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__& a*sp**r*J*at* k^G^tAinBlooiw ■&• RAEAEL. SABATINI J-S^ CAPTAIN BLOOD,” a ViUgraph picture with J. Warren Kerrigan In the title role, la an adaptation of thia thrilling novel. tfontlAaed Prom Yesterday.) CHAPTErTxHI—Con. The resolve being taken, he went actively to work. Ogeron, most ac commodating of governors, advanced him money for the proper equipment of his ship, the Cinco Llagas, which he renamed the Arabella. To the score of followers he already pos sessed he added three-score more, picking his men with caution and dis crimination (and he was an excep tional judge of men) from amongst the adventurers of Tortuga. With them all he entered Into the articles usual among the Brethren of the Coast, under which each man was to he paid by a share in the prizes captured. Towards the end of December when the hurricane season had blown itself out, he put to sea in his well-found, well-manned ship, and before he re turned in the following May from a protracted and adventurous cruise the fame of Captain Peter Blood had run like ripples before the breeze across the face of the Caribbean Sea. One day, as he sat with Hagthorpe and Wolverstone over a pipe and a bottle of rum in the stifling reek of tar and stale tobacco of a waterside tavern he was accosted by a splen did ruffian in a gold-loced coat of dark blue satin, with a crimson sash, a foot wide, about the waist. "C'est vous qu’on appelle Le Sang?” the fellow hailed him. "My name,” he said, "is Peter Blood The Spaniards know me by Don Pedro Sangre, and a Frenchman may call me Le Sang If he pleases." "Good! My name,” he informed the three men, two of whom at least were eyeing him askance, "it is Levasseur. You have have heard of me." They had, Indeed. He commanded a privateer of twenty guns that had dropped anchor in the hay a week ago, manned by a crew mainly com posed of French boucan-hunters from Northern Hispaniola, men who had good cause to hate the Spaniard with an intensity exceeding that of the English. Levasseur had brought them back to Tortuga from an Indif ferently successful cruise. A roar ing, quarrelsome, hard-drinking, hard gaming scoundrel, his reputation as a buccaneer stood high among the wild Brethren of the Coast. It was current gossip that even Mademoiselle d'Ogeron, the gover nor's daughter, had been caught in the snare of his wild attractiveness, and tha> Levasseur had gone the length of audacity of asking her hand in marriage, of her father. M. d'Oge ron had shown him the door. New York --Day by Day H By 0. 0. M'INTYRE. Paris ,S«pt. 1!. — Volume* have been written of the gastronomic Joys of gsy Pares. Vary few Americans go to the real restaurants that pride themselves on French cooking. They go Instead to tha smart places like Clro’s. the Cafe de Paris and the Volsln. Tonight we dined at The Red Ass and were the only Americans there. Mamma presided at the cashier's cage and papa fluttered about bowing and gesticulating his delight over this Oish and that. There was duck cooked in a sauce of oranges and grapes, souffle potatoes and snails. One of the attractions of the place is a snow-white Spitz dog that comes to your table and offers the paw of hospitality. He is 12 years old. The atmosphere was truly Parisian. A violinist plays at your table any tune you suggest. Venders of handmade dolls and other trinkets offer you their penny wares. Outside ancient sidewalk sing ers sang pathetic songs in cracked voices. And a blind beggar with a blind dog—the blind leading the blind —came to the center of the cafe and recited a poem. The sprinkling of women with be seeching, amorous eyes were there— the fair phantoms of the Parisian night. The neighborhood dandy was i here, a dark-featured fellow with blue black Tialr and a monocle stuck jauntily in his eye. He had a feigned air of remoteness. There was a quaint, archaic sim plicity about the place. People are 1 appy and spontaneous. There are trills of broken words and the Irre sponsible mirth of those who seem to live only for the day. One regrets the closing hour *nd the shout of "On ferme, Messieurs, on ferme." Outside was the twisting parade of cabs and the promenaders of the bou levards. And under the pleasant sky the thin tracery of domes and tow ers and the faint pink haze as though the passions of Paris were smoking to the heavene. On the way home we drove past the Eiffel tower which was etarted In 1887 and la 984 feet high. It Is con stantly being repaired and painted and examined. French engineers realize It will not stand much longer and they are worrying about how to demolish It. This afternoon I visited the eat* combs—a series of vast, rat Infested quarries dating from the time of the Roman*. On* carrle* a candle to prowl about In tha pitch darkness. The catacombs are used sa a vast charnel house for bones taken from disused grave yards. Among the re main# transferred there are thnee of Mm*, d# Pompadour. The Parisian shopkeeper Is the qntaeaenca of politeness. His at titude toward you even If you don't buy I* Just the same as though he mad* a large sale. It Is why shop ping Is a delight here and It la why Incidentally anlppy clerks In New York are driving many American* to buy her*. The French habit of bow ing you out of a ahop la not loat motion. They gain bualnea* by It. A few Impression*: You can aend letters by pnumatlque, a tube, as quickly aa telegram*. The cost la about 6 cents. Frenchmen ealut# a lady before ahe bowa to him. Oentle men lift their hat* as a funeral passes. Most hotels add 10 per cent to bills as tips for employes. The Icavm of brand nra never wrap ped In paper. Hnmetlmes