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Show said Jean Lafitte and associate, but do call upon them to be aiding and j abetting in arresting him and said associates, and all others in like manner offending; and 1 do furthermore. In the name of the sta'e, offer a reward of five hundred dollars, which will be paid out of the treasury to any person delivering the said Jean Lafitte to the heriS of the parish of Oleins, or to ny other sheriff In the state, so that .he said Jean Lafitte may be brought to Justice." The Island Rose had heard the greater part of the document read in her grandfathers voice, low, to be sure, but with a clear enunciation which distinct as made each syllable though she had been the reader instead of a listener. And when he ended, she heard the voice of him heretofore known to her as "Captain Jean," and its tone was one of banter Well, M'sleur le Count, will you be the one to claim this five hundred dollars, and do your governor and state a brilliant service by delivering to them this body of mine." Then came her grandfather's sternly cold reply: What have I ever done. Captain Jean Lafitte, that should lead you tc suppose I would stoop to traffic in the blood of my associates?" It - was this that made the small hand go fluttering toward the girls frightened heart. It was the revelation that her Captain Jean" was none wrre as demoaihratir in taatr las' taking as two Frenchmen of near kin. Their bickerings were of llttls depth, both being too closely united In tbs giving of their best brawn and muscle toward the bettering of the house ol Ling Haul to be at outs long. Nance toughened pins of an upBy MILLICENT E. MANN land growth knotted her brow for a BY moment as she squeezed forth a tear. Uopyruht. Itut. by L.t:. AS UNOULN m WTM ILLUSTPATIONS BY DON C. WILSON She thought it befitted her who had fiK occupied the exalted position of nurse 4tb, Smn anfC&rpay) CM fiUa Aewrwey to the one setting forth upon a JourCHAPTER V Continued. wich, who Is near to him, you will, 1 ney to show so much emotion. CHAPTER XV. Is she quite happy, Zeney? It was no unusual thing for a huge think, be able to obtain it. You will Indeed, there was an inward refollow to be tumbled under the table show the paper to him. It has the joicing. iu spite of the house being Happy T How could a wild bird be After the death of Laro a new and happy In a cage, even if Its bars were before his inner man was satisfied; royal signet attached to it. Then will of so sad a color, that the young lord somewhat better order of thing! pre- made of gold?" there he at least was out of mischief, he know why I left King Charles' was at last to have his fling. vailed among the Pirate of She was about to continue, but Lafor the license was of the free and side when he most needed all his Our horses were Flemish mares, the Gulf." fitte, as If not caring to pursue the easy kind that recks not of the mor- friends why I served a man who had chosen for their greatest endurances Now under the direct leadership of rubject, asked, Is your master here? row. no mure right to the throne of Eng- Soon we were astride them and galLafitte alone, and with better opporIndeed they were a rude people, land than I myself why I left the loping down the Bleep road. We Zeney nodded, and pointed to a tunities for knowing hi chivalrous na- closed door near them, He is In there, and among them I grew up perhaps woman I loved." He dropped his voice passed the Jutted rock, balanced in ture, the larger body of them followed and alone." as rude in some things. I had been to a whisper. such away that it rocked when the unquestionlngly his more merciful and Lafitte, turning from her, knocked 8he haunts me day and night, lightest wind blew. It bad been a taught to know my rights and to hold less lawless practices: and not a few at the door, and De Cazeneaus voice them against all odds. waking or sleeping. Why, God knows, feature of the road so long, that no of the men actually relished the answered, Entres." Oue of my earliest recollection was unless it be that I wronged her I man living could reckon back when changed conditions in which they This the former did, leaving the that I had even as a child presided at feel I wronged her, the greatest It bad not been the curiosity of the found themselves. door ajar. iswm annual feasts and sat at the wrong a man can do a woman I be- country side. We passed the gnarled Garonne, who had been given a vesnow a tall, wiry lad of sixhead of the table. I bad my two lieved in her Infidelity! After the birch tree whose few branches were Kato, sel of his own, had gathered to himtoasts to say: God and the right," battle of Marsden, where 1 connived, wide, extended, and in the moon light and devoted, body and soul, to teen, self the most unregenerate of Laro's his master, was the and A fair harvest." The men had nay, more than connlveo, helped the It looked not unlike