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Show THC S MN SUN. SM1N. UTAH cppZ3Ep? ALLENS FOOTEASE The Antiseptic, Healing Powder tor tired, swollen, smarting, sweating feet. It takes the friction from the shoe, prevents blisters and sore spots and takes the sting out of corns and bunions. Always use Allens Foot-Eu- n for Dancing and to Break la New Shoes. Bold everywhere. Bi ARTHUR D. HOUJDEN SMITH COPtJRIQHT EX ARTHUR D. HOTODETl SMITH tDKU SERVICE modore Burrage lies, and bid him to get to sea without loss of time. Doubt Howden "Smith is addicted in his quieter moods to costume novels, not, our good commodore will make and when one appears it is a literary event of no mean importance; bu.t them rue the day. when he gets excited and lets himself go, the result is sure to be someAnd with Lieutenant Governor Colthing extraordinary, as when he writes a pirate story or one of those den and the rest lie made to move off. And of York and Canada. New about the early settlement stirring yarns Only my father lingered. It takes up a number of such a pirate story .8 Porto Bello Gold! You have letters for me, Captain in their Island at Louis "Treasure Stevenson's Robert characters points ? he asked. Earraday careers before Stevenson became acquainted with them. It was inspired Aye, indeed, sir from Master Alreiterated" of why friends, wondering by the constantly expressions len, your agent In London. I was on someone doesnt write a pirate story that will tell us how the treasure my way to deliver 'em. And a goodly came to be buried on the island. With the exception of this use of a of Strouds, axes, knives, beads, store few of the characters made famous by R. L. S. and a few Incidents tools, (lints and other trade goods to which Stevenson noted merely Incidentally as episodes of the past, the your account. story is entirely Howden Smiths own. In a truly remarkable manner he I will accept the letters r,t your has succeeded in recreating the color of the Eighteenth century and the and even save you he trip to hands, atmosphere of Stevenson's masterpiece. The consensus of critical opinPearl street, captain, replied my faion Is that Porto Bello Gold is a fit companion to Treasure Island." ther. "My son, Robert, here, wdll visit you aboard ship in the morning and take measures to urrunge for lisCaptain Earraday discarded the CHAPTER I teners who hud attended him so far transshipping your cargo. I ha' no quarrel with such terms, and stumped' across the square, belMy Fathers Secret. lowing tna answer in .tones which rejoined Captain Earraday, fishing a I was In the counting room, talking brought shopkeepers to their doors packet from his coatHere you are, Master with Ieter Corlaer," the chief of our and womens heads from upper win- tail pocket. And Ill be off to the Ormerod. fur traders lie was that very day dows. come down river from the Iroquois Chased? That I was, Master Or- - George tavern for a bite of shore food and a rung of mulled ale. country when the boy, Darby, ran in merod, ly as , scoundrelly a pirate My father fidgeted the packet In his from the street. as flouts the kings majesty 1 the hands for a moment. The Bristol packet is In, Master Here be perceived who accompanied "You are certain twns Captain Rip-Ita- p And, oh, sir, the my fattier. Off came ids hat, and lie Iloliert, he cried. who chased you? lie asked then. watermen do say there be a pira'e made an awkward bow. Ed swear to Ills foretopsls, anBlilp oiT the Hook! Your sarvent, your excellency ! My As swered I I remember I laughed at the comconfidently. Earraday duty, Master Colden! Ilut I have no bination of awe and delight in Ids words to withdraw, for all I did not said afore, he chased me once In '4,'t, bit see "ho was near by to beat; me. Aye, and Jenkins he took off Jamaica in face. lie was a raw, of a gossoon we bad bought at the there is more to lie said, much more; the ship Cynthia out o Southamplust landing of bonded folk, nnd he and mutters have come to a pretty ton, when Flint was for drowning the " Hi 171s cold talked with a brogue that thickened pass when the rascals come north to lot o them ; but was no point to slaythere way, says whenever lie grew excited. these ports. Bor the packet, I do not doubt you. Peter Corlaer and I Joined the little ing without purpose, and they turned I!ut you uiu.