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Show THE RICH COUNTY NEWS, RANDOLPH, UTAH WOMEN BABIES CRY CAPTAIN SAZARAC FOR CASTORIA Prepared Especially for Children of By CHARLES TENNEY JACKSON Copyright by The JEAN1 SYNOPSIS. Under the name of "Captain Sazarac," and disguised, Jean Lafltte, former freebooter of Barataria, proscribed, returns to the city of New Orleans. He is recognized by two of his old companions, Alderman Dominique and Beluche. At the gaming tables Sazarac has won much money from Colonel Carr, British officer. John Jarvis, .the city's first bohemian of the arts and letters, an oldtime friend of Lafltte, tells of a womans face and smile. As his last wager, Carr puts ap a woman, presumably a slave. Custom compels Sazarac to accept the stake. He wins. His old associates and Count Baoul de Almonaster accost ' him as Lafltte. A project of the youthful adventurers of New Orleans is the rescue of Napoleon Bonaparte from St. Helena, and a ship, the Seraphlne, has been made ready. From De Almonaster Sazarac learns that the girl he won at the card table 1s white, of high estate, and that the matter has been made a byword in the citys resorts. Sazarac finds Mademoiselle Lestron, a fellow passenger on a rivet steamer a few days before, and with whom he had fallen in love, is the girl and in chivalry foregoes his revenge against Carr. Jarvis admires Mademoiselle He Is a witness of the meeting and picks up a camellia Les-tro- 1 1 n. which the girl had thrown, unJarvis is noticed, to Sazarac. dangerous; he talks too much in his cups. CHAPTER t inches off my belly and Td be at 'sea again. Only today I argued with the mayor. Rouifflgnac, that the city was better off when It fattened on the privateering. Was It not equal robbery when the Americans under Commodore Patterson looted our Grand Terre warehouses? "We should have fought Instead of grumbled Johanness. scuttling out "The Yankees could not have taken us by storm. Glad they were later to have our fellows aid them. Who did General Jackson turn to but Captain Jeans skilled artillerymen when the British threatened the city? Bah! I never saw such a lame lot of dogs as our fellows were the day the pompous governor announced we were all recommended for a pardon We stood dangling our cutlasses, listening to lawyers speeches praising ns for saving the city, when we should have been to sea again. Captain Jean, thou wert the only wise one of the band departing to the Texas country and seizing Galveston Island agalriBt the Spaniards. I could curse ray heart that I did not enlist again with thee "I Intended to have the new estabmurlishment legitimate enough, mured Lafltte, "but after the war the politicians lost no chance at Washington, nor with the Spanish viceroy at Vera Cruz, to poison all minds against me. When they sacked Galveston, I took young BWle and went inland to the Santa Fe. That was my history I came back from since, comrades. the West, drawn by I know not what to tread these streets again. The old buccaneers watched his calm face In the moonlight. He bad taken off the hat and peruke; a bronzed handsome man with dark eyes tinged with melancholy such was Lafltte. Eh, well, grunted old Dominique, Pakenham would bave taken the city in tbe rear If you had accepted the IV Awaken. The Old At Sazarac midnight Captain turned from the rue de la Levee to Ithe broad pavement that skirted the Place dArmes, and, for a moment, contemplated the changes which even the few years of the American occupation had wrought in the Paris of the New world. A painted Iron palisade with ornate grill gates enclosed the square before the cathedral which he ifcad known as a dusty parade-groun- d tver which lazily flapped, now one, the other the royal standard of of France. A tepaln or the fleur-de-lportion of the ancient wooden gallows till remained, but about It, now, the children played of mornings, listening to the fearsome tales of Bras Coupe, the terror of the swamps, whb preyed on human flesh and was proof to musket balls, as the colored nurses had it In the narrow way between the cathedral' and the old Spanish calaboza the exile paused again. Documents of court and avocat were tacked to the wooden doors. Not so many years agone had not he Jean Lafltte sent his men up from the pirates fortified refuge on Grand Terre Island to bribe for the escape of his brother, Pierre, from this same prison? And time and again had they not both laughed to read, on these same boards, ithe citys proclamation for their capture the laws futile fury when no .man durst lay hand upon them, so completely did the Grand Terre adventurers awe the town? "How m.iy changes! mused the Hailed by the city as a wayfarer. hero, pardoned by the- - President and acclaimed for service to the new republic denounced again and driven from the seas! Yet I walked these streets when no merchant was too proud to traffic for the goods we brought from the, gulf privateering. And again the good sea calls again, again I'1 At a small door In a high wall of the rue SL Peter, he tapped with his sword hilt. It opened ; he stood within the small garden of the Cafe la Veau Qui Tete. A dim light showed the wine tuns in the warehouse shadows. Old Dominique, the worthy aider-malifted a huge pewter mug in .greeting. Half a dozen figures arose with smothered exclamations. They were about him, clasping his hands, whispering Joyously. came a Jean! Thou Captain .hoarse voice in the old patois of the coast Islands. "Here are we all ghosts, ''indeed, out of old days! Johanness! Old brawler of the portal I heard they had hanged you jfor the loot of the Santa off Grand Isle. The huge seaman laughed his joy. And thou! That the British sank thee off Galveston! Hang me? Ah, Bo! the Presidents pardon, Jean! I shame to say peddle ducks and tdeer In the city markets. The very children point me out and put their Angers to their noses: Old Tete John, ! they call me I, Who sailed with thee Better for you all than swinging , at yardarms. Here Is the worthy alderman; Beluche, with a lawful commission ; Nez Coupe, still a fugitive in the deep swamp, I am told. And here, Monsieur de Almonaster I Eh, well , grunted Johanness. Dominique brought the gentleman. D n gentry, say I. Dominique fears to whistle lest it hurt his politics. We are, indeed, respectable, Only last year, 1 mlled the captain. am told, my brother, Pierre, now a planter of St. James, was second to Monsieur St. Geme In a duel that Is getting Into society Indeed, gentler men I" Four . Pouf I grunted Dominique. 