The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 25, 1923, Page 11

York hotel, -y WY his dil, the « our rank?’ te," the old ae charge ; © first. * oe Devate 1] 25, 1923, (Continued From Yesterday) with pride by & victory for “Nga took the entire credit to if, tho baron dictated his terms, Fa demanded that all public effects | My office accounts be delivered up;} Mat the merchants surrender all! yg and goods hold by them for | correspondents; the Inhabitants | choos: whether they would re- fh the city or depart; but those went must first deliver up all perty, and those who elected fpremain must surrender half, and | ecoune the subjects of France; re- houses and churehes should but they must render ac: | D conte of all moneys and valuables in asin. eee agreed, having no choice | pte matter, and on the next day, | was the Sth of Apeil, M. de entered the city and pro- qaimed It now a French colony, ap- M. de Cassy its governor, er he proceeded to the Quihedral, where very properly a Te was sung in honor of the con-| ‘This by way of grace, where-| M. de Rivarol proceeded to de- | qarthe city, The only detail in the French conquest of Carta. differed from an ordinary bue- jaaeering raid was that under the se- | frerest penalties no soldier was to en-| iter the house of any inhabitant, But jae apparent respect for the persons | gl property of the conquered was fuel in reality upon M, de Rivarol's lest a doubloon should be ab- | ted from all the wealth that was | into the treasury opened by | ide baron in the name of the king of} France. Once the golden stream had | he removed all restrictions feed left the city In prey to his men, iste proceeded further to-pillage it of | part of their property which the “ Rafael Sabatini! Soper NEA Savi a) the baron had set up in the town, with a staff of clerks to register the treasure brought in and to cast up the surrendered account-books, with & view to ascertaining precisely what Tho baron sat there scrutinizing led- gers, like a city merohant, and checking figures to make sure that All Was correct to the last peso. A choleo decupation this for tho gen. eral of the king’s armies by sea and land, Ho looked up irritated by the interruption which Captain Blood's advent occasioned, “M, le Baron," the latter greeted him. “I must speak frankly; and you must suffer it. My men are on the point of mutiny.” M. de Rivarol considered him with @ faint lift of the eyebrows, “Captain Blood, I, too, will speak frankly; and you, too, must suffer it. If there ts a mutin captains shall be held peraot sponsible. The mistake you make is in assuming with me the tone of an| ally, whereas I have given you clear: ly to understand from the first that} you are simply in the position of hay: | ing accepted service under me, Your | proper apprehension of that fact will | save the waste of a deal of words.” Blood contained himself with diffi. culty, One of these fine days, he felt, that for the sake of humanity ho! ous, Arrogant cockerel Wore the sums yet to bo delivered up. | ° must slit the comb of this supercell |} taining what tho spoll really amounta to,” “But-name of Heaven!=I have kopt books, They aro there for all to seo," “Thoy do not wish to see account: books, Mew of them can read, They Want to viow tho treasure ityelf, Thoy know—you compel me to be blunt (hat the accounts have been fulsitied Your books show tho spoll of Carta Kona LO AMoUNt to Homo 10,000,000 livres, The men know—and they are very skilled in these computations: that it exceeds the enormous total of 40,000,000, ‘They insist that the asuro itself be produced and hed in thelr presonco, as is the om among the Brethren of the Coast," “T know nothing of filibuster cus: toms.” The gentleman was disdain. ful, “But you are learning quickly.” ‘ou Mean, You rogue? T am a leader of armies, not of plun- thieves, “Oh, but of course! Blood's trony laughed in his eyes, “Yet, whatever you may be, I warn you that unless you yield to a demand that I consider just and therefore uphold, you may look for trouble, and it would not Surprise me if you never leave Car- tagenaat all, nor convey a single Gold pleco home to France." “Ab, pardieu! Am I to und that you are threatening me “Come, come, M. le Baron! I warn You of tho trouble that a little pru- dence may avert, You do not know on what a volcano you are sitting, You do not know the ways of buc- cancers, If you persist, Cartagena will be drenched in blood, and what ever the outcome the king of France will not have been well served.” ‘That shifted the basis of the argu: ment to los hostile ground. Awhile Yet Jt continued, to be concluded at last by an ungracious undertaking tand “You may define our positions as} you please,” said he, “But I'll re-| mind you that the nature of a thing | is not changed by the name you give | it. Iam concerned with facts; chief: | ly with the fact that we entered into} definite articles with you. Those} articles provide for a certain distribu. tion of the spoll. My men demand it. 4:3 a not = “Ot what are they not satisfied?” ipbaditants who became French sub- feta bad deen assured should re-| wan inviolate. The plunder was} @ormous. In the course of four| dys over a hundred mules laden wh gold went out of he city and