nd the Yankee and the
Canadian drank together to the success of the British ship, forgetting
their petty jealousies before a common foe.

Everywhere the news of the arrival of the British warship was hailed
with delight. All seemed to agree that her presence assured the speedy
extermination of the pirate crew. But after several days of futile
cruising about the coast, her commander, to escape from a coming storm,
had to put into St. Mary's Bay, with the object of his search still
eluding his vigilance. He only arrived in time to hear the last chapter
of the _Kanawha's_ tale of horrors.

The night before, Dominic Lefountain, a farmer living alone at
Meteighan, a little village on the French shore, had been awakened from
his sleep by the moaning and wailing of a human voice. For days the
imminent peril of an assault from the pirates had filled the people of
the French coast with forebodings. And now, awakened thus in the dead of
night, the lonely Frenchman was wellnigh paralyzed with terror. With his
flesh creeping, and his eyes wide, he groped for his rifle, and waited
in the darkness, while ever and anon came those unearthly cries from the
beach. Nearly an hour passed before he could gather himself together
sufficiently to investigate the cause of the alarm. At last, when the
piteous wailing had grown weak and intermittent, the instinct of
humanity mastered his fears, and he went forth to give a possible succor
to the one in need.

On the beach, lying prostrate, with the water lapping about his feet, he
found a man in the last stage of exhaustion. The blood was flowing from
his mouth, and as Dominic turned him over to stanch its flow, he found
that his tongue had been cut out, and hence the unearthly wailing which
had roused him from his sleep. The beach was deserted by this time, and
it was too dark to see far out into the bay.

Dominic carried the unfortunate man to his house, and nursed him there
for many weeks. He survived his frightful experiences, and lived on for
twenty years, a pathetic and helpless figure, supported by the
big-hearted farmers and fishermen of the French shore. Evidently he had
known too much for his enemies, and they had sealed his mouth forever.
He became known as the "Mysterious Man of Meteighan," and his deplorable
condition was always pointed to as a mute witness of the last villainy
of Mogul Mackenzie.

On the night following the episode of the "Mysterious Man of Meteighan,"
a wild a