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Show WfT (DICK RODNEY; j s op, The Adventures of jj s An Eton Boy... 2 s : 5 tiY jnmne grant. 3 YlltSSfflSISftSSISSSSI4SSSSUSCflftSI fr ft KtCftftcc-a;fl0r (jAPTt:U XXXIII -(Continued ) Tils feat I achieved with consider-abff consider-abff peril, tor the birds, when roused froo their eyries, whoopeil, screamed. mrwhreliM In Totks and circles about mejflnpplng their huge wings, so that ones I became so bewildered, that In-itssJ In-itssJ of clambering ngsln to the summit sum-mit ot the 1 1 Iff. I iH-gtih a descent to-Aril to-Aril tho foaming sn below fjn reaseenilliig my hat was blown ntay, nnd with It tho wretched egg fgr which I had risked my lite and lliiks. ftcr this eient I resolied tn procure fjod for myself alone, and Instead ot returning to Antonio, who usually Isltered about the hut our men had lift, t went to the opp-Mlle sldo ot tho lilaod. nnd found n banana inoie. Tnhcreln I took un mr ausrtcri. 1 hid been thirty six hours wtUlout seeing ray pleasant chum, the Cubano, or being near him with food. I knew that his rage would be great, nnd feeling feel-ing myself unusually weak, after all tho mental excitement and bodily ox-rciuro ox-rciuro I had undergone, necessity corn-celled corn-celled me now to avoid him strictly, ss I was totally Incapable ot contending contend-ing with nlra in any way If he found me to plead tint I had When searching for berries about sunrise, on the western side of (he Isle, snd while the sun, though up, was yet below th treat mountain nnd cast Its shadow to the extreme borlinn nt the haby morning sea, 1 encountered Antonio An-tonio at last. Hunger, spparently, had rtndered hltn furious; but feeling certain In a moment that timidity would do me no service. I started back and said In Spanish: "Ha! ha! I told you what would happen when I wanted food." said ho, feeling ths point ot his knife, ; My blood ran cold at these words, and I cast a longing eye upon my lost hatchet; he saw the glanra nnd trampled upon the weapon with a mocking liuih. "What do you mean, Cubano?" I asked, In sn almost breathless voice, "8 mply thls-thnt, ss self-preservation Is the first law ot nature, 1 nm bound to kill you " i He had tho revolver tn his hand, and while ho cast a glance at the caps nn the breach, as If to see that they were nil right, and sheathed his knife, I rosde a hound aside and placed a I nna tree between us. Tho dastard stripped off a piece of lark. In the same manner I escaped a second sec-ond shot, so Antonio, finding tint hU 'rauch-prlted ammunition was likely to bs expended fruitlessly, rushed for-wsrd for-wsrd to use his knife. ' The tendril of a pumpkin caujtU his left foot, ho fell heavily and hurt him- -self severely. Then, darting pint, I i lecured my hatchet, and rendered furl- Ms by all that had occurred, and by he Imminent danger which menaced Df, a light seemed to flash before my yes, I trembled with rage, and felt us tilmbued with supernatural strength. I was about to spring upon Antolo rlth hands, feet and teeth, to hew him rlth the hatchet as I would have lnwn Jtree, when a new object suddenly alight my eye. Jt was a ship but a ship aihore. i Cubano," I exclaimed In a husky See, "look there!" fAntonlo looked In the direction Initiated, In-itiated, and, pausing In tils murderous nlcntlon, uttered a fierce laugh ot sat-fiction, sat-fiction, Jn the rocky channel which opened istween the Inaccessible Island and itra thero lay the wae-bcatcn hull of dismasted vessel, which might hio li fled In over night, as It was certain-y certain-y not thero yi-sterday, and It was now a anted hard and fast upon a rcot of k tbuJcorineclffl them This new object changtd at once tho e rlblo current of the Cubans Ideas. I grim smile passed oier his ollio i untenancc, he shook back the el(j.tu Hisses ot coal-black hair, which, III II ye-terrler fashion, overhung his wild ti rk eyes, nnd sheathing his knife, aid: 'i 'Mlo muchacho come; I was only 0 ilng. Yonder we will find f joj, peril per-il Ps, and who knows what aiuwl '" me. It Is a bargain, and it ou don't li ion me, I shall not molest you j iln." Silt proceeded at once toward the ii h, and I waa hungry enough, and ) rhaps rc-ckloM enough now, to bo 1 id of n truce, nnd to follow him. In J e hope of finding something catablo ) board. CHAITKU XXXIV. j Tho Homoward Voyage. i My heart beat happily, I was no aier a lonely maroon, but on the h road to homo and Old England M were rescued by n ship hailed by IllllOn and thn nlhara 1 We bad scleral days of the finest ! 