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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1933-03-09, Page 6PAGE SIX. THE SEAFORTH NEWS. sam i7',T. ,l r, I,• �y 04, 4a rai';c t a,' r"'les si +,lil'4i, 4Y i7a.° Johnson. (Continued from last week.) The speaker moved away. As ,:his footsteps died in the .distance my lord laughed, and his merriment was cell= sed by three or four harsh voices. Some one struck fiiert against steed, and there was a sudden flare af ;torches and the steadier light of a lantern, A iron with a brutal, weather 'beaten face -the master of the ship, we guessed—came down the ladder, lantern in !paid, 'Turned when he :had reached the foot, and held up the lan- tern to light my lard down. I lay and watched the K'ing's 'favorite as he de- scended. The torches held slanthigly above cast a fiery light over 'his state- ly figure and the face which 'had rais- ed him from the low estate of a doubtful birth and a most lean purse to a pinnacle too near the sun + for nien to gaze at with undazxled eyes. In his rich dress and the splendor of his beauty, with the red glow en'velopi'ng him, he lit the darkness like a baleful star. The two torchbearers and a third man descended, closing the hatch af- ter them. When all were down, my lord, the Master at this heels, came and stood over me. I raised myself, though with difficulty, for the fever had left me weak as a babe, and met his gaze.: His was 'a cruel look; if I had expected, as assuredly I did not expect, mercy or generosity from this my dearest foe, his look would have struck such a hope dead. Presently he beckoned to the men behind him. "Put the manacles upon him first," he said with a jerk of his thumb toward Sparrow. The man who had come down last, and who carried irons enough to fetter six pirates, started forward to do my lord's bidding. The master glanced at Sparrow's great frame and pulled: out a pistol. The minister laughed. "You'll not need it, friend. I know when the oddevare too great." ale held out his arms, and the men fettered them wrist to wrist, When they had finished he said calmly: " 'I have seen the wick- ed in great power, and spreading him- self like a green bay .tree, Yet he pass- ed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found. " SIy lord turned front him, and pointed to me. 1He kept his eyes upon my face while they shackled me hand and foot, then said abruptly, "You have cord's there: bind his arms to his side&" The men wound .the cords brute who brotgli't us fo'o'd. A quiet gentleman, with .whitening hair and bright dark eyes, stood before la's. He had ordered the two men with him to leave open the hatch, and he helld, in his hand a sponge waked ;with. vinegar. "Which of you is—or rather was—Captain Ralph Percy?" he ask- ed, :in a grave but pleasant voice. "I am 'Captain Percy," I answered: He looked at me ,with ettentdom. "I have heard' of you' before," he said. 'I read the letter y'ou wrote to Sir Edwyn•'San•dy's, and lehought it an ex- cellently conceived and 'manly ,epis- tle. What magic transformed a gen- tleman, and a soldier into a pirate ?" As he waited far the to speak, :I gave ham for, answer, "Necessity." "A and an'etam'o:nptholsits,"' he said. "I had rather read of nymphs chang- ed into laurel lame ,gushing springs. I ani come to take you, -sir, :before the officers of the Company aboand this ship, 'when, if you have aught to say for yourself, you may say it.:I need not tell you, Who saw so clearly some tame ago the danger inwhich ' you then stood, that your plight, is now a thousandfold worse" "II am perfectly aware of it," I said. "Arra, I to ,go in, fetters-?" "No," he •repllied, with a smile. "I have duo instructions on 'the subject, but I will take it upon myself to free you from them•,—even for the sake of that excellently writ letter.", "Es not' this gentleman to go too ?" I asked. He shook 'his head. "'I have no or- ders to that effect." While the men who were with him removed the irons from my' wrists and an'kl'es he stood in silence, re- garding enc with a scrutiny so close that it would have been offensive had I been in, a position to take offense. 'Wh'e'n they 'had finished I turned and held ljeremy's hand in mine for an instant, theafollowed the new- comer to the 'ladder and out of the held; the two, men .coming after, us, and resolving themselves above 'into a guard. As 'we traversed the main deck we came - upon Ddceon, busy with two or three others- about the ports. He saw me, and, droplping .the bar that he held, started forward, to be plucked back by an angry arm. The men who guarded 'me pushed in between as, and there was no word spokenby either. I walked on, the gentleman at my side, and presently came to an open port, and saw, with an intake of my breath, the sunshine, a dark blue heaven flecked with white, and a quiet ocean. My. coan'paniom glanced at me keenly. "Doubtless it seems fair enough, af- ter that Cimerian darkness ,below," he remarked. "'W'ould you like to rest here a moment?" "Yes," I said, and, leaning against the side of the port, looked out at the beauty of the light. "We are off !