Show HATE ga DU Arthur D Ilow DOD den den Smith SmithA A 8 Copyright 1926 D HOW DC SMITH CHAPTER XII Continued XII Continued 1 21 21 Two more broadsides smote the pre pM In 10 the tIle required to tack out of ot tIle the dauser zone and w when beD beo she recovered ered her ber raking position 10 the lad ger to flail her with several heavy guns that could bE bp aimed for ord A lucky locky shot dismounted a 8 ot of blood twelve and soaked the the rhe powder boys bors had sprinkled led across the deck delk de k But Hut onE by bl one the Badgers uder 8 guns gun ceased flung ns as her hull ins w racked ni from end to end by the Ule relentless s bro s q of atthe the Yanke r Tinker brig and presently the he en hauled out of the e c to suney surrey the situation the Ibe Ion I ori orin rom nm alone hammering away at the t n The Badger wn was a dreadful sight her ber remaining sails split and tat tut tattered L her ber Ing a awry ry ry her upper works larely demolished demolished- And she he s hc looked to be some somewhat down by tte tre head head- Cut But ut the White en floated at the Jagged pea peak of her ap 81 Cy V I nailed there at intervals Interval inthe In 10 the rhen risen belt of her bulwarks grinned grinned i t t the of ot cannon and one of ol her chase guns that had bac been hauled aft belched defiance of 01 the privateer privateer- We Were re not oot licked yet ret It growled Fellowes Fello examined its fils own ship s hip re received hasty ha tv reports from his officers Five men wounded three killed hilled to t o damage we mentioning aloft except for the The hull sound the well dry We 11 II board he derided decided and II a murmur of or assent expressed his hear hearers hi ers opinion Mr Ir No o gle I m turn turnIng turnIng turnIng Ing over the ship to you I shall bE beon on the to foes foe's cs c's Ie le with the Mr lr Spencer you 11 remain aboard and fight the batteries If It necessary Mr Breed III Ill 11 base e e you take the h d watch after otter the marines That will willbe willbe willbe be all gentlemen N Fellowes clung to a forestay atop ot of the CenturIon Centurions s a bulwarks bul eo t Into the furry turry that G GInto 4 swirled and trembled to the throb f I bins of ot cannon and musketry Behind him the fo foe s le Ie was with men Tom Grogan hefting an anax anax anax ax In B R knotty tl flit t crouched at his captains s feet teet Can ye see her mes messmate be croal ed anxiously barriers of ot rank ranI forgotten en enCI sot Not ot yet ret yet Ah there B a her main CI truck I 1 A wild cheer announced that others other 1 tad had seen It It too The I ong Tom thundered brazenly the la In b tJ d bat cry boomed by dl 1 lons and the toO con blew the tile smoke upward to expose the Badgers er s hull bull rolling lug sluggishly like U a wounded whale half bait a 8 cables cable's length distant Hard Bard over Mr Fell Fellowes 0 we halted hailed the sailing master Ready neady you ou grapnel rn Oleo men meni l I The privateer slid easily around the sloop of scar ar tI a bow poking her ber bow bowsprit split Into the uttered boarding hoarding net nettings dugs aft ot of the jangled across the narrow belt of 01 wa water water water ter nod nail slowly very slowly the too t Vessels ground round together guns muzzle to gun cress s stabbing at each ench other through the ports rattling In n a say sav savage age crescendo rom From rom his perch Fellowes looked down upon the Badgers Badger's shattered deck Scores of hostile faces scowled op at him His Ells eyes eres coolly the for tor his enemy s 8 face And ml misgiving stirred st In him for tor out sha c was 00 nowhere here visible Curry the first lieutenant and a mIdshipman were the only officers In sl sight ht The Badger adger was a shambles although hough her crews were still unbeaten ten surging forward to meet the Americans when jumped among them Cuffee had lingered for tor on one more mure shot with the Long lorn lom and leaped from the hot bot breech of 01 the piece e to the brIg brigs s bulwarks yelling his war cry A second leap carried him over the beads heads of ot the boarders to widen their foothold on the Badgers Bader ader 8 and Into the midst of the en enemy enemy eroy emy who for the Oral first time recoiled from the negros negro's culla cutlass s and scarred face tace Grogan a s er I eres Cuffee 1 I The old sa were aroused aroused- aroused He 11 Ii tear tearie t 1 ye e his teeth 1 I A A man mao eater lads I l The resistance commenced to weak weaken weaken weaken en en Still as numerous as the board buard era the Badgers Badger's crew suffered main mainly mainly 1 ly from their dearth of ot officers which became an absolute lack locI after Joe Donk Doak bad had bayoneted Mr Curry and Tom had bad dl po ed of the lone surviving survivIng Ing midshipman Where was out shave relieves ello asked