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Home My WebLink AboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1924-11-20, Page 3nbel° eotb, x9 lq, 1<ti10 fAIV4, ADVANCE -TIMES SPORT S. S. Noy 7, East ;,' rawanosh; October, Sr. ;1Y --Beatrice Peeeroft 74, 'Gor- don Naylor 63. Jr, IV Vllletta Chamney 63, Vet not} Chaniney 64. Sr, III --Ross Robinson 82 Mar- garet Cttunington 81, Calvin Robin- son 76, Jr.'TII—.Marjlorie Jamieson s . 4 jr. II—Mason Robinson 67, Mil- dred.Mason 66, C, Robertson., teacher. or ' BUSINESS CARDS WELLINGTON MUTUAL FILE' INSURANCE CO' Established 184p. Head Office,'Guelpb, Ont. Risks taken:; on all. classes of insur- .once .at reasonable rates, AB'NER COSENS, Agent, 'Wingham J. W. DODD Office in Chisholm Block FIRE, LIFE, ACCIDENT AND HEALTH — INSURANCE ---- AND,REAL ESTATE P.:0. Box 366. Phone 198. WINGHAM, , - ONTARIO • DUDLEY HOLMES BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, ETC. 'Victory and Other Bonds Bought and. sold.,• •Office—Meyer Block, Wingham R« VANSTONE :BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, ETC. 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SYNOPSIS slave b' leaving • him to nursue his �s Peter Blood, a young Irish physi- profession than by setting him, to cian, is taken prisoner, charged with work on the plantation, treason. while treating the wounded "If some other planter had, bought after the battle of Oglethorpe's:Farm rne,'1 Mr. Blood explained, as he between 1Vlonrnouth rebele and the sol- thanked her, "it is odds that the facts Biers' of King James, With 'Jeremy of my shining abilities might never Pitt and Yeoman Baynes lie" is have been; brought to light." brought to trial before the bloody "I 'perceived, your interest when Lord Jeffreys, They are - sentencer%, your uncle bought me,: At the time to death, but. King James orders the I resented it" rebels -convict sent to the colonies, "You resented it?" There was a there to be sold as slaves. Blood, challenge in her boyish voice.. Pitt and about fifty others are put "I have had no lack of experiences aboard ship and conveyed to Bridge- of this mortal life; but to be bought town, Barbadoes, There .:Governor and sold was a ;:new one, and I' was Steed, Colonel Bishop and other chi- hardly in the mood to love my ptir- zelis inspect the slaves and buy them chaser." Arabella Bishop, niece of the Colonel, "If I urged yotz upon my uncle, sir, calls his attention to Blood,- but the it was that I commiserated you." military commander sneers , at the She proceeded to • explain herself. "bag of bones." Captain Gardner, "My uncle may appear to :you a hard however, who brought the rebels- man. They are all hard men, these convict to the Barbadoes, tells the .planers, It is the life, J suppose. Colonel of Blood's ability as a phy- But there are others here who are sician and how he saved the lives of worse." others on ship. 1 -le names"a price of "This interest in a stranger ....'t fifteen pounds for the physician. he began. Then changed the direc- CHAPTER IV -Continued tion. of his probe. "But there were There came a chuckle from Gov- ernor' Steed. "You hear, Colonel. Trust .your niece, ' Her, sex knows a man when it sees one: And he laughed.' But he laughed" alone. •A' cloud of 'annoyance swept. across the face of the Colonel's niece. Jeremy Pitt had almost ceased to breathe. "I'll give you ten pounds for him," said the Colonel at last. •Peter Blood prayed that the offer might be rejected. For: nb. reason that he could have given you, he was. taken with repugnance at the thought of becoming the property of this gross animal, and in some sort a -yr tie love between.. allele and niece, But she was dutiful to him, and he was circumspect he his behavious before her. CHAPTER VI SYMPATHY 'One day, towards the end of, May, there crawled into Carlisle I3ay a wounded, battered English ship, the Pride of Devon, She had been in ac- tion! off Martinique` with two Spanish treasure ships. One of "the Spaniards had fled from the combat, Steed, after the fashion of most colonial governors, gave the Pride