The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 5, 1923, Page 13

“by Rafael Sabatini| : Qpane SARATINI voasel staggered under the rending - s right be |impact with which the other came At last Pee eine prow to{hurtling alongside, ‘There was a rat-| doo Cae to prow, Don Miguel|tle and clank of metal as a dozen | hi me trumpeter, who had|grapnels fell, and tore and caught in waa, fo the Tferedeck and stood | the timbers of the Milagrosa, and tho Lage ‘eg famntral’s elbow. The| Spaniard was firmly gripped in the the silver trumpet which | tentacles of the English ship, ithe signal for the broad:| Beyond her and now well astern SM poth ships. But even as ho/the veil of smoke was rent at last LK to his Ups, the admiral |and the Hidalga was revealed in des- pees is arm, to arrest him, Only|Derate case, She was bilging fast, Ihe perceived What Was so| With an ominous list to larboard, and should have been to an it could be no more than a question seafighter: he had de-|of moments before she settled down, Jong and Captan! Blood | Tho attention of her hands was be- uvered him. In at-|ing entirely given to a desperate en: to fire now upon the Eng-|deavor to launch the boats in time. | the Milagrosa and her con,| Of this Don Miguel's anguished : aiso be firing Into each |eyes had no more than a fleeting but st Wifoo late he ordered his helms.|comprehensive glimpse before his Yo put tho tiller hant over and|own decks were invaded by a wild, ee the ship to larboard, as a pre-| yelling swarm of boarders from the to maneuvering for a less| grappling ship, Never was conft- \aatt ition of attack, At that|dence so quickly changed tnto de- jBeMpoment the Arabella seemed to] spair, never was hunter more swiftly ‘as sho swept by. Eighteen converted into helpless prey, For fem each of her flanks emp-|helplesy the Spaniards were, The o at the point-blank fans into the hulls of the two Span: ve thn grim confusion and tur. the waist below arose a spanish blasphemies ‘screams of maimed men. The va slowly ahead, a rent in her bulwarks; her t was shattered, fragments of fe yants hanging in tho netting below. Her beak-head was in and a shot had smashed Jato the great cabin, reducing it ued From Yesterday) had caught them almost unawares in the moment of confusion following the punishing broadside they had sus- tained at such short range. invaders. But the Spaniards, never at their best in close-quarter fighting, were here demoralized by knowledge of the enemies with whom they had to deal, Their hastily formed ranks were smashed before they could be |steadied; driven across the waist to | the break of the poop on the one side, Mi yan, and peering ever and anon |and up to the forecastle bulkheads on Bie the curtain of smoke that was the other, the fighting resolved itself leting slowly astern, in his anxiety jinto a series of skirmishes between leagertain how it might have fared |mroups. And whilst this was doing ‘vith the Hidalga. above, another horde of buccaneers | Solely, anc ghostly at first thru | *Warmed thru the batch to the main dat lifting haze, loomed the outline deck below to overpower the gun | ‘pon Migue! was bawling orders | He was armed in backand-breast of | awiftly executed boarding maneuvers | For al moment there was a valiant effort by | some of Dof Miguel's officers to rally | the men for a stand against these | brief fight was spent banner of Cantilo come fluttering down from the masthead. A bue canoer had slashed the halyard with his cutlass. ‘The boarders were In Possession, and on the upper deck groups of disarmed Spaniards stood huddled now lko herded sheep. | Suddenly Miss Bishop recovered from her nausea, to lean forward | staring wildeyed, whilst If possibly her cheeks turned yet a doadiier hue | than, they had been already, | Picking his way daintily thru that | shambles in the waist came a tal) | man with a deep tanned face that was shaded by a Spanish headpiece, | ey saw tho | black steel beautifully damascencd | with golden arabesques, Over this, | like @ stole, he wore a sling of scarlet silk, from each end of which hung a} silvermounted pistol, Up the broad | companion to the quarter-deck he | came, moving with easy assurance, Until he stood before the Spanish ad | miral, Then ho bowed stiff and for: | mally, A crisp, metallic voice, speak Ing perfect Spanivh, reached thone two spectators on the poop, and in creased the admiring wonder in jWhich Lord Julian had observed the man’s approach, “We meet again at last, Don Miguel,” it said. “I hope you are satisfied, Altho the meeting may not | be exactly as you plotured it, at least it has been very ardently sought and desired by you.” Speechless, livid of face, his mouth distorted and his breathing labored, Don Miguel de Espinosa recelved the irony of that man to whom he attrib: uted his ruin and more beside, ‘Then jhe uttered an