Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-04-14

4 lne TOtk Itself.
Beneath these again appeared the fringe
| OF white surf. the deep indigo blue reefs
| sunk in the azure of the Caribbean sea,
| with the sun beginning to sink conf -rtably
| in the west.
Anna went to and fro among US dealing
| out what provender had been landed from
| the ship. Several of the mega oversaers
l accompanied her, and at the hack against
| wall of rock fire was lighted, the smoke
/ of which dispersed itself among the tangled
\ mass of creepers hanging dow from the
| cliff
! And so quickly do men in these cutland-
| ish places reconcile themselves to death and
change that, if it were not VIII and Who
| ourselves had been delivered from DEATH l
/ do not think that any of those who waited
| the going down of the sun SO much as
| thought of the two men who an hour age
| had gone whiriing into that fiery gehenna
| locked in each others arms.
The commandante and the grand inquis-
| Tor talked together, Summoning first this
| one and then that to assist them by his
| counsel About an hour before sunset
! Eborra returned with his companion. They
I brought the news that very few pirates
We're to be seen. and that the village APP
| peared to be deserted. 1 judged however
| mat Eborra, who knew every foot of the
| jungle had permitted the man to see mere
| imam he wished There were three ships in
| the harbor. but each of them appeared 10
be manned only by sparse watch.
| VIM ana l We're exceedingly anxious to
\ get speech with Eborra after his return,
| but the latter kept carefully aW,y fron
| US, busying himself about the fire under the
| CHM where Anna was cooking. The grand
| iHqulSitor watched him with his small twin
| king eyes, and the half caste never so
| much as looked in our direction Presently
! however. Anna came over to us with some
| strlps OF boiled beef laid upon platters of
| palm leaf very fresh and tender
1 Eborra bids us keep well in the raar',
| sne sald, smiling and pointing to the strips
| OF peer as If asking how we liked them
| Ihen at the first sound of shot we are to
a 10 oil,
| till he joins u.s.
| WI and | each shot a question at her.
put she only laughed merrily and nodded
| , ~, ~ ileau again as she trfpped back again
! 10 the lre making believe all the way thar
| we We're greedy fellows who were not con-
\ tent with what We had gotten but wished
| for double rations
| nan an hour after shutdown it was dark
I ana We started UP the side of a creek fniI
| OF rlch, tat mud. From this the miasma
| rose palpa6ly, the mosquitoes hunmed and
PiiiseI IN cloud-hankS like those about New
| LoHlulahu. ZzzzZzZZeek,' was what they
| sdld- ana when they came TO eek" nro-
| Hounced with little upward twfrl of their
! soailS reiharkahle voices, in went the poi
| Hplet StIetto and We Smete the part with
| cheeriul alacrity without waiting for fnr
| lIer Information. Most of us also offered
t rSllaFhs IN our several vernacuIars, but
| these l need not write down here
| As We marched l desired To ass;st A,,,,
| aa pest might, but she preferred to perse-
| ~ IA neI own way, only taking nv hand
| To- H. uLtGi or swamp happened to be
| 700 Wide Tor her to leap. Thus the whole
| eNpedlti0n followed Eborra through a kind
| OF parklike savannah country He ~
nl9hIns long detour in order to avoid The
| toieaho winch We could still see flickerinp
| beyond the high woods But the Iiobt VS.
! nor clear and wide like autumnaI sheet
mshtning as it had been the night hefore
tba a u.uiSn swamp log which came up from
ue CIeeks spread sideways till it was as
/ Huch as We could do to see the NOR ~
a+ IN vi US IL would have been easy
enoush 70 drop OFF, here and none The
| wiser But the prospect of hiding All nit,ht
| on rott1ng leaves In an atn1osnbara
| PIIe leVer was not inviting enough We
| resolved TO wait, according TO the half
/ go. e"' oesah 10
s, Inc nrefies continually jetted across ZIG
| nylnS almost into our eyes and vaDisbi -3,
again INTO the pail of mist
| i wonder if they know tbaIr r-o, -
! THere they are going?" | whispered E-or
! was ever prone to notice trf1es ar tho
| S M.ois Sfne when my thoughts ought To
nv oeeh upon more serious matters
! no a1s going where?" growIad yy;u
mniose iegs Were paining him. where one or
Two Oh the prickles had broken off in the
The frefies." said /. But VIII ala o.
snow any interest He was sore and ,ois ~
able and felt the beginnings of a tendenc,,
10 shver. He muttered wish ui+b t ras.l
to the firetiies which Conserved IN tl,
recent confession of church nf En go ilis
| baptism. VI England
| "ouIu De content to know where we
| are gong. he added sharply We
About an hour after this the yyord roz
passed along the ranks that now We ro,,st
De pei Fea se! to ran on at any moment Eborra
h'ta reported that the pirate VILLAGE -
near. We could hear a RESTLESS cno1 wa. was
ing every few minutes, and more than orc
mn canle a Whit as Of hot wood ashes
ana the unchilled hearths OF man "'iie"
/ oh the back OF this ensued So LONG {.
| pause that II seemed to have no end /
| t mar III Tue STIFFNESS the toads croak-
ING, ana nearer at hand the whisper of The
| communicate arranging his men for ~
assault Anna and / waited hand in hard
WIN bowman opened his mouth and incIin.
eI ms ear INTO the darkness. A gun went
clear nnTes US ., shdrp as a signal-then the
shouted loud order in Spanish Tbara
Was hFely rush through the underwood
race crack! Crack! The guns were
gong now with a vengeance
Into the brush with you-auickr, said
F.poiIdr hurFylns US away to the left We
stumbled over gourds pricked ourselves on
ane oush called hgs-of-the-moor stumbled
against truit trees which sent heavy globes
Gown forthwith TO break our heads. Then
AFTER breathing run of quarter of an
i ilour' having left the attack of the Span
lards well away to the right we crourhed
OF some open ground at the foot of a cIumn
OF tan trees The rattle of musketry he
hea,n US grew almost continuous. we
oou!d near the Spaniards going brayeIy at
1t, their high screaming shout rising ard
ialIlng. But what was that which answer
ed: Not the wild pirate yell! 1t was-no II
coulo not De-yet surely it was a cheer
Ihe mouth-hilins. heart-stirring cry which
men OF English speech make all over thr
world when they fight for the mastery.
The moon had risen and the mist grown
luminous about u.s. Suddenly Anna Clutch
ed me and 1 felt swift fear run coursinely
through her
What is that. PhIip-oh, what are
| these?' "'' are
She pointed above our heads. The moon
; Shone little clearer. We had stopped I'M
der great row of tall forest trees which
, stretched their branches stifffy at right
: / angles There were many that the line
disappeared into the mist on either hand
Many OF the limbs shone gaunt and white
: like the arms Of skeletons fantasticaly dis,
, posed But that was not the terror which
caused Anna to grasp me by the arm.
, FROM every naked bough a dead mar
daHsied, sum and still. turning only slowly
some OF them, as the rope twisted and un.
. twisted. N MA
, We sat still. frozen cold. There woe
one almost directly over our heads. Look.
Ing up. / could see that he was
hung in chains. the scarce-dimmed meta
glinting in the cold gray of the mist-choL,