As Elwood and his beautiful companion were on the point of retiring from deck, their attention was suddenly arrested by a light, crashing sound, high up the tall side of the frigate. They looked, and caught sight of broken pieces of board or panelling flying out, as if beat or kicked from what appeared to have been a closed port-hole. Presently the body of a man, whom they at once recognized, was protruded through the ample aperture he had evidently thus effected, till he brought himself to a balance on the outer edge. Then came the sharp cry from some one of the frigate’s officers: “Look out, there, for the pirate prisoner!” There was at once a lively stir on board, but too late. The next moment the heavily-manacled object of the alarm descended, like a swiftly-falling weight, to the water; and, with a dull plunge, the recoiling waves rolled back, forever closing over the _traitor_, the _robber_, the _murderer_, and the _pirate_, GAUT GURLEY! COLUMBIAN LIBRARY. [Illustration] NEW SERIES OF CHOICE AMERICAN LITERATURE. No. 1. A TRAGEDY OF THE MOUNTAINS. A. F. Hill. 390 pages. ” 2. AMOURS OF AARON BURR. Burdette. 438 pages. ” 3. TWO WHITE SLAVES. Peacocke. 366 pages. ” 4. DEATH-DEALING GOLD. Arthur. 352 pages. ” 5. A PEEP AT NEW YORK SOCIETY. By One of the Victims. ” 6. A FREEMAN IN BONDAGE. Northup. 336 pages. ” 7. MY MOTHER-IN-LAW. By Her Son-in-Law. ” 8. AN AMERICAN DON JUAN. By E. P. B. ” 9. IN THE ADIRONDACKS. Hammond. 340 pages. ” 10. THE DEMON TRAPPER OF UMBAGOG. Thompson. 360 pages. IN PRESS. [Illustration] AN AMERICAN HEROINE. Talmon. THE MANIAC BRIDE. Arthur. THE MYSTERY OF WOMAN. Arthur. CONFESSIONS OF A MORMON BRIDE. Ward. MARRIED, BUT UNLOVED. Arthur. PARADISE OF WIT AND HUMOR. By a “Drummer.” ASK FOR THE COLUMBIAN LIBRARY. Transcriber’s Notes This book had a very large number of obvious printer’s errors, which have been silently corrected. Page 165: “as I from to time” changed to “as I from time to time” and “I will down” changed to “I will be down” Page 184: “put in under my foot” changed to “put it under my foot” Page 201: The missing letter in “the eeling month;” was filled in via consultation with another version and has been changed to “the peeling month” Page 321: The word before logs in this section, “tangled trees, ()-logs,” was unclear in the original text but was verified in another edition to be mill-logs.