himself elt lignin again The would have been lead leaderless leaderless erless If It It hadn't been for nub flub Clinch The boson was Indefatigable wielding Ii a gory hoarding boarding pile pit e shouting hoarse admonitions to tits lil followers But one man s 8 couldn t 1 overcome 1 ri p wt fO ot fit n a crew who l no the a Ire re s Itt kl lit nuns plea VI the fear feat engendered by Coffee Chinch h himself elf realized thIs latter factor and aorl brn bravely sought the negro In personal combat vastly combat vastly to Cuffee s a delight Yaa aa as Bobi Bob I Cuffee goin cut cot yo 10 nose DOT to eat cut t o o Digger can stand up ap to me growled Bob Bub thrusting des desperately de Cre Cree a 8 daylight In la fe ye But nut Cuffee parried the pike with a single blow of ot his left arm und and raked hIs cutlass point down the tl unscarred side of the s a face tare Poor Clinch blinded by the flow low of ot blood staggered and would have bave fallen If U Tom Gro Grogan an hada t r cao caught ht him The capture of 01 Clinch disheartened the thA They had kept Jept together er tor ard of ol the mainmast close ranks ran s fairly Impenetrable but now as l tuffee whirled Into them hacking and hewing parrying strokes with hl bl re hand filed teeth learning gleaming fe- fe fe fe- ferocIously ferociously In the thc tie shiny block black ma mask k of 01 his ral fate fa e a II score of Americans wedgIng wedgIng Ing after him they developed a 8 tend tendency ency to scatter catter Into groups surrendered as rapidly as os they were Tere f elowe l was wn's lead I leadIng leadIng Ing an on attack upon one of these groups when a 8 pistol cracked ked kert behind it It and the ghost host of ot a Quarter deck voice olce filed languidly Inn above the click tact of ot steel J I 11 shoot e every man who tries trie to touch thA that t flag l I The startled dod and left led linking their Vo e from thUD Hiem and there propped prepped a n ah the break of tile lie he poop lay Iny e big Maying In n a fare furl drained ol of q l tl sl r r e ei eN et i N t v e eI I 4 f fI I C Done the Sane SaMe in Your Place He Repeated nil 11 color his IlI holy body from the waist down a bundle of 01 SUbbY band Ibl'S sear ear by sprawled led one Ie of his sailors dead the rhe smoking pistol In his Ills hand telling Its 0 own n story While the wat hed be he dropped the tbt weapon and selected another from a 8 arow arow row convenient to tu his grasp gra p cocking It and sl slaking aking the priming In the ale pan pao panas panas as 09 carelessly ly as though not an enemy was In Ight Fellowes was embarrassed d tale how to net act fil t the Id Idea a of against a wounded toe foe But l was not so The negro stole aft along the port but bul bulwarks works and threw an empty water r which brushed the pistol from s hand and then before the L I n could replace It the remaining weapons out of reach rench had bad been around II by the die blow and und a trickle of beun be nn to tu seep his hi but not Dot a n muscle twitched tw In 10 his face and his oar Indication of feeling was wata wasa a curious gl ince at Fellowes l the thel hE l I on Islander u w 1 is more ot at a 10 0 than th er e tie LIe had lud obtained his su eu supreme preme objective litre Here o betoi-o him lay IllY the man Ulao oho v hud had fin fd d hint him Rounded defeated at his ills mercy 1 the h cr r was lila hIs H He lie had humiliated e is much as ns he had dreamed of And Anel the words w that came cime to his lips ere acre tory torr I Sorry Surry youre you're wound wounded d What can ae e do fur for you Nothing g thanks answered Col ve I m done for Oh 00 not nol I My surgeon surgeon- surgeon Have him spend his spare time alth Ith my men meo who need nee It The I Ishman I tone was aas us inflexible but hut el 1 10 Imes es begin began to detect a 8 slightly hest cant QU lilt In It It B R hidden weakness Our Scotchman was aas as bowled bo led out But won t you let tet me ha have e a look l No so o use uce My Iy legs are ure pulp One lit of your n d-n d n twenty tour four shot Fellowes looked away lie hadn't en envisaged this tills ending to his hl quest Suddenly he heard Col speaking again I say youre you're you re n ft ticker That was wae wasa wasa a 11 well fought action Used your head Old lid you by any chao chance e plan that bat battery battery tery for tor me Fellowes nodded trO ned plucking at nt the bandages around his thighs hone Done the same myself In your place Humph I But ut I 1 couldn t very ery well vell help lo you ou y know and nil all that sort of ot thin thing You You neE t base ha e pressed me nIl as assert asserted asserted sert d ell Fellowes owes ro reco a sense of Injustice frowned again There were ere tiny Uny beads of sweat on 00 his fore rore forehead head and his gaunt shocks cheeks grew gre A Ain In t sure he be