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than , said haste tO sele. an 16 1 .1411, ;be le
thelf •ShO),114rea:ChCtra•
Fleeka With. lier,„ : : Blbed an, appeal for merey, ;'.
an said:the, pnet,eYed was at Once fierceand piteOus, •
iatit With an,ioathe•ReCialreeieg.the eYnicism.
apiohtl" , sneered 'he had, approached hip taSie,'1;he
Blood :;.0,,resentlY, • haVe ed;Open.,lietiven and avert
tbi
attrYi'fart JiaW:SO, SWeeping our horror,. and Addressed tote,P7' ., • .
.,FOr •threedaYs,' the'oia held, ;and
Yet when., tbe thitd.'inight edeeeende4
upon. them they had stillr.„ 1:nade
landfall, , Captain Mood
Mentioned it to Don Diego, manned as we areA mustering a,,,bare ism essential to its proper Perform -
It wilrl)e for to -morrow morning," twenty men, in what ease ,.are We to anee, Blood commanded ,Ogie •to•'
he was answered with calm convic- fight? No, there would he only one kindle a Match and, rern:eve the leaden
tion. '•way To. persuade her that all Is apron from the •toneh-hole of the gun
•"I1APTA4N is!..00ta," a Vltagraph e cture vvitn watren Ker.,•
Heat) hi the title role• Is an adaPiethiri of thi S navel.
PARADE OF CRIPPLES cipitating mutiny. • If v,tas entirely
• Armistice ])ay in France was wit-. to the fact that the Colonel was her
essed by one of the most terrible uncle, although he did riot even begin.
arades in history when 25,000 disab- to suspect such a cause, that he owed
ed war veterans , marched throngh such mercy as •was now being shown
aris and sought an interview with him. Colenel Bishop mastered -hint. -
he Mayor of Paris' on the question self and rose. Peter Blood gave an
f unemployment Heading the par- order. A plank was run out over the
de were legless mete one of whom gunwale, and lashed down.
a.„,s carried by his wife, next came a "Just take a little walk, Colonel,
mall army of one -legged men, fol- darling," Said a smooth, mocking
•owed by the armless and one-armed. voice behind him.
ringing up the rear were the blind, Still clinging, Colonel Bishop look -
•he men whose features were terribly ed around in hesitation. • He cursed.
utilated, and. the' stretcher cases— thern aloud. venomously and incoher-
nen unable to walk but carried along ently, then loosed his hold and stePP-
y their., comrades. Thousands •of ed colt upon the plank. •Three steps
people 'saw this, parade—and wept. he tOok before he lost his balance.
There was no cheering. It was pr -Oh- and went tninbling into the green de -
lily the most effective advertisement pths below.
against war ever made.•• When he,came to tee surface again,
9 • • gasping for air, the Cinco Llagas was
• , SYNOPSIS already some furlongs , to. leeward.
Peter Blood, a young Irish physi- But :the roaring • cheer of• mocking
cian,, is wrongfully condemned as valedie'tion from the rebels -convict
taking part in the ill-fated rebellion reached him across the water to drive
of Monmouth against King James. the iron, of impotent rage deeper into
With Jeremy Pitt he is sent to the his soul. ••
Barbadoes ,.as a slave and is bought CHAPTER X •
Captain ,Blood passed or), eantent, well aboard, that we are Spaniards, so that lore Don Diego. Ihen, as the ,
and, went to visit Jerry Pit, his pa-
tient to whose conditiot Don Diego
owed his ehanee of life. • It was this
same Jerry Pitt • who cast the first
thought of suspicion. , A. trip •or) deck
fot a breath of freSh air and his navi-
gator's interest in the night heavens,
moved him to point. out the North
Star and tollay the position of the
ship to Captain Blood, But Don Die-
go's easy explanation satisfied his
captor.
