The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 24, 1923, Page 7

(Continued From Saturday) “How? You decline tt, sir? You eolino to obey orders, do you say?” “I understood, M, lo Baron, that you summoned us to deliberate upon tho means to be adopted.” “Thon you understood amiss, M. le Capitaine, You are here to receive my commands. I have already do- berated, and I have decided, IT hope you Understand,"* “Oh, T understand,” laughed Blood, “But, I ask myself, do you? And without giving the baron time to set the angry question that was bub- bling to his lips, he swept on: “You have deliberated, you say, and you \ have decided. But unless your de- cision rests upon a wish to destroy my buccaneers, you will aiter it when T tell you something of which I have knowledge, This city of Cartagena looks very vulnerable on the north. ern side, all open to the sea as it ap- parently stands. Ask yourself, M. 10 Baron, how came the Spaniards who built it where it Is to have been at such trouble to fortify it to the south, if from the north {t fs so easily as- ‘sallable.’* That gave M. de Rivarol pause, . “The Spaniards,” Blood pursued, “are not quite the fools you are sup- posing them. Let moe tell you, mes sieurs, that two years ago I made.g survey of Cartagena as a preliminary to raiding it. I came hither with some friendly Indians, myself disguis- ed as an Indian, and in that guise I spent a week in the city and studied carefully all Its approaches, On the| side of the sea where it looks so temptingly open to assault, there is| shoal water for over half a mile out far enough out, I assure you, to ensure that no ship shall come with- in bombarding range of it. It is not safo to venture nearer land than three-quarters of a mile.” “But our landing will be effected In canoes and piraguas and open boats,” » cried an officer impatiently. “In the calmest season of the year, tho surf will hinder any such opera- tion. And you will also bear in mind that if landing were possible, as you are suggesting, that landing could not be covered by the ships’ guns. In fact, it is the landing parties that would be in danger from their own artillery.” “If the attack is made by night, as I propose, covering will be unneces- sary. You shoukl be ashore in force Vefore the Spaniards aro aware of | the Intent.” “You are assuming that Cartagena is a city of the bilnd, that at this very mément they are not conning our sails and asking themselves who We are and what wo inten “But if they feel themselves se- cure from the north, as you suggest,” cried the baron impatiently, “that very security will lull them. “Perhaps. But, then, they are se- sure. Any attempt to land on this side is doomed to failure at the hands Of Nature.” f “Nevertheless... we makethe at- tempt,” said the obstinate baron, whose haughtiness would not allow him to yield before his officers. “If you still choose to do so after) ‘what I have said, you are, of course, the person to decide. But I do not lead my men into fruitless danger.” “If T command you . . .”’ the baran ‘was beginning. But Blood uncere moniously interrupted him. “M. le Baron, when M. de Cussy | engaged us on your behalf, it was as much on account of our knowledge and experience of this class of war- fare as on account of our strength. | T have placed my own knowledge and experience in this particular matter at your disposal. I will add that I abandoned my own project of raiding Cartagena, not being in sufficient | Undorrcanyas wore going thru extras ordinary maneuvers half a milo off tho Boca Chica and little moro than half a milo away from tho remainder of tho fleet, and from thelr flanks flamo and smoke were belching each me they swung broadside to the groat round fort that guarded that narrow entrance, Tho fort was re turning tho fire vigorously and vicl- ously, But the buccaneers timed thelr broadsides with extraordinary judg ment to catch the dofending ordnance reloading; then as they drew the Spaniards’ fire, thoy swung away again, not only taking care to be ever moving targets, but, further, to present no more than bow or stern to the fort, thelr masts In ine, when tho heaviest cannonades were to be expected, Gibbering and cursing, M. do Rt varol stood there and watched this action, #0 presumptuously under. taken by Blood on his own responsl- bility, The officers of the Victorious crowded round him, but it was not until M, de Cussy came to join tho Wy Raftet Sadat SPARE, CABATING strength at the fimo to force (ho entrance of the harbor, which ts the only way Into tho clty, Tho strongth Which you now command is amplo for that purpose," “But whilst wo are doing that, tho Spaniards will have time to remove great part of the wealth this city holds, Wo must take them by sur- prise.” Captain Blood shrugged. “If this {a & mero pirating raid, that, of course, a prime consideration, It was with me, But if you are concerned to abate the pride of Spain and plant the Lilies of France