Show FF CAPTAIN AC by CHARLES TENNEY JACKSON copyright by the th bobbe merrial company A LAFITTE 1 1 I am lefitts again not monsieur mazarac Saz sitz arac irons and then the yardarm yard arm tor for the first follow fellow nho ho disputes my will the older head will v no not need 8 be told L the 8 E english ng 11 woman first after that as it ft is 18 monsieur do de almon asters anteras honor to his fellow citizens citizen zen a of louisiana LOU asiana for bonaparte and then the ses seas a are wide grimaced jarvis with a look at the master which drew in turn a glance of impenetrable reserve this Is a stirring tale of the picturesque days when the young creole bloods of new orleans rallied around lafitte the redoubtable pirate of barataria Bara Bar tarla ataria bay who won imperishable fame by corning coming to the aid of andrew jackson when that redheaded red headed warrior beat off the british at new orleans and planned the rescue of napoleon from st bt helena 1 I have been hailed balled a hero bero by the e city pardoned and acclaimed tor for service in the new republic denounced again and harried from tho the seas to be once more a fugi fugitive says lafitte and chooses to come back as captain Saz irac RC only to have hla his heart stirred by a lovely face which leads him to the plot napoleon leon the author charles charle a tenney jackson has achieved a number of deservedly popular and wide read novels queerly enough though he be Is by birth and ana edu eau cat ca tiona northerner he has reproduced most wonderfully ertuly the atmosphere of those new or leans lean days before the yankee carn came to destroy roman romance e days when fair ladles ladies were still the ca cause use of many a duel and high gambling went with high station CHAPTER 1 1 if jean were here the affair was one in which to this point the young count de at al nio naster had taken the slightest interest but now the name of his mint aunt the baroness Pon ron talba was upon the lips of the portly alderman of nf old yew new orleans and when in turn Be beluche luebe the swarthy admiral of the Cartagen lan privateers adverted to her the languid aristocrat shook with lattZ laughter liter ho monsieur you toil the fat and prosperous counselor of the american quarter who they say finds the cites politics even better picking than were your days of pl bocy with fill jean lafitte you you then it watt was who enticed my good aunt to giving ten thousand of the new yankee dollars to build the house in which napoleon Is to spend his last days on the rue chartres I 1 and you beluche for whom even today any flag will serve A grand scheme this in rescue bonaparte from the english what next nest for us fantastic cre oles monsieur I 1 not so loud I 1 beg an affair of state this and half the gentry of louisiana Is in it but bat the new american governor eh eb bledl at lV washington abbington where the english are now so well received it might be embarrassing barr assing this plot P but de Al monaster shouted the louder the admiral of cartagena spluttered splutter ed the honest councilor rubbed his velvet clad paunch and pleaded for silence the young mazes mans glance dance went from the two onetime one time bucca buccaneers out the door of lla Bla speros exchange to the shining new plaster find and green shutters of the house nopoleon napoleon his hig hand went to the black flik stock at his neck to check further amusement beluche short dark restlessly glancing about ills his black eyes nar nan rotting as if he would be done with talk and to sea again gromi growled led sur my alv admiral of the new granada rebels lie might be but to his old cronies of the lie coffee houses be mas still the Bara tarlan gunner who fought the pirates rates battery on the tight right of jack fans ns line at chalmette Oi alinette against the and lie he made as wry a face as 88 any of La fittes lieutenants when the grateful young republic of the north pardoned the buccaneers bucca on en innuse rut put the lie worthy alderman daml highee at the younger mazes joers we had thought monsieur that being of if what Is conceded concede to be the proudest family of Louis louisiana lazia you would lend generously to the plot plot await the count raoul mocked as lie looked across the cob bles ea at the fresh paint upon the huge shutters of the house napoleon he hung flung his jeweled fingers airily back to the shadowy taproom tap top room ho fellow the rum and limes be n with till them but tread softly we have a plot I 1 the two old adventurers gazed nt at the slender figure in some consternation lilot l hotl de Al Almona monaster ater made the he rafters ring with it threescore Three geore carpenters ar renters penterS plasterers ant and slaves and free men of ct color bor labor all 11 skimmer kuntner nt at this royal domicile the iery Y hg fig sellers of the oliue I Armes me bew I 1 away about it to sailorman sai sail lonnen ormen of 0 every so soa sa s a 1 I myself across the bean or fit n port royal am questioned to what the bravos of new orlenn iran illan ir an by this his madness anti and when I 1 1 coine home I 1 sm am nth ed to a public house and whispered to of a plot I 1 th eh blent it ft la Is a plot old rubbed his nose nom we have the money the ship the spirit the well everything except the emperor emper orl 1 bonaparte cooped up on his isle with england watching watch 1 pray good stra sirs who will bell the eat cat the admiral shrugged and tasted lila his limed almed rum of barbadoes the young do de almonaster AI Al monaster heard two dolorous it was indeed a quiet life and a shameful pass when two worthy buccaneers bucca of but a decade agone sat at their drink to be jibed b by an incredulous aristocrat eh wll mumbled old daml alque absently if jean were here he would go rescue napoleon for these creoles cheoles Cr eoles no ho old cutthroat if the captain lafitte walked these streets again there would be an end to chat chatter terl I 1 ell eh the old days the bood wine and the plunder down the barataria Bara Bar tarla ataria passes I 1 and I 1 name of godl god am now the alderman tor for the american quarter the shadows lengthened across the cobbles to the pretentious house nopoleon napoleon the dim front barroom of la course bourse de maspero was quite deserted save for a table of provincial planters from the river parishes here and there but suddenly the drone of voices from the gaming place in the rear was cut off by a slamming door A man had staggered out tall uncouth of disorderly attire not at all in the fashion