of Devon shelter and every `facility to careen and carry out repairs. But, before it came to this, they fetched from her hold over a score of English seamen as 'battered and broken as the ship herself, and, r to- gether with .these, some half-dozen Spaniards in like case. These wounded men were conveyed to a long shed' on the wharf, and the me- dical skill of Bridgetown was sum- moned to their aid. Peter, Blood 'was ordered to bear a hand in this work, and, partly because he spoke Castil- ian (and he"spoke it as fluently as his own • native tongue) and partly : be- cause of his inferior condition as a slave, he was given the Spaniards for his patients. They were shunned, however, by all those charitably dis- posed inhabitants ' of Bridgetown ,,.who flocked to the improvised hos- pital with gifts of fruit and flowers and delicacies for the injured English others as deserving of Commisera- seamen. tion." "You did not seem quite like the others." "I am not," said he. "Oh!"' she stared' at him, bridling a little. "You have a good opinion of yourself." "On the contrary. The others are all worthy rebels. I am not." "But if you are not a rebel how come you here?" "Faith,' now, it's a long story," said ,"And oiie perhaps that you would prefer not to tell?" Briefly on that he told it her. "My God! What an infamy!".' she cried, when he had dobe. "Oh, it's a sweet country England r j under King James! There's no need to commiserate me further. All things considered I prefer Barbados. Here at least one can believe in God." "Is that so difficplt elsewhere?' she asked him, and she was very grave. "Men make it so." She moved on. Her negroes sprang up, and went trotting after her. It Rising suddenly From the redress- was a fair enough prospect, he 're_ ing of a• wound, a task in ,which lie fleeted, but it was a prison, and, in had been absorbed for some mo - announcing that he preferred it td meats„ he saw, :to . his surprise, that England, he had indulged that almost one lady, detached from the general laudable form of boasting which lies throng, was placing some plantains in belittling out misadventures. and a bundle of succulent sugar cane Of the. forty-two who had been land- on the• cloak that served, one of his ed with llnitn from the Jamaica. Mer- i patients for a coverlet. Peter Blood z�' �'.• ";-• `' chant, Colonel Bishop had purchased stood at gaze a moment. The lady, no, less than twenty-five. The re- 'turning now tot confront him, her lips mainder had gone to lesser planters i parting a smile of recognition, was, z•Tl er- 44157 "The man's a Spaniard," said he. "I think I ,know you, sir," she said the property of that hazel -eyed young girl, But • it would need more than repugnance to save him from his des- tiny. estiny.. A slave is a slave, and has ne power to shape his fate. Peter Blood was sold to , Colonel Bishop•—a; dis dainful • buyer—for the ignominious sum of ten pounds. CHAPTER V ARABELLA BISHOP One sunny morning in 'January, about a rnonth after the arrival of the Jamaica Merchant at Bridgetown. Miss Arabella Bishop rode out from her uncle's fine house on the' heights to the northwest of the city, She, was attended by two, negroesewho trotted after her at a respectful , distance. Reaching the summit of a gentle, grassy slope; she meet a tall, lean mean dressed in a sober,,geetlemanly fash- ion, who was walking in the opposite direction. Miss Arabella drew rein, "I think I know you sir-," said she. Her voice was crisp and boyish. It arose perhaps froni an ease, a direct- ness, which disdained the .artifices of her sex, and set her on good terms with, all the world. To this it maybe due that Miss Arabella had reached the age of five and twenty not merely unmarried . but unwooed. She used with all men a sisterly frankness, The: stranger cane to a standstill upon being addressed. "A lady should 'know her, own pro- perty," said he. ""My property?" •"Ybtir uncle's, leaptways, 1 am Pe- ter Bloody' She recongized him then. She had heard that this rebel -convict hadbeen discovered'; to be a physician.. Gov- ernot Steed, who Suffered damnably from the gout liad borrowed the fel- low from his purchaser. Peter Blood had afforded the Governor relief, and the Governor's lady had desired hitu to attend her for the megrims" Mr, I31rsod prescribed for her and she had conceived herself the better fer his praseriptioll. 