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& Hffmamc* ef th« SpantahJtialA Optain BloodA (&■ RAFAEL .SABATINI (Continued from Yesterday.) They passed out of the gates un challenged, and so came to the mole where the cock-boat from the Ara bella was waiting. They took their places side by side In the stern sheets, and were pulled away togeth er, always very close and friendly, to the great red ship where Jeremy Pitt so anxiously awaited news. Colonel Bishop stood In the waist, his great face blenched to the color of clay, his mouth loose, almost afraid to look at the sturdy ruffians who lounged about the shotrack on the main hatch. "Now, don’t he alarming yourself, colonel, darling,” Blood said. "We'll talk the matter over while we are dining, for l trust ye'll not refuse to honor my table by your company.” He led away the will-less, cowed bullv to the great cabin. "May I ask what . . . what are your intentions?” Bishop quavered. “Ye've said his lordship made a mistake when he handed me the com mission which the secretary of state did me the honor to design for me. I’m disposed to agree with you; so I'll take to the sea again. I'll he getting back to Tortuga and my buccaneers. ’ "My God!” groaned the deputy gov ernor. "Ye ... ye never mean tha* ye’ll carry me to Tortuga!" "No, no. All I want is that ye In sure my safe departure from Port Royal. Ye’ve given certain orders to your harbor master, and others to the commandant of your plaguey fort. Ye’ll he so good as to send for them both aboard here, and inform them in mv presence that the Arabella is leaving this afternoon on the king's service and is to pass out unmolested. Ami so as to make quite sure of their obedience, they shall go on a little voyage with us. themselves. Here’s what you require. Now write —unless you prefer the yardarm." Bishop glared at him; then shrug ging heavily, he took up the pen and sat down at the table. In an un steady hand he wrote that summons to his officers. Blood dispatched It ashore; and then bade his unwilling guest to table. "I trust, colonel, your appetite Is as stout as usual." _ The captain fell to with a good ap petite. But before he was midway through the meal came Hayton to in form him that Lord Julian Wade had just rome aboard, and was ask in* to see him instantly." "I was expecting him, ’ said Blood. “Fetch him in.’ Blood signaled to the servant, wn was standing behind Bishop. "Set a chair for his lordship. Hay ton. send his lordship's boat ashoie. Tell them he'll not be returning yet “""What's that?” cried his lordship. "Blister me! D’ye mean to detain nl"just to mako myself and my lads ' " " I here safe from Colonel Bishop's gal lows. There’s a note from his hand gone ashore to summon the harbor master and the commandant of the fort. Once they are aboard. I shall have all the hostages I need for our safety." “You fool." his lordship said. "Do you dream that I came aboard your pirate ship without taking my meas ures? I informed the commandant of exactly how you had compelled Colonel Bishop to accompany you. Judge now whether he or the harbor master will obey the summons, or whether you will be allowed to depart as you Imagine." ‘I’m sorry for that-7" said Blood. "But not on my own account. It's the deputy governor there I'm sorry for. D'ye know what ye’ve done? Sure, now, ye've very likely hanged him.” "My God!" cried Bishop in a sud den increase of panic. "If they so much as put a shot across my hows, up goes their deputy governor to the yardarm. Your only hope, colonel, lies in the fact that 1 shall send them word of that inten tion. And so that you may mend as far as you can the harm you have done, it's yourself shall bear them the message, my lord." "I'll see you damned before I do,” fumed his lordship. "Why, that's unreasonable and un reasoning. But if ye insist, why an other messenger will do as well, and another hostage aboard—as I had originally intended—will make my hand the stronger." "Age. in God's name, go. my lord. " spluttered Bishop, "and make your self obeyed." Lord Julian bowed stiffly to the cowering deputy governor. “You un derstand, sir, that I do as you desire, he said coldly. “Aye, man, aye!" Bishop assented hastily. "Very well.” Blood escorted Lord Julian to the entrance ladder at the foot of which still swung the Ara bella's own cockboat. “It's goodby, my lord," said Blood. “And there's another thing." He proffered a parchment. "It's the com mission. Bishop was light when he said It was a mistake.” "I am sorry,” Lord Julian said sin cerely. “I still do not perceive—blis ter me if I do!—why you should not have found someone else to carry your message'to the commandant, and kept me aboard as an added hostage for his obedience to your wishes.' Blood's vivid eyes looked Into the other's that were clear and honest, and he smiled a little wistfully. A moment he seemed to hesitate. "Why shouldn't I tell you? It's the same reason that's been urging me to pick a quarrel with you so that I might have the satisfactions of slipping a couple of feet of steel Into your vitals. When I accepted your commission I was moved to think it might redeem me in the eyes of Miss Bishop—for whose sake, as you may have guessed, I took it. But I have discovered that such a thing is be yond accomplishment. I should have known it for a sick man’s dream. I have discovered also that if she's choosing you. as I believe she is, she's choosing wisely between us, and that's why I'll not have your life risked by keeping you aboard whilst the message goes by another who might bungle it. And now perhaps ye'll understand." “And you tell me this?" "I tell you because . . . Oh, plague on it!