they art left on the sidewalk. There are some 40 dally newspapers In 1’nrls One of them hss the largest circulation In the world. Reporter* her* carry oanea and wear monocles. There are 11 rsllwav stations In Perl* end 37 Tiotestant ehurches tCap/rlitit, lilt l „ I 4 This was the man who now thrui-t himself upon Captain Blond with a proposal of association, offering him not only his sword, but his ship and the men who sailed In her. Because he disliked the man, Cap tain Blood would not commit him self at once. But, because he liked the prnposaJ, he consented to con sider it. Being afterwards pressed by both Hagthorpe and Wolverstone. who did not share his own personal dislike of the Frenchman, the end of the matter was that within a week articles were drawn up between Lev asseur and Blood and signed by them, and, as was usual, by the chosen rep resentatives of their followers. These articles contained the common provi sions that, should the two vessels separate, a strict account must after wards be rendered of ill prizes sev erally taken, whilst the vessel taking a prize should retain three-fifth of its value, surrendering two-fifths to its associate. That night, Xevasseur slept on hoard his ship, which, with charac teristic. flamboyance, he had nam?d La Foudre, and there on the follow ing day he received a visit from Cap tain Blood, w-hom he greeted half mockingly as his admiral. Levasseur entertained his admiral to dinner, and jointly they drank success to the ex pedition, so copiously on the part of Levasseur that when the time came to separate he was as nearly drunk as it seemed possible for him to be and yet retain his understanding Captain Blood was a. little heavy hearted. I have said that he was a judge of men, and his Judgment of Levasseur filled him with misgivings, which were growing heavier. In a measure, as the hour of departure ap proached. CHAPTER XIV. LEVASSEUR S HEROICS. It would be somewhat about ten 0 clock on the following morning, a full hour before the time appointed for sailing, when a canoe brought up alongside La Foudre and a half caste Indian stepped out of her and went up the ladder. He was the hear er of a folded scrap of paper for Cap tain Lpvasseur. Its contents may be roughly translated thus: "My well-beloved: I am In the Dutch brig Jongvrouw, which is about to sail. Resolved to separate us for ever, my cruel father is sending me to Europe in my brother's charge. 1 implore you, come to my rescue. Deliver me. my well belov ed hero! Tour desolated Madelon* who loves you." The well-beloved hero was moved to the soul of him by that passion ats appeal. His scowling glance swept the bay for the Dutch brig, which he knew had been due to sail for Amsterdam with a cargo of hides and tobacco. He roared out the ques tion in his mind. In answer, the half-caste pointed out beyond the frothing surf that marked the position of the reef con stituting one of the stronghold's main defenses. Away beyond it, a mile or so distant, a sail was standing out to sea. "There It go.” he said. The Frenchman gazed and stared The half-caste shrank terrified be fore his fury- “Then up anchor, and let us after the Dutchman,” he cried. “Steady, captain. What's that?” There was a restraining hand upon hla shoulder, and the broad face of his lieutenant Cahusac, a burly, cal lous Breton scoundrel, was stolidly confronting him. “A Dutch brig,” said he. "Impossible! We should never be allowed.” “And who the devil will deny us?" Devasseur was between amazement and fury. 'For one thing, there's your own crew will be none too willing For another, there's Captain Blood " "I care nothing for Captain Blood." "But Is is necessary that you should. He has the power, the weight of metal and of men. and. if I know him at all, he'll sink us be fore he’ll suffer Interference with the Dutch. He has his own views of privateering, this Captain Blood, as I warned you." Cursing in his soul, and even be fore the anchor was weighed, the as Sofia t Ion into which he had entered he was always studying wavs of evasion. What Cahusac implied was true: Blood would never suffer vio lence to be done in his presence to a Dutchman. But It might 1** done in his absence; and. being done. Blood must perforce condone it. since it would then he too late to Protest. Within the hour the Arabella and T*a. Fondre were beating out to sea together. Without understanding the ehange of Plan Involved, Captain Blond, nevertheless, accepted it. and weighed anchor before the appointed time upon perceiving his associate to do so. All day the Dutch brig was In sight, though by evening It had dwindled to the merest speck on the northern horizon. 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When day broke again It was alone La Foudre under cover of the darkness had struck away to the northeast with every rag of ranvas In Its yards. Oahusac had attempted yet again to protest against this. "The devil take you!" Levasseur had answered him. “A ship s a ship, he it Dutch or Spanish, and ships are our present need. That will suf fice for the men." Dawn found La Foudre close on the Dutchman s heels, not a mile astern, and the sight of It very evi dently flustered the Jongvrouw. They sent a warning shot across Its how. The Jongvrow veered, showed them Its rudder and opened fire with Its stern chasers. The small shot went whistling through 1-a Koudre's shrouds wtoh some slight damage to Its ranva*. Flv« minute* after that they were board and hoard, the Jongvrouw held tight In the clutches of \jl Foudre's grapnels, and the buccaneer* pouring noisily Into It* waist. 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