Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-05-03

[ ..t Carlo father that he Inherited the qual- ity of devotion was not apparent De voted he had been and devoted he re- mained.
 There was one among the officers
 Morgan was sure of and upon whom he could depend in an emergency, and that was young Teach. He had fat tered him by unusual marks of kind. ness, and alone among the officers this
 fellow did not seem to cherish the ran
 cor and suspicion of the others. He was too young to have experienced Q betrayal, as had the rest. This was his
 first venture in actual piracy, and he
 found 1t nlarvelously pleasant
 The officers, too, were all suspicious
 of one another. As each one nursed his
 own private designs he suspected the
 others of doing likewise, and with req.
 son. But there was as yet little out
 ward friction among them. Raveneau,
 for instance, was most scrupulously
 polite to the captain and his associates.
 Velsers was too stupid in his cups
 and he was generally in them-to do
 more than growl, and the Brazilian
 had all the capacities of his race for
 subtle concealment.
 Although the necessary orders for
 working the ship were obeyed and
 Morgan personally imposed implicit obedience and respect for his com mands, no duties other than those re-
 quired were performed by the men.
 During the day when not at work or at drill they drank, smoked, gambled
 and fought at pleasure, although, as the captain mercilessly exercised them during long hours at the great guns and with small arms, they did not have any too much leisure for play. During the night they kept watch and watch, of course, but in it all they took no care of the ship, and filth and dirt abounded If they had anticipated a
 long cruise things would necessarily have been different, but as they had gone far to the southward now and might make a landfall at any moment there was no necessity for bothering about mere cleanliness. Morgan had not communicated his ultimate pur- poses to his men as yet, but as he was the only navigator on the ship he was perforce allowed to have his own way.
 Breakfast had been served "a meager breakfast it was, too, for all hands were on short allowance of everything but spirits, on account of the unprovided state of the ship. For tunately for their contentment there was plenty of rum on board. The men were congregated forward on the fore castle or in the waist, wrangling and arguing as usual. The officers gath cred on the quarter deck, and Nor gan paced the high raised poop alone, overlooking them, when the lookout sudde1:y reported three sail in sight. The haf drunken sailor who had been sent aloft at daybreak had kept negli- gent watch, for almost as soon as he had made his report the ships were obse-va.f from the deck of the frigate.
 The Mary Rose had the wind on her quarter. iler best point of sailing, and she was covered with canvas from her trucks to her decks, from her spritsail yard to her huge mizzen crossjack, a lateen sail The wind was light, but she was making rapid progress toward the approaching strangers, who, with their larboard tacks aboard, were beat ing m townfd The English.
 Attended by the maroon, Morgan, pis- tol in hand, went, forward to the fore castle, kicking his way clear through the sullen, black browed mass of sailors. He ran short distance up the weather fore shrouds and took long look at the strangers. They all flew the yellow flag of Spain. One was a huge galleon, the other two smaller ships, though larger in each instance than the Mary Rose, and all heavily armed.
 One of the plate ships from Porto Bello was due in this latitude about this time, and Morgan instantly sur i missed that the galleon was she and that the two others were Spanish frig- ates to give her safe convoy across the ocean. Spain was at peace with all the world at that time, and the two frigates would have been ample to ward off the attack of any of the small | piratical craft which had succeeded the i buccaneer ships of the Caribbean. The Spaniards had no idea that such vul- ture as Morgan was afloat; therefore, although they had sighted the Mary Rose long before she had seen them. be- 1 cause they kept better watch, they | came on fearlessly and without hesi- tation. It was evident to the expert | enced officers among them that the yes sel was an English frigate. and as Eng land was country with which there was profound peace at the time they | nothing.
 The position of the approaching ships with reference to one another was | peculiar. The first and smaller frigate was perhaps half mile ahead of her consorts. who were sail ing side by side. cables length apart. Morgan at once determined to attack them. He knew that he possessed the handiest ship. and he believed that he had discovered a way to master the ottar tbraa Tho fxvo fricafaa uaro