Evening Star Newspaper, October 22, 1924, Page 24

CAPTAIN BLOOD By RAFAEL SABATINI The Greatest Love Story Ever Told (Continued from Yesterday's § Peter Blood alone, excessive sufferings, remained out- wardly unchanged, whilst inwardly the only change in him was a daily deeper hatred of his kind, a daily deeper longing to escape from this place where man defiled so foully the lovely work of his Creator. It was a longing too vague to amount to a hope. Hope here was inadmissible. And yet he did not yield to despair. He sat a mask of laughter on his saturnine countenance and went way, treat- ing the sick to the profit of Colouel Bishop, and encroaching further and further upon the preserves of the (wo other men of medicine in Bridgetown. Immune from the degrading pun- fshments and privations of his fel- low-convicts, he was enabled to ke his self- ct, und was treated without harshness even by the soul- less planter to whom he had been sold. He owed it all to gout and megrims. He had won the csteem of Governor Steed, and—what is even more important—of « nor s lady, whom he shai «ly and ¢ fcally flattered and humored. Occasionally he saw Miss Bishop, and they seldom mct but that she paused to hold him in conversation for some mon cincing her in- terest in him s never disposed to linger. as not, he told himself, to be eived by her deMcate exterior, her her easy, boyish way boyish voice. In all his life—and it had been very varied—he had never met a man wh wccounted more beastly than h . and he could not dissociate h. m the man. She was his niece. of his own blood, and some of the vices of it, some of the remorseless cruc of the we planter, must, he ar inhabit that pleasant body of he He argued this very often to himself, as if s swering and convincing some instinct that pleaded otherwise, and, arguing it, he vaoided her when it was po ble. ahd was frigidly c when 1 was not. Justifiable as his reasoning was, plausible as it may seem, yet he would have done better to have trust- ed the instinct that was in confl with it. Though the same blood in her veins as in those of Colonel Bishop, yet hers was free of the v tainted her uncle’s, for these vices were not natural to that blood they were, in h ed. He father, Tom Bish mel Bishop's brother — had kindly, chivalrous, gentle s broken-hearted by the of a young wife. hs 01d World and his grief in the New. He out to the Antilles, bringing w his little daughter, then five 3 age. and had given himself up to the life of a planter. He had prospered from the first, as men times will who care not for prosperity. Prospering, he had bethought him of his younger brother, a soldier at home, reputed somewhat wild. He had advised him to come out to Bar- bados; and the advice, which at an- other season William Bishop might have scorned. reached him at a mo- ment when his wildness was begin- ning to bear such fruit that a_change of climate was desirable. Willlam came, and was admitted by his gen- erous brother to a partnership in the prosperous plantation. Some six vears later, when Arabella was fif- teen, her father died, leaving her in her uncle's guardianship. It was per- haps his one mistake. But the good- ness of his own nature colored his views of other men: moreover, him- self, he had conducted the education of his daughter. giving her an inde- pendence of character upon which perhaps he counted unduly. As things were, there was little love between uncle and niece. But she was dutiful to him, and he was circumspect in his behaviour before her. All his life, escaping these apling grace, | and pleasant, | been a | all his wildness, he had gone n awe of his brother, whose worth he had the wit to recognize; and now it was almost as if some of that awe was transferred to his brother's child, Who was also, In a sense, hi ugh she took | no active iness of the piantations. Peter Blood judged her—as we are all too prone to judge—upon insuffi- cient knowledge. He was very soon to to correct that judgment One day toward the end of May, when the heat was beginning to grow oppressive, there crawled into lisle Bay a wounded, battered Eng- |lish_ship, the Pride of Devon, her | frecboard scarred and broken, have cause ned to tell the place wh it had stood. She had been in action off Martinique with two Spanish t re ships, and although her captain swore | that "the Spaniards had beset him | without p | avoid a sus | had been brod wise. O out quite other- Spaniards had fled from the combat, and I the Pride | of Devon had not’ given chase it was | probably because she was by then lin'no case to do so. The other had i been sunk, but not before the Eng- {1ish ship had transferred to her own hold a good deal of the treasure aboard the Spaniard. It was, in fact, one of those piratical affrays which were a perpetual source of trouble between the courts of St. James and | the Escurlal, compla manating now from one and now from the other | sid Steed. however, after th most_colonial governors enough to dull his wits tent of accepting the man's story, disregardin the hatred so richly d rogant, overbear that w | common to men of every other na- | tion from the hamas to the Main Therefore he gave the Pride of Devon the shelter she sought in his | bor and every facility | fetenea tr | of Englist fashion of was willin to the ex- glish sea- any evi- rved by ar- her hold men as over a score battered and {broken as the ship herself, and to- | gether with these some half-dozen aniards in like case. the only sur- ivors of a boarding party from the anish galleon that had fnvaded the \glish ship and found itself unable to retreat. These wounded men were conveyed to a long shed on the whart and the medical skill of Bridgetown was summoned to their aid. Peter | Blood was ordered to bear a hand in | this work, and partly because he | spoke Castilian—and he spoke It as { fluently as