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CHAPTER XV—Continued
It was with this fleet that he car
at. °.ul th® "nterprlae against
Maracaibo, an enterprise In which
Peter Blood's daring w-aa only sur
passed by stupidity which almost
turned the tide against him and de
livered him and his men over to the
tender mercies of his implacable
enemy, Don Miguel de Esplnsa y
\ aides, the admiral of Spain. Cap
lain Blood had landed In Maracaibo
and had found the towrn empty. Too
*r n he learned of the trap. Espinosa
had put Into the narrow neck of
the bay with his ships and had bot
tled the buccaneer In the bay. A
sloop, captured by Captain Blood,
was loaded with combustibles and
powder and was sailed directly at the
Spaniard until the grapnels held the
two like a vice. Then it was set
aflame. The admiral's flagship burst
into blase, and fine seamanship and
hard fighting with his three ships
made Captain Blood master of
Maracaibo bay. But, when the
Spaniards turned tall for shore and
he gave chase, the fort which guard
ed the bay and which had seemed
deserted poured down a raking fire
upon him and drove him In modifica
tion and despair to take refuge rn the
town. The Spaniards secured them
selves In the fort.
With a devil's luck and clear head
ed thinking, Captain Blood feinted
with preparations for a land attack
after he had managed to acquire a
large ransom in gold from the gover
nor of Maracaibo, and opening a
broadside, put the fort in flames.
Captain Blood sailed for Tortuca.
Don Miguel was left to chew the bit
ter cud of lost opportunity.
CHAPTER XVI.
The Milagrosa.
In Tortuga, during the months he
spent there refitting the three ships
he had captured from the fleet that
had gone out to destroy him. lie
found himself almost an object of
worship In the eyes of the wild
brethren of the coast, all of whom
now clamored for the honor of serv
ing under him. It placed him in rare
position of being able to pick and
choose the crews for his augmented
fleet, and he chose fastidiously. When
next he sailed away it was with a
fleet of five fine ships in which went
something over a thousand men.
Thus you behold him not merely
famous, but really formidable. Three
captured Spanish vessels he had re
named with a certain scholarly
• humor the Clotho, Lachesis1 and
Atropos. a grimly Jocular manner of
conveying to the world that he made
them the arbiters of the fate of any
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By O. O. MTNTYRE.
On the Atlantic, Rept. 22.—A smooth
as glass sea and the Leviathan rides
without a tremor. One must look out
a porthole to realize It Is moving.
It Is perhaps ths most luxuriously
equipped veseel In transatlantic
service.
All ths servants are American and
after 18 days of ‘‘parley vooing’' It
was pleasant to hear a cabin boy’s
Bowery accent. He la a '‘dese’’ and
‘‘doze’’ lad who speaks of the French
as ‘’frogs” and the English as
‘‘limeys.” Our stateroom Is on E
deck—quite away* down In the bowels
of the ship.
There are two comfortable beds
with reading taUe and lamps and
carafes of Icewater In brackets with
in reach. A dressing table with
triple mirrors, two clothes closets, one
of which has a safe for valuables, if
any; a washktand with hot and cold
water and a telephone connecting
with every office and stateroom on
board.
There Is a comfortable divan, a cut
glass ceiling light, two electric fans,
Three comfortable chairs. The bath
is comfortable and commodious apd
has a shower attachment. For the
money it offers more than I have re
ceived on other ships, but I am not
as yet prepared to say it equals the
British in service.
The British are skilled In the art of
efficient service and that to the
traveler means more sometimes than
sumptuous furnishings. My reason
for going Into such details is that
American ships face the handicap cf
prohibition on high seas.
As long as they offer first class
comforts it seems to me Americans
should patronize them. Indeed it
strikes me as a rather patriotic thing
to do when possible. Fancy the prince
• of Wales crossing on an American
ship. Yet high officials in Americu
go on British and French boats.
And for fear I might be accused of
ballyhooing for s steamship line, I
might add that I did not take advan
tage of the minimum rates usually of
fered writers, hut paid for the full
fare demanded of the casual passen
ger.
The promenade deck today revealed
a slice of Broadway. Louis Mann,
with the eternal widest collar in cap
tivity, was among the first I greeted.
He is returning to take up his usual
stand under the canopy of ths Astor
hotel befors beginning a theatrical
engagement.
And along In two steamer chairs
were Tom Shipp and his young bride,
who have been honeymooning on the
continent for two months. Tom ranr
ried one of the beautiful Neldig twins
of South Dakota. He was all flossed
up in tweeds.
