The Natchitoches enterprise., 1921-01-20

with her. Victory fell to Amyas. bu
victory which left his ship so bat
J tered and his crew so decimated tha
he ran in to a little bay for repair
j and recuperation. Here. with thei
culverins and swivels behind a stock
:ifle. Don Guzman came upon them, il
force too strong for their shattered
numbers; so, first burning the Rose
they turned their back to the sea ant
marched inland.
And now came hope of glory fOl
their queen and for themselves grea
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 Or1noco
and the upper waters of the great
Amazon. from low swamps to high
plateaus. wherefrOm. they viewed the
eternal SHOWS IF Chimborazo towering
| above the thunder cloud and the fiery
cone Of Cotopaxi flaming against the
stars; a region 500 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 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
he 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
he with them in the adventure where
Amyas, his crew much worn and vast
ed and he desirous of heartening them
up, set upon a great galleon in the har.
Dor Of Cartagena. Silently. in two
canoes. they made the harbor: and, It
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. It 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-
manned; 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,
rs she acquired the English tongue,
she made answer; which answers re-
called to Yeo that fair Spanish lady
"f 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- |
ish husband and Yeo himself had es- !;
caped only With manxs cruel ~scaEs
days enough with the lovely httle girl
to know now, as in 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.
~ into Plymouth sound she sailed one
day without yelling topsails or lowt
ering the flag Of Spain, for which they
had like to get solid shot from the
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
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 SEE men to fight Spa;n'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 he
put to death. even as he had his broth
er Frank, the one for traitor and
the other for hereto.
Amyas must have his vengeance on
Don Guzman, who was commanding
a ship Of the Armada, and so he strQve
to hold close to him; but the tempest,
which seemed to bear hate for the
Spanish fleet, now cast Don GusmaR'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.
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
a lovely, virtuous woman.
It was the patience Of Ayanacora,
the wisdom Of his mother, which
taught him. "Fear not, Amyas," he
heard his mothers voice saying, "fear
not to take that dear girl to your
heart for it is your mother who lays
her there"
And so at last Amyas came to un.
derstand.
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