The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-29

red on his brow. At that sight Noll
Dade, bound as he was, broke from the
side OF the other prisoners and ran
across the deck, throwing himself at
Justin's feet, sroveling like a heather
to an idol.
MASTER" he cried. Great master,
show thy powerr'
Justin spurned the creature with dis
gust.
That he cried. What means that
hideous worship. But let me warn you.
/ If my life be so precious to your pur-
! poses. you two secret men, as makes
you, Lynch, preserve me from harm in
battle in your locked cabin, and you,
uncle, Gabriel, pause now when you
would willingly have sent me to the
witches trial, l warn you, if you hurt
Oziel, you hurt mel Fool was I to
bark to your romance of southern
treasures, and turn a deaf ear to him
who would have had me avoid you.
Now tbs he and 1, and plank or pistol,
cutlass or the sea, we fight together
till that death-mark you, togetherr'
There was no room, no time for
words, but the comrades touched elbow
to elbow then, and Oziel felt paid, that
one moment, for all past GOODNESS and
neglect
Sincere and righteous rage makes the
boldest shrink. As Justin, who hitherto
fretful. whose passions, hot for the in
slant. had been so easily soothed with
a smile, a soft word and a song, cried
out thus. Even the resortful Lynch
was perplexed, and Gabriel twisted
squirmingly. Yet ne spoke first.
Master Lynch" he said with an at
eInpt at the lost dignity of the elder
IF so be thou hast excuses for thy
treachery, 'twere well to hear them in
private
And SO. with no further word of
plank or prisoner, he slipped aft to his
little private cabin, and Lynch and
DCnnereau, at his beck, followed him.
The others remained as they were
Justin and Oziel facing the rest pistol
in hand. Noll Dade wriggling by them,
muttering to himself, and looking up in
Justin's face with the whining depre-
catCry appeal of a slave, a manner
which filed both the lads with loaith-
ing as for things unnatural, yet per-
picked them fearingiy. The stolid Salem
man, one of those happily constituted
beings whom nothing disturbs so long
as they are obeying the orders of the
man who pays them, a stout and soul
less thing. like a typical policeman,
now, finding his prisoners harmless I'M
less attacked, piped all his men to re-
pair damages. When thus alone. the
wv SOdis5 AAASh SA4PR|A leINCi1l-
ly.
you bleed. Oziel." said Justin. "let
me bind that wound. 1 heard you call
me in the fight. but that black Bonner
eau had most roughly locked me in the
cabin
Tell me. Justin. have you learned
any more surely of Lynch's purpose?"
Nothing certain. but enough to know
that / have been played upon. He is
as pleasant as ever, but 1 think his
friendship is but hollow. Otherwise he
would not put me Off with laughs and
promises when ! ask him what means
Donnereau's watch over me, or Noll
Dade's intolerable treatment"
This Donnereau?"
"a scoundrel man, Oziel; a desperate
man. He would act the easy gentleman
like DiXey Lynch. but cannot and thus
balks his own purpose. He has told me
such hideous things. OZiel. and his vile
mind thought ii amused me by its wit.
By his own account, the man has been
engaged in the cruellest work, a pirate.
and is but a savage. though he has
aped other mems manners until he has
convinced himself he is human, too.
first doubted Lynch by that that he
should eat and drink and be good COM
rade with SO great a monster"
You are right said Oziel; and told