| Show CAPTAIN ahta N aal A by charles tenney jackson copyright ayme by the dobbs merrill company WELCOME CAPTAIN III under the name of at captain badarac Baz arac 1 I and disguised joan gantte former freebooter of barataria Dara Bar tarla ataria proscribed returns to tho the city of now new orleans he la Is by two of him of old d companions alderman dominique and ana Do lucho luche A the gamins gaming tables badarac line haa won von much money from colonel carr british officer john jarvis tho the city altya 8 met bohemian bohe of the arts arta anti and letters on an friend alond of latitta laotto tolls tells of ft a womans comans faco face and smile As his last 1001 lo 01 wager carr puts puta up a woman presumably a slave clave custom compels biaza bo aarao rac to capt tho the stalco lie wine ilia 1110 old and count raoul do de Almona ater stef accost him alro BB as Lat lahitte itte A project of the youthful adventurers of now new orleana la in the rescue of napoleon bonaparte from rom st helena and a ship the seraphine Seraph lne has haa been made ready r from born do almonn 13 ter lazarao learns that the giri ho he won at the card table la in whito white of high estate and that the matter has been made a byword in the cites resor resorts re aorta tm sa sax arao ands mademoiselle lespron Le stron a tallow follow pane enser on a river steamer a fow few days before and with whom he had fallen in love la in the girl and tn in chivalry fore boas hla his revenge a against carr jarvis admires made molo olle los lea tron lie ha to la a witness of the mooting meeting and klokis up a camellia which the girl had thrown unnoticed to Baz arao ii jarvis la in dangerous daneo roua ho he too much tn in hla his CURB cups life hla old of the Bara tarla days daya urge lafitte I to take comma command nd of the sera phine phane ostensibly to rescue napoleon but really to fly the black flag and cruise tho the seas he hesitates Jarv jarels isIs la a witness of tho the of mademoiselle beatron astron Le atron but hla his story atory to la not given credence de da Al monaster entertains Sa aarao arac now admittedly y joan jean lantto lafitte at his country house hotine Lat lahitte itte accused ot of the abduction of mademoiselle Us le tron in IB warned of the approach of a military party to arrest him ile he escapes to the swarn swamps pis ot of barataria Bara Bar tarla ataria CHAPTER VII continued 9 r the old dogs laughed the harder rough bough shaggy fellows in shirts of faded abod green and blue barefooted for ithe aitho most filthy muskrat rous krat traps dangling nt at their belts where once they had bad worn cutlass and pistol before the presidents pardon nothing of sedition h answered dohon few of us dare go to the city oven even now there to is always elways e P peg on an which to hang one of Lal laliotes ittes men let a sheep cheep be stolen up in the north parishes and at once the Barat tire are charged with it I 1 come 10 a said ld tho the chief the older of you with dohon ou on lits his lugger the others to their camps not a man of you shall lift hand against the law for roe me isyou if you con can serve me further you shall be summoned come algo I 1 black wilco nez coupe we shall talk to jig he deserters first f I 1 they made way for him to the beach old rago was waa laughing softly old days area are come cornel I 1 jean and at once a fair enter enterprise I 1 A woman vand u a ship I 1 and down at the old late isle where yankees burned our forte fort I 1 have growing beautiful yellow lumpkine I 1 eh blen I 1 perhaps we shall boball F e ee e another color 0 gold among my t ll 11 epkins wil wl yean jean among us once more I 1 r six men to a side the lugger crept down the mirrored bayou to where it opened to a shallow lake red in the warm sunset back on the temple the whispering swampers scampers swam pers scattered mattered to their pirogues pl pi rogues F fast ast and wide the word would go through watery forest aisles and into the grass jungles of never a customs boat could leave leav othe the city but that keen eyes noted and paddling couriers spread the warning far to the most secluded chestere chen lere tere of the deep swamp I 1 look you growled the tite steersman ersman notion bohon to joe rigo the old fel fellows loVs gathering like buzz ails furbishing up i rusty dirks and smelling venture ou tile alio very wind that brought jean to us aaroe 0 0 d 1 1 I am young again I 1 bolton bohon glanced at the first stars stam eastward a dim smudge showed on the I 1 grassy bayou margin john kelly will be there and Mar mariano ihno the and and others captain there will bo be drinking for three casks of wine went from the algiers dock along with tile alio arms and tile the H english lads captain you will vot not have them delivered to the consul did you ever know laughed fetn bof of me kl kicking elting back any man to tile the press gans gangs white yellow brown or black who eve reached tile the swamp do you remember when our mm went recruiting to the acadian dances hnud shook their