The Concordia sentinel. (Vidalia, Concordia Parish, La.) 1882-current, 1920-12-04

with her. Victory fell to Amyas, but
n victory which left his ship so bat.
tered and his crew so decimated, thar
he ran in to a little bay for repairs
and remuneration. Here, with ther
cuIverins and swivels behind Stod
ade. Don GuZman came upon them. 81.
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 SHOWS Of Chimborazo towering
above the thunder cloud and the fiery
cone Of COtopaxi flaming against the
stars; a region 800 miles In length by
400 miles in width they traversed.
Three years of fever and cold and IA
mine they spent on that trail, and once
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 a princess by the
.t,
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
he left. He packed her off. 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
he with them in the adventure where
AmyaS, his crew much worn and vast
ed and he DESTROYS of heartening them
up, set upon a great galleOn in the har-
Dor Of Cartagena. Silently, in two
canoes, they made the harbOr, and, 1t
being night boarded the galleOn Sc
cretly by her stern gallery; and after
short fierce fight the galleOn, with
much treasure aboard, fell into their
hands. 1t was here in this fight that
Amyas would have been run through
by the Spanish captain but for Ayana-
cora. who came leaping from behind
and knitted the Spaniard ere he could
drive home the long blade.
But forty of their one hundred re-
NAMED; Notwithstanding which they
sailed with much content in the great
galleon to England. Ayanacora, sail
ing with them, did one day burst into
singing of sea songs which only Eng
lish sailors knew; which caused Sal
walton YeO TO ask questions, to which,
as she acquired the English tongue,
she made answer; which answers re-
called to YeO that fair Spanish lady
of Panama who had run Off with Cap
tain Oxenham, and to whom was born
the baby girl which was later made
off with. Captain Oxenham had suf-
fered death at the hands of the Span
ish husband and YeO himself had es-
capped only with many cruel scars,
but the SCARED old rover had spent
days enough with the lovely little girl
to know now, as in a dozen ways
he proved, that this was the daughter
Of Captain Oxenham and his Spanish
lady, 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
IL into Plymouth sound she sailed one
day without yelling topsails or low
ering 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 low
ing Ayanacora he would have moth
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
pat to death. even as he had his broth
er Frank, the one for a traitor and
the other for a hereto.
Amyas must have his vengeance on
Don Guzman, who was commanding
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 stated, 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.
Yeo to his death and Amyas to the
blindness Of both eyes.
So Amyas came home from his last
cruise, a great helpless hulk. as he
bitterly said; but so mayhap only as
such could one Of his nature have
ever come to understand the heart OF
lovely, virtuous woman.
It was the patience Of Ayanacora,
the wisdom Of his mother, which
taught him. "Fear not. Amyas," he