The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-01-27

You have forfeited your liberty"
that child of perdition, doubtless, and
some good Spanish blood may be shed
in consequence. What think you," he
went on, looking at me fiXedly, shall
| not he doing my sovereign and the
church service if | endeavor to dis.
charge a small measure of this debt %
| began to think that we had fallen
out of the frying pan into the fire, for
| was at no loss to guess what he
meant. Nevertheless | was resolved
not to quail, and, indeed, it was pos
sible he might be only trying me. !
collected myself, therefore, and All.
swered him.
"a debt, your lordship, should be
paid by the debtor, and not by him who
has no part in it. The Spanish blood
you speak of was not shed by me or by
my comrades. We abhor piracy ard
every such lawless doing"
The hidalgo nodded, but could not
see that had produced any lneasur
able impression on him. It was an
anxious moment. and disccrncd that
my companions had detected some
thing amiss aud come clos,r, though /
could not then give heed to them.
well, senior" he replied, at last,
there is reason in what you say, and
/ am not disposed TO deal with YOU
harshly. Nevertheless here his loo&
hardened again, and my spirits sank
81 cannot forget that YOU are English
men. II you yourselves have done my
countrymen no harm. neither had the
Spaniards of Puerto Rico and Mara
caibo done the English harm. Your
lives are safe, but you have forfeited
Panama will be sold as slaves. You
may go forward for the present and
serve with the crew"
lie nodded TO signify that he had con
cludcd, and, with the same stately pre-
cision as ut first, passed in among the
crowd ana made his way out of sight.
| was in measure dumfounded. and
stood where he had left me, trying to
grasp the fun purport of what had be-
fallen. Cast into slavery, and by the
people of Christian nation! What
worse would it have been had we fallen
among the heather Algcrines? ! was
aroused from this overwhelmed state
by the voice of Mr.. lynn and, turning
about, acquainted both him and the
captain with what had passed,
'Slaves TO the dons, is ito" said Sell
linger, when had finished. ~ mid
ding hard port to steer into. after all
that has bcfalen MS! The greasy lob
Scourcrs! ! hope we shall manage TO
put trick or two upon them before we
are done. 10 thinl; of such tallow-heads
making slaves Of free-boru English
mcu!"
We had time for only few words
further, for soon one of the officers
the boatsWain, as | presently discov-
ered-came along aud ordered us to
pick up our things and follow him TO
the forecastle. This we accordingly did
| carrying the supercargo's box, to
show him that much respect, though
he tried to dissuade me. On the way
| took some thought of the people about
me, not having till now observed them
with particularity, and found that most,
save few in armor, who seemed to
be professional soldiers, belonged to
the ships company, the passengers not
numbering above score. or these the
greater part were dressed in rather
rich sort, though not comparable to
the don, and about one-fourth were fe-
males.
got below, and in great WEAKNESS
put down MIR. Tym's box and fetched
glance around. by degrees, as ! be-
came accustomed to the dusIiness,
made out the features of the place.
1t was low for the bigness Of the
ship, and was furnished after a very
poor and rough sort. The hunks and
hammocks We're old and fit to drop
apart, none of the timbers or work Of
he ship were smoothed except by the
friction of use, and II mere dilapidated
fence served as a bulkhead to part of
the cooks quarters. Luckily the
smells of the place, i'll as they were
for all was disordered and dirty-were
not of the worst, for at this time both
n windward and n leeward port stood
partly open, and the passage of the
small breeze through served to sweep
out the chiefcst of the odors.
We did not come by good l<nowl-
edge OF the place instantly, for it was
somewhat dimly lighted, the port on
the larboard side being closed and that
upon the starboard standing scarce two
inches upon the hook, but upon peer
ing about bit at first one feature and
then another came out,
We had taken two or three steps for
ward, and | was casting a glance in
the direction of the cooks furnace,