The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-25

since FfWAH ID n9f Q10OQE--anQ she would fa1r 'ehaIaeuge fortune.
 The end of 1t was she made over her E2,oOO to me ew1thout requiring me to give any bond, which Master Flick nn would fain have, insisted upon and which would have been embarras- sing indeed for me, for my bond would have been my ownx capital, which was going to enbark<in the enterprise in secret. fsszad> >savedSup that money with no one knows what foolish dreams. I realized. those dreams would come to naEagnt, E had no one depend ent upon me. Brother or sister never enjoyed, and father and mother were both dead. What need had for money7 Let. her haTef 1t whose need was great and whose desire was great CT. might have barga1ned for a share of the treasure did wesdnd any, but I scorned to do It, would give all and expect nothing; forsit.
 At any rate. not being in any hurry, although was frant3cally urged by my lady,. who could. scarcely possess her soul in spatience before she began her treasure hunting, looked about a good deal in order to get just what wanted. Finally from a merchant of Plymouth purchased stout little ship of three hundred and fifty tons burden called the Rose of Devon, which had been engaged in the West Indian and the American colonial trade.
 It was my first design. to have gone as master of her nnyseI3, and my lady would fa1n have hadsit so, but after reflection dectded it5were better to have much oldeEs than to com mand so long as> she went as a pas FSd Hn r oS1ne oA <Nxv seaman, one Samuel Matthews, old enough to be my father, with whom I had often sailed; in fact, the man under whom made my first cruise. I did engage myself as mate, however. and even tried in vain to induce Master Fickltn and his sister to go with us.
 It seemed proper in5wenturing among islands filled according to. common re- port with savage peoples to provide for fighting. Therefore. after consulting with Captain Matthews, whom fully acquainted with the entire project in , all its details, I shipped 8 crew of thirty men and Esprovfded insthe. equip ment plenty of muskets, pistols and cutIasses, with the neceSsary powder and ball, and. in addit1qn<a small brass cannon which I nsopntsd on the fore castle, Nor did. QUE cargo .lack4means for friendly trading and barter. should such be found .practtcRble.
 Naturally the unusuaIness of. these preparations attracted attention, and Captain Matthews and T were over whelmed with applications from ad- venturous men who desired2 to make the voyage. surrntSing g that it was after treasure of some sort.
 left the work of engaging, the crew to Captain Matthews. He had as boat swain a seaman named Pimba1l, in whom The placed great confidence. He was a vilIainouss looking man with a white scar running from his left eye across his cheek. Caused by cut he had received in some fight, and the, line of white Showing against the bronzed, weather beaten cheek he sported. did not improve bis appear ance. But that he was a prime sea- man was evident. Captain Matthews seemed to have great confidence in him.
 To antic1pHte, when we boarded the ship liked the crewf not Snauch better than the boasswain. Twill say this for them, however, that a smarter, quicker set of seamen never hauled on brace or laid on yardarm. It was not their skill or strength or courage that-I did not like, but theyzwere not&the kind of men would have sought for ship of my own, and the presence of my. lady and her maid, a asSVoTthy woman, along time servant at the castle, who had elected to follow her fortunes, made me t1nnid, yet I was not unusually ap- prehensive- I had a sublime conA- dence in mEf own abNitys to deal with any man or any group of men.
 1 did not st1ntx thes outftting of the ship, and when T finished, having left nothing out that either my own or Captain Matthews experience or inn agtnat1on would suggest, there was left of our joint funds enough to pay the wages of the officers and. of the men out and back and no more-that is. allowing a year. for the round voy- age. The lines of the Rose of Devon were unusually good:T She had repu- tation for being as speedy boat, and that was more time than enough It was my xpurpose to go around the world with -heryrather than retrace our course about Cape Horn after we reached the island. if we ever reached it. so we +staked eyeryth1ng we had on the future. Ifamy. lady had hRda the least knowledee~ ofEthe value of ships 1 she would have sseen ShsT1s little way her. F, 900 9hade gone, sbut aehe twas as -gu9Ie1ess aseaiiys otlSer9 woman son thRt much better. I ifedsto3 3thems6 6oth%w4fh a good gracez and with gany yeaey@ con science 7 'Tt4wassforferssake.
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