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Show J k I i si The Two Captains moment Crystal drove his through bis shipmate's heart. The Last Pope lay dead on hla back. upon his heart gaped, and By W. CLARK RUSSELL. with blood, and blood lay cabin carpet close beside him With her left arm thrown over Copyright UW7. by Dodd. Meed A Co Copyrffht. Wfl. br P P. Collier his neck, and her black hair mingling with the dead man's, lay Laura CrysCHAPTER XXII. Continued. wheel, ,o stepping that the creak of tal in a swoon. Crystal had turned of "Oh.-m- y heartd delight, you will be his boot should cot penetrate the a greenish waxen complexion, and my wife! said Pope, taking her hand, plank. He exchanged a sentence with his face was terrifying with the griand as she did not withdraw It, to- the helsman, who proved to be one maces which worked in it rfI had rather gether they walked the dark deck of the men of the Thetis. anything than this. He In a few minutes two of the seamen forced it with locked fingers upon me. He should have On a sudden it began to rain in very rose through the companion way, surrendered. he said, trembling and fine drops. The deep shadow of the silent as ghosts, bearing the arms shuddering, and looking at the body wet sank Into the night, and the sea chest between them. They were fol and then at the blade of bis cutlass, grew so vague and phantasmal you lowed by a third man, who at once slightly streaked with the heart-bloonot known' would whether the closed and secured the companion of his have . brig floated in air or upon water but door. By the faint sheen in the sky Pick the lady up, and put her Into for the fire that curled in the ripple at light. Crystal and the three men arm her cabin. says lie, and then: Pull the bow, and the soft sob and harsh ed themselves with cutlasses and that body into its cabin out of my gurgle under the counter. Captain pistols. These latter weapons were Sight. Pope, calling to Grindal to keep a kept loaded, and needed but the primThis was done, and the rugged man, bright lookout, conducted Miss Crys- ing Crystal put a second pistol into always grasping his cutlass, ran on tal below. his breast. deck, and the others followed him, Send the others aft says he, in after stopping, each man, a minute, to Shortly after they had bade each other good night, Pope went on deck a hoarse, tremulous voice drink from the rum bottle on the to take a last look round, and smoke The three men went forward, and, a piece of cigar, before turning in for like shadow's shaping themselves out swing tray. went to the Crstal a few hours. A fine rain continued of the five more seamen here two armed men weremainhatch; on guard. and to fall. He called Grindal to him, gathered about the arms-ches- t Ik all quiet below?" said he. While and they stood together under the lee swiftly armed themselves "Theres been some hammering. of a quarter-boat- , which in some they were doing this, Crystal softly They're quiet now. measure sheltered them. closed the skylight. Keep a sharp eye for your lives vioI dont think," said the boatswain, Now, says he. speaking in a man who atsake, and cut down after a few sentences had passed be- lent whisper, in the manner of one tempts to break out,"anycalled Crystal. to I or death tween the two men, that shall find whose hurry means life Crystals voice expressed him as It as hard a job as I reckoned It was him. Two of you spring forward to filled with horror and deeply agitated. going to prove. I mean the carrying close the forescuttle. On with the In truth be had never reckoned upon mainhatch-coversout of your scheme. I was killing Pope. The scheme for his some of the men this evening. They rushed forward ; the com- friend was his friend's scheme for Two WellT of execution. were mands easy him. Pope was to have been sent Well, continued the boatswain, It covers sufficed to close down the hold adrift empty handed with a number aeems to me they're gallus afeared of that little brig. One, to shelter the of the pirates whose services Crystal als tween-deckwas one from the rain, and all, and 'ud be of their necks, did not require. But the willing to dlsparse In furren parts, ready on ; the other lay atop of It. In buccaneer, unsuspicious of Pope's every man with his share. A slavin an Instant this was fitted in the coamhad been a little too soon treachery, voyage, with plenty of money for ings, the strong Iron bar was run for him with his own desperate dewages, was to tflelr liking. through the staples, and the men be- sign, and Pope lay murdered on bis cabin floor, regardless now of booty and of love; and sixteen