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Show THE RICH COUNTY NEWS. RANDOLPH, UTAH to climb and save their helpless comrades. The shots and cries and trampling went on, and the girl shuddered at the sounds. Who was winning, what had happened to her friends, she could not tell. But slowly there was a stir in the A tall man arose, rubbing his eyes as If awakened from a dispiriting sleep. He stared about she could just see him dimly In the starlight, and then he climbed awkwardly, with frantic haste but slowly after all to the boarding ladders. He got over the rail with some difficulty, and then stopped as if considering what he should do next Louises startled eyes could not make out his face but his uncouth movements seemed familiar. . . if she could only see his eyes whether they were light or dark or the contour of his face, perhaps, she could know. . . then he staggered and fell. The girl upstarted. The cries and Imprecations seemed growing In volume, coming nearer, as If the attackers were being driven back. But she began to climb the nearer boarding ladder. When she came over the rail she saw first an Indistinct group of struggling men forward, with here and there the flash of fire ; and then, near her on the deck, under the dim light by the main companionway, a man crawling along. At the companionway he got to his feet with some trouble and disappeared below. The girl ran back of the g to get away from a dying Spaniard at her feet. There she found three other bodies, and the smooth planks were slippery under her feet She fled the other way from these horrors and then found herself by the open skylight of the main cabin. It was brilliantly lighted there. Apparently all the fury of the two battles for the Seraphine had never penetrated to the heavy splendor of rosewood, silken tapestries and ormolu encased mirrors of the emperors suite. For at the emperors table sat the ragged man she had seen there once before. He was in the huge, carved, pretentious chair at the head of the board. He rather shone with blood from a scalp wound under his matted hair. Also, she saw that he appeared to be picking over the bones of some remnants of a dish that must have been prepared for Crackleys lieutenants earlier In the day. At any rate the lone guest showed disappointment He leached for the cognac, and then lit a long reed pipe he found on the board. Then he sat back and smoked, listening to the distant sounds of the battle forward and above on the decks of the bows, attempting s. Ulusirdioni by Copyright by CHAPTER XV Continued. 19 They stared at him unbelievingly. He threw out an arm, kicked the entangling scabbard from his knees and blustered on : Sixteen there must be of you I Six muskets Crackiey gave to you and you have pistols and cutlasses around. d and desperate, Sixteen, end a longboat In the dark! If you remain here Murillos men will leave you all to the buzzards tomorrow I know, I heard them say there were men of Lafltte alive on this reef! They know? muttered the chief. They guess! I say, we can retake the schooner! the prize guard on her Is nothing the tenlente In command can suspect nothing! Once they lay her astern the frigate there Is no hope for any of you . We were to send Mademoiselle to the frigate In the longboat, murmured Raoul. "Throw her to the sharks theyre kinder than Murillos men! The Spaniards think the schooner was hound to the rebel republics of the South. They will spare none who had to do with her they blot out every life that could tell of her taking! He swung an empty pistol holster and tottered back and forth. Monsieur Sazarac tapped De Almonaster on the shoulder. It is the truth. It is a chance. Monsieur, our affair we shall have to postpone It And d n your hot head! . . . Will you understand nothing? Give me this action! Let me be the first to board the Seraphine I shall show you, Monsieur Sazarac, if I am one to be sent away under the protection of a woman! Nom de DIeu! And for that yon would fight me! breathed the other softly. Then he turned away, hastening to the outlaws down the sand spit. Jarvis had sat down again. He watched the light In the south the 'Napoleon ship, drawing slowly out on with the Spanish kings the men at the If they get a wind, mumbled Jarvis, we are undone. Then I might as well have stayed and died In the grass. I came to save you all John ! cried De Almonaster, what madness seized you to turn upon him at the pinch? I saved you all grunted Jarvis The dogs plotted to Indifferently. turn on Sazarac from the moment she he seemed plaintively the well diffident at her name well, the affair of the Genaron. I knew it. They hardly kept it from me, after the rum I broached for them. And once the she came aboard there was no hope to stop trouble. I played the fool for them; I roared chanteys in the I outdrank the best o them ! I made myself, as you saw the blanket adviser to them. i You let them put her adrift from the ship! said Raoul sternly. Yes to save her from John Crack-leTo save you all from walking he grunted absentthe plank. Well ly. I see. You are not grateful. No one Is grateful. I play the part of a Sazarac save that 1 cannot walk with a sword between my legs I boast, and pose and swagger . . . that Is, I try, Monsieur.