The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-07-23
CopyrIghI. lyv2. 81 y. Applelon : Dol. Nsw York.

/ know YOU bedad, but | know all about
| yoa, and | saw you and your famils
/ when you came to town to visit that
old fox, bedad, that sugar planter thai
! Capt Blackboard used TO call SiI
Nightcap. MOI a bad joke either be-
/ dad ! have heard OF good many dir.
i ~, mean things that people IN my line
4 OF business have done but. bedad.
1 never did hear Of any cantain who
was dirty and mean 10 his own family.
/ file people, too, who came ont n 10
1 tic right thing by him. after he had
been cleaned Out. 5edad, by one of his
Brothers OF the Coast A rare sort OF
brother, bedad, don't you say so?"
you are right, sir. said Mr.. Della
PLANE, in what you say of the wild
conduct OF my brother-in-law Bonneu
1t pleases me, sir. TO know tSat you
condemn it.
Condemn! | should say SO. bedad
answered Capt. Ichabod; land came
over here to say to you-that is, just %
mention not knowing. Of course, what
/ you'd think about it, bedad--that Tn
goin' 10 start on cruise tomorrow
/ That is. as soon as can gel In my wa
| ter ard some stores, bedad waite,
anyway And ii You and your ladies
might happen TO fancy il. bedad "a M
glad 10 fake you along. I've heard
that you're in a bad ease here, the cap
tain OF this brig being unable or quite
unwilling G take you where you want
20 go
But where are you going. sir?" in
great surprise
Anywhere, said Capt Iehabod,
Anywhere you'd like to 50. I'M
starting ont on a cruise, and a cruise
with me means anywhere. And my
opinion IS, sir. that if you want 10
come up with that eraek-brained
sugar planter you'd better follow
Black beard and Ike best place TO find
him will be on the Carolina coast;
that's his fay0rite hunting-ground, be-
dad. and ! expect the sugar-planter is
with him by this time.
But will moi that be Dangerous.
sir9' asked Mr.. Delaplaine.
"Oh. no, said the other 4 know
Blackboard and we have played many
a game together You and your fam
lily need not have anything 70 do with
Il. IN board he Revenge, and you
may wager bedad, that I'll bring Sir
Nightcap back TO you by the ear
But there's another" said Della
PLANE; there's young man belong
ing 10 my party"
oh yes, | know" said the other,
"the young fellow Blackboard tooh
away with him. Clapped cooked hat
on him. bedad, Thas was a good loke
| will bring him, too. One old man
one young man-I'll fetch EN- both.
Then I'll take you all where You want
to go. That is, as near as can get TO
it, bedad Now, you tell your ladies'
about this, and III have my sloop
cleaned up a bit, and as soon as ! can
get my water on board I'm ready 10
hoist anchor
But look you. sir" exclaimed Mr..
Delaplaine. this is a very important
matter. and cannot be decided SO
quickly"
"oh. don't mention IT, doa't mention
it," said Capt Ichabod; Just you tell
your ladies all about it. and III be
ready to sail almost any time to-mor-
row.
But. sir" cried the merchant.
VERY good. said the pirate cap
tain. you talk il over. I'm going to
the town now and III row out to you
this afternoon and get your iustrnc-
tons"
And with this ne got over the side.
Mr.. Delaplaine said nothing of this
visit. but waited on deck until the cap
lain came on board. and then many
were the questions he asked about the
pirate Ichabod.
We'll. well" the captain exclaimed,
that's just like him, he's a rare one.
lchabod is not his name, Of course, and
I'm told he belongs to a good English
famlly-a younger son. and having
taken his inheritance. he invested il
In a sloop and turned pirate. He has
had some pretty good fortune. ! hear.
in that line, but It hasn't prohted him
much. for he is a terrible gambler. and
all that he makes by his prizes he
loses at cards. so he Is nearly always
poor. Blackboard sometimes helps
him. 50 / have heard-which be ought
to do. for the old pirate has won bags
OF money from him-but he is known
as a good fellow. and TO be trusted ]
have heard of his sailing a, long way
back to Belize to pay a gambling debt
he owed. he having captured a mer-
chairman in the meantime.
Very honorable. indeed" remarked
Mr.. Delaplaine.
las pirates go. a white crow" said
the other. Now. sir II you and your
ladies' want to go To Blackboard. and
a rare desire is that. swear. You can
rot do better than let Capt Tchabod
take You. You viii be safe. and am
sure of that. and there Is every rea-
son 10 think be will find his man"
When Mr. Delaplaine went below
with his extraordinary news Dame
Charter turned pale and screamed
sail in a pirate ship" she cried