Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1896-01-29


not back in his senses by then | know q
way to cure him Hn, hal"
A gain hts horrld laugh Jared through
thcm, suggesting hideous memories OF
cruelty In farctt seas
And, see hero" he went on, "if there
nro amy more of EN- taken that way. we
will trent them all together"
Then, without break, seeing them
we'll primed for II, he fell upon Thorn with
lima OF his speeches
"llnrk youl" ho oriod There's becn
crack Drained talk aboard my ship about
Pitts gold Now, warn you, watch 1t
that those who cry out loudest haven't
their pockets best filled Watch It, say,
for twill DO bud day for the man sus-
pect Of having had his fingers In the Eng
lish bags, Stamp me black III lay this
hand IN him 20 he shall spend his last
gasps In cursiug the mother that gave him
lie and limbs But II It's the talk you
want, I'll give you q taste OF 1t, but once,
only once, aud then no more Of It, y" and
he slapped off into n tirndu about Pitts
gold In the approved style Of tho clubs,
fGntlng Of th4 Toulon treason and the sub
sidioS To the ChOunus and tho roynlist
rebels in La Nondeo and dunl more be.
sides, TIL thcy grew excited and began to
echo his cxtrAraganocs with the catchponny
cries such stuff could always stir up.
Then, having brought them to the right
heat, he broke Off with loud shout Of
"What shall DO done to stop this DEVILS
wutks'
There was silence for n moment till
some one found tongue to cry: TO Brostl
Buck TO BrcSt.n Tho others took 1t up,
but before it could spread Farochol, with
roar above It all, cried out: "Bresti
What coward says Brcsty Shall VIC go and
skulk thore like the rrst, and let Pitt work
behind our backsf No. not l. nor you, nor
this ship We GO to whore ho COTS his
blood from-we go to drink his blood. ycl-
low blood, shining blood, In heaps and
piles and pits along the Gold Coast, in bars
and chests n big as jolly boats down in
the bellies OF tho fat lndiumnn. l know
have sccn it, and raised brimstons si.l Ii
600. Where's the chicken hearted swab
will say back, when there's pot ahead
ike that to liciW And In suoh wise he
ranted on like any buccuneer, painting
with no stint OF color the richness Of the
African settlements and the wealth Of the
India trnde, and vowing, II they would
stand by him and 10 deaf to lily liyerod
ornakGrs, ho would bring thcm home cram.
mod full OF gold and silver.
1t was we'll done from beginning 20
end, though unwritnhlc for the roarseness
of its rhrasing. Curtis, who was still OIL
deck with the other prisoners under a
guard Of marines, said he never heard its
equal for a nice adjustment Of bullying
and caiolory For the FIRST time he was
eblo to understand how the buccancer
chiefs controlled their bands.
The eject was complete, and there
would have been an end Of the trouble but
for an unlucky circumstance. The sur
Reon and his mates had dallicd with their
man TO Listen to Farochol's speech They
had got him TO his feet, aud he was listen
ing, too, with crazy air and so soon as
the captain ceased speaking he screamed
out In his piercing voice, "Dolenda est
Carthngof"
There probably was not score Of them
but knew what the Latin meant. The old
cry Of the Romans had become the last
catohword Of tho clubs. II Franco was to
be nnothOr Rome, England must be blot.
tod out like another Carthage. France at
that time bad but single enemy to fear,
and that was the old one and everybody
know 1t. II was in tho fron2y OF hnto that
seized the convention when FIRST n realized
the truth that It had Issued it's bloody de-
orcc OF war to tho death against all Eng
lishmcn.
No sooner, then, had tho orator lifted up
his voice than tho men began crying,
Down with England" nnd mo quar-.
torv and then again, ITO tho yardarin
with the Engllshmnnm
Al WINS in an uproar once moro, and
Farochol stood facing 1t with no sign of
ilinching, and his face changed only to a
look Of more wicked resolution. For Cur
It's life he did not care n straw, but Lucille
had made It's preservation test OF tho
power that was his oontrollingyanity, md
his own superstitlons had fixed him with
the idea Tint for his luol,'s sake hc must
rid himself Of the obligation In which
Curtis had bound him.
With two OF his strongest passions en-
gagged, he was u rock for determination.
with no moro thought of yielding what
thoy clamorcd for than OF scuttling his
ship. Tho moment there WINS n hit OF
lull he bnrked out u stridcnt "Nur"
mo, ho cried again when that made
them quictcr, "I'll hang every dog of you
hrstl There's not n mutlnous dog among
you don't hold cheaper than tho English