- - You recall the other night? I alone on the quarter-dec-k quite had the stage to myself? I was doing well until my d d pistol went off quite by accident. Discomfited, I hurried below and drank and - ate everything that had been spread for the four of you at the emperor's table. Eh what did the ehe think of me. Monsieur? Raoul hurriedly, She, whispered apparently never saw you. That is, I believe she laughed once at something. Name o G dt breathed the JestShe er. Ah, well, of course! laughed when she saw me hanging to On the staircase well, the lamp-posI could not see plainly. In fact, I never see her plainly. Or she, me. I Of course I am the ghost try to strut out in the brave light, but there seems laughter always . . . tilt up the bottle, Raoul give me the last of it! He seemed suddenly startled to discover a 'white cloak so close to him. In fact, he seeemed to hustle uncertainly from it around to the outer edge of the group that gathered about And If 8azarac and Mademoiselle. he saw him at all; or divined that the fellow of the waistcoat was really this bloody figure that had staggered to them but a moment since. It was plain that he vanished from her sight shortly. He had, Indeed, meant to stretch a hand of authority, seeing that the mad plot was his ; to ring out n swift and pregnant campaign worthy of a pistoling Sazarac, but now be couldnt He merely hung off In the grass hummocks, swamp mud and bla own blood dripping from him, dangling an empty holster, and listening with mouth agape. She put this pell upon him. It must have beea tliat fair-arme- , The IiwinMy ers Bobbs-Merri- ll Company. at once, In her presence, he became a ghost of a man, pursuing his tattered mask of a Sazarac. Certain It Is that, after the leader had told of the thing to be done, and of Jarvis coming to them, there was such a puzzled, and then a shouting acclaim for the plan, that every one forgot the author of It. "By Blackbeard himself! roared Bohon. It Is a scheme that Jean Lafltte would have loved! They scattered to the bushes for their few arms and ammunition boxes. Others were working - the longboat from the shoals to where the adventurers could wade as she settled with the load of them In deeper water. There was hushed laughter, grim confidence, a jousting, nudging loyalty to the quiet leader. Two huge fellows carried Mademoiselle Lestron from the sands to the boat, in a chair formed of their brawny arms. Then they pushed the longboat slowly, stealthily out to catch the run of the ebb-tid- Sazarac," whispered De Almonaster. He was on a with Mademoiselle Lestron at his side. His hand sought hers In the close press of the adventurers crowded In the longboat. She did not resist . . . but she did not return his pressure She was merely calm, watchful, trusting to the skill and courage of Sazarac. Theres her topsll above the mist, hissed the Catalan lookout. Ease off. mid-thwa- rt t. tow-line- s. ( le t. -- ... -- Lestron turned away with fearful curiosity. She encountered a hurrying group coming past the main-masPanting, stumbling, smoke-grime- d men, among whom she saw the tall Sazarac. He sprang to the side as If to see to the safety of the English woman left In the longboat. "Monsieur! she cried, and ran to him frightenedly. There is no man of them left In arms! he shouted, with a brightening The port watch went overboard eye. at our rush, swimming for their boats. Beluche Is tumbling their wounded to a he yawl that remains. Mademoiselle, bowed to her, you will go below away from these abominable sights. Come the Seraphine Is won! No no ! she gasped In horror still. No not yet! Sazarac turned from her for an Instant to the wheel where an altercation seemed arising. Old Dominique had taken it; he was shouting, whh his eyes aloft. She Is drawing at the A top! the fat seaman bawled. A man give man to her shrouds! me one man! A silence had come, strangely silent, after the fury. A groan or two, a coughing fellow forward In the lee scuppers. Dominique was howling And Up and to the Seraphines Deck There Slid a Dozen Silent Figures. A wind a touch of air is fatal to us! In, lads I hear their haulboats above us. Come, theres her bulk in the fog ! De Almonaster felt a pressure on his hand. He bent his head. Monsieur your pistol. Give It to me I will not fall in their hands alive If we fail ! We will not fail, he whispered moodily. Why with Sazarac? She wondered if the silent leader at the stern had caught this bitter tribute? There was no more speech for any of them. The girl was staring now, between the press of crouched figures, at the great limp disorder of the snowy sails; it seemed but another 'moment when the muffled oar blades shot the longboat fair under the schooners stern. Old hands trembled on long unused weapons ; there seemed a muttering and a nodding of heads. . . and then a slight jar, the snap of a hook on a wooden rail, and up and to the Seraphines deck there slid a dozen silent figures, cutlass cords in teeth, fingers to triggers. De Almonaster writhed with impatience awaiting his turn. A terrified howl had arisen from some wounded sailors lying In the schooners waist, who first caught sight of the swarming figures in the land mist. The huge Johanness was the first to reach the wheel. The two officers of the king o Spain had hardly turned surprised faces at the footfalls ere they died gasping under hfs two' cutlass swings. The helmsman cried out and an iron pike crashed to his teeth,-An-d amidships a battle was arising. Frightened howls, Incoherent commands from fleeing petty officers ; while above It, now, came the wild yell of the gulf buccaneers In other days end evil: ! Lafltte! Lafltte! To that cry these castaways had swarmed chains and shrouds of many a ship now long missing in the ports of the world. Save for one obscure figure, the longboat held none except Mademoiselle Lestron. She shrank lower, closing her ears against the screams and shots of the battle which had thickened forward. The towing boats had turned on the hawsers; they were coming back. The Spanish kings men arose at the HEALTH FOR Harmless Laxative to Clean Liver and Bowels of Baby or Child. 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