--t group of merchants who were with the Darby," I answered. show me the pirate. governor, and the other curious perI'efer Corlaer cimrkled In his quiet, sons hovered as elose as they dared. rumbling way, his huge belly waggling Put I And this hnrd to give crebefore 1dm beneath ids buckskin hunt- dence to, cuptaln, suld Governor-Clintoing shirt, for all the world like a monPirates? In pleasantly enough. ster mold of Jelly. these latitudes? We have not been Ja, Ja, show ua der pirates, he bothered by such of lute. Did you Jeered. have sight of the ship which pursued Darby flared up in a burst of Irish you? temper that mntched his tangled red Sight? Marry, that I did; hair. close, your excellency. l would I were a pirate and bad She eume up with a soeaster two you at my mercy, you butter tub," he days past, and at the first I made her raged. "Ill warrant youd tread the out for a frigate by the top hamper plank ! she carried. Darby," said I, have you done the A frigate?" protested Master Colerrands my father set you?" . . So big as that?" den. "Every one, answered lie. And If I "Aye, sir, my master "Very well. Then get you Into (lie have any eye for a ships lines nnd storeroom nnd sort over the pelts Pe- canvas she was none other than the ter fetched In. lto.val Janies that chased me three lie flung off with a scowl as I days together when I was home hound turned to Ieier. from the West Indies In 43. My father will wish to know (he "That would be the vessel of the packet arrived," I said. . Will you fellow known usually as Captain go with me to the governors? The spoke up my father, and there council must he on the point of break- was a quality in his voice which led ing up, for they have been sitting me to regard him closely. since noon. It was manifest that lie labored In Peter heaved bis enormous body the grip of some strong emotion; but And I marveled, ns always the only Indication of this In his face erect. after a period of absence, at his pro- was a slight rigidity of feature, and em loose In the longboat. And theres To one "bo did not know none of the others marked It. I was none, left on the Account that sail portions. iiim lie seemed a butter tub of n man, tbemore amazed because my father in a great ship fit to he a kings frig-ntsave it be Rip-Rans Darby bad called him n mass i f was a man of Iron nerves, and also, Flint's Wal' tallow, fat limbs, a pork barrel of e. though his earlier years had been rus is a tali ship and heavy armed, trunk, a fat Hub of a face upon which starred with n scries of extraordinary hut bath .not the sail spread o the Showed tiny, insignificant features gro- adventures, so far us Plim-lie had Royul James. Jenkins says $he wns a Frenchman, nnd tis to lie admitted tesquely at variance with the rest of had nothing to do with the sea. she lines the Erencli-ie- s hath the fine-rubis bulk. Ills little eyes peered InnoMaster for you. True Ormerod, all of rolls fat which between build. cently and answered Captain Earraday; but masked them. His nose was n since Henry Morgan, died there hath My father was hard put to it. to miniature dab, above a mouth a child not li'cd n mice complete rogfle. One make head against this flow of talk, might have owned. of my mates was taken by him off but at last be succeeded. lut under his layers of blubber Jamaica ten years gone nnd cites him It was my understanding, lie raid, were concealed muscles of fnrgt d for a man of exqnsite dress and man-- , that Captain Rip-Radisappeared stool, nnd lie- was capable of the agil-It- tiers that would befit a London iniiru-ron- i, from the West Indies during the late of a catamount. The man had not God save us! And, moreover, war. I give you thanks, captain. Pray lived "on the frontier who could face is as arrant a Jacobite as ever was. call upon me at your leisure, and if him Imrehanded and escape. Witness tbe name of hi-- , ship." I can he of any service to you I am We go. "I have heard lie sails usually in at your command. Ja, be said simply. He stood his musket.ln a corner company, remarked my fattier. Captain Earraday stumped off toand slipped off powder horn and shot He works with John Flint, who Is ward the George, a tail of the curious pouch the while I donned hat nnd no less of a