Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-09-22

return to the island, where have got a
matter to settle on the Cape Fear-a
sneaking cur and murderer to punish;
then if you are all of my mind, we'll
divide the spoils and scatter to the four
quarters of the globe. Not a follower of
mine will have less than $50. 900, and on
that you can each live like princes to
the end. This provided, of course, the
trip to Washington does not miscarry.
What say you. lads?"
"Hurrah for Washington" cried
every man. Anywhere with you, cap
taini"
Now, men, finish your work on the
schooner, when you have dined. You,
Goss, paint on her stern her name
The Fisher Boy and when we sail
into the Potomac we will have aboard
cargo of fresh fish and seines and
fishing tackle. You'll be fishermen in
overalls and jackets. Mate. has Rton-
son returned?''
"No, captain, but it's time; this is
his third day. But bark! there's his
whistle now"
The door swung back and admitted
one who looked exactly like one of the
coast fishermen.
''Well, Bronson, what news from Will
mington?"
CLAP your head we'll on your Shout
ders, captain. The reward for Black
Boards capture, dead or alive, is raised
to 100000. North Carolina and Mary
land join with South Carolina and
Georgia"
Maryland! Why, lads, that's wrong.
We haven't tackled Maryland at all.
and here she joins against US. We will
lay in our next supplies at Baltimore;
but what else?''
why, $4,000 for the head of each man
of your crew, and a pardon of any OF
them that turn against you"
why didn't you turn informer?"
Captain. do you think I'd give your
life away to save my own? 1 didn't
think you had that opinion of me-" and
tears actually stood in the eyes of the
buccaneer.
NO, Bronson, no. Fill up your glass
man, for tomorrow you leave here for
Washington; you must go finely
dressed, and apply for position in the
treasury department. Whether you gel
| it or no, hang around there constantly
until you ascertain who carries the
vault keys, who locks the outer door al
night. and where they live-you will
also after Is days watch the harbor fol
the Fisher Boy"
Captain, Herbert LathrOp has Dough,
Kendall, and become planter He
is administrator of his uncle's estate
without bond; he was left besides $50,
600 by the bankers will"
"Why, then all is plain as day; bu
We'll leave him until the last. Now, then
AS the next two months will probably
Ike risky ones to every man who follow.
me, if there is a man in all my crew who
wishes his release, let him speak now
and he shall be put ashore, with his full
proportion of the spoils, and no one
shall blame him."
! There was none who spoke.
The painters now returned to Their
work, while most of the other men dis
posed of their time cleaning and polish
ing their arms.
At the upper end of the cabin was al
immense fireplace, seemingly carved il
the rocks, and over it huge cranes hold
ing pots and kettles; the smoke from
the fire beneath them assembled through
the assures in the rocks, coming out il
100 places, and cooling in it's ascent, 81
that when it reached the surface it wa
not discernible.
The culinary department was pre-
sided over by the only negro Blacl
Beard had in his crew; this negro wa
an ungainly, black, bow-legged man o
middle age; his long arms causing hi
hands to reach almost to his knees
when he was standing erect, or as cree
us he could; he was known to the cap
tain and crew as Bow Legs; they ha,
picked him up one night, from the bot
tom of an upturned sailboat. He hai
said that he was trying to make hi
escape from a hard master, and that hi
boat was swamped-anyway, he wa
clinging to it, but must soon have pei
ished.
The crew saved his life, and Blac
Beard had not now a more faithful ad
herent than Bow Legs.