said -the man. "Do you expect the Britishers up here to-night?" - -"I don't know about that," said Enoch. "But we intend to be all ready -for them when they do come. We will serve them as badly as they were -served at Lexington." - -"You will, eh?" said the grocery keeper, turning fiercely upon the boys. -"What would you do if the Margaretta should cut loose on us and burn the -town?" - -"We would whip her, that's all," replied Caleb. "She can't do it. She -must wait until war is declared before she can do that." - -"I don't know whether I will give you any powder or not," said the man. -"You boys act almost too independent." - -"Just as you please, sir," retorted Enoch, while Caleb was angry in an -instant. "If you don't want to sell us any powder, you can say so." - -"I will give you some this time, but if you come in here any more you -don't want to be quite so bold in regard to what you would do and what -you would not," replied the man; but Enoch rightly concluded that this -was not his reason. If he refused to give him what he called for, how -long would it be before all the provincials in the village would hear -of it and come there to see him about it? And if Zeke came he was sure -that he would not escape without a whipping. He went and got the powder, -while the two boys stood looking at each other in amazement. When the -article was done up Enoch paid for it and the two left the store. - - - - -CHAPTER VII - -THE BUCKET OF YEAST. - - -"Say," whispered Caleb, as soon as they were out of hearing of the -store, "that Ledyard Barrow is a Tory." - -"That is just what I have been thinking myself," replied Enoch, who was -so surprised that he hardly knew what he said. "We have got to be awful -careful about this thing or it will get out on us in spite of all we can -do. I did not say anything wrong while I was talking to him, did I?" - -"No, indeed, you did not. The first thing you know we will have Tories -all around us, and the next thing will be for that vessel to trip her -anchor and go farther off down the bay. Say, Enoch, I shall have to -borrow a little of that powder of you until I can have--" - -"You may have it," interrupted Enoch. "There is more here than I want. -But to think that we have unearthed another Tory. That is what gets to -me." - -"It looks to me as though every neighbor was going to have to fight the -man who lives next to him," said Caleb, taking off his hat and -scratching his head furiously. - -"Well, I would rather they would make themselves known so that we may -know just what we have to expect. I wish Zeke would happen along here -just now. I would like to know what he thinks about it." - -But Zeke had business to attend to where he was, and the boys did not -get a chance to speak to him that night. When they came to Caleb's -house, Enoch turned in with him to give him what he thought he should -want of the powder, and found Caleb's mother engaged in knitting with -her Bible open on her knee before her. The boys looked for success in -the size of their crowd to enable them to overcome the schooner's crew, -while Mrs. Young, like Enoch's mother, looked for it to a source from -which it was sure to come if she asked for it in the right spirit. Enoch -hastily took off his hat when he entered the house. The presence of that -open Book upon her lap called for all the reverence he was capable of. - -"Well, Enoch, are you one of the few who have agreed to take the -Margaretta?" said Mrs. Young, greeting him with a smile. "I hope you -have got your gun cleaned up, for Caleb thinks there is bound to be a -fight." - -"I don't _think_ so mother," answered Caleb. "I _know_ so. Machias is -all right now, that is, there is not any mourning here, but you will see -some when we get that schooner." - -"When it does come we shall have the satisfying knowledge that we tried -to do our duty," said Enoch. - -"You forget that there is a penalty for piracy," said Mrs. Young. - -"No, I don't," said Enoch, promptly. "They will have to capture every -provincial in town before they can begin hanging us. When they try that, -you will see a fuss here in Machias." - -"That is right, my boy," said the mother, reaching up with the endeavor -to pat Enoch on the head. "If you undertake this thing, I hope you will -come out safely." - -Caleb had by this time produced his powder-horn, and Enoch proceeded to -give him half the quantity he had purchased. When he had filled it half -full Caleb put in the stopper and slapped the horn into his open palm, -giving Enoch a mysterious wink as he did so. Enoch had no trouble at all -in interpreting that wink. By it Caleb said that when he was face to -face with the schooner's crew he would get at least one shot, if he did -not get any more; and Enoch knew what he meant by that. He was almost -sure of the redcoat he pulled on, and there would be one less for them -to encounter when the order was given to board her and clear her deck. - -"But, Caleb, we don't know who our captain is," said Enoch, giving -utterance to the thought that had been uppermost in his mind ever since -the capture of the schooner was proposed. - -"I don't care for that," said Caleb. "When we get to work everybody will -be captain. We all want the schooner, and the one that does the most is -the best man." - -Enoch was obliged to be satisfied with this, and as there was nothing -further to detain him he made his best bow and went out. The boys now -had nothing to do but various little jobs around the house until the -sun rose the next morning. Enoch did carpenter work, fitting some -chinking into the walls where the winter's cold came in during severe -weather, and Caleb cut some wood and brought it into the house for fear -that to-morrow night he might not be there to attend to it. - -"There is nobody except me that knows we are going to have a fight -before we can claim that schooner," said he, as he paused with his ax -raised in the air and glanced toward the place where the Margaretta was -lying at her anchorage. "Because we have always been friendly with those -boys it is no reason why they will not fight us when they see us coming. -I know what I should do if I was there." - -With this thought Caleb drove the ax into the log with all his force as -if he felt that there was some enemy in there and he wanted to get rid -of him, and then his mother called him to supper. He looked up and saw -that it was getting dark. He put his ax away in the woodshed and went -into the house, and when he was through with his meal his mother said to -him-- - -"Caleb, I wish you would take that little tin bucket from the third nail -behind the door in the buttery and go over to Mrs. Crosby's, and ask her -if she can spare me some yeast for to-night. I want to bake some bread -early on Monday morning, and I should thank her for a little." - -Caleb at once put on his hat, took the bucket from the third nail in the -pantry, bid his mother good-by, and went out. What a difference there -was between him and the boys who flourish in our time! Boys in our day -would say "yes, ma'am," and loaf around and wait until they got a good -ready to start; but to Caleb, his mother's command had to be obeyed -right away. He struck up a whistle when he went out, one of those -old-fashioned songs that boys do not know in our day, telling himself in -the meantime that it was about as dark as he ever saw it. But Caleb knew -the way, and he went on his road without a misstep. He arrived at Mrs. -Crosby's house, made known his errand and came away again, not -forgetting to exchange ideas with his friend Enoch about the cheer that -was to sound on the morrow. - -"I have not heard anything like a cheer since I have been out of the -house," said Caleb. "If I had heard it, you would not have seen me here. -The fun will begin to-morrow when we follow them into the church. I hope -we shall not do anything wrong by arresting them in their seats." - -"Mother has not said a word about it, so I guess it is all right," said -Enoch. "It will show them that we are in earnest." - -Caleb struck up another whistle and went on his way, and he had almost -reached his home when something startling occurred to him. A man -suddenly appeared before him and barred his way. Caleb stopped and -waited for him to make known his object, but seeing that the man did not -speak, he turned out to go by him when the man suddenly reached out his -arm and brought him to another standstill. - -"Don't be in too big a hurry, my lad," said he, and it shot through -Caleb's mind on the instant that he must be a seafaring man, for the -tone of his voice indicated it. - -"You don't know where Caleb Young lives about here, do you?" - -"Well, if I do, that is my own business," replied Caleb, once more -making an effort to leave the man behind. "Why don't you go to some -house and inquire?" - -"Because I think you are the man we want to see," was the reply. "Come -on, boys. Keep still now, or it will be worse for you." - -In an instant three other men appeared as if they had risen from the -ground, and Caleb became aware that he was in the hands of the Tories. -It was too dark to see whether or not the men were armed, but something -that stuck out by their sides made him think that each of them had a -cutlass strapped to him. - -"Look here," said he, backing off a pace or two. "Do you mean to arrest -me?" - -"We will tell you about that when we get you aboard the vessel," said -the man who stood in front of him. "You rebels--Head him off, lads. -Knock him down." - -The words "rebels" seemed to quicken Caleb's ideas. He saw it all now. -He was to be arrested and taken on board the Margaretta and be taken off -somewhere so that the magistrate could collect the fine he had imposed -upon him. To think with him was to go to work. As quick as thought he -ducked his head, not forgetting to throw his bucket loaded with yeast -full into the face of the officer, for such Caleb took him to be, and -dodging the grasp the man made at him he ran furiously toward his own -gate. But he had to deal with men who were as cunning as he was. A -fourth man, who stood a little distance behind the officer, clasped him -in his strong arms before he had made a dozen steps and threw him to the -ground. - -"Help!" shouted Caleb, with all the power of his lungs. - -"Stop that noise; quick!" exclaimed the officer. "Choke him down." - -Caleb did not have time to say all he meant to say when he lifted up his -voice in shouting for help, for at that moment the man who had thrown -him down changed his grasp from his arms to his throat, and the boy was -rendered powerless. It was but the work of a few seconds to tie his -hands, and scarcely more to jerk him to his feet and start him down the -road toward the harbor. Caleb went because he could not help himself. -Two Tories followed close behind him. Each one had hold of his collar, -which was drawn so tight that he could not utter a sound. A boat that -was drawn up on the beach was ready waiting for them, and Caleb was -thrown into it and dragged aft until he was brought up by the -stern-sheets. The man whom he took to be an officer turned out to be one -sure enough, for he took his seat beside Caleb and went on brushing his -coat with his handkerchief to wipe off the yeast. - -"I will get even with you, my lad, before we get to New York to pay you -for throwing that stuff at me," said he, with something that sounded -like an oath. "What was it, you rebel?" - -"It is something that won't hurt you any," replied the prisoner, -striving to get his throat in order so that he could speak plainly. - -"What was it, I ask you!" said the officer, kicking Caleb with his foot. -"Do you hear?" - -"It is nothing but yeast," said Caleb. "I hope it will _raise_ you up so -that it will put a little sense into your head." - -It was evident that the rough treatment to which he had been subjected -had not taken all the pluck out of Caleb Young. The officer was -astonished and gave him three or four kicks in the ribs to show that he -did not admire such talk; but the position in which he lay, together -with the narrow limits of the boat, rendered the kicks comparatively -harmless. - -"Shove off," commanded the officer. "Give-away strong and let us get rid -of this rebel as soon as we can." - -In a few minutes the boat was alongside the schooner, where they found -Captain Moore and the other officers waiting for them. A lantern held -over the side showed them that the officer had not come back -empty-handed. - -"You got him, did you?" said the captain, and his voice sounded very -unlike the polite tones in which he was accustomed to greet the -villagers who came there to see him. He did not live in Machias, but he -had been there so often that he was pretty well known to all the -towns-people. - -"Yes, sir, I have got him," said the officer, touching his hat. "And the -rebel threw a bucket of yeast on me when I took him." - -"Well, you will pay him for that when we get him to New York," said the -captain. "Hoist him up here." - -This was the worst part of the treatment to which Caleb had thus far -been subjected since his capture. Two of the boat's crew seized him, one -at the head and the other at the feet, trying to take him by the clothes -but not being particular if they caught up flesh with them, and raised -him over their heads, from which position he was received by two more -aboard the schooner, who hauled him over the rail and deposited him on -the deck as if he had been a log of wood. - -"You have got his hands tied, have you not?" said the captain. "Well, -release them, and bo'son bring up a set of bracelets and put them on -him." - -"Do you treat all your prisoners this way, captain?" asked Caleb. - -"We treat all rebels this way," was the answer. "The next time you do -anything to bring you a fine, be sure you can pay it." - -"But, captain--" began Caleb. - -"That's enough," said the captain, fiercely. "I know what you have done -and so do you. If you talk any more to me I will put a gag in your -mouth." - -Caleb did not know what a "gag" was, but he came to the conclusion that -it was something to add to his punishment, and so he did not say -anything more. - - - - -CHAPTER VIII. - -UNDER WAY. - - -The boatswain speedily returned with the "bracelets" which he had been -sent to bring, and by that time some of the crew had untied his hands. -They proved to be irons, one for his wrists and another for his feet. In -less time than it takes to tell it the irons had been put on and now -Caleb was a prisoner, sure enough. - -"Now, then, take him down and put him in the brig,"[6] said the captain. -"See to it that he does not get anything to eat or a drop of water to -drink to pay him for insulting his Majesty's officer by throwing a -bucket of yeast at him." - -[Footnote 6: The brig is a small, dark apartment on board a vessel in -which culprits are confined.] - -Captain Moore acted as if he were mad about something, and for fear of -the "gag" with which he had been threatened Caleb was unable to say a -word to him. The boatswain took him by the arm and hurried him forward. -The prisoner was pushed rather than led down the gangway to the brig, -which was ready to receive him. He saw that the grated door was open, -and when he came opposite to it he was shoved headlong into the dark, -not knowing where he was going to bring up. But the brig was not deep -enough to permit him to fall. By putting his manacled hands in front of -him he brought up against the bulkhead with stunning force, and for a -moment he stood there not knowing where he was or what to do. - -[Illustration: He was shoved headlong into the dark.] - -"There, you rebel," said the boatswain, "I guess you will stay there." - -The door was closed and locked behind him, and then Caleb turned about. -There was a lantern outside which threw its beams into the brig, and by -their aid Caleb was enabled to take a view of his prison. It was about -six feet square, large enough to hold all the members of the schooner's -company who were liable to be put there for various misdemeanors, and -there was not a thing in the way of furniture in it--no stool to sit -down on and no bed to sleep on. Caleb drew a contrast between that -room and his plainly furnished little apartment at home and drew a -long-drawn sigh. - -"Yes, I guess I will stay here," said he, as he seated himself opposite -the door so that he could see all that was going on on deck. "Am I a -rebel because Zeke Lewis would not let that magistrate fine me? The -magistrate did not care what James said, he wanted to know what I did; -and if that is justice I don't want to see any more of it. And I must go -to New York. And what is going to become of mother in the meantime? I -tell you, I hope that the boys' attempt on this schooner to-morrow will -be successful. How I can pass the night waiting for them I don't know." - -The first thing that attracted Caleb's attention was that his irons were -too tight. They pinched him in every way that he could place them, and -he first tried to get them off; but his hands were too big. He did not -think he could live that way until he got to New York, and he appealed -to the first sailor that came along to take the irons off and replace -them with some others; but the sailor smiled grimly and shook his head. - -"You threw some yeast at the officer, did you not?" said he. - -"He tried to take me while I was minding my own business," said Caleb. -"You would have done the same thing if you had been in my place." - -"Well, you had better let the irons alone. They don't pinch half as hard -as the rope will when you get it around your neck." - -Here the sailor turned his head on one side and made a motion with his -right hand as if he were pulling something up with it. - -"I will not be hanged for that, I tell you," said Caleb. "If the officer -wanted me, why did he not come up to the house and arrest me?" - -"You have insulted one of his Majesty's officers by throwing that stuff -on him, and you don't get anything to eat for a day," said the sailor as -he turned away. "You will be hungry before you get your next meal." - -"Then I have nothing left for it but to go to sleep," said the prisoner -to himself. "That is, if I can go to sleep. If I was master of a vessel -I would not treat a captive in this way." - -That was a long night to Caleb, but he picked out as comfortable a -position as he could on the brig's floor and fell asleep while thinking -of his mother and Enoch Crosby. He was as certain as he wanted to be -that Enoch and Zeke would turn the village up side-down to find what had -become of him, and when they had made up their minds that he was on -board the schooner, they would not rest easy until they had rescued him. -He was aroused by the changing of watches, and then he did not know -anything more until the boatswain called all hands in the morning. He -straightened up and took his position opposite the door where he could -see the crew as they passed to and fro engaged in their duties of the -ship. He knew when the decks were washed down, and when they went to -breakfast. There was a mess chest standing on the deck right where he -could see it, and the Tories took no little delight in biting off their -hard-tack and eating their corned beef before him. But Caleb knew that -there was no breakfast waiting for him, although he was as hungry as he -ever had been. - -After breakfast the decks were swept down, and then an order was passed -which Caleb could not understand; but he soon became aware that the crew -were getting ready to go ashore. It was Sunday, and of course the men -dressed in white on that day. Pretty soon an officer passed, and he was -got up with all the gold lace that the law allows, but he paid no -attention to the prisoner. Presently a boat was called away, and then -another, and Caleb could hear the men scrambling down the side in order -to get into them, and he knew that the crew had left barely enough men -on board to look out for the safety of the vessel. What a time that -would be for the men on shore to capture her! While he was thinking -about it a sailor came up alongside the grating which formed the door, -and after looking all around to make sure that no one was watching him, -he put his hand into his bosom and slipped a small package in to the -prisoner. - -"There you are," said he. "Eat your fill." - -The sailor moved away as quickly as he had come, and Caleb was not long -in taking care of the bundle. He took it back out of sight, so that if -any one chanced to look in to see what the prisoner was doing, he would -not have seen him eating the contents of the package. For there was a -good breakfast in there, and how the man had managed to steal it was -something that Caleb could not understand. - -"I wish I had taken a good look at him," said