Show JL 4 BELLO I 1 OLD ARTHUR D HOWDEN SMITH raw COPYRIGHT by ARTHUR IA a HOWDEN SMITH ti llis tress odonnell ODO ODell Is pledged to me I 1 railed called ac ar loudly louft as I 1 could further Vur ther we had the word ot capita flint that no linn ham should be done to her tier or any of ue u flints word wan wax no ho better n mine grinned BOOM bones only as hint had no use fur women moment but im da df ferent and firl ara I 1 in galut to ha ye ve caught ought and Wed viiu un t h and inn ill 1 cut your lour catri off for a keep sake like lie le hnud lilg its arra arm barele asly pull him down mates I 1 cant be bothered flatin a krigner pr igner slier ikumi of his aronlee inadi to oby obey th this Is con conigland conini inland and but effier block black dor dot and a numbs r of tars met 1 ni ul a pr pst test k olie the barskin a fair how show they ab aborted lies iles put his mark on her tier tool her hl himo elt he did hen murra marra carried the trinidad ronee bonee friend friends hung back frint the rear ranks of the circle came ad vice ai slid d goldone ol Dir Done lons of all chides u but silver stivers faction lave been primed for the incident for they up euch a furor in my upper that they bayed swayed the geneal 1 opinion by shear volume of nole noise aliver een eien rals raised d hand wl wah h bloody cross upon it and held it up for thoe behind to fee see fair play for iw hit proclaimed hia hl orilin voice the rhe buckskin wa was one e It farraye Mar arrays raye breir tits and he took the 0 0 girl in fair fight lie iles put bis his mark on her and if it he vi wants ants to fight for her he can n prie pris tier or no atla ferll bones ob sered the mounting tur fur moll ulab ath 84 obvious of emotion ue he realized allied re be had heen been tricked tri cled but be he did not yet sea e ho hov it had been done or comprehend coin the ul leflor purpose of 1311 eria strategy do him justice I 1 do not believe that h he wed ri or br doubted his abety t to V kaj oe me in tn aTnIf mg eW ti on ma rever u lini had occasion to exhibit my boltl ath the knife before the pirate pirates he lie elu ply knew lne that he had been lured into i a pogI position tIon where liere he must fight per enalls ic fit maintain his authority oer the crew reu an and d t the he in initial it JAI 08 flare re of hie JIB I 1 hatred vm naturally directed a ainest tilt id he did not forget alver HI mind tills thin he flung nt at the he one legged nuin an af its he crouched forward to meet toe knife i 1 oia across his chest and left am to dutch at my nil hak alst ir a tab stab from the fide tide 1 liina I tint tny toy loins 1911 if it ye will ha ila the tile kirl 11 1 I 1 warned e 0 itule tour and the cap ne Ws all the tile mime mme as any other in a question 0 honor 9 that diate a rm sli it score of throats calls Cap Ls sot at to meet illy body meet ionic some others ater I 1 finish this bab gritted bones I 1 circled asay a ay from him the effect feet of the lanthorn upon the J tik jck ck shadow and the feel of the pitchy plan underfoot stara to it ye yet be tie gnarled snarled dort dor let him break froni from the binl mates I 1 pint hia hla heart for that wench to luew anand mind the fat dutchman dbent t jump on my hack bak lie a e a bad badashe bada art nhe lie ie IF silver as prompt to summon half halt a dozen men to block off ieter peter ho having geen seen me ude use the scalping knife of the frontier childhood was is not dot in BEIT ay concerned ae on to what I 1 should be able to do against a half halt drunken pallor whose one idea of knife was to grab hi his opponents arist rist nt at the same time the opponent grabbed his and then train and heave until one of the pair tore loe lose nd nil P ruck dont ye worry P nill ILI conne led the one hewl in 11 we w on t let the dutchman nor nobody rite rife harm ye jut vu hill ht pin in and pit cut the Buck buckskin AkIn lf if ye re can if I 1 can hlad hone lionts watch die 1 I 1 lie II 11 dropped to 0 all till fours and bounded into the air 1 in it clunky clamy fah fashion lop shot not nt at nil ill an as an warrior would ill aae e done lone it hurtling like a broj tile with his hi whole body behind the file knife I 1 topped to tile left and nil stab dabbed tabbed beil down aiming to dalp the collar hone hut but the light or rom something ethIng fooled footed me and my blade clashed his hi cheek check from eye to month a great bearing rut cut that laid open the whole side ld of hie his face lie bellowed bellou ed with surprise and I 1 wait put out for I 1 had bad bought to fl l h him hini apt 1 rt a man tor for two or three breaths la in the circle around us for none had expected to tec see the fight terminated so quickly lloyn i told me afterward that it wa as comical to tee how sphere jaw aped bones staggered i wred balk the spurting rp blood blinding him so that he had to feel feet his voy ny I 1 folon folo ned cd him slowly half prepared forai me rue and he must hai lune e heard beard me for he be called out dont let tint ela sla me mates I 1 I 1 ant epe see and bee bes ti a comin ater me mie I 1 I 1 at thin this A dozen pirates jolted in be anen u carein and threatening me anil anti I 1 tave gave ground toward where my friends frit nil oen standing anding ft alth nir ilie ade ne inked roan man out to meet me hut but I 1 