This damage, slight as it was, sufficed to effectually rouse Captain Pigot's hasty, irritable temper; and, hurrying the men down from aloft, he ordered the larboard broadside to be manned, and the guns to be directed upon the audacious battery. A couple of well-directed broadsides sufficed to silence its fire, and the boats were then immediately piped away.
But that was not the last of it -- not by half. The rover had a secret - a terrible, terrible secret.
Author Biography
William Joseph Cosens Lancaster AKA Harry Collingwwod (1851-1922) was a British civil engineer who specialized in seas and harbors. An author of nautical and piratical fiction. Wrote under the pseudonym Harry Collingwood.