Caleb, with his mouth full -of hard-tack and meat. "I believe that when the attack is made, and it -will not be long now, I can do him a favor. He is not a Tory. He belongs -on our side easy enough." - -Caleb did not want as much to eat as he thought he did, for he stopped -every few minutes to listen. But he did not hear any sound to indicate -that an attack had been made on the schooner's crew, nor any cheer to -tell him that all was ready. An hour passed--such an hour as that was, -Caleb hoped he should never live over again--and then hoarse commands -were heard on the deck and then a commotion arose which was greater, if -possible, than when the boats were called away. The prisoner arose -hastily to his feet and pressed his face close to the grating to see if -he could discover anything that created such a hubbub; but he could not -see anything. But the men were all on deck, and pretty soon he heard -the dropping of hand-spikes and the dash of ropes above him as if the -crew were getting ready to train a gun upon the town. - -"Bussin' on it!" whispered Caleb, who was so excited by what he heard -that he repeated Zeke's favorite expression before he knew what he was -doing. "It has come. The boys have made the attack and I shall soon be -free. There are two persons I want to remember; one is the boatswain who -threw me into this brig, and the other is the man who gave me my -breakfast. It is coming sure enough." - -After the men had got their gun trained, for Caleb was certain that was -what they were doing, there was silence for a few minutes, and then he -heard the splash of oars in the water. He heard Captain Moore's voice -pitched in a loud key, and then he was sure that all of the crew who had -gone off in the boats came aboard. That was something for which he could -not account. If the attack was made it had failed, and the crew were on -the lookout. - -"Now, it is mighty strange how those men came aboard," said Caleb, to -himself. "And what was the reason they did not arrest them there in the -church?" - -If Caleb had been in the habit of using strong language he would have -used it now, but he did nothing but stand there and wait. The men had -taken the alarm, there could be no doubt about that, for presently he -heard the vessel moving a little as if springs had been got out to her -cables, and she was being moored broadside to the town. - -"I wonder if they are going to fire on the village?" said Caleb in great -alarm. "If she does, I wonder what will become of my mother? Why can I -not escape?" - -He seized the grating with both hands and exerted all his strength upon -it, but, although he could make the gate rattle, the locks still held -firmly in their place. Fifteen minutes passed in this way, and then he -heard a roar over his head as if heaven and earth were coming together. -Another followed it, and the prisoner, firmly believing that the -schooner had opened on the town, for the purpose of setting it on fire, -left the grating and seated himself once more in the further end of the -brig. The firing continued--how long Caleb did not know; but he realized -that he was shutting his ears to all sound of the guns. - -"This thing has commenced war with me at any rate," said he, to himself, -"and if I ever get free and have a gun in my hands that I can use, I -will kill a person for every person in Machias that has been struck by -their shells." - -Finally the firing ceased, and a sound was heard like a man's steps -coming down the companion ladder. When he came nearer Caleb saw that it -was the man who had given him his breakfast. - -"Say," said he, in a low tone. "How many of them did you kill?" - -The man looked around to make sure that there was no one in sight and -then replied-- - -"None of them. We just fired a shot or two over the town to show them -that we are on guard. Have you got some relatives there?" he added, -noticing that Caleb drew a long breath of relief. - -"I should say so. My mother is out there." - -The prisoner was about to ask him what was the reason the attack on the -schooner had failed, but he happened to think that by so doing he would -let out some things that Zeke had cautioned him particularly to guard -against; and another thing was, the sailor passed on about his business. -He did not have time to exchange another word with him. - -"It is lucky that I did not have time to ask him about the attack on the -schooner," said Caleb, once more returning to his seat. "He is not a -Tory, but I don't know that he is friendly enough to us to keep still -about it. Now I want to know what is the reason I did not hear that -cheer." - -Caleb did not have more than two minutes to turn this matter over in his -mind, when some more sailors were heard coming down the ladder. They -proved to be the watch who had been granted shore liberty that day, and -their business was to change their holiday clothes for their working -suits. They worked as if they were in a hurry, paying no attention at -all to the prisoner, and as fast as they put on their working clothes -they ran on deck. Some more hoarse orders greeted them, and this time -they were followed by the creaking of halyards and the singing of men, -which told Caleb that they were getting the ship under way. In a few -minutes the rattling of the windlass joined in, and by listening -intently Caleb heard a man ordered to the wheel. This was as much as he -cared to know. He covered his face with his hands and for a moment -groaned aloud. He was off for New York, he would be put in jail there -for not paying his fine and there was no telling what treatment he would -receive after he got there. And his mother too, who was wondering all -this time what had become of him! He did not know what to think about -her. Enoch and Zeke would have to look out for her, for the chances were -that he would never come back. While he was thinking about it, a sailor -passed by so close to the grating that Caleb put out his hand and -stopped him. - -"Are we going to New York now?" he asked. - -At this moment an officer, who had stood a little back out of his sight, -stepped into view. It was the boatswain--the very man of all others of -whom he had learned to stand in fear. - -"Look here, you rebel," said he, shaking his brawny fist so close to the -grating that Caleb instinctively drew back. "If I hear another word out -of you I will start you in a way that will make you open your eyes." - -The prisoner released his hold on the door and retreated to the opposite -end of his cell. He knew what the boatswain meant by saying that he -would "start" him. If he had taken pains to cast his eye about the -schooner's deck when he was brought below, he would have seen the -dreaded "cat" suspended from the main-mast. Its thongs were all knotted -to render the blows more severe, and they were covered with blood. The -"cat" had evidently been used upon somebody's bare back, and Caleb did -not want to bring it into further use. The only thing he could do was to -keep still and let time show him what was coming. - - - - -CHAPTER IX. - -THE "AGGRESSIVE" TORY. - - -To say that the magistrate was intensely surprised by the rebellion that -had taken place in his office, would be putting it very mildly. He was -completely taken aback, so much so, that, when he saw the coat tails of -the last provincial disappearing through the door, he settled back in -his chair, let his hands fall helplessly by his side, and looked at Mr. -Howard with eyes that seemed ready to start from their sockets. Mr. -Howard was equally astonished. He looked around for a chair and sank -into it. - -"This beats me," were the first words that he uttered. - -"It is a--a--revolution," said the magistrate, pulling his handkerchief -from his pocket and wiping his face with it. "The spirit that animated -those fellows at Lexington has got up here, has it not? Nolton, you are -not worth your salt. Why did you not arrest Zeke when he started to move -away with that boy?" - -"You told me to do my duty," said the constable, "and I thought it my -duty to remain quiet in my place. I wish you had been in my shoes. If I -had touched that man I would not have known what hurt me." - -"If I was a constable and sent here to preserve order, I would have -arrested that man in spite of everything the provincials could do to -stop me," exclaimed the magistrate, doubling up his huge fist and -pounding the desk with it. "It is all owing to you that this rebellion, -or whatever you call it, has got to such a pass. Now what are we going -to do? Must we stand by and let those rebels run things to suit -themselves?" - -"By no means," said Mr. Howard hastily. "There must be some place in the -colonies where our men are strong enough to collect that fine of Caleb. -What is the use of the Margaretta here?" - -"Do you want to send Caleb off to New York?" whispered the magistrate, -bending toward Mr. Howard, while his eyes gleamed with satisfaction. "I -never once thought of that." - -"I mean just that and nothing else," said Mr. Howard, in the same -cautious tone. "I would like to see those men get up a rebellion in the -face of Captain Moore. He would blow the town out of sight." - -"I don't know whether I want him to try that or not," said the -magistrate, doubtfully. "I have a house up here and I don't want him to -put any shells through that." - -"It would be very easy for him to send his shells wherever he wanted -them to go. I believe in going down and calling upon him right away. You -may rest assured that you will not do any more court business while this -thing is hanging over you. Besides, the Governor may hear of it and put -another man in your place." - -"Let us go down and see him the first thing we do," said the magistrate, -getting upon his feet. "You men stay here until we come back," he added, -turning to the constables. "We may have more work for you." - -"Well, you just wager that you can do it yourself," said Kelly -mentally, as he helped himself to a chair. "I am not going around where -Zeke is any more." - -Kelly looked toward Nolton as these thoughts passed through his mind, -and from something he saw there he made up his mind that he was not -alone in deciding this way. It was very easy for the magistrate to send -men into danger, but he took good care to keep out of it himself. - -The magistrate put on his hat and led the way toward the door, and Mr. -Howard and the two boys followed close at his heels. They stopped when -they got to the door and held a consultation as to whether or not they -should let the boys go with them, but after a little talk they decided -that James should go on board the schooner to show the captain the lump -on his eye, which grew bigger and blacker all the while, and Emerson, -who saw the assault, should be a witness to it. - -"I want to let the captain see that I fined him one pound and costs for -a reason," said the magistrate. "Then he will think that I was doing my -duty." - -They found a boat at the wharf just preparing to go off to the schooner, -and the parties all got down into it. The sailors looked at James with -surprise and something very like a grin overspread their faces; but they -were too well-trained to ask any news. They found Captain Moore in his -quarters, and he had his coat off and was lying at his ease on a lounge -reading a book. He got up and looked his astonishment when he shook -James by the hand. - -"A rebel did that," said the boy. - -"What makes you call him a rebel?" asked the captain. "Has that affair -of Lexington got up here?" - -"Yes, sir," said the magistrate. "And thereby hangs a tale as long as -your arm. I fined Caleb Young for striking James, but the rebels got -around him and took him home." - -"And did he not pay his fine at all?" said the captain in surprise. - -"No, sir. One rebel told me that the boy had no money to pay his fine, -and I should not be allowed to shut him up either, so the only thing I -could do was to let him go. The spirit of rebellion is bigger than one -would think for." - -"Well, I should think it was," said the captain, angrily. "When they -begin to interfere with a magistrate for the work he does on his bench, -it is time they were being hanged, the last one of them. What did you do -then?" - -The magistrate began his story at once and told it through without -interruption. At last he came to the point which brought him there. He -wanted Caleb arrested, taken on board the schooner, and carried to New -York and given to some power that could enforce the law. And Captain -Moore was the only man they knew who could help them in the matter. - -"Do you want my men to arrest him?" asked the captain. - -"Yes; and you will have to be pretty quiet while you are about it. Don't -let him shout for help or anything else, for, if you do, you will have -the village on you before you can think twice." - -"Well, things have come to a pretty pass," said Captain Moore, rising to -his feet and walking up and down the narrow limits of his quarters. "Do -you know that you have given me something hard to do? If I can catch him -outside the house all would be well; but suppose I should have to go in -after him? Then what will happen?" - -"You will have to take your chances on that," said Mr. Howard, who was -more in favor of his scheme than he was before. The captain seemed -willing to undertake it, and he determined that he should undertake it -if he could bring any arguments to make him think that way. - -"It all rests with you," said the magistrate. "I have tried to enforce -the law and could not do it, and now I leave it to yourself to determine -whether or not you have any authority in the matter." - -"I don't suppose I have, if you really come down to it," said the -captain, gazing thoughtfully at the floor. "But I shall depend a good -deal upon those magistrates in New York. They are not very lenient with -any one who tries to get up a rebellion here in the colonies, and the -news of that battle at Lexington will urge them to be severe on all who -try it. I will do it, but you must keep still about it until after I get -away." - -"You may depend upon us for keeping still about it," said Mr. Howard. "I -want that boy fined, and I shall not spoil the thing by saying a word -to anybody. At what time do you think the sloops will get loaded up?" - -"I shall be ready to start on Tuesday. If I can once get him on board my -vessel I will risk anybody's getting him away." - -"I knew I would some day get even with that fellow," said James, as he -arose to his feet and put on his hat. "I think he will learn that a -gentleman has a right to say what he pleases without being knocked down -by some rebel." - -"I guess he will too, James," said the captain, laying his hand -confidentially on the boy's shoulder. "Let me get my hands on him once -and I will teach him a lesson." - -Captain Moore put on his coat and accompanied them to the deck, and in -obedience to his order the cutter was called away for them. The captain -watched them until they had gotten ashore, and then intimated to his -first lieutenant (he is called the executive officer in our day) that he -had something of importance to say to him in his cabin. The lieutenant -went, and was thrown into as great a rage as the captain had been when -he heard of the rebellion in the magistrate's office. - -"Now, Hobson, I want you to capture that fellow to-night," said Captain -Moore, in conclusion. "Do you think you can do it?" - -"Yes, sir," was the reply. "If those constables are afraid to attend to -their business on account of the rebels I am not." - -"My advice to you would be that you go ashore and walk twice by that -house and see how things are located there. You may have to go in in -order to get him. I need not tell you that you have got to be very -careful about it. You know the boy when you see him?" - -"Oh, yes, sir. And I will take particular pains that he does not call -for help, either." - -The lieutenant was placed ashore, and walking with his hands behind him, -as if he were out for the air and nothing else, he bent his steps toward -Caleb Young's home. When he came within sight of it he found Caleb -standing in front of the woodshed door, cleaning up the old flint-lock. -He was evidently getting ready for another Lexington affair if the -British troops came near Machias. At least, that was what the officer -thought. - -"But you will be safe in jail, paying that fine of yours," soliloquized -the first lieutenant, as he walked on his way. "I know now how I am -going to work it. As soon as it comes dark I will go to his house and -demand admittance in the name of the king, and when I once get my hands -on him I will choke him so that he can't holler." - -The officer returned on board the schooner in less than an hour, -reported what he had seen and the way he was going to get around it. He -noticed that his shoes were covered with dust during his walk, and he -pulled out his handkerchief and dusted them with it. His brand-new -uniform was somewhat dusty, too, and that came in for a share of his -attention. He was a good deal of a "dude," this first lieutenant was, -and he took pride in looking as neat as if he had just come out of a -lady's band-box. He did not think how his uniform would look when he -brought it into the presence of the captain all spattered with yeast. - -There were some hours of daylight still left, but all the lieutenant had -to do was to pick out the men he wanted to accompany him and give them -their instructions in regard to arresting Caleb Young. One, to have -heard his orders in regard to being quick and still about it, would have -thought that Caleb was a big and powerful man, and that it was as much -as all of them could do to manage him. But the trouble was the officer -was not so much afraid of Caleb as he was of the people who would come -to the rescue if he succeeded in giving the alarm. - -Supper over the foremast hands enjoyed their hour given to smoking and -song, and then the lieutenant came up from below with his side-arms on. -This was a signal to his men, who promptly armed themselves, and in a -few minutes they were pulling across the narrow bay toward a place where -boats did not often land. It was to be a secret expedition all the way -through, and when they got back aboard their vessel with their prisoner, -they did not want anybody to be the wiser for it. - -"Keep as silent as possible," said the officer. "You know Caleb Young -better than I do, and if you see him close with him at once. We will -give these rebels a lesson that they will remember." - -It so happened that the lieutenant drew up behind a tree in front of -Caleb's gate just as the boy came out with a pail in his hand to go -after the yeast. It was so dark that Caleb could not see anything, and -he struck up a whistle and went on all unconscious of the danger that -threatened him. As soon as he was out of hearing one of the men -whispered-- - -"That's him, sir." - -"I know it," replied the lieutenant. "He has gone off on an errand for -his mother, but he will soon be back. That's the time we will catch -him." - -We have already told how desperately Caleb fought for his freedom and -how he called lustily for help; but it was rather chilly in the evening, -being in the month of May, the people were gathered about the fires in -their kitchens with the doors closed, and Caleb's yell did not reach any -of them. He knew that he was in the hands of the Tories, but to save his -life he could not imagine what he had been captured for. He was choked -so violently that he could not utter a sound until he got into the -boat, and then he did make out to reply to a question by the officer who -was wiping the contents of his bucket off his uniform. In a very few -minutes Caleb had been lifted out of the boat to the schooner's deck, -the irons had been put on and he was safely in the brig. - - - - -CHAPTER X. - -A VISIT TO THE JAIL. - - -For a wonder the evening following the day on which the news of the -battle of Lexington was received, was an evening of "do-nothing" with -Enoch Crosby. He could not perform any of the odd jobs about the house, -he could not read, and under almost any other circumstances he would -have regarded the time as wasted. The next day was Sunday, and Enoch and -his mother were very much opposed to doing any work of their own on that -day; but they remembered the parable of the sheep who fell into a pit on -that day, and the owner had pulled him out and carried him home on his -shoulder. So they took that parable to themselves, and thought Enoch -would not be doing any wrong by attempting to seize the officers of the -schooner when they came ashore to attend divine service. - -"I tell you, mother, we are already standing on the edge of a much worse -pit than the sheep of old fell into," said Enoch. "If