or seventeen men lay roasting like battened-dowslaves in the tirig's heart. Crjstal walked right aft to the wheel, and looked into the compass bowl. The quaint old Illuminated disk showed a true course for Kingston. Jamaica; tins course was not to be changed. He spol.e to the man at the helm, and told him that Captain Pope was dead, killed by his hand, by the iiand of his Irieml. and he bemoaned it, and ins voice was broken by one sir two dry sobs. He would have killed you sir, said the helmsman. When dawn broke it had ceased to The wind rain for nearly an hour. was gone, but when the melancholy gray rolled sraokelike out of the east over the sea, it disclosed a number of broken clouds In the northwest, wTA the orange brightness of the young morn reflected betwixt the edges of the vapor, and from that quarter they might expect the wind. Crystal was now In command, and Drov hit cutlaaa through hit shipmates heart. on him the airs of the commander Findlow were Imprisoned as securely as sat in formidable and savage aspect. Pope listened breathlessly. He ordered two of the carronades to ing that Grindal paused, he said, though they had been locked up In lie loaded grape and canister; was even forescuttle "Well? again, and Grindal replied: The Newgate. Well, 1 could see by the men grow- an easier Job; the two men had noth- these pieces of artillery were then run to the mainhatch. The half cover of ing thoughtful that It was an Idea to ing to do but pull the cover over and and Instantly was hatch the lifted, a look em close to bolt make and the doors. em; and then, See if there Is any but ourselves on when this was done the muzzles of little more deep Into my meaning, I tarned to and spun em a yarn of a deck, shouted Crystal, and three or the guns were depressed. No sooner had the light of day ships company aboard a pirate. There four of them started on a hunt fallen through the opening of the was a big treasure in the vessel, says through the deep shadow. Just then they heard a loud knock hatch, than half a dozen men came I. the plunder of some eight or ten ami stood limb r. looking up One of rich craft, and every mans share was lng on the companion door. the could also hear some men dimly shout the men was Grindal He caught What did they do? andsome? says There went forty to that crew, lng under the mainliatcli, followed in caught sight of Civstal, and surg up: What have you shut us men down and twenty of em. headed by the several blows, dea't tnaybe. with a for? here I one black I, hatidspike. ups bosun, says, says Ills t.iie ran with sweat, and his Guard this hatch' shouted Crvs night, secures Cottiers under hatches, seizes the ship by blowing out the tal. reckless of his voire now that the repulsive counti r.ar.i e was unusually brains of the capen and his mat, and brig was his. And followed by two huh mis and ..loUe-n with the helpless of Ins wicked soul. wrath ami then, next day, they turns Hie men men, he rushed aft. 'Your captains dead and the ship's The knocking was furious Drawdrift in a couple of boats, and makes Be you as off. each man by so doing a ristn of ing Ills cutlass, Crystal opened one ol mine, answered Crystal Ills share two or three,-- times more the doors and Popes figure showed, lambs, or we'll save ourselves some outlined against the faint trouble of mercy by firing into you. firmly than it was afore illumination shed by the cabln-lainp- . Good! says Pope. Crystal now marched on to the foreWhat in hell's this? Pope roared castle with two ot his men, leaving "Of course it was a fired lie from He held a pistol and took two steps, the mainhatch well guarded and beginning to end, says Grindal, But thrusting with his shoulder in his fury everything ready for a deadly belch out of your schema. intheres nothing like taming an idea to break through. With beast-likof cannon, should the men below Into a story to make yourself under- humanity Crystal struck Popes hand prove troublesome He opened the stood by men with intellects like a terrible blow with the flat of his scuttle and called up Pope's servant, thelrn. cutlass; the pistol that was cocked, who Immediately appeared blinking at The fine rain continued to fall. The exploded us It leaped down the compa- the strong light. weather promised a long, black, wet nion-steps. exclaimed Crsytal. "I Thomas, Oh, God! cried Pope night. Nearly all hands were In the am the commander of this brig, and tween-deckAfter The brig's ours! Surrender, Pope, the bulk of the crew are under shelter. under bolding Grindal In conversation be- or you are a dead man! thundered hatches Turn-tnow and light the ing posted