The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 18, 1923, Page 11

(Continued Tomorrow) Sho had turned her shoulder to him 0 that he should not seo her face, "T know, I know not sho sald fottly, Then after a pause she added tho question: “And you? What part has your lordship had in this—that my enoula incriminate yourself with “My part?" Again he heasttated, then plunged reokteasly on, as men do when determined to perform a thing they fear, “If I understood him arighy if he understood aright, Uimself, my part, tho entirely passive, WM! LONG the less effective, I im. plore you to observe that I but report | his own words, I say nothing for myself." His lordships unusual Rervousness was steadily increasing. “He thought, then—so he told me- Vhat my presence here had contribut- ed to his inability to redeem himself 4h your sight; and unless he were so xedeemed, then was redemption thing.” She faced him fully, a frown of rplexity bringing her brows togeth. er above her troubled eyes. “He thought that you had contrib. Uted?" she echoed. It was clear she Asked for enlightenment. He plung. ed on to afford it her, his glance a Uttle scared, his cheeks flushing. “Aye, and he said so in terms ‘Which told me something that I hop Above all things, and yet dare not be- Neve, for, God knows, I am no cox. comb, Arabella, first let me tell you how I was placed. T had gone aboard his ship to demand the Instant surrender of your uncle whom he held captive. Ho laughed “ing. He said... But} Wy Rafael Sabatint' © RAPARL, SABATINI ARRGT NEA SERVICE ine belong only to those who wronged, It is tho frenzy into which men whip themselves to justify an} jevil passion, havo | | At last It catne, slowly, deliverately, | the ungpeakable things attributed to | Peter Blood, Yesterday I had his own explanation of that tale of Le. yasseur that you hoard in St. Nich- jolas, And now thia,., this but |glvex mo confirmation of his truth | jand worth, To a scoundrel such 1s | I was too readily brought to believe | him, the act of which you have Just told me would have been impossible." | “That is my own opinion," satd | his lordship gently. “It must be. But even if it were | |not, that would now welgh for noth- What weighs--oh, so heavily | jand bitterly—Is the thought that but} for the words in which yesterday I |repelled him, he might have been | saved. If only I could have spoken | to him again before he went! 1 wait-| ed for him; but my uncle was with | jhim, and T had no suspicion that he |was going away again, And now he |i lost—-back at piracy, in which ultimately he will be taken and destroyed. And tho} It iy mine—mine “What are you saying? Tho onty| jagents were your uncle's hostility | jand his ows obstinacy which would not study compromise. You must} not blame yourself for anything." She swung to him with some tm. |pationce, her eyes aswim in tears, You can say that, and in spite of his | |message, which in itself tells how | much I was to blame! It was my | hia outlawry and | & wan permitted at last to soo Peter Blood in his tru relations to other mon, and that sight, vouchsafed ber 24 hours too lato, filled her with pity Gnd regret and yearning, Lord Julian knew enough of wom en to bo left In no further doubt, Ho bowed his head wo that sho might not seo tho anger In his eyes, for ay a man of honor he took shame tn that Anor which as a human being he could not repress And bectuse Nature in him was atronger—as (tia in most of uethan training, Lord Julian from that mo. Ment began, almost in apite of him, IT must have known {*°!f to practice something that was | |then, if I had not already learnt it, |“! to villainy, I rogrot to chronicle |awhile off Hispaniola, watching the \t of one for whom==if I have done him any sort of juatloe—you should have been concelving somo esteem, Tut the truth is that the lingering re mains of the regard in which he had held Peter Blood were choked by the desire to supplant and destroy a rival, He bad passed his word to Arabella that he would use his powerful influ. ence on Blood's behalf, I deplore to ot it down that not only did he for. got his pledge, but secretly set him. self to ald and abet Arabella's uncle in, tho plans ho laid for the trapping and undoing of the buccancer, Ho might reasonably have urged—had he been taxed with it—that he con. ducted himself precialy ax his duty panded, But to that he might have been answered that duty with We was but the slave of Jealousy in this, When the Jamatea fleet put to sea some few days tater; Lord Julian wailed with Coionei Bishop in y Admiral Craufurd’s flagship, Not only was there no need for either of them to go, but