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Show i! DICK RODNEY; l 5 3 s Or. The Adventures of 3 I An Eton Boy... : 3 by jfmaa grant. j CIIAPTCR XXXV -'("onllnucd ) , Thli Instrument of tho law wa tlm-pljr tlm-pljr in upright wooden post riling from ' the platform At II baso was n low too, on which the condemned are i seated, and about three feet abovo that appears an Iron ring with a handle and erew, bj the compression of which ! they arc strangled, Instantly or slowl) 9 according to sentence 4 The croud was very Impatient, the J hour at which the grim tceno was to I have taken place wa now long part b Loud murmur nroso from the people, who had hcird most exaggerated atorlea il Antonlo'a alature, atrength and ferocity, and glance of anger and Impatience were darted at the gill dial of the town home on which a black banner nan hoisted but half-mart high Wo recozntted nearly all the crew of the San lldefonso In front of the mob, and there, too, were a number of licit-1 lib aallor of II M 'a (team loop of J war ActHc, which had anchored In the harbor that morning I Several priests In long, gray robe were hurrying to and fro, begging a "peseta" to pay for mattes for tho oul of tho condemned man A neither llltlop nor I had any do-Ire do-Ire to wltnew a scene o barbarous and revolting a an execution, wo hastened has-tened to our potada to breakfattwhero we wero some tlmo later Joined by Capt Jose Httrcmcra, who had Just come from the Coatle of H.inta Cruz, where the culprit wa confined, and who jve us all the particular concerting con-certing the execution of Antonio that -wo ca rid to know. CIIAITCR XXXVI. Conclusion. I havo but little more to add, for with this last episode the course of wild adventure upon which I had been so vtrangoly hurried, nearly close. A few hour after the death of Antonio, An-tonio, when llltlop nnd I, with Lam-bourne, Lam-bourne, Carlton and other survivors of the Hugcnlo were waiting In tho om.ee of the Urltlsh consul to make some or-rangementa or-rangementa for rewarding Jose i:tro-mera i:tro-mera for hi great kindness to us all, -we met Captain the Hon Ugerton 11 of her majesty's ship Active, who was so struck with our atory that he offered offer-ed us all a passage to England, an offer of-fer we accepted with gratitude. Ills ship was leaving the African squadron, and returning homo to be repaired "Itodney Itodney," ald be, ponder-Ingly, ponder-Ingly, when the consul Introduced me, j "you ought to hnvo been a sailor, for i your naruo I well known In the ser vice," and hi words brought the mem- ' ory of my poor mother's ambition ' baik to me, and I thought of the old . picture which hung In the dining room at home, i After a brief conference with his shipmates, Tattooed Tom now came I forward, and twirling hi fragment of a bat, said that "If the noble catnln had bo objection, a he, Ned Carlton, i Probart and the oth'r poor fellow of the Eugenie wero out of a berth, and , at uncommon low water, they would gladly ship aboard the Active and en- ter her majesty's service, Capt I), who saw at a glance that ' they were all first-class seamen, read ily accepted the offer and promised , ' them the usual bounty, for which they gave three loud cheers for the queen, and It came from their throat not the less heartily that they were far away from her and In a foreign land, alt tat- , tered as they were, with scarcely a shirt to their backs. "Heaven bless you, my lads," said ; lllslop; "this Is the best thing you can do; and believe me, Capt. II , you will find my old shipmates neither I walstcra nor green hands, but thorough A. n.'s." ' A they all locd him, another cheer Ifor lllslop followed, and whllo the captain Kent off to tho Active In his file, we all adjourned to a posado to havo a frlenill) glass together. ' Soon after, as the war steamer was to sail that evening, a boat under n i mldshlpmau came off for Us, and then we bade farewell to Jose Bstrcmera, to bis mate, Manuel Oautler, to Pro , Ansclmo, and the old governor of Sura- ! baya. ' Come, Dick, wo havo no time to Jose," said lllslop. let us be off to the ship wlillo daylight lasts." I shall neicr forget my emotions of Joy when the boat with lllslop and the rest of us came steering alongside the Active She was so clean, so trig, so square aloft, with the bright copper gleaming ' la tho water below, her black bulwarks and red portholes, through which her slxty-clghts and thirty-twos peered above fiuiilMiap the snow-whlto bom-rorf'111 bom-rorf'111 " the gold epaulets of H tb1l2 rt2uta jatch glittering HI .0SiJi!LSSSSitSS!l lmar"" atL W Is! is-tbe great Crttf-.ttt(k o .