abreast of the mainmast, Crystal. galley fire, and get breakfast for me so that the man at the helm could not In silence Pope turned and sprang and the lady and my men. And when said what wt Pope into the cabin, and rushed into his youve dressed a meal and served possibly hear it, went below. It was about eleven berth, followed by Crystal and two turn-tand stitch Captain Popes was dimly men. Swift as Crystal was. Pope was The cabin-lamoclock. body up in a hammock, and mind ye burning. He leaned upon the table nimbler still, his agility was that of put two round shot in the clews at the lor a minute or so. lost In reflection. A tne hare; before Crystal had reached feet. But before you stitch him up feeling of uneasiness possessed him. the others cabin, the gallant Irish I want no sight of him overhaul his Had he been wise In taking Grindal villain had seized his sword hanging Now do you understand into his confidence? But the thing beside his bunk, had rounded, and was pockets. me? one was but and there had to be done, fighting a figure terrible with rage, The man answered Yes. He was road to it; and after drinking a tum- pain, hate. a fellow, and perceived bler of brandy and water, he went to Is this how you reward me, you that he was in luck as compared to bed. villain! was all he bloody and most of the rest, and went away to At midnight Grindal went below the blades clashed in horrid said, music to and called Crystal, who Immediately the shrieks of Laura, who was now the galley on swift legs, to make the best of his good fortune. turned out. It was still black as thun- standing In her cabin door. "You can come up. shouted Crystal der and raining. The are under hatches! the scuttle. Into people The change of watches had created the mine! surrender! it must Three figures arrived emerging aa the usual confusion In the tween-deck- comebrig's to it, for we are ten resolved though they were blind; one was the Half, turned out, and half men! Crystal panted, as Pope, with gunner, the second the carpenter, the turned In, and the baby cried dismally, and lightning-likthird the cook. They began to ask awakened by the noise, but was pres- desperate lunge drove the flourish, fiend questions; buccaneering no they cursed and they unfriendly hand. Into the ently silenced by cabin. Here they had space; swore and for answer they were Crystal hailed the tops, and found and now. being able to see each thrust forward with a flourish of cutthem untenanted. The men at eight lass and a more evil menace of pisbells had come down, and the mate other's face, each fought to kill screamed tol, and driven by Crystal, his two Back, you coward! slid not order others to replace them. At a quarter before one, it still con- Laura, rushing at one of the men who men, and the man who had guarded tinuing to rain had, dyeing the night was In the act of springing upon Pope. the forecastle, down Into the tween Too late! The fellow clipped the decks. to the complexion of Ink, three men came from the neighborhood of the Irishman by the shirt under his long He ordered the mainhatch to be batcaboose, and passing Crystal, descend- hair. Pope reeled, his sword passed tened down while his people went to ed with naked feet into the cabin. through the air In a wild, idle sweep breakfast, one sentry then sufficing. Crystal walked lightly aft to the of glittering blade, and. in the next (To Be Continued.) Captain The shirt wa3 dark upon the d ship-mate- ! d n s, sober-heade- s. e i . u ! The Bow CHAPTER XXIII. 1 r-- M cutlass I of Orange Ribbon A ROMANCE OF NEW YORK By AMELIA E. BARR. Aulhw f Trin4 1 Thou Ollvte and ttv Othw OnwEta Copyright, lsea by Dodd, Mead and Company CHAPTER 1. The Van Heemskirk. It waa May In New York one hundred and twenty-onyeais ago, and yet the May A. D. 1886 the same clear air aad wind, the same rarefied freshness, full of faint, passing aroraad from the wet earth and the salt sea and the blossoming gardens. In the city the business of the day was over; but at the open doors of many of the shops little groups of In leather aprms were talking, and on the broad steps of the City Hall a number of grave-lookin-g men were slowly separating after a very satisfactory civic session. They were all noticeable men. nut Joris Van Heemskirk specially so. His bulk was so great that it seemed as if he must have been built up; it was too much to expect that he had over been a baby. He had a fair, ruddy face, and large, firm eyes, and a mouth that was at once strong and sweet. And be was also very handsomely dressed. The long, stiff skirts of his dark-blucoat were lined with satin, his breeches