a monster sentinel. only one to acfollowers, and entered upon a career company him to Grande Terre. He many. Gil, the heaviest drinker in King to make his escape, feeling that Once Noel's horse had shied there Mn which he observed the same methhaif seated himself upon the steps, all Christendom, for the more he I was not true to either cause, neith and he, taken unawareK, had been ods as his former commander, with drank the whiter and warier he be- er a Roundhead nor yet a Royalist, 1 thrown. He lay upon the ground with but too far away to catch the conthe result that he was finally brought versation between Lafitte and Zeney, would cry, The old lord. Noel resigned and came here to stay. For the breath about knocked out of him. came, to execution, together with most of even had In a language not to be outdone e'en before the ale the sake of that little incident here He could never pass It afterwards they spoken his crew, In a South American port. he understood. had ceased bubbling down their lank is the proof of it Charles II. I think without giving his horse a vicious Life at the Ursullne convent was, other than lafitte, the terrible pirate, throats, or the dripping froth wiped will let old scores be. kick in memory of his shame, for Gil he But watched with them curious for many months, a burden to Lazalie, of wi'om she had heard such dreadful off their beards, would He handed me a small Jeweled pin kept alive his mortification by his shout, The and her whims and caprices made it eyes, having often heard of Zeney; tales! He was the freebooter, smugCharles I. gave it to me with his trite remarks upon the aerident. His voice was loud but little less so to the mother su- and her reputed powers served to gler and outlaw the leader of that young lord." to bring the blue vault of own hands, and said when I wished We came to a narrow ledge of the averan awe enough make of and her object fearful band of men she had shud- heaven down about our ears. Then I had perior and nuns. But they, with a sion to to present it to claim what hillside where single file was safest as to most of his class. only him, remembrance of mention! to lively many generous hear the slaves one and all ringing down the board. I would. What I choose is our re- The drooping stones kicked free by It was, therefore, with a sigh of re- dered favors from Lafitte, felt that they And not only was her grandfather cog Borne were not so clean as saw he that lief her after might habilitation at Whitehall. It will not the horses hoofs made a merry sound. disappear, must bear patiently with the charge nizant of this, but he was this mans be, for, as I have said, theywere a affect me I am beyond that but my We clattered over the little, bridge his master had gone Inside. they he had left In their keeping. abettor his associate and friend! rude and those were beneath which the water fairly bubrude people, obliquity will In time lie forgotten. He on remained the : La Roche, as her banker and man steps, sitting Her brain In a whirl, her heart terri- days. moments. few for a He bled and sputtered In Its fierce destopped chin two supported by yellow fied by dread of an undeflnable terror, of business, came often to see his his But for all that, we at the Manor Ills face was drawn and grey as a light at being loosened from Its winwhile a of group young negroes palms, and ended In the fair client, by falling she fled from the house, and into ter fastness. Here the road became love with her a fact he was wise who had drawn near to gape curiously woods, wandering on, scarcely know- house were not common boors, en dead man's. cut away from the amenities "From the lady who was my wife," freer and mud now mingled with the of enough to keep to himself. And, later at him, after the manner their kind, ing or caring where, until her steps tirely of eourtoousness, or the niceties of he continued, "If she is alive, you bowlders. Farther on the horses were on, he obtained Iafitte's consent to proceeded to converse In a way evi- were arrested by the matted thicket court life. I French, Spanish will plead for forgiveness in behalf pushed together, and they gave intended attenhis to attract her removal from the convent and dently into which she had penetrated with and Dutch as spoke my own tongue. I had of your father a dying man, for I glad wblnny. tion. of a house her own, where, taking unseeing eyes. also a of Latin. From my now believe her Innocent. She will We reached Torralno's hut at the with Ma'am Brigida and a retinue of Instinct, rather than any sound, Now all was revealed to her. The father smattering In who had his youth served not deny It to mo she had a tender foot of the hill. Hero he lived with slaves, the beauty seemed made Nato realize that a presence was man whom of all others she trusted both at Whitehall, and tn the palaces heart. So shall the earth rest more bis buxom wife and nine children, as