Pirates of the Bahamas by Ronald Haines

Author:Ronald Haines
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: pirate adventure romance, pirates, pirate romance, historical adventure romance, pirate thriller, colonial america romance, caribbean and west indies history
Publisher: Haines Communications
Published: 2022-05-01T00:00:00+00:00

10. The Secret

The next morning Anne and her daughter took a much needed walk together on the beach. Mary had been too flustered the night before for any meaningful conversation, but now calm, she pressed her mother to tell her story. “How did you, a respectable lady, manage to turn pirate in the first place?” Mary asked.

“I grew up on our family plantation; a childhood very similar to yours,” Anne began, “Except that my mother died when I was young, and my father raised me much like a boy, which I suppose helped develop a sense of adventure in me. When I was in my twenties, my childhood friend, his name was Jim Bonny, sold his family farm that he had just inherited in order to buy a boat. He wanted to go adventuring in the Bahamas and was planning to sail to Nassau as soon as possible. It sounded so exciting, and I begged him to take me along. Since we had always joked around about how we would marry one day we didn’t think it too out of line to ask my father for his permission. Well, not only was your grandfather adamantly against it, but he practically threw poor Jim out of the house. I was so angry that I ran away. That night, Jim and I eloped and we left for The Bahamas on his boat together.

Our troubles began as soon as we arrived in Nassau and found out that the new governor there had granted amnesty to the pirates, and with British warships in the harbor there would be no adventuring for anyone. Jim started running cargo to the other islands, but there was very little money in it, and there was a lot of competition, so I ended up having to get a job serving drinks to make ends meet. It was about that time that I came to realize that I had loved the call of adventure more than I loved Jim, but I was stuck with him there in Nassau.

About a month later I met Mary. She was a pirate who had accepted the amnesty offer, but she’d ran out of money and ended up serving drinks at the same establishment that I was in. She told me all sorts of stories about her colorful past and introduced me to her lover, the infamous pirate Calico Jack Rackham, who had also accepted amnesty and was living large in the city. I’ve got to tell you, as soon as I laid eyes on him, it was love at first sight for me.

Mary told me how Rackham was having a hard time settling down to civilized life. He was frequently running afoul of the authorities for some reason or another, and that he and some of the other disgruntled pirates, basically those who had spent all of their money, were planning to return to life on the high seas one day. She said that when they did that, she was going to go with him, and she then asked me if I’d like to join them.

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