New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 8, 1923, Page 5

BEGIN HERE TODAY, PETER BLOOD is wrongfully eon- vieted of treasen against the English king. He and JEREMY PITT, among others, become the slaves of COLONEL RBISHOP, a Darbados planter and unele of ARARELLA, be- tween whom and Peter Tlood an In- teresting friendship springs up, A Spanish ship eonquers the island but is captured through the strategy of Blood, who heads a bearding party of , 8layes. DON DIEGO, commander of the vessel, who was given freedom of the ship, attempts to betray Captain *HBloed and his fellows but fails, salls to Tortuga, headquarters of bue- \| eaners, where he joins with LEVAS- BEUR, another adventurer, GO ON WITH TIHE STORY CHAPTER X1V, Levasseur's Herolos, It would be somewhere about ten o'clock on the following morning, & full hour before the time appointed for salling, when a canoe brought up alongside La Foudre, and a half-caste Indian stepped out of her'and went up the ladder. He was the bearer of a folded scrap of paper for Captaln Levasseur, Its contents may be roughly trans- lated thus: “My well beloved—I am in the Dutch brig Jongvrouw, which is about to sall, Resolved to separate us for- ever, my cruel father is sending me to Europe in my brother's charge. I implore you, come to my rescue. De- liver me, my well-beloved herol— Your desolated Madeleine, who loves you." The well-beloved hero was moved to the soul of him by that passionate appeal. His scowling glance swept the bay for the Dutch brig, which he knew had been due to sail for Am- sterdam with a cargo of hides and tobacco, She was nowhere to be seen among the shipping in that narrow, rock- bound harbor. He roared out the question in his mnd. In answer the half-caste pointed out beyond the frothing surf that marked the position of the reef con- stituting one of the stronghold’s main defenses. Away beyond it, a mile or so distant, a sail was standing out to sea. Curging in his soul the association into which he had entered, Levasseur was aiready studying ways of evasion. Blood would never suffer violence to be done in his presence to a Dutch- man; but it might be done in ‘his absence, Within the hour the Arabella and La Foudre were beating out to sea to- gether. Without understanding the change of plan involved, Captain Biood, nevertheless, accepted it, and weighed anchor before the appointed tinig upon percelving his assoclate to do =0. A1l day the Dutch brig was in sight, though by evening she had dwindled to, the merest speck on the northern horizon. The course prescribed for Blood and Levasseur lay eastword along the northern shores of His- paniola, To that course the Arabella held steadily through the night, with the result that when day broke again, she was alone, La Foudre under cover of the darkness’ had struck away to the northeast with every rag of canvas on her yards. Dawn found La Foudre close on the Dutchman's heels, not & mile . astern, and the sight of her very evi- dently flustered the Jongvrouw. The NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, JANUARY 8, 1923, % Rafuel Sabatini m&lflm bulkhead, and bleeding mouth, With blanched eheeks the girl stood by the eabin table, and cried out to Levasseur to stop, To obey her, he opened the door, and flung her brother through it Composing himself, he turned again with a deprecatory smile, Nut no smile answered him from her set face, fihe had seen her beloved hero's na- ture in curl-papers, as it were, and she found the spectacle disgusting and terrifying. He erushed her to him brutally, de- Iiberately hurtful because she resisted, and kissed her whilst she writhed in his ambrace, Some one knocked, Cursing the {nterruption, Levasseur strode off to open, Cahusae, his lleutenant, stood before him, He came to report that they had sprung a leak between wind e — leaned there with HE CRUSHED HER TO HIM BRUTALLY AND KISSED HER WHILSTy SHE WRITHED IN HIS EMBRACE. and water, the consequence of damage sustained from oneyjof the Dutchman’s shots, In alarm Levasseur went off with him. Ahead of them a low cloud showed on the horizon, which Cahusac pro- nounced one of the northernmost of the Virgin Islands. “We must run for shelter there, and careen her,” said Levasseur. YA storm may catch us 'ore we make land.” “A storm or something else,” said Cahusac grimly. ‘“Have you noticed that?” He pointed away to star- board. Levasseur looked, and caught his breath. Two ships that at the dis- tance seemed of considerable burden were heading toward them some five miles away. For the remainder of that day Le- vasseur's thoughts were of anything but love. He remained on deck, his eyes 'now upon the land, now upon those two slowly gaining ships. And then, toward evening, when within three miles of shore, he almost fainted trom rellef when a voice from the rer—— STOP COUGHING Coughs _cause feverish conditions, throat and lung strain and lead to pneumonia and serious sickness. The sooner you quit coughing the quicker ‘ml will feel better and have a better night's Dutch ship veered, showed them her | rudder, and opened fire with her stern chasers. The small shot went whist- ¢y, shrouds 1ing or straining, _ling through La Foudre's with some slight damage to her can- vas, Followed a brief running fight in the course of which the Dutchman let fly a broadside. | Tive minutes after they were held tight in the clutches of La Foudre's grapnels, and the buccaneers pouring nofsily into her waist. The Dutchman's master, purple in the face, stood forward to beard the pirate, followed closely by an elegant, pale-faced younsg gentleman in whom Leyasseur recognized his brother-in- law elect. ] From the quarter rail Mademoiselle a'Ogeron looked down with glowing eyes in RQreathless wonder upon her well-beloved hero. 