had bant from lalni lie snatched ched the knife from rom no ban liall I 1 and bending lou spit at me a scorn cords cannot 1 com convey ey ile e hunkler bungler aa As rood good as blind and ie it llila t 1 for him I 1 and lit ili swung by me on hie lilts crutch to ills his friend theare Th elre after imachi dog do yon lay into ahe hc dirty swab mit texi knives were out all over the deck and men nien were slashing and tabbing stabbing at ot one another bonee atae m allows up in the mafs of humanity that milled around the restricted pace space between the bott butt of the mizzen 1 and the rise of the poop A man inan plucked at my asleele and I 1 spun pun ainuu defensively to confront reter peter where moira lol rat I 1 panted darby pol tool her he ile lias lilts a plan for or us wt to ava fite 1 piorry surry bobi bl lie e cot got a glodt cliance chance ja this Is what sll sil ier tr worked for to hate you kill bone or set dor der rew trew against him I 1 noticed that peter uttered ered me fouard where the deck was deserted but I 1 asked no que stion 4 i for til alees lver olce spurred me on lay aft lads he be wa was shouting I 1 well 1 show em what we wont let no perl shin fool like bill bones go for to hold lu ild out that treasury mao on ns Us even handle the coul till i I 1 1 coiro moiro hailed un us from the tile shelter of the capstan 6 ail it be yoi yol yo i bb oh thal J owl god thank coall god and bour our hand I 1 aim wred rhe lie it to 0 o my lips there mile he if it you will bt ro so diary chary of other I 1 strove to redress u my fault anit 41 B she h lay for OB precious la 14 my arcq are ure sure P ivall ill you ap libre o 0 it she baked riter meant since the morti aa leg I 1 heird the lilt ot of your voice in ia A low whittle whistle rame come from irom over the side to hr lar board boardL i tl darby she he cried lle n rold down the to get et it at oat cat I 1 of the boats they will have lower lowtrip ild by the tide aide ladder for the water party part that nas ag going ashore and didah reter beckoned urgent urgently jy from o th 0 rill rail alte ve don t talk he ordered crini ife go there was a coll colt of spare cable handy and we dropped it U burau sliding one by one into the tile jolly bot bost which darby held steady beneath the ile heft of the bowsprit the A aim 1 had swung mill etli the tile tide until ber bet stem stern iv w the town and dar by and I 1 took the oara oars and rowed along ulong the mw maii of tile 11 i irate rates hull bull in the di redlon og 0 the scattered that represented 8 savannah A ianna k II 11 0 N beautiful they lamed to us those tiny of rush lights anil and lant jut horn horns in to a it deakos in the lie they spelled safet perhaps home but no were a ere none too eure sure of out belies eel yet the big loomed loom our w her gun ports like a row of gouging tuska tusks her spars and rigging a it monstrous net poised poled for cast caillo itil on page rage C PORTO PORTOBELLO BELLO GOLD continued on euid from page two net dens seethe diwi lawlers men lighting and will with btesh out cries and the clash fig of steel and an pistol abot we the lie fluster of boats moored by the elde side ladder sadder unwilling to risk the time it would take to cut them adrift we pasted passed the wy where a kiyage cray was wits going on men ere tattering at st the door to the uie cabin and one called to roh rolt up a chase gun and give the a round in till his belly we rowed on under lie walrus stem stern and nd there we came upon am amazing spectacle A long longboat boost was always towed lowed astern for the greater convenience in cue there waa was a sudden necessity for IU its alwil i at ica thi this boat had bad been drawn beneath the tho tern A man was lowering a heavy box or ches which a second man was receiving into its BOW from which a man was enering lo A 4 heavy box or chest which a amad man was receiving re celvin into ite its bow the mah mab in the longboat beard tho the rattle of our oars and gave as one lightning glaab before ho he slashed at the moor ins as re nie and leaped to hie his own can oam the tide carried him immediately behind MS as and I 1 had a vision of a bloody face capped d in an old shirt shirl if he knew BOW who we were he be gave nu no dai dpi uc he huddled onto buto a thwart and pulled downstream with the tide tift but the man in the stern windows waa WAS not 1 it i reU reticent cent re leaned tar out bis hande bands ed clamoring to be saved oh moh master bones bonet ye t go for to leae poor ben gunn aa as stood by ye to the end and held the cabin door the e shot the byl WI ah ab and them villains v R a bamm bammerlin bam merin erint it thlu th moment don t ee go aul leave me like thial keelhaul k me they will thy 11 trice m to th the cat cal 1 mack oara oars darby I 1 said sald ate 6 11 e cant leae leme the poor fellow and him blia with bones protested darby 11 t not chiq fault we rowed under thee the stern tern and I 1 called up to the steward jump into the water nd iod well pick you up ben whore where your he answered shakily tie ns master ormerod Oria erod I 1 could hear the browe on the door at the end of the man we cant can t wait for ever lle jum jumped lied and we hauled him dripping into our cloet CHAPTER 11 APTER home A lor borns of yelping certified tided to the in 12 dzien of the