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THE SEAFORTH NEWS:
THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1933
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(Continued from last week.)
With a furious oath he stooped and
caught up the glove at his feet; then
snatched out of my hand the sword
that I offered him,
"Push back the settle, you; it is in
the way!" he cried to Diccon; then to
me, in a voice thick with passion:
"Come on, sir! Here there are no
meddling governors; this time let
Death throw dawn the warder!"
"He throws i'r," said the minister
beneath his .breath.
,From without came a trampling
;and a sudden burst of excited voices.
The next instant the door was burst
o'p'en, and a most villainous, fiery -red
face thrust itself inside. "A ship 1"
bawled the apparition, and vanished.
The clamor increased; voices cried
for captain and mate, and more pir-
ates appeared at :the door, swearing
out the good news, come in search of
Kirby, and giving no choice but to go
with them at ante.
"Until this interruption is over,
sir," I said sternly, bowing to him as
I spoke. "No longer."
"Be sure, sir, that to my impati-
ence the time will go heavily," he
:answered as sternly,
iWe reached the poop to find the
fog that had lain about us thick and
white suddenly 'lifted, and the hot
sunshine streaming down ,upon a
rough blue sea. To the larboard, a
league away, lay a low, endless cOast
of sand, as dazzling white as the surf
that broke upon it, and running back
long enough. Now I have a mind to
die an honest noon,"
• At this defection a dead hush of
amazem'en't 'fell upon that crew. One
aii,d all 'they stared et ,the 'ma'nin
black and silver, moistening their lips
but saying no word. We were five
armed and desperate ,men; they were
fours'core. We might send; .many to
death befone us, but at The last we
ourselves must die,—we' end 'those
aboard'the he'l'pless ship.
IIn-'the moment's respite ii bowed
my head and .whispered to the King's,
wand;
"I 'had ra't'her it were your award,"
she answered in a lo'w'voice, in, which
there was neither ,!read nor sorrow,
'""You must n•ot let it ,grieve you; it
Will be added to your good deed's;
And it is I that should ask your for-
giveness, molt you imine."
IT'bou•gh there was ,scant time for
such, da'1'li'ance I bent myknee and
t rested my forehead u'p•on her. hand,
As I rose, the minister's ;hand •itouch-
ed.' my shoulder erect the ministter's
voice spoke in my ear. '"There is an-
other way," he said. "There is' God's
death, and not man's.. 'L'ook and see
what I mean."
[I .fotl'lo'wed the po'intin'g of his eyes,
and saw 'how close we 'were to those
white and,tumbling waters, the dan-
ger 'signal, the rattle of the hidden.
su'ake. The eyes of the pirate at the
helm, too, were upon them; his brows
were drawer downward, his lips press-
ed together, the whole Man bent upon
the s'hip's sate passage The
low thunder of the surf, the cry of a
wheeling sea bird, the gle'aaming lonely
shore, the cloudless 'sky, the ocean,
and the white sand far, far below,
where one aright sleep well, sleep
well, with other valiant dead, long
drowned, long changed, "'Of their
'bones ane co•nalmvade."
The s'torin broke with fury and out-
cries, and a blue radiance of drawn
steel. A pistol ball sang past my ear,
"Don't ,shoot!" 'roa'red the gravedigger
to the man who had fired the short.,
"Don't cut t'he'm down! Take them
and thrust them under the :hatches
until we've time to. give them a slow
death! And hand's off the ;WOMEN'S un-
til we've time to draw lots!"
He and the Spaniard Wed the rush,
3
turned tnty head and nodded to
Sparrow, then :faced then again.
"Then .may the ,Lord •have mercy upon
your souls!" I said.
As I spoke the 'minister sprang up-
on the 'helmsman, and, striking 'him
to the deck with one blow of his huge
,fist, himself seized the wheel, ,Before
the pirates could .draw breath he had
jammed the helm to, starboard, and
the reef lay right across our 'bows.
A dreadful cry went up from that
black ship to a deaf heaven,—a cry
that was echoed by a wild shout of
triumph from the merchantman. The
mass fronting us broke in terror and
rage and confusion. Some ran frant-
ically up and down with shrieks and 'trouble,—they •wouldn't have 'beifeved.
curses; others sprang overboard. A' me;—and I can take my oath my lord
few made a dash for the poop and for 'hasn't. He was only our helpless
us who stood to meet them, They prisoner, you know; and they would
were led by the Spaniard and the think madam mistaken ar bewitched."
gravedigger. 'The 'former ,I anet and 'It's not a likely hale," -I said grittily,
sent tumbling back into the waist; 'seeing that we had already opened.
the latter whirled past me, and rush
ing upon Paradise thrust him through
with a.iPike, then 'dashed on to the
wheel, to, 'be met and hewn down by
Diccon.