dwn to the boats waiting at the} Sach to convey the treasure aboard | ie ships. CHAPTER XXVIII The Honor of M. De Rivarol During the capitulation and for time after, Captain Blood and greater portion of his buccaneers d been at their post on the heights | estra Senora de la Poupa, utter- fy in ignorance of what was taking jace. Blood, altho the man chiefly, not solely, responsible for the swift tduction of the ctly, which was woving a veritable treasure-house, jj vas not even shown the considera- Velvets and in ostrich 00 ten of being called to the council of which with M. de Rivarol de. | 20t *atistied, they who threaten that | bombardment. temined the terms of the capitula. | Ue" ™ te, ‘Ths was a slight that et another BarCaptain Blood would not have Watlor a moment. But at present, biodd frame of mind; and in fta | deathly pallor. |tables lala down in demanded the baron. “Ot your honesty, M, de Rivarol.”* A blow in the face could scarcely | A blow In the face could scarcely have taken the Frenchman more aback, He stiffened, and drew him. self up, his eyes blazing, his face a} The clerks at the their pens, and|/ awaited the explosion in a sort of ter- | ror, | For a long moment there was st) lence, Then the great gentleman de- | lvered himself In a voice of copcen- trated agner: “Do you really dar so much, you and the dirty thieves that follow you? God's Blood! You shall answer to me for that word, tho it ent. meet you 1 a yet worse dishonor to Faugh!” | “1 will remind you," said Blood, “that Iam speaking not for myself, but for my men. It is they who are faction is afforded them, and promptly, they will take !t.* “Take it?” said Rtvarol, his raga. “Let them attempt to, and...” "Now don’t be rash. My men are from M, do Rivarol to submit to the demands of the buccaneers, He gave it with an extreme ill-grace, and only because Blood made him realize at last that to withhold it longer would be dangerous. In an engagement, ho might conceivably defeat Blood’s fol- lowers. But conceivably he might not. And even if he succeded, the effort would be #o costly to him in men that he might not thereafter find himself in suffictent strength to maintain his hold of what he had seized, ‘Tho end of tt all was that he gave & promise at once to make the neces. sary preparations, and if Captain Blood and his officers would walt upon him on board the Victorieuse to- morrow morning, the should be produced, welghed !n their Presence, and their fifth share sur- rendered there and then into thelr own keeping. Among the buccaneers that night there waa hilarity over the sudden abatement of M, do Rivarol's mon. strous pride. But when th next dawn broke over Cartagena, they ha the explanation of it. The ¢ to be seen in t harbor we: Arabella and the Elizabeth ri anchor, and the Lachesis ing a careened on the beach for repair of the damage sustained tn tho Tho French ships and secretly warped out of the har- |Wero gone. They had been quietly i sails, faint treasure} THE SEATTLE STAR iain BY JPB NO. 4=WINNING MAL JONGG MULE object in the gamo of Mah Jongg is two-fold: to score much as possible, and to win (or Mah |Jong#) the band, As you progress jin the science of the game, you will dixcover that sometimes these two are Inconsistent, and you will pur posely fall to Mah Jongg when by so doing you can increase your score, Those who havo played bridge whist will seo in this an analogy to the two-fold purpose of that game, |. ©., to win rubbers, and to run up big honor scores, Sometimes in bridge, & player purposely loses 'rubber’' to fatten his honor score by doubling an opponent, So in Mah Jongg. This praying to the score ts some- thing at which one becomes pro- ficlent by practice and famillarity with*scoring values, and for the be- sinner it ts well to play each hand to Mah Jongg, if possible, Which brings us to the question, What is Mah Jongg? Wo will dispose of the pair first A pair is composed of two dragons | of the same color; two Winds of the same direction (that is, two South, two East, eto), or two of the same denomination in the samo suit (1. 6, two Bamboo “throes, two Dot “tives,” two Character “nines,"’ etc), The sets of throes may be either jthree-of-a-kind or three-run-se- | two, three; a two, three, four; a seven, elmht, nine, etc n thing in Mab FULLNESS OF trembling |bor under cover of night, and threo | And small, on the horizon | to westward was al) that remained to| be seen of them. Tho absconding ment from piracy, he was con-| Within their rights, as you are aware.