were of black velvet, his edged with Flemish lace, his shoes clasped with silver buckles, his cocked hat made of the finest beaver. With his head a little forward, and his right arm across his back, he walked slowly up Wall street into Broadway, and then took a northwesterly direction towards the river bank. His home was on the outskirts of the city, but not far away; and his face lightened as he approached it. Councillor Van Heemsklrks father had built the house and planted the garden, and he had the Dutch reverence for a good ancestry. Often he sent his thoughts backward to remember how he walked by his father's side, or leaned against his mother's chair, as they told him the tragic tales of the old Barneveldt and the hapless De Witts; or how his young heart glowed to their memories of the dear lather-- i land, and the proud march of the Ba-- i tavian republic. Good evening, Mr. Justice. Good and ho stood a evening, neighbor, minute, with his hands on his garden gate, to bow to Justice Van Gaasbeeck and to Peter Sluter, who, with their wives, were going to spend an hour or two at Christopher Laera garden. "Men can bear all things but good days, said .Peter Sluyter, when they had gone a dozen yards In alienee; "since Van Heemskirk has a seat in the council room, it Is a long way to his hat "Come, now, he was very civil, Sluyter. He bows like a man not used to make a low bow, that Is alL Well, well, with time, every one gets Into his right place. In the city Hall, I may yet put my chair beside his, Van Gaasbeeck. "So say I, Sluyter, and for the present it Is all well as it is. This little envious fret of his neighbor lost Itself outside Joris Van Heera-iklrk'home. Within it, all was love Madam Van Heemskirk and content. was a little woman, with clear-cu- t features, and brown hair drawn back ward under a cap of lace very stilly starched. Her tight fitting dress of blue taffeta was open m front, and looped up behind in order to show an elaborately, quilted petticoat of light Her white wool stockblue camblet. ings were clocked with blue, her shoes cut very lew. and clasped with small silver inn l's. Fiom her trim cap to her tiig shoes she was a pleasant and comfortable picture of a woman; smiling, happy, domestic peaceful, and easy to live with. When the last duty of the day was finished, she let her bunch of keys all done" fall with a satislactory Jingle, that made her Joris look at her with a smile. Then he asked Where Is Joanna and the little one? And Bram should be home ere this." They I am1 not uneasy, Joris. were to drink a dish of tea with Madam Semple, and Bram promised to go for them. And, see, they are coming; but Bram Is not with them, only the elder. Elder Alexander Semple was a great man in hla sphere. He had a reputation both for riches and godliness and was scarcely more respected in the market-placthan he was in the Middle Kirk. And there was an old tie between the Semples and the Van Heemakirka a tie going back to the daya when the Scotch Covenanters and the Netherland Confessors clasped bands aa brothers in their "churches Then one of the under the cross. Semples had fled for life from Scotland to Holland, and been sheltered In the house of a Van Heemskirk; and the from generation to generation So friendship had been continued. there waa much real klnanesa and very little ceremony between the families, and the elder met his friend Joris with a pleasant "good evening, and sat down in front of the blazing logs. Joanna tied on her white apron,' and, at a word from her mother, began to take from the cupboards various Dutch dainties, and East Indian jars of fruits and sweetmeats, and a case of crystal bottles, and some fine lemons. She waa a fair, rosy girl, with a kind, cheerful face, a pleasant voice, and a mile that waa at onre innocent and bright Her fine light hair waa rolled high and backward; and no one could have Imagined a dress more suitable to her than the trig darn bodice, the gullted skirt, and the white apron the e with a loving satisfaction, and Elder Semple waa quite sensible of Joanna's presence, and of what she was doing. at all to the purpose. That Always I hare found It la so. the-truth- Then Lysbet, having finished her second locking up, entered the room. She came in as one wearied and troubled, and said with a sigh, as she untied her apron: Joris, the elder's words have made trouble In my heart. What did the man mean? Who can tell? What a man says, we khow; but only God understands what he means. But 1 trill say this, Lysbet, and it is what I mean:' If Semple has led my daughter Into the way of temptation, then, for all that Is