XXXVI A STOP OVER NIGHT 280 XXXVII THE SECOND DAY 287 XXXVIII THE THIRD DAY 296 XXXIX THE FOURTH DAY 305 XL FIAT JUSTITIA 319 XLI THE BOAT ADRIFT 327 XLII THE NEXT DAY 336 XLIII THE RETURN 346 XLIV RISING FORTUNES 353 XLV PREPARATION 362 XLVI THE FIGHT 373 XLVII IN THE NEW LIFE 385 XLVIII JACK MEETS SOME OLD FRIENDS 391 XLIX THE DEPARTURE 404 L THE RETURN 412 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS “‘SPEAK UP, BOY, SPEAK UP,’ SAID THE GENTLEMAN” Frontispiece FACING PAGE “‘HE’LL COME TO BY AND BY; HE’S ONLY STUNNED A TRIFLE,’ SAID THE CAPTAIN” 42 “‘NOW, THEN, GENTLEMEN, HOW MUCH DO YOU BID FOR THIS BOY?’ SAID THE AUCTIONEER” 82 “MR. PARKER STOOD LOOKING STEADILY AT HIS VISITOR” 122 “‘I DON’T WANT TO BE ANYBODY’S SERVANT, LADY, AND WOULDN’T IF I COULD HELP IT’” 132 “HE PICKED UP THE BIRD AND HELD IT OUT AT ARM’S LENGTH” 152 “HE LED JACK UP TO THE MAN WHO SAT UPON A BARREL” 174 “JACK FOLLOWED THE CAPTAIN AND THE YOUNG LADY UP THE CROOKED PATH TO THE HOUSE” 200 “THEY FOUND HER STILL SITTING IN THE SAME PLACE” 234 JACK AND DRED RESCUE ELEANOR—THE START 272 THE PIRATES FIRE UPON THE FUGITIVES 316 “COLONEL PARKER REACHED AND LAID HIS HAND UPON JACK’S SHOULDER. ‘AY,’ SAID HE, ‘’TIS A GOOD, HONEST FACE’” 348 “THE COMBATANTS CUT AND SLASHED WITH SAVAGE FURY” 384 “‘THEN I WILL COME,’ SAID HE” 408 JACK BALLISTER’S FORTUNES JACK BALLISTER’S FORTUNES INTRODUCTION ONE of the most important problems that confronted the Virginia plantations in the earlier colonial days was the question as to how to obtain sufficient labor to till the soil and to raise tobacco for the English market.