The Brussels Post, 1927-2-23, Page 7MAIN °BLOOD
By Ei
. FAEL SABATINI
sr e&est Live S oi,r Ever Told
sailed directly at the Spauiar
the grapnels Held the two likeanomie.Then it was set anomie. The A
al's ilageInp burst into bluzo,
fine seamanship and hard +i
with his three ships made C
Blood master of Malacaybo
But, when the Spaniards tune
foe shore and be gave chase, th
T.HE BRUSSELS POST
_,orm_ — .,,_.,,0. ,,_.w,,, .,011,,,,4,,
c1 until vexatious correspondence between
a vice. England and Spain.
dare•- ' To satisfy King James' anxiety to
and , conciliate Spain, and in response to
ghting I the Spanish Ambassador•':; constunt
apra.in and grievous expostulations, my Lord
Bay, Sunderland, the Secretary of State,
d tail Karl appointed a strong man to the
fort deputy -governorship of Jamaica. This
which guarded the bay and which
had seemed deserted poured down a
raking fire upon him and drove him
in mortification and despair to take
refuge in the town. The Spaniards
secured themselves in the fort.
With a devil's lack and clear head-
ed thinking Captain Blood feinted
with preparations for a land attack
after he had managed to acquire a
large ransom in gold from the Gover-
nor of Maracaybo, and, opening a
broadside, put the fort in flames
Don Miguel was left to chew the
bitter cud of lost opportunity.
CHAPTER XVI. , , , , , •
THE MILAGROSA
In Tortuga, during the months he
spent there refitting the titt•ee ships
he had captured from the fleet that
had gone out to destroy hit, he
found himself almost an object of
worship in the eyes of the wild Bre-
thren of the Coast, all of whom now
clamored for the honor of serving
under him. It placed him in the rare
position of being able to pick and
choose the crews for his augmented
fleet, and he chose fastidiously. When
next he stifled away it was with a
fleet of five fine ships in which went
something over a thousand • men.
Thus you behold him not merely
famous, but r••.tlly formidacle. Three
captured Spanish yessels he had re-
named with a certain scholarly hum-
or the Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos,
a grimly jocular manner of convey
ing to the world the he made them
the arbiters of the fate of any Span-
iards he should henceforth encounter
npon the seas.
And meanwhile the Spnaish Ad-
miral Don Miguel de Espinosa went
raging up and down the Caribbean
seeking his enemy, and in the mean-
time, as an hors d'oeuvre to hs,vin-
dictuve appetite, he fell upon any
ship of England or of Frahce that
loomed above his horizon. This il-
lustrious sea -captain and great gen-
tleman of Castile had lost his head.
And so, reckless of the fact that
Captain Blood was now in vastly sup-
erior strength\the Spaniard sought
him up and clown the trackless seas.
But for a whole year he sought him
vainly. The circumstances in which
eventually they met are very cur-
ious.
On the 15th September of the year
1888—a memorable year in the an-
nals of England—three ships were
afloat upon the Caribbean, which in
their coming conjunctions were to
work out the fortunes of several per-
sons. The first of these was Captain
Blood's flagship, the Arabella, which
had been Separated from the buccan-
eer fleet in a hurricane Alf the Les-
ser Antilles. She, was bfating up fur
the Windward Passage honi'nl; for
Tortuga, the natural rendezvous of
the dispersed vessels. The second
ship was the great Spanish galleon,.
the Milagrosa, which, accompanied by
the (smaller frigate Hildalga, lurked
off the Cayntites, to the north of the
long peninsula that thrusts out from
the southwest corner of Hispaniola.
Aboard the Milagrosa saile•l the vin-
dictive Don Miguel.,The third and
' last of these ships as an English
man-of-war, the Royal Mary, which
was at anchor in the French port of
St. Nicholas on the northwest coast
of Hispaniola. She was on her way
from Plymouth to Jantaiaa, and car-
ried on board a very distinguished
passenger in the person of Lord Jul-
ian Wade, who came charged by his
kinsman, my Lord Sunderland, with
a mission of some consequence and
delicaoy, directly arising out of that
Letterheads
Envelopes
Billheads,
And' all kinds of Business
Stationery printed at The
Post Publishing House.