rascal, alia it rougher, at ids heels, and I grinned to myself at greatcoat, for the air was still chilly according to those unfortunates who thought of tlie strong drink they would and there was a scum of snow on the have fallen in his path Flint sails in offer him In return for ids tale. There We passed out into Pearl the Walrus, a tall ship out of Plymground. wns no chance of Ids being sober instreet nnd walked westward to Hano- outh that was on the Smyrna run be- side of twenty-fou- r hours. ver square, and there on the fart tier fore silt fell Into bis bauds. Iletwixt nodded absently to Peter, fattier My side of the square I spied my father, t hem they are a pretty pair. who had stood throughout the entire with Governor Clinton nnd Lieutenant Captain Earraday stopped perforce conversation, his Hat face sleepily imGovernor Colden. for breath, nnd Governor Clinton perturbable. And It made my heart warm to see seized the opportunity to ask with a I like it not, he muttered, ns if how these nnd several other gentle- smile: to himself. , There men hung upon his words. did you call your "Captain Peter gave him a quick look but bad been those who slandered him pursuer? What manner of name Is said nothing. during the uproar over the 45, for this? Is there anything wrong, father?" he was known to have been a Jacobite The merchantman his I asked. shrugged In bis youth ; hut his friends were shoulders. He frowned at me, then stared off more powerful than his enemies, ami "Nobody knows, sir. Put tis the at the housetops in a way he had, nl- I Jey to think that lie was not the only name he goes by. 1 ha heard b ast influential of those of our leadHint years past oh, It may be twenty a k'i at a ai ers who held New York loyal io King or more lie stopped a home-bounGeorge "hen many were for casting Chesapeake packet, and when the In our fortunes with the Pretender. master was haled aboard the first He saw Piter and me as we ap- question lie asked was did lie have in Ids cargo?1 You can take your choice go hack proached and waved up to him, hut any rip-raFor It at the same moment there was a seems lie is singularly partial to that to Cheshire tomorrow or go to work s"rl't disturbance on the eastward mixture of stuff. And now, I lia been in tlie clock factory. side of the square, and another little told, bis own men give him this name, These were tlie alternatives offered groep of men came into view sui for even they do. not know for certain to young Bronson Aieott by Ids father. roerding a grizzled, that to which he was born. Alcott, who was to become tlie father old follow, whose blue "Tis said lie was a gentleman who of Louise. May Alcott, had returned coat spoke as eloquently of the sea suffered for his political umvictions, from tlie home of his un le, where lie as did his rolling gait. I could, hear but that is us like to be a lie ns the had been sent to go to school. Honore his hoarse, roaring voice clear across truth. All I know Is that he clm-e- d Willsie Morrow, writing in Mi Call's, the square me in past the Itook, though the Anne has told of the early life of this negHe relates : ran him tops Is down; my showed him a clean pair o heels and lected man of letters. Ill go to the clock factory, said eyes. I did; and when I get to port laid run hint tops'ls down wi sunrise what do I find, but not a king's ship this morning. And when I made Ihe Bronson quickly.. And so it "as deVitkin" lmrhor, 'twns to find there was not a cided. The sort of work required of him My father Interrupted him: kings ship to send after him. nodded the governor; the made no demands on his brain, nnd "'.hat's this. Captain Earraday? Yes, 4'o you speak of being chased? I had Thetis frigate sailed for home with by currying one of ids precious borthought we were at peace with the dispatches a week ago. But I will rowed books always with him, he did world." send express to Boston, where Com not stagnate, though at the time he sllken-wrappe- d RIp-TOp- 1 Rip-Ra- p p - y Rip-Rap- d most as If he sought to peer beyond the future. "No yes I do not know." lie broke off abruptly. Peter, I am glad you are here, he added. Ja, said Peter vacantly. Y'ou have not looked at your letters yet, I reminded him. "I have no occasion to, he retorted. There is that which but the street Is