gold before the country youth ft a speech a song a revel that would carry every restless spirit of iba parishes back to our fort to dserve you jean I 1 there wrin was a shout in the starlight ito the lugger buggers lug gers k vide side swept a h half alt dozen doze aca cindea no af old whiskered ed fellows rion bo ba denstad clambered over the lie gunwales gunzales gun wales and stood roaring their welcome welcon jo to tile tho onetime one time dictator of tho the barataria Bara Bar tarla ataria const coast A torch gleat gleamed tied among the palmettos tos as bo hols men slid tile tho anchor to tile the mud I 1 then they crowded aboard to shout to his ats hand amazed that lie lived eager to lipar hear of tho the lost leader hut but bolton bal on led tile tho way ashore the one ilmo privateers trooped behind the guides to another anim thatched camp under which were stored the stolen wine the boxes of ammunition and tc uttered 1 muskets tho english deserters sorters de red eyed reeling from drink looked upon the party with suspicious eyes ni although though tho the swamp men had heralded Larit tos coming welcome captain 1 shouted old budge the dock watchman 1 I came with these lads it must have been in the very air that you had returned for of a sudden 1 I had the notion nation of plunder I 1 look you two more lusty seamen from the benaron are herol here 11 tho the mate laid twenty lashes to our backs because wo we could not explain burkes getaway get away said one wo we slid down the chains sir and oro are done with the kings shilling it 1 I idatte natte I 1 cried another iq 1 called in a bark that took a round shot from you once off trinidad I 1 como come my bond band to it that I 1 servo serve you now I 1 the laughter and tho the drinking arose once more clearly tho the exile perceived that alio swamp outlaws had no other thought than that ho he had come to revive again the ma against tho the i west india merchantmen merchantman merchant men he led aside tho the oldest eldest of tho the deserting se seamen timen corn come e of tho the genaro benaron Ge naron n what la Is her mission in tho the gulf 1 I wish I 1 could answer sirl sir I 1 she galled baided regularly but she to Is stuffed with arms vera cruz crux was to be lier her entry port yet why carry arms arma to the king 0 men we wore were warned to say coy nothing of her cargo when the yankee customs discovered them I 1 hear bear the british consul was waa embar colonel carr had hand band in it it the fornele nele aale sold said ca carr r spoke up a youthful deserter eagerly why that Is id the mustering blustering allicer officer who wrangled with the skipper when they bundled the woman aboard I 1 the woman r demanded lafette what of this quick I 1 but tho the other night the watch was hustled hurtled below when they brought her then ir if was i upsall up sall and abd awili away without waiting to s settle ettl othis this quarrel about the muskets which it a drunken supercargo put off and into tho the customs hands by a mistake sailed balled I 1 the chief laid hands upon his big shoulder lods lads IP in it true some dirty affair sir burke and Cr Croc ackley kloy and myself saw it stave slave free woman of color to bo be sold old in tho the indies or whatever she bhe was we cannot say any they took her to the malters ma etera cabin there was no law to it I 1 warrant but when we lads saw that the benaron was waa to put out hastily we took our glenve ol 01 0 her I 1 lafitte swept about upon bohon mademoiselle lespron on the gena ron and the bark adrift to the posses passes I 1 what can sho she make sir with this wind 7 steerage nothing more she will not have passed english turn ja porty forty men by daylight at the river bidet side she shall be boarded in midstream bohon hohanness back to the temple and summon every lada andt there was a gasp of incredulity the lender leader had turned back to the smugglers landing tho the older followed the deserters stumbled among their wine castes then tile the leader of them john crack ley a long thin faced villain of the crimp gangs roared to the others 1 I told you bullies if over ever we found this lafitte there would be rough work todo to do I 1 the Gena benaron rort burn her to the waters edge say 1 I and a knife to the mate for the ent cat ho he laid on our backst backs the messengers paddled off in the starlight while about jean gathered his old friends and presently across the shallows came another small bonti boat swept by four black oarsmen oarsman to the smugglers stern A cloaked figure stepped out and grasped La hand monsieur do de Almona Almo nastor t tile the mask is useless sir serl I 1 I 1 came to warn you tho dragogna dra goona seized my house servants and bullied quillea them into confession acl the cl city ty shouts with it I 1 jean latitta has stolen the engligh engli gh colonels ward I 1 sir you tou know better 1 I indeed know where sho Is mademoiselle bostron has been put to sea I 1 take it to hush her mouth sho ho would have spoken something dangerous to carrs