|M. de Rivarol had gons off with to amile his utter contempt of |They demand to know when this|tho treasure, ie French general. Resentment smouldored ongst them for a while, to flame for which thelr articles provide.” | “God give me pationce! | How can} ing with him the Not so, how. |*haring of the spoll ts to take place, | troops and mariners ho had brought , his captains, and still less his | 224 when they are to recelye the fifth | from France. Ho had Cartagena not handed buccaneers, left behind nly the whom he hin empt: violently at the end of that week | we share the spoil before ft has been | bad swindled, but also M. de Cussy Cartagena. It was only by under- ng to voice their grievance to the on that their captain was able for moment 'to pacify them. That he went at once In quest of M. Rivarol. | He found him fn tho offices which | ad completely gathered?” “My men have reason to believe | that {t Is gathered; and, anyway, they view with mistrust that ft should all be housed aboard your ships, and re- |main in your possession. They say that hereafter there will be no ascer-| ADVENTURES OF THE “How d’ do! I’ve com Miseez Sprat crossed the street om her house to the Twins’ house, patting like anything from hurry- BE 80 fast, so she could be the to tell the gossip to her new | Mighbors, | To be sure she ¥ so fat it Min't take much to make her puff, she had hurried extra s she climbed up on the ifont porch of the card-board Christ Mattree house, she sounded like a n roaster or an electric Maher or something like that. “Mercy alive!’ cried Nancy, when fitmsy house gave a great shake ry Sprat’s weight descended | bal We're going to fall down, Rick, An automobile must have Mamped into us.” minute the door-bell e house didn’t fall knew they had a tg, and , ing Nancy hung her cooking apron “— @ hook, and Nick pulled his Ph Sraight, and answered the tor, And thero stood fat Missex Sprat BAH her cardcas 1 “How 4’ dot Re beamed. come in, then,” said Making one of his famous Bot he straightened instantly q alarm, as Missoz stepped in For tt house goaned nd Mook and acted as tho the Roman Mplre had fallen on it, and a few Rote things besides. ¢ wasn’t alarm’ nd smiling houses: were case in her hand I've come to call,” Nick, b wit TWINS | | i | to € to call,” she beamed alarm, and remembe ners, made the welcome, “I just marked Mi one ing their man- | good lady quite poor - Mothe : 1 n Mother Goose hould say Dadd se, but I . After Particularly Ort Land, I can get used when Daddy Gander really does run the his wit being off gadding most of the timo, I suppose he right to call it anything h epleases,”’ | Nancy Gander ver place, horrors of hor At that Mis prat stopped | ided to sit down (not | t she decide leaning ket 1 the ri any 1 leg 2 up against the Before an y could bang red 5 stop amo her, Missex right And tho Babylon right Sp emack ing an arm “Did you get hurt?’ y up. und don’t worry!* “Now that ell stay, I can floor as welt | laughed I'm here make m jand the volunteers from Hispanio swindled no le Tho two parties were fused into one by thelr common fury, and before the exhib on of it t In- habitants of that fll-fated town wero stricken with deeper terror than they had yet known since the coming of this expedition. Captain Blood alono kept his head, setting a curb upon his deep chagrin. He had promised himself that before parting from M. do Rivarol ho would present a reck- oning for all the petty affronts and Insults to which that tnspeakable| fellow—now proved a scoundrel—| had subjected hi “We must follow,” “Follow and punis! At first cry. Then came that only two ships were could not accommodate the whole force, particularly being at the moment indifferently victualed for long voyage. The crews of the} Lachosis and Atropos. and with them their captains, Wolversto and Yberville, renounced the inten-| tlon. After gil, there would t deal of treasure still hidden in C tagena, They would rema’ i] extort it whilst i‘ ships ir Ben, Let Blood an thorpe and those who sailed them do as they | (Coninued Tomorrow) | and whom negroes he had he declared.| was the of the general consideration the buccaneer and t seawor nno a thelr Hag-| with pleased ‘Tenanta of a property-own Ila RK 1) France, receive three months’ Wirth of the first child rent the birth bon’ rent he and six on of the! WAH JONGG Taught A your own home any time of day or evening, by young played with Chinese. Thorough kn: ledge of Clearer explmnatio make. For par- 49, The Star, KEEPING WELL — An WR Tebiet (a vegetable aperient) taken at night will help keep you swell, by toning engthening :rour di- Non and elimination, gives the skirt front Sasi AR eI BR Gt ae |Jongg ax a four-run-seqtience but it } Atropos and the} -- = ~Jon99 ABCOCK, The threesof-a-kind are color; three wind of the #ame direction; threo of the a@me denom|- nation in the same sult (that fs thr Bamboo ‘fours,’’ three Dot ‘ones,’ threo Character “nines,’’ ete.) The throe-run-sequences arp threo of tho same suit next to each: other in numerical yalue, such ay a one, is possible to have four of a kind. As it In necessary for you to undexstand | the system of play before this can be | explained, It will bo treated fn a later article, In sorting your hand, It is well for you to place together your sequences and threes-ofa-kind, as otherwise you might inadvertently discard a tile from one or the other after play starts, ‘The expert Mah Jongg player wil! often deliberately break up‘a threo- ofakind or & three-run-sequence in order to risk bettering his hand. But this is a risk which it 1s not well for| | the beginner to take. I would advine | | that, until you become thoroly famil-| jlar with the game, you play each | hand for Mah Jongg, and hold on to | your sequences and three-of-a-kind. | (Next Article: The Play) RETURNING GOOD FOR EVIL | BERLIN.—A barristers’ gold | watch was stolen on an omnibus here | jthe other day. 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