on the forts of this settlement, the loss of some treasure should not really weigh for much.” M, de Rivaro} bit his lip tn chagrin, His gloomy eye smouldered as {t con- sidered tho self-containod buccaneer, “But {f I command you to go—to make the attempt? he asked, “An- swer me, monsieur, let us know once for all where we stand, and who com: mands this expedition." “Positively, I find you tiresome,” sald Captain Blood, and he swung to M, de Cussy, who sat there gnawing his Up, intensely uncomfortable, “I Appeal to you, monsieur, to justify me to the general.” M. do Cuasy started out of his gloomy abstraction. He cleared his |throat. Ho was extremely nervous, “In view of what Captain Blood has submitted . . “Oh, to the devil with that!" snap- |ped Rivarol. “It seems that I am| | followed by poltroons. Look you, M. jlo Capitaine, since you are afraid to undertake this thing, I will myself} undertake St. The weather Is salm, his rage. And M. do Cussy himself invited the deluge that now caught him, Ho had como up rubbing his hands and taking @ proper satisfac tion in the energy of the men whom he had enlisted, “Aha, M, deo Rivarol!’ he laughed. “Ho understands his business, oh, this Captain Blood, He'll plant the Lilies of France on that fort beforo breakfast.’* The baron swung upon him snarl. Ing. “Ho understands his business, eh? His business, let me tell you, M. do Cussy, is to obey my orders, and T have not ordered this, Par la Mor- dieu! When this ts over I'll deal with him for his damned insubordination.” “Surely, M. le Baron, he will have Justified it {f he succeeds," “Justified it! Ah, parbleu! Can a soldier ever justify acting without orders?” He raved on furiously, his officers supporting him out of their detestation of Captain Blood, Meanwhile the fight went merrily on. The fort was suffering badly. Yet for all thelr maneuvering the buccancers were not escaping punish. and I count upon making good my| ment. The starboard gunwale of the jlanding. If I do so, IT shall have|Atropos had been hammered Into Proved you wrong, and I shall have a | splinters, and a shot had caught. her word to say to you tomorrow which jastern in tho coach, The Elizabeth } You may not like. I am being very | was badly battered about the forecan- generous with you, sir." He waved/tle, and the Arabella's maintop had his hand regally. “You linve leave | been shot away, whilst toward the to go.” Jend of that engagement tho Lache- It was sheer obstinacy and empty | sis came reeling out of the fight with Pride that drove him, and he recetved/a shattered rudder, steering herself the lesson he deserved. The fleet | by sweeps. stood in during the afternoon to| The absurd baron's eyes positive! within a mile of the coast, and unde: r| med with satisfaction. cover of darkness 300 men, of whom| “I pray Heaven they may sink all 200 were negroes—the whole of the! his infernal ships ered In his |Nesro contingent having been preas-| frenzy. ed into the undertaking—were pulled But Heaven didn't hear him. away for the shore in the canoes,|}Scarcely had he spoken than there Piraguas and ships’ boats, Rivarol's | was a terrific explosion, and half the [Pride compeiled him, however much | fort went up in fragmenta. A lucky he may have disliked the venture, to! shot from the b |lead them in person | The first six boats were caught in| |the surf, and pounded Into fragment | before their occupants could extrics themselves, Tho thunder of breakers and the cries of the ship- | wrecked warned those who followed, |and thereby saved them fro’ m shar the same fate. By the baro uw ho It may have been a couple of hours |later, when Captain Blood, as spruce jand cool as if he had just come from @ levee, stepped upon the quarter |deck of the Victorieuse, M , sii in bedgown and ng }danger, and stood about to pick up| }such survivors ag contrived to battle towards them. Close upon fifty lives were lost in tho adventure, together jwith halfa-dozen boats stored with} jammunition and light guns, The baron wont back to hin flag. his officers had ship an infuriated, but by no means n stich that he could net continue ja wiser man. Wisdom—not even the|# he had begun. Yet his eyes were |pungent wisdom experience thrusts | Malevolent, his face pale with anger. upon us—ts not for such as M. de| “You a . Blood, that |Rivarol. His anger embraced all/¥OU succeeded,” he raid. “It would }things, but focused chiefly upon Cap-| have gone very iil with you had you tain Blood. In some warped process | failed. Another time be so good ax of reasoning he held the buccaneer|tO awalt my ordors, lest you should chiefly responsible for this mixadven- ards lack the justification | \ture. He went to bed considering | Which your good fortune has procur- | furiously what ho should say to Cap. | ed you thi# morning.” j tain Blood upon the morrow. Blood smiled with a flash of white He was kened at dawn by the 1 bowed. rolling thunder of guns, Emergin; 1! be giad of