purposes what these are in oil all NN we e cannot say but abe lady of the river packet Is a prisoner on tile the benaron Ge naron 0 tho the count stared nt at him bewilderedly none in the city knows knowal carr roars his indignation he leads the cry that jean lafatte put his old Bore tarla reta gees to the abduction halt a d dozen ozen expeditions ore are fitting out to search tile the swamps captain you cannot linger herel the benaron said lafatte curtly if she does not fetch a sailing ailing wind before she makes make the tha outer passes sixty of I 1 the arians will swarm her chains for boarding before daylight will that be answer elou enough gh to tho the city that lafitte Is hero here again tile the old fox in his limong place A mad sc scheme 1 muttered uttered ra raoul but oh all for a woman 1 I 1 trust sir you seo see it la Is on an act ot of piracy against the vessel of a friend ly power in american waters tito the exile Inu laughed glied grimly the dice are against lafitte the honest man sir does doea she know your identity pursued do Almo monaster almonaster Al grav gravely vY can you ask lafatte for whom tier her countrymen have it gallows built in every port that hies flies tile tho king icings 8 nag flag como sirl this la Is mans busin business esal 1 every hour counts overy every nao moment ment she will know soon enough when a proscribed outlaw frees tier her and turns away to face his ring of enemies 11 and suddenly old bohon dashed to his feet acet and held a finger to the air io he touchet touched i the skin with his lips and held it again D n nl 11 lie he shouted ah ic air Is changing it Is swinging northerly norther lyl A breeze in the river and she elio will make tho the passes before a roan man of us could lift hand against herl her I 1 it was true five minutes later the lugger lurched slowly around in the tide the big sail began bagan to lift and stream in the starlight hohanness Joh anness came aft cursing tho stir of the water 1 I toll you it cannot bo be done if we had bad a thousand armed fellows in the be narrows what could they do with cockleshell dugouts to board a ship drawing sally they listened to the lapping water on the loggers side and now from the oak grown islet there come came a stumble of feet a clatter of arms and then a splashing la in the starlit shallows aye buIl leol roared john crack ley 1 I said if ever wo we met this la fitte fatte thero there would be proper work for youl you 1 the deserters and tho the younger swamp islanders were out drunken and with ribald cheers under their smoky torches A I 1 one of the pardoned outlaws outlaw cried it was the old boarding sea yell of the black Pet Pe rals crew and it struck with a curious cold prophecy to the heart of pate fate was bearing him do what he might back to tho the lawless years of the youth he be had pu put t by the devils hand to Is in this grum gram bled Jo Joh banness annesa this wind it will bo boa i a good ships wind in the passes the genaroy will bo bean ln beno water tomorrow noon nooel 11 it la Is fatal to our plan of boarding her in the river mused lafatte and the plan must change with the wind if we had a weather boat off the old ls isle lelej lej A boat I 1 growled nez coupe nut but in all these theao coves where once we counted forty sail and two dundr hundred ed guns there Is nothing worth a nu nutshell esho 11 on blue water bahl bah I 1 wo we took the presidents pardon it ac A ship I 1 snarled black mike seize a ship I 1 damnation I 1 how does a man find a ship why name 0 gd G 0 d ha takes hert her I 1 and suddenly do Al monaster whirled on the silent leader with glowing eyes A wp ship why there in the city moored at the place dargent dArm dAr ment esl the napoleon ship ll 11 shouted jo banness han ness why curse my eyes that la is a ship but death to the perfumed gentry that own her berl I 1 tho the cried bohon why that would bit ahead 0 the english bark and laugh in any weather I 1 lafette was waa staring half amusedly at do da Almonn Almon ster nater monsieur the sera sem phane lies in thy the very heart of the city under the guns of aft every fort and wars man there I 1 well then threescore threes coro of your swamp fellows gathered secretly by the algiers shore and crossing the river at midnight could board and have her under way ere the port awoke once off the passes sho she could overhaul tho the bark she Is gunned for the best of them but there would bo be no need the benaron could not fight she would give back the lady of course the admiralties admiral ties at washington and london would howls howl but the young man shrugged indifferently thol thai affair would be over over monsieur are you mabrl and ah I 1 liar had forgotten that I 1 possess a certain interest in the I 1 of course I 1 really know nothing about such madness mad 1 I 1 am amazed I 1 denounce it much as I 1 denounce tills this saz a rac who a dinner guest of mine Is discovered to be gantte the pirate I 1 you peril your life and your future monsieur monseur Mon slur TO BE CONTINUED |