ragged at the sleeves he stared at them with swollen eyes set in a drink flushed face the empty scabbard of a small sword rattled at his muddy boot tops his silken lined cloak and round velvet cap gave him the aspect of a rather solemn and nervous poseur devil take the dicel dice lie he saw the elegant de Almonn AI monaster ster and came briskly nearer back with me raoul watch 1 an affair raoul that will call me out to the oaks sleepy eyed some morning this week the stranger mazarac Saz arac has the english colonel bewitched A mazarac acl 1 I 1 wish something 11 ing more than drink could draw all eyes eye s to met me A pi fellow eh blen I 1 john jarvis janis jan Is thrust his blinking eyes nearer A rapier bully messieurs I 1 A grand scheme this to rescue bonaparte from the Engli english what next for Us fantastic Creo lesl such its as tills this mazarac theres a woman in it without TIt bout doubt the towns first bohemian bohe of the arts and letters a graceless scribbler paint painter er wastrel of the N vine ine shops tor for all be was the nephew of the great john wesley in england he slept worked and ate in a dirty studio up on the rue conti where there unknown as yet to the world there labored a young assistant who painted backgrounds for jarvis portraits but who was destined tor for fame when the game and politicians of the new orleans of 1821 had been long forgotten monsieur audubon but lately arrived from the indies jarvis tipped the table for a drink looking about to see who might pay the score ri pistols he be grunted 1 I trust tills this mazarac ings the at least though if he does I 1 shall see liquor from his bis veins and not blood the fellow can drink more than 1 I which Is intolerable it reflects on my reputation I 1 shall challenge myself if mazarac does noti not they are to fight queried de AI Al monaster languidly th they will I 1 know the course of these affairs I 1 attend them all raoul I 1 am the black buzzard who la is earliest to roost at the dueling 01 oaks aks and wish them bad luck all the first bohem ian of the vieux carre rubbed his s nose another drink monsieur walt IV ait we shall go ir it presently when the affair becomes pro vocative this mazarac has a steady v eye and colonel carr Is 13 bent upon on en insult de almonaster AI Al monaster shrugged hla his disi distaste taste 1 I was speaking of the new DOW sugar process at monsieur bores oh no returned jarvis airily you toil were discussing the plot why sit with the alderman and beluche the admiral save upon our nice intrigue 7 hot hoi he roared reared suddenly so that the glasses quivered be discreet 1 i our plot napoleon I 1 the two former buccaneers bucca looted looked wryly at him the devil take you jarvis growled beluche it was of old days and our vanish vanished d captain cantal n you ton yourself whom jean rescued from perdition once the plott shouted jarvis so loudly that even bystanders across the cobbled way looked into the shadowy portals of masseros Ma Bla speros all ah I 1 am going to my studio gentlemen I 1 I 1 have an ideal idea I 1 my new assistant Is very clever at painting birds Alon monsieur audubon lq la crazy to paint birds 1 he sprinkles salt on their tails to catch them now I 1 shall take our plot to the studio and monsieur audubon shall paint salt upon it to catch the emperor Nn napoleon the two worthies glowered upon him de Almon asters idle laugh rang out he too arose with jarvis and the latter could not resist a last gibe at his cronies the alderman and the admiral and in the one picture that I 1 cared about lone done down at la fittes red fort before the americans plundered lt it I 1 had the bad taste to paint them in alth w ith my captain 1 what a downfall from piracy to politics for fop and old beluche blustering about having a lawful commission ile he put an unsteady finger on the laughing de Almon asters sleeve come on raoul I 1 there Is no more romance since lafitte abandoned the town to the steamboat yankees and yet last evening upon the esplanade I 1 saw a womans comans face I 1 raoul unshaven dirty idle looked back at her coach 1 I raoul hanging to a lamppost mado made her smile 1 de almonaster Al monaster motioned the jester toward the gaming rooms the lady N v ho arrived with the british colonels party of course I 1 am told she had bad the gallants astir when she bhe drove jarvis nodded absently they are wishing no bad luck to colonel carr beyond that this shoots him tomorrow fit at the oaks ell eh well come from the door they could see the throng in la bourse de Moc maspero pero the wide door of the small room was packed with silent attentive youths jarvis twitched the coat of the nearest what has happened de marigny Is the devil still dicing as to which to take carr loses steadily young marigny had bad but recently attained fame by naming a street of the faubourg Fau bourg Mft marigny rigny his bis patrimony now being cut into lots lota and sold to the insatiable americans outside the city walls rue do de bagatelle to commemorate his losses at the game he therefore parted the skirts of his bottle green cont coat thrust his hands upon his breeches of snowwhite snow white leather and tapped them significantly A ruined man eh eb blen I 1 the british consul langhorne Lang home protested seemingly very uncomfortable at colonel carrs insistence si at play with tills captain mazarac Saz arac aroc who it Is said Is a mere professional gambler of the river packets with the manners of a gentle mani u will III say he has acted so he tried in every way to avoid carrs game but it appears that the british officer involved himself badly on the way from st louis how then ventured de almonas ter A professional gamester at man ma peros 0 carr himself introduced the fellow the game must continue young ie de marigny shrugged and there to la talk of some affair of women between the two the lady who looked back from her coach mused jarvis to himself 1 I must get me a new waistcoat A massive sliver silver cast a ruby light upon the cloth about which sat a quartette langhorne Lang home ilia his Maje consul a dealer of alto mas peros colonel carr of the newly arrived british mission on en route to the coes and the stranger from the west Saz arac nc muttered do de Marl marigny gny whose fame at the cards lias has over leaped the town in one night mark him raoul a whitened as silver 1 where lifts has the fello fellow w b beu eon these years as to know not the fash ions three thousand dollars dollar on the red against the bond gh gurll 11 TO BE CONTINUED |