the king does not -wake up and do something very soon, we are going to see a war here." - -His mother did not attempt to deny it. She nodded her head and went on -with her knitting, while Enoch got down in front of the fire as close as -he could, rested his elbows on his knees, and gazed thoughtfully at the -floor. His mother thought he was growing down-hearted, and that would -not do for a provincial; so she began and related some adventures of -which his father had been the hero after he resigned his commission and -came out of the service. Enoch listened intently, and now and then he -heard something that made his eyes flash, and he really wished he could -have stood beside his father with another flint-lock in his hand. - -When Caleb came over after the yeast Enoch detained him as long as he -could, but that was not very long, for Caleb was on an errand for his -mother. He got the yeast, promised that he would be on hand when that -cheer was sounded on the morrow, and went out. Something, we don't know -what it was, prevented Enoch from taking up his hat and accompanying -Caleb to his home. If he had done so, we should have had two boys in -that brig instead of one. - -The hands on the old-fashioned clock that stood on the mantle were -beginning to come around toward nine o'clock, the hour when all good -persons ought to be in bed, when there came a timid knock at the kitchen -door. Wondering who could want to see any of his family at that hour -Enoch opened it and found Mrs. Young on the threshold. Enoch thought she -looked uneasy about something, and without saying a word she stepped -into the kitchen and ran her eyes all around it. She was looking for -Caleb, but she failed to find him there. - -"Has my boy been here to-night?" she asked, in a trembling voice. "I -sent him over to borrow some yeast of you----" - -"He got the yeast and went home," said Mrs. Crosby. "Have you not seen -anything of him?" - -"No, I have not," said Mrs. Young, groping for the nearest chair and -sinking into it. "He has not been near our house since he came over -here." - -"Where do you suppose he is?" said Enoch. - -"If I knew where he was I should have gone after him," replied Mrs. -Young. "He does not generally perform errands in this way." - -"No," said Enoch, who grew angry when anything was said against his -companion. "He generally does your bidding right up to the handle; and -he would have been at your house unless something has happened to him." - -"Happened to Caleb!" exclaimed Mrs. Young. "Why--what----" - -"I don't know," replied Enoch. "But you will remember that he did not -pay his fine to-day." - -The women looked at each other but did not say anything. - -"Now it has just occurred to me all on a sudden that that magistrate is -going to collect that pound and costs of Caleb in some way," began -Enoch. - -"And has he arrested him for it?" stammered Mrs. Young. - -"I don't know, but I can soon find out," replied Enoch. "I will go down -and see Zeke about it." - -"Be careful, my son, that you don't fall into the hands of the Tories -yourself," said Mrs. Crosby, when she saw Enoch taking down his hat. - -"They have not got anything against me," said Enoch, as he opened the -door. "I don't know what sort of stories James has told about me, but I -know that I took Caleb away from him when he had him down. He can't say -anything hard against me for that." - -"But you are not a Tory, and that will go against you." - -Enoch went out, making no reply, and he left two very uneasy women -behind him. They were not frightened, for in those days it took more -than a supposition to alarm them. Mrs. Young felt uneasy in regard to -Caleb, and Mrs. Crosby felt that Way when she considered that Enoch was -going out there in the dark and perhaps would run into the very trap -that had been set for his friend. - -"I can't help it," said Enoch, as he closed the gate behind him and set -off at a rapid run for Zeke's house. "He must be in jail, but I kept my -mouth silent in the presence of his mother." - -Enoch took to the middle of the street, for he concluded that he would -be safer there than on the sidewalk. It was dark, but Enoch knew the -way, and presently was standing on Zeke's back steps. It was all dark in -the house and that proved that the man he wanted to see had gone to bed; -but this was too serious a matter to admit of delay. "With his fist he -pounded loudly upon the door, and a voice from the inside immediately -asked-- - -"Who is that out there?" - -"It is I--Enoch Crosby," replied the boy. "You'll have to get up and -help us again. Caleb is in trouble." - -It did not need any second call to bring Zeke out of bed and to his -feet. He opened the door, saying as he did so-- - -"That Caleb beats all the boys in the world that I ever heard of. What -has he been doing now?" - -Enoch replied that he did not know. Caleb had come over to his house to -borrow something of his mother, and he had never gone home with it. His -mother was at Mrs. Crosby's now looking for him. - -"Beyond a doubt he is in jail," said Enoch. "You know he did not pay his -fine to-day, and I will bet that that magistrate has arrested him and -locked him up." - -"Bussin' on it, I believe you are right," said Zeke, hurrying on his -clothes. "If he is in jail I wager that he will come out. Come in." - -"I guess I had better stay out here. You will have to take a lantern -with you, for it is awful dark." - -In much less time than it takes to tell it Zeke presented himself at the -door arrayed in his usual costume, but he had something else that he did -not carry in the daytime. It was a huge club, and he had fashioned it -after a style of his own. The club looked too heavy for one man to -manage, but Zeke handled it as though it were a walking-cane. In his -left hand he carried a lantern which he handed to Enoch. - -"You don't think there is going to be a fight, do you?" asked the boy. -"If you do I had better go home and get my flint-lock." - -"There is no knowing what will happen," returned Zeke, with a peculiar -twist of his head. "Suppose he is in jail, and the magistrate has -brought up some of them fellows from the Margaretta to act as his -guards. I don't know that he has done it, but it is well enough to be on -the safe side. Now let us go and see the place where Caleb was arrested. -We may be able to find out something from that." - -"Now, Zeke, do be careful of yourself," said his wife, who was sitting -up in bed. - -"You never heard of Zeke being captured yet, did you?" asked Zeke. -"Well, you never will." - -Enoch, being provided with the lantern, took the lead down the sidewalk -toward the place where Caleb had struggled so hard for his freedom. -Almost the first thing he saw was the bucket which had contained the -yeast. It was thrown up on one side near the fence, and was jammed in -the side; but it was empty. - -"Here is the place where he was caught," said Zeke, taking the lantern -from Enoch's hand and carefully examining all the footprints in the soft -earth. "Now, are these constables' tracks or Tories' tracks?" - -Enoch did not know. He was all in the dark in more respects than one, -and he forbore to express an opinion. - -"Now, we will visit the jail," said Zeke, starting off with one of his -long strides which compelled Enoch to strike a trot in order to keep up -with him. "If he is in there he will come out." - -"Where are you going to get some help?" asked Enoch. - -"I do not want help. That old Tory knows me, and as soon as he knows my -voice he will open that door. Now you mind what I tell you." - -In a few minutes they ascended the steps that led to the jail, but all -was dark inside. Zeke lifted his club and pounded loudly upon the door. -It seemed as if the echoes would arouse everybody within hearing. An -answer came from the inside, but it was not such a one that suited Zeke. - -"Go away from there!" shouted a voice that was full of rage. "You are -not a constable, I know, for they do not make such a noise when they -come here. Go away, now, or I will shut you up." - -So soon as this answer was received the club fell heavier than before; -whereupon there was the creaking of a bed and the sound of bare -footsteps on the other side of the door. - -"Who's that on the outside there?" came the inquiry this time; and it -was not nearly so full of rage as it was before. - -"It is me," answered Zeke. "And if you want to see this door stay where -it is, you will open it up pretty quick." - -"Oh, Zeke, is it you? I'll open the door directly. Why didn't you tell -me who you were?" - -"Didn't I say he would open the door?" said Zeke, hitting Enoch in the -ribs with his elbow. "He knows me." - -In process of time the door came open and Zeke and Enoch stepped inside -of it. The Tory was frightened, and he grew more so as he glanced at the -club which Zeke carried in his hand. - -"What do you want here at this time of night?" asked the jailer. "I -haven't got but one with me here to-night----" - -"Give me your keys," interrupted Zeke. - -"Now, Zeke, is not that going pretty far?" asked the Tory, who was -really frightened now. "You know I haven't any right to give you my -keys----." - -"Give me your keys," said Zeke in a louder tone, at the same time -seizing the jailer by the collar with one hand while with the other he -raised his club and held it over his head. "This is the last time I -shall ask you." - -[Illustration: "Give me your keys," said Zeke.] - -"Of course if you are bound to have the keys there they are," said the -jailer, going to his bed and feeling under his pillow. "You will -remember that I give them up to you because I had to----" - -"That is all right," said Zeke, who had kept close by his side. He threw -the pillow off as the jailer felt under it, and there lay two heavy -horse pistols, of which he took immediate possession. "I will leave -these things on the other side of the way and you can easily get them -after we go away," he added, as he pushed the weapons into his pocket. -"Now let us see if our man is in here." - -"Who are you looking for?" asked the jailer. "There is not but one man -in here, and he was put in for being drunk." - -Zeke did not delay his search for what the jailer had said. He might be -telling him the truth and then again he might not. He found the key -which gave entrance into the cell-room, the doors of which were all -open with one exception, and that one confined a prisoner. Enoch and -Zeke were so surprised that they could not express themselves in fitting -language. They looked at each other for a minute or two and then Zeke -said: - -"Bussin' on it, Caleb is not here." - -"Are you speaking of Caleb Young?" asked the jailer. "I have not seen -him. I did hear that he would be here to keep company with me to-night -because he could not pay his fine which the magistrate imposed upon him, -but I have not seen him or the constable either." - -"Well, he is gone, if it will do you any good to know it," said Zeke, -thoroughly at his wits' end. "And now the next question is, Where is he? -I got that boy in a scrape, and I am bound to find him and give him up -to his mother before I quit looking for him. Enoch, where is he?" - -"Have you got through with your business here?" asked Enoch in reply. -"If you have let us go. I will tell you what I think of Caleb's -disappearance when we get outside." - - - - -CHAPTER XI. - -A PLAN THAT DID NOT WORK. - - -"Good riddance to bad rubbish," soliloquized the jailer, as he stood in -his door and saw Enoch and Zeke cross the way and place his horse -pistols close against the fence. "I kinder reckoned on seeing Caleb here -to-night, but I am glad he didn't come. That magistrate has arrested him -for not paying his fine, but where is he? Go your way," he added, -shaking his fist at Zeke, who was hurrying down the street engaged in an -earnest conversation with his young friend. "It won't be long before I -will have you here, too." - -"Now, Enoch, where is he?" said Zeke, after he had placed the horse -pistols where their owner could easily find them. "He is not in jail; we -know that for a fact." - -"No, but he is shut up all the same," replied Enoch. "If we don't find -him to-morrow the next thing we shall hear of him he will be safe in New -York." - -"Bussin' on it, what do you mean?" inquired Zeke, profoundly astonished. -"Who is going to take him to New York?" - -"The Margaretta." - -"Whoop!" yelled Zeke. "I can't make head nor tail of what you are -saying." - -"The magistrate and Mr. Howard have gone to work and had him arrested," -said Enoch, confidently. "They know he would be rescued if he was put in -jail, and so they have taken him aboard that schooner." - -Zeke stopped in his walk and held the lantern up and looked searchingly -into Enoch's face. He saw nothing there but an expression of pain, and -he knew that Enoch was in earnest in all that he said. - -"And when they get him to New York are they going to put him in jail -until that fine is paid?" asked Zeke. - -"I believe that is what they mean to do. I wonder why they don't take -him to Boston; but then I suppose the schooner is not going that way." - -Zeke lowered his lantern and resumed his walk with his eyes fastened on -the ground. Enoch did not interrupt him, for he knew that he was -meditating on something. - -"Well, then, there is not anything more that we can do to-night," said -he. "I believe you have hit the truth on the head. Now you go home and -let your mother see that you did not run into any traps while you were -gone. I'll go and see Mrs. Young, and tell her that her boy will be all -right to-morrow. You will be on hand when you hear that cheer?" - -"Yes, and I will be on hand no matter whether I hear it or not. If Caleb -goes to New York I am going to go, too. I will be around when you take -those men out of their seats in church." - -Zeke did not say anything in reply. He was thinking too busily. He -raised and lowered his lantern three times in succession, just as a -man-of-war does when she meets one of our vessels at sea, and hurried -off. Enoch watched him until he saw him go into Mrs. Young's gate, and -then turned toward his home. - -"It come onto me all of a sudden and so I spoke it out," said he, to -himself. "It is the neatest thing I ever heard of. If he had been in -jail we would have had him sure, for I never saw Zeke so mad as he was -when he held that club over that jailer's head. I wish I could get just -one word to Caleb. He would know that folks were suffering here on -account of his long absence." - -It did not take long for Enoch to explain the situation to his mother -when he got home. Mrs. Young had gone away before he came, for she kept -thinking that Caleb would get away somehow and that he would come home -and find her gone. - -"She need not have worried on that score," said Enoch, when his mother -explained this to him. "He is in the brig on board that schooner, and he -will stay there until we capture the officers to-morrow. Good night, -mother, I guess I will go to bed." - -This was all an excuse on Enoch's part. He went to bed, but not to -sleep. He felt as many an old soldier feels on the night preceding a -heavy battle. He knew that he had to take chances of coming out -uninjured, and the thought of what those dear to him might say and feel -if he should fall, effectually banished sleep from his eyes. Not once -did he close his eyes in slumber, but he was up at the first peep of day -and engaged in building a fire. It might be the last fire that he would -ever set to cook his own breakfast with, but his mother did not see any -traces of misgiving on his part. He greeted her with his regular morning -kiss, and went about his duties as he always did; but his ears were -sharply tuned to catch that cheer which he knew would be sounded before -night. - -"Now, mother," said Enoch, when nine o'clock was drawing near and the -dishes had all been washed and put away, "I guess I will go down to the -wharf and see what is going on there. If Caleb is aboard that boat he -has got to come off. What would I do if that fellow was in a New York -jail? The magistrate fined him that much on purpose. It is more money -than Caleb ever saw." - -"Be careful, my son, that you don't get into trouble yourself," said his -mother. - -This was all the parting that took place between them. Enoch went -without his gun, for he did not want to attract attention, as he would -have done if he had had the piece on his shoulder. More than that, Zeke -had not told him to bring anything with him, and he concluded that -there would be enough men on hand to arrest all the officers who came -ashore to church. Before he had left his home fairly out of sight he -found Zeke loafing about on a corner. It was not often that Zeke spent -his time in that way. He was generally going ahead as if he had some -business to attend to. - -"Good morning," said Enoch, as soon as he came within speaking distance. -"You see I have not brought my gun with me." - -"That's all right," said Zeke. "Are you going to help take those fellows -out of the church? All right again. Now I am here, and O'Brien and -Wheaton are on the other corners, to stop everybody that is on our side -and tell them not to show themselves about the church until after the -officers get safely in. Then when you see us three moving up, you can -come too." - -"Have you heard anything about Caleb?" - -"No, sir, not a thing. You hit it right last night the first time -trying. He is aboard that boat." - -"Now, Zeke, you must capture that boat the first thing you do," said -Enoch, earnestly. "I did not go near his house this morning because I -did not want to see his mother." - -"I have been up there, and she had her book open and was reading it. She -seems to find a great deal of comfort in that book. Now you slip around -behind some of these houses, but be sure that you keep me in sight. I -will tell you when the proper time comes." - -"And when that time does come remember that you don't stop for anything. -My friend is on board that boat." - -Zeke smiled but said nothing. He did not have his club in his hand, but -he felt as confident as though he had it. Enoch obeyed orders and -sauntered out on a street which led him away from all sight of the -church and the Margaretta; but he took care to keep Zeke's figure in -sight. He found some other men there, too, who were there with the same -object that he was, and one and all knew that Caleb was a prisoner on -board the Margaretta. They were highly indignant over it, too, and Enoch -told himself that if they acted that way when they made the attack on -the vessel, Caleb would not remain a prisoner much longer. - -It seemed hard that, after taking so much pains to have their plans work -correctly, they should turn out a failure at last. It all happened -through the enthusiasm of that man, Zeb Short, who had been taken to -task for saying that he did not believe in fighting the schooner's -company. Zeb was true blue; there was no doubt about that. But he did -not obey the orders he had received and keep out of sight of the church. -He sauntered around through the back streets, but he came back to the -church as soon as possible, and loafed around there, watching all the -people who went in. Nobody had ever seen him go near a church before, -and consequently their curiosity was excited. But Zeb paid no attention -to that. He was going to capture those officers if it lay within his -power to do it, and if it came to a fight, why, he would be there to -lend a hand in it. - -At last the captain was seen, with his white knee-breeches, velvet coat -all covered with gold lace and his queue neatly done up behind. The -captain saw Zeb there, and for a moment stopped as if he wanted to speak -to him, but he thought better of it and passed on into the church. He -was gone but a minute and then looked cautiously out again. Where was -Zeb Short? He was some distance up the road going with all the speed he -could command toward the place where he had left O'Brien a few minutes -before. At the same time three or four other men, whom the captain knew -to be provincials, came toward the church from in front, and they were -walking as though they had business on hand. - -"It has come, and much sooner than I had expected," said the captain. -"We have got to get out of here now." - -Captain Moore stepped back into the church and closed the door behind -him. He looked in vain for the key, but it was not there, so he was -obliged to let it go unlocked. He went into the body of the church with -a quick step, and bending down he whispered some words to each officer -he came to. In an instant the officers arose and followed him. The -captain spoke to every man who belonged to his schooner, and when they -had all gotten upon their feet, he moved down the aisle