Show I oj lApAl AL iTA BEGIN BEGIN- TODAY TODAr An n Interesting friendship springs spring up between Arabella niece and ward ot of Colonel Bishop of Barbados and Captain Blood who had become the shae e or of o Bishop after having haing be been ll unjustly convicted on a charge or of treason England against King James of Eng Bag land Blood becomes I a n leader In II a plot to escape from the 1 Island Iland land BIshop flogs shipmaster Jeromy Jeremy Pitt a young youn ter who refuses to answer certain Questions put to him by hy tho enrage I colonel who ho ho Is tre tle 11 owner ot of o both Blood and ond l Pitt GO ON OX WiTH IT THE STORY lou rOil dont don't know Well Vell heres here's to quicken your out our wits Again the cane descEnded Have liae you 7 thought o of his name namo yet Pitt shrugged shined shifted sideways au on his feet reel again nod and settled Into dog dog- dogged dogged dog dogged ged silence Colonel Bishops Bishop's temper tempe was never neer one that required pro fiercely nov nor he lashed tbD those o defenseless shoulders pan In ing each blow b by blasphemy and anJoul foul abuse until the lingering embers of his Ills manhood fanned tanned Into momen momen- momentary momentary tary tory name lame Pitt sprang upon his tom tom- mentor loi-mentor mentor But as he lle sprang so also tile the watchful blacks Muscular lu CUlot arm arms arm's coiled colled crushingly about the tha fraU frail white body and In III a a moment the tho u ut ui fortunate slave sla stood po erle powerless I I Breathing hard his face faco mottle i BIshop J pondered him u t moment Then retch him along ho he said They came out upon the green u and headed for tho thio stockade Blockade an ani 1 the overseers overseer's white house Pitts Pitt's looked out over Carlisle ba bay baa of ot which this plateau commanded a clear r view In the roads Standing In for tor cac before a gentle breeze that cely cely ruffled the sapphire surface ot Of the Caribbean came a stately red red- red hulled hulled flying the English en- en ensign ensign en ensign sign At her present rate rato of progress It would be ba aa an hour perhaps before sho came to anchorage within rio 13 harbor Pitt was as hurried into the stockade and clapped into the tho stocks toels that stood dood there thero leady meady 1 fr eq who ho required correction Colonel Bishop him pres pres- presently pres- pres presently presently with leisurely rolling gait A mutinous cur that shows s fangs langs to his Ills master must learn goo gool 1 manners at the end of a striped hl hide was as all lIe he said before belore about his executioners executioner's job ob When at last from el weariness Colonel Bishop flung away dY th the tho stump and thongs to which his cane had be reduced the wretched retched slaves slave's back backas was as pulp from front neck to waist alst I Colonel Bishop sot set his foot toot upon I the cro bar and leaned over o his sic sic- vic victim 1 tim a n cruel smile on his full coarse face I Let Let that teach you ou a proper sub sub- submission submission submission mission Enl said he And now touch touch- touching touching ing that shy fi of yours you ou shall I sty stay here without meat or drink I drink without a meat moat or drink 1 d dye e a hear hr h r me until you ou please pleasa to tell me mc his Isis name nam aid ald business He tools tool his foot from the bar When hen youve you've ou oue oue e had enough of this send me word ord and well we'll eli ha hasu havethe the Irons branding-Irons to vou soci On that ha ho laugh laughed e sun suun swung swung- on IIi heel and strode out of the stockade his negroes foil following 0 Ing The slave writhed In Ins his stocks until he ho was as in danger nger of breaking Ills his limbs ani writhing screamed In Ina a agony ony Thus was as he lie found by Peter Poter mood Blood who ho seemed to the lad lads lad's troubled Islon to materialise o suddenly him Ml li IJ Blood carried a largo large ia- ia rai-metto rai motto metto leaf Having JIa n a anuth away ai with uth this the flies that were nero ere dC Jeremy's s 's back lie he slung it b by a or of fibre flom his neck so that it pro pro- pro protected him from rem mi ther attacks as ab abell well veil as from tho the rays 1119 of ot the sun Next ext sitting down beside the tho ho hodrew drew the lads lad's head down don on his own shoulder er and bathed b his face tace from a of cold water Pitt shuddered I and moaned on a long breath The gleat red ship had drawn con con- con considerably nen reI shore bs b bno bv no now novi Slow Slow- Slow Slow-lv Is majestically alo was vias tb bay th-bay ba An angry voice olee him flom his unhappy thoughts What the de devil deil II arc re you ou dOIl doug here J I lie he fling Colonel Bishop came camei striding into the stockade his bis n ni- ni nj gl gioe to following ing- ing t ever eer er Mr Ir Blood turned to face him an ani 1 oel that swarthy countenance countenance- which indeed b by now no was vias tinned tanned to the tho golden brown bro of ot a half-caste half In- In Indiana In Indian l dlan-l dian a mask masI descended Doing said he bland blandly hi h the duties ol of o my illY office Tho The Colonel striding furiously lOI- lOI tom ward foi-ward ward observed cd two tao things The Time em emp- emp empty emp empty ty p on tIle the seat beside the tho and the time palmetto leaf pro pro- protecting pro protecting hI his back boek I I 1 sail he lie 1 was as to have hate Ia e neither mc meat t nor drink until until I It buie Sume ule now I never neer heard he e You neer nev er heard me How should rot vou have base heard me ine when oen you ou weren't erent here T Then on how dd did ye