'Plcal weather, and they passed un-a un-a irked by a greater Incident than '! 'leg a shoal of dolphins, sparkling "icy surged through tho brine; the if very flying- fish leap from ono greei itery slope to another, while the ' rk, crooked tin of the stealthy (hark I Idod as usual In the trough of the I between; n piece ot weedy drill- 'XJd with Mother Cnry's chickens or i Witrossesi, floating near it, or perhaps the horlson the topsails of a vi hull-don n, appearing for a time like white or dusky specks.accorillng to tho position of the sun. The captain of tho Sin Ildctonso per-celling per-celling that Marc Illslup and 1 were great friends kindly placed us tn tho samo watch As for Anlnnto the Cubano. we never went near him It wo could help It He was placed In tho cablo tier, and for more complete security. In the bilboes, bil-boes, which aro Iron shackles that confine con-fine (he feet However, we dally heard from the surgeon and from I'ra Ansel mo, who was somewhat skilled In surgery, and who undertook his euro bodily ami mental!), that tho wound under tho right armpit hid proved slight, through tho lungs hid esrsped narrowly, but that the other In the breast had pvnpUaled the fleshy portion por-tion of tho heart, and was n very dangerous dan-gerous one. The friar added that "the Cubano was not one of those men who are easily killed, and thus he would recover rapidly." Wo also heard that Antonio waa well cared for, ns he had discovered one or two friends among the cr. such ns the seaman llenlto OJeda, a most villainous vil-lainous looking, beetle browed and squat llttlo Catalonlan, who seemed to be tho worst character on board, and was engaged In perpiluil quarrels A few d)e after'crosstng the tropic ot Cancer, on n lovely afternoon, we again saw the peak ot Teuerlffo lighted light-ed up by the western sunshine and rising like a rone of red flame from tho blue sea. The clouds seemed to rise with It, and cro lung wo saw Us base spreading spread-ing out beneath them "Tetnyreef nga'n!" 1 heard old Tom I.nmbourne muttering cs he leaned aver the Ice bow, with n short plpa In his mouth "Dish my wlgl 1 have had a spell enough ot Tennyreef betoro this!" Manuel Gamier and lllslon now came with a party ut seamen to get the anchors an-chors oft the forecastle lo her bows. This wns no light task, tho render may bo assured, for they were each about forty-flrc hundred weight; and now tho ponderous cables rattled along the deck as they wcro bent to tbp iron rings. We approached this singular Island from a point that was new to me; but still Us great and most familiar features fea-tures wero the samo as when I first Kstremera 'now reminded us that when st TcnerlfTo we should not fall tb lslt tho two great sights of the Island the Valley of tho Diamond and tho old Dragon tree ot Caora The wind was fresh and fair, but felt light after sunset, and when the high land ot the Clrand Canary was on our starboard beam It almost died nwnir. Ai w erent in two ..u, ltt llghthouso at the base of La Montana Ilexo, which In the warm sunset seemed seem-ed to have turned Into blood pr port wlno, so deeply crimson was tho glow that lingered on the clouds and on tho shore; and then the vast peak save where girdled In midair by a light floating vapor seemed all of a deep violet tint dotted at Its baso by tho white walls of houses, or of sugar mills and by grores of cocoa and rosewood trees Darkness was soon there, but still tho sunset lingered In raya of flro upon up-on the mighty peak of Adam, dn which tho C)o never tired of gating, lly midnight wo wcro abreast of It, and all was darkness at last savo whero the millions of stars were sparkling spar-kling In tho wide bluo dome of the sky. Illslop and t were In tho morning-watch morning-watch whin tho shin arrived off the mouth of -tho' harbor! of Banta Cruz that pretty town which Humboldt termed the moat beautiful botweon Spain and the Indies , ' -A Huh' that broke the darkness.wlth a light puff of smokp flostjog away from the old castle walls. Indicated the morning gun, and that dawn was visible. vis-ible. It seemed as If It were hut ycstifday whrn the Ftieenle and the Costa Illean brig had, narked out ot tho samo harbor har-bor together, In the same species of dull twilight, and that all which had passed since that time had been a dream, We beat in with tho breeze ahead, The light of another day waa rapidly descending from the summit of the peak, and already that green glrdte named the Iteglon ot