New to the seas • of the • Spanish
Main and, to the ways of the adven-
turers who sailed it, • Captain • Blood
still entertained illusions. " But the
next' dawn was io shatter thexn rude-
ly and for,ever.
Coming on deck before the sturwas
up, ,lie 'save land ahead, as the Spani-
ard had promised. them last night.
• Beating out a weather, against the
gentle landward breeze he "beheld a
by Colonel Bishop at the behet of DIEGO .
Arabella, his niece. A Spanish galle- DON
Diego de Espinosa y -Valdez
on commanded by Dog Diego de Es -on
awoke, and with languid eyes it ach-
Pinsary Valdez slips into port under
ing head, he looked round the cabin,
false colors and captures Bridgetown.
which was flooded • with sunlight.
Peter Blood saves the life of;Mary
from the square -windows astern. Be -
Trill and sends Arabella" and Mary
tweet, the pain in his head arid the
to safety back of the town. He then confusion in his mind, he found
leads his. fellow rebels -convict on
coherent thought impossible.
board Don Diego's ship and they cap -
He was beginning to torture his
ture it while the Spaniards are feast -
mind with • conjecture, when the
ing in the city. When Colonel Bis -
•door opened, and to ,Don Diego's in -
hop, whose limited military defense
creasing mystification he beheld his
bad failed, realizei that the ship no
best suit of clothes step into the ca -
longer threatens the town he. goes
bin. The suit paused to close the
aboard, where he is greeted by Peter
door, then advanced toward the couch
Blood, now captain of the Spanish on which Don Diego was extended,,
galleon, with Jeremy Pitt, Wolver-
and inside the suit came a tall, slen-
stone and Hagthorpe 'as his aides.
der gentleman of about'Don Diego's
Wolverstone is for hanging Colonel
height' and. shape. Seeing the
Bishop to the yard arm, but Blood own
wide, startled eyes of the Spaniard
threatens to quit their leadership un -
upon hirn, the gentlegian lengthened
less his orders are obeyed.
CHAPTER IX—Contirined 14s stride."Awake eh?" said he in Sp'enish.
He paused. There was no answer.
"Who the devil are you?" he ask -
But they stood hang -dog and half -mu-
tinous before him, save Hagthogpe
,
who shrugged and smiled wegrily
Mr. Blood resumed:
"Ye'll please to understand' that
board a ship there is no captain So."
He swung again to the startled Col-
onel. "Though I promise you yo 1r
life, I must—as you've heard—keep
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that she may leave • us to continue
op our course,'' •
• Ogle, with a bent for sarcasm, ill-,
terposed a suggestion bit,terly.
"We might ,send Don Diego she Es-
pinosa in a., boat manned by his Span-
iards to a.ssure' his brother the 'Ad-
. ,
nural that we are all loyal subjects of
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younger Espinosa broke into inter-
ceSsiens mingled with imprecations,
he wheeled upon him sharply,
"Peace!" he snapped. "It is Your
father's treachery that has brought us
into this plight and deliberately into
risk of capture and death abroad that •
ship of Spain. Just as your father
his Catholic Majesty. recognized his brother's flagship so
•fear •death, this damned pirate; but
his son may take adifferent view, Fi-
lial piety's mighty strong in Spain."
He swung on his heel abruptly, and
strode back to the knot of inLi about
his prisoner, "Here!" he shouted to
them. "Bring him below."
In the ward -room the three stern
chasers were in positiio.n, loaded, their
muzzles thrueting through the open
ports, precisely as the Spanish gunn-
ers had left them.
"Here, Ogle, is work for you," said
will his brother have recogniZed the
Cinco Liagas. So far, then, all is
well. But presently the Enearnacion
will be sufficiently, close to perceive
that here all is not as it should be.
Sooner or later, she must guess
discover what is wrong, and •then she
will open fire or lay us board and.
board. Understand this clearly; ro
the first shot from the Encarnacion
thisogun will fire the answer. I make
myself clear, I hope?"