answered ered Couldn t I myself dt though That t s swine lne 1 Chater Swore you were sere er a British subject sale said be dna day da to let you gEt ct Into New ew York York- York you d talk about the True Bounty us I rocked on his hie hC peels heels ls eyes fOyes shut an awful nausea possessing him hire There anyone wasn't-anyone wasn't anyone else elsel elset he be asked dully Fu Anyone Anyone- Anyone A shrewd tight light In a 8 fever bright eyes Oh Miss Misa No No she knew of It 11 Matter of ot tact Ive I've thought since Chater hooked booked me deliberately while she was aVo away UI Rind KInd of ot thinK the cursed swine would do y 1 know Tm rm sorry Fellows said Co Ills h a we fl 8 jaws contracted contra ted some some- abut hat his hi first real sl sign of emotion I Done the same In your plo place e he be beI repented I ve ye thought a lot about abour It IL Funny how a II feller teller gets twisted ted eh ell He tie cau caught bt his breath Pain Fellowes exclaimed quIckly I 1 lS es ei es Think you could get me- me me bit of ot rum A sailor brought a 0 on the therun therun I run and e lapped It eagerly Fellowes supported his head heart That s better s he be said In la the i Irl crisp p Impersonal tune tones habitual with witt him 1 know I ve e often thought about that time you and od all Bothered me But I 1 can t I see SN how bow I 1 could have haV let you off oft There was ryas a new humbleness In Pel Fel eI owes lowes heart I 1 expect you couldn i 1 t have lave be he ad milted of ot you yon to say sa so But ut 1 Id idna c d nase na fell just Jut as you yon slid lid cl If It you YU d flogged me Some SOUle things a teller feller lan can t forgive Why SS lIy by um can cant t te we e forgive cried Fel Cowes IS Why Ily by should we e go through life tinting hating people sot Not ol a 8 preacher cnn preacher can t say Rut But any ony 1 hate n a feller hime him e lly If 11 he felt there wa was a dirty play behind It It A streak tre of u warmed stone s tone lt What h hat t can nn t go 11 Is ls in ha a rat like lIJe hater start nil all this n D-n D n his bis soul I I Lf U I find him In hell hell- hell De Des s dead blurted out Dead lou ion on mean the True Bounty Bounty A tremor convulsed and once more the ominous trickle of ot red seeped through his Ills bandages Miss you She She you mean they went Vent down so so o the tile I 1 rue Bounty Is sunk but Iw Im here herp Cara s voice volle panted Oh where Is be he SS Where hue here iq 11 1 lames fames The sty st lid lIet ring of ot en sailors was ns burst asunder as If Ounces s Big RIg bad been Into their midst and Corn fluttered down beside Colli shave e James 1 I What hale ha they done to you Oh rather ather rather ether uther please se fetch Doctor 0 y o use said With an effort that was na pitiful he raised a hand In Carn Cams s 8 direction direct and ond both her s cl closed around It It Goner But Bur Burno no hard cello s-eh s eh Fellowes es I bowed hOWN bl bh his head heart heartsick or or Csira ura urn he lie S siw IW he tie didn't exist But there must he be something to do she she he was saving having In a 8 strained voice olee tears nl Ing her cheeks Do Do let me see seel I 1 e tightened his grasp of 01 tier fler h id ad and In response e to the et etI I tort fort the trickle that I hat flowed from his bandages be became a stream Ao 1 0 i no he denied faintly Dun t I And she sh saw as Fellowes did the gray that mantled mantle his face She he mut must have seen something too tuo In the fading eyes e es thu that t f Fellowes l did not see for she bent swiftly and her rips lips touched his Worth everything be he murmured smiling For a breath the shadow lifted from his face i 1 he Sight blazed bin bla l In his ey eyes again rail 1 up that nag lag damme I 1 he crt cried ell Yon You not e a whilst I m- m mf in in f stooped and caught the poor marbled In as uS It slipped iris l le Ills His III shoulder to touch urns uras ara s nm and she slie drew buck huk lIh an to e a u n that thai blistered t his q elf cl f respect TIll Thi Tills Is 11 the fruit ot of hue hate she said In a haul II still voice But Iut rte de nth is hetler than tho some yes things things es better than Ih ll in In la Into hate Oh sir If It von VIIU know Inow how how l-how I how I despise sou ou I 1 She Slie tumbled fumbled In her bo bosom om and pro produced a ft clean clein n kerchief r whit Il she ghe pread over e S win wan face fate Come Father she sold and and o n I a I We should hollid try to help James mento men to ell Fellow 0 es wanted desperately dl tely to speak to her to comfort her to ex excuse cu cure himself hut but the flip words t f a a sense ense i within himself In Informed Informed formed torm him her hll mind was closed ed to hint him Her lIer mind and arid her heart beart So much for vII tory I 1 ITO ITO TO B BE CONTINUED |