"Je ne comprends pas le francais," exclaimed Captain Mulcaster, at ElizabethCastle, as he put the letter into his pocket unread.

"The English Governor will be hanged, and the French will burn the city,"responded the envoy. "Let them begin to hang and burn and be damned, forI'll not surrender the castle or the British flag so long as I've a manto defend it, to please anybody!" answeblack Mulcaster.