Show I 1 N 7 wf X 1 I T a 4 C Q 1 F dick RODNEY 1 ll 11 or the adventures of i I 1 an eton boy d I 1 klai I 1 t ale jn caran OR A NT r taC CHAPTER continued the poor lad li Is dying from lack of a doctor laid said old toni who knelt beide kids 1111 slop handelt lt lu ills lil wound wounds with th the tenderness of a woman and if the whole british nay navy hove have in sight we a rag of hinting to ake shake out as a a signal inre since that rai focally pira plen roon the cubano ha has rait cast emy every color and signal overboard M well tom be he ban than it die thi this bout said ned cartton carlton buix fully let us u tie tin tip up his bl wound wounds as a left beat we ran can to belay the bleeding and etive ire him some think ai as a reler reviver if its a ble hta his old mother in scotland dont ae see all thin this added rough tom JAm 1 m bourne boil rut with a tear in to big eye marc hislop la Is ber her only lup and a sister a too I 1 I 1 now DOW with compunction bow often hi his theories the orica and pedantry had bored bared me and I 1 resolved to bo be unremitting in my rare care of him the T il a united untied medical skill of thoice honest souls our crew A as very small however the wound wounds were carefully in clean water their brat best were torn into bandages banda Kea or fold ed into pada pads to atop stop tl it a e I 1 leeding and in this they were quite successful A beaker of new england rum was hoisted out of the forr hold ard at 4 if its head aaa sis instantly started the 11 liquor aur al waa was very redolent of treacle but a 9 ut of II 11 stilted with water the readied I 1 stimulant lant that occurred to the minda minds of the seamen wai was poured be treen oreen the parched lips of the sufferer uffer er who at lat last slept in the pleasant at formed by the awning which haded shaded him from the fierce cun tun and nd in the breeze that whittled whistled put past the bow bows aa as the eugenic eugenie till still bore on her new course close hauled with all her fore anil and aft calivag let set and the white glittering pray spray flying over her cat beads riad ud dolphin striker the terrible cubano still kept po poo ie sess eilor for of the cabin HIS two six bar meled revolvers revo lvere gave him twelve shots and wo we were but nine in to all au aig the captain roberts no berte and white had already perished by bli his band hand and hyslop to all appearance appearances vias a dy inc 1119 thus antonio kept ui us all in subjection by his hi weapons just so a half hall a it doxen dozen well armed soldiers may con troll a mob of thousands so pared passed the night the crew group ed forward full of schemes for ance and be he aft full of triumph ferocity and cognac neu nett ne u morning I 1 was on the quarter deck and when day broke I 1 became aware by a splashing bound sound astern that we were towing something in the dead water of the briga brigs wake on looking over the taff trall rall what were my emotions on beholding the body of my kind friend our good and hospi table captain towed by the neck at the end of a line around the poor corpe corpse which was wag in it its nightdress as the green waves lanced danced merrily in the golden light of the morning thit that was ras now beam ing over the sea ea refreshing the dis tant tent shores and reviving reT iving all but him antonio in the night had cast it from f rom one of the cabin windows on the port i aide side of the rudder case and u 0 that aperture the line to which it was attached wa was now run by the moke smoke of a cigar which as beaded to the tarrah rall at times I 1 die dis covered that the atlo clou cuban as at the open cabin window be tow low me one watching and wilting to see the body devoured by tre charki sharks and I 1 knew that he would shoot all who at tempted to croas cross his purpose or who came within reach of his pistol this prevented any man from lowering himself over the stern either to haul la in the line or cut it adrift demonio Demon fol we heard beard him exclaim when by a audaer lurch ach of the ship the line parted and the poor door corpse went rolling and jurging to leeward there nere he goes and hod ad bless ble h him m 0 hough has be a cut adrift without a prayer or a sailor a winding sheet bald said torn lambourne IAm bourne taking off his bat as the body bobbed like a fish erman B float on the waves for a little trace a and then disappeared in the long white track made by the eugenic eugenie through the dark apple green sn orning aea sea all the stories I 1 bad beard or read of spanish span lab revenge teemed seemed eclipsed by the ta atrocities of thi this fiendish cubano 7 71 I 1 CHAPTER the requital three day days and nights passed with out ou finding linding us able to rdse or dis it ace lite the demon who was in passes slon ton of at me te cabin without our knowing where the ship was driving or drift ing IB to