The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-14

charge that there be "no shedding of blood
 But, oh, said Lucy. They took the poor child out into the market place and burned her and Master Frank, too Frank,' exclaimed Amyas.
 Yes, yes" continued Lucy, he was captured alive the night the boat came to La Guayra and him they burned along with Miss Rose. the two holding each others hands to the last" Lucy had saved her own life by a time ly conversion. but had been continued prisoner and was being taken to Spain for sate keeping. Don Guzman, when his wife was taken from him, had re- signed his government in a rage and gone to Spain to demand justice of the King. Eustace. filled with remorse. had fled to the wilderness. and whether he had been killed by Indians or was expatiating his crime in some remote solitude was not known The world never saw him again.
 That man was there at the burningi" suddenly (cried Lucy, pointing to the Bishop. t'And that one" indicating one of the two friars who attended him.
 A look terrible to see had gathered on the face of Amyas as Lucy Passmore told her tale.
 "Is this sop said he sternly to the Bishop
 
 willingly to be present. The secular arm -i cannot interfere with that-any more than l can with the Holy office. l do not belong to either-ask these gentle men"
 But in vain impotence were the feeble excuses of the Bishop in the mighty whirldwind of grief and rage which swept over Amyas. Calling his men, he took the prelate and the friar out on deck and hanged them with short shift and long roge to the yard arm. Then he went back to breakfast
 A cabin was assigned to poor Lucy. de- cent clothing found for her among the rich cargo of the captured ship and Aya- canora assigned to wait upon her. But in a week or so the aged woman died. Then happened q strange thing. One day, as the sailors were at work old Salvation Yeo started chanty song
 A randy, handy. dandy o,
 Whet of ale and brandy O,
 With a runbelow and Westward-h
 And heave my mariners all o!
 To the surprise of every one. Ayacan- ora, who was on deck, caught up the burden of the song and sang it over again with all the peculiar intonation given 1t by Yeo.
 .'or a moment Yeo stood as one dazed. Then he fell at the girls feet. crying out: "At last. at last, My little maid. my little maidl' He had taught his little maid that song in the wilderness of Pan anna
 Gradually, piece by piece the past came back to Ayacanora sufficiently to remove all doubt that she was the child of John Oxenham, so long sought for by Salva- tion Yeo.
 And now again the bells of Bdeford were ringing. bondnres blazing and the people rejoicing; not this time on account of the return of Amyas Leigh though, indeed, his ship was nearing the shore. but because Queen Elizabeth had just cut off the head of Mary Queen of Scots and it was patriotic and pious to make merry therefor TO such England and his waiting mother Amyas came home with enough of captured Spanish treasure to make himself and all who had sailed with him and survived rich for life
 With saintly resignation Mrs. Leigh bore the news of Franks death. Old Mayor Salterne. when told the story of his daughters end, shut himself up in the little room from which she had fiown and was found dead there.
 Ayacanora. under the care of Mrs. Leigh, became civilized English girl, and though Amyas still held aloof from her she attiNd ded him with the devotion of a faithful hound.
 Now came the year of the Spanish Ar mada and in the fight which took place when that great fleet met the English in the Channel, Amyas won his spurs and was dubbed knight on his own deck.
 In the midst of the fight he saw q great, tall ship of Spain and. standing high on the poop. Don Guzman de Soto.