| Show CHAPTER XV continued 20 lie he howled la pra heeled suddenly tb rt puff of wind eliut cattle ns 88 site itha iha red ali the eliones elion ls it shook tile the from lib hig failing gilded K poll aspon the lie rigging rigg lilg nut even in III mid gorgio tie the catalan Cn talan repented repeated ills hla eliof r 11 of tho ho old days then ills his body areil red out au t and plunged to tile alio opals like ft a comet streaking at t waters wate rs 1 depths the i D nl growled Is i a fiend dead ship where are tile the bill that I 1 raise not 0 man monir ur do aln io naster I 1 captain sitz saz el I 1 lay 11 course coursen n now w have this I 1 ip worked I 1 lay her ns as she Is s old gab bler oiled satanic 1 starboard a bit e mist Is closing on tho the spaniard 1 he cannot stir in tho the air that res es this beauty A long trick at ur ir wheel dominiquez DomInI quel still till the rotund politician would not der stand our lads lad lie fumed ml I 1 take lake the deck I 1 want something iome thIng work with monsieur Alon act DeAl de Al monaster was holding his big arm rough whose sleeve tho the blood would ott ut despite his efforts eff oits louise les ron n stared in a wild disbelief from e shadowy disorder forward on the looner hooner to the master when mazarac spoke it appeared to to her there are none left lef t you re seen the lie last men of a vanished e you have seen been men dle die in hony for you mademoiselle for a oman man at which they would havo have ched for the peace of the world 4 hach ach they would have scorn scorned edt I 1 it a i strange thing you see I 1 and old a alone alon 0 on this bloody deck y one ae more than ilby human heart can ow wl I 1 r the he two gentlemen took her to the 8 bin in while the crippled schooner fled r a blinded path anywhere to be out om n the guns of the king 0 6 spain ey y took her to the emperors suite d monsieur de Almonn ster found ead id and meat for her and mon eur ir mazarac Saz arac held wine fineto to her lips nere here also the gentlemen discor ed 1 a thing which they did not reto rt mademoiselle they closed the or softly to the cabin and tried to ake e a jest of all the ter berthat that me e with the taking of the sera e to the tapestry hung stateroom with Is boots on and his bloodstained blood stained ead I 1 deep in the pillow the emperor f the he bottle lay upon Bona partes d once more ho might be sleeping he e might be dead the gan genen emen could not talce take atme time to dincov with ath so many other grim questions I 1 bounting to the eyes of each acroca acro ss e emperors board be that as it may the emperor hav g reached the privacy of ills his cham er flatly refused refuse d ta to leave it again via though hla lady ot the camellia a now just outside the paneled CHAPTER XVI the loot of a buccaneer the e shortened sal 11 wa was snapping in a ear morning breeze which worried mi still at his trick tofek with the heel il which was all that a rotund derman man his big knees too much sagged ith tat fat living might attempt A fair orill ieng ng and a following sea with not sail il in sight pursuit even from the eav y floied spanish troopship might gone badly with the two hundred ton schooner short shorthanded handed banded as she iperen on the 16 two gentlemen who had been ely washing down the decks came about t tile tho low housing jd ato where the b 0 in lay ay the deck wa was wet the S buccaneer was wet tile lespron looked up the shaggy had with its huge gold earrings pit lowed d on her lap and her face was wet 1180 a sparkle lent bythe sea and the fountains bains of her womans comans compassion she e turned from her ministrations irith a wan smile he will not bo be id messieurs V I 1 id robber muttered mazarac Saz arac aborn to the end efie ch it Is my place here in the tho weather ira no quarter deck gentry nor mew prentice to be laid below in the whorls ars room for nil all a thrust or two hohanness oh anness you are going soon on ed the chief gravely mat at Is what I 1 wanted of vou ou send 1 the english womac and though gh he growled this blits when she it had ad n he be looked loot ced about ot at her from 1 this his gray bushy brows and land smiled look I want bot to lie wil a moment and at the clyl ng tops you hlll need shorten sail and I 1 rage that I 1 can 0 spring ang to the tops again name 0 0 41 a seaman on his back and english blocks clattering I 1 le lathe the sn woman gone goner Is well away w ath th ko monsieur do de faster G 01 ol tot now you are