| Show i rr FD DICK I 1 C RODNEY R 0 9 I 1 I 1 C 4 n or the adventures e 5 of a I 1 i s I 1 OR E an eton boy I 1 op S DY janne ORANT t CHAPTER this feat I 1 achieved with consider able peril tor for the bird birds when roused from their beyries whooped u and wheeled in flock flocks and tend circle circles about are flapping gapping the that huge wings wingo wl ngo 90 that once I 1 became eo so bewildered that instead ot of clam cumbering berin I 1 again sigala to the th summit ot of the cliff I 1 began a descent toward the foaming sea ea below in rease ending my hat bat wa was blown away and sith ath I 1 it t the wretched egr eggs for which I 1 bad had risked my life and limbs atter after thi this tent event I 1 resolved to procure food for myself alone and instead ot of returning to antonio who usually loitered about the hut our men bad left I 1 went to the op ito tide bide of at the island land and found a baanna grove wherein I 1 took up my quarters I 1 had been thirty elx all hours without seeing my pleasant chum the cubano ir or being nir near him with food I 1 knew bit hat bis his rat would be great gal feeling myself unusually weak otter titter all lie mental excitement and bodily ex I 1 had undergone one necessity compelled me now to avoid him str betly is s I 1 was totally incapable of contend ing with him in any say ay if it he be found me to plead that I 1 h bad ad N hen searching for berries about aurl rl un QU the wet alfi a e da ot of tho isle and while hile the iun sun though up was yet below the great mountain and cast its shadow to the extreme horizon of the haby baby morning sea I 1 encountered antonio at last hunger apparently had rendered lim furlou furious but feeling certain in a moment that timidity would doine do me no benrice service I 1 started back and hid bill in h 1 11 ll hal l hat I 1 told you what would h happen appen when I 1 wanted food aid said he be feeling the point of bis his knife my blood ran cold at these word words an and d I 1 cast a longing eye upon my lost ba hatchet he saw aw the glance and trampled upon the weapon with a mocking laugh ahat do you mean Cu curatio batio I 1 asked in an almost breathless voice simply this that as a elf self preservation Is the tint first law of nature I 1 am bound to kill you he ile ba bal I 1 thi the reN revolver olver in bis his hand and while be he cast a glance at ue we cars on the breach is as it if to fee see that they ere all right and sheathed his knife I 1 made a bound aside ind i nd placed a banana tree beaw ca cm u the dastard bred fired and the ball as it whistled past stripped on a ilece niece of bark la ta the its ame came macner marner I 1 escaped a see eec oad hot so antonio finding that hia much prized ammunition was as likely to i be ear expanded fruitlessly rushed forward to use his knife the tendril of a pumpkin his left foot he fell heavily and hurt h him I 1 m self severely then darting past I 1 secured my hatchet and rendered furious by all that had occurred and by the imminent danger which benac el me a light seemed to flash before my toy eyes I 1 trembled with rage and fel felt t as if imbued bilth lan supernatural a strength I 1 was about to spring upon angolo with hands feet and teeth to hew bew him with the hatchet as I 1 would bare have brwn a tree wafa a new object suddenly caught my eye I 1 it was a hip ship but a ship ashore cubano I 1 exclaimed in a husky rolce voice look there antonio looked in the direction indicated and pausing in his murde murderous rou intention uttered a fierce laugh of eat in the rocky channel which opened between tb the inaccessible island and ours there lay the wave beaten hull bull of a dismasted vessel will 7 might have drifted in over night as it was certainly not there yesterday and it was now jammed bard hard and fast upon a reef reet of rock that connected them this new object changed at once the terrible current of the cuban cubans ideas A grim smile passed over his olho alho countenance he be shook back the aike i masses of coal black hair which 11 in skye terrier fashion ash lon overhung his wild dark tad sheathing his knife said mio mu chacho come I 1 wa was only joki r g 1 lender onder I we will and food per haps and ho knows what ha mori mor I come it Is a bargain add iid if you don t desert me I 1 shall cot not molest you again gain 16 il proceeded cled at once to toward ward the beach and I 1 va as hungry enough and perhaps reckless enough now to be glad of a truce and to follow him in the hope of finding something eatable on ion board clupter the 11 e ward ard voyage my illy heart beat happily I 1 was no longer it ion lonely ely maroon but on the hl high gh road to home and old england we ere rescued by a ship hailed balled by hislop and the others we had leveral several days of