We will do a job that will
do credit to your business,
Loolc ovee your stock of
Office Stationery and bf it
requires .replenishing call
us by telephone 81.
Tim Post P hIlsitioo Nasase
strong man was that Colonel Bishop
who for some years now had been
the most influential clanter in Bar-
bados. From his first coming to
Jamaica, Colonel Bishop had made
himself felt by the buccaneers, But
(lo what he might, the one buccaneer
whom he made his particular quarry
—that Peter Blood who once had
been his slave—eluded hitt ever. He
confessed as much in a letter to the
Secretary, of State. My Lord Sun-
derland bethought hunt of the plan
adopted with Morgan, who had been
enlisted into the King's service under
Charles IL It occurred to hien that
a similar course might be similarly
effective with Captain Blood.
Acting upon this conclusion, Sun-
derland sent out his kinsman, Lord
Julian Wade, with some commissions
made out in blank. The crafty Sun-
derland, master of all labyrinths of
intrigue, advised his kinsman that in,
the' event of his finding Blood intrac-
table, or judging for other reasons
that it was not desirable to enlist
him in the king's service, lie should
turn his attention to the officers
serving under him, and by seducing
thorn away from him leave him so
weakened that he must fall an easy
victim to Colonel Bishop's fleet.
The 'Royal Mary made :t good pas-
sage to St. Nicholas, her last port of
call before Jamaica. It was under-
etoocl, that as a preliminary Lord Ju-
lian should report himself to the
Deputy -Governor at Port Royal,
whence at need he might have him-
self conveyed to Tortuga. Now it
happened that the Deputy -Governor's
niecethad come to St. Nicholas some
months earlier on a visit to some rel-
atives, and so that she might escape
the insufferable heat of Jamaica in
that season. The time for her return
being now at hand, a passage was
sought for her aboard the Royal
Mary, and in view of her uncle's
rank and position promptly accord-
ed.
Lord, Julian hailed her advent with
satisfaction. His lordship was one of
your gallants to whom existence that
is not graced by womankind is more
or lass of a stagnation, And Miss
Arabella Bishop was a young woman
and a lady; and in the latitude into
which Lord Julian had strayed this
was a phenomena sufficiently rare to
command attention. On his side,
with his title and position, Itis per-
sonal grace and the charm of a
practiced courtier, he bores about hire
the atmosphere of the great "world
in which normally he had his being
—a world that was little more than a
name to her, who had spent most of
her life in the Antilles. It is not
therefore wonderful that they should
have been attracted to each other be-
fore the Royal Mary was warped out
of St. Nicholas. Each could tell the
other much upon, which the other de-
sired information. Considering how
his mind was obsessed with the busi-
ness of itis mission, it is not wonder-
ful that he should have come to talk
to her of Captain Blood. Indeed,
there was a circumstance that direct-
ly led to it.
"I wonder now," lie said, as they
were seunterfng on thsi poop, "if you
Lord Julian was seeking to counfor•t
and etioourago her.
ever saw this fellow Blood, who was
at ono time on your uncle's planta-
tion as a slave."
"I saw,. him often. I knew hint
;Cry well,"
"Ye don't say!" and came to lean
beside her, "And what manner of
mate did you find bin?"
"In those days I esteemed bit tl -
for an unfortunate gentleman,"
"You were aec!uainted with - his
story?"
"He told It me. That i.; wiry I
esteemed hint --for the calm forties
nude with which he bore adversity,
:inure then, considering what he had
done, I have almost come to doubt if
what he told me of himself was
hues"
"If you mean of the wrongs hr•
suffered at the hands of the Royal
Commission that tried the' Monmouth
eepols, there's little loupe that it
would be true enough. He was nev-
er out with Monmouth; that is cer-
tain. He was convicted on a point
of law of which he may well have
been ignorant when he committed
what was construed into treason.
