Connecticut western news., 1920-10-21

long, indeed, to maneuver with the
 nimble Rose. Two ga1leys were also
 with her. Victory fell to Amyas, but
 a victory which left his ship so bat.
 tered and his crew so decimated, that
 he ran in to a little bay for repairs
 and recuperation. Here, with their
 culverins and swivels behind a stock
 ade, Don Guzman came upon them, in
 force too strong for their shattered
 numbers; so, first burning the Rose,
 they turned their back to the sea and
 marched inland.
 And now came hope of glory for
 their queen and for themselves great
 treasure In quest of the Golden City
 in the Kingdom of Manoa, whereof
 friendly Indians told them. Through
 untrodden hills and forests they
 marched, past the falls of the Orinoco
 and the upper waters of the great
 Amazon, from low swamps to high
 plateaus. wherefrom they viewed the eternal snows of Chimborazo towering above the thunder cloud and the fiery cone of Cotopad flaming against the stars; a region 800 miles in length by 400 miles in width they traversed. Three years of fever and cold and fa- mine they spent on that trail, and once a gold pack train loosely guarded fell to their hands; but of the Golden City never a trace.
 They came upon white maiden, Ayanacora, golden-haired, tall and beautiful, treated as princess by the Indians with whom she dwelt. Amyas was for leaving her, having witnessed on former voyages the evil influence of women among lonely men; but she by signs made it clear she would not be left. He packed her of. She came back, and she being by then far from her habitation he had not the heart to cast her adrift in the vast wilder ness. So. every man solemnly pledged to treat her with honor, she came to be with them in the adventure where Amyas, his crew much worn and vast ed and he desirous of heartening them up, set upon great galleOn in the har- DOT of Cartagena. Silently, in two canoes, they made the harbor, and, 1t being night, boarded the galleon se- cretly by her stern gallery; and after T short fierce fight the galleon, with much treasure aboard, fell into their hands. It was here in this fight that Amyas would have been run through oy the Spanish captain but for Ayana- cora, who came leaping from behind and knifed the Spaniard ere he could 1rive home the long blade.
 But forty of their one hundred re- notwithstanding which they sailed with much content in the great yalleon to England. Ayanacora, sail- Ing with them, did one day burst into singing of sea songs which only Eng + +- - SS.c=-; =hsch caused Sal ration Yeo to ask questions, to which, es she acquired rss Nngiish s5=sae, Ess xna6s ss=-e-; -sasA answers re- EseseG 0 Fee ssas 4ss Spanish lady z EgzHKea Ssss AsA 6A @ gsA Gap .aGA @=s=a=aa - = - - soFn
 s9 eaeg s.ss @@ - sss -s- ==ss66s ,R with. Captain Gxenhsm had suf tered death at the hands of the Span sh husband and Yeo himself had es- ,aped only with many cruel scars, put the scared old rover had spent lays enough with the lovely little girl to know now, as in a dozen ways ne proved, that this was the daughter if Captain Oxenham and his Spanish ady, the little girl to whom he had taught the English sea songs before she. was taken from them.
 Homeward the great galleon ran be- fore the southwest breeze, and proud Iy into Plymouth sound she sailed one day without yelling topsails or low arfng the flag of Spain, for which they had like to get solid shot from the admiral of the port.
 And so Amyas came home in honor and glory, but with the lovely and Iov- ing Ayanacora he would have noth- ing to do, she having in her too much of that Spanish blood which he hated. However, his gentle mother, under standing better the worth of loyal vir- tue, took the girl to her bosom.
 Once more Amyas took the sea, now as an admiral under Lord Howard, who had gathered all of England's stout ships and seamen to fight Spain's Armada Amyas won his share of glory in that fight and he might have come home in safety; but there was Don Guzman, who had left Rose to be put to death, even as he had his broth CT Frank, the one for a traitor and the other for a heretic.
 Amyas must have his vengeance on Don Guzman, who was, commanding a ship of the Armada, and so he strove to hold close to him but the tempest, which seemed to bear hate for the Spanish fleet, now cast Don Guzman's tall caravel to her death on the sands of Flanders. The vengeance of Amyas was sated, as was Yoe's; but almost on the instant, from the heart of the tempest flew a white bolt of lightning to strike.~down- both him and Yeo, 4- la-