The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-14
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were scarcely on speaking terms with eacn other, all on account of Rose Sal terne. Not that nose had given any one
 Of ,hem cause to hope; but, then, neither I had she given any one of them cause to despair. The air was full of rumors of dues over the Mayors daughter and Frank saw that if this state of things continued there would be bloodshed for one beautiful woman can bring many brave men to grief.
 So Frank persuaded all the gallants who aspired to the love of Rose to come to dinner with him at the Ship Tavern, | and there when the wine had begun to work and the guests were in a receptive mood, he proposed the health of the Rose of Torridge and made a speech to them He declared how il it was that men of Devon, who stood shoulder to shoulder throughout the world, should be at swords drawn with each other in their native land He set before them that no | or. could claim any better right to Rose | than another, and proposed that each and all should follow the example of the knights of old and binding themselves to- gether in fellowship, with one object of adoratIon, depart in search of adventures, to return after three years had passed and let Rose choose which was the most worthy of her love.
 Frank words moved his hearers to
 
 up and swore friendship with each other and fidelity to Rose on the hilt of Frank i sword.
 Thus was founded the Brotherhood of
 the Rose, which wa; to carry the fame of 1.-the Mayors daughter beyond the verge of the Seven Seas.
 The heart of Amyas leaped anew at this. It was Franks own proposition and perhaps he might after all carry off the prize that all men coveted. He sailed | Wlth his expedition and they laid siege to the fort and so peppered it with their cannon that the Spaniards were forced to surrender.
 The common soldiers were all put to the sword, as a warning to other Span 1ards, and the officers held for ransom To massacre a surrendered garrison was | thought rather a work of piety in those l days both by Spaniards and Englishmen. l When the Spanish officers were distribut- l ed among their captors Amyas claimed 1 as his shssse Don Guzman de Soto grand I son Of that famous cavalier who was I with Pizzaro in Peru, and who afterward round his grave in the waters of the Mississippi.
 | Don Guzman was all that a hidalgo of such ancestry should be-courtly. brave 1 and generous. Once during the siege l when 8 cannon ball had carried away l the staff from which foated the proud 1 flag of Castle, Don Guzman leaped upon the parapet amid a storm of shot, and, l shining in his armor, held the banner aloft until another staff could be pro- 1 cured.
 l At the close of the campaign Amyas sent his captive on parole to -,ideford, where Sir Richard Grenville, his father S
 olo friend, agreed to keep him as a guest
 until his ransom should arrive. This was the same Sir Richard who a fr frw1.t |.
 the one and the tfty-three," when his 1 little Revenge fell in with a Spanish ar mada off the Azores
 Don Guzman and he got on well togeth- l CT, as two brave gentlemen will in spite
 of all differences in religion and nation | ality.
 l Ns for Amyas, he soon was up and away 1 again He sailed with that disastrous ex- l petition of Sir Humphrey Gilbert which sought to- colonize Newfoundland. It was Westward-ho! in the reign of Eliza 1 beth and from Labrador to the Brazils | the gentlemen adyenturers'' of England
 were seeking their fortunes in plundered | Spanish fleets and cities or in newly | fo ;iided colonies.
 The family of Don Guzman was poor. l S1 in d. iong way from England in those dass, and so nearly two years had passed since the Don came to Bideford, and nearly three since the founding of the | Brotherhood of the Rose, when the l looKed-for ransom arrived at last With the ransom came an order of the Spanish ! King appointing De Soto governor of the Caracas, as Venezuela was then called and so he departed. But all that night
 Rose Salterne lay moaning upon her bed calling out for him to come back to her Perhaps he heardl At any rate. g. few days after the Dons departure, Rose was missing. They traced her to the hut of Lucy Passmore. an old woman who lived by the waterside and was reputed a 1 witch. But the hut avs empty; Lucy l also had flown There were rumors, later. of a tall, Spansh-looking man accom- panied by two women, one young and one old, having passed over to the Isle of Lundy in a fishing boat and then all trace of the fugitives was lost. Will Cary, one of the Knights of the Rose who had returned from the Irish | wars, ragged like Hon; all Bideford | mourned for its lost beauty, and old May or Salterne sat among his piled-up bales silent and broken hearted, but waiting patiently for something-he would not say l what.
 1 Such was the condition of affairs when Amyas Leigh arrived at Plymouth empty-handed, ragged and seaworn-one of the few survivors of the disasters that
 had overwhelmed the expedition of Sir Humphrey Gilbert.
 Mrs. Hawkins, y.fe of Sir John Hawk ins the famous old freebooter who orig mated the African slave trade. received
 Amyas and supplied his wants. And, by the way, Captain Leigh" said the lady, "I have sad news for you from your own town" And she told him of the elopement of Rose Salterne. Amyas dropped back into his chair as if he had been shot. but he recovered himself be- fore kind Mrs Hawkins could rush 10 the cupboard for cordials.
 You'll forgive me, madam" said he. "I am weak from the sea and your good ale has dazzled me a bit. I think" "Try little aqua vitae" urged the hos pitable lady My Captain John has 1t
 r1glt good. and Is bit too fond of it, too, poor, dear soul"
 After night of sleepless tossing Am vas started for Bideford. swearing to him. self: 'rhe man that did that deed will
 pursue around the world and take ven ge nee on him"'
 AS Amyas and his few followers were making their way from Plymouth to
 Bideford, they were set upon by a gang of heather outl~N.s wno sheltered in the
 hills near Brent. But the men of the sea
 laid round them lustiy and the wild men
 were driven off, leaving their leader mor- tally wounded on the field. As he lay dying he called for a priest,
 and to the surprise of all priest ap- peared-a Jesuit who had been concealed