e expect me mo to know what hat orders ed gh given gisen en Mr Ir Bloods Blood's tone was vies no now how positively ag- ag ag aggrieved grieved ed edThe The rhe planter thrust him hini aside wIth nn an imprecation and ond stepping forward tore the palmetto leaf from the onel's back bach In rn the namo of humanity nOW now Mr 4 Blood sas as v as beginning At that moment a a terrific roiling dro drowned drone ne his voice olce and shook theer the er very er air Colonel Bishop ped jun his negi oe oc jumped with him and so 10 o e een even en did the apparently Im- Im hable Mr Blood Then rhen the lour four of them stared together seawards Down 1 0 n in tho thio bay all that could be ein een of ot the tho great ship standing now a cables cable's length of ot the fort were her ller topmasts thrusting abo above abote e r a cloud cloud of ot smoke in which she sho was en- en en enveloped eloped eh As those men stared from the on oi the they stood they saw the British Jack dip dtp from tron toni the tho main truck and ond vanish Into tho the 1 sIng cloud below belo A moment more and up that cloud to leplace the fla of England soared the gold and crim cnn cnn- crimson son banner ot of C Castile And then they understood Pirates roared tho the colonel CHAPTER I i HI II The stately ship that had been at- at allowed al lowed to salt sail so leisurely into le lebay bay under her fals false colors colons WAS vs a Span Span- Spanish Spanish ish coming coIning to pa pa oft off some heM v debt piled plied up b by tho predacious of ol the Co Coast t and the timo recent defeat by tho the Pride of at o Devon Deson De on to two e galleons bound or Cadiz It happened the time galleon which escaped escaped escaped ed in n II more or less crippled condi condi- condition condition tion was as commanded by Don Diego do Espinosa y Valdez who hI was as 0 own n to the tha Spanish admiral Don Miguel MiRuel do Galled by his defeat ad and choosing to forget torget that his 0 own wn n conduct had muted it ho he had hod sworn to t the a p lesson which the timot should remember He had hall succeeded so well in hi his in- in In Intentions that he Jle had aroused no sus sus- sus Li I 4 d All 11 that FilM could be bc Cell secil of ol the limo great ship were ere lien her topmasts t thrusting t I abuse a n or ot until lie he In lt 1 d i f e foi 01 I f short range ranse with with a n In o 0 gun rune Militia As commander r of ot the do MIlitia the place of or Coonel Colonel Bishop was os at the head licad of ol lila Ills scanty canty troops In that fort font which the tho Spun Bp h guns gun v cre POU l pounding ug into I nibble 11 ii he went vt of ot at th double despite IiI hi Ills bulk Lull d d the h l lila his negroes trotted l after him Mr 11 lr Blood turned to J cray Jc-cray emy lilt Pitt lie He laughed hed grimly Now 0 that hi h said Mid i is what hat I call a inter Inter- interruption Ill I'll By fly B this time tho the rebels and slaves shaves were ere coining coming in in twos t h hIn having In abandoned their WOI It upon finding themselves un unguarded guarded and upon the dismay The rhe landing linding was as contE contested ted by lle fIo mIlitia and bv by every Islander of b bearing arms with th tho tierce fierce rose reso- of ot men w ho ho I rew that no was to be expected n in n defeat All through the scorching the battle battlo v ent on By sunset t two hundred and fifty Spaniards were ero I masters of Bridgetown n th the tr ti ere cre disarmed Of find at nt Government GO Go eminent house Governor t ls ms gout for tor forgotten gotten In hI his supported panic panic supported by Col- Col Colonel Col Colonel onel Bishop and some sonic lesser was ns being Informed by Don Diego DiOlo w lii an urbanity that was Iselt Isel a a mockery of the suns sum that would b be re- re required re required in ransom For a hundred thousand pieces of eight and fifty head hea of ot cattle Don Doe DonDiego DonDiego Diego would frol froit reducing the reducing the place to ashes Mr 1 Blood Wood greatly daring down olO at dusk k Into the town What he lie saw was as fetching him In h hate haste and white faced out of cf o that hell heU again agam when in p- p p narrow street a a girl hurtled into him wild eyed lId lId-e cd tier her un- un unbound Unbound un unbound bound hair streaming behind her as she ran After her laughing and cursing In a breath came callie a heasy- heasy heavy booted booted Spaniard Almost h has he was as upon her hen when hen suddenly Mr 11 Blood got In his way v a v She Iho 1 he doctor had taken a sword from a dead mans man's side ome little time before and armed with it against an emergency As the tho Spaniard checked In anger and surprise ho he caught ht In the tho dusk the livid 11 11 gleam of that sword which Mr Blood l had quickly unsheathed Ah perro porno Ingles lie he shouted antI and flung forward to his Ills death th Its hoping I am y i ere cre in a tit fit state to 10 meet med your sour our Maker said Mr MI Blood and lan tan him through the bod body lie Ill did the thing skillfully with Ith the corn con com combined skill of swordsman and surgeon 1 Mr lr I Blood s swung unS to tho thio girl who leaned panting and sobbing against III a asail sail all all lIe He caught her by the wrist faced WhIte physically sick Mm Blood dragged her almost almot at al a I iun un up the hill toward to BI Bishops Bishop's hOps hOp's house Jo He knocked but had to knock again and yet et again b folo e he Jle was answered Then it was as by a voice olee oice from front a windoW r F bo bov e V ho Is there I Tho The voice olce was M Miss Bishops Bishop's 1 l t little th but un- un un her Iel 0 own ov n In Our r Next cU Issue |