'He saw her and with a glad shout sprang toward her. I'he Duteh master got in his way with hands upheld to arrest his progress. Levasseur did not stay to argue with him; he was too fmpatient to reach his mistress. He swung the poleaxe that he carried, ad the Dutchman j went down In blood with a clovenl skull, The eager lover stepped across the body and came on, his counten- ance joyously alight. But mademoiselle Wwas shrinking now, in horror. He laughed, 48 a hero should, with the tolerance of a god for the mortal to whom hdc‘ndescenda: “He stood between us, ~ Let his death be a symbol, & warning. Let all who would stand between us mark it and beware."” 1t was so splendidly terrific, the gesture of it was 80 broad and fine and his magnetism 80 compelling that she cast her daily tremors and yielded herself freely, intoxicated, to his fond embrace. Thereafter he swung her to his shoulder, and step- ping jwith ease beneath that burden, bor her in a sort of triumph, lustily cheered by his men, to the cabin of his own ship, where mademolselle was confronted by her angry brother. “Don't you perceive your wicked folly in the harm it has brought al- ready? Lives have been lost—men have dled—that this monster might overtake you.” He might have said more but that Levasseur struck him across the mouth. Mademoiselle suppressed a scream, as the youth staggered back under the blow. He came to rest against a M THE HERALD The A-B-C Paper with the A-B-C Want. Ads rest. Leonardi’s Cough Syrup (Creo- soted) eases and soothes inflamed, raw roats, raises the phlegm without rack- protects the lungs, an the trouble, removes the cause of Get a bottle warned by the first cough. of Leonardi's Cough Syrup from your druggist. ine for cough colds, grippe, croup, whoopina cough a bronchitis. Pleasant, safe and sure. fiold by City Drug Store. NGS OF HELLO THERE,Tom! ARE. THE MOVERS ON A STRIKE P OVER A FEW THINGS TO PLEASE THE CASTORIA Por Infests aad Chlidren | In Use For Over 30 Years i Rt the gusiure of sald he, “that national women's party has been ins avgurated by that organisation it s announced here and soon will swing inte motion in 41 states, Equal rights bills have been drafied, it was sald | today for introduction at sessions of the state legisiative bodies this year, | Btates in which the women's party leaders will center thelr efforts Ine | elube Connectieut, Maine, Massachus« setts, New Hampshire, New York, Tithode Island and Verment, 1 trust, monsteur” I make myself quite cloar (Continued in Our Next lssue) A guard of henor of about & haif losen officers hung abeut him e fore him, guarded by two half-naked | young d'Ogeren, in Peod as the Prenchman's tal® was| unfelded. At the end he roundly ex- | pressed his disapproval The Duteh | were & friepdly people whom it was a | "eEroes, steod folly to silenate, particulamy for so|frilled shirt and satin small-clothes paltry & matter as these hides and to. |ahd fine shoes of Cordovan leather, | baceo, which at most would feteh a Near hand, and alse under guard, bare twenty thousand pleces | mademoiselle, his sister, sat hunched Hut Levasseur answered him (hat a |upon & hilleek of sand | ship was a ship, and it was ships they | Levasseur addvessed himself to M needed Perhaps because things had | 4'Ogeron He spoke at long length gone well with him that day, Hleed In the end— CAMPAIGN IN CONN Nationwide Drive For Fqual Rights For W n Includes This State, Washingtoa, Jan, §.—~"A natlon wide ecampaign for equal rights for women,” supervised by leaders of th Be | sCreo!oted) | larger of the two ships was the Ara- |Phereu . pon Levasseur proposed that :;‘l"',"l P"::: COMPAnion Was presum- |the Arabella and her prize should re- » turn to Tortuga, there to unload the Levasscur put off in & beat accom- |eacao and eNlist the further adven- panied by Cahusae and two other offi- | turers that could now be shipped, cers, and went to visit Captaln Blood | Levasseur meanwhile would effect cer- aboard the Arabella, taln necessary répairs, and then pro. ‘Our brief separation has been |ceeding south, await his admiral at mighty profitable,” waa Captain [Saltatudos, an island convenlently Blood's greeting, “It's a busy morn- |situated, ing we've both had." He was in high| To Levasseur's relief, Captain Blood good-humor as he led the way to the [not enly agreed, but pfonounced him- great cabin for a rendering of ac- |gelf ready to sall at once, oounts, At Sunset that evening the win: The tall ship that accompanied the |freshened; it grew to a gale, and ,rln:‘ Arabella was & Spanish vessel of 'that to such a hurricane that Levi twenty-six guns, the Hantlago from seur was thankful to find Puetre Rico with a hundred and aghore and his ships In safe shelter, twenty thousand weight of ecacap,) * forty thousand pleces of eight, und the CHAPTER XV, value of ten thousand more in jewels, The Ransom, A rich capture of which two-Afths In the glary of the following morn- under the articles went to Levasseur | 198, sparkling and clear after the and his crew, Of the money and storm, a curlous scene was played on jowels a divislon was made on the |the beach of the Virgen Magra, spot. 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