He had been sure there would be no rebellion of the Maroons, and he was equally sure that his career would be ma

nd had destroyed, robbed and ravaged. He had summoned his commander of the militia forces, had created special constables, and armed them, and had sent a ship to the Bahamas to summon a small British fleet there. He had also mapped out a campaign against the Maroons, which had one grave demerit-it was planned on a basis of ordinary warfare and not with Jama

ing bitter criticism and blocking the movement rising against him. For it was well known he had rejected all warnings, ha

which divided the salon from an upper and lower gallery of communications, he received the Custos of Kingston. As the Custos told his news the governor's eyes were running along the line of busts of ancient and modern philosophers on the gilt brackets between the Doric pilasters. They were all in bronze

om Cuba and in the charge of ten men-ten men with sixty hounds. That is the situation a

laimed the govern

y Dyck Calhoun-surely

on of the hounds; but he could not press that prohibition now. "The mu

gone with Calhoun's m

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em-why

n; the ladies then were freed and taken back to Salem. Then the storm burst on Salem- burst, but did not overwhelm. Calhoun saved the situation there; and when his hounds arrive at Salem he w

ord struck and let go and the tooth struck and held on? It had been said in England that to hunt negroes with hounds was barbarous and cowardly; but criminals were hunted with bloodhounds in all civilized countries; and as for cowardice, the man who had sent for these hounds was as brave as any old

anding of the hounds

m Cuba. Presently Michael Clones, the servant of Dyck Calhoun, came also to say that the Vincent was the ship bringing Calhoun's hounds from Cuba, and

e then passed to approach your honour and ask that full powers be given to Calhoun to pursue the war without thought of military precedent or of Calhoun's position. He has no official place in the public life here, but he is powerful with the masses. It is rumoured you have an order to confine him to his plantation; but to apply it would bring revolution in

abused that power. He realized that Dyck's premonition of an outbreak and sending for the hounds was a stroke of genius. He recalled with anger Dyck's appearance, in spite of regulations, in trousers at the King's ball and his dancing with a

ed her father, however bad and mad her father was. Yet it gravelled his soul that Dyck should be doing service for the lady to whom he had offered his own hand and heart, and from whom he had had no word of

use the hounds in hunting down the Maroons and slaves who were committing awful crimes. He forthwith decided to w

and a determined look in his eyes. He was an arrogant man, but he was not insane, and he wished to succeed. It could only be s

d be in Dyck Calhoun's hands this evening. They should be there by now

write. A halfhour later he handed

s," he said. "Does it, in your min

he gifts of a leader, and he will do the job with no mistake, and in a time of crisis like this, that is essential. You have given him the right to order the militia to obey him, and nothing could be better. He will organize like a master. We haven't forgotten hi

will get us some day?" ask

. Then there's the Apostle's Battery with its huge shot, and the guns of Fort Royal would give them a cross-fire that would make them sick. Besides, we could stop them within the shoals and reefs and narrow channels before they got ne

doubt you are right, but go on with you

Rodney defeated De Grasse. Imagine a little sloop in the wash of the seas and the buccaneers piling down on him, and no chance of esc

ees with night-lips wet sucking in the sun and drinking up the light like an overseer at a Christmas breakfast; and you know what that is. And all the shore, rocky and sandy, rough and smooth, happy and homely, shimmering in the radiance. And hundreds of Creoles and coloured folk beating th

wagons, their ten drivers with their whips, but keeping order by the sound of their voices, low, soft, and peculiar, and then the horses starting int

ey get to Salem thei

a lot of dirty Maroons! Ah, Calhoun's a man with the luck of the devil, your honour! He has the pull-as sure as heaven's above he'll make success. If you command your staff to have this posted as a proclamation throughout the island, it will do as much good as a thousand soldiers.

fight for us, not against us, before this thing is over. I tell you, your honour, it means the way out-that's what it means. So, if you'll give me your order, keeping a co

presented to the governor the last report from the provost-m

y wounded!" said the gover

Calhoun, and a few moments later hande

your honour," said the aide-de-c