the deputy governor's duties actually demanded that he should remain asho whilst Lord Julian, as we know, was a usclen# man aboard a ship, Yet both aet out to hunt Captain Blood, each making of his duty a pretext for the satisfac tion of personal alma; and that com: mon purpose became a Ine between them, binding them in a sort of |friendship that must otherwine have [heen impouatble between men no dis |nimilar in breeding and in aspira- te ho hunt was up, They crulsed |Windward Passage, and suffering the | discomforts of the rainy season which had now net In, But they erulsed in vain, and after a month of it, return. ed empty-handed to Port Royal, | there to find awaiting them the most disquieting news from the Old World, The megalomania of Loula XIV had set Hurope In a blage of war. The French legionaries were ravaging the Rhine provinces, and Spain had join ed the nations leagued to defend themselves from the wild ambition of the King of France, And there was jworse than this: there were rumors jof elvil war in England, where the people had grown weary of the |bigoted tyranny of King James, It |was reported that William of Orange }had been Invited to come over, (Continued Tomorrow) Call MA {n-0600 first when you think of want ads, You will find a k response, PAGE 11 ADVENTURES or TWINS SIMPLE SIMON’S RIDDLE “Simplo Simon," called the Tid die Lady, “hero js @ riddle for you, Not that everybody tn Widdle ‘Town can't gues, but I'm sure that you will guowm first, It's something that you have been wanting for a long time, Try os hard os can, for the prize ie the sume as the answer,’ “All right," grinned Simple St mon. "But I hope it's not a whale, I wouldn't have any place to keep it, Mother sald she wouldn't have any whales around,’ "Oh, not It tun't laughed the Riddle much, mu smaller," “All right,” sald Simple Simon again. “I'll try, “It we guess it," whispered the Twins, “we'll give you the prize.” ‘o, you won't,” spoke up the Pieman, Yo #uch thing! Simen is not as almple as he pretends. Let him do his own guessing!* “T'll have to begin,” said the Rid- dlo Lady, “Timo {» flying. 80 everybody be quiet, please." ‘Then she began: 4 whale,” Lady, “It's “You are round and smooth fiat, And you never wear a hat, and ‘When you travel over town You wear neither sult nor gown, PLANS NEAR “In pockets you burn holes, I'm told, But when X touch you, you're quite cold, And they say you simply fly! You've got feathers, is that why? “Your namo is on your back in print, Not candy, mint, You'vo the moving habit strong And never stay in one place long, yet you're made in “Come of quite a sturdy race, Dut show your age upon your face, Not that you're old, my goodness, no! But ther’s the year that tells us ao. “Often in a single day You move twenty times away And every time you spend a cent, Ia if cheaper, friend, than rent? "You have oftentimes been seen Slipping in a slot machine, Telling fat folk what they weigh. ‘Mercy on us! people say. “Are you fond of lollypops ‘That you're always in the shops? And each time you hunt a slot You spend every bit you've got. “When you're new you're bright as gold, But when you are getting 014, Sober colors age munt bring, You get brown as anything.” “Now, what 1s {t?" asked the Rid- dle Lady. “In @ penny” sald Simple Simon Just like that, "Goody! Simple Simon's guessed: Simple Simon's guessed” sang Nancy, “go he has,” declared tho Riddte Lady, and she handed Simple Simon a bright, new one, date, name and all, “Now you may have your pie,” waid the Pleman, (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1924, ‘The Seattle Star.) ‘sia the yellow Aunt Jemima package. Contractors soon to take over the premises for re- building. As we will be closed about a month dur- at me. Colonel Bishop should be a| treatment of him, the epithets I cast | hostage for his safety, By rashly|at him that drove him, So much he | Venturing aboard his ship, I afforded | has told you, I know {t to be tru him in my own person yet another} “You have no cause for sham hostage as valuable at least as)said he. ‘As for your sorrow—why, Colone! Bishop. Yet tie bade me de- | if it will afford you solace—you may | ing the progress of the work, you’d better buy your “Sweet Sixteen” garments NOW. COMPLETION Part; not from the fear of conse./ Quences, for he Is above fear, nor | from any personal esteem for me| whom he confessed that he had come | to find detestable; and this for the Very reason that mado him concern- ed for my safe “Ido not wu he paused. “1 tion in itself?’ “It seems so only, The fact ts) Arsbella, this unfortunate man has | the .. . the temerity to love you.” | She cried out at that, and clutched | her breast whose calm was suddenly | listurbed, Her eyes dilated as she} Rared at him. } “E.'