But, faith, he's had his revenge, after
a fashion."
"That," she said in a small voice,
"is the unforgiveable thing. It hang
destroyed him—deservedly."
"Destroyed him?" His lordship
laughed a little, "Be none so sure of
that, He had grown rich, I hear,
He has translated, so it is said, his
Spanish spoils into French gold,
which is being treasured up for him
in France. His future father-in-law,
M. d'Ogoron, has seen to that,"
"His future father-in-law?" said
she, mud stared at him round -eyed,
with parted lips. Then added: "M.
d'Ogeron? The Governor of Tortu-
ga?"
"Tire same. You didn't know?"
She shook her head without reply-
ing. After a moment the spoke, her
voice steady and perfectly controlled.
"But surely, if this were true,
there would lave been an end to his
piracy b ynow. If he . . . if he
loved a woman and was betrothed,
and was also rich as you .say, surely
he would have abandoned this1des-
perate life and . . ,"
"Why, so I thought," his lordship
interrupted, "until I had the explan-
ation. D'Ogeron is avaricious for
himself and for his child. And as for
the girl, I' mtold she's a wild piece,
fit mate for such a man as Blood.
Almost I marvel that he doesn't mos-
ey her and take her sailing with him:
It would be no new experience Inc
her. And I marvel, too, et Blood's
patience. He killed a man to win
her."
"He killed a man for her, do yon
say?" There was horror now in her
voice.
"Yes—a French buccaneer panted
Levasseur. He was the girl's lover
and Blood's associate on a venture.
Blood coveted the girl, and killed Le-
vasseur to win her. Pah! It's an
unsavoury tale, I own. But men live
by different codes out in these
parts . . „
Site had turned to face him. She
was pale to the lips, and her hazel
oyes were blazing, a sshe cut into
his apologies for Blood.
"They must indeed, if his other
associates allowed him to live atter
that"
"Oh, the 'thing was done in fair
fight, I am told."
"Who told you?"
"A man who sailed with there, a
Frenchman named Cahusac, whore I
found in a waterside tavern in St.
Nicholas. Ile was Levassettr's lieu-
tenant, and he was present on the
island where the thing happened,
and when Levasseur was kilted."
"Anel the girl? Did ncr say the
girl was present, too?"
"Yes. She was a witness of the
encounter. Blood carried her off
when he had disposed of his brothel,
buccaneer."
"And the dead man's followers al-
lowed it?" He caught the note of
incredulity in her voice, but missed
the note of relief with which it was
Ment. "Olt, I don't believe the tale.
T won't believe it!"
"I honor you for that, Miss Bish-
op. It strained my own belief that
sten should be so callous, until this
Cahusac afforded me the explanation.
Blood purchased their consent, and
itis right to carry the girl off. Be
Paid them in pearls that were worth
more than twenty thousand pieces of
eight," .His lordship laughed again
with a touch of contempt, "A hand-
some price!"
"Your Cahusac seems to ]tate
been accurate enough, Alas!"
"You ave sorry, then?"
"As we a t 1
r'e sorry o soar of the
death of one we have esteemed,
Once 1 held him in regard for an
unfortunate but worthy gentleman.
Now . Such a man is best for-
gotten,"
And upon that site passed at once
to ,peak of other things.
The friendship, which it was her
great gift to comsnan'�l in all she met,
grew steadily between those two in
the little time remaining, until the
event befell that marred what• was
promising to be the please -weed state'
of his lordship's voyage,
The ma rplat was the maul -dog
Spanish atrlrnfral, tvhonr they en.
