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Show s T " I were as demootTMJlr m taetr isavi taking as two Frenehmen of near kin. Their bickerings were of little depth, both being too closely united in tha giving of their best brawn and muscle toward the bettering of the house oi of live hundred dollars, which will be Lung llaut to be at outs long. Nance toughened pine of an uppaid out of the treasury to any person By MILLICENT E. MANN land growth knotted her brow for a delivering the said Jean Lafltte to tbe -moment as she squeezed forth a tear. heriff of the parish of Orleans, or to m. Copyright. IMS. by Ll'C She thought it befitted her who had ny other sheriff in the state, so that WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY DON C. WILSON ..he said Jean Lafltte may be brought the exalted position of nurse occupied Cty yrigMi 1903, & Mtk Broun to justice." to the one setting forth upon a Jour (Aft frtfib flwwwy The Island Rose had beard, the CHAPTER V Continued. wlch, who Is near to him, you will, I ney to show so much emotion. Is she quite happy, Zeney?" It was no unusual thing for a huge think, be able to obtain it. You will CHAPTER XV. Indeed, there was an Inward re greater part of the document read in Happy? How could a wild bird be her grandfather's voice, low, to be sure, fellow to be tumbled under the table, show the paper to him. It has the Joining, in spite of the house being After the death of Lara a new and happy in a cage, even if its bars were but with a clear enunciation which before his Inner man was satisfied ; royal signet attached to it. Then will of so sad a color, that the young lord made each syllable as distinct as there ho at least was out of mischief, he know why I left King Charles somewhat better order of things pre- made of gold?" was at last to have his fling. vailed among the Our horses were Flemish mares, though she had been the reader in- for the license was of the free and side when he most needed all his She was about to continue, but Pirates of the Gulf." as if not caring to pursue the stead of a listener. And when he easy kind that recks not of the mor- friends why I served a man who had chosen for their greatest endurance Now under the direct leadership of subject, asked, Is your master here?" ended, she heard the voice of him row. no more right to the throne of Eng- Soon we were astride them and galLafltte alone, and with better opporIndeed they were a rude people, land than I myself why I left the loping down the steep road. We Zeney nodded, and pointed to a heretofore known to her as "Captain tunities for knowing his chivalrous na- closed door near them, He is in there, Jean. and its tone was one of banter and among them I grew np perhaps womau I loved. lie dropped his voice passed the jutted rock, balanced in ture, the larger body of them followed and alone." such away that it rocked when the "Well, M'sleur le Count, will you be as. rude in some things. I bad been to a whisper. "She haunts me day and night,' lightest wind blew. It had been a unquestlonlngly his more merciful and Lafltte, turning from her, knocked the one to claim this five hundred dol- taught to know my rights and to hold leu lawless practices; and not a few at the door, and De Cazeneau's voice lars, and do your governor and state them against all odds. waking or sleeping. Why, God knows, feature of the road so long, that no of the men actually relished the answered, Entrez." a brilliant service by delivering to One of my earliest recollections was unless it be that I wronged her I man living could reckon back when changed conditions In which they This the former did, leaving the them this body of mine. that I had even as a child presided at feel I wronged her. the greatest it had not been the curiosity of the found themselves. Then came her grandfather's stern- inm annual feasts and sat at the wrong a man can do a woman I be- country side. We passed the gnarled door ajar. Garonne, who had been given a veshead of the table. I had my two lieved in her infidelity! After the birch tree whose few branches were Nato, now a tall, wiry lad of sir ly cold reply: I sel of his own, had gathered to himever have "What done, Captain to say: God and the right, toasts battle of Marsden, where I connived, wide extended, and in the moon light to and soul, teen, and devoted, self the most unregenerate of Lara's his master, was thebody one to ac- Jean Lafltte, that should lead you tc and "A fair harvest. The men bad nay, more than connlvea, helped the it looked not unlike a monster sentinel. only followers, and entered upon a career company him to Grande Terre. He suppose I would stoop to traffic in the maz. Gil, the heaviest drinker in King to make his escape, feeling that Once Noel's horse had shied there In which he observed the same meth all fehrlstendom, for the more be 1 was not true to either cause; neith- and he, taken unawares, had been had Beated himself