inarticulate cry of |rage, and his hand swept to his | sword, But even ax his fingers closed upon the hilt, the other's closed upon | | his wrist to arrest the action, “Calm, Don Miguel!” he was quiet: ly but firmly enjoined. “Do not reck: lessly invite the ugly extremes such 4s you would, yourself, have prac: tleed had the situation been re. versed," A moment they stood looking into each other's eyes, “What do you Intend by me?" the Spaniard enquired at last, his voice hoarse, Captain Blood shrugged, Tho firm Ups smiled a little. “All that [intend has been already accomplished. And lest tt increase your rancour, I beg you to observe that you have brought ‘a ship; gradually the lines of her | crews at thelr stations there, fall became more and more/ On the quarterdeck, towards which iy defined as she swept nearer |an overwhelming wave of buccaneers fi poles all bare save for the|was sweeping, Ied by a one-eyed of canvas on her sprit. giant, who was naked to the walst, | P Tastenlt of holding to her course as | stood Don Miguel, numbed by despair | Miguel had fully expected sho|and rage. Above and behind him on| maid, the Arabella had bone about|the poop, Lord Jullan and Miss/ ‘cover of the smoke, and sailing | Rishop looked on, his lordship aghast | it entirely upon yourself, You would have it #0." He turned and pointed | to the boats, which his men were heaving from the boom amidships. | “Your boats are being launched. You are at liberty to embark in them with | your men before we scuttle this ship, | der are the shores of Hixpaniola You should make them safely. And lee in the same direction the/at the fury of this cooped-up fight esa, was converging sharply |ing, the lady's brave calm conquered | ‘her across the wind, so sharply jat last by horror so that she reeled dimost before the frenzied Don | there sick and faint | had realized the situation, his! Soon, however, the rage of that ADVENTURES OF THE TWINS | | ‘| Z| | } | | cent, fi fifhis was the next riddle the Rid- } lady asked: Ws Iwas going to Saint Ives, fiet a person wit n eyes, i eyes but ne'er a head, my friend? I promptly| “What h sev | “Was it something to eat?” asked Tommy Tucker, looking up from his piece. x ai Riddl_ Lady.! “They t sometimes to put in stones, your white bread when they bake Shad no blood and he had no | jt.” | tones, ‘Do they put St skin'was brown, his flesh was Myiiere he stood ‘midst ¥ mud and in ple crust?" | asked Jack Horner. | “No, I never heard of them do. Yetvhe was a goodly sight. ing that,” she remarked. Wean't shake hands, good sir? Dail te, . The Baker Man Kept m te Tve none as you can| himself, “Yeast, flour, — and shortening—yeast, flour, hops, | NY feet, nor head, nor legs, nor | Mlk, shortening and it. No, that | an, |.can't be it—none of'them can be it PM fewe-or none, of beauty's|S8¥ Missez Riddle Lady, are you| is thactas, |sure you know how to make bread?” | “Bure I dof’ she declared. ¥ | wee (an ask you out to dine,| Nan Nick iked or fried I'm quite divine | thought. as toothsome boiled or|the cook, at home many timer be-| . |fore she and Nick had started on aimee me creamed OF /travels into Fairyland. Suddenly it - popped into her head—what it was. | 4 ‘ But she never said a word. She me zou care to try my favor,|and Nick had won so many prizes, | ily do me one poor favor, | g} ted to the Riddle Land at my eyes and ering to} hops, milk} and | “I know! I knowr | " eried tne Baker | Wi Man suddenty. | “What a dummy I’ve been. not to guess It's al potato, of course “Right! #aid they're al Mok him home Pardon, Bi eves 1 planted What grew ther I begged his} aha Riddie Lady. “Dick Fed Cap, please see that a| but of potatoes ts delivered to} the Baker Man at once.” | (To Be Continued) } ‘opyright, 1923, by Seattle Star) | my garden. | do you sup- | he pointed after For This Man Phil ot Clev FinplesBrokeOut. 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Get you home, | to Spain, Don Miguel, and to con-| cerns that you unde 1 better | than this trade of the sea | For « long moment the defeated admiral continued to stare his in silence, then, still withou is. he went down t com) seering like a drunken man, his useless rapler clattering behind him His conqueror, who had not even troubled to disarm him, watched him go, then turned and faced those two immediately above him on the poop. | Lord Julian might have observed, had he been leas taken up with other things, that the fellow seemed sud denly to stiffen, and that he turned) pale under his deep tan. A moment he stood at gaze; then suddenly and| swiftly he came up tho steps, Lord! Jullan stood forward to meet him. | “Yo don’t mean, sir, that you'll let that Spanish scoundrel go free?” he erled. ‘The gentieman in tho black corse. let appeared to beconfe aware of lordship for the first time. “And who the devil may you be?” he asked, with a marked Irish ac: ‘And what business may it be of yours, at all?” His lordship conceived fellow’s truculence a’ proper deference must be correcte¢ T am Lord Julian Wade,” he an-| nounced, with that object. | the announcement made | that the tha she was forev “Are you, indeed! Then perhaps | ye'll explain what the plague you're | doing aboard this ship?" | Lord Jul afford the did no she “He took jong wit You are acquainted with Mias Bishop?” cried his lordship, passing ow had Nn controlled himself to atoin, He y and !mpatiently. you prisoner, did he Miss Bishop there?