Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1905-12-30
CONTINUED from Satur iay)

There was one man, however, from
the post of honor which he occupied
at the head of the table evidently held
in high consideration among the ma
bitues of the inn, who did not join In
the singing. He was little man, who
made UP for his shortness of stature
by breadth of shoulder and length OF
arm. There was an ugly black patch
over his left eye No one had ever seen
him without that patch since the day
of the assault on the fort at Chagres.
An Indian arrow had pierced his eye
on that eventful day. Men told now
he had gone to the surgeon requesting
him to pull It out, and when the young
doctor, who had been but a short time
with the buccaneers, shrank from jerk
ing the barb out in view Of the awful
pain which would attend his action,
and hesitated, reluctant, the wounded
man had deliberately torn out the ar
row and, with oaths and curses for
the others Cowardice, had bound up
the wound himself with strips torn
from his shirt and resumed the fight
ing. His courage there, and before and
after, although he was an illiterate
person and could neither read nor
write. had caused him to be appointed
boatswaain of the ship that had car.
ried Morgan flag, and he had followed
his leader for many years with blind
devotion that risked all and stuck at
nothing to be of service to him.
1t had been many years since Master
Benjamin Hornigold, coming down
from bleak New England because he
found his natural bent of mind out OF
harmony with the habits and customs
of his Puritan ancestors, had drifted
into buccaneering under the flag of his
chief. He was an old man now, but
those who felt the force OF his mighty
arms were convinced that age had not
withered him to any appreciate de-
gree.
Aside from Morgan, Hornigold had
loved but one human creature, his
younger brother, a man Of somewhat
different stamp. who had been grad
uated from Harvard college, but, i'm.
PEELED by some wild stracin In his blood
and by the example of his brother, had
Joined the buccaneers.
There were many men of gentle blood
who were well acquainted with the po'
lite learning of the day among these
sea rovers from time to time, and II Is
related that on that same Panama eX-
cursion when from the silent peak In
Darien" they beheld for the first time
after their tremendous march the gilt
tering eXpanse of the south seas, with
white Panama in its green trees before
them, the old cry of the famous Ten
Thousand, "Thalatta! Thalatta! The
sea! The sea-" had burst from many
lips.
All his learning and refinement OF
manner had not prevented young Then
eZer Hornigold from being as bad at
heart as his brother, which is saying
q great deal, and because he was
younger more reckless, less prudent.
than he of ripper years, he had incau'
tiously put himself in the power OF
Morgan and had been hanged with
short shrift Benjamin, standing up.
on the outskirts of the crowd testing
and roaring around the foot Of the
gibbet, with grief and rage in his
heart at his impotency, presently found
himself hating his old captain with a
fierceness proportional to his devo-
ton in the past, for he had appealed
Tor mercy personally 20 Morgan by
the memory OF his former services and
had been sternly repulsed and Coldly
dismissed with a warning that he
should look to his own future conduct
lest, following in the course Of his
brother, he should find himself with
his neck in the moose,
Morgan, colossal in his Conceit and
careless in his courage. thought not Ia
inquire, or, II he gave the subject any
consideration at all, dismissed 1t from
his mind as OF little moment, as tn
what was the subsequent state of
Hornigold's feelings. HOrnigold could
have killed Morgan on numberless &C.
Casions, but a consuming desire for a
more adequate revenge than mere
death had taken hold of him, and he
deferred action until he could contrIye
some means by which to strike him in
a way that he conceived would glut
his obsession OF incapable hatred.
Hornigold had reformed-outwardly
that is-and was now engaged in the
useful and innocent business of pilot
ing ships into the harbor. also steering
their crews. after the anchors were
down, into the Blue Anchor tavern, in
which place his voice and will were
supreme. He had heard, for Lord Car
lingford had made no secret of his
orders, that his old master was to be
arrested and sent back to England.
The news which would have brought
JOY to a lesser villain, in that 1t meant
punishment, filled him with dismay.
for such was the popularity of his
hatred that he wanted the punishment
to come directly from him-through