-latteras," he informed 'me, "but we :have not met with 'the. stormy seas that vex pear mariners hereabouts. Those sails you see on our qua'nter belong to our escort. We were separated by the hurriccne that nigh sank us, and finally drove us, helpless as we were, toward. the Flor- ida coast and across your path. For us that was a fortunate reef, upon which you dashed. The gods must have made your helmsman blind, for he ran you into a destruction that gaped not far you. Why did every wretch that we hung nexit morning. curse you before he died'?" "Td I told you, you would not be- lieve me," I replied. .1 was dizzy with the bliss of th'e air and the light, and it seemed a small thing that he would no's believe me, %The wind sounded in my ears like a harp and the sea beckoned. A white bird flashed down into the crystal hol- low between two waves, hung there a second, then rose, a silver radiance against the blue. Suddenly I saw a ri- ver, dark' and ridged beneath thunder clouds, a;boat, and in it, ,her head pil- lowed upon her arm, a woman, who %pretended that she slept. With a shock my senses steadied, and I be- came myself again. The sea was but the sea, the wind bhe wind; in the hold below me lay ;nry friend; somewhere in that ship twat my wife; and await- ing Inc in the state cabin were men 'who perhaps had the •wild, as they had the right and the might, to hanig :ane at the yand'aritn that' same hour, "II have iltad my fill of rest," I .said. 'Whom an, I to stand before?"' "The newly appointed officers of the Company, bound in this ship for Virginia," he answered. "The ship. carries Sir Francis %Wylatt, the new Governor; Master ,'Davison, the Sec- retary; young Clayborn•e, the surveyor:. general; the knight m'ars'hald, the. physician general, and the 'Treasurer, with other gentlemen, and with ladies, their wives and sisters. 'I am George, Sandys, the Treasurer. The blood rushed to my face, for it hurt inc that the brother of Sir Edwyn Sandys should believe that the firing of those guns had 'been, my act. His was the trained observation of the traveler and tairiter, and he tprob'ab'ly read the'coioraright. "I pity you, ifI 1!t • that the King's Court of High Corm- mission, to say :nothing of the hang- man, will soon 'sna'p the fetters wh'ic'h she now .shudders to ,think of; that the King and 'one besides will condone her past short madness. Her cheeks' are roses, her eyes are stars, But now, when S pressed her 'hand %bet- ween the verses of my song, ,she smil- ed and sighed and b'lus'hed. She is again the dutiful ward et the King, the Lady ljocelyn Leigh—she bath asked to be so called"— "You lie," I said, "She is my true and noble wife, She m'ay sit in the state 'cabin, in the air and warm'bh and light, she may even laugh with her lips, but her heart is hese with ane, in .th.e 'hold." As I spoke, %I ,knew, and knew not how I knew, that the ,thing which I had said was true. With that know- ledge came a 'happiness so deep and strong that it. swept aside like straw the torment of these cords, and, the deeper hurt that I lay at his feet. I suppose my face altered, and mirrored that blessed glow ,abau't my heart for into his own came a, white fury, changing its beauty into something fn•huanan and terrifying. He looked a devil baffled. For a minute he stood there rigid, with hands clenched,. "Embrace her heart, if thou ean'st," he said, in a voice so 'low that it came like a whisper from the realm he might have left. "1 shall press my face against her bosom." Another minute of a silence that I distained to break; then he turned and went up the ladder. The seamen .and the master followed. 