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(Continued From Yesterday) As tho first glimmorings of opal escent dawn dissolved the darkness, the straining eyes of the buccaneers were able to make out the tall rig: winx of tho 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 uniikely that they used a vigilance keener than thelr careless habit. Certain it js 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 them: selves, Wolverstone's sloop Was al- most upon them, speeding under can. Yas which had been crowded to her yards the moment the galleons had loomed into view Straight for the admirat's great | fect, then going on and about, he had | ship, the Encarnacion, did Wolver: stone head the sloop; then, lashing down the helm, he kindled from a match that hung ready lighted beside him a great toreh of thickly plaited straw that had been steeped in bitu men First ts glowed, then he swung it round his head, it burst into as lightened, and jisting now to star by Rafael Sabatini! ° 2, SABATING Sooo NEC SEN Te ee fixed, and then had sped, himnolf, to. the starboard gunwale, Thence he flung his flaming torch down the Hearest Kaping souttle Into the hold, and thereupon dived overboard In htt turn, to be picked up presently by the longbont from the Arabella, But before that happened the sloop was a thing of fire, from which explostons were hurling blasing combustibles aboard the Encarnacion, and long tongucs of flame were licking out to onsume the galleon, beating back hose daring Spaniards who, too late, strove desperately to out her adrift. And whilst the most formidable vessel of the Spanish fleet was thus doing put out of action at the outset, Blood had satted in to open fire upon jthe Salvador, First athwart her j hawap he had loosed a broadside that had swept her decks with terrific ef. |PUt A second broadside into her hull jat short range. Leaving her thus halt crippled, temporarily, at least, and keeping to his course, he had be- iidered the crew of the Infanta by | @ couple of shots from the chasers on. his beak-head, then crashed alongside to grapple and board her, whilst Hag board, he fetched her about, and went staggering after tho retreating Arabolla, followed by tho fire of the fort, which did them, however, little further damage Out of range, at last, they lay to, Joined by the Blimabeth and the San Felipe, to consider thelr position, CHAPTER XVIL The Dupes Tt Was a crestfallon Captain Blood who presided over that hastily sum. moned counell held on the poop-deck of the Arabella in the brilliant morn ing sunshine, It was, ho declared afterwards, one of the bitte: mo ments in hiv career, Me way com pelied to digest the fact that having conducted the engagement with a skill of which he might justly be proud, having destroyed a force so superior in ships and guns and men that Don Miguel de pinoka had justifiably deemed it overwhelming, his victory was vendered barren by three lucky shots from an unsuspect ed battery by whieh they had been surprised” And barren must their victory remain until they could re duce the fort that Mill remained to defend the passage, At first Captain Blood was for put ting his ships in order and making the attempt there and then, But the others dissuaded him from betraying an impetuosity usually foreign to him, and born entirely of chagrin and mortification, emotions wh will render Unreasonable ( most rea sonable of men, With returning calm, he surveyed the situation. ne Arabella was no longer in case to put at | Volipo way almost ax norely damaged by tho fire whe had sustained from tho buccaneers before surrendering. | Cloarly, then, he was compelled’ to admit in the end that nothing re mainod but to return to Maracaybo, there to refit the ships before at tempting to force the passage. And #0, back to Maracaybo camp thone defeated victors of that short, terriblo fight, And if anything had been wanting further to exasperate their leader, he had it in the posal mism of which Cahusae did not econ omixe expremions, ‘Transported at |firat to heights of dizzy satisfaction | by the swift and easy victory of thelr inferior force that morning, the | Frenchman was now plunged back | and more deeply than ever into th abysu of hopelessness, And his mood Infected at least the main body of | his own followers, “It iy the end,’ he told Captain Blood, “This time we are ehockmat- mated.” “TH take the liberty of remindin you that you mld the same befor Captain Blood answered him as pa: | tently ax he could, “Yet you've se what you've seen, and you'll not deny that in whips and guns we are return ing stronger than we went Look at our present fleet, man.’ “Lam jooking at it," said “Pinh! You're a white-live } when all is said,” } “You call me a ¢ } “V take that liberty | ‘The Breton glared at him, breath | ing bard, But he had no mind to ask jwatinfuction for the insult, He knew | too well the kind of satisfaction that Captain Blood was likely to afford | husac od cur} | to wea; the Infanta was merely kept | ERE'S the Ace Sport Cap—the best Cap value bar none. Every thread pure, high quarter blood worsted yarn. Fits snug tight to any head: never loses its shape; keeps your boy cozy warm all winter long. Good looking, Can be worn up or down. Any colors; school and club stripes, If your dealer hasn't the ce Sport Cap send us his name and 75c and we'll supply you. The Lion Knitting Mills Co. Cleveland, Ohio SPORT AP 25 1-TRADE MARX REG. him. He ed the fate of Le a just as the slight vessel went | herpe was doing the like by the San | carey ightlnyiena enw: Vawneur confined himnelf to afloat by artifice, and the San} " fs Soles act ie teeta he crashing and bumping and scraping against the side of the whilst rigging became tangled with Pigging, to the straining of wards and snapping of spars overhead. His atx men stood at their posts on the lar: doard side, stark naked, each armed with a grapnel, four of them on the gunwale, two of them aloft. At the Moment of inmipact t © grapnels were slung to bind the Spaniard to them, those aloft being intended to complete and preserve the entangle ment of the ringing Aboard the rudely awakened gal leon all was confused hurrying, secur: rying, trumpeting, and shouting. At | had encouraged the other two undam: | first there had been a desperately burried attempt to get up the anchor, but this was abandoned as being al ready too tate; and conceiving them. selves on the point of being boarded, the Spaniards stood to arms to ward off the onslaught. coming intrigued them, being so dif. ferent from the usual tactics of the buccane Further { ued were they hy the sight of the gigantic Wol- ked along his ming torch held ad completed his spect the slow: h a grea ‘ot unt k did they he matches—and then on: ficers rende r dered a boarding party on to the he b that stone overboard afte * grapnels w Perfect Shoulders x.s Arms Nothing equals the beautiful, soft, pearly white gy Saat ge Soin ental Cream ren- ders to the shoulders andarms. Covers skin blemishes, Will notrubofl, Far rior to powders. b White-Flesh-Rachel. Sp 0 fer Trial Sue $ Gouraud's Oriental Cream FOR USELESS FURNITURE Must Have Utility or Beauty to De- r serve Space. By MARIAN MOORE In these days when apartment rentals are calculated at so much per foot, every plece of furniture must pay for the space it occuples the comfort, convenience or beauty which It contributes to the home. No longer Is tt expensive to throw away a hideous, inconvenient or uncomfortable object; it Is real- ly expensive to give it house room, Pieces of furniture which are both useful and beautiful sre the ideal toward which we are now striving, Artistic Hall Setting, and we are getting nearer the goal every day. Here js a hall grouping that is successful in combining beauty and utility. The low cabinet serves as @ console table, and it holds—well all the things that a woman loves to put into a eabinet. As for the element of beauty, it Is handsome enough to make any woman proud of her hallway The enbinet is of walnut, elabo rately carved and paneled, with drop handles of antique silver on the doors. The mirror has a wal Hut frame, also elaborately carved. with an jonal decoration in the off painting panel at the top The candlesticks are of walnut bearing mottled can and black. The * of a beautiful rich (Write to Marian Moore, care of this newspap for advice or Infor. mation about home furnishing or decorating, sending stamped, ad Greased envelope for reply.) t sing table in the Answer: Good idea, room is sufficl Cor if the ba’ tly large yright, American Homes Bureau, flagship, | | Felipe. And in all this time not a single ot had the Spaniards contrived to 80 completely had they been taken by surprise, and so swift and | paralyzing had been Blood's stroke, Boarded now and faced by the | steel of the buccaneers, neither the Felipe nor the Infanta offered |much resistance. The sight of their jadmiral in flames, and the Salvador | drifting crippled from the action, had! }80 Utterly disheartened them that | they accounted themselves vanquish ed, and laid down their arms. + If