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Show F' " "T Z tin grt"tmt otj of love aad adventure jjfflffijfa,; by RAFAEL SABATINI SYNOPSIS 1 To Sir Oliver Tressilian, renowned re-nowned for his exploits on the Spanish Main, comes Peter Godolphin, Godol-phin, insulting and threatening, to forbid Oliver's marriage with kis sister, Rosamund. Rosamund's I guardian. Sir John Killigrsw, Peter reports, is unwilling that 1 his ward should wed a "pirate.' Sir Oliver knows the real opposition opposi-tion from Sir John arises from a matter of conflicting land inter-. inter-. ssts; and Peter unwittingly lets I out the fact that his own interests, j too, are involved. I CHAPTER I Continued i "Soho!" crowed Sir Oliver. "Now , at last the sun of truth peepi forth ', from all this cloud of rightesni in-! in-! dignation at my bad TrUjalllan .blood and pirate's waysl Yu, too, I are but a trafficker. Now see what a fool I am to have believed you sincere, and to have stood he a in talk with you as with aa h best , man. ' ' His voice swelled, and hlJ Up t curled In a contempt that I truck ( the other like a blow. "I swear I had not wasted wreath '' with you had I known you for so ). mean and pitiful a fellow." I I "These words " began Master j' Godolphin, drawing hlmseU up very stiffly. "Aro a deal less than your de-serts," de-serts," cut in the othei . and he i raised his voice to call 1 "Nick!" j "You shall answer f r them," , ! snapped his visitor. "I am answering now," was the 3 j stern answer. "To come here and J 1 prate to me of my dead father's 3" 1 hair f olden, mad Ms eyea of tetsft blue. Ho had a very ehannlas; stripling grace for he tu but ta his twenty-first year and h. dressed with all the care ot a eoort gallant. "Has that whelp Godolphin been to visit yonT' he asked as he entered. en-tered. j "Aye," growled Sir Oliver. "He . came to tell me some things and J to hear some others in return." "Ha! I passed him just beyond the gates, and he was deaf to my greeting. Tie a most cursed. Insufferable In-sufferable pip!" "Art a judge of men, Lair Sir Oliver stood up booted. r "I am for Arwenack to exchange a compliment or two with Sir John." His tight-pressed lips and resolute reso-lute air supplemented his words so well that Lionel clutched his arm. "You're not you're not " -I am." ' And affectionately, as if to soothe, the lad's obvious alarm, he patted his brother's Bhoulder. ' "Sir John," he explained, "talks too much. 'Tis a fault that wants correcting. I go to teach him the virtue of silence." "There will be trouble, Oliver." "So there will for him. If a man must-be saying of me that I am a pirate, a slave-dealer, a murderer, and heaven alone knows what else, he must be ready for the consequences. conse-quences. But you are late, LaL Where have you been?" "I rode as far as Malpas." "As far as Malpas?" Sir Oliver's eyes narrowed, as was the trick with him. "I hear it whispered what magnet mag-net draws you thither," he said. "Be wary, boy. You go too much to Malpas." "How?" quoth Lionel a trifle coldly. "I mean that you are your fa' ther's son. Remember it, and strive 1", iiil i'i "Lionel clutched hi arm. 'You're not yolfi not'" . I.1 1 1 i .. ; dissoluteness and of an ancieu t quarrel between him and yours 1 ' , bleat of my trumped-up course' o J, piracy and my own ways of life a : . ,a Just cause why I may not wei , your sister, whilst the real consid iteration in your nrind, the real spu: 'not your hositlity, is no more thaI ythe matter of sow few paltrj Pounds a year that 1 Mt,M yoi ifrom pocketing. A Goo- name i.'get you gone!" c Nick entered at that moment i --'You shall hear from me agarav t;;Slr Oliver," said the other, white with anger. You shall account to J ,ne for these words." J, i do "ot fight with with huck- ;' i. 'ters," flashed Sir Oliver. ' '. "D'ye dare call me that?" f "Indeed, 'tis to discredit an hon- i; uraol class, I confess It. Nick, , -he door for Master Godolphin." U i - 'Ki CHAPTER II ! i.j ROSAMUND '.1;Anon, after his visitor had de-: de-: 1:rted, Sir Oliver grew calm again. . 'j'hen being able in his calm to con-1 con-1 'der his position, he became angry j-iew at the very thought of the lt!.ge in which he had been, a rage lhich had so mastered him that he , l'id erected additional obstacles to 1 already considerable ones that Vl d DT'een Rosamund and him-in him-in "full piS nis anSer swunS V ; Vnd and took Sir John Killigrew: t r its objective. ';H bellowed for Nick and his ' lWnere Is Master LlonelT" he Vjked when tie boots had been i'ed'be Just ridden in. Sir iUver." 1 "Bid him hither. v promptly, in answer to that sum-',J sum-',J came sir OUver-. halI-brot slender lad favoring his ' the dissolute Ralph Tr- : .' n', seeond wit.. He was . un 'vVSm, Oliver U body a. m soul r'!" comer m a very fnU. (Ii, Danish way; hi. com ; JSSL SWx snd dU, H ''.I t ' j V it not to follow in his tf'sys lest they 0 bring you to his own tod. I have if Just been reminded" pf these predl-s predl-s lections 0f his by gootj Maitsr Pfr 3 ter. Go not over often' .to MaSpas, - I say. No more." j f But the arm which he flung abodf 1 his younger brother's shoulders' r and th warmth of his embrace i made resentment of his warning , quite impible. When Jto was gone Lionel sat him dow .to dine with Nick to wait on him. 2f ate but little, and never nev-er addressed the old servant In the course ot tha .brief repast. He was very pettsive: In thought he fol-' lowed' his- bMtJr on that avenging visit of his" 'd'AsWhack. Killisrew was no' baKe, bT a man of his hands, a soldlef a seaman. Jf any barm shoW: CCTH to Oliver ' He trembled1 at tliW aerght aorfi then almost despite Unv hw mind: ran on to calculat the- eons-i quences to himself. His ter'tune j would be in a very: different1 case,-1 he reflecte d. In a sort off horror, r he sought to pmt so Uetca;ble a re' I flection frum "his anand; but jc r-1 I turned insist' siitly. I All that he had. le owned' t-a his- j brother's boimty. That dlsaniute father of theirs had diedi as such, 'i men commonij die, leaving: bffaind ( him heavily esjeumbered estates I and many debts; the very house- of Penarrow was mortgaged, and' the j moneys raisal on it had. been: drunk, or ga.Tu bled, or spent an, one . or another of Ralph Tressdllan's. many lights o' love. " Then Oliver had sold soma little' property -near Helston, Inherit from hia mother; he had sunk th money tato a venture upon the Spanish Main. He had fitted ont and msraed a ship, and had Balled with Hawklns upon one ot those - ventures, which Sir John Killigrew was perfectly entitled to socotmt pirate raids. He had returned with - enough plunder In sped, and gems . to disencumber the Trostfllm pat-i, pat-i, rtmosy. He had sailed again and - retm-ned, still wealthier, j |