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1 Den Migue! looked at him, smiling He reised his telescope to continue his observation of the buceancers, He saw that the plraguas fowed by each | jvessel were beeing havled alengside. ' Awhile these parsguas were hidden | from view bebind the huils Thea ' ene Ly ane they reappeared, rowing ) round and & from the ships, and each beat, he ohsered, was crowded with armed men Thus laden, they " THDUSANDS HAVE KDAEY TROUBLE AKD EVER SUSPET T Applicants for Insurance Ofien ' loerters weighed ancher than Caplain | i | Hiood received word that the Deputy- | | | Governor begged 1o be allowed to soe | I | . im i 1t's Basy—1f You Know Dr, Captate lood & [l ‘ o BY INDIBESTION 5 o e antly Don Prancisco, a silght elderly man hge and low vitality, came straight 1o Lusiness I am here to tell you, Don Pedre, The secret of keeping young is to feel Aeryous b Rafoel Sabatini | A RAPAEL SABATING APRGT NEA SERVICE e Maracaybo to destroy us. 1 should idabie | MOt trouble your excellency with this o |1etter but that T am a humane man, |abhoving bloedshed Therefore Le 1ore pracesding to deal with your fort a8 | have dealt already with your 1 make you, purely out of hu. Vitaria considergtions, this last of terms, 1 will spare this city aybo and fortwith evacuate i me the forty prison- in eonsideration of e naving the sum eof Afty thousand pieces of eight and one PR TTPRY Wi of cattie a8 & ransom thereafter granting me unmolested passage of the bar 17 your exeels Lleney should be so ill.advised as to re the terms, | warn you that you expect no quarter from us," (Continued Prom Our lLast Issue) And whilst the vessel of the Spanish being put out of aetie set, Rlood had salled in to oy vpon the half-erippled keeping 1o course, he had bewilderd the crev the Infanta by a couple of she the chasers oy heak-head orashed alongside 1o grapple Poard her, whilst Hagthorpe was Ing the like by the Ba And in all this tim Bad the Spaniards eant Roarded now an atesl of the bue Fan Felipe no much resistance Don Migne of his erew, ha terred b e he the fort that guarded This fort the Admiral, in of waiting, had take aution secretly 1o garrison Vor rpose he had stripped the fort | | of Cojero, fa=her out on the gulf, of | Its entire armament | ( ¢ With no suspleion of this, Captain | k__) y Blood gave chase wecompanied by the Infanta, which was manned by a prize-crew under the com of Yherville The stern chas the Salvador desuitorily returned the | punishing fire of the pursuers: bnt stich was the damage herself susteined, that coming under the guns of the fort, she began to sink, and finally settled down in the sh. part of ahove water, T some and some by swimming got his erew ashore or best he could And then, aecounted the suddenly revealed dable and utterly unsuspected strength With proclaimed lla stag- smashed most form fleet was th Saivador and Leaving tiret his eaving behi ers 1 have taken Fetipe me not a ved 1o e the offered vers. eithe Infanta Tuse ma remnant trans alor th and rearm she, presently her hull in boats Admiral as lomas Blood the fort just as atain vietory BLOOD RECEIVED NTLY. CAPTAIN HIM PLEA The letter written, he bade them bring him from among the prisoners the Deputy-Governor of Maracaybo, who had been taken at Gibraltar, Iisclosing its contents to him, he dis- patehed him with it to Don Miguel. His choice of a messenger was [shrewd. The Deputy-Governor was ay to..of all men the most anxious for the {deliverance of his city. And as he reckoned so it befell The Deputy- rnor added his own passionate pleading to the proposals of the letter. But Don Migue! was of stouter heart Let Captain Rlood do his worst at Maracaybo, there should be a bitter reckoning for him when even- trally he decided--as, sooner or later, decide he must—to come forth. So back to Maracaybo, back to his {own handsome house in which Cap- |tain IBlood had established his quar- came Jters, came the Deputy-Governor those defeated victors of that short,|jeave the Admiral’s answer. terrible fight. No sooner had he departed than Captain Blood went to give his sur- lup leaped Cahusac, who had been of geon's skill to the wounded, among|the council assembled to receive the whom he remained engaged until late [ Admiral’s answer. afternoon. Then he returned to t “Your feol lotter it have seal' the house of the Governor, to indite oom of us all,” said he. very schoiarly letter in purcst (as tiltian to Don el "+ *I have show r excellency this morning of wh am eapa " he wrote. “Although outnum more than two to one in men, in ships, and in guns, T have sunk or captured the vessels of the great flect with which you were come to, themselves, and the gered under her bulwar Meanwhile had fared even worse with the frailer Infanta Although hit by one shot only, this had crushed her larboard timbers on the waterline, Out of range, at last, they joined by the FElizabeth and the San Felipe, to consider their position. It was a crestfallen - ( who presided over that moned council held on the poop-deck of the Arabella in the brilllant morn- ing sunshine. He was compelled to nothing remained but to Maracaybo, there to refit before attempting to foree the j Bage. And so. back to Maracaybo that to admit return the sk ¢, as the FFrenchman paused | breath. “I was hoping you'd |ideas yourself. But since ye're so | despe v concerned to save your skin, you and those that think like you are welcome to leave ns. Ye have red by from ns.” “It is to my men to decide, sac started, swallowing h fury, DANGER!