The Wing and Wing

Chapter 21

"His honor's linked

Unto his life; he that will seek the one

Must venture for the other, or lose both."

TATHAM.

It was now certain that le Feu-Follet was not in the Bay of Salerno. By

means of the lofty spars of the ship, and the aid of glasses, the whole

coast had been effectually surveyed, and no signs of such a craft were

visible. Even Lyon had given it up, had wore round, and was standing

along the land again, toward Campanella, a disappointed man. As Cuffe

expected the next wind from the westward, he continued on to the

northward, however, intending to go off Amalfi and question any

fisherman he might fall in with. Leaving the ship slowly pursuing her

course in that direction, then, we will turn our attention to the state

of the prisoners.

Ghita and her uncle had been pr