hud and le ula this omans wor nans mazarac Saz arac it it js s this in ie MY lay bhrim p pers er Is c a m P at nada there sherela the 4 k rela is a packet in ray my at it tells tella of cr plunder that mp tn L find do de convill 16 6 an aaa I 1 burled 1 told y y years ago aeo some sora ome auver allver and a handful ul of by charles tenney jackson copyright Copy tIght by the bobb company gewelb tho two others allive been dead long since and I 1 wish visit tile tho stuff fur for you yon 1 I can never ret return urn to louisiana Joh hohanness anness sald tile tho tender lender gently ell eb well that la Is sol the old mans voice was breaking lower ho turned its ills face to watell watch tile white nilso along tile tho weather rail tile highest glitter of tt it striking ills his face well lot let rue me he my illy capt aln I 1 I 1 wish to lie ho alone staring nt at the dizzy tops naught but them against th the blue rind and tile tho sea weathering up at me now let ile he jeana tile tho muster master put his hand back on his breast and walked aft tile weary group by tho the sie steersman ersman looked ques up let no ono one go near him it la Is ills hla wish I 1 shall hall roll him from tho the chains vint that too Is ills hla wish I 1 alone 1 and again tho the girl looked wonderingly at him what aro are you to them all monsieur that rough men turn to y you in this fashion as I 1 have peen acen them die dic the priest the brother and tho the comrade A name lie he said and smiled and then would say no more louise had bound up de Almona Almonn stera wounded arm now they nil all lay in the shelter of tho the otter after housing save tho the lad clark who had taken the wheel old dominique monsieur mazarac and count de Al monaster with the english woman the creak and haul of the gear in tho the freshening wind was all tle the sound and dominique croaked tits his misgivings A sore wild night for us its all heartiest hearties if it keeps on and another mystery there may be for the coffee houses and that to la the end of the seraphine Seraph lne and the yelling bullies who stole he hr r from the place darmell dAr meol I 1 trust tho mayor wl will 11 put flowers on my desk in the council chamber they tried to smile for the sake of mademoiselle now and then with a curious little frowning tear fear she lad had glanced down the raised skylight to the cabin of the emperor it was indeed as it if she was watching there for on an ap af A 4 he will not be moved parit lon at times she would have asked of the ragged roain she saw there in the chair of honor with the scalp wound that had given him something the appearance of one who wore a red coronet and jauntily but always the two gentlemen had courteously evaded her the two gentlemen had conferred apart now and then reservedly per haps but with common honesty you would make the mississippi passes with this ship monsieur inquired do de Al monaster it appears quite impossible that we should I 1 what Is in your mind monsieur ret retorted oried mazarac dryly your life again granting this shorthanded vessel can be brought to the mississippi there Is an answer we must make for this affair there to Is the answer I 1 made to made mademoiselle mol lespron Le stron 11 true true I 1 the younger man shrugged there Is in addia addit addition I 1 0 n my honor th that at tile seraphine Seraph lne yet fret sail on the mission for the emperor tiler there are gentlemen in N new ew orleans with money in this venture it if a crew could bo be shipped beany by any means monsieur mazarac laughed aloud at the end it amused urn this punctilious regard each beach had for honor his own and the other mans and each for thoo the others thOrs life and future that was wh what bat mademoiselle lespron had bad put upon them this meticulous notion to fiand aside rather than overreach come he said bald good Is there a 4 quarrel in us monsieur in tha to end sh bhe 0 will know you ere an jenn lafitte wert on do evenly aut it la Is not I 1 who should tell her Is not that fair 1 I 1 will bow bov to her front from the galya tho the governor will erect in the blare ilapo darnice clArin cs and announce myself if needs bo be said Alon monsieur Sti zartic Jen jengill nIll thu the younger ouner ninn sprang up tip hotly tills this la Is no Je jesting I 1 sho loves lovea you 11 A ghost 1 smiled tile the oth or cr ali ah indeed this la Is worthy of tho the ninn man who lies below in tho the suite of napoleon Nn bubbling babbling a glory which alch lg