The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-01-19

down in heaps upon heaps of yellow
gold, and, even in death, his hands
seemed to clutch, greedily, the glitter
ing baubles. The polished discs sent
back the sunlight in many a yellow re-
Election, save where here and there they
were dulled by the blood of him who
lay prone above them.
Peter" said Glymp to the innkeeper.
fetch chairs for the gentlemen, and
bring also a fiagon of wine," then to
DR. Hutchinson, My good doctor, if
you'll be so god as to bind UP this arm,
I'll to my story"
He took from a chest of drawers a
linen handkerchief, which the Doctors
deft fingers quickly transformed into
a bandage, with which he bound up an
ugly wound in Glymp's right arm.
OF all the men within that room
Roger Glymp alone seemed calm and
self-possessed. He walked to the table
and filled his pipe from a quaint to-
bacco jar, lit it, then, leaning his arm
upon the wide mantel shelf, he turned
toward his impatient audience.
Gentlemen" said he, with a wave
of his hand toward the limp, recum-
bent figure, Il first saw yonder man
five years ago. My father, who was
merchant and shipowner in the
American trade, elected to make his
permanent residence in the colonies,
and set sail with his family and house
hold goods in 1866 Early upon the
morning of July the lookout at the
masthead discovered a black hull upon
the horizon. For a week we had been
in the doldrums. and the sea rose and
fell about us in great smooth, oil
like pillows, through which we could
scarcely make steerage way By the
aid of a glass we could see that the
stranger was piping along under belly
ing canvas and churning up a white
froth at her bows. She was well with
in two miles of us when we heeled
over to the first puff of wind and bore
away upon our course.
Roger said my dear father to me,
it would seem as though yonder black
craft were bearing down upon u.s. and
it was while l was standing by the
toprail examining her closely through
j the glass, that she ran up a black
flag to her peak At the same time a
puff of smoke belched from her side,
| and, before the boom of her cannon
carried us, a shot whistled through
! our rigging.
| my son. declared my father, his
| face was white and set, tits a pirate
! craft God save us-if only your
mother and sisters were not aboard.
| Glymp paused and laid aside his
! pipe.
| eve gathered together all the arms
| on board; my mother and sweet Sis
! ters-God rest them-concealed each
| a dagger in their bosoms, determined
| upon using them in case we were cap
| tlred The black craft fired broad
] side after broadside into our defense
| less sides as she bore rapidly down
upon us. One entered the cabin-my
/ dear mother and-two sisters-were-
mercifully-killed.
"They soon came up with US and
dashed themselves fast and in mo-
ment a horde of fiendS swarmed over
our sides. l fought with pistol, with
sword, and then Delaying pin, and
/ by God! gentlemen, / fought to crush
and kill; then / was struck down from
behind, everything went red and black
J before me- and, for long time / knew
nothing.
would to heaven 1 had never re-
| covered consciousness. When 1 did l
found myself dashed tight to the main
mast of the pirate craft. My fathers
! ship had disappeared. Twas then yon-
der arch fiend leered into my face. You
sent many a good man to hell said
| he, but I'll have a clean score with
! you. Look there! / looked, and there
| before me a narrow plank stretched
from the deck and overhung the sea.
Gentlemen, God help mel was obliged
to look upon my brave, gray haired
father walk out upon that plank and
lurch, blindfolded into the sea-" Roger
! Glymp paused.
Father l called to him, father
| he raised his poor blindfolded head
my son. he said, be brave and with
those words upon his lips he
Glymp leaned his head upon his arm
and shook with powerful emotion.
Il have tried to be brave said
Glymp in a deep voice, God knows I
! have tried-well, they gave me one
chance for my life. If l succeeded in
whipping six pirates, single-handed, all
of us being unarmed, my life was to
| be spared. They cleared a space upon
the hot deck and we went at it, The
lust for blood was yet in me, and i
faith gentlemen, again I fought to
| MAIN and kill When I finished with
them, egad, I wanted more. A dozen
| of them put me in chains, and Devre-
mon would have it no other way than
that l must serve as mate upon the
pirate craft, and so, with but one end
| in view, l thenceforth served in that
! position.
"It would fill volumes. gentlemen.
| were ] to detail my sufferings during
| those years of captivity. | have seen
score of deep holes dug into the
sand at the ebb of the tide; into each
hole / have seen placed a living be-
ing, with only his head protruding.
while an hundred drunken pirates
| tamped the sand tightly about them.
Then, as the tide slowly arose and in
quilted their screaming victims. they
sat above them upon the dunes and
laughed, sang ribald songs and cursed
at the top of their voices. [ had taken
my solemn oath to kill Wonder mon
ster. 1 could have done it a score of
times, but I awaited an opportunity
when I could send him hence with a
full knowledge of his hellish deeds
sunken to the very depths of his black
soul.
One year ago, come next month. we
hove to and anchored near a small
island off the coast of Spain Rum. to-
gether with four chests of treasure
was distributed among the crew. The
remainder of the treasure was hauled
up and ranged along the deck, boats
were quickly manned. and seven of
these chests which you see here were
slung over the side into them. Devre-
mon, desiring to make short shift of
the burying of the treasure, took with
him all his men, leaving the jolly
Rover in charge of one able seaman.
the cook and his two helpers.
The island upon which we beached