The ship struck. I put my arm
around my wile, and my hand before
her eyes; and while I looked only at
Cher, in that storm of terrible cries, of
flapping canvas, ,rushing water and
crashln:g timbers, the !Spaniard clam-
bered like a catamount upon the poop,
that was now high above the broken
forepart :of the ship, and 'fired his pis-
tol at me point-blank.
CHAPTER XXV.
awoke to the foot that :tube daa•knees
about me was the 'darkness of a ship's
hoed, and the murnnir of else forest
the wash of the water alongsedee, I
put myarm out and touched, not the
side of a grave, •but. a s'hip's timbers:
I serettched 'Fertile else other arm, then
d'ro'pped it with a groan, Some one
.bent over me and held water ea my
Pips. S thank, and my senses carie
fully to lie: "D ocond" I said.'
'Pt's not Diocese," replied. the figure,'
setting down a p'itc'her. "Iit is' Jeremy
ISpanrow. Thank God, you are your-
sehf,again!"
"Where :ane. we?" I asked, when I
bad lain and listened- -to the waiter a
little longer.
"'In the hold of the George," he an-
swerede i'eTihie ship sank by the b'o'ws,
and wel'huiglh all were drowned. Bert
when they upon the !George saw that
there was a wom'an amongst us who
clung to robe Poop deck, they sent ,their
f'onvg boat to take us off."
!The light was too .diet for me to.
read 'his face, se I touched his arm,
"She hats saved," he said, 'Sh'e is
safe now. Those • are gentlewomen
aboard, and she is in their raze."
I punt my unhurt arum across my
eyes.
"You are weak yet," said ,the min-
ister gently. "The :Spaniard's ball, you
knew, went through your shoulder,
and in .50005 Way your arm was badly
torn from Shoulder to wrist. You have
been out of your head ever since we
were brought here, three days ago.
The chirurgeon came and 'dress'ed:
your wound, and ie is, healing well.
Don't 'try to s'p.eak,--I'll tell you all.
Diccon, has been.,pres'sed into service,
as the ship is short of hands, having
lost same by fever and some over-
board. Four 'of the pirates were picked
.up and hung at the yardarm ,next
,morn'ing."
1He moved as he, spoke, and s'a'me
thing clanked in the.stillness. "You.
are ironed!" II evc'leiln'ed.
'Only my ankles. My lord :would
have had me bound' hand end foot;
hut you were raving 'for water, and,
taking you fora dying Man, they were
so 'humane as to leave my hands free
to attend you.
"My 'lord would have you bound,"
I said slowly. 'Then i't's my lord's
day."
"?High noon and blazing sunshine,"
he answered, withh a rueful laugh. "It
seems fh'at. half the folk 03 board had
gaped at him at court. Lord'I when he
put his foot over the side 'of the ship,
how the women screeched and the
,meat stared! He's cock of the walk.
now, my Lord Carnal, the King's Fa-
vorite!" •
"And we are pirates."
"'That's the case in a nutshell," he
answered cheerfully.
"Do they knew how the ship came
to strike upon that reef?" I asked.
"Probably not, unless m•adatu has
enlightened them. II didn't take the
!Every man cif those villains, save
one, was of 'English 'birth; every man
knew that ,the disabled ship was an
English merchantman filled with
peaceful folk, but the knowledge
changed their plans no whit, There
was a great hubbub; cries and oaths
and brutal laughter,:the noise of the
gunners with their guns, theclang of
cutlass and pike as they dealt out,
but not a voice raisedagainst the
murder that was to deo done. II looked
from the doomed ship, upon which
there was now ,frantic haste and con-
fusion, to the excited throng below
me, and know that I' had as well cry
for mercy to winter •wolves.
The 'helmsman +behind me 'had not
waited for orders, and we were bear-
ing down upon the disabled 'bark.
