Why does a mysteriously veiled woman give a seafaring Quaker charge over a trinket?

How will keeping this bobble safe keep her out of peril?

Howard Pyle, today on the Classic Tales podcast.

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And now, the Ruby of Kishmore by Howard Pyle.

Prologue.

A very famous pirate of his day was Captain Robertson Kit. Before embarking upon his

later career of infamy, he was in the beginning, very well known as a reputable merchant in the

island of Jamaica. Thence entering first of all upon the business of the African trade,

he presently, by regular degrees, became a pirate,

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