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cutter. We knew he'd stop to pick 'em up, and so give us the weathergauge of him. That may do very well for the murder, I now rejoined, but what about the desertion? Nary-a-bit of it, your honor, again replied Bowse; we only meant to have another bit of a frolic, and come back all in good time, before the ship sailed. Just so, added Bower; the fact is, your honor, we were hardly responsible for what we did that night; for we had a small drop aboard, and then the moon was so bright, and Moll Riggs she had sent us such a kind message! The moonlight and Moll clinched the argument, and turning to the master-at-arms, with an ill-suppressed smile, I directed him to turn the prisoners loose. I had scarcely gotten through with this jail-delivery, before the cry of sail ho! rang out upon the clear morning air, from the mast-head. There was no necessity to alter our course, for the sail was nearly ahead. In an hour more, a very pretty, newly-painted bark, with her sails flapping idly