New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 6, 1923, Page 9

W Refael Sabatini w SABATING —— AEGIN WERE TODAY. A Spanish warship successfully at. tacks the island of Rarbados, upen which PETER RLOOD and & number of other Englishmen have hecome saves. COLONEL, WIRHOP, owper Of Wlood, 1s the most tyrannical of the slave owners. Mlood and his fellow slavés, through strategy eapture the Spanish ahip, and Rishop, who bogrds the vessel to learn the identity of the Island's saviors ,is compelled to leap overhoard and swim te shore, DON DIEGO, the Spanish com- mander, is eaptured, He s given the freedom of the ship upon his promise that he will navigate the vessel during the illness of JEREMY PITT, young shipmaster, Don Diego ves false and salls the ship cloes to another vessel commanded by his brother, Riood resorts to strategy to save the ship and erew, GO ON WITH THE. STORY ‘Nay, nephew; nay, Don Migue! protested with fronic repudiation, *T can have no knowledge of these things. Already you have told me ore than it is good for me to know.” ut he winked into the twinkiing eyes of Captain Bloed; then added matter that at once extingulshed that twinkle, “But since Diego cannot come to me, why, I will go across to him For a moment Don FEsteban's face was a mask of pallld fear., Then Blood wasspeaking in a lowered, con- fidential volce that admirably blended suavity, Impr ness, and sly mackery. “If you please, Don Miguel, but that is the very thing you must not do—the very thing Don Diego does not wish you to do. It was his con- sideration of himself and the false position in which you would be placed if you had direct word from him of what happened. He paused a m ment. Your excellency understands. His excellency frowned thought- fully. “I understand . . . in part,” sald he. Captain Blood swept on to afford further confirmation before the Ad- miral could say another word, “And we have in the boat below two chests containing fifty thousand pleces of eight, which we are to de- liver to your excellency.” His excellency jumped; there was a sudden stir among his officers. “They are the ransom extracted by Don Diégo from the Governor of . . “Not another word, in the name of Heaven!" cried the Admiral in alarm. “My brother wishes me to assume charge of this money, to carry it to Spain for him? Well, that is family matter between my brother and ry- sélf . But I must not know . . .” He broke aft. ‘Hum' A giass pf Malaga In my eabin, if you Please,’ he invited them, “whilst the chests are being hauled aboard.” They laughed, and drank the damnatien of King James—quite uneffielally, but the more fervently on that aecount Then Don Estaban, uncasy on the score of his father, rese and an- nounced that they must be reiy ning As they stepped into the waist of the Cineo Llagas, Hagthorpe advaneed to reeeive them Riood ohserved the #et, almost scared expression on his face, "1 see that you've found it,” he said quietly. Hagthorpe's eyes looked a question “MY NAME,” PETER BLOOD.” HE SAID, But his mind dismissed whatever thought it held. “DPon Diego . . he was hegin- ning, and then stopped, . and looked curiously at Blood. Noting the pause and the look, Es- taban bounded forward, his face livid. “Have you broken faith, you curs? Has he come to harm?” he eried— and the six Spaniards behind him made chorus to " his furious ques- tionings. “We do not break faith,” said Hagthorpe firmly, so firmly that She quieted them, “And In this case there was not the need. Don Diego dled in his bonds before ever you reached the Fncarnacion,” Peter Blood said nothing. “Died?” screamed Esteban. “You killed him, you mean. Of what did he die?"” Hagthorpe looked at the boy, “If T uu a judge he said, “Don Diego dted of fear” % Esteban struck Hagthorpe EW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 1923, B HEALTH WhS WRECKED “FRUIT.A.TIVES®, The Famons Pruit Completely Restored Him GECIL aTOWE 654Quinpiplac Av., New Iaven,Conn, “Iwas run down in health and terribly nervous, My back was weak ; my head ached every day, and I could hardly stand on my feet A friend advised me to try “Fruit-a. tives”, Ihad used other advertised remedies, but I finally got a box of “Fruit-a-tives” and they helped me, I am still taking them and impro. ving all the time, and will not be without them again, As soon as I can do so, I will saswer all inquiries as to the above statement—will gladly do so”, CECIL STOWE., “Fruit-a-tives” or “Fruit Laxo Tablets" are made by a special process from fruit juices, and are a marvellous tonic, unequalled for invigorating and rebuilding the run-down system, 50 a box, 8 for $2.50, trial size 25¢. At dealers or from FRUIT-A-TIVES Limited, 0GDENSBURG, N.Y, e ] he insisted. “In Tortuga they would be flayed alive,” “Which is less than the swine de. " growled Wolverstone, “Oh, faugh! 