post and gone, we shall be unfriends. Give yourself no kornmer on that matter, Joris. Hove not some of our best maidens married into the English set? There is no harm, 1 think. In a girl taking a few steps up when she puts on the wedding ring. Mean you that our little daughter should marry some English would rather Look, then, see her white and cold in the I will have no Englishman among the Van Heeniskirks. There, 1 will let us Bleep. speak no more. But madam could not sleep. She was quite sensible that she had tacitly encoui aged Katherine's visits to Semple House, even after she understood that CapL Hyde and other fashionable and notable persons were frequent visitors there. Lysbet Van Heemskirk saw no reason why her younger children should not move with the current, when It might set them among the growing aristocracy of the New World. She tried to recall Katherine's and words during the past day, and she could find no cause for alarm In them. She could not remember anything at all which ought to make her uneasy; and what Lysbet did not see or hear, she could not imagine. Yet the past ten hours had really been full of danger to the young girt. Early In the afternoon, some hours before Joanna was ready to go, Katherine was dressed for her visit to Semple House. It stood, like Van Heeniskirk s, at the head of a garden sloping to the river; and there was a good deal of pleasant rivalry about these gardens, both proprietors having impressed their own individuality e grounds. upon their plea-The space between the two houses was an encioied meadow; and this afternoon, the glass being warm and dry and full ot wild (lowers, Katherine followed the narrow footpath through.it. and entered the Semple garden by the small side gate. Near this gate was a stone dairy, 6unk below the level of the ground a deliciously coo!, clean spot even in the hottest weather. Passing it, she saw that the door was open, and Madam bemple was busy among Its large, shallow, pewter, cream-disheShe was beating some rich curd with eggs and currants and spices; and Katherine, with a sympathetic smile, asked delightedly: Cheesecakes, madam? Just cheesecakes, dearie. Oh, I am glad! Let me fill some of these pretty little patty pans." Ill do naething o the kind, Katherine. You'd be spoiling the bonnie silk dress you hae put on Go to the house and sit wi' Mistress Gordon. She was asking for ou no an hour ago. And, Katherine, my bonnie lassie. dinna gie a thought to one word that black ejed nephew o' hers may He's here the day and say to you pane tomorrow and the lasses that heed him will g t san heaits to them-sei'- s At this point Katherine Van Heemskirk came into the room, and the elder slightly moved his chair and said, Come awa, my bonnie lassie, and Tel us hae a look at you. And Katherine laughingly pushed a stool towards the fire, and sat down between the two mpn on the hearthstone. She was the daintiest little Dutch maiden that ever latched a shoe very diminutive, with a complexion like a great blue eyes, and such a quantity of pale yellow hair that it made light of its ribbon snood, and rippled over her brow and slender white neck in bewildering curls. Long before supper was over, Madam Van Heemskirk had discovered that this night Elder Semple had a special reason for his call, and when the meal was finished, and the girls gone to their room, she was not astonished to hear him say. Joris, let us light another pipe. I hae something to speak anent Sit still, guldewlfe, we shall want your word on the matter. On what matter, elder?" Anent a marriage between my son Neil and your daughter Katherine. The words fell with a sharp distinctness, not unkindly, but as If they were more than common words. They were followed by a marked silence, a silence which in no way disturbed Semple. He knew his friends well, and therefore he expected 1L Joris at last said slowly, For Katherine the marriage would be good, and it. However, I.ysbet and I would-likwe will think a little about It; there is time, and to spare. One should not run on a new road. Say what you think, Lysbet." Neil Is to my mind, when the time comes. But vet the child knows not perfectly her Heideltreig. Ami there is more; she mu t learn to manage a house of her own. So in time, I say, it would be a good tiling. We have been long good lrlends. We hae been friends for four generations, and we may safely tie the knot tighter now. The land between this place and my place, on the riverside, is your land, Joris. Give It to Katherine, and I will build the young things a house; and the furnishing and plenishing well share between us. , There Is