main cabin but ite its note of triumph was wa changed to con cou ste stamation etero mation atlon as stiver silvers bloodhounds discovered that their bird had flown gonel the rhe knoes scooped uel ual boate boats lads boita and presently pre antly the click clock of oare oars behind ui inq caused darby and me to redouble our labors ve we drow drop ashore several rods dour don pst stream ream from the tow towi 1 on the Sha shallow bluff and we dared ut wait to seek er aelter lter within ita its log walla walls truth to tell we doubted now that the town itself paled spelled to u us the valru IAl U alms ru carro nades would make shori short worter at such ilc de fenes as savannah yannah Ia nad and to MAO so we pelt u op up the bluff by a bandy sandy path that upon the bleared fielda outside the stockade sto clade urged on by that perl tent oar rattle and the shouts the pirates eul ingeb betwixt their several boats 11 whether hether they were following in us we old not discover for the night was black ae as a cellar vault but hut we ue left to chance and ran hotfoot hot foot through the P plantations 0 the citizens cItI callien zenN overhearing as we the excited comments of oie the men on the dring firla gillat platforms of the stockade who evidently anticipated an attack from thair ugly isidor in the river we ile never tarried for breath unto we bad had gained the targe of the kojl ieter peter wa gasnow now in his element H he could find hie his way about a strange countr yede by day or night its a easily as a sailor en cj 14 the track IM ea waste wastes of the wa sea and be he led us to in a beeline north and wt in the general of the outlying set clements tie tle menti ments which intervened betwixt and the his an hour or N aw aft da oil fl re ctr emerged ad UH it billage ir f r clearing who chow lobac 1 stants ord us dubiously until darby produced one of the tho goldea doubloons from the tore store he lie had acquired acquire fl davs bis his reign as flints favorite there here people bad never before wn gold old and for ft a doubloon and an onza they old sold ue us an old but serviceable musket with ballet pouch powder horn born md and tore store of ammunition and deerskin garments far ments they also woid us a small quantity of ulland floor and put us u on the trail to charleston in the carolinas Caroll nai of our journey I 1 cau say lie oy that hat it was such an all 11 as afe f 0 tier dwellers of our out provinces ets hare have ions been accustomed te to to peter and me its t peril perils of forest and arkil stream ctr cato red ts and wild ua 0 were far leu lea formidable than thin thor those of the aea sea and dolra and darb thrived upon the so enuch no 0 o that when at last lut brier torn ani footsore we entered s sedate date struts streets and found fond awaiting t tx an amp arnople choice of packet ships to the north we four were unanimous for our jouney journey br by land neen said peter poter 1 I dont ever go to der wa again bob boan ah who would be avi enough ir hie his ignorance to be wan dherin wet avd aad bedraggled on the salt wavea waves of the we sea when he might venture the forest 4 and be at the arti deer dr and the beare bears and tte catamounts and it may inay be an injun if it he be was in the full tide w 0 his jucar snorted darby 1 I seem to remember one who wae wits all for the sea and would ae aae the skull and bones in any bodye face I 1 jeered troth and sad I 1 knew les then than I 1 do now he replied unblushingly them pirates wae was enigh to brelick the geurt of pontius pilate canin 10 arrin flint there a one of them would be able to hold hie his own girn against anch such as a os us silver might lie wai was a clever one lour lout jhn john but hell bell be til in th rouble yra see ji bea hes not nok insisted darby too grasp in he ie Is by half moira sitting beside me ille on lie file settie settle ettie ettle of the laverh porch twined her arm la ili mine with a allgot rL udde dej but peter shook his heed bead solemnly mn he be bald said der sea did not take them all the died from der cr d dot cankered tn in thir th ir hearts I 1 not like der set but der sea la Is der same as der landt landl it works gotts ahl we were ellent for a space looking out upon uron th tb busy life about un us the negrone in their bright bandanna he addresses the planters passing on 0 n half halt thoroughbred thoroughbreds the decent townsfolk in hodden gray and an you ben gunar I 1 said to the steward who mt sat aarow acro the porch from us all come north with us my father 4 he ile jumped up orri thIng and twisting tn in an eness of embarrassment aye sandwith and with of fear in tn his face yourself aas me rd id not ha ba to wear a ahery 11 ery shul tl he be protested and und before that hat ye said as how aed od find 0 nd me a berth ns as a real tarry sailor men man a on oa ropes tad sad stand tn tricks at the beel les ye did master muster ormerod Orni erod and I 1 be lived ye I 1 did though thee a a many think naught 01 0 falln wr ben gunn 1111 1 I II 11 not fat fool you bent ben I 1 answered if you would go to sea to sea khall you OU go and on the morrow I 1 found him a berth upon a Barb barbados adox packet can dioning him to employ in ili discussing his past life lest he be handed over 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