Evening Star Newspaper, November 10, 1924, Page 20

CAPTAIN BLOOD By RAFAEL SABATINI The Greatest Love Story Ever Told __(Continued from Yesterda: Cahusac would certainly have adopted that course if only his men had been unanimous in the matter. They, however, were torn between zreed and apprehension. If they went they must abandon their share of the plunder, which was considerable, as well as the slaves and other prison- crs they had taken. If they did this, and Capt. Blood should afterward contrive to get away unscathed—and from their knowledge of his resource- fulness, the thing, however unlikely, need not be impossible—he must profit by that which they now relinquished. This was a contingency too bitter for contemplation. And so, in the end, de- spite all that Cahusac could say, the surrender was not to Don Miguel, but to Peter Blood. They had come into the venture with him, they asserted, and they would go out of it with him or not at all. That was the message he received from them that same evening by the sullen mouth of Ga- husac himself. He welcomed it, and invited the Breton to sit down and join the council which ~was even then deliberating upon the means to be employed. This council occupied the spacious patio of the governors house—which Capt Blood had appropriated to his own uses—a_cloistered stone quad- rangle in the middle of which a fountain played cooly under a trellis of vine. Orange trees grew on two sides of it, and the still, evening air was heavy with the scent of them. It was one of those pleasant exterior- interiors which Moorish architects had introduced to Spain and the Span- iards had carried with them to the new world Here that council of war, composed of six men in all, deliberated until late that night upon the plan of action which Capt. Blood put forward. The great freshwater lake of Mara caybo, nourished by a score of rivers from the snow-capped ranges that surrounded. it on two sides, is some 120 miles in length and almost the same distance across at its widest It is—as has been indicated—in the shape of a great bottle having its neck toward the sea at Maracaybo. star.) Beyond this nec and then the two long, narrow strips } l DS o M of land known as the islands of Vigilas and Palomas block the chan- nel, standing lengthwlise across it. The only passage out to sea for ves- sels of any draught lies in the nar- row strait between these islands. Palomas, which is some 10 miles in length, is unapproachable for half a mile on either side by any but the shallowest craft save at its eastern end, where, completely commanding the narrow passage out to sea, stands the massive fort which the buccaneers had found deserted upon their com- ing. In the broader water between this passage and the bar, the four Spanish ships were at anchor in mid-channel. The admiral's Encarnacion, which we already know, was a mighty galleon of 48 great guns and 8-small. Next in impor- tance was the Salvador, with 36 guns: the other two, the Infanta and the San Felipe, though smaller vessels, were still formidable enough with their 20 guns and 150 men aplece. Such was the fleet of which the gantlet was to be run by Capt. Blood with his own Arabella of 40 guns, the Flizabeth of 26. and two sloops cap- tured at Gibraltar, which they had | indifferently armed with four culver- ins each. In men they had a bare 400 survivors of the 500 odd that had left Tortuga, to oppose to fully 1,000 Spaniards manning the galleons. The plan of action submitted by Capt. Blood to that council was a desperate one, as Cahusac uhcom- promisingly pronounced it. “Why, so it is" sald the captain. “But done things more desperate.” Complacently he pulled at a pipe that was loaded with that fragrant Sacer dotes tobacco for which Gibraltar was famous, and of which they had brought a some hogsheads. “And what is more, they've succeeded Audaces fortuna juvat. Bedad, the knew their world, the old Roman He breathed into his companions and even into Cahusac some of his own spirit of confidence, and in con- fidence all went busily to work. For three days. from sunrise to sunset, the buccaneers labored and sweated to complete the preparations for the action that was to procure them their deliverance. Time passed. They must strike before Don Miguel de Espinosa received the re-enforcement A stin'ing C THE of that fifth galleon, the Santa Nino, which was coming to join him from La Guayra. Their principal operations were on the larger of the two slpops captured at Gibraltar; to which vessel was as- signed the leading part in Capt. Blood's scheme. They began by tear- ing down all bulkheads until they had reduced her to the merest shell, and in her sides they broke open so many ports that her gunwale was converted into the semblance of & grating. Next they increased by a half-dozen the