The Cairo bulletin., 1904-07-18

! he was going, that he was moving
| Moreover IN answer to one of his I'M
passioned appeals to be set ashore a
Jamaica, Blaekbeard had said TO hin
that if he should get tired OF him Ii,
did not see. at that moment, any rea
son why he should not put him Oh
board some convenient vessel ane
have him landed at Kingston.
Dickory did not believe very muct
In the black bearded pirate, with his
wild tricks and inhuman high spirits
but Jamaica lay to the east, and hi
was going eastward.
Incited. perhaps, by the possession
of fine ship, manned By crew
picked from his old vessel and from
the men who had formed the crew OF
the Revenge, Blackboard was in better
spirits than was his wont, and SO far
as his nature would allow he treated
Dickory with fair good humor But
no matter what happened. his unre-
strained imagination never failed him.
Having taken the fancy to see Dick
Dry always in full uniform, he allowed
him to assume no other clothes; he
was always in naval ful-drcss and
cooked hat. and his duties were those
OF private secretary.
The only shrewd thing / ever knew
your Sir Nightcap to do he said.
vols to tell me you could not read nor
write. He spoke SO glibly that be-
liaved him. Had 1t not hSen so /
should have sent you to the town
to help with the shore end of my
affairs, and then you would have been
there still and | should have. had no
admiral to write my log and straighten
my accounts"
Sometimes, in his queter moods,
when there was no proyocation 10
send pistol balls between two sailors
quietly conversing, or to perform some
other demoniac trick. Blackboard
would talk to Diekory and ask dl!
manner of questions, somd of which
the young man answered, while some
he tried not to answer Thus 1t was
that the pirate found out a. great deal
more about Dickory's life,l hope and
sorrows than the young fellow mag
ined that he made known. He discov.
cred that Dickory was greatly interest
ed in Bonnet's daughter. and wished
above all other things in this world
to get to her and to be with her,
This was little out of the com
mon run of things. among the brother
hood; it was their fashion to forget,
so far as they. were able, the family
ties which already belonged to them,
and TO make no plans for any future.
ties of that sort which they might be
able to male Such a thing amused
the generally rampant Black beard, but
II this Dichory boy whom they had
on board really did wish to marry
some one, the idea came into tho
crafty mind of Blackboard that 10
would like to attend to that marrying
himself. 1t pleased him to have
inger in every pie, and now here was !
I pie in the lingering OF which he
might take novel interest.
This renowned desperate, this
bloody cutthroat, this merciless pirate |
a home-a quiet little Eng
ish home on the Cornwall coast. |
where the cheerful. woods and fields |
stretched down almost in reach of the /
,ullen sea Here dweltl his wife, quiet /
Mistress Thatch. and here his brawny
laughter Seldom word came 10 this |
'ural home from the father, burning /
Ind robbing, sinking and Staying out /
lpon the western seas. But from the |
torres of pelf which so often slipped |
70 easily into his great arms, AMI
which so often slipped just as easily /
'ut of them, came now and then some
hing to help the Drawn grow upon his
daughters bones and to ease the la
'ors of his wife.
Eliza Thatch bore no resemblance
o a hour; her hair was red. her face
vas freekled; she had enough teeth
eft to do good eating with when she
ad a chance, and her step shook the
imbers OF her little home
Her father had heard from her a
title while ago by a letter she had
ad conveyed to Belize His parental
ceilings, Notwithstanding he had told
'onnet he knew no such sentiments,
Iere stirred. When he had finished
err letter ne would have been well
leased 10 burn a vessel and make a
Dzen passengers walk the plank as a
TO his girl But this not
cling Convenient, 1t had come to him
lat he would marry the wench to the
iyly bedecked young fellow he had
lptured. and IL filled his reckless
cart with a wild delight He drew
Is cuslass. and with great oath
: drove the heavy blade into the top
the table and he swore by this
ark that his grand plan should be
Irried out.
lie would sail over TO England: this
ould be a happy chance. for his YES
] was unladen andTeady for any adj
snture He would drop anchor in /
lie quiet cove he knew Of; he would
, ashore by night; he would be at !
Dme again. To be at home again
ade him shout with profsne laughter.
e little home he remembered would
, so ridiculous to him now. He
ould see again his poor little trem- {