toward the -preacher's desk. The latter had just gotten up to read a hymn, but he -stopped when he saw all those men coming toward him. The captain knew -his man, and forthwith stepped up and said some words to him, while an -officer who belonged to the schooner kept on ahead and hoisted one of -the windows. Then he stepped out lively, and hanging by his hands -dropped to the ground. The other members of the schooner's company -followed close behind him, the captain coming last, and the minister -closed the window after them. - -"Here we are, O'Brien," panted Zeb Short, breathing hard after his rapid -run. "They are all in. I saw the captain go in just now. Hurry up." - -"Where were you?" asked O'Brien. - -"I was down there in front of the church," said Zeb. "I wanted to be -sure that they all went in and that they did not leave anybody outside -to keep watch." - -"Were you not ordered to keep out of the way of that church?" asked -O'Brien hotly. - -"Course I was. Zeke told me to go around the back way, but I did not -stay there. We have got seven men to capture, and since Zeke told me -that there is fifteen in our party, I conclude that we are going to -take them very easily." - -"Well, you have raised a fight by your heedlessness," said O'Brien, -starting for the church. "Those men are armed, and of course they will -not give way to us. You have got to fight now whether you want to or -not." - -"I am there," said Zeb, drawing himself up to his full height. "It might -as well be on shore as on the deck of the vessel." - -"There is Zeke now, and he has got Wheaton with him," said O'Brien. "Do -not say anything to him about what you have seen, for if you do, you -will have a fight on your hands before you bargained for it." - -"For doing my duty?" exclaimed Zeb. - -"You did not do your duty. It was your place to keep out of the way of -that church, and you ought to have done it. Here comes Zeke now, and he -has got most of the fellows with him." - -"Are you all ready?" asked Zeke, as he came up. - -"All ready. We had better get into that church as soon as we can. There -are seven of them." - -Zeke raised his hand as if to intimate that that was his idea exactly, -and he started off with the full expectation that in less than five -minutes' time he and his party would have the most of the officers of -the schooner's company at their mercy. When he got within hearing of the -church he would not allow a single man to speak to him, but raised his -hand to enforce silence upon every one of them. He cast his eyes around -to see that they were all present, then with noiseless footfalls -ascended the steps and opened the door. Or, rather, he laid his hand -upon the latch and was about to turn and give his whispered -instructions: "Don't say a word to anybody but go about it quick and -still," when one of his followers happened to glance over his shoulder -and saw a sight that filled him with amazement and alarm. - -"Here, here, what's this?" he almost shouted. - -Zeke turned and about two hundred yards away he saw the officers of the -schooner, running close together so as to protect each other and going -their level best to reach the wharf. They were going at a rapid rate, -too. Zeke saw at a glance that pursuit was useless. - - - - -CHAPTER XII. - -DIFFERENT OPINIONS. - - -"Bussin' on it, they are gone!" exclaimed Zeke, with a disconsolate air. -"Now some one of you is a traitor. He told him what we were up to, and -he went in to get his other officers and got out of one of the windows. -Now which one of you is it?" - -If there had been a traitor in that little company who had come out to -capture the officers of the schooner's crew, Zeke did not take the -proper way to find him. He was about as angry as he could well get. He -took off his hat, slammed it down upon the ground, and glared from one -to the other of his band as if he were just aching for one of them to -declare that he was to blame for it. - -"Never mind, Zeke," said O'Brien, who was as much cut up as anybody to -find that the officers had escaped them. "There is another day coming. -Remember that we have not given that cheer yet." - -"I know that," said Zeke, picking up his hat. "But we don't want a -traitor among us when we go off to capture that schooner. No doubt he -will go to the captain and tip him the wink, and the first thing we know -she will be out at sea." - -"Let us go down and see what they are going to do," said O'Brien, -walking toward the wharf. "Perhaps they are going to stay right there." - -"I will bet you a shilling that that isn't what you would do if you was -commander of the vessel," said Zeke, falling in by the side of O'Brien -and moving along with him. "You would let the sloops go." - -"No, I would not. If I were sent here to protect them I would stay with -them until we were all captured. If the captain pulls up his anchor and -drops down the bay, he will stay there until the sloops are loaded and -ready to start." - -Zeke made no reply; he was too indignant to talk. He walked along by the -side of O'Brien, and when they came within sight of the Margaretta they -found that there was something of a commotion on board. The men were -running everywhere about the vessel in obedience to the harsh orders -which came faintly to their ears, and presently the sound of dropping -hand-spikes was heard, and a group of sailors were seen gathering about -a gun which was pointed over the town. - -"They are going to shoot at us!" shouted three or four of the men in -Zeke's company. - -"Let them shoot!" replied Zeb Short. "If we don't leave men enough -behind us to make them pay for every drop of our blood that they will -spill here to-day, we ought to be killed." - -Not a man was seen who showed a disposition to run and find a safe place -from the ball in the cannon which they knew would come flying toward -them in a minute more. They all stood up, and although there were some -pale faces among them, they waited with a dogged determination to see if -the captain was going to shoot them down. Another minute passed, and -then there was a roar aboard the schooner and something passed above -their heads so close that they felt the wind of it. Another and another -followed it, and during all this time Zeke and his men stood there on -the wharf in plain sight, resolved that they would not go until the -schooner got through firing. But not one of the balls entered the -village. They all went over it and were intended, as the sailor had -informed Caleb Young, to let the citizens of Machias see that the crew -of the Margaretta were on the alert. Finally the guns ceased firing and -the crew proceeded to secure them; and when this was done they turned -their attention to something else. The schooner was too far off for them -to hear the orders that were issued, but they saw the motions, and knew -that the vessel was getting under way. She was not going to wait for the -sloops after all. - -"Bussin' on it!" exclaimed Zeke, taking off his hat and throwing it on -the ground beside him. It seemed as if Zeke's hat was the first thing to -stand his exhibition of fury whenever he got that way. He plucked it off -and threw it as far from him as he could, and then was ready to go on -with his grievance. - -"Are they going to get under way sure enough?" stammered Enoch. - -"You have been to sea often enough to know what 'stand by the capstan' -means," retorted Zeke. "Of course she is going to get under way and let -these sloops take care of themselves. You have seen Caleb Young for the -last time." - -"Don't put too much faith in what Zeke says," said Mr. O'Brien. "That -schooner is going to get under way, but she is only going to drop down a -few miles where she can have more sea-room. Do you know that Caleb is on -board that schooner?" - -"No, sir; but he is not in jail, and I don't know where else he could -be. I believe Mr. Howard had him taken on board, too." - -"Let us go with her and see where she is going to bring up," said Zeb -Short, who felt very uneasy every time he looked at Zeke. "Perhaps we -can make her surrender." - -"Yes, you will make her surrender," said Zeke, in accents of disgust; -but all the same he arose, as the others did, and walked along toward -the point which was about three miles off. The schooner fairly beat them -in the race because she had her mainsail up by this time, and was going -ahead as fast as a four-knot breeze could send her. The men kept her in -sight until she rounded to under the point and cast anchor about a -quarter of a mile from shore. - -"Do you see that, Zeke?" said Mr. O'Brien, cheerfully. "She is going to -wait for the sloops. When they come down all ready to sail she will go -on with them to New York." - -"I am in favor of going up and getting one of the sloops and attacking -her," said Enoch, whose eyes brightened wonderfully when he saw the -Margaretta come to anchor. "We can't get her in any other way." - -"I believe the boy is right there," said Wheaton. "If we are going to -take that schooner at all, we must go out to her in some way." - -A long discussion followed on this point, some were decidedly in favor -of Wheaton's proposition and some were not. Every man had something to -say, but without coming to the point, and before long the sun began to -sink out of sight behind the hills. - -"Well," said O'Brien, jumping up and turning his face toward home, "you -have settled the matter for one day at least; but when to-morrow morning -comes you will surely hear that cheer. We will take a sloop and come -down here and capture that schooner." - -"Hear! Hear!" shouted one of the men. - -"All of you who are in favor of going with us we shall expect to see -down here," continued O'Brien. "Those of you who don't favor it, stay at -home." - -"Of course if you are going to fight the schooner, we shall go too," -said another, who could not see the beauty of taking a sloop to go out -where the schooner was and be licked. "When you give that cheer you will -find us all ready." - -"I wish you had been as ready to-day as you say you will be to-morrow -for we would have had that schooner in an hour from now," said O'Brien. -"I hope you will come prepared to do your duty." - -Zeke and his friends walked home, but they did not say much during their -journey. He and Enoch were very much disappointed, and they began to -think that the enthusiasm that some of their party had displayed was all -put on for the occasion. They had the best of reasons for believing that -Caleb was a prisoner on board that vessel, and that a few more hours -would find him safe in New York and that they would never see him again. -They were more anxious to fight now than they had ever been before; and -when Enoch parted from him at his gate, Zeke said: - -"That's what comes of postponing a dangerous thing like this. Those -fellows yesterday were all eager to fight, and you saw how some of them -backed out down there at the point." - -"You are going to take that schooner, are you not?" asked Enoch. - -"To be sure we are," said Zeke, striking his palms together. "If there -is one man left of our party, he is going to sail that boat into the -harbor." - -"I am glad to hear you say that," said Enoch, smiling and rubbing his -hands together. "The only brother I have is aboard that boat, and I am -bound to get him out if I can." - -"You keep your ears open and you will surely hear the sign," said Zeke, -impressively. "Then you come a running." - -Enoch replied that he would be there as soon as any of them, and -continued on his way toward home. On the way he was obliged to pass Mr. -Howard's house, and he saw somebody sitting on the porch whom he hoped -he might never see again. It was the boy whose father had placed Caleb a -prisoner aboard the schooner. He was sitting on the porch with his -wounded eye done up, and when he saw Enoch approaching he got up and -came down to the gate; but Enoch noticed that he did not come within -reach of it. He stopped just outside of the touch of Enoch's arm. - -"Well, Enoch, you did not get them, did you?" said he. - -"Get what?" said Enoch in reply. - -"Oh, I don't suppose you know that there was fifteen or twenty men who -went down to the church this morning to arrest the officers of the -schooner," said James, with a laugh. "I know all about it. You did not -guard the windows as well as the door, and so they slipped out. You will -have to be sharper than that if you hope to gobble Britishers." - -Enoch thought he had got all he wanted to know out of James, and turned -to go on again, but before he had made many steps James called after -him. - -"I have got something more that I want to tell you," said he. "How many -of you did they kill when they opened fire on you?" - -"They did not kill any of us. They shot over our heads just to let us -know that they were on the watch." - -"Yes; and they could have wiped you all out if they had had a mind to. -You want to go easy around that schooner, for they have got one of you -boys there in irons." - -"You know that, do you?" said Enoch. He drew cautiously up to the gate, -but James was on the watch and he stepped back a pace or two. - -"Yes, sir, I know it. The captain said he would arrest him, and he was -not with you fellows down to the church; so he must be on board the -schooner. He is going to New York, and he will find men there who are -strong enough to make him pay his fine." - -"If you will just step outside that gate for one minute I will put your -other eye in mourning, and then you will have two eyes just alike," said -Enoch, who was almost beside himself with fury. - -"No, I thank you," said James, with a laugh. "My other eye suits me -exactly. You will get yourself arrested, too, if you don't look out. -Caleb will pay his fine at the rate of a shilling a day, and that will -take him thirty days to square it all up. Thirty days shut up away from -home and friends and surrounded with men who don't like you, will teach -him a lesson." - -"Well, I will tell you one thing," said Enoch, whose pale face showed -how angry he was. "Don't let me catch you outside this gate again. And -when Caleb gets back--he will be out before the thirty days are up----" - -"He will, eh? How is he going to get out?" - -"He will get out; don't you forget it. And when he comes back, you had -better stay in the house unless you want your other eye tied up too." - -James did not say any more, for something Enoch had said had started a -serious train of reflections in his mind. He looked sharply at Enoch for -a second or two, and then turned and walked into the house, while Enoch -kept on toward home. - -"If Caleb won't lick him I will lick him myself," soliloquized the boy, -who was so excited that he could scarcely keep from going back and -assaulting James in his own dooryard. "I don't know now how I kept my -hands off him." - -"Well, what did that young rebel have to say to you?" said Mr. Howard, -as James entered the sitting-room where his father was. "Did you tell -him about Caleb?" - -"I did, and he was as saucy about it as you please," said James. "He -says that Caleb won't stay in prison for thirty days, and when he comes -out he will fix my other eye to be tied up, too." - -"He won't stay there for thirty days!" said his father. "What does he -mean by that? They can't capture the schooner, for if she sees a boat -coming out with a lot of men on board, she will slip her anchor and put -out to sea. I guess he will stay there thirty days." - -"I guess I had better stay in the house altogether," said James, with an -air of disgust. "I have made Enoch mad at me, and he will beat me if he -sees me on the streets." - -"Why don't you let him punch you?" said Mr. Howard. "Then we will have -him shut up too." - -James did not see fit to answer this question. He looked at his father -with surprise and then walked out on the porch again. - - - - -CHAPTER XIII. - -THE CHEER. - - -When Enoch reached home it was pretty near night. He found his mother -there, engaged in her usual occupation of reading the book, and without -saying a word she put it down and got up and embraced her boy as though -she had not seen him for long months. - -"Why, mother, you must have thought I was in some danger," said Enoch. - -"You failed, did you not?" asked his mother in reply. - -"We failed from not surrounding the church as we ought to have done," -said Enoch, in a discouraged tone. "They went straight through the -house, hoisted the windows behind the preacher and so got away; and we -never saw them at all until they were so far away that we could not -catch them. There were seven of them there." - -"I wanted to go out when they were firing at you but I did not dare. -They must have hit some of you, of course?" - -"They did not try to hit us. They just fired over our heads, and then -got the schooner under way and dropped three miles down the bay. I -wanted that the fellows should capture one of the sloops and go out -there and take her, but they would not agree to it. Caleb is on that -boat and he is in irons, too." - -"How do you know that?" - -"James Howard told me so, and it was all I could do to keep my hands to -myself. If those men are not any braver to-morrow than they were to-day, -we will not capture the schooner." - -Enoch said this with a despairing air, as if he did not much care -whether or not the schooner were captured, and then asked his mother if -she had anything to eat. He had not had a mouthful since early that -morning and he felt the need of something nourishing. His mother replied -by serving up the dinner which she had kept warm for him, and Enoch sat -down to it with an appetite which not even the discouragements of the -day could wholly interfere with. He told his mother everything that had -happened to him since he took leave of her in the morning, including his -conversation with James Howard, and by the time he got through Mrs. -Crosby was as disgusted as he was. - -"It seems to me that by the time that schooner got under way to drop -down the bay would have been a good season to have followed her up," -said she, picking up the book again. "I am afraid that some of you are -going to get hurt to-morrow." - -"Do you believe that they will make an attack on her?" exclaimed Enoch. - -"Of course I do. Such men as Zeke and O'Brien will not let this thing go -by default." - -"I hope to goodness you're right. The first thing I do when I find -myself aboard that schooner will be to keep my eyes and ears open for -Caleb Young. I tell you I will be glad to see him." - -His mother's words put a little encouragement into his heart, but still -Enoch did not feel inclined to talk. He kept thinking of Caleb all the -while, but bedtime came at length, and he kissed his mother good night -and went off to his room. He slept, too, for you will remember that he -didn't get any slumber on the previous night. He did not know anything -more until his mother opened his door and called him to breakfast. - -"I declare, mother, I do not often let you get up and build a fire," -said Enoch, as he opened the door and walked out on the porch to wash -his hands and face. "You see--what's that?" - -Enoch paused with his hands full of soap, which he had been on the point -of rubbing on his face, and straightened up. Faint and far off, but -still distinct, came the sound for which he had been so long waiting. -Clear and loud above all came the voice of Zeke, so penetrating that -there was not another voice in the company of men that he had gathered -that could imitate him. - -"Mother, mother!" exclaimed Enoch, drying his face upon the towel. "The -cheer has come. I must be off at once." - -"You will not have time to eat any breakfast, so I will fix up a snack -for you to eat as you go along," said his mother, walking briskly to the -table. "There is a gun, my boy, that never misses its mark," she -continued, as Enoch mounted into a chair and took the old flint-lock -down from its place. "Don't you get it into any bad habits. May heaven -send you back to me safe and sound." - -There were no tears shed on either side. Enoch was going to do his duty -as any Union-loving boy might, his mother was encouraging him in it, and -both of them hoped for the best. Enoch slung on his powder-horn and -bullet-pouch, seized the bite which his mother had put up for him, and -rushed out to the gate; but he had not made many steps when he saw Mrs. -Young coming toward him. Her face was pale, but she did not act as -though she had been crying. - -"The next time you see me you will see Caleb," said Enoch, never once -slackening his pace. "He is aboard that boat and I know it. Good-by." - -"Oh, Enoch, be sure and release Caleb for me," said Mrs. Young. -"Remember he is all I have." - -"When you see me you will see Caleb, too. I shall not return without -him." - -Enoch ran along, not