—so that ye may tell her; so that she may be made to realize that there's something of the unfortunate gentleman left under the thief and pirate she accounts rne. and that her own good is my supreme desire. Knowing that, she may . . ■ faith, she may remember me more kindly— if it's only in her prayers. That's all, my lord." Lord Julian held out his hand "I wonder whether you are right," said his lordship, "and whether you are not the better man.” "Where she is concerned see that Vou make sure that I am right. Good by to you." The Arabella sailed within the hour, moving lazily, before a slug glsh breeze. The fort remained silent and there was no movement from the fleet to hinder her departure. Neu) York --Day by Day By O. 0. M’INTYRE. New York, Sept. 30.—Columbus Cir cle is a sort of open forum for mal contents. like that of London's Hyde Park. Nightly there are people who address street crowds from automo biles, portable platforms and soap boxes. Some are religious zealots, with long hair and bare feet. Others sing praise of simile tax, various isms, and other distinctive and disparaging doc trines. The*r talks are morbid and gay. One Japanese jingoist declares we will be at war by mid-winter. The orators come from every walk In life. There are grocery clerks, small tradesmen, college professors, students, actors, and one is a husky truck driver. They rarely take up collections, and the main idea is elm ply to "blow off steam." The police are on hand, but are tol erant, and only observe the traffic violations. One man who was grow ing red-faced In his exhorting, pleaded for the world to take up vegetarian ism. "I used to be a chronic dyspep tic," be shouted. "Now I can lick any man in the crowd." His challenge was not accepted. A man In clerical costume talked on the "Psychology of Fear." He said there wasn't a man or woman living who couldn't walk Into a den of lions if he or she had absolutely mastered fear. • A woman from the tall of a banjo torched cart spoke for Birth Control. She wore a jaunty red hat and was becomingly Costumed. She could not have been more than 23 years old. "1 have left high society," she said, "to go out on the highways and plead this cause." The open forum usually opens at dusk and at midnight they are still at it, and at the later hour they have their biggest audiences, for they catch tlie homegoing theatrical crowds. Most of the oratory is mere fiddle twaddle, but all seem tremendously sincere and earnest. New York streets can he filled and emptied with amazing speed. In a jewelry shop across from the Hippo drome a young bandit was holding up (he proprietor who lifted his voice for "Help!" above the racket of the ele vated. In two minutes the streets und sidewalks were a compact mass of humanity. All traffic suspended. Then someone from a window cried: "Look out. he’s going to fire a gun!" and Just as quickly the sidewalks and streets emptied. Speaking for myself, I made the basement entrance of a department store In nothing flat. "What can I show you?" asked a floorwalker, who evidently did not sense my alarm. "The smelling salts department," I replied. And gravely he piloted me to the drug counter. Whoops my dear! And If I'd known you were coming I’d have baked a whortleberry pie. New York is to buve a male mannequin show. The Idea was first Introduce ' In London, where there was a par f to and fro of men in the lateat sartorial er'nndor. The show will bo held In one of the private rooms of a smart hotel. Ad mittance will be only by special Invi tation. A sheet music salesman In a Broad way store was taken to a hospital the other day with nervous exhaustion. He said his nerves had been frazzled by customers coming to him to buy songs, and then asking him: "Would you mind humming this tune for me, please?" Tlieie Is one music store In the Times Square district, however, that has eight piano players, ready at all times to pity tunes that are wanted. They are paid WO a week. (Copyright, lflt ■ J CHA1*TKR XXI. WA R. Five miles out at sea from Port Royal, whence the details of the coast of Jamaica were losing their sharp ness, the Arabella hove to, and the sloop she had been towing was warped alongside. Captain Wood escorted his compul sory guest to the head of the ladder. Colonel Bishop breathed freely at last. "A safe voyage home to you, colonel, darling." said he in valedic tion. and from his easy, .smiling man ner you would never have dreamed of the pain he carried in his breast. On the mole at Port Royal, under, the low, embattled wall of the fort. Major Mallard and I.ord Julian wait ed to receive him, and It was with infinite relief that they assisted him from the sloop. ‘‘Anyway, it’s not for long,’’ growled the colonel, finding speech at last. ‘‘No, by . . He empha sized the assurance by an unprint able oath. ’’If I spend the last shill ing of my fortune and the last ship of the Jamaica fleet. I'll have that rascal In a. hempen necktie before I rest." He had empurpled In his angry vehemence, and the veins of his fore head stood out like whipcord. "Come, my lord. We must take orders about this, you and I.” They went off together, skirting the redoubt, and so through courtyard and garden to the house, where Ara bella waited anxiously. The sight of her uncle brought her Inhnite relief, not only on his own account, but on account also of Captain Blood. "You took a great risk, sir,” she gravely told I.ord Julian after the ordinary greetings had been ex changed. But Lord Julian answered her as he had answered Major Mallard. "There was no risk, ma'am. So that Blood's ship w-_r>* allowed to pass the fort, no harm could come to Colonel Bishop. Blood pledged me his word for that.” Very early next morning, before the heat of the day came to render the open intolerable to hia lordship, he espied her from his window mov ing amid the azaleas in the garden. He hurried forth to join her. He ex ... . • # n plained him eel f l>y the announce ment that he bore her a meoeag* from Captain 1 ’lood (To He Continued Tomorrow ! Head bandeaux are not only goo-f for aporta wear, but to hold the mar cel in place over night. i n 1 c 1 IJ_ THE NEBBS BE YOURSELF, KID. 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