| leaving the others to | peace. and deliberate in A sneeze, a cough or any other symptom of a cold is Nature's danger | eignal. It tells you to beware of trouble ahead. It warns ycu of bron- chitis and possible complications, of the danger of pneumonia, and the terrors of the deadly influenza. But you need not be afraid if you heed the danger signal and act quickly. tain Ilood agal “We hvae take' vou a Captain,” he announced, sullenness and defiance. {explained. my men to the Spanish Admiral with between Cahusac i “Have ye done?” quotn Blood quiet- | for | some | shall have the sloop as a parting gift | Cahu- | on that stalked out to talk to them, | Next morning early he sought Cap- | your word, | | | l to | “Last night I send one of | LS SR R a letter, “Fruit-a-Hives" Restored Him 1o Perfect Heallh Sovrs Rovarvox, Veswony, “Ahout three years ago, I began fo sufferwith Indigestion, Food soured in my stomach, causing me fo beleh; and I had terrible heart burn, 1 was knoeked out and good for nothing, when I read about *'Fruit. a-tives” and sent fora box, To my surprise and gladuess, I noticed im- provement and I continued the use of “Fruit-a-tives” or “Fruit Laxe Tablets" with the result that a dozen boxesmademefeellikea newperson”, CHAS, ¥, HARTWELL, 20e & box, 6 for §2 30, trial size, 250, At dealers or from FRUIT-A-TIVES Limited, OGDENSBURG, N.Y, This n He w d that with Cahusac flung away that empty-handed Meanwhile, A I make him offer to capltu- | gelyy them, and it was late it he will accord us passage with the honers of war receive his answer, this on the understatnding carry nothing away sall at once,” “Non vovage,” sald Captain Hlood, and with a nod he turned on his heel again to resume his interrupted medi- tation, we We Nefore noon he was under way with his followers, | some sixty dejected men who had al-[in their holds, the buccaneers weighed | lowed themselves to be persuaded by him inte parture, de- no sooner had the de- that If you will hold your hand for three days, | will undertake ta raise the ransem you demani Miguel de Espinosa refuses.’ Punetually on the third day Deputy-Governer was back in Mara caybo with his mules laden with plate | and money to the value demanded and & herd of a hundred head of gatile |driven in by negro slaves These bullocks were to those of the company who ordinar- Ay were boucan-hunters, and there. (fore skilled in the curing of meats. {and for hest part of a week thereafter {they were husy at the waterside with {the quartering and salting of ear canses, While this was doing on the ene hand and the ships were Leeing re. fitted for sea on the other, Captain Mood was pondering the riddle on the Solution of which his own fate de- pended Rinee for hours all ha leparture, the ast twenty-four n in readiness for o was nothing new te decided to move next morning | Buch was Captain Blood's assurs ance of suceess that he immediately freed the prisoners held as hostages. His only precaution against those re. leased prizoners was to order them into the church and there lock them up, to await deliverance at the hands In' those who should presently be com- ing Into the eity, Then ,all helng aboard the three ships, with the treasure safely stowed the bar, plraguas anchor and stood out for rach vessel towing three astern, The Admiral, beholding their state- these delicious Nut Fondant Bars which Don | the handed over, were headed for the shore, at & peint where it was densely wooded to water's edge. The eyes of the . dering Admiral followed them until the foliage screened them from his view, Then he lowered his telescope and leoked at his efficers. (Continued in Our Next lssue.) Tigers and Middies to ay at Baltimore, Oct. 27 Annapolis, Md,, Jan, 11,—1t was an- nounced at the Naval Academy last evening that a definite agreement had heen reabhed for the playing of the feotball game with Princeton on Oet, 17 next in the Raltimore Stadium, The agreement was reached yesterday ifternoon at a conference in Baiti. wore at which Commander Douglas 1., Howard represented the Academy and Princeton was represented by W, R, Murray, its director of athleties, it was stated several weeks ago that Princeton and the Naval Academy would play football in 1923, but the playing grounds were not definitely agreed upon untll yesterday, Wfim no Iy advance in the full light of meon. their salls gleaming white in the glare lof the sunlight, rubbed his long, lean hands in satisfaction, and laughed through his teeth, He turned to issue orders, and the fort became lively as a hive, The guns were manned, the gunners al- ready Kindling fuses, when the bue. caneer fleet, whilst still heading for Palomas, was observed to bear away to the west. 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