It was my luck before leaving
Paris to spring what ball players call
a “Charley horse.” Too much strolling
along the boulevards strained a ten
don in the leg. Or should one say
"limb” this season? Constant deck
walking is denied me. but occasion
ally I hobble up to the promenade
with a heavy cane. A strained tendon
and a atrained purse are not com
fortable—but Paris is worth It.
It has always been comforting to
reach my age and be referred to as
rattier spry. So It was disconcerting
when an old lady seeing me limp
along offered mo her chair. I sup
pose the next thing my wife will be
saying, “Lean on me, grandpa "
And, by the way, we are not listed
among the passengers. But there Is
a ‘‘Mrs. Strong and Infant,” and I
Wonder If they mean its?
There y also listed the Ttev. .! F
McIntyre When I called at the
pureer's office for mall or telegrams
'as inquired: "Are vou Rev. Mein
tyrsT” And then he looked at my
purpfs shirt end blushed a rosy rad.
(Ceprrltht, lilt.)
Spaniards he should henceforth en
counter upon the seas.
And meanwhile the Spanish Ad
miral Don Miguel de Espinosa went
raging up and down the Caribbean
seeking his enemy, and In the mean
time, ns an hors-d oeuvre to his vin
dictive appetite, he fell uf>on any
ship of England or of France Unit
loomed above his horizon. This Il
lustrious sea-captain and great
gentleman of Castile had lost his
head. And so, reckless of the fact
that Captain Blood was now In vastly
superior strength, the Spaniard
sought him up and down the track
less seas. But for a whole year he
sought him vainly. The circum
stances In which eventually they met
are very curious.
On the lath September of the year
1B8S—a memorable year In the an
nals of England—three ships were
afloat upon the Caribbean, which in
their coming conjunctions were to
work out the fortunes of several
persons. The first of these was Cap
tain Bloods flagship the Arabella,
which had been separated from the
buccaneer fleet In a hurricane off the
Lesser Antilles. It was bPating up
for the winward passage homing for
Tortuga, the natural rendezvous of
the dispersed vessels. The second
ship was the great Spanish galleon,
the Mtlagrosa, which accompanied by
the smaller frigate Hldala, lurked off
the Caymites. to the north of the
long peninsula that thrusts nut from
the southw-est corner of Hispaniola.
Aboard the Milagrosa sailed the
vindictive Don Miguel. The third
and last of these ships was an Eng
lish man-of-war, the Royal Mary,
which was nt. anchor In the French
port of St. Nicholas on the north
w'est coast of Hispaniola. It was
on its way from Plymouth to Ja
maica, and carried on board a very
distinguished passenger In the per
son of Lord Julian Wade, who came
charged by Is kinsman, my Lord
Sunderland, with a mission of some
consequence and ilelk-aey, directly
arising out of that vexations corre
spondence between England and
Spain.
To satisfv King James's anxiety
to conciliate Spain, and in response
to the Spanish ambassador's con
stant and grievous expostulations,
my I.ord Sunderland, the secretary of
state, had appointed a strong man
to the deputy-governorship of Ja
maica. This strongman was that Col
onel Bishop who for some x-ears now
had been the most influential plant
er in Barbados. From his first com
ing to Jamaica. Colonel Bishop had
made himself felt by the buccaneers.
But do what he might, the one buc
caneer whom he made his particular
quarry—that Peter Blood who onre
had been his slave—eluded him ever.
He confessed as much in a letter to
Che secretary of state. My Lord
Sunderland bethought him of rtie
plan adopted xvlth Morgan, who had
been enlisted Into the king's service
under Charles II. It occurred to him
that a similar 'course might he
similarly effective with Captain
Blood.
Acting upon this conclusion. Sund
erland sent out his kinsman, Lord
Julian Wade, with some commissions
mad* out In blank. This crafty
Sunderland, master of all labyrinths
of Intrigue, advised his kinsman that
In the event of his finding Blood in
tractable, or Judging for other reos
ona that It was not desirable to enlist
him In the king’s service, he should
turn his attention to the officers
serving under him, and by seducing
them away from him leave him so
weakened that he must fall an e.ssv
victim to Colonel Bishop's fleet.