near him; and glancing over his shoul- In this new, strange, and fettered more contented. though he were the keeper of ,the When the summer of 1812 had der, he saw a girlish, white-claform world into which she had been brought of the Castilian Kings, I had caught lightly on my coffin. I begged to lie allowed to stay with a few accomplishments. I could lane which led to the Manor. brought the Cazeneau household to standing in the doorway through from the peaceful Island home, where I could Ho stood out in the road, surroundtheir Ba rat aria home, , there befell which Lafitte had passed a few min- life had been happy, and free from fence with both the broad sword and bint fur a time at least; later go to London and attend to his comed by his brood. They stolidly something which struck Lafitte with utes before. Presently he saw one of fear he was the notorious Lafitte, the rapier. Our wants were few, our family mands. But he would not listen to watched us and begged with outa new despair, and took from him all her little hands go to her side, as If the Pirate of the Gulf. who scuttled ' hope of ever being asked to render he had been startled, or was experi- ships, who murdered men and women, small; a simple household truly. Gil me even became impatient at my stretched hands for a coin. Out of the way, yelled Gil, out little Roselle the smallest service, encing some strong emotion; and she and whose hands wore red with blood, and Noel were factotums of the Ma- lierslstency. You must go of the way. Do you want us to run nor. Master Basil, the chaplain, kept No, no, he said. shed that he might plunder his vicus in order. Nance with a maid or at once tomorrow. over those cubs of yours? tims. Torralne gave the children cuffs to (To be continued.) s right and to left. It served two well knew would as he the it AT PLAY. GREAT AUTHOR old fox! took them from beneath the horses' hoofs and sent my hand into of Who One Reminiscences Interesting my pocket Knew Hawthorne. Then he held up his scrawny hand SixA of Girl Mrs. Sedgwick, in demanding attention. W reined up. teen at Brook Farm. gives a little if ye need me in that hot bed of sketch of Hawthorne which shows him 'lie'll where ye're said be, In a pleasant and merry light, although nmtTBfc tnj ills wwwuispw la general,, she acknowledges, the Jolly boys'll be with ye wfe the sun has sunk twice behind urn" 8n ed s"yWshe was learning verses point. "All right, old fox," ansYermj to recite at the avanlng class formed But don't imagine that lorre-- r qh by Charles A. Dana, when, seeing his Jolly boys will cut much of a Hawthorne sitting immovable and solswarth in London town; Tfs not as itary on the sofa, she daringly thrust bare of rapscallions as a lady's hand the book In bis hands. is of hair. Will you hear me say my poetry, and called out yet He grinned I said. Mr. Hawthorne? again after we had started: He gave me a sidelong glance from Remember, ere the sun has sunk his very shy eyes, took the book and twice back of Black Point. Good-bmost kindly heard me. After that he old ape. m'lord; good-bwas on the sofa every week to hear When we reached the selvage of me recite. the woods where the huts lay thickOne evening he was alone in the est, I saw that there was a crowd hall, sitting on a chair at the farther of men anil women and children T were roommate and when my end, awaiting us. They had collected toHer Captain Jean was none other than Lafitte, the terrible piratel going upstairs. She whispered to me: gether at the foot of one of the lanes throw a sofa pillow at Mr. Lets even should the occasion. or necessity stood with bended head, as if listen Hawthorne." knowing that we must pass that way. arise. ing. Some one lias spread the news of our over the banisters, we or Now Reaching out it is he muttered. my hands, Nato was still staring at the girl each took a Her childish trust In him became deit. and threw departure. pillow He was like a person who, having stroyed; he saw her shrink from him when she started Impetuously, and Quick as a flash he put out his hand, two tended to the do'mestic part. (To be continued.) in terror and abhorrence. And this went hurriedly down the hallway. I entered the library it smote me made up his mind about an affair, the seized a broom that was hanging near Led by curiosity, the boy Jumped to awakened in him the knowledge that SUPER HAD HIS REVENGE. him, warded off our cushions and like a sword thrust that In my desire doing of which be has procrastinated the as he supposed paternal love he his feet, and saw her descend the threw them back with sure aim. At for enjoyment and London, I had left from time to time, will have it done had been cherishing for the child of steps of the back gallery, and go fast as we could throw them he re- my father out of my calculations. I at once lest he repent. Discharged Actor Spoiled Scene for her who bad always been his ideal, was swiftly