Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-04-29

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 boatswain of the ship that had car ried Morgan's 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.
 It 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 appreciable de gree. ..
 Aside from Morgan, Hornigold had loved but one human creature, his younger brother, man of somewhat different stamp, who had been grad uated from Harvard college, but, i'm. pelled by some wild strain 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 1t 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 seav' had burst from many lips.
 All his learning and refinement of manner had not prevented young Eben- ezar Hcrnigold from being as bad at heart as his brother, which is saying q younger, more reckless, less prudent, than he of riper 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 6 fierceness lproportioned to. his deyo- tion in the past, for he had appealed for mercy personally to 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 bis courage, thought not to inquire, or, if he gave the subject any consideration at all, dismissed 1t from his mind as of little moment. as to what was the subsequent state of Hornigold's feelings. Hornigold could have killed Morgan on numberless oc- 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 contrive 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 bs arrested and sent back to England. The news which would have brought joy to a lesser villain. in that it meant punishment, filled him with dismay. for such was the pecullarity of his hatred that he wanted the punishment