Laurels was shining In the sunbeam; so ero long wo saw tho windows ot tho custom house, which stands above tho long mole, and all tho shsded lattices of the terraced streets of Santa Cruz, glittering in gold and purple sheen. The anchors weio ready to be let go; tho chain cables were ranged upon deck In long colls that ran fore and aft; wo tacked repeatedly, and each time tbo tackw became shorter and more frequent, "Heady about! Presto! down with tha helm let fly the head-sheets' were the orders beard- Incessan... from Hstrwofrn and M" "tier. The yards slewed r . s-'JlOy r the canvas flspp' "On ''h the cracking ' i ' r, nl , tiii r -1 ; ri I- I h . . frtfm iu t.thoms ot water and tde ship swung round head i to wind as her courses were trilled up, nnd the men hurried aloft to hand the topsails and topgallant sills; so she was soon denuded ot her can- vn. When tho anchor plunged Into the frothy water, making a thousand concentric con-centric ripples run from the ship; and when I felt, by the Instant strain upon the cable, that she had firm hold of the ground, my heart swelled with unalloyed happiness, for to bo In Ten-erlffo Ten-erlffo was to be far on the watery high road to my homo. 8antn Crux bolng tho capital ot these lilci. Is the residence of the captatn-general captatn-general of the Canaries, the sent of the supremo court of law, nnd of all tho consuls nnd commissaries ot foreign powers, whose various flags, when dls-plajed dls-plajed upon their houses, make the handsome streets as gay In aspect as tho harbor, which la always crowded by the shipping ot every nation, A custom houso boat, with the Spanish Span-ish ensign floating at the stern, came promptly off with an official, a dandled creolo In uniform, with a sombrero on his curly head, a saber at hta sldo, and a cigar In his mouth. To him CapL totrcmcra made a full report ot tho mutiny which had broken out In his ship when off tho African coast, and the stern moJo of Its suppression. Hence, In two hours after, wo had tho satisfaction of seeing Antonio el Cubano, llenlto OJeda, tho old tlndal ot the Lascars, and clghtcr other rascals, taken off to tho castle ot 8anla Crux In a large open boat, guarded by twelve Spanish soldiers, In charge of a lieutenant, lieu-tenant, Don Lull Pineda. I can still recall the glanco of Impotent Im-potent and baffled malignity that Antonio An-tonio bestowed on us as ho went down t tha ship's sldo. It combined all tho worst emotions of his angry heart.and somewhat reminded mo ot hla face f In that terrible moment when he swung nt th end ot the studding sail-boom, sail-boom, with despair In his clutch and t, death In hla heart, We watched the boat till It reached the long stone mole, nnd then wo saw the fixed bayonets ot the escort dishing, dish-ing, as the whole party avended tho great stair toward the custom house, and surrounded by a mob of thoso nautical nau-tical Idlers who usually make a pier , their lounge, disappear In tho Interior of tbo town, as they marched toward the castle. ,' Two episodes more will close tho story ot Antonio his trial and punish-cnt' punish-cnt' VA $ tHAPTTIt XXXV. 5j The Last ot Antonio 111 Cubano, Tho trial came on In a couple of days .' after, and proceeded with a celerity . . unknown In England or Scotland cltb- . er. We wern all examined, nnd pre- 4 vtously were snorn, not on a lllble, M but oi er two snord blides held In the M form of a cross for such Is the old Q chlvalrlc custom in a Spanish court i -h iviiouv,'UuiiloWiuVv"stounill(BBoat Antonio guilty; he nss.sentcnccdto die by tho garotte, nhd heard'hls doom" "'-J with apparent apathy, The tlndal of tho Lascars was released, re-leased, as It would appear that he had acted under compulsion; but llenlto OJeda rind eight other Spanish sea- j men were sentenced to work In the fortifications or on tho highways for ten years, in cnains, as rcions or galley gal-ley slaves. A few days later wo found a great crowd ot colonists, citizens, mulattocs, f' Creoles and negroes, all In motley and '' gaudily striped linen Jackets and trou- '' sers, assembled In the Plaza, where a i "'. guard of Spanish Infantry, with mus- i kets shouldered and bayoneU fixed, j kept back tho people In the form ot a ' hollow square about a raised wooden platform, which was covered with H black cloth and whereon was placed J ths garotto. "What is all this about?" we asked, j "It Is for tho execution of Antonio, a Cuban plralo, who Is to dlo by tha :. garotte," replied a soldier. ifij (To bs continued.) jf' |