upon the steps, blood of my associates?" ods as his former commander, with but too far It was this that made the small .drank the whiter and warier he d er a Roundhead nor yet a Royalist, I thrown. He lay upon the ground with away to catch tbe contoward the girl S cmZ would cry, The old lord." Noel resigned and came here to stay. For the breath about knocked out of him. the result that he was Anally brought versation between Lafltte and go fluttering Zeney, to execution, together with most of even had they spoken in a language frlgmened heart. It was the revela- n0 0utdone e'en before the ale the sake of that little Incident here He could never pass It afterwards bis crew, in a South American port, he understood. tlon that her Captain Jean" was none had ceased bubbling down their lank is the proof of it Charles II. I think without giving his horse a vicious Life at the Ursullne convent was, the terrible pirate, throats, or the dripping froth wiped will let old scores be. other than v kick in memory of his shame, for Gil But he watched them With curious of wv?m shelafltte, heard such dreadful for many months, a burden to Lazalle, had me a small jeweled pin. kept alive his mortification by his off their beards, would shout, handed He The of often heard Zeney; tales! He was the freebooter, smugand her whims and caprices made it eyes, having Charles I. gave it to me with his trite remarks upon the accident. His voice was loud young lord. to but little less so to the mother su- and her reputed powers servedaver- gler and outlaw the leader of that enough to We came to a narrow ledge of the blue vault of own hands, and said when I wished the awe bring an of and make her object fearful band of men she had shud- heaven down about our ears. Then I had only to present it to claim what hillside where single file was safest perior and nuns. But they, viith most to his class. as of to sion him, dered to hear the slaves mention! lively remembrance of many generous one and all ringing down the board. I would. What I choose is our re- The drooping stones kicked tree by It was, therefore, with a sigh of re- And not only was her favors from felt that they grandfather cop Some were not so clean as they might habilitation at Whitehall. It will not the horses hoofs made a merry sound. saw after he lief that her disappear, must bear patiently with the charge nizant of this, but he was this mans be, for, as I have said, they were a affect me I am beyond that but my We clattered over the little bridge his master had gone inside. he had left in their keeping. abettor his associate and friend! beneath which the water fairly bubrude people, and those were rude obliquity will In time be forgotten." He remained sitting on the steps, La Roche, as her banker and man Her brain in a whirl, her heart terri- days. moments. bled and sputtered In Its fierce defew a for He stopped of business, came often to see his his chin supported by two yellow fied by dread of an undeflnable terror, But for all that, we at the Manor His face was drawn and grey as a light at being loosened from its winfair client, and ended by falling In palms, while a group of young negroes she fled from the house, and into the bouse were not common ter fastness. Here the road became boors, en- dead mans. , who near to had drawn gape curiously woods, wandering on, scarcely know-love with her a fact he was wise was who cut wife," "From the freer and mud now mingled with the my from the lady amenities away tirely manner of their kind, enough to keep to himself. And, later at him. after the ing or caring where, until her steps of courteousness, or the niceties of he continued, If she is alive, you bowlders. Farther on the horses were evia converse in to way were arrested by the matted thicket court life. I on, he obtained Lafltte's consent to proceeded spoke French, Spanish will plead for forgiveness in behalf pushed together, and they gave a her removal from the convent and dently Intended to attract his atten- into which she had penetrated with and Dutch as my own tongue. I had of your father a dying man, for I glad whinny. . taking a bouse of her own. where, tion. unseeing eyes. also a smattering of Latin. From my now believe her Innocent. She will We reached Torralne's hut at the with Ma'am Brlglda and a retinue of Instinct, rather than any sound, Now all was revealed to her. The father who had in his served not deny it to me she had a tender foot of the hill. Here he lived with youth g trusted a was she realize made Nato all that others of whom the presence man slaves, beauty seemed both at Whitehall, and in the palaces heart. So shall the earth rest more Ills buxom wife and nine children, as near him ; and glancing over his shoul- In this new. strange, and fettered more contented. of the' Castilian Kings, I had caught lightly on my coffin. though he were the keeper of the form world into which she had been brought When the summer, of 