New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 12, 1923, Page 11

(Continued From Our Last Tssue) “'What the devil dees it mean?" he asked, None answered him, all puszled as he was himself, After a little while, BEsteban, who kept his eyes on the water, plueked at his uncle's sleve, “There they £0!" he cried, and pointed, And there, indeed, went the pira- £uas on their way back to the ships, But now it was observed that they were empty, save for the men who rowed them, Thelr armed cargo had been left ashore, Tack to the ships they pulled, to return again presently with a fresh lead of armed men, wheh similarly they conveyed to Palomas. And at last one of the Spanish officers ven- tured an explanation: “They are going to attack us by land—to attempt to storm the fort" “Of course.” The Admiral smiled, “I had guessed it. Whom the would destroy they first make mad. But by evening the Admiral's equanimity was not quite so perfect, By then the piraguas had made a helf-dozen journeys with their loads of men ,and they had landed alwo— as Den Miguel had clearly observed through his telescope—at least a dozen guns, His countenance no longer smiled; it was a little wrathrul, “Who was the fool who told me that they nember but three hundred men In all? They have put at least twice that number ashore already.” Amazed as he was, his amazement would have been deeper had he been told the truth: that there was not a single buccaneer or a single gun ashore on Palomas. The deception had been complete. Don Miguel pould not guess that the men he had beheld in those piraguas were always the came; that on the journeys to the shore they sat and stood upright in full view; and that on the journeys back to the ships, they lay invisible at the bottom of the boats, which were thus made to appear empty. In the last hours of fading daylight, the Spaniard did precisely what Cap- tain Blood so confidently counted that they would do—precisely what they must do to meet the attack, prepara- tions for which had been so thorough- ly simulated. They set themselves 2o labor like the damned -at those ponderous guns emplaced to command the narrow passage out to sea. + ! Thus, when night fell they stood to thelir guns, And whilst they waited thus, under gover of the darkness and as the tide began to ebb, Captain Blood’s fleet weighed anchor quietly; and, as once ‘before ,with no more canvas spread than-that which ithalr - spirits could ‘ghrry, so as to give them steering way /~—and even these having been painged ‘plack—the four vessels, without™ a fight showing, groped their way by soundings to the channel which led to that narrow passage out to sea. » The El and the'. Infanta, leading side by side, were' almost abreast of . the fort ‘before their ehadogry bulks and, the soft gurgle of water'at thelr prows were detected by the Spaniards, whose attention until that moment had been all on the other side. The FElizabeth emptied her larbaard guns into the fort as she was spent past on the swift ebb. Some slight damage was sustained by Blood's fleet. But by the time the Spaniards hmd resolved thelr con- fusion into some order of dangerous offense, that fleet was through the narrows and standing out to sea. Thus was Don Miguel dé Espinosa lett to chew the bitter end of a lost ortunity. opg“ the coast of Oruba, at the mouth of the Gulf of Venezuels, Cap- atin Blood's fleet came upon the be- Jated Santo Nino, speeding under full _sall to re-enforce Don Miguel at Murz: being as bo. u‘;t first the Spaniard had conceived that she was meeting the victorious \fleet of Don Miguel, returning trom the destruction of the pirates. en /at comparatively close, quarters the pennon of St. George soared to the masthead to disillusion her, the Banto Nino chose the better part of valor, and struck her flag. Captain Blood ordered her crew to take to the boats, and land them- gelves at Oruba or wherevgr else they “pleased. Dismissing the Captain, who went over the side of the Santo Nino, Cap- ain Blood proceeded to investigate the value of this further prize. 