(Ahead of us, upon our larboard bow,
was a patch .of lighter 'green, and be-
yond it a slight 'hurry and foam of
the waters. Half a dozen voices cried
warning to the helmsman: It was he
of the woman's mantle, whom I had
run through the shoulder on the is-
land off Cape Charles, and the had
been Kirby's pilot from Maracaibo
to Fort Caroline. Now he answered
with a burst of vaunting oaths:
"We're in deep water, ,and there's deep
water beyond. I've passed this way
before, and I'll carry ye safe past
'that reef were It hell's gates!"
IThe desperadoes who heard hini
swore applause and thought ,no 'more
of the reef that lay in wait. Long
since they had gone through the
gates of hell 'for the sake of the
to a !ratted growth of vivid green. prize beyond. Knowing the appeal to
"That is Florida," said Paradise at he hopeless, I yet made it.
my elbow, "and there are reefs and "She is English, meal" I' shouted,
shoals enough between us. It was "We will fight the Spaniards' while
Kirby's luck that the fog lifted. Yon- they have a flag in the +Indies., but our
tall ship hath a less fortunate star," own people we will not touch!"
She lay between us and the white The clamor of shouts and oaths
beach, evidently in shoal and danger- suddenly fell, and the wind in the
ons waters. She too had encountered rigging, eche water at the keel, the
a 'hurricane, and had not come forth surf an the shore, unade themselves
victorious. Foremast and forecastle heard. In the silence, the terror of
were gone, and her bowsprit was the fated ship became audible. :Con -
broken. She lay heavily, her ports but 'fused voices came to us, and the
a few inches above the water. Though scream of a woman.
we did not 'know it then, most of her
ordnance had been flung overboard
to lighten her. Crippled as she was,
with what sail she could set, she was
On the faces of a very few of the
pirates there was a look of moment-
ary doubt and wavering; it passed,
and; the most hard never worn it. They
beating back to. -open sea from that began to press forward toward the
dangerous offing. poop, cursing and threatening, vvo'rk-
'Where she went we can follow!" in.g 'themselves up into a rage that
sang out a voice from .the throng in would not care for my sword, the
our waist. "A d -d easy prize! And minister's cutlass, or Diccon's pike.
we'll give no quarter this timet" There One who called himself a wit cried
was a grimness in the applause of his out something about Kirby and his
fellows• that boded little good to some methods, and two or three laughed.
on either ship. "I find that the role of Kirby wear -
"Lord help .all poor souls this day! its me," I said, "I am an English
ejaculated the minister in undertones; gentleman, .and I will not Mare upon
then aloud and more 'hopefully, "'She an English ship,"
hath not the look of a don; maybe
she's a bucaueer."
'She is an English merchantman,".
said 'Paradise, "ILook at her colors.
As if in answer there cage from
our forecastle a flame and thunder of
gune:. 'The • gunners there, intent upon
their business, and now within range
CompanyA Company ship, probably bound for
Virginia, with a cargo of servants,
gentlemen out at elbows, felons, chil-
dren for apprentices, traders, French
esignerons, glasswork Italians, return-
ing Councilors and -heads of hundreds,
with their wives and daughters, men
servants and maid servants, 'I made
the Virginia voyage once myself, 'cap
tam• Kin'g's ward, still and' white and brav-
a ,did ,not answer. I too saw the
two crosses, and !I did :not doubt that er than a man, stood beside me. From
the arms upon the flag wbeneath were
the pirates 'that we faced calve one
those , o•f Inc Gompzny. The vessel, deep breath, 'like the firstsigh ,of the
iwhich was of abou two'hundred tons, wind before the blast strikes. S•udden-
had.• mightily .the lock ni the George, iy the Spaniard pushed himself to the
a ship with whichwe at Jamestown front; with his gaunt figure- and sable
were all familiar. (Sparrow spake for.
me.
"An English ship!" he cried out of
the simplicity of h'is• 'heart. "Then
shes safe enough for usl Perhaps
we might speak her and show her
that we are 'English tool !Perhaps"—
He looked eagerly at inc.
"Perhaps you might be let to go off
to her in one of the boats," finished
Paradise dryly. "I think ,not, !raster
.S'p'arrow."