the finest tropical weather eather and they passed un marked by a greater incident thau seeing a shoal of dolphins sparkling as they surged through the brine the silvery flying fish ap from one green watery slope to another while the dark crooked fin of the stealthy shark glided d as usual in the trough of 0 HIP the sea between a piece of weedy driftwood with mother father cary a chickens or albat rossee floating near it or perhaps at the horizon the topsails of a vessel hull bull down appearing for a tine time like white or dusky specks according to the position of the sun the captain of the san ildefonso perceiving hat that marc hislop and I 1 were great friend kindly placed us in the same catli As for antonio the cubano we never went near him it we could help it IL he ile was placed in the cable tier and for more complete coni pete security in la the bit 1 boes oes which tre are iron shackles that confine the feet Ifo however weTer we w dally heard from the surgeon and from fra ancelmo Ana AZ elmo seImO who WM wre skilled in surgery Tir sery and wh undertook big hi care bodily and mentally tally mat the under the right armpit had proved light slight through the lung lungs had bid escaped narrowly but that the other I in ii i ill breast had bad penetrated the fleshy pur pr tion of the heart and was a very dangerous one the friar added that the cubano waa was not one of thoe those men who are emily easily killed and thua thus he would recover rapidly V N a e also heard that antonio wa was well cared for ai as he bad had discovered one or two friend friends among the crew uch such aa as the seaman benito ojeda a mot most vii looking beetle and squat little catalonian Catal onlan who seemed to be the wont worst character on board and wa was engaged in perpetual quarrel quarrels A few daya days after crossing the tropic of cancer on a lovely afternoon we again gain a saw the peak of teneriffe 11 lighted up by the western sunshine and rising like a cone cons of at red flame from the blue tolue tea ea th the clouds seemed to rise with I 1 t a and lid ere long we saw its base spreading out beneath them Tenny renny reet reef aga n ill I 1 I 1 heard old tom I 1 albourne Tam am bourne routt mut erlD terill as he leaned over the lee bow with a short pipe in hie his mouth I 1 dash my wig I 1 I 1 hive have had a spell enough of Tenny reet reef before this thief manuel gautier and III lop nw row caw with a party or of L to get the in a achors off the forecastle to her bows this was as no light task the reader may be assured for they were each about forty five hundred weight and now dow the ponderosa ponde rouA cables rattled along the deck aa as they were bent to the iron rings we ne approached this singular island from a point that was cew raw to me bi but it still its great groat and most familiar features ere the same as when I 1 first law them from the deck of the eugenie estremera now reminded us that when at generl teneriffe afe we e should not fall to visit the two great sights rights of the island the valley of the diamond and the old dragon tree of caora the wind was fresh and fair but felt light after sunset and when the high land of the grand canary was on our starboard beam it almost died away As we crept on we tw the lighthouse at the lite 1 ue ot df la montana relo which in the warm sunset seem cd ed to have turned into blood or port wine so deeply crimson was the glow that lingered on the clouds and on the shore and then the vast peak save where girdled in midair by a light floating vapor seemed all of a deep violet tint dotted at its base by the white walls of bouses houses or of sugar mills and by groves of cocoa and rosewood trece daran ts was noon soon there but till still the sunset in rays ot of fire upon the mighty peak of adam on which the eye never tired of gazing by midnight we were abreast of it and all was darkness at last save where r a the millions mi III ons of stars stare were sparkling in the wide blue bli dome of the sky and I 1 were in the morning watch sateh when the ship arrived off the mouth of the harbor of santa cru that pretty town which humboldt termed the most beautiful between spain and the indies A flash flub that broke the darkness with a light puff of smoke floating away from the old castle walls indicated the morning gun and that dawn vias visible it A as it if it were but yesterday when the eugenie and the costa rican brig had worked out of the same harbor together in the same species of dull tw twilight flight and that all which had bad passed since that time had been a dream N a beat in with the breeze ahead the light of another day was rapidly descending from the summit of the peak and already that green girdle named the region of at laurels vas shining in the sunbeam so ere long we taw saw