going half as fast as he might, for he had his -breakfast to eat on the way, and when he arrived opposite Mr. Howard's -house he saw all of the family out on the porch listening to the cheer -which every few minutes came as long and as loud as ever. Enoch was -going by without speaking to them, but hearing the sound of his -footsteps James came out to the gate and stopped him. - -"What is your hurry?" said he. "Where are you going?" - -"I have business on hand, and I can't stop to talk you," was the reply. - -"That cheer must amount to something, or you would not be in such haste -to answer it," said James. "Does it mean that all you rebels are to go -down there? There goes another," he added, pointing to a man who just -then came out of a house and started toward the wharf, carrying a -pitchfork in his hand. "You men are going to get into trouble." - -"Well, we are not the only ones who will be there," said Enoch, shouting -the words over his shoulder. - -"You think you are going to get that schooner, don't you?" yelled James, -for the rapid pace at which Enoch was traveling took him almost out of -the reach of his (James') voice. "Wait until you come back. The last -one of you will be in irons." - -We do not know whether these words reached Enoch, but if they did they -had no effect upon him. Having crowded all his breakfast into his mouth, -he carried his gun at "arms port" and ran with all speed toward the -wharf. When he came within sight of it he found that the good work was -already going on. There were thirty men there at work at one of the -sloops throwing her deck-load overboard, and on the shore were the crew, -standing motionless with their arms folded as if they were prisoners. -The first man to discover Enoch was O'Brien, who, with his coat and hat -off, was busily engaged with the others in unloading the sloop. - -"Here you are," said he. "Go up there and take the place of one of those -men as guards of the prisoners, while the man you relieve comes here and -helps throw off this lumber. You have got a gun. Is it loaded?" - -"No, sir; but I can very soon put a load in," replied Enoch. "I will -wager that it will stop any Tory inside of two hundred yards," he added, -stepping up alongside of a man who stood there with a club in his hand. -"How long has this thing been going on?" - -"We have but just commenced," said the man. "When I came down here they -were just bringing these men off as prisoners." - -"Are we going to take the sloop and go out and capture that schooner?" - -"That is the intention." - -"Well, Mr. O'Brien told me to take your place here now, and you go and -help unload that lumber. I have got a gun, and there's a bullet that -will hit anything that tries to get away from me." - -He held up the bullet so that all the sailors could see it, and then -pushed it home. Then he took up his powder-horn and proceeded to "cap" -his piece, which he did by pouring a lot of powder into the chamber. -Then he brought down the slide, pushed his hat back and was ready for -some prisoner to try to escape. - -"You fellows are going to get licked as sure as the world," said one of -the captives. "You can't take that schooner." - -"What makes you think we are going to try?" asked Enoch. - -"That is where you are going with that sloop. There will be some troops -up here directly, and then you will all go in jail." - -"Well, you won't have to go with us to keep us company," said Enoch, -with a laugh. - -"You are mighty right I won't," said the man, with something that -savored of a threat in his tones. "I am on the side of England every day -in the week. She will brush you rebels off on one side----" - -"Hold on!" exclaimed Enoch, bringing his gun to a "ready." "You must not -talk that way while I am about. When we come back we will be on board -that schooner." - -The man muttered something under his breath and then relapsed into -silence; while Enoch turned his eyes toward the sloop to see how far -they had progressed toward unloading her. The lumber was tumbled off any -way, some going overboard into the bay and the rest being piled up -helter-skelter on the wharf, and finally Zeke raised his voice and -shouted-- - -"All you men who are going off with us to capture that schooner come on -board here." - -"Does that mean me?" asked Enoch. - -"Yes, everybody. Come on." - -"What shall we do with the prisoners?" - -"Let them go where they please," answered Mr. O'Brien. "They can't -hinder us." - -"Now mark my words, sonny," said the man who had been talking to him a -few moments before. "I haven't got anything against you, but I really -wish you would not go off with that sloop. You are going to be killed, -the last one of you." - -"We will not be the first men who have fallen before British bullets," -said Enoch, shouldering his gun and starting for the sloop. "Look at the -ones the redcoats killed at Lexington. We are going to have revenge for -that." - -When Enoch got aboard the sloop he found O'Brien at the wheel and Zeke -was ordering the lines hauled in. After that the mainsail and jib were -hoisted--that was the only two sails she had--a shove was given at the -bow while the stern-line held on, and as soon as the wind took the -canvas she moved silently away from the wharf. She seemed to know that -she was going on a dangerous mission, for not even her blocks creaked -as the sailors pulled at the ropes. - -"Well, Enoch, you are here, are you not?" exclaimed a voice at his -elbow. "You have got your gun all handy, too." - -"Yes, but where is yours, Zeke?" said the boy. "You haven't got -anything." - -"Yes, I have," said the man, pulling out his club from behind him. "If -ever this falls on a Tory's head it is my opinion that he will see -stars." - -By this time the sloop was squared around with her bow pointed toward -the sea and, contrary to the expectation of her company, she took a bone -in her teeth and settled down to an exhibition of speed that surprised -everybody. They were sure of one thing: The schooner must go faster than -they had ever seen her go before in order to escape. - -"But perhaps she won't depend on her speed," said Enoch, when somebody -made use of this remark close at his elbow. "Perhaps she will stay and -fight it out." - -"I hope she will," was the reply; and the man showed a pitchfork which -he had brought to assist in whipping the schooner's company. "If one of -them gets a prod with this he will know what hurt him." - -"Now I want all you men to gather here amidships where I can see you. I -have something to say to you." - -He spoke in a loud voice, and when Enoch turned to see who it was, he -found Wheaton standing near the main-mast with his hat off. None of the -men knew what there was pending, and one of them inquired, as he moved -over to Wheaton's side-- - -"What's up?" - -"I will tell you right away," said he. "Thus far in this business we -have got along without a leader. We have agreed to everything that -anybody had to propose, because we thought his proposition the best; but -now we are coming to a point where we need a single mind to direct us. -There is one man I have in mind who has done more to assist us in a -quiet way than anybody else, and if you don't care I will propose him -for our captain from this time on. I will nominate Mr. O'Brien. Those in -favor of it will manifest it by saying 'Aye!'" - -"Aye!" burst from a score of throats. - -There was no need of calling for the nays on this question. As soon as -Zeke heard the vote, he elbowed his way through the crowd and took off -his hat and made a very low bow to his newly appointed commander. Then -he laid his hand on the wheel, which O'Brien readily gave up to him. - - - - -CHAPTER XIV. - -THE CHASE. - - -When O'Brien gave up his wheel to Zeke he also took off his hat and -moved a step or two nearer to his men. Then followed an outcry from the -crew which anybody has heard who has been tempted to attend a political -meeting in America, to-wit-- - -"Speech, speech!" chorused all hands! - -"I have not much to say to you beyond this," said the captain. "We have -come out here to capture that schooner, and we are not going back with -that flag flying at her peak." - -"Hear, hear!" shouted Zeb Short. - -"We haven't got any guns, so we will run afoul of her and board her the -first good chance we get," continued the captain. "If any man tells you -that he surrenders--I never expect to hear any such cry from any man now -before me--let him go and help him up and treat him as you would like -to be treated if you were a prisoner. When we get aboard that boat, if -none of her company pull down her flag, Wheaton is the man to attend to -it. He proposed this thing, has suggested me for captain and he ought to -have the privilege of handling the flag. That ensign has floated the -'mistress of the sea' and I don't believe that any body of men has ever -pulled it down before. We will show them before we get through with them -that it can't stand up before a 'flock of Yankees.'" - -The cheers which greeted this little speech seemed to have raised the -sloop fairly out of the water. When she came down again she settled to -her work and went ahead faster than ever. By this time she had rounded -the point of land behind which the schooner had run for safety the day -before, but to the surprise of everybody her berth was empty. The -schooner during the night had pulled out and chosen another place of -refuge. It looked as though she had abandoned the sloops and left them -to watch out for themselves. - -"Well, Zeke, what do you think of this?" asked Captain O'Brien, seeking -advice of his steersman. That was not exactly the proper thing to do, -but this was a household matter, everybody in the village was bent on -capturing the schooner, every man in his crew knew as much about -handling a vessel as he knew himself, and he did not see why he -shouldn't go for help where he was most likely to get it. - -"They are afraid of us, Cap," replied Zeke. "There isn't any other place -that I know of where she can run for refuge, except it is that little -harbor about five miles up the bay. She may have gone in there." - -"Why, she could not get in," replied the captain. "She draws too much -water." - -"She can go in there if the tide is up, and she will have to come out -pretty soon or we will catch her, sure," said Zeke. "If I was you I -would go up and take a look at that place." - -The crew had by this time found out that the schooner's berth was empty, -and they all crowded around their captain to see what he thought about -it. Contrary to the custom in these days, the captain explained his -movements when he brought the sloop about and headed her up the bay, -and the men all agreed that that was the place to find her. - -Up to this time Enoch had found so much else to occupy his mind that he -had not thought to take notice of the crew, but he proceeded to do it -now; and the conclusion he came to was that the schooner was never in so -dangerous a position as she was at that moment. There were thirty of the -company, as we have said, and upon the face of every one Enoch saw an -expression of calmness, not unmixed with firmness, which showed that -they were fully alive to a sense of the peril they were about to -encounter. There were no signs of giving up. They had come out there -with a purpose in view, and that purpose must be accomplished before -they went back. Everybody expected, to quote from Caleb Young, that -there would be mourning in Machias when they got through, but every one -hoped that _he_ would get through. Remember that they had no discipline, -they knew nothing of that 'shoulder to shoulder' drill which caused men -to do their duty wherever they may be, but they simply went into it to -let those men, who had been engaged at Lexington, see that they were -not the only ones who believed in nipping British tyranny in the bud. - -"I believe we are going to capture that schooner," said Enoch, moving -aft till he could talk to the man at the wheel. - -"Oh, you do, do you?" said Zeke, letting go of the wheel with one hand -and pushing his hat on the back of his head. "Course we are. If you see -anybody in this crew who dares to say that we ain't a-going to capture -her, just take him by the scuff of the neck and drop him overboard. He -ain't got any business to travel in this party." - -When they had accomplished about two miles and a half of the distance -they had to sail, an electric spark seemed to shoot through all the -company when somebody descried the schooner coming out of that harbor -and drawing a bee-line for sea. Captain Moore had not neglected to take -particular pains to insure the safety of his vessel. The tops of her -masts were higher than the surrounding headlands, and the first thing he -did when he came to an anchor there, was to send a man up to the -mast-head to act as lookout. He saw the sloop when she was coming out -of the harbor of Machias, and forthwith informed the deck; whereupon an -officer ascended to his side, and with a glass distinctly made out the -company of hostile men on board of her, and he could even see the guns -and pitchforks with which they were armed. Captain Moore instantly saw -that he must not be caught in that narrow harbor, for if he was, his -capture was certain. He must slip his anchor and get to sea; and the -sloop's company saw her when she was two miles and a half away. A cheer -long and loud greeted her appearance, and Zeke, who had been crowding -the sloop all along so that a man standing in her lee rail could have -dipped up a cup of water at any time, strove, if possible, to crowd her -still more. The sloop responded nobly, and seemed to have reserved some -of her speed for just this occasion, for she went ahead faster than -ever. - -"I tell you, boy, it is coming now," said Zeke, and for fear that his -hat might bother him he took it off and pitched it overboard. "We will -soon see how much pluck they have got." - -To Enoch, had the contest been a friendly one, it would have been worth -going miles to see the race between those two vessels. It seemed -strange, too, for an armed boat to run away from a vessel that had -nothing bigger than a flint-lock aboard of her, but the thought of what -was in store for them should they succeed in coming up with the schooner -brought many an anxious face. But there was no sign of backing out. The -men having had their cheer out began stripping themselves, and in a -little while Enoch could see nothing but sailors with a pair of overalls -on. Everything else had been discarded, and the men lay along the rail -and waited for Zeke to lay her alongside. - -"I just wish we had another sail," said Captain O'Brien, closely -watching the distance between the two vessels. "I am afraid she is going -to get away from us, but I will follow her clear to England before I -will give her up." - -"No need of doing that," said Zeke, crowding the sloop until a wave came -in over the starboard bow. "She is gaining a little--a little, to be -sure, but you will be aboard of her in less than two hours." - -For an hour the schooner and sloop remained about the same, one trying -her best to escape, and the other striving by every means in her power -to lessen the distance between the two. Captain O'Brien kept a close -lookout with his glass, and finally uttered an exclamation indicative of -surprise and joy. - -"Captain Moore knows that the jig is nearly up," said he, passing his -glass to one of his men. "He is going to cut away his boats." - -Another cheer broke out from the men who heard this, but they kept watch -of the schooner, and very shortly saw, one of her boats fall into the -sea. Another and another followed it, until four boats, which were just -so much dead weight on the schooner, were following in her wake behind -her. Up to this time the sloop had gained half a mile, but before she -had gained a mile, Captain O'Brien, who had the glass again, told his -men something else. - -"They are going to shoot," said he. "All you men forward lie down." - -This was what the captain was afraid of. The schooner could bring one -gun to bear upon her, and if she kept up the shooting long enough, she -might hit the sloop's mast and that would end the chase in a hurry. But -the schooner did not shoot right away. She wanted to be sure that her -pursuer was in good range before she expended a shot upon her, and so -beyond training the gun the crew stood about awaiting the order from the -captain to fire. - -"He is going to make sure work of us when he does shoot," remarked Zeke, -as he looked up at the sails to see that they were kept full. "I wish he -would go a little bit faster--Hal--lo! That's in our favor." - -While Zeke was talking there came a sudden gust of wind, stronger than -any that had preceded it, and the schooner's main-topsail went by the -board. Of course that did away with two sails, the main gaff-topsail and -the main trysail, and her speed was lessened materially. The sloop began -to gain at once, and while a portion of the schooner's crew went aloft -to clear away the wreck, the rest gathered about the gun and seemed -disposed to risk a shot at the sloop. - -"Lie down forward!" said Captain O'Brien, sharply. "You don't obey -orders any better than a merchantman's crew. Some of you will have your -heads blown off directly." - -Some of the company obeyed and some did not; but the moment there was a -puff of smoke from the schooner's stern they laid themselves out flat on -deck. - -"It is no use telling us to lie down for such shooting as that," said -one of the crew, raising himself on his knees and looking aft to see -where the shell exploded. "I would stand in front of a barn door and let -them shoot at me all day." - -"They have not got the range yet," said Captain O'Brien. "And besides -they want to scare us." - -"There is some men in this party who don't scare," replied Zeke, trying -to crowd his vessel a little more. - -"I know that. I should be sorry to think that any of us would scare; but -they will get the range pretty soon, and you will see blood on this -deck." - -Shot after shot continued to pour upon the sloop from the stern gun of -the schooner, and every one exploded nearer her than the preceding one. -Finally a shot passed through her mainsail, leaving a big rent behind -it, and before the crew had fairly comprehended it, another came, -passed through the port rail and exploded just as it got on deck. What a -moment that was for Enoch! He lay right where he could see the effect of -the shell, and two of the men jumped to their feet, gasped for a moment -or two and then fell prostrate back again, and one other man set up a -shriek. - -"I have got it, boys, and we have not got a doctor aboard," said he, in -a voice that sounded as though there were tears behind it. "Now what am -I going to do?" - -"Hold your jaw for one thing," said another, sitting up and beginning to -pull up his overalls. "Do you think there is no body hurt but yourself? -Look at that." - -This man was much more to be pitied than the other one, for a piece of -shell had cut his calf entirely away; while the one that made so much -fuss about it had simply a crease on the top of his head. The second one -made all haste to get below, while the other accepted some pieces of the -shirt which Captain O'Brien speedily took off for him and coolly -proceeded to tie up his wound. - -"Say, Cap, I can stop that fellow shooting that gun," said one of the -crew. "I can take his head off easy enough." - -"Take it off then," said the captain. - -All became silent expectation as the sailor crept up to a convenient -place behind the bulwarks, rested his long flint-lock over it and drew a -bead on several men who were working about the gun on the schooner's -deck. One man was engaged in swabbing out the gun. He had run the swab -in, took it out and was rapping it on the edge of a bucket to get off -any particles of fire that might adhere to it, when the flint-lock -spoke. The man stood for an instant as if overcome with astonishment, -then dropped his swab, threw his arms over his head and sank out of -sight. - -"I did it, Cap, didn't I?" shouted the sailor, who, like all the rest, -was surprised at the accuracy of his discharge. - -Enoch was greatly excited at the outcome of this shot, so much so that -he got upon his feet. He told himself that if one flint-lock would -strike a man at that distance another might do it, too, and when the man -fell he ran forward and knelt beside the sailor who had performed such a -wonderful exploit. - - - - -CHAPTER XV. - -HAULING DOWN THE FLAG OF ENGLAND. - - -"Ah! you have come with an old flint-lock, have you?" said the -sharpshooter as Enoch knelt beside him. "Do you think you can hit one of -those Britishers working about that gun? Now look here: Sight your gun -right