"It's other guess messengers, that Turning, he dolled: his hat with
they'll send," muttered Diccon. 'They flourish to those he had quitted. "I -Tee
,are uncovering the guns, sir." ere! ,+e ^tied. "T have run with: you
°31 pa'sseeh 'belief," he said iii a
singsong voice, "how often, wounds,'
wibh naught in the world done for
,them oustide cef,;fair water and a clean
'ra'g, do, turn to and 'heal out of sheer
!perversity. Now, of I had been allow
ed to treat this, one properly with
s•ceiciiiag oil, and mellted lead, and oto
hlave bled the' patient as he.. should
.have been blend, it is ten eo one that by
this ,time there would .have beet a.pir-
'alte the .Pests in tete wotid.'c He' ease to
his feat with a highly inbredcount-
enance.
d'Then 'he's doing ascii?"
Sp'arrovv. ,
""ISIo' well that Ove couldn't do bet-
ter," replied !the other, °Tlhe, arm was
a trifling matter, though' no ,doubt ex-
quisstely 'painlful. The wound in the
shoulder is ,mira'oulottsey heta']hng,` with-
out ,either blood -'Petting or c;auiteroes.
Y'ou"ll have to 'hang after all, my
friend," He looked at me with his lit-
tle beady eyes.."It must have beena
grand l?fe," he said regretfully. "'I
never expected' to see .aspirate chief in
the flesh. 'When I wawa boy, I used
to dream .of the black 'ships and the
,gold and lthe 'fighting. By the 'serpent
of Escuiapius, le my heart of 'he'arts,
I would rather be such a world's thief,
uncaught,, than IGbvermor of Virgin-
ia!"
He gathered up the tools• :of his trade
and motioned to his torch'b'earer to go
before. "I'•11 have to report you rapidly
recovering," he 'said' warningly, as he
turned to follow •rhe eight.
"Very well," I made answer. "To
whom am I indebted for so much
kindm•ess?"
"I am Dr. John Poet, newly ap-
pointed ,physician general to the col-
ony of Virginia. It is little of my skill
I tould give you, but that .little _I
gl'adly'bestotw upon .a real pirate.
What a life it must' have been! And to
have to pant with it when you are yet
young! And the real red gold. and. the
rich gems all at the 'bottoms of the
seal"
IHe sighed heavily and went his
way. The hatches were closed after
hilt, and the minister and II were 'left
in darkness while the siow hours
dragged themselves past us. Thorough
the chinks •af the 'hatches a very faint
light streamed down, and made 'the
darkness gray instead of black. The
minister and, II saw each other dimly,
as spectres. Sane one brought us
mouldy-ib'iscteit, th'att I ,wantedt not,
and water for which I dthirsted, 'Spa'r-
row put the small pitcher to his lips,
kept it there a ,mo'me'nt, then held it
to mine. I drank, and with that :gen-
erous draught tested pure bliss. It
was net until five minutes later that
I raised myself upon my elbow and
turned to him.
"The pitcher felt full to my lips!" S
etclaimed. "Did you drink when you
said you did?"
He put out hes great hand and push-
ed lie ,gently down. 'I have no wound
and there was not enough for two,"
he said.
The light that trembled through the
cracks above died away, and the
darkness 'became gross. The air in
asked
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
Medical
e,f the merchantman, had fired, the
three forecastle culverins. The shot
cut her rigging and brought clown the
flag. The pirate's, shout of triumph
w'as echoed by a cry from her decks
and the defiant roar of her few g.
re-
maining. gns.
u
I drew my 'sword. The minister and
Diccon moved nearer to me, and the
dress 'he had the seeming of 'a raven
came to .croak over the dead, He rest-
ed his gloomy eyes upon my lord. The
latter, very white, returned the look;
then, with his head held hige, crossed'
rhe deck with a tn'easiieed step and
took his prate among us. He was fol-
lowed •ed a momentlater b Paradise. "I
lw y
never thought to die in my bed, cap-
tain," said the latter nonchalantly,
"Sooner ar later, what does it matter:
And you must know that before I
was a pirate I wasa gentleman,'
In Which ily Cord Hath His Day
I and Black Lamoral were leading
a forlorn 'hope. IVs'ith all my old com-
pany behind us, We were thundering
upon an enemy as thick ,as ants, cov-
ering ,the face of the earth. Down
came Black ILainoral, and the hoofs of
every charger went over me. For a
time I was dead; then I lived again,
and was walking with the forester's
daughter in the green c'hase at home,
The oaks stretched broad sheltering
arms above ,the young fern and looked
,at us. In the open spaces, starring the
lush grass, were all the yellow prim -
rosea that ever bloomed. I gathered.