'The hatch was clapped to and fastened, and awe were left to the darkness and the heavy air and to a grins endurance of what could not be cured. During those hours af thirst and torment I came indeed to know the man who sat beside nee, His hands were so fastened' that he could not loosen the cords, and there was no water for 'him to give me; but he could and did bestow a higher aldns, —the tenderness of a brother, the Manly syampat'hy of a soldier, the balm of the priest of Gad. I lay in silence, and he 'spoke not often; but when he did so, there was that in the tone of his voice—Another cycle al pain, and I awoke from a half swoon, in which there was 'water to drink and no anguish, to hear hien praying 'beside me. He ceased to speak, and in the darkness a heard him draw his .breath hard and hit greet muscles around nee many times. "Draw them crack. Suddenly there came a sharp tight," commanded my lord. There came a wrathful clank of the m'lttister'd chains. "The arm is torn and inflamed from shoulder to wrist, as I make no doubt you have been told!" he cried. "For very shame, m•an l" "Draw theta tighter," said, my lord, between his teeth. The men knotted the 'cords, and rose to their feet, to be dismissed by my lord with a curt "You may go." They drew back to the foot of the ladder, while the master of the ship went and perched himself upon 'one of the rungs. "The air ,ie fresher here beneath the hatch," he remarked, As for rte, though II lay at any en- emy's feet, ,I could yet set my teeth, and look him in the eyes. The cup was bitter, but I could drink it with an unmoved face, "Art paid?" he demanded. "Art paid far the 'tree' in the red forest without the haunted wood? Art paid, thou bridegroom?" "No, I answered, "Bring her here to laugh at me as she laughed in the 'twilight beneath the guest-house win- dow." I .thought he would murder me with ''the 'poniard he drew, but presently he put it up. "'She is come to her senses," he said. 'Up in 'the state cabin are bright ,lights, and wine and laughter, There are gen';tlewoinenaboard, and :I have been singing to the lute, to the•tn—and to her, She is saved' from the peril in- ,hecatne as D'avi,d: and Jtanathate to which' you plunged her; she knows at last some one came hesid,e the sound of breaking iron, and a low "Thank Thee, 'Lord," Another mo- ment, and I felt his hands %busy at the knotted cords. "I will have them, off thee in a. twinkling, Ralph," he said, "thanks to Him wh'o taught my handy to war, and my armis to break in two a bow of steel" As he spoke, the cords loosened beneath his fingers. I raised any head and laid it on his knee, and he put his great arm, with the broken chain dangling front it, around me, and,; like a mother with a babe, crooned the to alee'p with the twenty -+third psalm. CHAPTER XXVII can no longer esteem you," he s'a'id, after ra ,pause."I know no sorrier ,sight than a brave man's slltield reversed," S bit my lip .and kept back bhe ang-. ey word. The next niltout'e saw nus at the dear of the s'ta'te ,eabiin. It opened and my contipan'ion entered,, and -eef- ter him; with ivy two,gu'ardls' at pay: back. Abound a :taege table were %gait- ered a number cif gelvblentsti, some seated, some standing. There were but two erelong thein whiomi I had seen before,- th'e physician who ' had dressed my wound and my Lord Car- nal - The a'r-naq.'.The latter was seated in a great chain beside a'gentldman with a ,p'leas- ant activ'e face and light bnoiwn %curl- ing hair,—the . new Governor, 'as I .guessed, 'Tlhe Treasurer, nodding to the two men to fat back to the Win- dow, •gld'deld to a seat upon my l'ord's' other hand, and I went and stood be- fore the Goveravor ,of • V'irginia. (For some moments there was sill:. ence in the cabin, every m,an b•eing,en- gaged in. staring at me with alis his :eyes; then tihe Govennlor spoke: "I't should `be upon your knees, sir." "I am neither , peti'tio'ner nor peni- tent," I ,said. ""I lonolw n� reason why I ,should knee% your honor,' "There'ts :reason, God wot, why you should he both!" he exclaimed, "15id you not, now . some months agave, defy the writ of the King anld Com-' piny, refusing' to stand when' c'alled upon to do so in, the King's nlanae?" "Yea" "Did you not, When he would have stayed your lawless flight, lay violet han'd's upon a nobleman 'high. in the 'King's favor, and, ov'eeptewering him with %n'unvbers, carry him out of the d{isle's realm?" "Yes." "Did you not seduce from. her duty 'to the King, and force to fly with you his afaje'sty's ward, the Lady J%acelyn (Leigh?" "'N'o," I said. "There was with me only my wife, who chose to %follo'w the fortunes of her husband." He frowned, and my lord swore be- neath his breath. "Did you not, fall- ing in with a pirate ship, cast in your lot with the scoundrels upon it, and yourself turn 'pira'te?" "In some sort" "And bec'oane their chief?" "Since `there was no other situation open,—yes:" 'Taking with you as captives upon the pirate sh'i'p that lady and that anoblemaa?" '"Yes," "You proceeded to ravage the do- minions of the King of Spain, with wham his Majesty is at ,peace"— '"Like Drake 'and Raleigh,—yes" I said. IHe smiled, then frowned. "Temp- era matantur," he said dryly. ""And I have never heard that Drake or Ra- leigh attached an English ship," "Nor have I attacked one," I said 'He leaned back in his chair and stared at Inc, "We saw the flame and heard the thunder ail your gum's, and our rigging was ctt't 'by, shot. Did you expect me to believe that last asser- tion?" %, "No?" 