into the woods, which seemed turned them with effect, hitting us never saw him look so ghastly he He tiien talked long and earnestly, Frederick Warde. his for to swallow up the snowy form and not the affection of a father as one who gives his last earthly InDid I ever tell you about the time while we could only hit seemed stricken with death. time, every daughter, but the love of a man for glittering hair swallow them so Bud the broom. He must have been very You sent for me, sir? I softly structions to his heir. When he dismy uncle, the actor, played with Freda woman. dcnly as to leave In the boy's supersti quick in his movements. missed me, after saying that Master erick Warde?" said the sailor. asked. The bitterest potion he had ever tlous mind an uncomfortable suggesYes, he answered. At last I have Basil was making all the arrange"No, said the druggist. Through It all not a word was spokswallowed was now working in his tion that she was not real flesh and en. We laughed and laughed, and his come to a determination I wish you ments, so that nothing a super with Interfere "Well, uncle waa veins. Yet no (me would have sus- blood, but a sperit, or perhaps with our speedy departure, he was Warde, and for drinking too much bs shone and twinkled like stars, to go to London. eyes I shall indeed be glad for many worn and spent with the excitement got fired. pected this, as he went his way. and second voudoo priestess. until we went off to bed vanquished. Within the room, near whose open You can go.' Warde says, 'at the for a time with greater recklessness I said, but I do not think I of the interview. reasons, than before, although the rumor men- door the girl had stood, Lafitte and end of the week. to leave you. Are you as well Politeness Pays. ought tioned by Pierre had now become a De Cazeneau were having a serious Two hours had not passed r was That made uncle mad and hs deSuddenly the man fell. He was s but as he reached a still talking Ixmdon, money and cided to have revenge. So on his last fact, inasmuch as the governor of Lou- conversation. person, am as well as I shall ever be, dignified I custom of the time, Following the isiana had Issued a proclamation offerI have something to tell horses with Master Basil when Gil's night, after he had got his salary all sleety corner his feet, set down with he replied. ing a reward for Laflttes apprehen- De Cazeneau had reached out to ring precision, failed to stay set. They you it is time you should know 1L heavy footsteps were heard coming right, he went on the stage with an a bell for refreshments, when Lafitte, flew so sion high, and the result was sc It Is not pleasant telling, so I shall be down the corridor. He thundered into egg in his hand. with an expressive gesture, stayed his a reason of about that as the man hit the walk as brief as I can, and bog of you the room. Warde was playin 'Julius Caesar,1 by This had come abrupt, hand. Tim late, my lord, too late," he and it was In the garden scene, where in sitting posture observers expected no matter what curiosity you may feel melee in the bayou Lafourche, and I can Comte. M'sieur le No. tarry to see a from the top to hold it in check. You see this old cried. was Warde walked Brutus that which proved to be the chip which but a very short time only long of his hat.spine protrude I asked Ah! she has bands with the varishook and about kindled to a blaze the gone? of bit paper?" enough to Impart the very Important Two hours before I reached the ous conspirators. Two youths had seen the episode fire of wrath against the from the table at his He up picked came I to intelligence bring you. One was a bad youth, and unwise She Is now on Uncle was one of the conspirators, side a half sheet of paper, yellow with castle," he answered. And he held out a paper he had He laughed. The other was a good age ami held it out to me. He waited the way to Ixmdon. Only an old hag and he held the egg in his right fist When the information was brought drawn from hlB pocket. youth, who knew a thing or two. He to Lafitte, accompanied by a copy of fith impatience until I had answered Is left in custody of the house. There He watched his rlianee. and when The count, put on his hastened to pick up the fallen man. was no paper to be found. We Warde, in a lordly way. went to shake the proclamation, he had, without de- glasses, took thehaving Yes.1 document: and his I am Thank you. said the man. searched every room. The old dame hands with him he dropped the egg In lay, taken a pinnace and set out for wavering hands made the blue paper Take it, he commanded. a childless millionaire, looking for an yielded tnc up all the Information I Warde's open palm. the extreme southerly side of Grande quiver as If his own startled I did so. s heir. You're it. Meantime take thle Uncle Bays lie never seen such s wanted, readily enough. She waa like he hands. of out is Terre, upon which was