Chapter 61

“When John Lanier left New York he sent word to me to go to Charleston and search for more of the Bonnet-Eden papers. The old Eden house already had been demolished; but I went to Raleigh; and in the archives I discovered among Eden’s papers, which apparently _never had been examined since deposited_,—for the seals were still _unbroken_,—a full memorandum in Blackbeard’s own hand, tracing the history of the _Red Moon_, galley, and every attempt to find it. “And that, Dirck, is what you are to tell John Lanier; and …