ith, that sittled the matther, the little
beggar turnin' as pale as a codfish and goin' below at onst, lookin'
very dejecthed an' crestfallin. He nivver s'id another word afther that
to me as long as he remained aboard, nor did Madame trouble me very much
more wid her attenshions. On the contrary, bedad, from the day this
happened till yestherday, whin she wor set ashore at the landing-stage
yonder, she'd look moighty saur at me if we chanced to mate on deck--
aye, faith, as saur as a babby that's been weaned on butthermilk."

"Why," inquired the skipper, when we had both a good laugh at Garry and
his account of the Boisson episode, "have they left, then, the ship for
good?"

"Faith, yis, sor, bag an' baggage, the blissid pair of 'em, an' moighty
pleased I wor to say the backs of 'em!"

"But how about the trial of those black devils, those pirates, then;
won't they be required as witnesses against the murderers?"

"No, sor," replied Garry. "The polis officers that came aboard whin we
got into dock sid they didn't want monsieur nor madame neither, as they
didn't know a ha'porth of the jambolle, worse luck, they bein' below all
the toime. The magistrates think the two French sailors, who're goin'
on foine by the same token, and the colonel, all of whom were on deck
an' saw everything that went on, would be sufficient witnisses aga'n the
Haytian scoundrels."

"Oh!" said the skipper, "have these men been brought up before the
magistrates?"

"Aye, yestherday afthernoon, sor, an' they've been raymanded, whativer
that may mane--it ought to have been rayprimanded, I'm thinkin', an' a
cat-o'-nine-tails, if they had their desarts--till next Tuesday! The
magisthrates belayvin' the ould _Star of the North_ wid you, cap'en, wid
the colonel aboard, to give ividence ag'st the mutineers, that they
wouldn't be in from New York afore then, not knowin' what the ould
barquey could do in the way of stayming as you an' I do, sor, an' that
she'd arrive, faith, to-day!"

All happened as Garry O'Neil informed us, the Haytians and mutineer
blacks of the _Saint Pierre's_ crew being brought up again before the
magistrates the week following our arrival home, when, after hearing the
additional evidence against them given by Colonel Vereker and the
skipper, the six black and mahogany-coloured rascals were committed for
trial at the next assizes, which we were told would not be held for
another month, on the charge of "piracy and murder