- were on the deck, of good old Kngllth oak aye much at home If we stood upon the chalky South foreland, and saw the great hop Ileitis of fertile Kent at our feet with the gray towers of Dover and the white spires of Deal In the distance Old 1-ambourne uttered ut-tered a shout, and pointed to the Union Jack Ono must be abroad and far away to feel to the full tho emotions that arc, excited, and the confidence which la Inspired nn seeing the old flag, that has swept cter tea and shore, waving In Its pride from the gaff-peak of a Urltlsh Urlt-lsh man-of-wnr It Is then that wo feel "what a sway one little Island has exercised over the mighty earth " lllslop and I dined with Capt. II, who was anxious to hear oir story In detail Our shipmate wero told off to their several divisions, and we were placed In the ward room met for tho remainder re-mainder of the voyage I We sailed that night nnd under steam and canvas, a we bora away to tho north we soon taw the Peak of Adam e. king Into the dark bluo sea. "Adieu to the Canaries,' said lllslop, waving hi hat, "the next shore we see will be Europe tho white cliff of Old England, perhaps " llut next day we sighted the great pltona of the fialvago Islands, a group of uninhabited rocks which aro claimed claim-ed by tho Portuguese (perhaps no ono die can about them), and which aro surrounded by dangerous shoals One of theto Itles closely resemble tho fantastic rocks of the Needles, at the west end of tho Isle of Wight. On the Salvage the canary birds aro so numerous that an old voyager saya "It Is Impossible to walk without crushing their eggs" We touched at .Madeira, and after a delightful voyage of about sixteen day ran up the Channel, and came to anchor an-chor In tho l)owns an the 29th of October, Oc-tober, I bad been absent from homo rooro than a year, when I found myself In London In mighty Indon, with Its dark forests of malts and Its dark cathedral ca-thedral dome, that meets the eye from every point of view a wondrous and bewildering change, after traversing to long me wide and lonely teal With a heart swollen by anxiety to learn tidings of my father, my mother and sisters, I reached the counting room of my uncle's Arm, Itodney A Co, In tht city, but there was something some-thing to peculiar In my aspect, which pertained neither to sea nor shore, and was unmistakably outlandish, that old John Thomas, the porter, seemed Inclined In-clined to shut the door In my face. A short explanation, however, soon overcame bit scruple, and I was then admitted. My uncle was at Hrlesmere, but his head clerk assured me that my family were alt well, though they bad Ions since given tns up for dead, a a handsome (he assured mt It was very handsome) white marblo tabltt erected to my memory In tht Ilectory church remained to testify, Uy letters from Cuba had Dover reached home. As I had no desire to shock my parent par-ent by a sudden surprise, t. telegram preceded me, and In lest than an hour I was off by tht expren train for Crlcsmere, Hut with alt Its speed the express seemed too slow for me. Mark lllslop accompanied me until be could get a ship, but before looking lor that he meant to visit his old mother, who lived somewhero In Scotland. After all that wo had undergone, all that I bad to ahow my family were tho sword and old book found In the waterlogged brig, the erect" of a mu tlnous Latcar, and the rlns given me by the governor of Surabaya I have now realized the truth of Ooetbe'a maxim: "He that looks forward for-ward seea one way to pursue, but be who looks backward tee many." Tin: i:nd. |