there," he continued, making a mark with his thumb nail across the -barrel. "Of course if they were in any reasonable distance that would -throw the ball away over their heads; but we don't want to kill them so -much as we want to scare them. Now try it at that." - -Enoch drew up his flint-lock and one to have seen him would have thought -that he meant to shoot at the cross-trees. Just then a Britisher ran -forward with a cartridge in his hand to insert in the gun, but Enoch was -waiting for him. The flint-lock roared, and the man stopped, dropped his -cartridge to the deck and hurried aft holding his right hand as if he -were very tender of it. The old sailor had made his sights just right. - -"That's the way to do it," he exclaimed, stopping in his progress of -driving a ball home long enough to pat Enoch on the head. "Throw the -balls about their ears. That will frighten them even if it does not hurt -them, and what we want is to keep them from firing that gun. Now let me -see if I will have as good luck as I did before." - -"That is to pay him for capturing Caleb," said Enoch. "I wish I knew -where he is now. I don't want to send my bullets into the hull for fear -that I will hit him." - -The sailor tried it again and with just as good fortune as he had the -previous time. Another Britisher caught up the cartridge and was going -to put it into the gun, but he also dropped it and lay on the deck where -he had stood. By this time all the sloop's men who had guns were -congregated in the bow, and before they had all fired one round the gun -was deserted. - -"I knew we would put a stop to that," said the man who had fired the -first shot. "Hold her to it, Zeke. We are gaining on her." - -But Captain Moore was not yet whipped. He had three guns on a broadside -which had not yet come into play, and all of a sudden his sails were let -out and the schooner veered around to bring them into action. Before he -had got fairly into position three flint-locks roared and two men -dropped, one dead and the other seriously wounded. But the captain took -up the position he wanted all the same, and the order to fire came -distinctly to Enoch's ears. He thought he had never heard such a roar -before as those little guns made when they were turned loose on the -sloop. He thought his time had come, and held his breath expecting every -instant to be his last. But the shells all flew wild. Not one of them -came near the sloop. The provincials straightened up and fired three -more bullets at the men who worked the guns, but the schooner was so -obscured by the smoke of her cannons that they could not see what havoc -they had made. - -During this maneuver on the part of the pursued, the sloop had gained -amazingly, and now they were within earshot of the Britishers. Thinking -to avoid the further effusion of blood by prolonging the fighting -Captain O'Brien called out-- - -"Do you surrender?" - -"No!" returned Captain Moore's voice. "We will surrender when the last -plank goes down." - -And Captain Moore showed that he was in earnest. Almost with the words -he lighted a hand-grenade which he carried in his arms, and threw it -toward O'Brien. It did not come half way to the sloop but it exploded -with stunning force and gave the provincials some idea of what was in -store for them. - -"Bring us alongside, Zeke," exclaimed Captain O'Brien, so impatient that -he could not stand still. "If you can not manage her let somebody else -go to the wheel." - -"Bussin' on it, captain, I am doing the best I can," replied Zeke, -working the wheel back and forth as if he hoped in that way to get some -more speed out of her. "She will be alongside in five minutes." - -But those five minutes were a long time to wait. The flint-locks were in -close range now, and every time one of them spoke some body on the -Britisher's side went down. It did not seem as though they had men -enough to stand such a fusilade. Captain O'Brien was standing there with -a rope in his hand, and when he had got it all coiled up he stepped over -and took his place among the men who had flint-locks in their hands. - -"Now, boys, protect me," said he. "Whenever our boat comes near enough I -am going to catch the schooner and lash them fast. Enoch, go back and -pick off the man at the wheel." - -The boy started at once and without making any reply. He kept along -close under the rail to be out of range of any one who was watching him -from the schooner's deck, and when he came within sight of Zeke he was -horrified to find him with his face all covered with blood. - -"Oh Zeke, they have hit you," exclaimed Enoch. - -"Don't I know that?" replied the wheelman, who stuck to his work as -though there was nothing the matter with him. "But as long as they do -not get me down I am going to stand up. Do you see that man alongside -the schooner's wheel? Well he is the one that shot me." - -Enoch took just one glance at the schooner and saw that the man referred -to had just loaded his pistol and was now engaged in priming it. He cast -frequent glances toward Zeke and grinned at him the while as if to tell -him that his second shot would go to the mark; but he did not take -notice of Enoch who, kneeling down behind the rail, brought his gun to -bear on him. It spoke almost immediately, and the man dropped his -pistol, turned part way around and sank down lifeless where he stood. - -"There!" exclaimed Zeke. "That was a good shot. Now see if you can get -that man at the wheel. That will leave her without any guiding hand, and -before she can bring another man to helm I may be able to come up with -her." - -"I was sent here for that purpose," said Enoch, rolling over on his back -and reaching for his powder-horn. "I am going to pick off every man they -send there." - -In a few minutes the gun was ready, after trying in vain to retain his -hold of the spokes, the steersman went down in a heap. Of course the -schooner came into the wind, and Zeke uttered a yell as she veered round -broadside to the sloop; and in a moment more there was a rush of men -from the deck and Enoch and Zeke were standing alone. - -"Boarders away!" shouted Captain O'Brien, as he made the two vessels -fast together. "Now, boys, show what you're are made of." - -Zeke released his hold of the wheel, and caught up his club which stood -beside him where he could get his hands upon it at a moment's warning; -he cleared the rails of the vessels without using his hands, and Enoch -lost sight of him in the fracas. Somehow, Enoch could not have told how -it happened, he was close at his heels when he reached the schooner's -deck, and between using his gun as a club to fell a man to the deck and -making use of it as a parry to ward off a blow that somebody aimed at -his head, he did not know anything more until he heard a voice exclaim -in piteous accents: - -"I surrender! I surrender!" - -"Who is that?" shouted Captain O'Brien. "Do you all surrender? If you -do, throw down your weapons." - -[Illustration: The Capture of the Schooner.] - -There was a sound of dropping hand-spikes and cutlasses, and in an -instant there was silence on the deck. The smoke of the hand-grenades -with which the boarders had been greeted floated away after a while, and -then the provincials were able to see what they had done and how great -was the number of men that they had to mourn. Enoch was astounded. It -did not seem possible for him to step in any direction without treading -upon the body of friend or foe. The two bodies of men opposed to each -other were about thirty on a side, and at least half that number were -lying on the deck dead, or wounded so badly that they could not get up. -He looked everywhere for Captain Moore, and finally found him with a -saber-cut in his side. His first action had proved his death. - -"Now the next thing is Caleb," said Enoch, starting toward the gangway -to go below. "I hope that nothing has happened to him." - -Enoch did not want to go on talking to himself in this way, for -something told him that he might find his friend Caleb cold in death. -He knew where the brig was and hurried down to it, and on the way he -found half a dozen men who were wounded and the doctor and his assistant -attending to their wants. It was a horrible sight, and Enoch turned away -his head that he might not see it. A few steps brought him to the brig, -and there was a hand stuck out to grasp his own. It was Caleb sure -enough, and no signs of a wound on him. He was as jolly and full of fun -as ever. - -"Enoch, old boy, I knew you would not rest easy until you had got me," -said Caleb. "Put it there." - -"Are you not hurt a bit?" asked Enoch. He almost dreaded to ask the -question for some how he seemed to think that no living boy could come -out of that fight without being desperately wounded. Enoch did not stop -to think of himself. He appeared to know that he was going to come out -all right. - -"Open the door and let me out," repeated Caleb, taking hold of the -grating in front of him and shaking it with all his strength. "I have -been in here long enough." - -"Who has got the key?" asked Enoch. "If I can't find the key I shall -have to chop the grating down." - -"Do you know the boatswain?" - -Enoch shook his head. - -"Well, he is the one that has the key, and you will have to find him in -order to get it. Say!" said Caleb, seizing his friend by the arm and -pulling him up close to him. "I ought to 'start' that fellow. He was -going to be awful mean to me if we had started for New York. Why don't -you go and get the key?" - -Enoch went but he did not know where he was going to find the boatswain. -At the head of the gangway he met a Britisher coming down with his arm -in a sling, and he asked him if he could show the man to him. - -"Yes, I can," said the sailor. "He has gone to Davy's locker sure. I'll -bet he won't start me any more. Come on and I will show him to you." - -Enoch followed him to the deck and there, where the British had gathered -to meet the boarders from the sloop and but a little way from his -captain, lay the boatswain with an ugly thrust from a cutlass near his -heart. By feeling of his pockets on the outside Enoch soon discovered -his bunch of keys, and he soon had possession of them. - -"You will not get a chance at that boatswain on this trip," said Enoch, -as he proceeded to open the door. "He has gone where he can't hurt you -nor anybody else by 'starting' him. He is killed." - -He opened the door and Caleb fairly jumped into his arms. After they had -embraced each other for a minute or two Caleb asked after his mother. - -"Of course she felt very bad to know that you had been taken prisoner, -but she did not cry," said Enoch. "I told her that when I came back -to-night I should fetch you with me, and I am going to keep my promise." - -"Let us go on deck and see how things look up there," said Caleb. "You -had a lively time taking this boat. I never heard such a roar as these -guns made." - -If Caleb, when he was down below, thought things were lively, what must -he have thought when he came out of the gangway and saw the number of -men that had been killed and wounded during the fight! Almost the first -man he saw was Captain Moore. - -"How many men did you have on each side?" he asked in astonishment. "Did -you shoot that old flint-lock of yours?" - -"I did, but I shot to maim, not to kill. I couldn't do it. No doubt they -would have used me worse than we will them, but you see they did not get -the chance. There's Wheaton pulling down the flag. Let us go up and hear -what he has to say." - -The flag was already down and Wheaton was folding it up tenderly to -carry it under his arm. Probably if it had been an American flag and the -victory had been the other way, there would not have been so much -attention shown it by the Britishers who pulled it down. Wheaton shook -Caleb by the hand, asked him how he had fared as a prisoner in the power -of the enemies of his country and said as he gathered up the flag-- - -"Captain O'Brien says that this is the first time this flag has ever -been hauled down by a foe to England. She has made everybody strike to -her, but _she_ has struck to nobody. It would not have been pulled down -now if she had treated us right. She will find before she gets through -with it that a little flock of Yankees, to which her troops came so near -to surrendering at Lexington, are as good as they make them. We have met -them, man for man, and whipped them all." - - - - -CHAPTER XVI. - -AFTER THE BATTLE. - - -"There, sir," said Captain O'Brien, drawing a long breath of relief and -patting with his hand the British flag which Wheaton carried under his -arm, "the Yankees have done the work. But there will be mourning when we -get back to Machias. Who would have thought that those Britishers would -have fought so desperately." - -"Captain, they had guns, you know, and we had nothing heavier than -flint-locks. Who would have thought that our men would have fought so -desperately to accomplish an object? I tell you that each man deserves -three hearty cheers to pay him for what he has done." - -The fight was over, but now the dead and wounded had to be taken care -of. After a short consultation with Wheaton and Zeke the captain decided -that all the wounded men should be taken on board the schooner where -there was a doctor and his assistant to take care of them, and all the -prisoners were to go on board the sloop. - -"You will have to stay aboard here with me and let the doctor look after -your wound, Zeke," said the captain. "It is bleeding fearfully." - -"Bussin' on it, I won't do it," said Zeke, earnestly. "As soon as I get -some water to wash this blood off I will be all right. I stood at the -helm of that sloop when she overhauled the schooner, and I am going to -stand at her wheel when she goes into the harbor. That's a word with a -bark on it." - -Zeke turned away to hunt up a bucket to aid him in washing out his -wound. Zeb Short was there with a club in his hand, and it was covered -with blood, too. He had been listening to the words that passed between -the captain and Zeke, and was evidently waiting for a chance to put in a -word for himself. - -"Were you hit?" asked Wheaton. - -"Nary time," said Zeb, and his words and actions showed that it would -take a better man than was to be found in the schooner's company to lay -him up with a wound. "I don't believe in fighting, and for saying them -words Zeke came pretty near punching me; but when you are in for it, -why, you have got to do the best you can. How many men will you want to -guard the sloop on the way in?" - -"Let all the men who have flint-locks go aboard of her," answered the -captain, "and let them stay around the wheel with Zeke. But first you -must put all the unwounded prisoners in irons. Do you know where to find -them?" - -Zeb knew and dove down the hatchway out of sight. When he came back he -had but six pairs of irons in his hand--"not enough to go all the way -round," as he said. The prisoners who were still in a group on the -forecastle, were ordered aft, and obediently held out their hands for -the irons. Enoch and Caleb were close by watching the operation, and -when the latter came to run his eye over the men he found that there was -one of whom he had promised himself that he would say a good word if -chance ever threw it in his way. It was the man who had given him the -only bite to eat while he was in the brig. - -"There is one fellow that must not be put in irons if I can help it," -said he, making his way toward the captain. "He belongs on our side of -the house and I know it." - -Captain O'Brien listened with an amused expression on his face while -Caleb told his story, and presently beckoned to the man to come over to -where he was. - -"What business have you got to serve under the British flag?" said -Captain O'Brien. - -"I haven't got any business at all, sir," said the sailor. "I shipped on -board of that schooner because I wanted something to do. I belong on the -Hudson River a little ways from New York." - -"You are sure your sympathies are not with her?" - -"No, sir. When I saw that flag come down it was all I could do to keep -from cheering." - -"Well, you don't want any irons on you. Stand up here beside me and you -will be safe." - -Caleb and Enoch were overjoyed to hear this decision on the part of -their captain. When the sailor drew up a little behind O'Brien the boys -tipped him a wink to let him know that he was among friends. Giving -Caleb that mouthful of food was the best thing he ever did. - -When the prisoners had been ironed they were ordered aboard the sloop -and into the captain's cabin, where it was known they would be safe. To -make assurance doubly sure Enoch was stationed at the head of the -companion-way with his flint-lock for company, and Caleb stayed with -him. The wounded were then transferred on board the schooner, and her -new crew, without waiting orders to that effect, seized buckets and -brooms and went to work to clear the deck of the battle-stains. Of -course Caleb was anxious to know what had passed in the village during -his absence, and his friend took this opportunity to enlighten him. - -"I knew in a minute as soon as I found that tin bucket of yours all -jammed in, that you had been captured and taken aboard the schooner," -said Enoch. "Zeke knew it too, for I went and got him as soon as I -missed you." - -"Did you know that I was going off to New York?" asked Caleb. - -"Well, we suspected as much, but we was not sure of it until James -Howard told me of it. I wonder if there is not some way by which we can -get even with that fellow." - -"We will keep an eye on him when we get back," said Caleb, who somehow -grew angry every time James' name was mentioned in his hearing. "If he -conducts himself as any other boy would, we can't do anything with him. -They will think right away that we are down on him and anxious to be -revenged; but if he goes to cutting up those shines of his, why, then, -it will put a different look on the case." - -"Are you all ready, Zeke?" shouted Captain O'Brien, as he cast off the -rope with which the vessels were lashed together. - -"All ready, Cap," replied Zeke, hurrying aft and placing his hand upon -the wheel. - -"Then fill away in my wake. Zeb, go to the wheel. I am going as straight -into Machias as I can go." - -"I won't be far behind you. Fill away as soon as you please." - -The two little vessels were pushed apart, the wind gradually filled -their sails and they got under way for the harbor. Things looked -different to Enoch from what they did when he came out. Six of his men, -whom he had shaken by the hand every day, were dead, and nine were so -badly hurt that he did not know whether or not he was ever going to see -them again. He always thought that war was terrible, but now he was sure -of it. But there was one thing about it: He had helped save his friend -and if he had got hurt himself he would not have said a word. Every once -in a while he let go of his gun with one hand and placed his arm around -Caleb's neck as if he never meant to let him go again. - -"Say, Caleb, you don't seem to have much to do but just to stay here and -keep Enoch company," said Wheaton, who had been appointed commander of -the sloop. "I wish you would take a small rope with you and go up and -see if there is a block in that topmast. I am going to hoist this flag -there, and then our friends on shore can see how we come out." - -"Where's the rope?" said Caleb. - -The rope was passed to him and Caleb made it fast to one of his arms. -Then he settled his hat firmly on his head, went to the ratlines and in -a few moments more was at the cross-trees. From this upward he had no -ropes to assist him in climbing--nothing but twelve feet of a slippery -topmast to which he had to cling in much the same manner that a boy -would in climbing a tree. But this was no bar to Caleb; he had been sent -on such expeditions before. - -"On deck, there!" he shouted, when he had got up and placed his hand on -the mast-head. "There is a block here but no rope." - -"All right," shouted Wheaton in return. "Reeve that rope through that -you have got with you and bring it down here." - -To untie the rope from his arm, pass it through the block, twist it -securely about his hand and go down to the deck with it was easily done. -Then Wheaton began to fasten the flag to it, and presently it began to -go aloft. - -"I wish there was a union on it so that we could hoist it union down," -said Wheaton. "But it is nothing but a union jack. Whichever way you -hoist it, it is right side up." - -"Some of the people have glasses ashore and they can soon see the flag, -and they will notice that it is not on board the schooner but on board -the sloop," said Enoch. "That will show them that the vessels have -changed hands