scuttles in her deck, whilst into her hull they packed ali the tar and pitch and brimstone that they could find in the town, to which they added six barrels of gunpowder, placed on end llke guns at the open ports on her larboard side. On the evening of the fourth day, everything being now in readiness, all were got aboard, and the empty, pleasant city of Maracaybo was at last abandoned. But they did not weigh anchor until some two hours after midnight. Then, at last. on the first of the ebb, they drifted silently down toward the bar with all canvas furled save only their spritsalls, which, €0 as to give them steering way, were spread to the faint breeze that’ stirred through the purple dark- ness of the tropical night. The order of their going was as follows: Ahead went the improvised fire-ship in charge of Wolverstone, with & crew of six volunteers, each of whom was to have 100 pieces of clght over and above his share of plunder as a speclal reward. Next came the Arabella. She was follow- ed at a distance by the Elizabeth, commanded by Hagthorpe, with whom was the now shipless Cahusac and the bulk of his French followers. The rear was brought up by the second sloop and some eight canoes, aboard of which had been shipped the prisoners, the slaves, and most of the captured merchandise. The pris- oners were all pinioned, and guarded by four buccaneers with musketoons who manned these boats in addition to the two fellows who were to sail them. Their place was to be in the rear and they were to take no part whatever In the coming fight. As_the first glimmerings of opal- escent dawn dissolved the darkness, the straining eyes of the buccaneers were able to make out the tall rig- ging of the Spanish vessels, riding at anchor less than a quarter of a mile ahead. Entirely without suspicion as the Spaniards were, and rendered confident by their own overwhelming strength, it is unlikely that they used a vigilance keener than their care- less habit. Certain it is that they did not sight Blood's fleet in that dim light until some time after Blood's fleet had sighted them. By the time that they had actively roused themselves Wol- EVENING STAR, WASHING TON, D. C, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1924. s R T verstone's sloop was almost upon|hurried attempt to get up _the|tongues of flame were licking out to them, speeding under canvas which had been crowded to her yards the moment the galleons had loomed Into view. Straight for the admiral's great ship, the Encarnaclon, did Wolver- stone head the sloop; then, lashing down the helm, he kindled from a matol that hung ready lighted be- side him a egrat torch of thickly plaited straw that had been steeped in bitumen. First it glowed, then, as he swung it round his head, it burst into flame just as the slight vessel went crashing and bumping and scraping against the side of the flag- ship, whilst rigging became tangled with rigging, to the straining of yards and snapping of spars over- head. His six men stood at their posts on the larboard side, stark naked, each armed with a grapnel, four of them on the gunwale, two of them aloft. At the moment of impact these grapnels were slung to bind the Spaniard to them, those aloft being intended to complete and preserve the entanglement of the rigging. Aboard the rudely awakened gal- leon all was confused hurrying, scur- rying, trumpeting and shouting. At first there had been a desperately FleleFiirs- CASTORIA MOTHER:- Fletcher’s Castoria is a pleasant, harm- less Substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric, Teething Drops and Soothing Syrups, espe- anchor, but this was abandoned as being already too late; and, conceiv- ing themselves on the point of being boarded, the Spaniards stood to arms to ward off the onslaught. Its ness in coming intrigued them, being 80 different-from the usual tactics of the buccaneers. Further intrigued were they by the sight of the gi- gantic_Wolverstone speeding naked along his deck with a great flaming torch held high. Not until he had completed his work did they begin to suspect the truth—that he was lighting slow matches—and then one of their officers, rendered reckless by panie, ordered a boarding party onto the sloop. The order came too late. Wolver- stone had seen his six fellows drop overboard after the grapmels were fixed and then had sped, himself, to the starboard gunwale. Thence he flung his flaming torch down the nearest gaping scuttle into the hold and thereupon dived overboard in his turn, to be picked up presently by the longboat from the Arabella. But before that happened the sloop was a thing of fire, from which explosions were hurling blazing combustibles aboard the Encarnacion, cially prepared for Infants in arms and Children all ages. 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