Evening Star Newspaper, October 15, 1924, Page 23

APTAIN BLOOD THE GREATEST LOVE STORY CHAPTER L The Messenger. Peter Blood, bachelor of medicine and several other things besides, smoked a pipe and tended the geran- iums boxed on the sill of his window above Water lame In the town of Bridgewater. Sternly disapproving eyes consid- ered him from a window opposite, but went disregarded. Mr. Blood's atten- tion was divided between his task and the stream of humanity in the narro® street below; a stream ‘which poured for the second time that d toward Castle IField, where earlie in the afternoon Fergu the duke chaplain, had preached a sermon con- taining more treason than divin These straggling, excited grouns were mainly composed of men with sreen boughs in their hats and the most ludicrous of weapons in_their bands. Some, it is true, shoulde fowling pieces, and here and there sword was brandished: but more of them were armed with clubs, and most of them trailed the mammoth pikes fashioned out of scythes, as formidable to the eve as they were umsy to the hand. These we weavers, brewers, carpenters th masons, bricklayers, cobblers and representatives of every other of the trades of pe: mong these provised men of war. Bridsewate: like Taunton, had yielded so zener- ously of its manhood to the service of the bastard duke that for any to abstain whose age and strengtn ad- mitted of his bearing arms was to brand himself a coward or a papis Yet Peter Blood, who was not only able to bear arms, but trainel and skilled in their use, who was certain- 1y no coward, and a papist only when it so suited him, tended his geran- tums and smoked his pipe on that warm July evening as indifferently as if nothing was afoot. One other thing he did. He flung atter those war-fevered enthugiasts a line of | Horace—a poet for whose work 1 had early conceived an inordinate af- fection: m Quo, aquo, scelesti, And now perhaps you guess why the hot, intrepid bl inherited from the roving sires of his Somersetshire | mother remained cool amidst all this | frenzied fanafical heat of rebelli why the turbulent spirit whicn had| forced him once from the sedats| academical bonds his father would have imposed upon him, should now remain quiet in the very midst of turbulence. You realize how he re- garded these men who were Tallying to the banners of liberty—the banners woven by the virgins of Taunton, girls from the seminaries of Mis Blake and Mrs. Musgrove, who—as the ballad runs—had ripped open their silk petticoats to make colors for| King Monmouth's army. That Latin line, contemptuously flung after th as they clattered down the cobbled street, reveals his mind. To him they were fools rushing in wicksd freazy upon their ruin. You see, he knew too much about this fellow Monmouth and the pretty brown slut who had borme nim, to be deceived by the legend of legitimacy, on the strength of which this stand- ard of rebellion had been raised. He had read the absurd _proclamation posted at the Cross at Bridsewater— as it had been posted also at.Taunton and elsewhere—setting forth that “upon the decease of our Sovereign Lord Charles the Second, the right of succession to the Crown of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, with the dominions and territories there- unto belonging, did legally descend and devolve upon the most illustrious and high-born Prince James, Duke of Monmouth, son and heir appirent to the sald King Charles the Second.” It had moved him to laughter, as had_the further announcement that —_— W.H GOTTLIEB H. E. HUNTSBERRY Prevident Vice-President ANY home-owners are having us put their heating systems in good order—N-0-W. Hot~water, Steam, Va- por and Oil-O-Matic Heating Systems. 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For Mr. Blood had spent a third of his life in the Netherlands, where this same James Scott—who now pro- claimed himself James the Second, by the grace of God, King, et cetera— first saw the light some 6-and-30 vears ago, and he was acquainted with the story current there of the fellow's real paternity. Far from be- ing legitimate—by virtue of a pre- tended secret marriage between Charles Stuart and Lucy Walter—it was possible that this Monmouth who now proclaimed himself King of land was not even the illegitim; child of the late sovereign. What but ruin and disaster could bo the end of this grotesque pretension? How could it be hoped that England would ever swallow such a Perkin? And it was on his behalf, to uphold his fan- tastic claim, that these West Country ods, led by a few armigerous Whigs, Lad been seduced into rebellion! Quo, quo, scelesti, ruitis? He laughed and sighed in one; but the laugh dominated the sigh, for Mr. Blood was unsympathetic, as are most self-sufficient men; and he was ver self-sufficie adversity had taught him so to be. A more tender-hearted man, possessing his vision and his knowledge, might have found cause for tears in the contemplation of these ardent, simple, Nonconformist sheep going forth to the shambles— orted to the rallying ground on tle Fiews by wives and daughters, sweethearts and mothers, sustained by the delusion that they were to take the field in def. of Right, of Liberty and of Religion. For he knew. as all Bridgewater knew and had known now for some hours, that it was Monmouth's intention to de- liver battle that same night. The duke was to lead a surprise attack upon the royalist army under Fever- sham that was now encamped on Sedgem Mr. Blood assumed that am would be equally well informed, and if in this assump- tion he was wrong, at least he was justified of it. 