Evening Star Newspaper, October 29, 1924, Page 22

CAPTAIN BLOOD By RAFAEL SABATINI The Greatest Love Story Ever Told (Continued from Yesterday's Star.) They sped down an alley and then up another, by great good fortune meeting no one, for already they were on the outskirts of the town. The # won out of it, and white-faced, ph feally sick, Mr. Blood dragged her most at a run up the hill toward Col Bishop's house. He told her briefly who and what he was, and thereafter {Rere was no conversation between them until they reached the big white house. It was all in darkness, which at least was reassuring. If the Spaniards had reached it, there would be lights. He knocked, but had to knock again and yet again before he was answered. Then it was by voice from a window above. Who 2" The vol little tremulous, stakably her own i . Blood almost fainted in relief. had been imagining the unimagin- able. He had pictured her down that hell out of which he had jt come. He had conc might have followed her into | Bridgetown, or committed some other | imprudence, and he turned cold from | head to foot at the mer : 4 what might have happe It is 1-—Peter Blood “What do you wa It is doubtful whether she would have come down to op For at such a time as this it was no more th likely that the wretched plantation slaves might be in revolt and prove as great a d: ' » Spaniards But at the sou voice, the girl Mr. Blood had rescued peered up through the gl “Arabella! but | | in st| to her he gasped. | is 1, erab yond i drawn. A gaped wid I hall stood ) ginal figure vealed in the which she carrie Mr. Blood strode in, followed by distraught cor on, who, falli upon Arabella’s r bosom, sur rendered herself to 3ut he wasted no tin Whom have What servant 1y The only negro groom “The very him get out hc You to Speightstown. or where you will be safe in dreadful and male was James, an old ith man,” i Blood. Then away even f Here b fighting was beginning deviltry's only Miss Traill will tell y In God's namn and beginning. as you Ko. take my word for it, he saved me Miss you Bishop ved from Let that wait,” almost angrily. “You've for chattering when you're out o say- “You are “Oh, my perempt Miss " Blood and Miss Traill alone ag: s T TAha what you did, her diminishing tear $p of a girl, a ¢ done better th n my That's why I'm here said Mr. Blood, whose mood seemed to be snappy. She didn't pretend to understand him, and she didn’t make the attempt “Did you . did you kill him?" she asked, fearfully. He stared at her in the flickering candlelight. I hope so. It is very probable, and it doesn’t matter at all,” he id. “What matters is that this fellow James should fetch the Rorses.” And he was stamping off to accelerate these preparations for | departure, when her voice arrested | him. “Don’t leave me! Don't leave here alone!” she cried in terror He paused. He turned and came slowly back Standing above her he smiled upon her. “There, the You've no cause for alarm. It's all over now. You'll be away soon—aw to Speights- town, where you'll be quite safe” | The horse came at last—four of them, for in addition to James who was to act as her guide, Miss Bishop had her woman, who was not to be left behind. Mr. Blood lifted the slight weigh of Mary Traill to her horse, then turned to say good-by Bishop, who v 8 He said it, and seemed to have som thing to add. But whatever it wa it remained unspoken. The horses start sapphire s me receded . leav- here before Colonel ast he heard of Mary Traill's childlike back on a quavering Bishop': them 1w wvoice calling note— “I shall never forget what you did, Mr. Blood. I shall never forget."” But as it was not the voice he de- sired to hear, the assurance brought him little faction. He stood there in the dark, watching the fire- flies amid the rhododendrons, till the hoofbeats had faded. Then he sighed and roused himself. He had much to do. His journey. into the town had | not been one of idle curiosity to see Low the S ndards conducted them- selves in victory. It had been in- spired by a very different purpose, and he had gained in the course of st all the information he desired. He | had an extremely busy night before him, and must be moving. He went off briskly in the direction of the tockade, where his fellow- slaves awaited him in deep anxiety and some hope. CHAPTER IX. The Rebels-Convict. There were, when the purple gloom of the tropical night descended upon the Caribbean, not more than ten men on rd aboard Cinco Llaga o confident. nd with good reason—were the Spantards of complete subjection of the islanders. And when 1 s that there were ten men on guard, ate rather the pur- for which they were left aboard the duty which they fulfilled. a matter of fact, whilst the main dy of the Spaniards feasted and rioted ash , the Spanish gunner and his crew—who had so nobly done their duty and insured the easy victory of the day—wer easting on the gun-deck upon the wine and the fi ats fetched out to them from Above, two sentinels kept vigil, at' stem and stern. Nor were they as vigilant as they should have been, or else they must » rved the two wherries that und cover of the darkness came glidir from the wh with well-greased rowlocks, to bring up in silence under the great ship quarter. From the ry aft still hung the ladder by which Don Diego had de- scended to the boat that had taken The sentry on guard in ently round ¢ confronted n stand- the head of the he asked, but with- out it fellows. i posing Iy answered the fluent Castilian was master. Pedro?” of only | have ! one of his|m reter | @ | | T misadventure. Armed as he was with corselet, culssarts and head- piece, he sank to trouble them no more. “Whist!” hissed Mr. waiting _rebels-convict. now, and without nolse.” Within five minutes they had swarmed aboard, the entire 20 of them overflowing from that narrow gallery and crouching on the quar- ter-deck itself. Lights showed ahead. Under the great lantern in the prow they saw the black figure of the other sentry, pacing on the forecastle. Frem below sotnds reached them of the orgy on the gun-deck: a rich male volce was singing an obscene ballad to which the others chanted in chorus: “Y estos son los usos de Castilla y de Leon!" “From what I've seen today I can well believe it said Mr. Blood and whispered: “Forward—after me.” Crouching low, they glided, noise- less as shadows, to the quarter-deck rail and thence slipped without sound down into the waist. Two thirds of them were armed with muskets, some of which they had found in the over- seer's house and others supplied from the secret hoard that Mr. Blood had so laboriously assembled against the day of escape. The remainder were equip- ped with knives and cutlasses. In the vessel's waist they hung Blood to his Come on, [ LR N NERNEEENNEENENENENEENENENENERE T TN Thee D, [ G & 11th Sts. The Spaniard | g 1 doubt ll checkinz taken Save for struck com the h the sing the waited under the announced his one of swded boats ounter, not a th sound SEE NIAGARA SPECIAL ONE-DAY EXCURSION Sunday, November 2 SPECIAL TRAIN Niuga Buffalo 430 7 s going and returning will when loaded on sale beg nn g Thursday, will be ‘equipment GREATEST BODY BUILDER OVER 69 YEARS OF SUCCESS. The Easiest Way ‘ To End Dandruff| There is one sure way that never fails to remove dandruff complete- Iy, and that is to dissolve it. This destroys it entirely. 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