8ea-Rove- ' is , n, , Aye, You Enriched This 5ity, and You Stand a Fugitive Upon Its . Streets! Company Bobbs-Merr- the Aye, interrupted Beluche, famous attorney who defended you and Pierre In the first indictment they Issued against you for piracy! And you sent word, captain, that if the lawyers' wished their fee they must come fetch It from our fort at Grand Terre. Thq city wagered that Grymes would never return alive, but do you recall the week he ventured? The feasting, dancing, the drinking until tbe skies rocked, all In our guests honor!" Aye, and me" Johanness beat his hairy chest: I, the bosun. It was, to' whom Captain Jean Intrusted the lawyer on the return. By the river we came, eight armed fellows pulling the barge and roaring chanties At every plantation wharf we stopped, the advocate breaking bottles of the finest vintages o Spain and shouting greetings. And on the deck, piled in the sun, forty thousand dollars In gold where all might see! Every gentlemans house from English Tnrn to the city gate must be routed out that Mr. Grymes could gamble against his hosts, so that, when our villains finally haled him into town, not a dollar did he have left of all his fee. even now they talk of it I Not In all Louisiana such princely hospitality as the famous attorney found In the house of Lafltte, the pirate! Old man, smiled the leader, I never liked that word I I know. That is all I ever held against you, Jean! I recall the day you shot Gamblo through the heart for boasting of a bit o blood he let You were ever a bit finicky for some o our focasle scum, but I swear they loved you, Jean! The adventurer looked at the grim faces about the table. The silent Beluche, the complacent Dominique, the hairy bosun; and then the slender elegance of the Count de Almonaster. And to him he spoke gravely. You are hearing much, young sir. The city sleeping, and these old comrades creeping by stealth to greet me here. Tve heard the old tales. Ive he dreamed laughed slightly. These are dull days. The gallants of the town at their ecarte, or projecting some gentlemans masquerade, oi dancing attendance at the opera. They boast of making a little Paris of New Orleans; but who, Monsieur, wishes a little Paris after knowing the big one,? Your modesty, sir, is refreshing, after these town gallants who make one trip to the Oaks, receive a rapier tip In the arm, and the rest of their days deem themselves bravos who have the ladies in a flutter. I have been twice abroad, said Raoul. I saw a bit of pistoling in the Indies during the blacks revolt. And there, among a shipload of refugees, J met the affair that sobered me made a man of the boy. Monsieur! A woman, smiled Sazarac. A child. I fought for her in the flames of her fathers house. When I lay wounded they sent her away, orphaned, In the ship captain's charge. He laughed: That is all a trifle of adventuring to Jean Lafltte! Bah ! growled Johanness, putting back his long gray hair; Women! Then, seeing the figure on the bench that had snored the hour through, he forthwith kicked this hard couch from under It. An uncouth disheveled man struck the stones, rolled over and cursed them all. , He Jarvis! growled the bosun. has seen more than you, Monsieur de Almonaster, and he has never handled a pistol In his life! Jarvis? Sazarac started back. You did not tell me! He is utterly drunk. We did not dare tell him in a public place because of his clattering tongue. Ho, Jarvis! At the drink again! The profligate staggered np, nth D n Old rumheads bing his eyes. mulling away of Barataria days! Of He broke off starLGg' Jean again Do I dream still In the liquor! It Is Come, clear yjur 1 E-o- h 1 bribes the British offered you at Barataria. And in turn what have the Yankees done for you, Jean scattered your fortune to the winds! Aye, you enriched this city, and you stand a fugitive upon its streets !, The captain raised his hand gravely: I am a citizen of the United Proscribed, just States, gentlemen. now. It is true but It might be I could serve again. There are curious things reported In the Mexicoes. Colonel Travis, I recall, and Crockett and young Bowie were hot for me to Join the Texans In a new republic. And in Kentucky Ah, but, my captain, growled old Johanness, what hast thou to do with their miserable politics of the day? The sea for us D d be this gabble of the town! Look you, what it has made of Dominique! sitting, twiddling his thumbs on his fat belly I And eyes I Beluche taking off and putting on his Jarvis reeled forth. Jean, whefn I gilt chapeau, ticklishly, as If fearing painted at the famous Isle Jean! to get dust on his gewgaws! Not so loud, grunted Dominique. Cease your spewing, growled the I hear the watchman whlngwhaoging Cartagenlan,' I sail with proper com- down the street. missions, I would have you know, from The two friends were Jean! ' Colombia. Jean I I knew you greeting fondly. And be d d with your papers! lived. Jean of the Petral my hand roared the old man. Admiral? There upon him! does iot live one for met nor counAnd what have you done with your cilor, nor nobility young sprigs of genius, lad? dandles coming to pat our hard salted I have learned to drink, retorted flats! Jarvis, drink and debt Into Jail and He glared about, his gaze lingering out again.' Betimes I belabor Dome on Count de Almonaster. nlque for a dollar. He gives- - It with Old man," said Raoul quietly, you fatherly advice, and hales me to Pere had better keep your place. Antoine for reformation. Between the D n 1" alderman and the priest I am utterly The old sea dog was starting np; lost. 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