the Count de Now it my had stolen into it while be read roll and blow yourself. Only one con a little a wheel which, started down a steep surprised look on any one's face as Cazeneau's abode. I find peace, may muttered, contents aloud. feet upon the dition is attached. Don't spend a cent hill, gains Impetus with every turn. he seen on Warde's then. His band At the sound of Whereas the nefarious practice of on that laughing Jackass who is with peace, my God, before I die. face, him for They stop tonight at the Royal Dog, closed immediately and be glanaed the steps, a woman's weazened an I felt overwhelming pity running in contraband goods, which you." from there on to Ixindnn by the river down at the thing that had been given wrinkled and scowling, its coffee-huwas first Tills heart. my my is rise In different hitherto has prevailed Handing over a (10.000 bundle, and glimps-- ' of that hideous sore which read. Which means that they have him. When lie found It was an egg contrasting with wisps of gray, wiry parts of the state, to the great Injury giving his hotel address, the man went wool showing from beneath a in my father's brain, and gone by the main road, and we shall he looked more surprised than ever. had fair trader, and the diminution his way. bandanna, was projected from of the revenue He couldn't pur no fire into tbs he was an old man. overtake them somewhere between what linn made of the United States, of the The moral of this Is so obvious that and one of the numerous doors opening scene one after that. He didn't do any even at as Epsom Kingston, probably and been tail strong has of late much Increased; and the reader unable to discern it isnt He hwl more hnndshakin for fenr he might a of the Inns along there." from the hallway into various rooms whereas it has been but seemed his bones n(,w but I, known officially worth bothering about. Washington Are you sure the old dame was smash the egg. Ho kept shiftin' It in the two wings of the building. rack tn hang his skin upon, his eyes to me that, on the 14th of last month, Times. not It was apparent that she recognized a from one hand to the other, and you bitter trying to deceive you?" I asked. deep burning wells of thought quantity of smuggled goods, seized She told her tale as she got it from could hear blm cursin' under bis the visitor, for she cameout into the of an officer the Walter thought. Gilbert, Nothing Sensational. hall and. despite her age, advanced by breath. Yos may read it but not now, he the Jade by rote," lie answered, revenue of the United States, were City editor You got Mrs. Gass That being the rase, the paper is At the end of the scene he rushed briskly toward him. of out 'Hide it my In said. sight; away, him from taken day. open way's speech to the Woman's Rlghti Ah, Zeney, there you are, looking forcibly I. in tho wings yellin': Into said my lose again bands, value future peace as you but my of from the city no great distance club, didn't you? What did she sayf as young as ever," was his smilingly at 'Where's that infernal Musgrave? not." it New Orleans, by a party of armed worth print Reporter Oh, nothing CHAPTER VI. Bat Uncle Musgrave, you bet, had spoken greeting. I put It away Into an inner pocket. men, nndor the orders of a certain ing. Always you say words. Captain skipped over that brooded paper, liavc I and grlev one Jean Lafitte. who fired upon City editor Why, she spoke foi A Man's Jealouay. As. Utterly Hopeless Csss. Jean, that please, even when God knows, until it has ously wounded one of the assistants of more than an hour. music! knows they are not true." Do you enjoy classical next The our farewells a In me morning he driven Gilbert: crazy," began Walter said the Reporter I know, but what she said Lafitte laughed lightly. woman. the asked were not were made. young voice. They lingered of to paper That piece issue this, was quite I have thought proper sensible. Fhlladelphil quieter "Is your young mistress wjll? he Ye, miss," answered Mr. Cum-rnand I do solemnly Press. wrecked my life. I wish you to ob- long oer, for Lord Waters had after my proclamation; I enjoy It very much; but ! inquired. tain az audience with the King It our talk taken to his bed. I felt caution ail and singular citizens of Yes. she Is well." Zeney answered, can nnver get over the Men that the to alive. leave It never or difficult the name of Waters state against giving any kind Few women are wise enough to ren may be in a tone implying that more might be this All petty Jealousies between Gil tunes would sound better If they wer HI but favor London In countenance to to an er the has lit succor. one der suvrft said. mandolin or banjo club.! the Influence of Lord Sand- - and Noel were forgotten, and they played by AMTTB- SARY gEVEREUX Mistress Rosemary Allyn v high-strun- g d pur-pose- mil y y to-da- 1 Bara-tartan- s. . I pulse-beat- e bright-colore- d well-nig- h x. 1 through ' |