1I've no stomach for cold-blooded killing,” said Blood. “At daybreak pack the Spaniards Into a boat with a keg of water and a sack of dumplings, and let them go to the devil"” CHAPTER XIII. Tortuga It was no part of the design of Blood to join hands with the bue- caneers who, under a semi-official French protection, made of Tortuga a lair whence they could sally ont to drive their merciless piratical trade chiefly at the expense of Spain. 1t was Blood’s original intention to maké his way to France or Holland. But In the long, weeks of waiting for a ship to convéy him to one or the other of these countries, his re- sources dwindled and finally vanished. Temptations preceeded not only from adventurous buccaneering ac- quaintances in the taverns of that evil haven of Tortuga, but even from ’t.ln loyally whithersoever he should lame t wild he went {actively 1o work egon advaneed Rim money for the proper equipment f Ms ship the Cineo Liagas, which he d the Arabella the score of followers he al. {ready poseassed, he added threescore more, With them he entered inte the |articles usual among the Brethren of |the Coast under which each man was he pald by a share In the priges | captured. | "Toward the end of Degember, when the hurriegne season had blown itself out, he put 1o sea and hefore he re. turned in the foliowing May frem a protracted and adventy ise, ithe fame of Captain Peter lllood had vun li%e rippies before the lneeze across the face of the Caribbean Hea One Aay, a8 Caplain Mool sat with Hagthorpe and Wolverstone aver Ipipe and & bottie of rum in 11 stifing reek of tar and stale 1o of a waterside 1 N, he was aceol ed hy a splendid ruffian in a gald. laced coat of dark-hiue satin with a |erimson sash, a foot wide, about the walst, | “Mest vous qu'on appelie Lo Hang ™ the fellow halled him, Captain Niood looked up 1o con- sider the questianer before replying, The man was tall and built on lines of agile strength, with a swarthy, aquiline face that was brutally bhand- some, Captain Rlood took the pipe.stem between his lips. My nam he sald, ‘s Peter Rlood The Spaniards know me for Don Pedro Sangre, and a Prenchman may call me Le Sang if he pleases,” | "@ood,” sald the gaudy adventurer in English. “My name,” he inform- #d the three men, two of whom at least were eyeing him adfkance, “it Is Levasseur. You may have heard of me." They had, dndeed. He commanded {a privateer of twenty guns that had dropped anechor in the bay a week |ago, A roaring, quarrclsome, hard- ‘drinking, hard-gaming scoundrel, his reputation as o buccaneer stood high business and professional use, *|being shet in a romantie attempt to Closed Car Comfort for Business and Pleasure. 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Heavy Breth of the Coast There about s gandy, | SWaggering rofMahness something that | the wom found singularly alluring. | It was gurrent gossip that even demoisetle d'Ogeren, the Gover nor's daugiter, had been caught in ! the snare of his wild attractiveness. | This was the man who now thrust himself upon Captain Rioed with & | proposal of asseciation, offering him net only his sword, but his ship and the men whe sailed in her Necause he disliked the man, Cap tain Rload would not commit himself at ones Bt becanse he liked the {preposal he eonsenied (o consider it The end of the matter was that {within a week articles were drawn up |hetween Levasseur and Rlood, and signed by them and--as was usual-— hy the ehosen representatives of their followers, All being now settied they made ready for gea, and on the very eve of |eailing, Levasseur narrowly escaped soale the wall of the Governor's gar- den, with the objeet of taking |slonate leave of the infatuated Made- | moiselle 4'Ogeron That night he siept on hoard his ship, which with characteristioc flam- hoyance he had named La Foudre, and there on the following day he re. leeived a visit from Captain Blood, whom he greeted half-moekingly as his admiral The Irishman came to settle eertain final detalls of which all, !n-m need coneern ns is an under- standing that, in the event of the two vessels hecoming separated by acel- dent or design, they should ench other as soon as might Tortuga. 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M. d'Ogeron, the governor of the island, who levied as his harbor dues a percentage of one-tenth of all spoils brought into the bay. insult,” Moreover, to a man, those who had cheek. |escaped with Peter Blood from the Barbados plantations, and who knew not whither to turn, were all resolved “I have seen,” said Rlood. “He |upon joining the great Brotherhood died before I left the Cinco Llagas.|of the Coast, as those rovers called He was hanging dead in his bonds|themselves. 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