"We have not even asked you, Captain Ratlin, what trade you are in," says the rescued mother of the beautiful Miss Huntington, who sits alongside the young commander on the quarter-deck, beneath an awning rigged for their comfort.
"Ahem! madam!" hesitated the "Sea Witch"'s young captain, Will Ratlin. "We are -- that is, yes . . . we are on a trading voyage to the coast -- just at the present time!"
Captivated by the girl though the captain is, there is business afoot he hesitates to admit -- even as they are arriving at their destination . . . off the coast of Africa, here during the height of the slave trade!
