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he did not know that the traitor was of his own kith and kin , his own beloved niece . His next movement was to send an officer at full gallop to the Venganza , or rather to the landing place , commanding her captain to despatch boats to the American ship in the outer harbor , and search for the fugitives . Don Diego Pinto , the commander of the Venganza , who had obtained a spare fore-yard from the dock-yard , rigged and swayed it aloft the night that he came in , instantly concluded that the escape had been effected by the American captain , and that the Albatross had immediately sailed . Impressed with this idea , he weighed anchor forthwith , and , favored by a fresh breeze from the land , was convinced by eight o'clock that morning that his conjecture was right . How the governor bore the news of his niece 's elopement we have never been able precisely to discover , but have understood vaguely that he displayed infinitely more warm and tender feelings than he had heretofore had credit for . There was an ancient sage philosopher That had read Alexander Ross over , And swore the world , as he could prove , Was made of fighting and of love . Just so romances are , for what else Is in them all but love and battles ?