Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1921-08-25

of whom men have dark sayings
chiefly, take it, 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 Biatt and l each pOuChed forty
thousand, and Michael two thousand.
Aye, to be sure, Michael was in it He
is in all do, and is as good as men of
ten times his girth and history. Mi
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 a
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 men
went after the gold and 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 it 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
we'll if | were normal in mind and
body; but | am not. ] have past
that stinks to heaven, as Shakespeare
says.
Men do not treat me badly here,
for | have property and money, and
this is a land where these two things
mean more than anywhere else, even
more than in a republic like that where
you live. But what can you expect
of chief justice who need not be
a 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. l have
seen French officers entertained at Gov
eminent house who were guilty of
inhumanitieS and cruelties. The gov
ernor, Lord MallOw, is much to blame.
On him lies the responsibility to him
must go the discredit. For myself, l
feel his enmity on every hand. l
suffer from his suggestive opposition;
l am the victim of his dark moods.
IF l want a concession from q To-
cal council, his hand is at work against
me; if | see him in the street, l get
a courtesy tossed, as you would toss
bone to a dog. If l appear at the
kings ball, which is open to all on
the island who are respectable l 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-
CtalS 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 | had no rights, that | am muir
derer and a mutineer, and confined to
the island, though not on parole. He
almost succeeded; but the man to
whom I went, the big rich man, in
tervened succeSsfully-hOw l know
not-and 1 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 a great plantation
and three hundred negroes. l shouldn't
be able to pay my creditors in good
gold Portuguese half-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 | used to spend when you were
| queen of Ireland and l was your slave.
"Then l worshiped you as few wOm-
en- have been wOrshiped in all the days
of the world-oh, cursed spite of life
and time that l should have been
| jailed for killing your bad father! Aye,
| he was bad man, and he is better
in his grave than out of it, but it puts
a gulf between you and me which
nothing will ever bridge-unless it
should some day be known l did not
kill him, and then, no doubt, it will
| be too late.
"On my soul, I don't believe l put
my sword into him; but If l did, he
we'll deserved 1t, 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
it because of you. You did not de-
serve such infamy, and the truth came
not out at the trial. l, in my view,
dared not lest it might injure you,
| and Won had suffered pnOugh-nay