'Then you might have spared• your- self—and us—that lie," he said coldly. :The Treasurer moved restlessly in his seat, and began to whisper to his neighbor, the Secretary. A young Oman twi'ih the eyes ,of a hawk and an iron jaw,—Glay'b'orne, 'the surveyor :general —who sat at the end of the table be- side the window, turned and gazed out upon the clouds amid` the 'sea, as if, contempt having .oaken the place of curiosity, he hard no further interest in the proceed'in'gs. As for nte, I set 'my face like flint, •and lo'o:ked.p:ast the man who might ihave saved' me that last speech of the Governor's as if lie had never been. 'T'here was a closed door in th'e ca- bin, apposite the one by which I lead ente'red•. Suddenly from, behind it came the sound of a short struggle, fo'l'lowed by the quick turn 'of 'a'key in the lock, 'The door was flung open, arid two women entered the cabin. One, a fair young gentlewoanan, with tears au her bro'w'n eyes, came forward hurriedly, with. outspread hands, "I did what, I could, F'rankl" she cried, "'W'h'en she would not listen to yeas%on, I e'en 'locked the door; but' she is's'trosg, for all that she has been. and she forced the key out of my In Which I Am (Brought to Trial My lord came not again into the hold, and the untied cords and the :broken chain were not replaced. Morning and evening we were b.raugh't a niggard allowance of {bread and water; but the man wtho carried it bore no light, and may ,not even have ob'served their absence. We saw no one in authority. Hour by hour my- wound's healed and my strength returned. If it was 'a dark and noisome prison, if there were hunger and thirst and inaction to be endured, if we knew not how near to us might he a death' of ignominy. yet the minister esus I'. +found the jewel'. in the heard of the toad; for in that time of pain and heaviness' we hand'!" She looked' at the red marl<I up.oti' the w"hil'te hand, and two tears. fell from .liter .long lashns upon her wild -rose cheek, IWli'th a 'smile the Governor pet out PIT acini and: lrew her down upon :,a stool :bosicle,lihim, then 'rase attd bowed, low to the Kin:g's,wanci, "You are ,not yet well enough to leave your cabin, as 'our ' worfli'y phy'si Tian general will assure you, folly," he said cour'teo'usly, but _firmly, "P'eelntit me to lead you back to it" Still smiling he evade as ,i'f to ad- vauce, •w'hlen she stayed hi,tn %wiith a 'gesture of her raised hand, at once so majestic and pleading that it was as though a sltrainf-of music had .pa's'sed tlhroughthe ,slbillanes's •golf 'the cabin, "'Sir Francis iW!yatt, as you : are a gentleman, let me spea'k," she said. It was the voiceof that first night at WeyanoIee, all'%p'athlos, all sweetness, ell entreating, The Go'vernlor stopped ,short, the senile still upon his lips, his hand still owts'trd'tched,—stood thus for a mom- ent, Itiren sat down. Arondnd: the half circle of gentlemen went a littler rust- ling sound, 'lake .wdsnd in dead' leaves; My lord half rase from his seat. "Sine is %bewi'tched," he Said, wifth dry -lips. "She will say what She %h'a's been told to say, 'Lest she speak to her shame, we sh'ou'ld refuse to hear her." She 'hald been standing in the cen- tre Of the R•dor, her hands - clasped, :her beadty b:dwed toward' the Goy- ennior, ,but alt my lord's words s'h'e straightened like a bow •unbent i "I may 'speak, your Honor ?" she asked clearly, 'The Govennto'r, Who had 'l'ooked aslc- anhce at the working face Of 'the man beside hiin slighltly bent his head .and leaned hack in his great armchair., The King's 'favorite -started to his feet. 'Jlhe King's ward turned her eyes upon him. "Sit dower, mylord," she said. "Surely these gentiiebnen will think that you are afraid of what I; a poor erring .woman, rebellious %to the King, traitress to mine awn hon- or, - late the plaything of a pirate ship, may say or do. 'Truth, my 'land, should be %snore courageous." Her voice was gentle, even plaintive, but it had in it the quality %bhtat lurks in the eyes ssf bhe cro'uc'hing panither, My lord sat down, one hand 'hiding his woeking mouth, the other clench- ed on 'the arm of his chair as if it had been an arm of flesh. ('To be Continued.) 'THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1933: ,11411111.0 PROFESS'IO'NAL CARDS Medical. a DR, H. HUGH ROSS, Physicians nd Surgeon. Late ` of London Hata' pital, London', England. Spacial attention , to diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat. Office and rasa- dence be'hiind Dominion Banka Office, Phone No.' 5; Residence Phone 104 DR, F. J. BURROWS, Seaforth. 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