and with wt a sail ball appearing A man of war belL belonging nging to any r country we should have balled an a a protector but on the wide aters of at the southern atlantic hips ships are few re and tar far between hyslop rallied a little aill was as re moved into one of the forecastle berth berths he lie could tell us only bat that he had been surprised when asleep and bad had ben be n itt stabbed abbed again stain and again that be be came insensible and remembered nothing more ills distress dist reee ras as great hea hen we related the etory atory of 0 the captain captains s fate the beath eath of IN III white and that their destroyer di rit strayer was hill till in possession ot at the ship and the arbiter of all our lives he writhed on bis his bed ot of pain rain and sighed bitterly on finding how stiff aud sore ore how weak and alfoot blind be he bad become tt bolts oe of blood but a alls isis was BOX now at hand with our cubano the evening of the fourth day alter we bad saved found the brig still till lyane on a aate csery y course but whether in the latitude of cape san roque or of the 1 to 1 orande we knew not and I 1 suppose it was all the same to antonio I 1 wax at the wheel the sunset wa was torge beautiful 1 1 I he be eugenic eugenie wa was I 1 running with both tacks aft and un 1 lr der the arched leech of her courses I 1 conid could at f the blood red disk of the son sun right ahead settling in the waves which bone abone IQ in all le f 1 of the dalac I 1 dolphin while bile ai itt alnet ltv tk flam dam k v 1 41 i ift L I 1 ing orb the black outline of the th in maata sail the figure hrad head and be the taper end 0 of f the jib boom with if its rap cap guys an and 4 rear star were clearly and deg a t I 1 the wave ahnie rote and fell between me and be the iun sun as lowly slowly and imperceptibly be sank at the elaml flamina horizon a quarter circle to a segment then the be lait last vestige of that alto also disappeared but the lingering raya rays of hid glory played upward on the light cloud claude that floated above cen even they paled way away and died out and twilight stole over the sea ea which hanged changed from front gold to a transparent blue with the increasing twilight fame came a change of wind and before it a great bank of cloud rolled from rum the horizon horl on our starboard bow under ita its saxo ahad d ow the aea sea waa was darkened and ita its broken brokell water flecked with white bite I 1 ahe be new freeze rame first upon our quarter then rapidly if it wax was abeam and three th ree great albatrosses alba were tiers acen seen to whip the sea with their wing va ings while a whole ahral of brown porpoises surged pait past our tow bows plunging joyously Jo from wave to wave tucks and b area aces were instantly canneil and the all lo 10 were trimmed anew tor for our desultory course sail S a 11 ho to windward said one of the crew rew in a low but excited voice leit the aund sound might reach the cabin and aa as the dense bank of purple cloud clouds oronea a large bark came out of it and her form more and more defined aa as ehe she left the vapor astern she waa was going free that li Is with lier her brad bead further off the wind than close haule dand and had a press of snowwhite snow enow white canvas which hone shone in the last light of 0 the west she ti Is four miles off aid said carlton I 1 we clet signal her added iam I am bourne rn e with th wh bhatt it asked carlton it la the same a h irv but low voice every col eel or ti to overboard 11 anything will do doa IL blue shirt at the foremast head bead the ekr stir will be quite dark in ten tell minute minutes run it up la in a ball with a lipping slipping loop roan man a war fashion aid said lambourne in a loud whisper get ready a ship alpa a lantern some of you for the night darken darkens so 0 o fast that we hall shall scare scarcely ely be visible when she he ie Is abeam of ui us ned get ret into the fore channel and wave aye the light a as a signal that we want a tort rhese orders were rapidly obeyed 1 and preparation made to throw the I 1 trig rig in the wind N fills one man cattily hastily got the lantern from a little round bouse house la in which certain stores tore and toola tools aare ere kept on deck ned carlton pulled off hit his shirt and was in the act of hading it to the ignal signal bat yards when ben the spaniard whose quick cas detected some commotion sprang oa deck armed as usual on seeing carlton bury busy with the halard bards he looked round caught sight of 0 the ship which was running with the we white foam boiling under her forefoot and thus in a moment divined wl blat at we were about a terrible imprecation in spanish be he fired at carlton but missed him as before nod find shot dead a poor apprentice who was close by thunder flah and blood cant can t bear this shouted tom lambourne whose fury was boundless and