1812 had der, he saw a girlish, white-claI begged to be allowed to stay with lane which led to the Manor. I could a few accomplishments. where in the island to home, doorway through from the peaceful standing brought the Cazeneau household fence with both the broad sword and him for a time at least; later I could He stood oat in the road, surroundtheir Barataria home, there befell which Lafltte had passed a few min- life had been happy, and free from the to London and attend to liis com- ed by his brood. They stolidly go rapier. something which struck Lafltte with utes before. Presently he saw one of fear he was the notorious Lafltte, But he would not listen to watched us and begged with outOur wants were few, our family mands. a new despair, and took from him all her little hands go to her side, as if tbe Pirate of the Gulf, who scuttled Gil me even became Impatient at my stretched bands for a coin. household a small; simple truly. hope of ever being asked to render she had been startled, or was experi- ships, who murdered men and women, and Noel were factotums of the Ma- persistency. Out of the way, yelled Gil, out little Roselle the smallest service, encing some strong emotion; and she and whose bands were red with blood, nor. Master No, no." he said. You must go of the way. Do you want us to run the Basil, chaplain, kept vichis shed that be might plunder us In order. Nance with a maid or at ouce tomorrow." over those cubs of yours? tims.. Torratne gave the children cuffs to (To be continued.) right and to left. It served two purposes as well he knew it would the GREAT AUTHOR AT PLAY. old fox! took them from beneath the horses' hoofs and sent my hand into I interesting' fminlscences of One Who my pocket. Knew Hawthorne. Then he held np his scrawny hand Mrs. Sedgwick, in A Girl of Sixattention. We reined up. demanding Brclk little a teen at Farm," gives me in that hot bed of If need ye sketch of Hfljvthorne which shows him said he, hell - where ye're in a pleasantNanffTHerry light, although and Torralhe and his send word, the in general jhe , acknowledge jolly boysll be with ye ere the sun great authon was silent, almost tacithas sunk twice behind Black Point. urn. One daw she was learning verses All right old fox, answered Gil. formed class to recite at the evening "But don't imagine that Torraine and A Charles when, seeing Dana, by his jolly boys will cut ' much of a Hawthorne sitting Immovable and solswarth in London town; tis not as itary on the sofa, she daringly thrust bare of rapscallions as a lady's hand the book in his hands. of hair. is Will you hear me say my poetry, He grinned and called out yet said. I Hawthorne?" Mr. again after we had started; He gave me a sidelong glance from "Remember, ere the sun has sunk his very shy eyes, took the book and twice back of Black Point. Good-bhe me. After that most kindly heard old ape. good-b- y mlord; was on the sofa every week to hear When we reached the selvage of me recite. the woods where the huts lay thickOne evening he was alone In the est, I saw that there was a crowd hall, sitting on a chair at the farther of men and women and children I were and roommate end, when my awaiting us. They had collected to going upstairs. She whispered to me: Her Captain Jean was none other than Lafltte, the terrible pirate! gether at the foot of one of the lanes Mr. at sofa a throw pillow Lets knowing that we must pass that way. even should the occasion or necessity stood with bended head, as if listen- Hawthorne." Some one has spread the news of our ing. arise. Now It Is out or my hands," he muttered. Reaching over the banisters, we Nato was still staring at. the girl each took a pillow and threw it. departure. Her childish trust in him became deHe was like a person who, having (To be continued.) stroyed; he saw her shrink from him when she started impetuously, and Quick as a flash he put out his hand, two tedded to the domestic part I entered the library it smote me made up his mind about an affair, the in terror and abhorrence. And this went hurriedly down the hallway. seized a broom that was hanging near SUPER HAD HIS REVENGE. of which he has procrastinated Led by curiosity, the boy jumped to awakened In him the knowledge that him, warded off our cushions and like a sword thrust that in my desire doing the as he supposed paternal love he his feet, and saw her descend the threw them back with sure aim. Ac for enjoyment and London, I had left from time to time, will have It done Discharged Actor 8poiled Scene had been cherishing for the child of steps of the back gallery, and go fast as we could throw them he re- my father out of my calculations. I at once lest he repent Frederick Warde. He then talked long and earnestly, her who had always been his ideal, was swiftly into the woods, which seemed turned them with effect, hitting uc never saw him look so ghastly he Did I ever tell you about the time as one who gives his last