(unl tte•rc•d 1321 '.ho second day nut,
when b::lf way across the Chill of
sereno.:, A ,et from the Milgoo's.,, en the folimvfturtnornin A41.1, 1
to oyal Mary's forecastle and lube
ttlu halt' the ship almost betters th
field had stnr•ted. Before the nu.
el' the Royal Mary had :•:rover(•
from their consternation, their cap
tabu killed and a third of Thai: num
her with her the h' d
rocking helplessly In a crippled state
the Spaniards hoarded hoe,
In the captain's robin, under the
poop, to whieh Miss Mellon had been
conducted for safety, Levi Julian
was seeking to comfort and encour-
age her with assurances that all
would yet be well, at the very mom-
ent when Don Miguel was stepping
aboard. Fortunately, M!(ss Bishop
did not appear to be in desperate
need of the poor comfort he was in
case to offer. The cabin done flew
open and Don Miguel strode in,
Lord Julian span round to face. him
and clapped a hand to hi asword,
The Spaniard was brisk and to the
point.
"Don't be a fool," he said in his
own tongue, "or you'll coma by a
fool's end, Your ship is sinking.
Come, all of you, aboard my ;hip,"
Don Miguel invited them, and strode
out.
As for the survivors in that ghastly
shamfles that had been the Royal
Mary they were abandoned by the
Spaniards to their own resources. Let
them take to the boats, and if those
did not suffice them, let them swim
or drown, If Lord Julian and Miss
Bishop were retained, it was because
Don Miguel perceived their obvious
valise. He received them in his cabin.
Lord Julian commanded himself
with difficulty to supply theist. Then
haughtily he demanded to know, in
his turn, the name of their aggressor.
"I am Don Miguel de Espinosa," he
answered. `Admiral of the navies of
the Catholic King."
w
n
snip Yawn ng ane
in vain for a year, Don Miguel chan
cru upon mm in this unexpec.e 1 a
entirely fortuitous .fashion. It w
aloe the way o1' Fortune that I)o
Miguel should thus creme upon t
Arabella at a time when, separated
1 from the rest of the fleet, she wise
, •alone and at a disadvantage. It
looked to Don Miguel as if the luck
which so long had been on lllood'e
side had et let veered in his own
favor.
Miss Bishop, newly risen, had
come out to take- the air on Ili'
quor•ter•-deck, with his lordelt!o in at-
tendance, when she beheld th-, big
rod =hip that had once boon the Cinco
Lieges out of Cadiz. The sight thrill-
ci nor curiously: it awoke in hes nu
tip,ifting sense of pride the;; took no
account of danger to herself ir, the
encounter that must now be inevi-
table.
Beside he on the poop steal Lord
Julian, But he shared none of her
exultation. He had been fa hie first
sea fight yesterday, and he felt that
the experience would suffice him for
a very considerable time.
"Look," said Miss Bishop, point-
ing. Did she realize, he wondered,
what was afoot, Her next sentence
resolved his doubt, "She is English,
and site comes resolutely. on. She
means to fight."
"God help he, then," said his
lordship gloomily. "Her captain must
be mad. If they could so easily blow
the Royal Mary out of the water,
what will they do to this vessel? Look.
at that devil Don Miguel, He's ut-
terly disgusting in his glee."
Of necessity now, under diminish-
ed sail, the advance of the Arabella
was slower; but it was none the less
steady. She was already within
shaker shot, and they could make out
the figures stirring on her forecastle
and the brass guns gleaming on her
prow. The gunners of the Milagrosa
raised their linstocks and blew upon
their smoldering matches, looking up
impatiently at the admiral. But site
admiral solemnly shook his head.
"Stab me!" said his lordship.
.``This Englishman may be gallant
enough to accept battle against such
odds. But there are times when dis-
cretion is a better quality than gal-
lantry in a commander. Presently
you will suffer me to place you under
cover."
