glowed like fire, a hellish, cruel beak struck at him. A faint,
low, ghastly cry trembled through the still air.

* * * * *

And the resistless tide came in. A man drove away the birds at last
before they had quite taken all, for the torn arms still hung in the
iron fetters; an old man, blind of one eye, the black patch torn off the
hideous hole that had replaced the socket. He capered with the
nimbleness of youth before the ghastly remains of humanity still
fastened to that rock. He shouted and screamed, and laughed and sang.
The sight had been too horrible even for him. He was mad, crazy; his
mind was gone. He had his revenge, and it had eaten him up.

The waters dashed, about his feet and seemed to awaken some new idea in
his disordered brain.

"What!" he cried, "the tide is in. Up anchor, lads! We must beat out to
sea. Captain, I'll follow you. Harry Morgan's way to lead--old Ben
Hornigold's to follow--ha, ha! ho, ho!"

He waded out into the water, slowly going deeper and deeper. A wave
swept him off his feet. A hideous laugh came floating back over the sea,
and then he struck out, and out, and out----

* * * * *

And so the judgment of God was visited upon Sir Henry Morgan and his men
at last, and as it was writ of old:

_With what measure they had meted out, it had been measured back to them
again!_

[Illustration]

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