them or her, but when II would have
given them to her she was no longer
the 'forester's daughter, bort a proud
lady, heiress to lands• and gold, the
ward :of time King. She would not take
the primroses from a;poor 'gentleman,
but shook her 'head and laughed
sweetly, and fadied into a waterfall
that leaped from, a, pink hill into a
waveless sea. Another darkness, and I
was captive to the Chickah'omtnties,
tied to the stake. My arm and should-
er were on fire, and Opechancanongh
came and looked at nee, with his .dark
still face and 'his burning eyes. The
fierce pail) died, and 'I with it, and I
la} in a:, grave and listened to the 'loud
and deep murmur of the forest above.
e lay there for ages on age's before I
DR, H. HUGH ROSS, Physician
and Surgeon. .Late of London Hos-
pital, London, England, Special
attention to diseases of the eye, 'ea',
nose aid throat. Office and resi-
dence behind Dominion Bank. Office
Phone No. 5; Residence Phone 104,
DDR, F, J. BURROWS, Seaforth.
Office and residence, Goderioh street,
east of the United Church, Coroner
for the County of Huron. Telephone
N0. 46.
tDR, F. J. R. FiOESITER—Eye, Ear
Nose and Throat. Graduate' in Medd-
ine, University of Toronto 1897.
Late Assistant New York Ophthal-
mic and Aural Institute, Moorefield's
Eye, and Golden Square throat hospi-
tals, London, England: At Comm-
ercial Hotel, Seaforth, 3rd Monday in
eaoh month, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
.c
DIR. W. C. S'PIROtAT.—Graduate of
Faculty of Medicine, University of
We'stern Ontario, London. Member
of College. of Physicians and Sttc�
geons of Ontario. Office in rear of
Aberhart's drug store, Seaforth,
Phone. 90. Hours 1.304 p.m., 7.39'
-9 p.m. Other hours by appointment.
,fire upon them," the hold was stifling; our souls pant -
'I trust in 'heaven the sharks got ed for the wind and the stars outside,
the men who ,fired the culverins 1" he At the 'worst, when the 'fetid black -
cried, and ,then laughed et his o'wn nese lay upon our chests' like a b'igh't
savagery. mare, the hatch was suddenly flitted,
I lay still and tried to think. "Who
are they on beard?" I asked' at last.
a rush of pure air came to us, and
with it the sound of men's voices
"I don't know," he replied. 'I was speaking on the deck above. Said •oitie
only on deck until my lord had his "True the doctor pronounces hien out
say in the poop cabin wibh the master
and a geultleman who appeared most
in authority. Then the .pirates rwere
strung up, and we were 'bundle,d down
'here in quick order, But there seems
to 'be more quality than usual aboard,"
"You know where we are?"
"We lay at anchor for a day,—
whilst
ay,whilst they patched her up, I suppose,
And since then there rhasbeeu rough
weather. We must be still off 'Florida
sand that is all I know, Now go to
sleep. You'll get your strength beet
so, and there's no'thin,g to be gotten
by waking."
He began to croon a marry -versed
psalm. I slept and waked, and slept t'
again, end was waked by the light of
(To be 'Continued:)
a torch against my eyes. The torch
was held by a much -interred seaman,
Worms sap the strength and un-
dermine the vitality of children.
Strengthen them by using Mother
Graves' Worm Exterminator to drive
out the parasites,
of all danger, yet he is a wounded
men,"
"He is a desperate and dangerous
man," 'broke inanother harshly, "I
know not how you will answer to
your Company for leaving him unir
cned so long."
"'I and the Company understand
each other, my lord," rejoined the
other, with some haughtiness. "I can
keep any prisoner without advice. If
3 now order irons ,to he .put upon him
and'his accomplice, it is because II Gee
:fit to do so, and not because of your
suggestion, my -cord. You 'wish to take
this opportunity to have speech with
.hint,—to that I can have no, - (*j•ee-
Dental
DR J. A. MUNN, 'Successor to
Dr. R. R. Ross, graduate of North-
western University, Chicago, I9L Li-
centiate Royal College of Dental. Sur-
geons, Toronto. Office over Ms'
hardware, Main St., Seaforth. Phone.
151.
DR. F. J. • BtECHtELY, graduate
Royal College of Denial Surgeons, I
Toronto. Office over W. R. Smith's
grocery, Main St., Seaforth. Phones,
office 1851W, residence 185J.
and by its fight a gentleman of a
very meagre aspect, with a weazen
face and small black eyes, was busily
examining my wounded shoulder aqui
arm.
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