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Rafuel Sabatind out of the dark bowels of the ship and stood blinking in the sunlight, And those that trawled out after him—the remnants of his ocrew-— eursed him horribly for the pusillani- mity which had brought them into the ignominy of owing their deliver- ance to those whom they had deserted a8 lost beyond hope, Their sloop had encountered and had been sunk three days ago by the Santo Nino, CHAPTER XVIII Milagrosa The affalr at Maracayho Is to be considered as Captain Blood's bueca- neering masterpiece, ‘The fame which he had enjoyed be- fore this' great as it already was, is dwarfed into Insignificance by the fame that followed, In Tortuga, during the months he spent there refitting the three ships he had captured from the fleet that had gone out to destroy him, he found himselt almost an object of worship in the eyes of the wild Brethren of the Coast. When next he salled away it was with a fleet of five fine UNDER THE COVER OF THE DARKNESS CAPTAIN = BLOOD'S FLEET WEIGHED ANCHOR VERY QUIETLY. shipg; in wliich went something over a th‘Jutand ‘men. “The three cap- tur? nigh vessels he had renamed with' & Certdin scholarly humor, the Clot chesis, and Atropos. I’l‘g#p’ the pews of ~this fiéet, lolm upon news of ‘e Spanish Ad 's dpfeat at Mavacaybo, pro- meghing of a sensution, .* ., dug n the 16th September of the year | 1688»ra/memorable year in the annals of England—three ships were aflogt upon the Caribbean, which in their .coming conjunctions were te work out | the fortunes of several persons. The first of these was Captain Blood's flagship, the Arabella, which had "been separated from the buc- caneer fleet in a hurricane of the Lesser Antilles, The second ship was the -great Spanish ‘galleon, the Milagrosa, which, accompanied by the smaller frigate Hidalga, lurked off the Caymites. Aboard the Milagrosa sailed the-vin- dictive Don Miguel. The third and last of these ships with which we are at present con- cerned was an English man-of-war, which was at anthor in the French port of 8t. Nicholas. She was on her way from Plymouth to' Jamaica, and carried on board a very distinguished passenger in the person of Lord Julian Wade, who came charged with a mis- sion of some consequence and deli- cacy. My Lord Sunderland, the Secretary DOINGS OF THE DUFFS | WONDER WHAT KIND oOF KIDS THERE ARE IN THIS NEW NEIGHBORWOOD P HERE COMES ONE- P'LL ASK HIM |F HE WANTS TO GO SLEDIN’ - salisfaction. FORE WAl Was and a lady. On his side, with his Colone! Bishop wha for now had been the mest planted in Barbados The Royal Mary——the vessel heas- ing that ingenious, tolerably accom- plished, mildly dissolute .entirely ele. gant envey made a good passage to|was warped out of Bt, Nicholas. 8t Nieholas, her last port of eall bes fore Jamalea, It was wnderstood that as & preliminary lLord Julian |ever saw this fellow Blood, who was influential [the amosphere Y the great her. that they should have been attracted should report himself to the Deputy- |at one time on your uncle's planta. say?" Governor &t Port Royal, whence at!tions as a slave" | need he might have himself conveyed I saw him often, I to Tortuga, Now it happened that |very well" the Neputy-Govegnor's niece had come to Bt Nicholas some months earlier | find him?* M & visit to some relatives. and so that she might escape the insufferable [an unfortunate gentleman.' heat of Jamalch in that season, The “You were acquainted time for her return being now at|story?" band, & passage was sought for her| “He told it me aboard the Royal Mary, and in view |esteemed him- of her uncle's rank and position with which he bore adversity," promptly aceorded, lordship laughed a little Lord Julian hailed her advent with grown vrieh, I hear. His knew him with his| His| future ~ America's Economy Clothes ~ A Rousing Scess! some years |title and position he bore abeut him |she, world | with pa that was lttle more than a name to | d'Ogeror It is not theréfore wonderful |tuga®" to each other before the Noyal Mary well proteeted, {I'm told she's a wild piece, At mate “I wonder new,"” he said, as they |for such a man as Dleod, He killed were sauntering on the poop, “if you |a man tp win her l | “He Kllled a man for her, do you There was horror new In her | | Levasseur. “And what manner of man did you and lleed's assoclate on & Blood coveted the girl, and killed u-| “In those days I esteemed him for | vasseur to win her" fatherdn-law, M. 4'Ogeron, has seen Miss Plshop was & young woman |0 thet™ “His future father-in-law ™ and stared at i lips “The same | velee, “Yes—a Freneh bueeaneer “Whe told yeu?" “A man who salled with them, “He has|"Such & man is best forgotten," ) (Continued in Our Next Issue,) N g S— 3 A Direct from the Makers The Great January Disposal of High Grade Hand -Tailored this low price. until you see them. 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