no place for such conversation. Come home, my boy ; come home." Darby McGravv met us at the door, and from his. wild gaze I knew him to lie half expecting to see the pirates irut-foat our heels. Have you performed your tasks, Darby? questioned my father. Yes, master. Be off with you, then. I wish not to be disturbed. See can you find us late news of the pirates, Darby, I added as he slipped by. He answered me with a merry scpwl, but my father- - spun on- his heel. What mean you by that, Robert? says 'he. I was nonplussed. "Why, naught, sir. Darby Is daft on pirates. He Ieter Corlaer shut the room-doo- r upon the Irish boy and came toward us, moving with the swift stealth that was one of his most astonishing char- acteristics. Ja, he does not know, he said. What? challenged my father. What you andt I know, returned the Dutchman calmly. So you know, too, Peter? Ja. I could restrain my impatience no longer. What is this mystery? I demandI thought I knew all the secrets ed. of the business; but sure, father, I never thought to hear that we were concerned as a firm with pirates!" We are not, my father answered This Is a matter of which curtly. you know nothing, Robert, because until now there has been no occasion for you to know of it. lie hesitated. Peter," he went on, the hoy? He Is not a hoy ; be is must we tell a man, said Peter. I flashed my gratitude to the fat Dutchman In a smile, but he paid no attention. My father, too, seemed to forget, me. He strode op and down the counting room, hands under tlie skirts of his coat, head bowed In thought. Tags of phrases escaped his lips: I had thought him dead strange If he bobs up again here is a problem I had never thought to face mayhap I exaggerate It cannot have significance for us Certes, is must be accident "Neen, lie conies for a pufpose, in- terrupted Ieter. My father stayed his walk in front of Peter by the fireplace, wherein wean the far savages from us I You have told me of him yourself, as hath Master Colden. Twus he whom you and Ci rlaer and the Iroquois fought "hen you broke down the barriers of tlie Doom trail and won back the fur trade to our people. Why, twas then you you I knew the deep feeling my fattier still had for my long-deamother, and I scrupled to stir ills memories. He himself took tlie words from my lips. Yes, 'twas then I came to love your She she was not such as mother. you would expect to find allied by any ties with so great a scoundrel. But she was past doubt, Robert She was a Kerr of Eernieside; her mother had been Murrays sister. Kerr and Murray were out together in tlie 15 ; Kerr fell at Sheriffmulr. His widow died not long afterward, and Murray took poor waif Marjory. He did well by her theres no denying that. But he always intended to use her to turther his own designs, lie had a cold eye for the future, with no thought except of his own advanBut theres no need tage, and if I ttr "gar Into that. You know, Robert, how Corlaer and the Seneca chief, Tawannears he who Is now the Guardian of the Western Door of the Long House nnd I were able to smash the vast power Murray had built up on tlie frontier. We smashed him so utterly, discrediting him too, withal, that he was obliged to flee the province; and even his friends, the French, would have I none of him at least, aboveboard. have always fancied he still served their interests at large; for he is at bottom a most fanatical Jacobite, and eke sincere In. a queer, twisted way. Aye, there Is that about him which to understand, Robert. Is difficult Himself, lie hath no hesitation in be- llevlng he serves high purposes of state in all he does. Only a madman could Icy claim to serving the state as a pirate, I objected. You speak with overconfidence, rebuked my father There are men ali.ve today who can remember when Morgan and Davis and Dumpier and many' another brave fellow of the same kidney lived by piracy and served the king at one and the same time. Some of em were hung in the It end, and Morgan died a knight. can be done. IIow? Consider, my boy! Murray your great-unclmind you! is a Jacobite. For our present government he hath only hatred and contempt. Any means by which that government was undermined would seem to him justifiable as aiding to bring about its downfall. Look to the fantastic humor of the man