"But, name of God, how should ;t
be clear' yourig Espinosa. cried "Can
Blood, and as the burly gunner carne 'you avert the fight? If you know a
thrusting forward through the throng way, and. if I, or these, can help you
of gaping men, Blood pointed to the
middle chisel': "Have that gun hauled
bac," he Ordered.
When this was done, Blood beckon-
' •
to it in Heaven's name, let me hear
(Continued in our next issue)
"Will I say% prayer for your soul?"
great ship on their starboard ,bow,
that he conceived to be some three or
lour miles off, an—as well as he
could judge her at that distance ---of a
ed. "And what the devil are you d�-' tonnage equal if not superior to their
ing inmy clothes and aboard my ship" own. Even as he watched her she al -
"My name is Bloocl—Ciii)taiei peter
tered. her ,c,ourse, and going about
Blood. This ship, like this handsome
came heading toward them, close
suit of clothes, is mine by right of hale
d.
conquest. Just as you Don Diego, "There," said a soft voice behind
are my prisoner." him in liquid Spanish "is the Prornis-
'And my son? 'What of my son? '
ed Land, Don Pedro."
He' turned sharply to face Don Die-
he- cried oat. "He was in the 'haat
you aboard as a hostage for the good
that brought inc abroad."
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Die-
go, so sharply that the sly smile eves
•• "'l,otir son is safe. lac.and the boats
eeee.j0.er
not effaced from.the 'Spaniard's 'cotm-
crew,together with• your gunner and
eetenance before Captain Blood's eyes
his teen, are snugly irons under bad
flashed upon it , ,• , •
hatches." • • ' I
I "What' land is that?" he demanded,
Don Diego sank back on the couch,
• . Will you have ' the effrontery to tell
his glittering dark eyes fixed upon
the tawny face above him. Be ac-;rne that is the coast of Curacao. That
'land, you treacherous, forsworn Span-
cepted the situation with the forti-
tilde f a fatalist.eThe light blue eyes ish dog, 'is the island of Hispaniola."
played over him like points of, steed "Ah, perro ingles! You know too
"You are not/afraid to die, Don , nincb," 'he said tinder his breath, and
Diego?"• • sprang for the Captain's throat.
"The question is offensive, sir." ' Tight -locked in each other's arms'
li "Would you be willing, sir, to eart.i I:11°Y swayed a inoment, then tegetti-
life and liberty—for yourself, your er they event down upon the deck,
son, and other Spaniard on
are the Spaniard's feet jerked. from under
board?" rds' who i him 'by the right, leg of Captain
"To earn it, do you say? Why., if !Bi°°d" The Spaniard had depended
he service, you would. propose is one upon choking,41.1e--life out of Blood,
t . .„ ;and so gaining the half-hour that
that cannot hurt my honor. ,
"Could I be guilty of that," protest- 'might be necessary up that
ecessary to bring
aediptirhaet.seCialapstainh.is "Thortelaolrize at4iiaet
eovuelyn II ftliaal.shli3putthaalt1 twhaast bDeoantinD*gie go had
towards
n .1: accomplished was to • betray himself
man among us schooled ithe a
of navigation is fevered, deliriotts,iWill I say a prayer for your dir-
lu I coMpletely. .
ct, as a,iesult of certain ill-treatMent "
fahe received ashore we carried him ty soul now, whilst I am in this posi-
tion?" CaPtain Blood was furiously
away with us; 1 can. handle a ship in
aboard' who can assist me; but .0.1 the "Who will pray for your soul, 1
im,
inocking h
action, and thee are one or two men
higher mysteries of seamanship ati,evotder, when that galleon comes to
board and
of the art of findingyou know what ship a Way .over the board ''witht itis? It is the
h you? D°
trackless wastes of ocean, we know
nothing. We desire to make for' the Encareacion, the flagship of Don Mi.-
Dutch settlement of "Cutacao as guel de Espinosa, the 1..,ord Admiral
straighly as possible, Will you ther. Castfla' and Don Migneris nlY br°`
ther. Iis a very fortunate micotint-
pledge me your honor, ' if I release er, The Almighty, you see, watches
^t
out some hustling, regardliness of the Yon will navi-
you' noon - earole ' that •over the destinm
ies Of Catholic Spa.