'After that Colonel Bis- hop had found that, theta was more profit to be xnade out •of : this riew r i some of them to :Speightstown, ancd'Arabella Bishop. !others still farther north. What• may I "The man's Spaniard," said he, have been the lot of the latter he 'in the tore of one who corrects a could riot tell, but among Bishop's s.la- 'misapprehension. She frowned and es Peter Blood came aiid 'went freely : stared at him for a moment, with in- and their lot he knew to be a brutaliz-!creasing haughtiness. ling. misery. If their labors flagged, i ', "So I. perceive. But he's a human I there were the whips of the overseer 'being none the less," said she. and his men to quicken them. They! ; "Your uncle, the colonel, is of a went. almost naked; they; dwelt in 'different opinion," said he when he squalor and they, mere ill -nourished had recovered. "He regards them on salted meat and' maize dumplings.' as vermin to be left to languish and To curb insubordination, one of them. die of their festering wounds.: ' who had rebelled against Kent, the I "Why do you tell me this?" brutal overseer, was lashed to death I "To, warn you that you maybe. in - by rte;roe's under his .comrades' eyes. curring the colonel's displeasure. If Occasionally Peter Blood saw Miss 'he had had his way, I should never- Bishop,and they seldom met but that have heen alloiyed to -dress their shepaused to hold him in conversa- tion for some 'moments, evincing her interest in him. • Though .the same blood ran in her veins as iii those of'Colonel „Bishop, wounds." And you thought, of cqurse, tat T must be of my uncle's mind?" "I'd, not willingly be rude to a la- dy, in my thoughts," said he, . "But yet hers was free of the vices . that that you should bestow gifts on them, considering that if your uncle cavae to iieai• of it—" He paused, leaving the sentence unfinished. "Ah, well; ther,` .Cot%. Bishop (that same Colonel, there it is!" he concluded. Bishop's brother):, had been a kindly, "First you impute to me inhumani chivalrous,gentle soul, who, broken- ty,and then cowardice. Faith•! For hearted by the early death of a young a man who would not willingly be wife had abaitcloued the Old World rude to a lady eve}n, in his thoughts, and sought an anodyne for his grief it's none so bad," Her boyish laugh in the New. He had come put to the trilled out, but the note of it jarred Antilles, bringing with tiroe his little his ears this time. daughter, then five years of age, and He saw her now, it seemed to him, 'had given himself up to the life of a for the first time, and saw how lie had planter. He had prospered. from the first, as nxeii sometimes will who care nothing for prosperity. Prospering, he had bethought him of his younger brother, a soldier, at home reputed something wild. : He had .advise him to conte out to ' Barbados; and the advice, .which at another season William I3ishop might have scorned, reached him at ie moment when his wildness was beginning to bear such fruit that a change of climate was de- sirable. William came,' and was ad- mitted by his generous brother to a partnership in the pr'osper'ous planter- tion', lanta-tion, Some six years later, whenAr- abella was fifteen, her father died, tainted her uncle's for these vices were not natural to that blood; they were, in his case, acquired.' Her fa - misjudged her. "Sure, now, how, was L to guess that—that Colonel Bishop should have an. angel kr his niece?" said he reek- lessly, for he was reckless, as men of- ten are its sadden penitence. "Yoh wouldn't, of course, I should- n't think you often guess aright" Without anotlter word or $o much as another glance at Peter Blood; she swept ottt of the pls.cd. Peter fetched a sigh. CHAPTER VII' (PIRATES There was, too, a new hope, There were two doctors hi 