Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-02-16
Shot after shot whistled about linn as
he kept fearlessly on. The fellow seemed

SnOt after shot Whlstled about Linn as
he kept fearlessly on. The fellow seemed
to bear charmed life, while his sneering
laugh rang continuously in their ears.
It was astonishing what speed the man
made as he sprang from one Welding
beugh to another, and Ralph, thoroughly
exhausted, was on the point of giving up
the chase, tor the time at least, when Jack,
with convulsive grip of his arm, sud.
denly halted,at the same time exclalming,
in an awe-struck whisper:
''For Gods sake, Ralph, halt! Look
therer'
Entwined amid the profuse foliage of
large mango tree, the shining scales and
slimpy folds Of an immense serpent were
revealed IN the rudy blaze Of the torches.
1t was q huge Demonstration, who,
alarmed at the noise and light, had raised
his head from the coil; and the eyes fam
ing with fires Of hell, the jaws thrown
open to their widest extent, stood revealed
in all their frightful terror.
The Spaniard, his eyes fastened upon
the hideous spectacle, stood as if fasci-
mated, his body thrown back, and hands
extended as if to ward eff the danger
Arms he had none; the cutlass had long
| since been thrown aside in his race for
liberty.
A sharp hiss rang through the swamp
as the threatening head of the reptile was
thrown back, the folds appeared to
writhe for a moment, there was flash OF
the glittering scales, yell of mortal ter.
ror and distress as the Spaniard was
caught in that fatal embrace.
Faint with terror ana disgust, Ralph
| gave the order to retreat out of the infer.
nal lurking place of the serpeot, which
order was gladly obeyed by all. They
could have coolly drove their. cutlasses
through ana through the Spaniard's body
without conjunction of conscience, but
such an awful death as he had met was
too much for their nerves.
With early day the Esmeralda was got
under way, and before many hours was
| lying under the guns of the corvette.
Ralph had carried out the command.
er's instructions to the letter. Not 8
prisoner had he taken. But the girl
Miss Wlnne-how had she Jared while in
the pirates power?
Under the skilltul care of the surgeon
she in time recovered portion of he,
former life and spirits,an with shudde,
related her tale OF suffering. Thanks t
the corvette's vigilance and energetic &C.
ton, she had escaped from the Spaniard
who had been given little Or no leisure tc
devote to his hapless captive. Ferocious
threats had escaped him, his temper ris.
ing to pitch of madness when the part
ing shot of the FREELY killed the man
at the wheel, splintered the main-boom
and severely wounded himself in the head
with the flying debris of the spar.
But it was all over now; the girl could
only thank her protectors, for she had nc
one left in the world upon whom she had
claim.
Ralph eagerly offered her home with
his own proud relatives, and before the
Fir-Fly reached Goree the offer had been
accepted.
Avessel bound for the United States
conveyed Miss Ashton to her new home
! and at the end of three years Ralph re-
turned from his cruise broken in health
to be nursed and tenderly cared for by
the blue.eyed English girl. A marriage
followed. st. Michael's rang out mer
ry strain, and honest Jack Weathersb1
sighed as he gazed on the beautiful bride
of his friend, and regretted that she had
no sister.