more to a wedding than house and land, elder. A young girl should be wooed before she Is married. You know bow It Is; and Katherine, the little one, she thinks not of such a thing as love and marriage. Wha kens what thoughts are under curly locks at seventeen? Youll hae noticed, madam, that Katherine has come mair often than ordinar to Semple House lately? That is so. It was because of Col. Gordons wife who likes Katherine. She Is her a new stitch in her erewel-vvoik.Hum m in' Mb tress Gordon has likewise a nephew, a veia handsome lad. 1 hae seen that he takes a deal o' inteiest in the crew. '.eh m ,t t likewise And Neil ha- i " for Neil has set bis to art on k.i'he The bright joung face shadowed, and this aft rt.onn thee was a a sudden fear came into Madam look parsed bet wb ur the jrui.c- m n i and Beinple's heart as she watched the il.nna like a chalWe';i be ha. turn thoughtfully and slowly girl . lenge. ar i twa loo'.-- jla mg at muraway into the house. der. ret." (To be continue ! ) I am clad vou spoke elder Thank cm. Ill turn vour wiuls over in my COLORED INKS IN TATTOOING. But Van He.utiskitk was heart. dor a certain c he was be- English Expert Now Does Work In the situation, ginning to umlor-tan- d Many Colors. to see in what danger his darling In aD article on the subject of tatmight be. He was apparently ralm; tooing, In Pearson's, the marvelous but an angrv i,re was gathering in his results obtained by an English expert eyes, and stc rn lines settling about the are thus described: lower part of his face. Until comparatively recently only My Lysbet is the finest lady in the two colors, indigo blue India ink whole land. Let her daughters walk black) and red were used (or in tattooing, in her steps. That is what I want but a Japanese increased the number Now. there is enough, and also there by discovering a permanent brown, is some one coming. and Sutherland Macdonald has now It will be Neil and Bram; and, as added four more to the list, so that he the words were spoken, the young works with no fewer than seven colmen entered. ors altogether. The difficulty has been Again you are late, Bram; and to a color that will hold; any color the father looked curiously in his cangetbe into the human skin, son's face. It was like looking back but thosepricked made from minerals will all own upon his youth: for Bram Van set up. sooner or later, a state of InHeemskirk had all the physical traits flammation of the skin and the color of his father his great size, his comwill be forced out again, leaving only manding presence and winning ad- an ugly scar to mark the spot. dress, his large eyes, his deep, sonorBut by careful experiments on hie ous voice and slow speech. own body, experiments which have With the advent of Bram and Neil, been going on for years now, he has the consultation ended. The elder, been able to produce a very beautiful grumbling at the chill and mist, green, a permanent ultramarine blue, wrapped himself In his plaid, and a lavender, and. most difficult of all, leaning on his sons arm. cautiously a rich yellow, ,all not only perfectly picked his way home by the light of a harmless to the most delicate skin, lantern. Van Heemskirk put aside hie but colors that will hold, and y blendpipe, nodded gravely to hla son, and ing some of these together he A went thoughtfully upstairs. able to produce brilliant effects, which In his own room he sat down on a to the uninitiated would appear to be big oak chest; and. as he thought, hla altogether Impossible. wrath slowly gathered. Semple knew "Tattooing In so colors, with that gay young English officers were all their graduationsmany of shading, la a coming end going about his house, lengthy process Mr. Macdonald will and he had not told him until h spend a matter of sixty or seventy feared they would Interfere with hla hours In completing a design to cover own plans for keeping Nell near to a mans chest not at a stretch, of him. He remembered that Semple course, but worklug two or three had spoken with touching emphasis of honrs a day for twenty or thirty his longing to keep his last son near daya." must he give up his darling home; but Then He 8aw iL Katherine to further this plan? I like not It, he muttered. Von Blumer (roaring) Who told God for the Dutchman made the Dutch- yon to put this paper on the wall? woman. That Is the right way; but I Decorator Yonr wife, sir. wore. will not make argry myself for so Von Blqmei Pretty, Isnt It? HarHer father and mother watched her much of passion, so much of nothing pers ? 1 sea-shel- dead-chamb- To-nig- e ruf-fie- a m s tea-hin- i m-- . nigh-heele- ii-- ; e Baz. |