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Show ' "1 Fl PFFitt" Sabatini greatest story of love and adventu-n that he had allied htmielX to a mas who understood his business thoroughly. thor-oughly. All the assistance that the skipper asked was that Master Lionel Lio-nel should lure his gentleman to some concerted spot conveniently near the water side. There Leigh would have a boat and his men In readiness, and the rest might very safely be left to him. In a flash Lionel bethought him of the proper place for this. He swung round and pointed across the water to Trefusis Point and the gray pile of Godolphln Court all bathed in sunshine now. "Yonder, at Trefusis Point In the shadow of Godolphln Court at eight tomorrow night, when there will be no moon. I'll see that he Is there. But on your life do not miss him. "Trust me, said Master Leigh. And the money?" "When you hare him safely aboard come to me at Penarrow," he replied, which showed that after all he did not trust Master Leigh any further than he was compelled. On that : they parted. Lionel mounted and rode away, whilst Master Leigh made a trumpet of his hands and hallooed to the ship. As he stood waiting for the boat that came oft to fetch him a smile slowly overspread the adventurer's rugged face. ! ' ,' !'.' . CHAPTER VII " TREPANNED i Master Lionel was absent most ; of the following day from Penar i row upon a pretext of making cer- YNOTBIS i i Sir Oliver Tressilian, renowned I far his exploits on the Spanush i j Mmtij it betrothed to Rosamund Goaolphrn, but the marriage is op-j op-j posed by Rosamund's brother, Pe-; Pe-; ttr. By repeated insults Peter finally provokes Oliver to threaten , murder, and when Oliver's young half-brother, Lionel, kills Peter in an unwitnessed quarrel over a woman, suspicion falls on Oliver. ; Even Rosamund believes him guilty and asks him to explain the trail i of blood found leading from the i body to his doorway. Feeling bound to protect Lionel, Oliver can do 1 nothing but protest his innocence. But he goes to the justices and asks them to draw up a document attest-img attest-img to the fact that he bears on his ' body no mark of recent wound; j that therefore the trail of blood, obviously that of the murderer, injured in-jured in the encounter, was not his. i This document he takes away to i i hold in readiness until needed, , A few weeks later Lionel learns from Jasper Leigh, a pirate sea ' captain whose ship is lying in the 1 harbor, that the queen has been ' ' petitioned to command the justices to bring Oliver to trial- which they had previously refused to do. 1 Oliver, meantime, goes to Rosamund Rosa-mund to lay the proof of his in-nocence in-nocence before her, but she refuses to see him. Lionel tells him of the petition to the queen. Halj '-crazed ' with fear that should Oliver clear himself his own implication will follow, he formulates a scheme to get Oliver out of the way, and goes to Jasper Leigh for assistance. Leigh suggests abducting Oliver and carrying him overseas to toil 1 i on the plantations. CHAPTER VI (continued) He lowered his voice and spoke with some slight hesitation, fear-, fear-, ing that he proposed perhaps more than his prospective employer might desire. "He might return,' was the nn-, nn-, swer thru dispelled all doubts on ' ( that score, t "Ah!" said the skipper. "What '.j ' o' the Harbary rovers, then? They ,i j lack slaves and are ever ready 1o 'J trade, though they be niggardly ; : payers. I never heard of none that ''' returned onto they had 'him safe l' ; aboard their galleys. I ha' done ' some tfailin with then, bartering ' hiiniaii freights for spices and c-ast-ji ern carpets and the ( Mnsf.T Lionel br-eaMied hard. V " T:s a horri ile nu: js't nut?" . The i ;:ntain stroke'! l,h b juj d. ! "Yet 'tis tlie only' realty s.'fe bo-j bo-j I itowul, and when a'l N Raid '-.is not . f so ho: r;h!e as ha-gi'i and cer-''tainv-irs dishonor:'!);:; to a nan's 1 1 Km. Ye'd he serving Sir Oliver , 'I and yourself." ' i "'Tis so, 'tis so." cried Master !, Lionel almost fiercely. "And the ':, price?" ! The seaman shifted on his short,: ( sturdy legg, and his face grew pen-, sive. , , : "A hundred pound?" he suggested suggest-ed tentatively. "Dune with you for a hundred pounds," was