your orders now, |upon the poop in nightcap and al, for pursuing our advantage pers, he beheld a sight that increased his i unreasoning a aneer ships} Boca Chica. The standard of France |4s flying from what remains of its tower, and tho way into the outer harbor ix open to your fleet.” M. de Rivarol was How his oN ’, h the first essential.” Riv as left gaping a moment. ADVENTURES OF THE Missez Sprat across the street was watching Daddy Gander and Tom Tinker helped the Twins to get started at housekeeping in their Christmas-treo | house. It was a very little house, made for very little dollles to go house- keeping in when they got tired of hanging on a Christmas tree. But that difficulty was soon over. come by Daddy Gander waving his magic dustpan, one, two, three times and saying a gibberish charm. The little house began to swell and swell until the doorw actly as high as Nance Nick, of an inch taller than Nancy, had to stoop one-thousandth part of an inch to get in. The furniture was mostly of pa and #0 were the windo dently the best parlor was to be used as laundry, bedroom and kitchen also, for a whtle washing- clothes-pins and all, stood be side the card-board piano, and the kitchen stove stood directly behind a red plush sofa. There may have been a kitchen stoves are rm and to be depend the poor red plush no hind legs, No ‘0% very glad of the stove’ ad. sup-| Tom Tinker turn 4 on the lights a festive air, | with “ do hope yi be comfortable,” maid Daddy Gander. “"i) have the Pieman and the | (Copyright, was ex: | hi who was one-thousandth part | ser | reason | doubt | sid Absorbed in his ridiculous anger, had consl ed nothing. But he mad a quick recovery. “To my cabin, you pl " he commanded peremp- | tori , and was turning to lead the when Blood arrested him, With submission, my general, we shall be better here. You behold there the s It is TWINS cene of our coming action, spread before you like « map." He ds the lagoon, ing {t and the con nding back from the “Tf it is not a presumptl to offer a suggestion . M. do Rivarol looked at him pecting iro But the e was bland, the keen |me } paused. ear your suggestion,” he | Blood pointed out the f |mouth of the inner h Just barely ims on the intervening tongue of He announced that its arma t was leas formidable than that of the outer fort, which th | duced; but on the other assage was very much at of th fort, 1 reduced; but on the 1and, the passag 8 very rower than the F | Bakerm 4 the Butel fore they could 6 supplier an e, they “I think It's perfectly hone defenses. 1 Nancy lapping hor the French shi "Ie you kno ybody » hag | Outer harbor, aby washing send them in| bombardment too, to try land 300 buec |dear little wringer the eastern side of the lagoon, truly clothes-pins. ‘ond the fragrant garden {sland | ‘I'l just do that,” dense with richly bearing fruit treos, |Gander. “1 must go n nd proceed simultanet to storm |if Tom Tucker had mad the fort in the rear. us best on crumbs. If Mother ¢ both sides at once, demoralized |home and finds I haven't by the fate of the much |things in order, she'll bo fort, he did not think the Sr as ing. Good-bye, now!’ And |lards would offer a very long re: ay mt Daddy Gander, with nee Then it would be fe M. de Tom Tinker dancing ao jig behind|Rivarol to garrison the fort, whilst him. stain Blood would aweep on with Miss: men and seize Chureh Neustra Senora de la Poupa, p “It's ag| visible on its hill immediately burg ard of the town Goose 1 L which er much nar ea Chica, an tempt to mak must dispose proposed | erfed * should enter the hand Me neers a , he would 1 some artil love thi 1 thes really |1¢ Daday and 800 any mo: fe comes | kept us Cross eala oute atching. | “Humpht" she declared. |plain ag the nose on the master’s face that Missez | ien’t home! Such goings | Di t house to | strange away, and he not about it!| once St “But one’s ne right ove Jack across the ef nl t only did that and ot but it » only road that led from Cartagena to tho interior, and were held there 1d be no her question of the hiards at as on! H r imanded t whil knor word anyw has to be clvil and I'll go and call and leave two of nd one of mine, Be-| 1 M, de Rivarol more judged that it argument moment, and di ide’s sake to to Ore, wou the Su the g sure a will beat me.” tion jown her ¢ rn a a dd, i ngers ¥ be t wo fa | Captal as Biood’s plan, ued ordors that s own Ff nd bri and { mar fly amo alert » Continued) by Seattle Star) (To group that he opened the aluloos of You realize that «peed in striking is| j Then East dr | draw in finlabed by East, id proceed at once to| stronger | \ | j ‘COPYRIGHT BY M* CALLS. a, i | { : | If ever a great aunt or a grand. mother gave you a plece of old lace—now is tho time to take it out jand use it. apy Laces are popular, They are more | cate, than that. They are almost indis- .u0 Skotches will show how they | pensable to a smart wardrobe, are used on a smart afternoon! aro used on aftornoon| dress