earthly innot the affection of a father tor his to swallow up the snowy form and every time, while we could only hit seemed stricken with death. I softly structions to his heir. When he dis- my uncle, the actor, played with FredYou sent for me, sir? daughter, but the love of a man for glittering hair swallow them so sud- the broom. He must have been very missed me, aftdr saying that Master erick Warde? said tbe sailor. a woman. denly as to leave in the boys superstiftskftdi quick in his movements. No, said the druggist I have Basil was making all the arrangeAt last answered. he was not word a Yes, The bitterest potion he had ever tious mind an uncomfortable suggesall spokit Through uncle was a super with real not was flesh and so tion she wish I that "Well, that reed In his interfere ments, now you come determination nothing to a was and his working and swallowed laughed, en. We laughed with our speedy departure, he was Warde, and for drinking too much he veins. Yet no one would have sus- blood, but a "sperit, or perhaps a eyes shone and twinkled like stars, to go to London. I shall indeed be glad for many worn and spent with the excitement got fired. until we went off to bed vanquished.. pected this, as he went his way, and second voudoo priestess. You can go. Warde says, 'at the Within the room, near whose open reasons," I said,, "but I do not think I of the interview. for a time with greater recklessness end of the week. Politeness Pays. than before, although the rumor men- door the girl had stood, Lafltte and ought to leave you. Are you as well That made unrle mad and ha deTwo hours had not passed I was tioned by Pierre had now become a De Cazenean were having a serious Suddenly the man fell. He was a Louconversation. cided of and still (o have revenge. So on his last as the governor talking London, money I am as well as I shall ever be, fact, inasmuch dignified person, but as he reached a Following the custom of the time, sleety corner his feet, set down' with he replied. isiana bad Issued a proclamation offerI have something to tell horses .with Master Basil when Gil's night, after he had got his salary all reached out to ring failed to stay set. They you jt is time you should know 1L heavy footsteps were heard coming right, he went on the stage with an ing a reward for Lafltte's apprehen De Cazeneau had a bell for refreshments, when Lafltte, precision, sion flew so high, and the result was sc It is not pleasant telling, so I shall be down the corridor. He thundered into egg in his hand. with an expressive gesture, stayed his Warde was playin Julius Caesar,' abrupt, that as the man hit the walk as brief as I can, and I beg of you the room. This had come about by reason of a hand. Too late, my lord, too late, he and it was in the garden scene, where in sitting posture observers expected no matter what curiosity you may feel melee in the bayou Lafourche, and was Warde walked No. M'sleur le Comte. I can tarry to see a Brutus that spine protrude from the top to hold it in check. You see this old cried. which proved to be the chip which time Bhook a hands with the varishort I and but about has asked. only long "Ah! she very gone?" of his hat. bit of paper? kindled to a blaze the to impart the very Important Two hours before I reached the ous conspirators. Two youths had seen the episode He picked up from the table at his fire of wrath against the Bara enough "Uncle was one of the conspirators, She is now on intelligence I came to bring you. One was a bad youth, and unwise side a half sheet of paper, yellow with castle," he answered. tartans. And he held out a paper he bad He laughed. The other was a good London. Only an old hag and he held tbe egg in his right list to the way He me. waited to out held It and When the information was brought drawn from his age pocket. who knew a thing or two. He with impatience until I had answered is left in custody of the house. There He watched his chance, and when to Lafltte, accompanied by a copy of on his youth, The put count, was no paper to be found. We Warde, in a lordly way, went to shake man. fallen having the to dehastened pick up Yes. the proclamation, he had. without took the document; and his am man. I searched every room. The old dame hands with him he dropped the egg in glasses, the said "Thank out set for you." and commanded. a Take be pinnace it, lay, taken made the blue paper a childless millionaire, looking for an hands wavering yielded me up all the information I Warde's open palm. of side Grande I did so. the extreme southerly Uncle says hb never seen such a quiver as if his own startled pulse-beat- s heir. Youre It Meantime take thle wanted, readily enough. She was like he Count was de the of hands, which out my Now is it upon Terre, had stolen into it while he read roll and blow yourself. Only one con look on any one's face as down a wheel a started which, surprised steep a little find abode. peace, I Cazeneau's may