the prompt answer tain purchases m Truro. It would be half past seven when he returned, return-ed, and as he entered he met Sir Oliver in the hall. "I have a message for you from Godolphin Court," he announced, and saw his brother stiffen and his face change color. "A boy met me at the gates and bade me tell you that Mistress Rosamund desires a word with you forthwith.' .Sir Oliver's heart almost stopped, stop-ped, then went off at a gallop. "Be thou blessed for these good tidings!" he answered on a note of high excitement. "1 go at once." And on the instant he departed. Such was his eagerness, indeed, that under the hot spur of it he did not even stay to fetch that parchment parch-ment which was to be his unanswerable unans-werable advocate. Master Lionel said no word as his brother swept out. lie shrank brick a little into the shadows. He v. as white to the lips and felt as he would stifle. As the door clnd he moved suddenly. He sprang to follow Sir Oliver.. Conscience cried out to him that he could not Co' this thing. But Fear wns swift to answer that outcry. Unless Ue permitted per-mitted what was planned to take its course his life might pay tlie penalty. He turned and lurched into the dining room upon legs that trembled. trem-bled. He found the table set for supper as on that other night when he had staggered in with a wound in his side to be cared for and sheltered by Sir Oliver. He did not approach the table; he crossed to the fire and sat down there holding out his hands to the blaze. He was very cold and could not still, his trembling. trem-bling. His very. teeth chattered.' Nicholas came in to know if he "6 answered unsteadily unsteadi-ly that despite tbs4aJilPfs of the hour he would await Sir'TjiiTcri. return. "Is Sir Oliver abroad?" quoth the, servant in surprise. "lie went out a moment since, I know not whither." replied Lionel-"liut Lionel-"liut since he has not supped he is not like to be long absent." Upon that he dismissed the servant serv-ant and sat huddled there, a prey to mental tortures which were not to be repressed. His mind would turn upon naught but the steadfast, stead-fast, unwavering affection of which Sir Oliver ever had been prodigal toward him. In this very matter of Peter Ciodolphin's death, what sacrilices had not Sir Oliver made to shield him? From so much love and self-sacrifice in the past he inclined in-clined to argue now that not even in extreme peril would his brother botray him. And then that bail streak of tear which made a villain of him reminded him that to argue thus was to argue upon supposition supposi-tion that it would bo perilous to trust such an assumption; that if, after all, Sir Oliver should fail htm in the crucial test, then was he lost indeed. Then came doubt, and, finally, assurance of another sort, assurance assur-ance that this was not so and that he kne-w it; assurance that ho lied to himself, socking to condone the thing ho did. He took his head In his hands and groaned aloud. He was a villain, a black heated, soulless soul-less villain! He reviled himself again. There came a moment when he rose shuddering, resolved even In this eleventh hour to go after his brother and save hlu from the doom that awaited htm out yonder In the night. But aguln that resolve was witlr ered by tie breati ol selfish fear. Limply he resumed hie eat, aitd , qui thoughts took a fresh tunj, ' j JTo be. ooaUauei), fiil "He took ms head in his hands and groaned aloud." 'J 6o pruoipt that Captain Leigh realized re-alized he had driven a fool's bargain bar-gain which it wis incumbent upon iim to amend. "That is, a hundred pounds for j Layseif," he corrected slowly. ', ,:Then there be the crew to reckon tQ to keep tiiclr counsel and lend hand; 't'-v ill mean another hua-ired hua-ired at the least." Master Lionel considered a mo-.! mo-.! ment. "It la more than 1 can lay my bands on at short notice. But, look , you, you shall have a hundred and ' fifty pound3 In coin and the bal-'. bal-'. nice In Jowcls. You shall not be 1 the loser In that, I promise you. ni -when you come again and bring me word that all Is done as you now undertake there shall be i' tbs like .gals.' Upon that the bargain was set-i set-i ' flsd. And when Lionel came to sjlk erf n1 means he (ou4 |