13ridgetowin,both frcanien, Aird they were feeling the leaving her :in her uncle's guardian- rivalry o£ : this new rebel -convict' ship: AS- things 'were, there was lit- static, whose earnings for. sert'lees went to -Colonel i3ishop, To themselves of axis rivalry, tltey.,pro- posed to, Peter 13lood to finance hie escape, from the island. " Ile: enlisted his• good friends,', including Jeremy Pitt, whose skillful seaman's know- ledge must be needed to guide the sloop whieh they were to purchase, Bait the plan miscarried in that Fent the overseer, suspected Pitt, and Col- onel Bishop ordered Pitt to : the stocics, where he had him flogged Soundly: Even while Jeremy was being pre- pared for the lash., the colonel looked seaward and savi' in'the roads, :stand- ing in for the shore before a gentle• breeze that scarcely ruffled the sur- face, a stately red -hulled frigate, fly- ing the English ensign. So leisurely an advance argued a master indiffec ently acquainted with these water's.' The colonel withdrew when the pass- ion had been satisfiedeby Pitt's pun- ishment, and there in the stocks Peter found him, and set about giving him su,ccor as a doctor, yes, as a doctor and as a friend. Pitt's pillory seem- ed to end all hope of escape. It was now Peter's hope to save his friend from death. And, while he staunch- ed the flow of :'blood, his thoughts, grim and hopeless as they were, were. interrupted. •He felt the shadow of Colonel Bishop upon him. 'What the devil are you here ?" Mr. Blood. 'turned to face him, and over that swarthy countenance (which indeed, by now was tanned to the gol- den brown of a ,half-caste Indian). a mask descended. "Doing?" said he blandly. • "Why the duties of my office." "I said he was to have neither meat nor drink until I ordered it. "Sure, now, I never heard ye." For an instant the colonel was too amazed at his ` impudence to speak. "If you're alive when my blades have done with you, perhaps you'll come to your senses:" He swung to his negroes to issue an order. But it was never issued. At that moment a terrific rolling thunderclap drowned his voice and shook the very. air. Colonel Bishop jumped; his negroes jumped with hint and so did even the apparently im- perturbable Mr. Blood. Then the four of them stared together sea- wards. As those men started from the em- inence' on which they stood, not yet understanding what had taken place, they saw the British jack dip from the main' truck and, to replace the flag of England soared the gold and crimson banner of Castile. "Pirates!" soared the colonel, and again "Pirates!" CHAPTER VIII• SPANIARDS The stately ship that had been al- lowed to sail so leisurely;' into • Car- lisle Bay under her false colours was a Spanish privateer, coming topay off some of the Heavy 'debt piled up by the jredaceous Brethren of the Coast, and the recent defeat by the Pride of Devon of two treasure galle- ons bound for Cadiz. It happened that the galleon which escaped in a more or less crippled condition was commanded by Don Diego de Espin- osay Valdez, who was own brother to the Spanish Admiral Don Miguel de Espinosa, and who was • alsg,. a very hasty, proud, and hot-tempered gentleman. He had succeeded so well in his in- tentions that he had aroused no sus- picion until he saluted the fort at short range with a broadside of twen- ty guns. And now the gaping watchers in. the stockade on the headland beheld the great ship creep forward under the rising cloud of smoke, her main - doing sail unfurled to lieere,'tse:her Stec way, and go about obese -haute bring her'larboar4 g'u is to bean: the unready fort. (C,ontinticd iia out next issue) A Quick I.nsw'er `1"urns•, Away Rastas (solilogulzing)—"Dis aiu fine fat, pullet, tin' dey's more what hit come from, too," ' Village Constable (from a shadow) "Aad where did', it come from`?" Rastas:.-."Er—urn-.-froin aro aig, Ssb from an aig. DR, ALFRED SZI Chinese Minister to. the United.. States and formerly Chinese Am- bassador, to the Court. of St. ,Tames. He told the International Opium. 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