muttered, aloud. contents Warde's then. His hand the on seen cent turn. he with a Dont attached. is spend bill, impetus dilion every gains feet upon before I die. At the sound of Whereas the nefarious practice of on that laughing jackass who is with peace, my God, closed Immediately and he glanaed at the Dog, stop weazened Royal him They tonight for face, woman's a an pity felt I overwhelming the steps, the thing that had been given running In contraband goods, which you." wrinkled and scowling, its coffee-hurise In my heart. This was my first from there on to I xm don by the river down atWhen he found it was an egg over a $10,000 bundle, and road. Which means that they have him. of gray, wiry has hitherto 'prevailed In different which sore Handing with hideous wisps of that contrasting of the state, to the great injury giving his hotel address, the man went glimpse more looked shall we bright-colore- d he main and parts the surprised than ever. a road, gone and by beneath from fathers brain, 'wool showing had festered in my and the diminution his way. of the fair trader, couldn't He between them somewhere overtake put no fire into tbe from was man. projected bandanna, made him what he was an old of the revenue of the L'nited States, The moral of this is so obvious that He had been tall and strong even as Epsom and Kingston, probably at one ftcene after that Ue didnt do any one of the numerous doors opening has of late much increased; and. more handshakln' for fear he might the reader unable to discern it isnt I, but now his bones seemed but a of the inns along there. from the hallway Into various rooms whereas known been has officially it abouL was smash the egg. He kept shiftin it worth sure Are old dame Washington the bothering you in the two wirgs of the building. rack to hang his skin upon, his eyes to me that, on the 14th of last month, Times. I asked. not from one hand to the other, and you to deceive she recognized you? that trying bitter was of It apparent thought deep burning wells seized of a goods, smuggled quantity the could hear bim cursin' under bin as from told She out her it into she tale came got she the visitor, for thought Walter Gilbert, an officer of the breath. he answered. Nothing Sensational. the rote, by he not jade now," hail and. despite her age. advanced by but You It read may revenue of tbe United States, were editor You got Mrs. Gas At the end of the scene he rushed is the City That the case, him. paper being of out toward my sight; said. "Hide It away, briskly In open day, him from taken to Womans the forcibly Righti speech I. the wings yellin: in said into are, loosing my hands, lose again Ah. Zcrey, there you at no great distance from the city of club, didnt you? What did she nayf but as you value my future peace that Infernal MusgraveF Where's as young ns ever," was his smilingly not New Orleans, by a party of armed Oh, nothing worth print it I Uncle VI. CHAPTER Bat Reporter Musgrave. you bet, had spoken greeting. put It away into an inner pocket men, under the orders of a certain ing. sklppoV over that paper, I brooded Always you say words. Captain have one Jean lafltte. who tired upon and grievCity editor Why, she spoke tot God A Man's Jealousy. At, Utterly Hopeless Case. Jean, that please, even when knows, until it has well-nig- h one of the assistants of more than an hour. wounded music! ously "Do you enjoy classical true." next our not farewells The morning in knows they are he me began driven crazy," the said Walter Gilbert: woman. asked Reporter I know, but what she said were were the not made. young lingered They of lafltte laughed lightly. paper That piece quieter voice. I have thought proper to Issue this, was quite sensible. Philadelphia Yes, miss, answered Mr. Cum-ro- x. "Is your young mistress w!l?" he wrecked my life. I wish you to ob- long o'er, for Lord Waters had after and I do solemnly Press. proclamation: my I enjoy it very much; but I inquired. tain an audience with the King it our talk taken to his bed. I felt all and singular citizens of -can never leave alive. to get over the idea that the never it Yes. she Is well." Zeney answered. caution of Waters Few women are wise enough to ren may be difficult the name any kind of state giving this be sound better If they were against would more tunes Gil that All might between petty jealousies In a tone Implying has an ill favor in London but . succor, support or countenance to the der one lit.'le wi 1 mandolin or banjo dub.! ' said. were and Noel and by played Bandforgotten, they Lord of through the Influence said Jean Lafltte and associates, but do call upon them to be aiding and abetting In arresting him and said assoclstes. and all others in like manner offending; and 1 dc furthermore. In .the name of the state, offer a reward AHTTE LSCJISIANA ! j Mistress Rosemary Allyn BY gARY gEVEREUX rfavy& ' La-fltt- e, . be-han- - high-strun- d - . . y to-da- g - e saw-- ay's 1 |