since we have been inside." - -"But I cannot get over the sorrow that will be occasioned among some of -the people when they come to hear how many men it took to make that -change," said Wheaton, who acted very different from what he did when -they went out. "I knew the Britishers would fight, but somehow I did not -think they would fight so hard." - -"I knew they would," said Caleb. "If you had been on board that schooner -you would have fought till you dropped before you would have given up." - -A loud cheer coming from the schooner's company interrupted their -conversation, and the three turned to see what was the occasion of it. -They were just entering the harbor. Captain O'Brien had taken his stand -upon the windward rail so that he could have a fair view of the shore, -and was waving his hat to the people on the wharf. The boys had no idea -that there was so great a number of folks in Machias as they saw at that -moment. They stood there, eager to find out which side had whipped, but -they dared not make a demonstration for fear that they might be cheering -the wrong persons. Even the schooner's flag at the mast-head of the -sloop did not fully remove their suspicions. They had heard the firing, -the sloop was badly cut up by the shells that had been rained upon her, -and they thought they would let the vessels come a little nearer before -they said anything. - -"You need not tell me anything about it," said James Howard, who had -come down there to hear all about the schooner's victory. "That sloop -had no cannon, and how could she be supposed to go into a fight with an -armed vessel? It is a great wonder to me that she did not sink the sloop -when she was in pursuit of her." - -"She may have run away from the sloop," said Emerson Miller. "The -schooner did not want to fight, for she knows that war hasn't been -declared yet. You let Captain Moore alone for keeping out of trouble." - -"Say!" whispered James, as with a pale face he passed his glass over to -his companion. "Just look at that man standing up there on the windward -rail. If that was Captain Moore he would have his uniform on, would he -not?" - -Emerson took the glass, and as he looked the expectant expression went -out of his face and it became as pale as death itself. The man standing -up there was Captain O'Brien, and as he watched him he took off his hat -and waved it over his head. - -"James, we are whipped!" he whispered. "That man is not Captain Moore." - -"That is just what I was afraid of. Let us go home." - -Emerson did not need any urging, but when James left the wharf he kept -him close company. They had made but a few steps when a cheer came from -the schooner, and James, glancing toward the boat, saw that that man was -still standing there and swinging his hat violently around his head. Not -satisfied with this, a cheer arose from the sloop, and there was a man -standing on her windward rail who, at that distance, looked exactly -like Wheaton. - -"We are whipped," repeated Emerson. "Now who in the world can account -for that?" James did not say anything, for he was so nearly overwhelmed -that he could not get his wits together. He hardly knew when he opened -the gate and ascended the stairs to the porch. - -Meanwhile the little vessels came gaily on. The people now were -satisfied while heretofore they had been lost in doubt, and the cheers -that went up were long and loud. The vessels were handled by -sailormen,--Zeke took command of the sloop when she approached the -wharf--and they rounded to and came up with a force that would not have -broken an egg-shell. Parties on shore caught the lines for them, and -shortly the gang-planks were pushed out so that the people could come on -board. And such a rush as there was! Caleb and Enoch wanted to get -ashore to see their mothers, but for a time there was no chance for -them. Zeke came up in the meantime, smiling and good-natured as usual, -and the boys were about to tell him to go ahead and they would follow -in his wake, when they saw him reach out his arm and stop a man who was -just coming aboard. It was the storekeeper who had acted so mean about -giving Enoch his powder a few nights ago. - - - - -CHAPTER XVII. - -ZEKE'S EXHIBITION OF STRENGTH. - - -"Say, hold on, friend," said Zeke, reaching out his hand and laying a -grip on the storekeeper's collar. "We don't want any men like you aboard -here. That's the way ashore." - -"Who made you master of this vessel?" answered the man, thrusting Zeke's -arm aside. "The captain says the wounded men are on board this ship and -I want to see who they are. Just keep your hands to yourself." - -Zeke's whole appearance changed as if by magic. The good-natured smile -gave place to a frown, and the hand which the storekeeper had thrown -aside speedily caught its grip again, and this time it was there to -stay. With the other hand he caught the man below the waist-band, and a -moment afterward he gave a puff like a tired locomotive and the -storekeeper was swung clear of the deck. Lifting his victim until he -was at arm's length above his head he walked across the deck to the -other side, and sent him headlong into the water. It was an exhibition -of strength on Zeke's part that no one had ever seen before. He leaned -over the rail until the man's face appeared at the surface and then -shook his fist at him. - -"Now don't you wish you had gone back my way?" said he. "Swim around the -sloop and get somebody to help you out. You can't come aboard here." - -"There," said Enoch. "Ledyard is a Tory sure enough. Zeke knew it all -the time and took this way to wash some of his meanness out of him. I -will have to go to his store to get some more powder," he added, holding -up his horn so that he could see the inside of it. "I shot most of what -I had away at the Britishers who manned this schooner. Come on, Caleb. I -think we can get ashore now." - -The boys made another attempt this time and were successful. Every one -they saw on the wharf was a provincial and wanted to shake hands with -them. Of course, too, everybody wanted to know what sort of treatment -Caleb had met with at the hands of the Britishers, but the boys -answered in as few words as possible and as soon as they were out of the -crowd they broke into a run, headed for home. - -"Come in and let mother thank you for rescuing me," said Caleb, as they -stopped at his gate. "She can do it better than I can." - -"I did not have more to do with your rescue than a dozen other men who -were with me," replied Enoch. "Let me go home first and then I will come -back." - -Caleb reluctantly let his friend go, and Enoch kept on his way toward -home. He was thinking over the incidents that had happened during the -fight and which he wanted to tell for his mother's satisfaction, when he -came opposite the house in which James Howard lived. He kept on without -giving a thought to James except to wonder how he would feel to know -that the schooner, in which he had so much confidence, had been beaten -by an unarmed sloop, when he saw the boy at the gate waiting for him. -His face was very pale, but it gave place to a flush of anger when he -noticed the smile with which Enoch greeted him. He backed away from the -gate as our hero approached, and this showed that he did not mean to let -himself get within reach of a provincial's arm. - -"You think you are smart, don't you?" was the way in which he opened the -conversation. - -"Well--yes; almost anybody would think himself smart under the -circumstances," said Enoch. "We whipped them in a fair fight." - -"I do not believe it," returned James hotly. - -"I do not ask you to take my word for it, but the wharf is not but a -little way off, and you can go down and see for yourself," said Enoch. - -"We heard the firing, and we came to the conclusion that your sloop had -got sunk out of sight," said James. "But I see that the schooner brought -her back with her." - -Enoch made no reply. He wanted to see how much James knew about the -fight. - -"How many of the men were killed and wounded on your side?" continued -James, after a moment's pause. - -"About half." - -"I tell you the regulars fought, did they not? How many of them were hit -on their side?" - -"About half." - -"Do you mean to say that you killed as many of them as they did of you?" -asked James, who was plainly astonished to hear it. - -"That is what I mean to say. We boarded their vessel and pulled down her -flag----" - -"I tell you I don't believe any such stuff," shouted James, who was more -surprised the longer the story went on. "You will never get your hands -on that flag." - -"Go down and see. That is all you have got to do." - -"I will wager that Captain Moore laid some of you fellows out. Was that -he standing on the rail waving his hat to us?" - -"No, it could not have been Captain Moore. He is dead." - -"What!" James almost stammered. "Did one of you men dare to draw a -weapon on him?" - -"Yes, they did. He had weapons in his own hand----" - -"Of course he did. He was defending his vessel." - -"And we wanted to take it and we were stronger than he was." - -"If some of you don't get your necks stretched before long I shall miss -my guess," said James, walking up and down the path like a boy who had -been bereft of his senses. "You have committed piracy, every one of -you." - -"And you would be the first to grab a rope and haul us up, I suppose? -Look here, James, Caleb has got back now----" - -"Oh! Did you find him and turn him loose? Then he will not have to go to -New York to pay his fine?" - -"Not by a long shot. I found him locked in the brig and let him out." - -This news was more than James could stand. He pulled off his hat, dug -his fingers into his head and acted altogether like a boy who was almost -ready to go insane. - -"And if you are wise you and Emerson Miller will stay close about the -house," said Enoch, shifting his rifle to his other shoulder. "The first -time he catches you on the street he will have his pay for that. So you -want to watch out." - -Enoch walked on toward his home and James went into the house so -bewildered that he hardly knew which end he stood on. He found his -father in the dining-room, pacing up and down the floor with his hands -behind his back, but that terrible scowl that had come to his face when -he first heard that James had been whipped by a rebel, was not there. -His face was pale and his hands trembled. - -"Father," whispered James, as though he hardly knew how to communicate -to him the news he had just heard, "the dog is dead. Captain Moore has -been killed and the rebels have taken the schooner." - -His father fairly gasped for breath. He raised his hands above his head -as if to say that he did not want to hear any more, and then groped his -way to a lounge and sank down upon it. - -"I have just seen Enoch out there and he told me all about it," -continued James. "The firing that we heard did not hurt the sloop at -all. And the worst of it is, Caleb has been turned loose and now I have -got to stay about the house." - -"Oh Lord! Oh Lord!" groaned Mr. Howard. - -"Now have I got to stand that?" said James in a resolute tone. He was -always brave enough when he was in his own house and a perfect coward -when he got out of it. Perhaps his father could think of some other way -to get rid of Caleb and of Enoch, too. - -"Am I, a good, loyal friend of the King, and ready to go into a fight -for him this minute, to be shut up in the house just because I say that -those men, every one of them, had ought to have their necks stretched to -pay them for what they have done?" continued James. "There must be some -way in which we can get the start of those rebels." - -"I don't really see what you can do," said Mr. Howard. "The rebels are -stronger than we are, and I guess both of us will have to stay in the -house from this time on. Such a thing was never heard of before. -Thirteen little colonies getting up a rebellion in the face of the -King!" - -"But there must be some way out of it?" - -"Of course there is. Let the King send over an army to whip the rebels -into submission. But before that thing can happen they may work their -sweet will of us. I don't know any better way that we can do but to pack -up and go to New York." - -"And leave this beautiful place to the rebels?" exclaimed James. "I tell -you I should hate to do that." - -"I don't know what else we can do. We shall be among friends there, and -can say what we think without some paltry little rebel telling us that -we had better keep our mouths shut. But go away and leave me alone for a -while, James. The news you have brought to me almost drives me crazy. Do -you _know_ that Captain Moore has been killed?" - -"All I know about it is what Enoch told me. He said that the captain had -weapons in his hand, but that the attacking party was too strong for -him. He was the best man that ever lived, too, and I tell you it would -give me joy to have hold of one end of a rope while the other was fast -around the necks of those people." - -"Be careful that you don't say that where anybody can hear it," said his -father. "The rebels are in high feather now that they have got a -victory, and they would be right on hand for something desperate." - -Mr. Howard settled himself into a comfortable position on the lounge and -James, taking this as a hint that his presence was no longer desirable, -picked up his cap and walked out on the porch. - -"I wish I dared go down to the wharf," said he. "But if I do that Caleb -Young will be out, and there's no telling what he will do to me. I wish -somebody would come along and give me some news of that fight." - -But James waited a long time before he got it. Enoch and Caleb were at -home and holding their mothers spellbound with the various incidents -that transpired before their sight, while James walked up and down the -porch feeling as though he did not have a friend in the world. He looked -in vain for Emerson Miller, but that worthy, who probably knew or -suspected that Caleb Young had been found and released by this time, was -not at all anxious to be seen in James's company and wisely kept his -distance. - -"Well, mother, I have got back and there is not a mark on me," shouted -Enoch, as he burst open the kitchen door and sprang into the presence of -her who told him that she did not want him to get his gun into any bad -habits. "I shot away all my powder and lead, and I guess that some of -the Tories that I aimed at have something to remember me by. Why don't -you say that you are glad to see me?" - -"How about Caleb?" said his mother. "Is he all right?" - -"I did not ask him, but I don't think he heard a bullet while he was in -the brig." - -His mother had been knitting when he came in, and the Book lay in front -of her, open, on her knee. She put the Book and her knitting away and -got up, and folded Enoch to her breast. She made no remark, but the boy -was satisfied from the strength of her embrace that she was glad to -welcome him home. Enoch then sat down and told her everything connected -with the fight, not forgetting how Zeke had ducked the storekeeper in -the harbor. - -"I never saw such an exhibition of strength in my life," said he, with -enthusiasm. "He took the man this way"--here he got up and elevated his -arms straight above his head--"walked across the boat with him and -chucked him into the water. He would not let him come back aboard the -sloop either, but told him to swim around and get somebody to help him -out. I wish all the men we have were like Zeke." - -Of course there were many questions to be asked and answered on both -sides--Mrs. Crosby was anxious to learn how the different men with whom -she was acquainted had behaved during the fight, and Enoch was equally -desirous to know how the Tories they had left behind them conducted -themselves while they were at sea--and it was almost dark before they -had got through talking. - -"I was particularly anxious to know what the Tories would do when they -heard that firing," said Enoch. "I was afraid they would be excited and -do something that we would have to settle with them for." - -"Well, they did not," said Mrs. Crosby. "James and Emerson walked up and -down in front of our house when they heard the shooting going on, and -asked us to listen to it. 'Aha!' they said. 'The rebels are getting -their fill now. After Captain Moore sinks that sloop he will have all he -can do to pick up the dead and wounded ones.' It seems to me that they -must be utterly confounded by the victory of the sloop over an armed -vessel." - -"Not only that, but they utterly refused to believe it," said Enoch. - - - - -CHAPTER XVIII. - -WHAT TO DO WITH THE SCHOONER. - - -Enoch might have gone further and said that the Tories not only refused -to believe the evidence of their ears, but that they went to a greater -distance and declined to believe the evidence of their eyes when they -stood on the wharf and saw the dead and wounded taken off the two -vessels and laid carefully away, the former with sheets spread over -them. These were promptly taken care of by their friends, and in a short -time there was no one around the wharf except the provincials and a few -Tories who wanted to hear more about the fight. - -"They did not pull down their flag, did they?" said one who made this -inquiry of Zeke. - -"No, sir. We pulled it down for them. The only man who had the power to -strike it has just been carried away in that wagon," said Zeke. "There -is the man who pulled it down," he added, pointing to Wheaton. "We are -going to get a flag of our own to take its place when we haul the Cross -of England down." - -"Some of you will go up by the neck before that happens," said the man, -turning away and whispering the words to a Tory who stood at his side. -"And I will wager that Zeke will go up for one." - -"I just wish I knew something about history," continued Zeke, who, of -course, did not hear this whispered conversation on the part of the -Tories. "They say that that flag has never been hauled down by any -nation; but a 'flock of Yankees' was too much for them. Now, captain, -what are we going to do with these vessels? We don't want to leave them -alongside the wharf all night." - -Captain O'Brien had been thinking about this, and had already made up -his mind what to do. Of course the "rebels" had captured three -boats--the schooner and the two sloops that were engaged in taking -lumber on board for the New York market. He did not want to leave them -alongside the wharf for the simple reason that, if the Tories got up -courage enough, it would be easy work for them to come down there with -a party of men after it became dark, and recapture them. It would not be -so easy a matter if they were moored a little way from shore. Of course -Enoch and Caleb were there waiting to see what further work there was to -be done, and this time Caleb had his flint-lock on his shoulder. They -had remained at home until they had eaten a late dinner, and had then -come down to their prize to do whatever else there was to be done. Enoch -had kept a good lookout for James, but when he saw him coming he went -into the house. He did not want to hear another story of that victory. - -"Enoch," said the captain, after thinking a moment, "have you had -anything to eat?" - -"Yes, sir, and Caleb and I are out here for all night, if our services -are needed that long," replied Enoch. - -"All right. I will detail you two as guard to that schooner. You have -your flint-locks with you, and, Enoch, I know that you can shoot -tolerably straight," said the captain, patting the boy on the shoulder. -"Don't you let anybody, even if they are 'rebels,' come aboard that -boat. After the rest of us have had supper, I will appoint a commander -for her, and then you can take some of these small boats and tow her out -to her anchorage." - -The boys waited for Captain O'Brien to go on and tell them what else he -had to say, but he had evidently gotten through and turned on his heel; -whereupon the newly-appointed guards went on board the schooner and took -their place by the side of the gangplank which led up to it. They leaned -their guns against the rail, rested their elbows on the bulkhead before -them and proceeded to watch what was going on on the wharf as well as to -wait until some Tory took it into his head that he would like to come -aboard the boat. But no one came near them, and Caleb finally fell to -examining the bullet holes made by the rifles during the fight. While he -was walking about the vessel he happened to cast his eyes toward the -shore and saw two persons whom he had wished to see for a long time. -Enoch discovered them at the same moment, and when Caleb, after pushing -back his sleeves and settling his hat firmly on his head, was about to -step upon the gangplank, he found Enoch