* from surprise to sur But this mannerie stepped past him, and wag making a leg to the lady, who on hi le re. mained unresponsive and forbidding | to the point of scorn. Observing this he turned to answer Lord question “I had that honor once,” said he. | Julian's “But it seems that Miss Bishop has a| fin again Lord Julian interposed. mony three }been urged upon ate recklessness Into hi plied the final tn THE Twinkle with rhinestone, or it metal applique or metal lace trim- mings—or twinkle especially bril- | Mantly with metal brocade in gold or silver or many colored iridescent | brightness, | The gowns that aro not metal cloth are likely to be velvet and these velvet frocks are trimmed with rhinestone beading and with gold lace or silver fringe. | Chiffon, georgette and taffeta are also worn—especially in frilled dano- ing frocks—and they use the same trimmings, | j you. I beg that you'll make haste. Woe are about to scuttle this hulk. | He turned slowly to depart. But Con. taining his indignant amazement, his lordship delivered himself coldly “Captain Blood, you disappoint mo. had hopes of great things for you.” “Go to the devil, aaid Captain Blood, turning on his heel, and so de- | parted. CHAPTER XX Thief and Pirate ea the poop of Captain Blood " tepi his ship alone in the growing golden rad! great poop lantern in whi ad just lighted the three lamps. all was peace. The signs s battle had been effaced. swabbed, and/ dusk, and of <he About of the the decks had been lorder was restored above and below A group of men squatting about the | main hatch were drowaslly chanting, | their hardened natures softened, per-| haps, by the calm and beauty of the} night. They were the men of the| larboard watch, walting for eight] belle which was imminent, Captain Blood did not hear them; he did not hear anything save the] of those cruel words which had. |dubbed him thief and pirate. | Thief and pirate! It in an odd fact of human nature} that a man may for years p nd yet be his own rfect har n first, | he had with his be years ago, at Tortuga, the adventurer’s hich he had followed ever} ce, he had known in what opinion | Arabella Bishop must hold him if he Only the conviction lost to him, by ucing a certain desper nou! had sup: aise to drive him pon hin rover’s course. (Continued Tomorrow) ‘HAD BAD COUGH AND PAINS IN HER LUNGS Well now, gaining weight and strength; does own work, | a 6 worse until I had pains in my bronchial shorter memory.” jtubes and all through my lungs. I His lips were twisted Into a wry smile, and there was pain in the b eyes that gleamed no viv hia black brows, the mockery of his voice, thig it was the mockery alone t was perceived by Miss Bishop; she “{ do not number thieves trates among my acquaintance, Cap. | in Blood,” said she; whereupon his lor hip exploded in excitement “Captain Blood!” he cried. you Captain “Wr Blood his mind on other number thieves and pirates among my acquain The cruel phri I filled his brain, re-echoing and rever berating there. But Lord Julian would not be de. nied. He caught him by the sleeve with one hand, whilst with the other | the retreating, de- | jected figure of Don Miguel | “Do I understand that ye're not go t Spanish scoundrel?” ould I be hanging “Are t else were asked the question weart things, “T do no’ ye supposing “what for : cause he's just a damned pirate as I can prove, as I have proved al said Blood ,and Lord Jullan|* velled at the sudden haggardness ntenance that had bi m merciful Don Miguel goes free.” Lord Julian gasped. “After I've told you that he has done his sinking of the Ro Ma hia treatment of me—of us?” Julian protested indignantly “{ am not in the service of Eng jand, or of any nation, sir, And I am| not concerned with any wrongs her ith my flag may suffer.” His lordship furious glance that blazed at him of Blood’s haggard But the | { passion faded As recoiled before the| arisen, I the captain added: } “it aboard my ship, I st get hundred ti resented it 11 had and| my tur | medicine still gain first pfeas' natural bowel recomm Wonderful for weal you are urg sion under this Sold by d verti ad cough, could not sleep at was so sore through m I could hardly stand ted three different, docto! heir medicine, bul did better. 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