The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-08-26
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 Yes answered. At once. All four of us Put the stuff aboard, Hiro '
 So, somewhat crowded as the Sea Rover WAS with three boys and a dog not to mention our supplies and our armament, at last " e were adoaf with crew and cargo aboard
 Ah. what fine new world was this hieh lay before us!
 
 so me, used to exacf habit sbf thought in all things and accustomed to be governed by trained reuson alone. 1t was never enough to say that a thing Eas partly done, or well enough done to pass only the best possible wa , Had any appeal 10 ne I brought nay reason to benr on eyery situation in life Thus studied m inges tment carefully. and befere going into it | knew what the result would be. My t1nents therafore always have prospered because they were not pas ca on guess or chance. as nInetenths of all the pubIic's business ventures are Ia the same way had gone de- lberntely abont the matter of winning the regard or the only woman ever enw who seemed to me much worth sxhlle argued and reasoned with. Helena Emory that she should marry me proving 10 her by every rule of logic that not only was she the most loyable woman in all the reebrds Of the world. butt also that love such as mine never had before been known in the world Sometimes, as logically proved the fitness of our union and grew warm at my own accuracy she Wafered, relented, warmed AnzI then. again. forgetting nay argument. she would relapse into Foma1like fri9olity once more. did not like 10 think Of this as sat in the shade with F artial It cost me much ln self respect irT1tat- ed me
 But having studied sport and out door living deliberately as had studied the law and fbusiness and Helena, had rather thorough goElnq1ng on life in the open for I Lad read every authority obtaInable whereas my young associates had read none So cautiously now and then, Is suggested little things to them, as 4that the fire need not be so large. andz would do better if confined between two green side logs. taught them how to boil tue kettle quickly. how to make tea, and also. more difficult. how to make coffee; how to cook bacon 5ust enough. and how to cook fish-for had taken few trout earlier in the. and how to make toast without cliarring ie to einders. Again, I de lighted them hy telling them of Htfle,
 ping devices. and quite won their hearts hen found among Hiro- shinI's packages Small camp grid dle with foIding legs. of my own de- Slsing. It was quite clean and new but it performed as I felt quite sure t would In fact reason will govern all thing xcept a woman.
 could see-and L noted 1t with, na hch grat1fica ton that Il xvas rising n the estiuna ton Of my pirates. It pleased me not at all to show that E Knew more than they of these things. for was older and my mind was long my trained servant but I had mon- gtrous delight in seeing myself ac-l cepted as one it to associate with them
 We sat bJ our dresfde. before our little tent= after a pleasant meal which 1 know was well cooked because rocked ft n1yself-trout. q young squir- rel and toast, and real coffee and TarfiaI was close at my knee. na wing. obviously adopfed me. We were afteen or twenty miles from my house. nearly
 
 world. itseIf. seemed very remote from We reveied in a new Iuxurious world of rare deeds, rare dreams aIl our own was conjnring np some new argument to put before Helena should ever see fer again as of course never should when Lafitte 9iled over on the grass and looked mp at us.
 ,4YEes y4 5t1sf s1riy,sv ss F,xy r,rr5 esf9 hat you didn't have no name.r
 hat is true have not told you my name nos have you asked 1t Had you been lmpoiite you might have learned it by prying about my place T spoke grayely and with approval.
 sKos we didn't know who you was
 ct 1t be SO Let me be man of no name. A name is of no conse quence. and neither am l. .Sho. now, that aint SO I never seen better-now. I never seens'-. Jean La1tte's reticence in friendship again was getting the better of Him.
 .so we said we'd call you Black Bart z added T. fOionnofs
 That is most excellent name '. said after some thought issAt present can find no objection to 1t except that wear no beard all and would have red or brown one if fI did and that Black Bart was rather pirate Of the land 4Ilan Of the sea z
 Was hezs aueried L.0E,nnois .NEasnt he pirate. too, never?'s
 There was, famous pirate chief known as Biuebeafd or Blackboard and 1t may De sometimes they calIeo him Black Bart. :.
 Wash ! he awful despert sort of pirate
 He is said to have been.
 Tt sounds like awful desper,f pame said Jimmy. like as thougE