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As he did so, his glance traveling straight across the street met at last the glance of those hos- tile eyes that ched him. There were two pairs, and they belonged to the Misses Pitt, two amiable, senti- mental maiden ladies who yielded to none in Bridgewater in their worship of the handsome Monmouth. Mr. Blood smiled and inclined his head, for he was on friendly terms with' these ladies, one of whom, in- deed, had been for a little while hi patient. But there was no response to his greeting. Instead, the eyes gave him back a stare of could dis- dain. The smile on his thin lips grew a little broader, a little less pleasant: He understood the reason of that hos- tility, ch had been daily growing in this past week since Monmouth had come to turn the brains of wom- en of 1 ages. The Misses Pitt, he apprehended, contemned him that he, a young and vigorous man, of a mili- tary training which might. now be {valuable to the cause, should stand aloof; that he should placidly smoke his pipe and tend his geraniums on | this " evening of all evenings, when | men of spirit were rallying to the ! Protestant champion, offering their blood to place him on the throne | where he belonged. | "1f Mr. Blood had condescended to debate the matter with these ladies, |he might have urged that having had | his fill of wandering and adventuring, he was now embarked upon the ca- reer for which he had been originally | intended and for which his studies had equipped him; that he was a man of medicine and not of war; a healer, not slayer. But they would e answered him, he knew, that in uulh“ a cause it behooved every man who deemed himself a man to take up| They would have pointed out that | own nephew Jeremiah, who was | ilor, the master of a ship an ill chance for voung man had come to anchor his season in Bridgewater Bay—! quitted the helm to snatch up a mus- ket in defense of right. But Mr. Bl———]o|———|o]c———0| | bilipsbom ELEVENTH ST. iffon Silk Hose 145‘ 1.65 iced Sheer Choice of Feet or or Garter Hem d for much more and the color the latest. N = [a]——|a|——=[na|——=[a|——F|al—=[n[c——=la|l——[a|c—f[n[c——2[s| —Z[a| ———|x] N Is will be enthusiastic over this smart pattern when you see it on the foot. jo|———[o|l———=]o[——— 0] - that | l Blood was not of those who argue. As I have sald, he was a self-suf- ficient man. He closed the window, drew the curtains and turned to the pleasant, candle-lighted room, and the table on which Mrs, Barlow, his house- keeper, was in the very act of spreading supper. To her, however, Le spoke aloud his thought. “It's out of favor I am with the vinegary virgins over the way.” He had a pleasant, vibrant voice. whose metallic ring was softened and muted by the Irish accent which in all his wanderings he had never lost. It was a voice that could woo se- ductively and caressingly, or com- mand in such a way as to compe! obedience. Indeed, the man's whole nature was in that voice of his. For the rest of him, he was tall and spare, swarthy of tint as a gypsy, with eyes that were startlingly blus in that dark face and under those level black brows. In their glance those eyes, flanking a high-bridgec. intrepid nose, were of singular pene- tration and of a steady haughtiness that went well with his firm lips. Though dressed in black, as became his’calling, yet it was with an ele- gance derived from the love of clothes that is peculiar to the adven- turer he had been, rather than to the staid medicus he now was. His coat was of fine camlet, and it was laced with silver; there were ruflles of Mechlin at his wrists and a Mech- lin cravat incased his throat. His creat black periwig was as sedulous- curled as any at Whitehall. Seeing him thus, and percelving his real nature, which was plain upon him, you might have been tempted to speculate how long such a man would be content to lie by in this little backwater of the world into which chance had swept him some six months ago; how long he would continue to pursue the trade for which he had gualified himself before he had begun Yo live. Difficult of be- lief though it may be when you know his history, previous and subsequent. vet it is possible that but for the trick that Fate was about to play him he migh have continued th peaceful existence, settling down completely to the life of a doctor in this Somersetshire haven. It is pos- sible, but not probable. He was the son of an Irish medi- cus by a Somersetshire lady in whose veins ran the rover blood of the Frobishers, which may account for a certain wildness that had early manifested itself in his disposition This wildness had profoundly alarmed his father, who for an Irishman was of a singularly peace-loving naturs He had early resolved that the bo should follow his own honorali The House of Courtesy The Materials are indica- tive of their excellence— Velvourette Suede Down Mokine Velorea profession, and Peter Blood, being quick to learn and oddly greedy of knowledge, had satisfied his parent by receiving at the age of 20 the degree of baccalaureus medicinae at Trinity College, Dublin. His father survived that satisfaction by three months only. His mother had then been dead some years already. Thus Feter Blood came into an inheritance of some few hundred pounds, with which he had set out to see the world and give for a season a free rein to that restless spirit by which he was imbued. A set of curious chances led him to take service with the Dutch, then at war with France; and a predilection for the sea made him elect that this service should be upon that element. He had the advantage of a commission under the famous de Ruyter, and fought in the Mediterranean engagement in which Beware the \ * Cough or Cold | ‘ That Hangs On | : Chronic coughs and persistent colds lead to serious lung trouble. | You can stop them now with Creo- | mulsion, an emulsified creosote | that is pleasant to take. 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Having reached, at last, the age of 32, his appetite for adventure surfeited, his health ing grown Fall and Made to Your Measure grown worse during the voyage, decided to go ashore there, ally urged to it by the fa was his mother's native soll. he indifferent as the result of a neglect- ed wound, he was suddenly over- whelmed by homesickness. He took ship from Nantes with intent to cross to Ireland. But the vessel being driv- en by stress of weather into Bridge- water Bay, and Blood's health having he ddition- t that it Thus in January of that year 1685 had come to Bridgewater, poses- Regular sor of a fortune that was approxi- mately the same as that with which he had originally set out from Dub- lin 11 years ago. 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