his own native tongue— partly because of his inferior condi- tion as a slave. he was given the Spaniards for his patients. Now Blood had no cause to His two prison and his subsequent campaigriing in the Spanish Nether- lands had shown him a side of the Spanish character which he had found anything but admirable Neverthe- 1 he performed his dictor's duties zealously and painstakingly, if emo- tionle: and even with a certain superficial friendliness toward each of his patients. These were so sur- prised at having their wounds healed instead of being summarily hangec that they manifested a docility very unusual in their kind. They were shunned, however, by all those char- itably disposed inhabitants of Bridge- town who flocked to the improvised hospital with gifts of fruit and flow- ers and delicacies for the injured English seamen. Indeed, had the wishes of some of these inhabitants been regarded, the Spaniards would have been left to die like vermin, and of this Peter Blood hud an example almost at the very outset Car- | her | coach a gaping wreck. her miszen so | F jagged ‘stump | He shared | har- | careen and | it came to this, they | love | years in a| NO USE DEMYING IT - '™ A FLAT FAILURE. EVERYTHING 'VE TRIED HAS FAILED! | CUGHT © BLOW My BRAINS, \ WIRE To STATION B- CASPAR MILQUE TOAST it the encounter | THAT MIGHT With the assistance of one of the negroes sent to the shed for the pur- pose, he was in the act of setting a broken leg, when a deep, gruff voice, that he had come to know and dis. ike as he had never disliked the voice of living man, abruptly chal- |1enged him. “What are you doing there®" Blood did not look up from his task. There was not the need. He knew the volce, as 1 have said. “I am setting a broken answered, without pausing in labors. “1 can see that, fool” A bulky body interposed between Peter Blood and the window. The haif-naked man on the straw rolled his black eyes to stare up fearfully out of a colored face at this Intruder. A knowledze of English was unneces- sary to inform him that here came an enemy. The harsh, minatory note of that voice sufficiently expressed the fact. “I can see that, fool; just as I can see what the rascal 1s. Who gave you leave to set Spanish legs?" am a doctor, Col. Bishop. The is wounded. It is not for me to riminate. I keep to my trade.” Do you, by God! If you'd dome you wouldn't now be here.” leg,” he his Poor oL Bov! 1 FEEL SORRY For ''m s D TeLeGrAPH OFFICE T | WANT © SEND e A-H, 164 BLANK ST, YOUR COMCERT COMING OVER FINE — — AND HERE'S A WIRE FROM CASPAR MILQUE TOAST SAVING — YOUR CONCERT COMING OVER FINE - COPR_ 1924 (N. Y WORLD). PRESS PUR CB.° On the contrary, it did it that 1 am here.” “Aye, 1 know that's your lying tale” The colonel sneered; and then, observing Blood to continue his work {unmoved, he grew really angry. {“Will you cease that and attend to me when T am speaking?" Peter Blood paused, but only for an Instant. “The man is in pain” he sald shortly, and resumed his work. “In pain, is he? T hope he is, the damned piratical dog. But will you heed me, you insubordinate knave?” The colonel delivered himself in a roar, Infuriated by what he con- celved to be defiance, and deflance expressing itself in the most un- ruffled disregard of himself. His long bamboo cane was raised to strike. Peter Blood's blue eyes caught the flash of it and he spoke quickly to arrest the blow Not insubordinate, sir, whatever I because 1 may be. 1 am acting upon the ex- press orders of Gov. Steed.” The colonel checked, his great face empurpling. His mouth fell open. “Gov. Steed!” he echoed. Then he lowered his cane, swung round and, without another word to Blood, rolled away toward the other end of the shed where the governor was stand- ing at the moment. Peter Blood chuckled. But his triumph was dictated less by humani- tarian considerations than by the re- flection that he had balked his brutal owner. The Spaniard, realizing that in this altercation, whatever its nature, the doctor had stood his friend, ventured in a muted voice to ask him what had happened. But the doctor shook his head in sllence and pursued his work. His ears were stralning to catch the words now passing between Steed and Bishop. The colonel was blustering and storming, the great bulk of him towering above the wizened little overdressed figure of the governor. But the little fop was not to be brow- beaten. His excellency was conscious that he had behind him the force of public opinion to support him. Some there might be, but they were not many, who held such ruthless views Col. Bishop. His excellency assert- his authority. It was by his or- ders that Blood had devoted himself to the wounded Spaniards, and his orders were to be carried out. There was no more to be sald. Col. Bishop was of another opinion. In his view there was a great deal to be sald. He sald it, with great cir- cumstance, loudly, vehemently, ob- scenely—for he could be fluently ob- scene when moved to anger. “You talk like a Spaniard, colonel,” sald the governor and thus dealt the colonel's pride a wound that was to smart resentfully for many a week. At the moment it struck him silent nd sent him stamping out of the shed In a rage for which he could find no words. (Continued In Tomorrow's Star.) G & 11th Sts. Have You Forgotten the times when you thought you were so 4 tic that recovery was impossibie? 'hen gassiness, sour risis and belching 80 distended the stomach as to startie you with gas pains? And yet you got Quick relief with one or two STUART'S Dyspepsia Tablets Proclaim to your friends how you now eat comed beef and Cabbage.. pickies, onions, pie, cheese, fried eggs and bacon and yet you and indigestion are almost total strangers. Stuart’s D'WA Tablets have been greatly forti and are now a betts Stomach medicine than ever. 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