The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1921-09-22


for us need not be told but he is one
of whom men have dark sayings
chiefly, take IL, because he does bold,
incomprehensible things. That bust
ness paid him well, for when the rent
Of the ship was met. and the few men
on it paid-slaves they were chiefly
he pocketed ten thousand pounds,
while BAIT and / each pouched forty
thousand, and Michael two thousand.
Aye, to be sure. Michael was In 1t He
Is in all l do, and is as good as men or
ten times his girth and history. Nil
chael will be rich man one day. In
two years his two thousand have
grown To four, and he misses no
chance.
I'm bound TO say this-one of the
straightest men | ever met, liar with
al, was Cassandro Biatt. He took his
jewels and vanished up the seas in
flourish. He would not even have an
other try at the gold in the bowels of
the ship.
1--WE got plenty to fill my paunch,
and I'll go while I've enough. It's the
men that don't go in time that get left
in the end'-that's what he said.
And he was right; for other mer
went after the gold ana got some OF
IT, and were caught by French and
South American pirates and lost all
they had gained. Still another group
went and brought away ten thousand
pounds, and lost il in fighting with
Spanish buccaneers. So Biatt was
right, and went away content, While
stayed here-because / husband
bought the land and house where |
have my great sugar plantation. 1t is
an enterprise of volume, but it is not
beyond my capacity, and all would be
well IL ! were normal in mind and
body; but | am not. | have Il past
that stnks to heaven, as Shakespeare
says.
Men do not treat me badly here,
for | have property and money, and
this is Il land where these two things
mean more than anywhere else, even
more than in Il republic like that where
you live. But what can you expect
OF Il chief justice who need not be
q lawyer. as this one is not, and has
other means of earning income which,
though not disloyal, are lowering TO
the status of chief justice? And
not the chief justice alone. | have
seen French officers entertained at Gov
eminent house who were guilty of
inhumanities and cruelties. The gov
| \ Tai - In
On him lies the responsibility to him
must go the discrcdit. For myself,
feel his enmlty on every hand. l
suffer from his suggestive opposition;
| am the victim of his dark moods.
IF / want concession from n To-
cal council, his hand is at work against
me; if l see him in the street. | get
courtesy tossed, as you would toss
bone to Il dog. If l appear at the
kings ball, which is open to all on
the island who are respectable, | am
treated with such disdain by the vice
roy of the king that all the island is
agog.
"He does not spare me in his re-
| citals to his friends, who carry his
| speech abroad. His rancor against me
| is the greater l know, because of the
wealth / got in the treasure ship, to
prevent which he tried TO prohibit my
| leaving the island, through the with
holding Of a leave-ticket to me. His
| argument to the local authorities was
that l had no rights, that / am muir
derer and mutineer, and confined to
the island, though eot on parole. He
almost succeeded; but the man to
whom I went, the big rich man, in
tervened successfully-how l know
not-and l was let go with my per-
! mit-ticket.
what big things hang on small is
| sues If my Lord Mallow had pre-
| vented me leaving the island, |
shouldn't now own great plantation
and three hundred negroes. | shouldn't
be able to pay my creditors in good
| gold Portuguese alf-johannes and
Spanish silver, and give no heed to
| the existence of the bitt, which, as
| you perhaps know, is equal to five.
| pence in British money. such as you
and l used to spend when you were
queen of Ireland and / was your slave.
"Then / worshiped you as few won-
en- have been worshiped in all the days
of the world-oh. cursed spite of life
and time that | should have been
jailed for killing your bad father, Aye,
he was a bad man. and he is better
in his grave than out of it, but il puts
a gulf between you and me which
! nothing will ever bridge-unless Il
should some day be known i did not
kill him, and then. no doubt, it Will
be too late
"On my soul, / don't believe | put
my sword into him; but IL l did, he
we'll deserved it, for he was worse
than faithless to your mother, he was
faithless to his country-he was a
traitor! ] did not tell that story of
his treachery in COURT did not tell
il because of you. You did not de-
| aor,.a e,,oh In, 70 NV and tho tr,tth on N, N