Is compounded of fever and cognac I 1 what Is if there to love in Suz arac once t tho lie mask Is torn front from him that Is the point of it retorted tho the other soberly so boily ono can lovo love a n mask linsk a woman can go on 01 forever loving tho the illusion site sho deems a ronn man to be bel it the irons sho she will seo see upon mon bleur lafette in new orleans will not be nn fin illusion the master smiled again detachedly this romantic fancy of tiers hers for gazar act go bolow ask monsieur jurvis ibio liaa has suffered for her bled for her saved her life and refuses to bo be anything but tile tho verlest mystery and illusion to herl her I 1 ho he refuses reuses to bo be anything moro more my friend jarvis Is very wise monsieur mazarac can go 90 no DO further than the gallows in the place darmes dAr mca and there smile down at her regretting lio lie Is not himself ali ah well belll I 1 tho the young man started up bitterly 1 I can make nothing of 0 it itt I 1 lovo love her monsieur lafitte and she loves tho the magic of mazarac Bazar acl I 1 ile ho arose and paced the wet deck wincing as tho the sword thrust through his left arm cut him under tho dress ing her hands had made for it 81 sho 1 0 saw him film from lier her cushioned perch b by y tho the steersman had taken the trick again and sent the lad dark clark to tho the booko lookout ut A one fine hot youth raoul do de Al monaster had como come to bo be under tho the press of the eventful fortnight since the seraphine Seraph lne fled from the rivers mouth tho the languid aristocrat of the sugar plantations plantation s had flung against the steel of monsieur mazarac and tempered to a man she would have called him and tried to win him from hlf his moods but she feared the flame of him she could hardly fall to guess why tits lila sword aivord had leaped from its sheath on camache campeche Cam peche reef and surely the sera phine had lind s seen een enough of mens passions and their blood and monsieur leur mazarac Onzar Saz arac nc too had tits his moods again ile he found affairs to keep him busied bugled as an indeed well a sailor might ou oli this man crippled schooner but once happening to glance down the cabin skylight with lier her incessant curiosity she saw him there he strod in deep thought it opp appeared pared then lie he went t to 6 the door of the emperors and rapped d upon it with his all stiver ver sword hilt she thought lie he laughed slightly as a man av who ho had bad thought upon a sert serious matter until it became amusing tho the door opened site she could not tell by whom but monsieur mazarac bowed with an accentuated nourish flourish there was a sap sardonic donle smoothness to this bow and mazarac entered the emperors chamber the door closed and for an hour nothing happened in the cabin it irritated mademoiselle les tron A mystery with grim laughter in it about all the blood and death and fire of the weeks there had bad seemed grimacing mirth even the dying wounded fellows overwhelmed by the boarding span birds ards on the port bow last night that too was a jest for if the kings men had made one more assault the sera phine phane would have been theirs agala the swords of monsieur leur do de almonas ter and monsieur gazaras were the only ones them when they broke back to their boats the last dead of the seraphine Seraph luo lay in a close row before tho the fo casle hood beluche the admiral nez coupe the riven faced bohon bobon tho the smuggler joe rigo of isle grando grande freniere Fren lere lero and two others a fallen rank to which presently she saw monsieur mazarac carry the last iasi the hohanness Joh anness then the master stood bareheaded in the sun and looked them over he seemed satisfied he took a deck broom and swept around them carefully as it if these were a treasure heaped on the schooners ners spray lashed bow and then he came aft mademoiselle lespron saw that he carried a number of shabby things A drenched velvet capi cap a broken brohen pistol a d a cutlass and a gold earring from the bo bosnes bosn suns ns head with these ho he went down the main com ay to the emp emperors eroes cabin knocked on on the door and then entered the door closed she glanced at Alu ennan drowsing at the wheel ta tb a flapping calv canvas as as the schooner wore e offa off n bit brought his eyes open monsieur dom anique I 1 what Is going on she cried eh on 1 I trust my head ts still on and remains so what what to la this pin for mer she bae in TO BE |