and on the costume blouse | evening dresses and biouses. a fashionable winter sult, acento | lon futhortly and | ies Book of Rules | No. 3—Opening the Wall ‘The mah Jongg racks sre a contri evious articles carried wu up| bution of American ingenuity, For the point where the wall had| 3,000 years the Chinese played with been built, four-sided and solid. Now| out but in we will break | Americans have added #pecial t East Wind n of the | racks, penct ore two dies, totals the points so thrown, | holders, table covers They are used in black, in blond, in: white and in colors, They are | heavy and gorgeous or fragile and of accesso: one y ples, sheets, and cour doubling aneers had found to confront | to report, M. le Baron, that | orders they pulled away again out of| we are in possession of the fort on | Aer all players have tigi tenis counting counter-clock- aroun the walls, commencing | with his own, Thus the East Wall iw one, the Sotith Wall two, the West Wall three, etc. He stops when he has counted number equal to the throw of the dice, and this ix the wall to be/ opened, After playing a few even ings, the actual counting is obviated, | SILK MARQUISETTE USED as you will learn from experience that East Wall is 1, 5 or 9; South 2 TO DRAPE THIS WINDOW | West 2, 7 or 11, and North scales, The do “ rack, and enal player to det mino his score at a glance, ra than by the sometimes long pro of multiplication and addition volved in scoring without rack and wine ata Next art How to win Mah Jon Orchid Is Color Chosen, With Glass Curtains of Net. 4, 8 ort SPOT DETERMINED } BY THROW OF DICE | —- Determination of the exact t to By MARIAN MOORE be opened in the wall thus selected} Soft silken curtains and by making another throw of the dice, | Satiny texture of painted furniture this time by him whone wall 9 to be| seem made for one another. opened, He throws thé two dice, and} haps that is why painted furniture | |the total of the throw i» added to| bas achieved its popularity for the total throw by East in detérmin aco Liprkaced ibe ing the 1 to be opened. Thus if} DICSRES A OUT, is o ant threw 6, the South Wall would |/® Part of an ivory palnt - 6 ed for mother to walt “until be opened. 12) Bout. sen sna F da r has gone downtown and the the 6 throw East and the 5 n by children to school before writing thrown by South would be added, | those {mpogtant personal. letters— |siving a total of 11, jshe can find convenience and pri- Taking the latter number, he whono| ¥aey in her own rootn. Perhaps the | walt is to be opened starta counting} from the right end of his wall, counts one on each pair of tiles to the left and removes that pair of tiles whos number corresponds to the determined number. In the example given above jit would be the 11th pair, of tiles | trom the right corner of South's wall. | | | The two tiles thus removed thereafter known as tiles.” | They aro placed face down side by | ide on top of the wall just to the ! the under tile| ich | } nich | “loons right of the opening, being nearest the opening. PLAYERS THEN DRAW TILE Now comes the araw, East starts by drawing four tiles (two pairs of twoe) from the lof of the opening. | ‘Then South takes the next fou until each hand contains 1 one more, do the other players tiles. and x0, The| who drawa ‘Thus each hand contains | except that of East, which Mu yer now dragons a all thon aye turn, one extra tiles, contains Each | by suit | together | E n hand. anges his han 1 winds, placing | of a kind, | hould see only hi A Drapery Suggestion. well-known expression, “How I hate | This can be accomplished | tO Write letters,” would dle out if! by netting his tiles on edge and near | ¢¥ery Woman had sueh Coa Slee his own edge of the table, or by the he desk 1s creamy ivory, a ittle | . more yellowish than is ordinarily use of racks i found, while the two octagonal | panels on the drop doors show a bunch of garden flowers on a putt might bo taken tpon {t at| onc | colored background. The desk | It is to follow that| the straight sturdy lines which | action Blunders on the | characterize painted furniture— part of the French marred {ts smooth | thelr coloring is suffictent to insure | and the indifferent hand.| thelr beauty without any carving. ips led to the sinking | The chair corresponds in line and, f them in the course of the| color with a seat of cane the fort's gunfire. But windoy by ag, owing largely to the ir elcome suggestions resistible f with which the bue.| taln arrangements. cancer med the place from the| (Write to Marian Moore, care of landward side, the fort had aurren.| this newspaper, for advice or infor- | dered, and before dusk Blood and hia} Mation about home furnishing or hw ome ¢ hauled | decorating, sending stamped, ad- dominated the city | dressed envelope for reply.) tof! Nuestra’ Ber Question: We shall have a small dining room in ¢ Could T get a paint set instead B.C. 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