the windows of the custom house which w stands above the long mole and a ad all the lattices of je be terraced streets of santa cruz g in gold and purple sheen the anchors were ready to be let go 0 o the chain cables were ranged upon deck in long colis cols that ran fore and aft we tacked repeatedly and each time the tacks became shorter and more frequent ready about presto prestol 1 down with the helm let fly the head bead sheet sheets were the orders heard incessantly from estremera and manuel gautier the yards slewed around sharply and the canvas flap M with a sound like the cracking of musketry mut inus ketry at last the anchor was let go about abut a half mile from the shore in thirty fath fathoms ms of water and the ship swung round head to wind as her ber courses were braller up tip and the men buirley aloft to hand baud the topsail topsails and topgallant alli smile so she was as soon denuded of her canvas when ai hen the anchor plunged into the frothy water making a thousand concentric ripples run from the ship and when I 1 felt by the instant strain upon the cable that she had firm hold bold of ife ground my heart swelled with unalloyed happiness happl tor for to be in teneriffe was to be far on the watery high road to my home santa cruz being the capital of these isles Is the residence of the captain general of the canaries the seat of tie tle supreme court of law and of at all the consuls and commissaries of foreign power powers whose various flags when displayed upon their houses make the handsome streets as gay in aspect as an the harbor which Is in always crowded by the shipping of eiery nation A custom bouse house boat with the spen leh ith ona ns agn floating at the came promptly off with an official a dandier dandled creole in uniform with a sombrero on his curly bead a saber at his 2112 side bide ADA a cigar in bis his mouth to ira LIM capt extremera made a full report ot of the mutiny which haa broken out la in 0 W big ship i tf if the th african eok aou and the th tern stern node ot of its lt 1 hence in two hour hours atter we geog 3 the satisfaction of seeing antonio antonto i Cu cubano batio benito the old tin tindal dalIg ol aft lascari lascars La scars stars and other bucall taken off to the tb castle cattle ot of santa arut I 1 a large open boat guarded by twelve tin spanish soldiers eold lers in charge ol 01 a ek icib tenant don dou lull Pl pineda neola I 1 can till still recall the glance stance of at ink potent and baffled malignity that aa alk tonio tonto bestowed bei towed on ui us ai AS be vent went dow doi the side it combined all the th wont worst emotions emot loni of hia his angry bear tad mOme somewhat what cled led me of his hi face fac la in that terrible moment when whelk he at the end of the studding sill boom with despair in hia lite clutch aud death in hia big heart we iva watched the boat till it reached the ion sto atone ile mole mote and then we UK saw the fixed bayonito of the escort flub ing aa as the whole party ascended aacen ded the th great stair toward the custom hout house and surrounded aur rounded by a mob ot at those ua idlers who usually make a their lounge disappear dia appear in fn the Int interino In terio ertol of the town ai as they mircha toward the castle T two wo episodes epi iodea moe mos will close th the atory story ot at antonio hia his trib i and punish ment the laet last of antonio el 1 cubano the trial came on in a conlu ot of dayi days after and proceeded d with a celerity unk tow in england or scotland either ue c were all examined and previously were sworn not on a dible bible but over two award blades held in the th form at of a cross for such la Is the old chivalric custom in a evanish court coull ct cf law without hesitation the judges found antonio dulity he as sentenced ced to die dle by the garotte barotte ga rotte and heard his docia with apparent apathy II 11 the tindal of the lascar was re leased as an it would appear that he had ile acted ted under compulsion but benito and eight other spanish sea men were sentenced to work in the th fortifications or on the highways for ten years in chain chains as felons or gal gat ley leir slaves A few days later we found a great crowd of colonists citizens mulattoes creoles and negroes all in motley and gaudily striped linen jackets and trousers assembled in the plaza where a aur guard rd of spanish infantry with ath muskets shouldered and bayonet bayonets fixed flied kept back the people in the form of at a hollow square about a raised wooden platform which vias as covered with black cloth and whereon was placed the garotte barotte what Is all this about we asked it Is tor for the execution of at antonio a cuban pirate who Is to dio ollo by the garotte barotte ga rotte replied a soldier to be continued |