+aa .,._.w,, TIiTJRSDAY, FEB 28rd, 11)27
C. o Ahem rolled out, his lorded(' i:aw, of• her red hull
an
ahead, beyond the. English chip and more sharp] became more and
as to larboard of her,two sharply defined bare els swept
heavy splash- nearer with poles all save for
n +es, Almo.et at once two euceeesive the spread of canvas on her sprit.
he spurts of flame leapt from the lir:.a. (To Be Continued).
cannon on the Arabella beakeaar',
and sc e rly Mei the wat ,efts; on the _ ..
poop, earn the shower of epray where DIMNESS CARDS
one. of the :duns ;,tr•uelc the water near
them than. with a rending era.eh and
a
shiver that shook the Miba.,n,•rse
from °tr•tn to stern, the other e•un" to
ledge in her f•ot et.le.'� 'Po avenge
that blow, the Halal€ga blazed at the
Englishman with both his forward
guns. But, even at that short range
(between two and three hundred
yard„) neither shot took if rt.
At a hundred yards the Arebella's
forward guns, which had meanwhile
been reloaded, fired again at the Mil-
agrosa, and this, time. smashed eller
bowsprit into splinters, so that for
a moment she yawed widely to port.
Don Miguel elven profanely, and
then, as the helm was put over to
swing her back to her course, his own
prow replied, But the aim was too
high, and, whilst one of the shots
tore through the Arabelia's shrouds
and scarred her mainmast, the other
amain went wide. And where the
smoke of that discharge had lifted
the English ship was found alrnost
between the Spaniard,, her bows on
line with theirs and coming steadily
on. At last the Arabella was right
between the Spanish ships, prow to
poop and poop to prow. Don Miguel
spoke to the trumpter•, who had Fire, automobile and Wind Ins.
mounted the quarteddeck and stood COMPANIES
now at the admiral's elbow. The man For Brussels and vleinity Phone 64
raised the silver bugle that was to
give the signal for the broadsides of
both ships. But even as he placed it
to his lips, the admiral seized his arm
to arrest him. Only then had he per-
ceived what was so obvious—or should
have been to an experienced sea
fighter; he had delayed too long and
Captain Blood had outmaneuvered
him. In attempting to fire now upon
thel;nglishman, the Milagrosa and her
consort would also be firing into each
other. Too late he ordered nae helms-
man to put the tiller hard over and
swing the ship to larboard, as a pre- ( D. M. SCOTT
iminary to maneuvering for a less /,,per Jr�rop�rn Yl�1'�'L'�,�r�, r,�ei� .
mpossible position of attack. At that PRICES MODERATE
very moment the Arabella seemed to Far references oonsult any person whose sates
xplode as she swept by. Eighteen Ihareofficiated at.
Phone laze
uns from each of her Hanks emptied
themselves at that point-blank raucs T• T. NP RAE
"Will you tell me, then, why 'you
behave like a damned pirate?" Lord
Julian asked. "It will cost you dear!
"All things are possible. Meantime
it is your own Iive.s that will cost
you deur. Colonel Bishop is a rich
man; and you, milord, are no doubt
also rich. I will consider and fix your
ransom,"
"Look," said Miss Bishop, pointing,
"she is English, and she comes re-
solutely on."
"Anti you have the imprudence to
call yourself the Admiral of the na-
vies of the Catholic King1" stormed
his lordship.
"It is that I treat you English
heretic dogs just as you English
heretic doge, have treated Spaniards
upon the seas, you ropbers and thieves
out of hell. I have the honesty to clo
it in my own name, but you, you per-
fidious, beasts, you send your Captain
Bloods, your Hagthorpes Hari your
Morgans against us and disclann re-
sponsibility for what they do,"
"Captain Blood and tate rest are
not admfaals of England!" cried Lord
Julban,
"Ave they not? How do I know?
How does Spain know? Are you not
liars all, you English heretics?'
• "Sir." Lord Julian's voice was
harsh as a rasp, his eyes flashed. In-
stinctively he swung a hand to the
place where his sword habitually
hung. Then he shrugged and sneer-
ed: "Of course," said he, "It sorts
with all I have heard of Spanish hon-
or and all that I have see not yours
that you should insult a man who Is
unarmed and your prisoner-,"
The admiral's face bant.rd scarlet.