bellowings of Colonel Bishop, whose gate us thither? If so, we will te- ,
Ehere, was to trace of humoor ur-
monstrous rage was fanned by terror lease you and your strviving inen up- banity now in Captain. Bloodr
at finding himself at the mercy of , His
these men of whose ,cause to hate
him he was very fully conscious. •As
they were running close to the head -
and east of the bay, Peter Blood re-
turned to the Colonel, who, under
guard and panic stricken, had deject-
edly resumed his seat on the coam-
lugs of the main hatch, '
"Can ye swim, Colonel? It's a
ercy for 'you I'in not by nature as
bloodthirsty as Softie of irty friends
here, And it's the devil's own labor
I've had to preVall upon them not to
be vindictive."
It was the thought of Arabella
Bishop that h:acl urged hint to mercy,
and had led, him to oppose the natio:-
al Vindictivenos of his fellow-siaves
ed those who hDiego.
Don ego..
-"Lash him across the mouth of it,"„/
he bade them, and whilst, assisted bY.
another two, they made haste to obey,
he turned to the others. "To the
roundhouse, some of you, and fetch
the Spanish, prisoners. And you,
Dyke; go up and bid thern set the flag
of SPain aloft." '
Don Diego, with his body stretched
in an arc across the cannon's mouth,
legs and arms lashed to the carriage
on. either side of it, eyeballs rolling in
his head, glared maniacally at Captain
.Blood. A man may not fear to die,
an.c1 yet be appalled by the form in
which death collies to him.
• Captain Blood vouchsafed hirn a
malignant smile,, before he,, turned to
meet the fifteen manacled. Spanish
prisoners.' From amongst them 'a
coxnely, olive -skinned stripling distill- =
He lost his balance and tumbled
into the sea.
behaviour of Governor Steed and
what's left of the fort until we put io
sea." A•/
"B ttt . . ."
"There is no more to bc said, gen-
tlemen. My name is Blood—Captain
Blood, if you please, of this. ship the
Cinco Liagas, taken as a prize of war
from Don Diego de Espinosay Val-
dez, who prisoner aboard."
The officers went, though not with-
on arrival there,"
'light eyes blazed: his face was set:
rose,relinquishing 'the Sian -
Don Diego strode away, in thoug;lit
to the stern windows. "I ' accept," he jard to hi men.•"Make him fast,"
' • he bade them "Truss.him wrist and.
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CHAPTER XI heel, but don't hurt him—not so much
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' FILIAI, PIETY es a hair or his precious head."
virtne of the pledge he had giv- Captain Blood regarded steadi-
en, Don 'Diego de Espinosa enjoyed, ly ont of a face which, impassive,
the freedom of the ship that_had been had paled under its deep tam About
his, and the navigation which he had the prisoner, clamant, Mitiriated, fero-
cions, 'the rebels-eonVict Surged, al-
most literally 'athirst lfor Ilia blood."
"Wait," Captain Blood inepteiously
comenanded, •aud turning on his heel,
he went aside , to rtes rail, As • he.
stood there deep in thelught, he was
joined by Hagthorpe, Volverstone,
and' Ogle the emitter. silence they
stared wit1t hird, across .the water at
until he had been hi danger' of Pre- wind holds," heladitold them at sttp,, that other Shit>. ;. .1,
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undettaken, was left ettirely his
hands, He took his meals in the
gteat cabin With Blood and the three
officers elected. to support: Hag-
thorpc, Wolverstone, and Dyke:,
That Don. Diego, was: not playing
fair it was impossible to suspect',
ItOtaticktdr; there was no tonteivahle,
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