in naming his ship the Royal James ! If he be, indeed, the man you think he is, I returned, none too well pleased with the thought of having a My father pirate for a great-finllaughed kindly and tapped me on tlie knee with his free hand. I know how you feel, dear lad, he said. Twas so Identically your mother talked. I.iess her heart.! We were fresh married when the precious rascal sent us by one of his tarry-lireethat necklace which lies now in my strong box the loot of some Indian queen mayhap. In his way he cared for her, and lie took much interest in all she did. By hook or crook he had word of us, however far lie wandered. lie knew when you were born. He knew when she died. And now that you have readied manhood he shows his sails outside Sandy hook. I do not know what it meatfs, Robert, but I like it not! I like It il his-juu- cft ! ! Genius Not Overcome by Distasteful Toil p ruddy-cheeke- salt-staine- d d Old Legend of London London was founded, according to an old legend, by Brutas, grandson of Aeneas, who led to England a band of refugees from Troy after its capture oy the Greeks and called the settlement New Troy. MITCHELL EYE SALVE heals Inflamed eyes, granulated lids. Styes, etc. Sure. Sate. Speedy. 25c at Hall & Ruckel, N. Y.C, d blazed a heap of elm logs. Who do you fancy this Captain to he. Peter? Speak up! You Rip-Ra"ere right when' you said Robert is no longer a boy.' If there is danger here, lie deserves to know of it. lie is Murray, replied Corlaer, ids squeaking voice an incongruous contrast with his immnse bulk. Andrew Murray! mused my fattier. Aye, twould be he. I have it all these years held it But I made sure when for certainty. lie failed to show himself after the last war that Proxidence had attended to him. It seems I wns wrong. Whoever be is, this pirate can do no barm to us in New York, I made bold to sny. . . not Be not too sure, Robert, adjured But we are not at sea, I protested lie happens to' be your We are In New York. There are my father. great-unclsoldiers in Fort George. Commodore He readied up to the rack over tlie Burrage will be down from Boston fireplace nnd selected a long clay anon. What can a pirate ship, what pipe, which- he stuffed with tobacco can two pirate ships, effect against tlie while I was recovering from my us? Wliy, tlie city train bands astonishment. Tis not force I dread, my father Your uncle? I gasped then. cut me off. Tis the infernal cleverNo; your mothers. ness of a warped mind. But he was the great trader who "Ja, agreed Peter. conductd the contraband trade with My father thrust the stem of his I have heard of I cried. Canada pipe toward him. him. . Twjoa he established the Doom You feel It, too, old friend?" he trail to enable him to supply the cried then. French fur traders with goods to "If Murray Is here be means no the Dutchman answered pongoodt, No pirates come nort in derously. iler eoldt weather for Just fun. Here is too much danger; no Neen! places to run andt hide." At the least we are on the alert, thought lie did nnd was terribly un- I said. happy. Yet, rather than go back to My father laughed, and Corlaers Cheshire, lie clung to the faefory work ridiculous, simpering giggle echoed for nearly two years. Lis mother, his grim mirth. "ntehing him start off each morning "An Intelligent foe discounts so tilong tlie lone'y and precipitous path- much upon launching his venture, my way that led the two miles from the father answered. Let us hope we farm to the factory, yearned over him. have a modicum of luck to aid us. wondered at his gentle, obstinacy, worWhatever plan Murray hath in trend ried over him but never, evidently, 'twill come to us unexpected and lost her faith or understanding. adroit in execution. But tush ! There's the dinner bell. A truce to p os YOUR EYES Meet John Silver in the next installment. j t How He Did Them bachelor who employed a housekeeper came chuckling into his An old favorite Inn. Whats up wi ye, Tom? asked several members of the company. Tom pulled his face straight. Well," he said, Ive been fairly bothered lately wi them Insurance chaps-abou- t Insuring my housekeeper, but Ive done em now. What bust done? eagerly inquired the company. Ive wed her, replied Tofti. Weekly Scotsman. 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