. . I've startled you,” sald he, | ‘with concern. “I feared I should. But it was necessary so that you may | understand.” bd “Go on,” she bade him. “Well, then: he saw in me one who! made it"impossible that he should| win you—so he said. Therefore he} could with satisfaction have killed me, But because my death might cause you pain, because your happl-| ness was the thing that abovo all} things he desired, he surrendered that part of his guarantee of safety which my person afforded him. If) his departure should be hindered, and | I should lose my life in what might} follow, there was the risk that... ./ that you might mourn me. That risk | he would not take, Him you dcemed | ‘a thief and a pirate, he said, and add- | ed that—I am giving you his own/ words always—if in choosing between | us two, your choice, as he believed, would fall on me, then were you in| his opinion choosing wisely. Because | { of that he bade me leave his ship, | id had me put ashore." | | T ee looked at him wih eyes that! fi Wwere aswim wtih tears. He took a a catch in his| step towards her, breath, his hand held o | “Was he right, Arabella? My life's happiness hangs upon your answer.” | But she continued silently to re. gard him with those tearladen eyes, without speaking, and until she spoke he dared not advance farther. A doubt, « tormenting doubt beset him, When presently she spoke, he saw how true had been the instinct of which that doubt was born, for her words revealed the fact that of all that he had said the only thing that] lorstand,” she said, as| not that a contradic- had touched her consciousness and/| y absorbed it from all other considera- tions was Blood’s conduct as it re-} garded herself. “He said thi she cried. “He did} Yhat! Oh!’ She turned awiy, and thru the slender, clustering trunks of the bordering orange she looked out the glittering | vraters of the great harbor to the dis tant hills. Thu: a little while, my lord standing »' fearfully, wait- ation of her mind. trees ce that suffocated. night when m ncor and his ‘© be borne ft upon me that such vindictiv For that little lunch just before they part Bluhill Cheese convenient — appreciated stilt count on me to do what man can to rescue him from this poal- tion.” | She caught her breath | “You will do that!" she erfed with | sudden eager hopefulneas, “You promise?’ She held out her hand to him impulsively. He took tt in both | his own, "T promise,” he answered her, And| then, retaining still the hand she! had surrendered to him—‘Arabella,”* he sald very gently, “there Js still this other matter wpon which you have not answered me.” | “This other matter?" Was he mad, she wondered. Could any other mat ter signify In such a moment. “This matter that concerns myself, and all my future, oh, so very close. ly, This thing that Blood belleved. that prompted him that . that you are not Indiffer to me.” He saw the fair face change color and grow troubled once more. “Indifferent to yout" said she. “Why, no. We have been good friends; wo ahall continue #0, I hope, my lord." } “Friendst Good friends? Hoe was Detween dismay and bitterness. “Tt fs not your friendship only that I ask, Arabella’ You heard what I} said, What I reported. You will not say that Peter Blood was wrong?” Gently sho sought to disengage her | hand, the trouble in her face increas. Ing. A moment ho resisted; then, realizing what he did, he set her free “Arabella!"’ he eried on a note of sudden pain. | “I have friendship for you, my lord. But only friendship.” | His castle of hopes came clattering down about him, leaving him a little stunned. As he had said, he was no coxcomb. Yet there was som that he did not understand. Sho 1 feswed friendship, and {t was tn his power to offer her a great position, one to which she, a colonial planter’s niece, however wealthy, could never have aspired even in her dre This she rejected, yet spoke of friend ship. Peter Blood had been mistaken, then. How far had he been mis. taken? Had he been as mistaken tn her feelings towards himself as he obviously was in her feelings towards his lordship? In that case... Hie reflections broke short. To speculate as to wound himself in vain. He must know, ‘Therefore he asked her with grim frankness: | “Ta it Peter Blood?” | “Peter Blood?” she echoed. At first she did not understand the purport of his question. When understand: ing came, a flush suffused her face, “I do not know,” she said, falter. | a little. This was hardly a truthful answer. 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