The Royal Mary made a good pas
saee to St. Nicholas, Its last port of
call before Jamaica. It was under
stood that as a preliminary Lord
Julian should report himself to the
deputy-governor at Port Rox’al,
whence at need he might have himself
conveyed to Tortuga. Now it hap
pened that the deputy governor's
niece had come to St. Nicholas some
months earlier on a visit to some
relatives, and so that she might
escape the Insufferable heat of
Jamaica in that season. The time
for her return being noxv at hand, a
passage was sought for her aboard
the Royal Mary, and In view of her
uncle's rank and position promptly
accorded.
Ixjrd Julian hailed her advent xvlth
satisfaction. His lordship was one
of your gallants to whom existence
that Is not graeed b>' womankind Is
more or less of a stagnation. And
Miss Arabella Bishop was a x'oung
woman and a lady; and in the lati
tude into which I.ord Julian had
strayed this was a phenomenon suf
ficiently rare to command attention.
On his side, with his title and posi
tion, his personal grace and the
charm of a practiced courtier, he
bore about him the atmosphere of the
great world In which normally he
had his being—a' world that was llt-tle
more than a name to her, who had
spent, most of her life In the An
tilles It is not therefore wonderful
that they should have been attracted
to each other before the Royal Mary
was warned out of St. Nicholas,
Each enul4 tell the other much upon
whleh the other desired information.
Considering how his mind was
obsessed with the business of his
mission, it Is not wonderful that he
should have come to talk to her of
Captain Blood. Indeed, there was r
circumstance that directly led to it.
"I wonder now,” he said, as they
were sauntering on the poop, "If you
ever saw this fellow Blood, who was
at one time on your uncle's planta
tions as a slave."
"I saw him often. I knew him
very well.”
"Ve don't say!" and rams to lean
beside her. "And what manner of
man did you find him?"
"In those days I esteemed him for
tii unfortunate gentleman."
‘You were acquainted with his
storv?"
"He told It me. That is why I
esteemed him—for the calm fortitude
with which he bore adversity. Since
then considering what he has done
T have almost come to doubt if what
he told nte of himself was true."
"If you mean of the wrongs he suf
fared at the hands of ths royal com
mission that tried the Monmouth
rebels, there's little doubt that It
would be true enough. He w-as
never out. with Monmouth; that la
certain. He was conx-lcled on a point
of law which he may well have been
Ignorant when he committed what
was construed Into treason. But,
faith, he's had hls revenge, after a
fashion.”
"That," she said In a small voice.
“Is the unforgivable thing it has
destroyed him—deservedly."
"Destroyed him?" His lordship
laughed a little. ‘Be none so sure,
of that. , He has grown rich, I hear.
He hns translated, so it Is said, ills
Spanish spoils Into French geld,
which Is l>clng treasured up for him
In France III* future father-in-law,
M. d'Ogeron, hns seen to that,"
• "111* future father-in-law?" snld
slip, and stared nt hint round eved,
xvlth ported lip* Tlnn added: "M.
d'Ogeron? The governor of Tor
tuga?”
"The same You didn't know?"
Rhe ehook her head without re.
plvlng After * moment *lie spoke,
her voice ttteady and perfeolv con
UflU»a {
"But surely. If this were true,
there would have been sn end to hie
piracy by now, If he . . If he loved
a woman and was betrothed, and was
also rich as you say. surely he would
have abandoned this desperate life,
and . . .”
"Why. so I thought." his lordship
Interrupted, "until X had the explann
lion. P'Oiteron la avareioua for him
self and for hie child. And as for the
jrtrl. I'm told she a a wild piece, fit
mate for such a man as Blood.
Almost I marvel that he doesn’t
marry her and take her arovlns with
him. It would he no new experience
for her. And I marvel, too. at
Blood'a patience. He killed a man to
win her."
"11c killed a man for her, do you
say?" There was horror now In her
voice.
"Tea—a French buccaneer named
l.rvamytr. He was the girl's lover
and Blood* aaeorlate on • vrfctur*.
Blood revet ed the ulrl, and killed
I^evaaeeur to win her. Pah! It'a an
unaavory tale. 1 own. But men live
by different code* out In theee part*
She had turned to fare him. She
waa pale to the Up*, and her hazel
eve* were Hating. ** »he cut Into
hi* apolo*le* for Blood.
"They mint. Indeed. If hl» other a*
aoolatea allowed him to live after
that.”
"Oh. the thin* waa don* In fair
fi*ht. t am told."
"Who told you?"
"A man who sailed with them. •
Frenchman named Oahu sac, whom I
found In a waterside tavern In 8t.
Nicholas. He was LevMMtir'0 lieu
tenant, and he was present on the
Island where the thing happened, and
when I^evasseur was killed **
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