The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-14

originated the African slave trade, re- ceived Amyas and supplied his wants
 And. by the way, Captain Leigh, said the lady, T haze sad news for you from your own town" And she told him of the elopement of Rose Sal- terne. Amyas dropped hack into his chair as if he had been shot, but he re- covered himself before kind Mrs. flaw kins could rush to the cupboard for cordials.
 "You'n forgive me. madam" said he. T am weak from the sec and your good ale has dizzied me a bit, think"
 Try a little aqua vitae," urged the hospitable lady. My Captain John has it right good. and Is a bit to fond of 1t, too, poor, dear soul"
 After a night of sleepless tossing Amyas started for Bideford, swearing to himself The man that did that deed I will pursue around the world and take vengeance on him."
 As Amyas and his few followers were making their way from Plymouth to Bideford. they were set upon by gang of heather outlaws who sheltered in the hills near Brent But the men of the sea laid round them justly and the wild men were driven off, leaving their leader mortally wounded on, the field.
 As he lay dying he called for priest, and to the surprise of all a priest ap- peared-a Jesuit who had been con- cealed near by, a man come to do mis- sionary work am. lg the strange. wild people known as the Gubbings to whom no other missionaries would go.
 With the priest was younger man. Amyas looked at him in startled recog nition. It was his cousin Eustace!
 Amyas promised Eustace that he would not give information of his presence in the country, and told him of his own adventures and of the dis appearance of Rose Saltterne Bus tace listened 10 the story with a white and agonized face Then Fool, fool that I was!" he shrieked, and Bprin ging from his chair stamped up and down. clutching at the empty air and rocking his head from side to side in an agony of rage and anguish.
 Amyas was thunderstruck "Oh, Eustacew he cried, and you loved her, tool" When he was calmer, Eustace asked what the Brotherhood of Rose proposed % do in the matter. and Amyas told h.m--to seek out Don Guz- man in the Caracas, kill him and res cue Rose
 "oh." replied Eustace, "to hunt her down like a wild beast because, for sooth, she has dared to love a Catholic! To force her to renounce religion in which she has doubtless found rest and holineSS"
 Has she found holiness?" retorted Amyas That Is just what I propose to find out for myself"
 When Amyas reached Bldeford it proved that his arrival was what the father of Rose had been waiting tor; and he offered gold for the fitting out of Shnnld n rescue his daughter But Frank and Will Cary also claimed a right to con- tribute. and the three sailed away with Amyas. Westwardho! as soon as the fitting out of the ship was com pleted.
 Among the Bideford men whom Amyas took with him was Salvation Yeo, a fanatical Anabaptist who had been one of the band of unfortunate John Oxenham. When that doughty leader, after much pillaging. met hls death by lingering too long ih the neighborhood of Panama with the young wife of an aged spanish official, Salvation Yeo had been captured and sent to the galleys of Cartegena, es- caping after much suffering to return to his own land
 Now In those wilds John Oxenham had left little daughter, the child Of sin, but very dear to Yeo, who had ten ded her carefully in their long marches through the wilderness. He still called her his little maid" and believed that one day he should find her again. So he begged to be allowed to go With Amyas, for in the land to which they were bound Yeo believed he would come across his Little Maid" and he was sure he could kill many Spantards.
 It was a fair tropic afternoon when Amyas's ship, the Rose, sailed in front of the port of La Guayra and saw lying within the protection of the forts an rr- mada of Spain. High up on hill they could see a large house before which flew the standard of Castile-evidently the residence. of the Governor of the