who snatched up tip a capstan bar bear down on him all hands there Is neither sea law oo 00 land law can help us here snatching whatever came nearest to band hand we e all rushed upon the cubano ako ito stood boldly at bay and keeping the binnacle between us and him fired over it fire five or six all shots from bis his re volver with terrible rapidity but so unsteady bad had his hand become in consequence ee of his free potations below that every bullet missed though one cut the knuckles of tom lambourne a light tight hand and another tore away the rim ot of my straw hat he lie drew a second revolver from his sali ga 11 but lambourne Iam bourne by one lucky blow with the capstan bar knocked it out of his hand it went twenty feet into the air and fell overboard quick as lightning antonio the other in his breast drew his knife and darting ns us like rn an el eel gave carlton a gash la in the thigh as be he pasted passed lie ile then made for the main rigging and sprang on the bulwark no doubt with the intention of running up aloft to some secure perch where be might reload his remaining pistol ani hoot shoot us all down at leisure but bj ba missed his hoj bola of 0 the rattling llna lins and fell oer oler bard there was a shout of joy the sea III rob the tal lows 0 of its I 1 due ead sald carlton but he be I 1 be sharks a meat anyway I 1 but antonio as not gone gon yet for in falling he caught one of the lower studding sall loom and clutched lut ched ebed it ith till deadly tenacity tena cit for he knew that I 1 if once he be as fairly launched la into the ocean his fate would oil be sealed settled ills face was pale vale with combined fear foar ian and d fury his black eyes blazed with i be the fire lire of hatred bt perspiration I 1 ooze oozed d in III drops from his temples tom torn lambourne Lambo prang sprang forward for Nard tn in beat off his auger angers but at that moment the boom a slender par broke from train its lashings alongside and swung out at a right ancle angle from the brig with the wretch at the extreme end of it dangling 01 over cr the waves like a herple he at the point 0 of a ramrod again and again be he writhed bis his body upward in lid ild struggles to get astride the boom or to reach it with hi his knees but in ain vain instead of exciting pity his terrible situation drew forth a shout of derision mingled with expressions of hatred and satisfaction from oi of arengi cg fact that surveyed urve him over the bulwark he lie hung thus for fully fire rul for he wai was a power lu ful na of great ret strength muscle and bulk I 1 have DO no doubt this man MAIM was as at brave as it if IP do gible for a rudan to be but the prospect of an immediate death deatha a death too from which there A AS no DO escal c hilp I 1 4 W 11 1 r 1 1 ill ills biance of hate fiats ton am ui us turned to one of wild and earnest entreaty mercy itt 10 the th same and for the tb lore love ot of the almighty ha h ex er claimed in Span lih in a tone tons of intense but he waa was beard heard by ui a with fierce derision der lilon la to that moment of juit just tr and too long delayed vengeance anc twice the gave a lee larch lurch and each time the fret feet and knee knees of the wretched cubino cubano were immersed in the wavea waves beneath him wai wat the abyss of water that rushed put plot the ilde side of the brig lie baited rather than breathed brea theil and ulra the iluk dusk we could cee see how bow his abbing hand hands turned white ai As hill face and that the points of 0 ate la anders were blood red 1 his eyes grew raw wild and bagford ai as terror chilled his cow rd beart and agonized aro otiel his kiil soul and yet through the tb surge the flet craft fiew ant every moment increased the eight of bla big body and the we akness of his band bands and wrists at lat last it AS evident that hia his power era of endurance could be no loncer longer axed taxed be uttered a halt mothered shriek and closed hit his ees aa as be he clung to that lender slender pr spar and it swayed to and fro bile the cloe close hauled brig flew ont ant the iron hook in the he bulwark on which the studding atud ding sail loom ae hung gave say ay anler the double wet weight g ht of the par spar and of hie his body there was wa a thrift cry of despair depa lr like the parting shriek ik of an evil spirit or the skirl of the he guity gusty blast ai as the boom wom and the retch who clung to it in blind desperation ampf vanished ran libed into the black trough of the aa and like a cork or a it reed ere swept amid the salt foam to leeward the IKu eugenic Kenle roee rose like a duck upon the water and na as if it freed at that moment from a load of 0 arme seemed to fly forward with increased peed speed night sow and the on ship which we loil LJ first 1 in cn upon 0 ir or weather eather bow vas ae a mile astern and to leebird lee of ue us to be continued |