in his way. - -"What's to do here?" demanded Enoch. - -"Don't you see James Howard over there?" asked Caleb, in reply. "I have -a fine chance to punish him now. I will give him two black eyes, but -they will not make him suffer as I did while being shut up in that brig -waiting to be carried to New York. Stand out of the way here." - -"You have not been relieved yet," said Enoch. "You must get somebody to -take your place before you go ashore." - -"Well, I can easily do that. Oh, Captain!" he shouted to O'Brien, who -was but a little distance off. "I want to go ashore for just about two -minutes." - -"Go on," said the captain. "I don't know as I am hindering you." - -"Captain," said Enoch, pointing up the wharf toward the two persons who -were coming along, entirely ignorant of what was transpiring on board -the schooner. "He has not been relieved yet. I do not want to stay here -alone." - -The captain looked, and when he saw James coming toward the schooner he -knew why Enoch was standing in the way of Caleb. He knew that those two -boys must be kept apart or else there would be a fight; so he added -hastily: - -"That's so. You have not been relieved yet. You stay there until I can -send some one to take your place." - -"Yes; and that will never be," said Enoch, to himself. - -"Enoch, I didn't think this of you," said Caleb, leaving the gangplank -and settling back against the rail. "You are a friend of James Howard." - -"No, I am not, and nobody knows it better than you," said Enoch. "Why do -you not let him go until a proper time comes?" - -"A proper time!" repeated Caleb. "The proper time is whenever I can -catch him." - -"I don't believe you could catch him any way," said Enoch, pointing to -James and Emerson, who had stopped suddenly on discovering the boys, and -did not seem inclined to come any closer. "They are going back again." - -Once more Caleb rested his arms upon the rail and watched the two -Tories, who had stopped and were regarding them with eyes of -apprehension. They waited there for some minutes and not seeing any move -on Caleb's part they mustered up courage enough to come a little closer, -until they were talking with some of the provincials who were in the -fight. - -"Enoch, will you let me go ashore?" said Caleb. "I will never have a -chance like this to get even with him." - -"The captain has not sent anybody to relieve you yet," said Enoch. - -"Don't I know that? He isn't looking for anybody. There they come," he -added, when the two resumed their walk and came up to the shore end of -the gangplank. "Well, what do you think of it? We sent the bullets -around her pretty lively, did we not?" - -The two boys did not say anything. They had probably come down there to -use their eyes and not their tongues, and in that way escaped getting -into argument with Enoch and Caleb which they were sure would end in -something else. They looked all around the schooner and up at her sails, -and finally having seen enough turned to go away; but Caleb who was -watching them told them to wait a minute. - -"James, I want you to remember that you put me in trouble through that -tongue of yours, and that I shall bear it in mind," said he. "The only -thing that saves you now is my being on guard on board this vessel." - -James waited until he thought Caleb was through, and then hurried away -without making any reply, and they blessed their lucky stars that they -had got off so easily; but there was a threat contained under Caleb's -last words which rankled uneasily in James's mind. - -"I guess my father's way is the best," said the latter. "Will you come, -too?" - -"I hope so," replied Emerson. "It is a beautiful thing to give up to the -rebels, that place of ours, but it won't be forever. They will soon be -whipped and then we can come back." - -The boys waited a long time for the rest of their friends to get through -with their supper and come back to the wharf, and then they saw that -Captain O'Brien had something on his mind, for he was going first to one -man and then to another and having a talk with each. They were all in -favor of it, too, for each one shook the captain's hand and patted him -on the back as if they wanted to go at it right away. Zeke appeared at -last, and he was wild over what the captain said to him. He pulled off -his hat--he had been home and got another one by this time--and swung it -around his head, but he did not hurrah until he was red in the face as -he usually did. He seemed to take his enthusiasm out in the violence of -his motions. Then he put his hat on his head and walked briskly toward -the schooner. - -"Now, boys," said he as he came up the gangplank. - -"Say, Zeke, what was it that the captain had to say to you?" asked -Caleb. "It must have been something patriotic, for you swung your hat -and never hurrahed at all." - -"Enoch, you jump down there and cast off the bow and stern lines," said -Zeke, looking all around as if to see what else ought to be done. -"Caleb, you go round on the wharf and find a small boat that you think -will do to pull the boat out to her moorings. I will go to the wheel, -and when all that is done I will tell you what the captain said to me." - -Zeke never said a thing like this without meaning to be obeyed, and the -boys knew that it was useless to argue the point with him. The sooner -the work he had set for them to do was done, the sooner would they find -out the captain's secret; so without hesitation they placed their guns -where they would not be in anybody's way and went about their duties in -earnest. Enoch speedily cast off the lines, Zeke staying on board to -haul them in, Caleb made his appearance sculling a boat that was to pull -the little vessel out to her anchorage, and a line was passed down to -him. - -"Now, Enoch, tumble in there and pull for all you are worth," said Zeke. -"You see the schooner's buoy over there? Well, when you come up with it -make this line fast to it and come aboard." - -Of course these orders were quickly delivered, but it took longer to -carry them out. The schooner moved but slowly in the water. The boys had -to turn her around and pull her against the tide, which was coming in at -about five miles an hour; but after a long siege they got the line fast -and pulled back to the schooner pretty nearly exhausted. - -"That's all right," said Zeke. "The next time the captain wants such -work done he will have to send more men to do it." - -"Go on now, and tell us what the captain had to say," said Caleb, -backing up against the rail and using his hat as a fan. "It did not -amount to much, any way." - -"Didn't, hey? Then I guess you don't want to ship aboard this vessel." - -"What is she going to do?" asked Enoch. - -"We lucky fellows will be coming ashore every month or so, and when you -see us spending more money than you ever heard of----" - -"Where are you going to get it?" interrupted Caleb. - -"Prizes, my boy; prizes," replied Zeke, poking Caleb in the ribs with -his long finger. "We are not going to let the Cross of St. George float -out there alone, are we?" - -"No; but when we take the prizes what will we do with them?" - -"Sell them to the highest bidder. You see the captain was thinking -about this thing while he was eating his supper, and he came to the -conclusion that since we have a fine vessel with guns and small arms for -a crew of thirty men, we ought to use them. There are plenty of ships -going by that are loaded up with stores for the King, and what is there -to hinder our going out and capturing some of them?" - -"Whoop!" yelled Enoch. - -"That is what I thought, although I did not say it out quite so loud," -said Zeke, laughing all over. "We want to keep it as still as we can, -for there are a good many Tories around, and we want to keep them in -ignorance of it. Now you boys stay here and talk it over and I will go -ashore and bring off the rest of our guard." - -"Do you think your mother will let you go on this vessel?" said Caleb, -as he and Enoch leaned upon the rail and watched Zeke as he sculled the -boat ashore. - -"Let me go to fight against tyranny? Of course she will." - -"You will be a pirate if you do." - -"No more than I am now." - -"And if they catch you----" - -Here Caleb drew his head on one side and straightened his left arm above -his head as if he were pulling on a rope. - -"It is a good plan to catch your rabbit before you cook him," said -Enoch. - - - - -CHAPTER XIX. - -CONCLUSION. - - -Captain O'Brien and the rest of the leaders who took part in that fight -with the schooner, had plenty to do that night. Among other things they -were selecting the crew for their privateer, and they wanted to be sure -that they got none but the best men. Zeke was ashore for an hour or two -before he sent the cutter back, and then he did not come with it but -sent Zeb Short to scull the boat. There were nine men in the party, and -each one brought with him a large bundle which contained some changes of -linen and his bedclothes. - -"Where is the mate?" asked Enoch, as the men threw their bundles aboard -and then proceeded to climb aboard themselves. - -"The mate!" exclaimed Zeb Short, as if he did not catch the boy's -meaning. - -"Yes; Zeke told us to stay here until he came back." - -"Oh. Well, Zeke is ashore helping the captain; and he told me to inform -you boys that if you want to ship on board this vessel you had better go -home and get some duds, for we are going to sail with the turn of the -tide which takes place about four o'clock. Of course you boys are -going?" - -"You wager we are," said Caleb. - -"Take your guns with you," continued Zeb. "We shall not want them any -more. When we board the next Britisher you will have a cutlass or pike -in your hands." - -The boys clambered down into the boat with Zeb Short and were slowly -sculled toward the shore. It looked to them as if they were in for -fighting and nothing else. They did not stop to speak to the captain or -any of the other men standing around but went straight for home as fast -as they could go. There was one place where they were tempted to stop -and exchange a few words with the inmates, and that was at James -Howard's house. The boys were sitting on the porch and were talking -about what they had seen at the wharf. - -"There go a couple of those rebels now," said James, as Enoch and Caleb -hurried by. "I hope I will be here to see them hung up." - -"Enoch, I have the best notion to go back and whip him in his own -dooryard," said Caleb, stopping in the middle of the sidewalk. "If you -will keep the other off me, I can punish James in two whacks." - -"Come on, now, and don't mind them," said Enoch, taking Caleb by the -arm. "You may have some other fellows to fight some day, some that have -weapons in their hands, and you can take revenge upon James in that way. -Come along." - -Caleb reluctantly allowed himself to be led away, and presently he was -dropped at his own gate. Enoch broke into a run and entered the kitchen -where his mother was busy with her usual vocations. He seized a chair, -moved it up under the hooks on which his flint-lock belonged, placed it -there with his bullet-pouch and powder-horn, and Mrs. Crosby looked at -him with surprise. - -"What's to do, Enoch?" she said at length. - -"Mother, I want my bedclothes and a change of underwear to go out to -sea," said Enoch. "You see----" - -Here the boy began and told his story in as few words as possible, and -to his joy his mother did not say one word to oppose him. - -"There is one thing that does not look exactly right," he continued, -"and that is I don't know what I am going to get for my trouble. I do -not know that I am going to get a cent." - -"That is all in the future," said his mother. "Do your duty faithfully -and I will take care of myself." - -Enoch said no more, but somehow he could not help wishing that he had -some of his mother's pluck. When the things had been bundled up he -kissed his mother good-by and went out of the house, wondering if he was -ever going inside of it again. He found Caleb at his gate with his -bundle on his shoulder, and in half an hour from that time they were -safe on board the schooner. - -"If no one has spoken for this bunk I guess I will put my things in -here," said Enoch, looking around upon the men who were busy at work -making up their own beds. - -"There is a bunk for every man in the crew," said one. "Put your things -in there and say nothing to nobody." - -"All below, there!" shouted Zeke. "Come on deck, everybody." - -"We are going to choose our officers the first thing we do," said Zeb -Short, who proved that he was a good sailor by leaving his bunk half -made up and hurrying to obey the order. "My captain is O'Brien, every -time." - -The men hastened aft, and there stood O'Brien with his hat off. The crew -removed theirs out of respect, and the captain began a little speech to -them. He repeated at greater length what he had told them ashore--that -they now took their lives in their own hands and were about to go out to -sea to do battle with the flag they had that day hauled down, and that -if captured they could not expect but one thing, death at the yard-arm. -If any of the men had time to think the matter over and wanted to back -out-- - -"We don't," shouted Zeke, in a voice that must have been heard on shore. -"There is no one in this crew that thinks of backing out." - -"Zeke speaks for all of us," said Zeb Short. - -"Then we will proceed to elect officers," said Captain O'Brien. "You -are, most of you, sailors, and I need not tell you that it is necessary -that you select good men and those whose orders you are willing to -obey." - -It did not take over ten minutes for the crew to select the men who were -to command them. They had evidently made up their minds just whom they -wanted, and each one proposed was accepted by acclamation. O'Brien was -chosen captain; no one could do better than he did in the fight with the -schooner, and the men were sure that he could do equally well in a -contest with another vessel. Zeke was chosen first mate, Zeb Short -second, and Wheaton, who did not know the first thing about a ship, was -appointed captain's steward. - -"What will I have to do?" asked Wheaton; whereupon all the crew broke -out into a hearty laugh. - -"You will have to see that I get enough to eat," said the captain. "I -will wager that I do not go hungry while you are in office." - -"Well, if it is all the same to you, Captain, I won't take it," said -Wheaton. "Let me be a foremast hand. I shipped to fight----" - -"You will have all the fighting you want to do as steward," said Captain -O'Brien. "Everybody will be on deck then." - -After a little more argument Wheaton was induced to take the position, -and the election of officers went on. The last one that was chosen was -the man who had fed Enoch while he was a prisoner in the brig; Ezra -Norton was his name, and he was told to look out for the ammunition. He -had served on board the schooner and knew pretty nearly where to go to -find the charges for the guns. After that the crew were divided into -watches, and in obedience to Zeke's order: "All you starbo'lins below!" -went down to their bunks to sleep until twelve o'clock. - -Just at daylight the next morning--it was Enoch's watch on deck -now--there was great commotion on the schooner, for the lookout who was -sitting on the cross-trees shouted down two words that sent a thrill to -every heart. It did not create a hubbub or take the form of words, but -it set them to scanning the horizon and exchanging whisperings with one -another-- - -"Sail ho!" - -"Where away?" shouted Zeke, who happened to be the only officer on deck. - -"Straight ahead," was the answer. - -"Can you make her out?" - -"I can see nothing but her top-hamper, but I think she is a schooner -bound for New York." - -Presently the hail came down again--another ship four points off the lee -bow, and headed the same way that the other one was. The captain, on -being summoned, came on deck and mounted to the cross-trees with a glass -in his hand. He stayed there an hour, and when he came down again the -vessels were in sight. - -"I will wager my hat against yours that those are two of the boats that -we want," said he to Zeke. "We will soon make them show their colors -whatever they are." - -"Wheaton, have you your flag here?" asked Zeb Short, turning to the -steward who at that moment came on deck. - -"No, no; don't try that," said the captain, hastily. "We will approach -her without any flag. We will not attempt to make her think we are -friendly when we are not." - -The two vessels continued to approach each other, and finally the -stranger, thinking that the schooner had some business with her, ran up -the very flag they wanted to see--the flag of England. In answer to the -question, "What schooner is that?" she replied that she was the -Spitfire, bound from Halifax for New York with a cargo of supplies for -the British government. - -"Now, Zeke, it all depends upon you," said the captain, jumping down -from the rail on which he had stood while making his hail. "Crowd all -the men you can into a boat and go off and take possession of that -schooner. Send the officers to me and put the rest down below. Fill away -in my wake when I start for Watertown. But first I must capture that -other schooner." - -"I will send a boat aboard of you," said the captain, seeing that the -Spitfire was not decreasing her pace. - -To man the boat did not take very long on the part of the schooner's -crew, for every one knew just what he had to do. To seize cutlasses and -pistols from the rack, buckle them on and tumble over the side was but -the work of a minute, and in hardly more time than we have taken to -describe it, they had boarded the Spitfire and a man was sent to her -wheel. Zeke pulled down the flag and waved it over his head. - -Of course her officers were full of questions when they were brought -aboard the schooner, and could not understand the matter at all; but the -captain did not stop to enlighten them until the other vessel was -captured. He ordered them down into his cabin, and there they remained -while the schooner speeded on to make a prize of the other vessel which -was found to be the Storm King, bound to the same port and loaded with -supplies. When the officers were all on board his vessel and prisoners -in his cabin, the captain went down and explained matters to them. They -did not know anything of the battle at Lexington, and when they heard it -their surprise knew no bounds. They plainly saw that their cruise had -ended, and with that they were obliged to be satisfied until they were -turned over to the authorities at Watertown. - -Captain O'Brien's bravery did not pass unrewarded. His appearance in -Watertown with his prizes created a great commotion there, and he was -appointed captain in the marine of the colony and sent to sea to capture -some more vessels. His work in the Revolutionary War was just begun, and -those who went with him from Machias stayed by him to the end. Zeke -Lewis and Zeb Short were promoted to gunners, because it was necessary -that they should have better educated men for first and second officers; -at any rate they received thirteen dollars in their new position whereas -in their old, they received only eight. - -Enoch and Caleb were not forgotten. By strict attention to their duties -they received promotion one after the other, one to assistant sailmaker -at twelve dollars a month and the other to yeoman at nine dollars. They -were on every voyage with their beloved captain. When he received -command of a privateer and had the whole ocean in which to search for -his prizes, the boys went with him and did their best to establish his -name. - -James and Emerson did not long remain in Machias. Things became too -unpleasant for them, and one morning their houses were not open as -usual. Of course their neighbors wanted to see what was the matter, and -an investigation proved that the families had gone in the night-time to -seek another haven of refuge. They brought up in New York and stayed -there until the place was evacuated by the British. Then they went to -England, and it is to be hoped that they could talk their sentiments -there without being threatened with a beating by a Yankee. - -During the course of the long and bloody struggle that followed there -was much depression in the provincial ranks. Even the great heart of -Washington was bowed down by sorrow, and when "famine was stalking -through the camp" and his enemies were hard at work to have a "new and a -better man" appointed in his place, the leader never lost sight of the -"justice of her cause or the sincerity of his country." Read the -following incident related by a man who was there and saw it all. 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