He half raised his hand to stribcc.
And then, restrained, perhaps, by the
very words that had cloaked ti.itc rc-
torting insult, he turned on his heel
abruptly, and went out without an-
swering,
¶ihe Milagrosa, with her consort.
the Hidalgo, rolling after nee•, steered
n, south by westerly course, then veer-
ed to the southeast, round Cape Tie
'boron, and thereafter, standing well
out to sea with the land no morn than
a cloudy outline to larboard, she
headed tlir•eetly east, and so ran
straight into the arras of Captabi
Bleed, who was malting fa `the lX antl-,
ward Paireen;•e. That hormonal Parte
ot ernes 1 P morning. u' my
g ionto powder stirred in in swstematicnlly hunted his enemy
�HE Industrial Mortgage and
Savings Company, of Sarnia
Ontario, aro prepared to advance money as
Mortgages on good lands. Parties desiring
,Honey on farm mortgages will please apply to
Jatne4 (:QWatt, a+enforth, erns, who will ter
Hash rotas and oilier pat Giealare.
Tho Industrial Mortgage
and Savings Company
C. C, RAMAGE, D.D.S., L.D.S.
BRUSSELS, ONT,
Graduate Royal College of Dental
Surgeons and Honor Graduate Uni-
versity of Toronto. Dentistry in all
its branches.
Office Over Standard Bank,
Phone 200
WM. SPENCE
Ethel, Ont.
Conveyance, Commissioner and C. J.
Agent for
The Imperial Life Assurance Co. of
Canada
and
Ocean Accident Guarantee Corpora-
tion, Limited
Accident Insurance, Autom•ebile In-
surance, Plate Glass Insurance, etc.
Phone 2225 Ethel, Out.
azzonr . Zarv( &`
AGENT FOR
JAMES M'FADZEAAI
Agent Hoick Mutual Eire Insurance Compeer
Also
Hartford Windstorm and Tornado Insurance
Phone 42 Box 1 Turnberry Street, Brussel
MD. SUTHERLAND & SON
LIMITED
ANS attaxey
6'�TzZp,8' G Nissan
e
"I can see best from here," she t
answered him. And added, quietly;
"I am praying for this Englishman,
He must be very brave."
The Arabella was advancing now, h
along a counee which, if continued, d
must carry her straight between the
two Spanish ships. d
But even at that moment the Ad- to
ntfral raised his hand; in th; waist, w
below him, a trumpet blared, and int- i
mediately the gunner on the. prow th
touched on his guns. As the thunder - o
nto the hulls of the two Spanish vas- M. 8 • M. C. P.. m S. 0.
cels. M. 0, So., Village of Brussels,
The Milagrosa staggered slowly a- olaoeatreale nce.uogeOt' A elvIllenr
ead. Dots Miguel was bawling or- Willlnmostreettelville Chnroh,
ers wildly, and pering ever and anon
through the curtain of smoke that was
rifting slowly astern, in his anxiety
ascertain ]tow it might have fared
ith the Hidalga. z
Suddenly, and ghostly at first, DR. WARDLAW
rough that lifting haze, loomed the 1OooUegg25 ,
e-andnightoalletarOffiee poasi e
utline of a ship; gradually the lines ; vlonrntln, Ethel,
Tr. ae. sla7C-Lair6
BARRISTER, SOLICITOR,
CONVEYANCER, NOTARY PUBLIC
LECKIE BLOCK - BRUSSELS
Worth Selling
is
Worth Telling
V
Advertise what you are doing.
Advertise what you expect to do,
Advertise your old goods and move them,
Advertise your newlgoods and sell them
before they get old.
Advertise to hold old trade.
Advertise to get new trade.
Advertise when business is good] to ,snake
it better.
Advertise when business is poor to keep
it from getting worse.
Advertising is not a "cure -alt"
Advertising is a preventative,
Advertising dog's not push, it pulls,
Advertising to pay Blast he -`insistent and
persistent.
VA