The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-07-09
CHAPTER TX.
DIcKoRY SETS FORTH.

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t2AA Spanish Town, the CAPT
tai OF Jamaica occupied c@mmodiou!
house in the suburbs Of the town, 1.
miles up the river from Kingston, thu
seaport, which establishment was
somewhat remarkable from the lac
that there were no women In the fam
lily. Madam Delaplaine had been dead
for several years, and as her husbands
fortune had steadily thriven, he now
found himself pbssessor OF home in
which he could be rs Independent and
as comfortable as II he had been the
president and sole member OF club.
Into this quiet and self-satisfied life
came. one morning. a great surprise In
the shape of beautiful young woman,
who entered his Office in Spanish
Town, and who stated to him that she
was the daughter OF his only sister,
and that she had come to live with
him. There was an elderly dame and a
young man In company with the beau
tiful visitor, but Mr. Delaplaine took
no note of them. With his niece's
hands In his own. gazing into the face
so like that young face in whose COM
pany he had grown from childhood TO
manhood, Mr.. Delaplaine saw in flash,
that since the death of his wife until
that moment he had never had the
least reason to be content with the
world or to be satisfied with his lot
This was his sisters child come to
live with him!
When Mr. Delaplaine sufficiently re-
covered his ordinary good sense to I'M
derstand that there were other things
in this world besides the lovely niece
who had SO suddenly appeared before
him, he remembered that she had a
father, and many questions were
asked and answered; and he was told
who Dame Charter was, and why her
son came with her. Then the uncle
and the niece walked into the garden,
and there talked of Maj. Bonnet. Lit
tic did Kate know upon this subject,
and nothing could her uncle tell her;
but in many and tender words she was
assured that this was her home as
long as she chose TO live IN II, and that
II was the most fortunate thing in the
world that Dame Charter had come
with her and could stay with her Had
this not been so, where could he have
found such a guardian angel, such
chaperon, for this tender niece? AS
for the young man. II was such rare
good luck that he had been able to ac-
company the two ladies and give them
his protection. He was Just the per-
son, Mr.. Delapls ne believed, who
would be invaluable to him either on |
the plantation or in his counting
house. In any case, here was their !
home; and here, too. was the home of
his bgother-in-law, Bonnet, whenever |
he chose to give up his strange fancy |
for the sea. 1t was not now to be
thought of that Kate or her father, or |
either one of them should go back TO |
Barbados 10 live with the impossible |
Madam Bonnet.
IL her fathers vessel were in the |
harbor and he were here with them, or |
even If she had had good tidings from |
him, Kate Bonnet would have been q
very happy girl. for her present abode
was vastly different from any home
she had ever known Her uncle's
house on the highlands beyond the
town lay in a region of cooler breezes
and more brncing air than that of Bar
BADGES. Books and music and the gen.
eral air of refinement recalled her
early life with her mother, and with
the exception of the anxiety about her
father, there were no clouds In the
bright blue sizes of Kate Bonnet But
this anxiety ras a cloud, and it was
spreading.
When the Amanda moved away from
the side OF the pii ate vessel Revenge
che hoisted all sail. and got away over
the sea as fast as the prevailing wind
could take her. When she passed the
Choir, Capt. Marchand Immediately
lowered a boat and was rowed up the
river to the recent residence of Maj
Stede Bonnet, and there he delivered
two letters-one TO the wife of that
gentleman, and the other for his
daughter. Then the captain rowed
back and went into the town, where he
annoyed and nearly distracted the
citizens by giving them the most eau
Iious and expurgated account of the
and friendly manner in
which the Amanda had been relieved
Of her cargo by his old friend and fell
Maj Bonnet.
Capt. Marchand had been greatly
by the many things which /.
Ben Greenway had said about his mas
er's present most astounding freak.
md hoping in his heart that repent !
lnce and suitable reparation might
-oon give this hitherto estimable man
IN opportunity to return TO his former {
place in society, he said as little as he
,ould against the name and fame of (
his once respected fellow-citizen. I
When he communicated with the Eng |
ish owners OF his now departed cargo,
ie would know what to say to them, |
'lt here safe in harbor with his vessel 6
Ind his passengers, he preferred to
walt Tor a time before entirely black I
ming the character of the man who I
lad allowed him to come here. Like |
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