The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1890-10-24
soh!" was the sound that came bock-

Yes. sir, and the other beautiful lady mex,
the commodore il her sister. She had q
son Just mademoiselle's age, who was MUIR
dered by pirates off jamaica ever SO many
yeats ago. aud Commodore Cleveland chased
them iii ship he was first lieutenant Off
my father commanded the ship-she was
tho old Scourge."
Hold your tonguc!'' came from the cot
where the spare pillow was thrown over.
Hot! said the military chieftain; but if
the room had not been so dark, the wav his
eyes opened and emitted an icy glare of sur
prise would have made Tiny Mouse SILVER
with cold
20, dear, yes colonel. heard tho com :
Modore tell about it the other night on
board the frigate. He thought was asleep,
but I kept awake through the best part OF
it."
4Thebest part of it!'
"Why, sir, how an old ono -eyed Spaniartl
deceived my fathera and sent him OH u FOOLS
GRAND from st. Jago down to tho Isle Of
Pines. aud afterward how the Scourgo
chased the pirttical schooner into u hurri-
cane for ever so long, clear away to the
coast of Darius where they blew her ont of
water and killed every seoundrcl on board"
Not every one, Mr.. Mouse. There is the
very greatest of those scounlrels grinding
his teeth and glaring your way at your ell
bow.
What was the name of TINT Cape, OAR
eantel, where the schooner was destroye d !?
No, l won't be quiet! the colonel wants to
hear all about il, There's good fellow
tell mel"
"Garrote Cape"
The listener slowly raised the mutilated
hand and put the finger with the sapphire
p is,fv tn
name of that cape, for it caused choking
sensation to utterit-"Ho Cape Gar:ote!"
YES. sir! and Dlrcantels father here
once chartered Il vessel and went nll the
way down there to explore the place, and
was gone fifteen months!
II beg your pardon. monsieur" said tho
colonelto Harry in French, with q slight
culver on his tongue, but did your fa' her
really 60 all the way down to Darien out of
mere curiosity?"
"Yes, sir, he did go there to see if by any
chance one of the pirates had escaped; and
he travelled, too, II good deal shout among
the Indians, milking inquiries"
=. Holland did he pick up any informa-
ton tllere?"
why, sir, I am not positive, but be-
licve that he got IL hint that a European Ind
wandered over that country who had been
wounded i'll the head and hand, and was
almost naked: hut the natives could give
him but meagre accounts. He continued
on, however, down the Isthmus, on the Pa
cite SHE, by sen. MS faras Chill. when he
went into the interior to Peru, crossed the
Andes, and followed down the Orinoco to
Peru, when he sailed again for England"
oh! no othcrmotive than curiosity?"
Perhaps he had; for lie once told me
that he had some old scores to settle with
the man who commanded the pirate, and If
he was alive he felt quite sure he would,
one of those days put him TO death. NV
father. sir is u very determined person, and
never forgets an oath"
Truly, monsieur, you interest me. But
what sort of man in appearance is your
father-a DOCTOR think You said!"
lie is tall gentleman of about fifty,
sir, though he looks much older; for he has
suffered deeply since my mother-n-tlied;
but shall have the pleasure of introduc-
ing him to YOU, colonel He is on board
our frigate ut Kingston, and told me he
would be up here tomorrow or the next
day."
"Ah! thank You extremely, Monsieur
Darcantel. l shall have-a-much curios-
ity to see him."
No more words that night! But much
thinking and moving of thin lips and eyer,
staring in the dark, wide open. Had II let:
ter, traced with the fingers of I'M icicle, been
CONCEALED II hundred feet deep in tho heart
of Il toppling iceberg on tho coast of Lab
rador, those eyes could have read it as clear
as day!
"You infamous pirate, Captain Brandt"
it began-'the son ofthe man who destroyed
thepirate schoonerand her crew, and the boy
whom your brutal mate tore from it's moth
er you saw ut dinner day, are near you!
That calnl. stern. determined doctor, too,
whom YOU laced down OH the trestle for
poisonous insects to kill, has been en- Your
track for the past seventeen years, and will
soon hold You inhis iron grippe! There will
be no mercy then"
The eyes closed, the heart stopped beat
ing, and tho thin lipsand tongue, us dry rs
cartridge paper, now took up the strain,
while the mutilated hand cln,ched convul-
siveiy, as if there were fifty fingers lingering
knives and pistols.
Sopassed that short night-long enough
however for somehody-and before the
fresh lind-wind had woke up 10 creep down
the valley, there was u mettled barb. with
open nostrils, galloping up the open road as
if he had the enemy of mankind on his back!
he had, or Colonel Lawton, or
Captain Brand; possibly all three, but it
makes very little odds to MS.
Gro BE CONTINUED.