Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-10-18
SYNOPSIS.

Master Ardick. just reached his majority
and thrown upon his own resources, after
master. Is shipped as second mate on the
Industry, bound for Havana. Mr.. Tym,
the supercargo. describes sail. The strange
vessel gives chase, but is disabled by the
Industry's guns. In the fray one of the
crew is killed and HouthwiCk is seen to fall.
The captain Is found to be dead, but the In
duStry Is little damaged. Sellinger, first
mate, takes charge and puts into Sidmouth
when well out to sea, an English merchant
man Is met. whose captain has letter ad-
dressed to jeremiah Hope. at Havana.
The crew of the vessel tell strange tales
of the buccaneer Morgan. who Is sailing
under the king commission to take Pana-
ma. one night a little later, the EngIsh
vessel having proceeded on her course.
bit of paper is slipped into Ardick' s hand
by one of the sailors. This is found to be
warning of mutiny plot headed by FRA
dey, the ne wmate Ardick consultS Mr..
Tym. They resolve to secure the mate, but
Pradey, eavesdropping in the cabin. makes
through the door and arouses the crew.
Capt Sellinger joins Ardick and Tym. The
crew break through the now barricaded
door, but are forced TO retire. having lost
seven of their number. Finding them
selves now too short-handed to manage the
boat, Pradey decides to scuttle and desert
the vessel, taking his men OFF in the only
available boat. The cap tain, supercargo
and second mate soon discover their plight
but hastily constructing raft get away
next morning Spanard draws near
just before their vessel sinks The
them. The man in the rigging shouts:"If
speedy, or you will fall short" On board
they are sent forward with the crew, being
told they will be sold as slaves on reaching
Panama. The ships cook they find 10 be
Mac Irvach, 'frae Clagvarloch." so a friend.
Four days later the Spaniard is overhauled
by buccaneer flying the English flag; The
three Englishmen and Mac Irvach plan to
escape to the buccaneer on a rude raft.
Sellinger. the last to attempt to leave the
Spaniard, is disabled. just after the others
put off they Il figure dangling from the
yard arm, whom they suppose is Capt. Sell
friends find themselves in the hands of
their old mate, Pradey. He treats them
kindly and offers to do them no harm II
mutiny he headed The Black Eagle.
Pradey's ship, comes to Chagre. Cuba.
which town they find Morgan has taken
under the English flag. From here the
Black Eagle. with Morgan's fleet proceeds
to Panama. The command consists of about
1900 men, Having landed, they march on
the city. The assault on the city is begun.
Many of the buccaneers fall and Ardick is
Pradey approaching. The city at last falls.
-Ardick. coming to, finds Tym has rescued
bS fro T6 ha aT SaS Sy baen Kl
hauled down from the castle and the men
allowed to plunder the city at will. Mac
and exclaims: ''The gaist O. the captain"
1t is indeed Sellinger. He recounts his late
adventures. then he leads them to the res,
been kind to him on the Pilanca. the Span
Ish vessel on which he had been pris-
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the don. his wife and daughter. (Dona Car
smen.) They just manage to leave the
building when Capt. Towland comes to
claim the dona as his prize, under the buc-
cancers rule. Mr. Tym parleys to gain
time for the flight OF his party, then allows
the men to entcr. Seeking shortly 10 join
rthedon, they come upon his dead body.
They find also his wife has been slain and
tthe young dona taken prisoner to the castle
and Immediately conceive bold plan for
her rescue. They soon discover her exact
whereabouts. and, amid the carousals OF
1.-THE men, manage to again free her and es-
.sape In small boat The third day out
n sail Is spied which they raise rapidly,
their craft having little speed, but the
wind soon fails beth vessels, and small
boat is put out from the stranger. This
comes with 10 armed men, among whom
a Rowland A hand-to-hand conflict en-
sues and Mr.. Tym is wounded in the neck.
I'm the end the hostile force Is completely
'worsted. none escaping. Tyms wound Is
found not serious: Sellinger has also been
slightly wounded. Coming now out or their
sorest straits, they learn from Dona car
men her nearest relative Is an uncle, a
Jeremiah Hope, of Havana. Sellinger re-
calls he has q letter for this gentleman, SO
decides to sail for that place. Not long
afterwaro they come across West In,
dian vessel bound for Panama. On board
IS her owner the jeremiah Hope they had
all along wanted to encounter.