Show until she was afraid of drowning and dollars and so accurate were the calculations that when the house was finished then fainted The old Conquestador was there was not left on the p emises a single floating about insensible the smell of nail nor a lath nor a piece of timber the cheese had been too much for hitn large enough to make one of l£jndlayvf Count Knosegaha lay across the steward’s celebrated matches JjVe never avf?aC locker groaning with pain he had his cleaner piece of work ?a (Kir lifef ancPil) back and both legs''broken by a chain the result of calculation???-- Figures Bon t shot The Redhead raised the lovely form of lie” Biddy from the dripping deck Clasping Why are the cobblers of North Adams her in his arms he called omheaven kind Mass like an Eastern fowl? Because heaven to revive her drooping form' He kissed her five- - or six times but she only they’re Cochin China ff revived to shriek and go off again In his despair he laid her on the cabin table “NO EXCELLEXC WITHOUT and rushed on deck ordering the crew to EABOR ” bring up the old Hidalgo and the wounded Count Pronouncing the old gentleOur subscribers would he surprised to man dead he was hove overboard without learn the nnniber of visions and revisions ceremony but thinking there might be some chance for the young Count’s life our paper undergoes ere it is exposed to he was placed-ithe ship’s jolly boat the rude gaze of an unpolished multitude without provisions or water and sent The deputy clerk’s assistant first runs over adrift on the lonely sea Again going below the pirate threw it then the deputy who is succeeded by' himselt on the deck opposite the cabin the clerk who is followed by Bizness wherein To lay the unconscious Biddy This is why groin? to pray? to weep? to swelter in Ubeturlife and UnoHoo so few letters appearwrong end up and is his agony over the Joss of her he loved? the reason you so seldom see our sub- Oh no gentle reader ’twas to sleep after the days and nights of fatigue to watch scribers standing on their heads to make and guard the door that no one could out the text enter or come forth unbeknown to him ' —i 'm nor - -- - v r y THE REDHEAD llEXEOABO! OF Tlio Blood r "t tub of Snckerdown CHAP TWO : ori u By CAPT MARROWFAT ' s I i ' t ' ' CHAPTER “ Roll up O NE — C 0 NT I N UED wild sea to the wild :: y — sky” Ttnderson the hour oh Alverado that I have longed for for 75 years and three months! And now have at thee ' “Krout undspeckl Krout und speck! the old crusader’s war cry” replied the Spanish captain choking with valor and charging desperately upon the pirate There is no telling what would have been the result had fate permitted the renowned captains to meet As Alverado crossed the poop deck' the to windward striking spanker boom jibed the Don full in ' the diaphragm and hurling him faritdJeewamintothe boiling raging sea hisbeavy arrnor sank him like ‘weight and as the pirate gazed on The foairf his sinking Morin left trembling on the' wave he exclaimed in l r the language of a bard r : I1'1 M jka ends tby fame In froth nn Tny exit is m Mids” Theipirateshad now complete possesher head was sion of the RioGii&olico turned in shore andjury ihasts rigged fore and aft her topping-liftgunwarps rove J on the best bower and the reefs main the shook? out Having seen to everything necessary on deck the the Redhead went below to examine cap- tain s cabin Judge of his surprise "when throwing open the transom door be found two feet of water— I should say Tears— above the cabin deck Biddy had cried and cried I : I - ' ' i ‘ - s sky-sa- d “How’s that for high? Kolefaxt When Don Alverado was knocked overboard by the spanker boom he was so surprised for a few minutes that he did not know where he was but the sinking sensation soon brought him to his senses Finding he would soon touch bottom if something was not quickly done he pulled off his boots which had become waterlogged and soon rose to the surface striking something in the dark He found it to be one of the quarter deck cannonades floating to leeward of the now fast dbapnearing ship Getting astride the gun the captain commenced working his way ashore W hen the old Conquestador was hove overbpard by the pirate’s crew he was as dead as an adobe but not being used to water either inwardly or outwardly the shock was so sudden that it not orily restored him to life but it also revived all the latent and plaved-ou- t energy that old ago had deprived him of 'After sinking four or fiVe hundred feet he again aiose to the surface with the buoyancy of his spirits Being a genius in the first water if not of the first water and also a conqueror of Peru his inventive faculties commenced working and devising some means to preserve his life Necessity is the mother of invention (Laziness is said to be the father ) The old Hidalgo had the scabbard of his sword still buckled to his waist it was made of a limb of the india rubber tree Blowing in the end of power it until it had swollen to the size of a sack “As to onr getting off this islapd” said-thof flour he secured it ?with his belt and captain “that is easy enough I have getting astride of it he too like Don everything ready but you are weary now Alverado commenced working his way and I think the project had better be t ' ashore CONTINUED IN OUR NEXT After the Redhead had sent adrift the ' ’ Count bleeding mangled broken-backeKnosegaha in the leaking boat he (the Count) lay for several hours revolving in his mind the uncertainties of fate and the probable amount of powder Hpfrouldtake to blow up Gibraltar whrVfpang in his back and a twitch in h$ilegs reminded him of the deplorablfjcondition he was in It was too nmen for his botanical mind He put his and in his pocket to get a bar of soap to cut his throat with when to his joy he found a bottle or Pratt's ATew life given to him the day before by the I6veiy Biddy in mistake for a jeweled casket containing a miniature of herself With ihe joy of a despairing man he swallowed half the bottle’s contents and in less than an hour he lound himself restored to life and hope well in limbs and back in fact revived in all his Pouring a few drops youth and vigor on the shatteredplanks of the boat the wood grew together and the leaks all stopped? 'j “For six long weeks in the month of August” had the Count floated on the briny deep solitary and' alone through storm and sunshine Through thick and thin Time after time he almost fainted for water and food but he found that by rubbing his stomach with the medicine bottle he "was always restored to new life But he had now almost exhausted the virtues of his botUev and weak and weary he was reposing in his boat when he felt the keel grating on the sandy beach of As he arose in some unknown shore his lonely boat did his eyes deceive him? did he dream? were his senses leaving him? Six weeks in an open boat without a hat in the tropics was no joke on a No he was not dreaming fellow’s head it was no joke there was a barren island hut on it stood the old Conquestador and Don Alverado with open arms to welcome him ashore “Oh happy ay ‘cried “Alverado And together the embracing the Count three walked along the sandy beach to the comfortable quarters erected by Don Alverado for the Count’s accommodation Here they refreshed themselves with the wines of Tokay and Moselle recounted their adventurous escapes and mishaps until the pale moon round as a shield rose above the horizon making the old Conquestador rise from the tahle not stand the moon: it reminded him of a cheese and when ne thought of cheese he thought of Biddy and wept ' Don Alverado and the Count did all in their power to soothe his aching browbut to no purpose The Count seizing a piano at his side played one of those mellow strums so often performed by Prof Careless during the last hours of Mozart Leaving the Hidalgo asleep the Don and Count Knosegaha wandered along the pebbly beach the Don explaining the many plans and projects he had on hand and the manner in which he would liber ate the lovely Biddy from the Redhead’s - ' - f j ‘ |