by 4 resolute stand the Salvador | aged vessels to resistance, the Span Hards might well have retrieved the } fortunes of the day. But it happened |that the Salvador was handicapped pid | hoe vr (th! What aroma! in true Spanish fashion by being the | treasure ahip of the fleet, with plate | pieces. Intent above all upon saving }this from falling into the hands of he pirates, Don Miguel, with & remnant of his crew, had mean. while transferred him aboard her. |headed her down towards Palom and the fort tha jaxe. This fort the admiral, in tho: jays of waiting, had taken the p }ea etly to ee who, “ied the pass arrison and re be purpose he had strip. Its slowness tn/on board to the value of some 50,000| ped the fort of Cojero, farther out on } the « which ine # entire nament 1 some cannon-royal of no suspicion of gave nfanta, t , Captain accompanied by us Manned now + the command n chasers of returned pursuers: herself, coming ur began 4 down in of her hull e in boat jand wome by swimming, the admiral got his crew Palomas as } best he could. | 4 then, as Captain Blood accounted the victory won, and that his way out of that trap to the open wa beyond jay clear, the fort mud |denty revealed Its formid and ut terly unsuspected strength Wiha roar the carfinons-royal prock ned jthemgeives, and the Arabelia stag | gered under a blow that smashed her jbulwarks at the waist and scattered | death and confusion among the sea |men guthered there. Had not Pitt, her master, the whipstaff and pu hard over to swing her « | to starboard, she must still worse from the nd that followed fast upon the first ile it had fared even wo th the frailer Infanta Altho hi one shot this had crushed her larboard timbers on the wat line. starting a leak that must pres ently have filled her, but for the prompt action of the experienced Yorvitie in ordering her larboard guns to be flung overboard. This oha: whic Th a « fire she ash i eit helm hi ave wu! 4 nec volle: Mean me Six $2 Hair-Beauty Treatments for 50c He NewYork woman of fashion pays « Fifth Avenue price to an exclusive hairdresser to give her hair lustrous beauty, And the hairdresser uses the beanty-magic of a touch of henna in the shampoo, HENNAFOAM SHAMPOO con- tains the same secret of lus- trons hair. 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And that, I think, | jis all I have to say to you this morn If you for sore you'll soon find that the doll j}& complete and very modish wafd robe of her are going to dress a doll own Here is a modern doll's outfit—an envelope — chemise fashionable frock with straight ‘ruffledfront and back panels, a cape with malig eer flung cursing, and | went to take the feeling of his men Captain Blood went off to give his surgeon'y skill to the wounded, | among whom he remained until late afternoon, Then, at last, he went ashore, his mind made up, and re } turned to the house of the governor, | | to indite a trueulemt but very schol arly letter in purset Castilian to Don | Miguel, ‘ “I have Cahusac away shown your exceliency this | morr what I am capable," he wrote, “Altho outnumbered by more than two to one in men, in ships and }in guna, L have sunk or captured the vessels of the great fleet with whic you were to come to Maracaybo to deatre that you are no! in cane to boast, even when y enforcemonts on the Santo Nino reach you from La Guayra. | From what b curred, may | longer ar ae you I hat must occur ur ex . t I am a humane man vodahed ¢ proceeding to dea! fort, whieh yeu may deem invinc have dealt already with which you deemed invincible ¢ human! ant offer as I fleet. ‘ ¢ tern 1x n elty of Maracaybo and f ving behind me ken ‘ ‘Can you gue ke was the next 1 the naideration um of Lady eeked t paying me 0,000 y adit elgt Hie aw a ran: | Nddle ‘Town me My om, unmo pris h R retain rt noex whit the FREE motte to ter 00 Gray one lock of hair H air \ OL, Greasy, sticky hairt—no indeed, my restorer is clean as water only « While the use them. dainty way to to your gray halr Mary 7. « It leaves your with absalu of, Restor that pu hould be so terms yon me rt I warn you that quarter from ux nh ing A thereby asity of t Impose at the a may nd that I heap of of Mar The lette shall beg leas a written, he bade them bring | he prisot Mar: aken at Gibr him, he mf the deput m amor Dis governo », ir Textorer jean, soft end Muffy, nothing to wash or rub f even and natural in al lights, no ® ing oF discoloration, ed or discolored hair Just as surely tored an hair naturally gray. 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