The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1921-02-24

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vou}d have stayed by his ship l.
Uddenly Long Tom seized him -
1lrled him over the hllNa,
i'll be done with me-" Conan
hove the winds roar. DillCn's life,
'ody was rolled upon the shore.
-ong Toms stayed with the sea
which he had dedicated his life.
Surprise succeeded surprise at t.
tbbey. Barnstable marched his SltI
wrecked mariners into the building an,
hey took possession, but they were
soon made prisoners by the redcOatS
Then the mysterious figure of the Pile
appeared at the door and behind HI.
oomed the marines from the friga.
Colonel Howard, an unwilling prison
nr, was marched away with Cecil
and Katherine, who could not be dow
cast at the triumph of their lovers.
Captain Borroughcliffe was freed, q
was another inmate of the abbey. Alic
Duscombe. She had recognized tn
Pilot in his disguise when he was frs:
captured. They had been lovers. bu
she was so staunch in her love for he
King and she so hated bloOdshed tina
she had broken her trOth to this ''N1I
Tray" whom she addressed as John
She reminded him that did she bus
once call aloud his true name The
whole countryside would ring with il
What that name was is never revealed
but there was but one sea rover who
could strike stark terror into all Eng,
lish hearts.
On board the friGate repeated con-
ferences were held between the cap
tain, Griffith and Mr.. Gray" Sud
denly out of the fog drove mountain
Gus ship of the line. The Crum beat
aboard the frigate, sailors leaped MIN
bly, about the deck, clearing for action.
The women were led below and gradu-
ally order resolved Itself out of the
chaos of shouting men. A terrific roar
filled the air as three tiers of guns
blaZed a broadside from the English
ship. few sails ADD ropes were cut,
but the frigate's sailing power was
struck the captain and hurled him to
death. Griffith succeeded 20 the com
mand and he was appalled, az he saw
the frigate hemmed about 10 the
cast doomed the great ship Of war and
far in the northeast the sails o another
frigate
What are we to do?" crieG Griffith.
Flight them! fight them shouted the
Pilot. Let me proclaim your name to
the men," Griffith appealed. But the
Pilot refused. "Should we come to a
grapple," he said, Il will give forth the
name as a war-cry and these English
will quail before it,
The ship of war was distanced. but
she cut off a retreat and the frigate
ahead had been REINFORCED by two
others. The foremost unanswered with
the American frigate for position
Broadsides crashed and they grappled.,
The American guns raked her foe and
left her helpless, with useless ropes
dangling from shattered maStS. The
,ieck was cleared and as another enc
away of everything!" Fifty men flew
aloft upon the SparS and white can
vas was spread from every mast. The
frigate lunged ahead, but it could not
Outstrip its rival, and the halt to give
battle had enabled the ship of the line
to draw up.
Then, for q few breathless moments
the Pilot leaped into command. Break
ers doomed ahead, but he drove the
vessels straight into the shoals, into
narrow passages where white foam
dubbed perilously close. The enemy
dared not follow, and when night fell
pursuit was hopeless.
Colonel Howard, fatally wounded in
the battle, lived long enough to see Ce-
ella Howard and Katherine Plowden
welded by the chaplain to their lovers.
His last words were spoken to Griffith.
Perhaps l may have mistaken my
DUTY to America-but l was too old to
change my politics or my religion; /
II loved the king-God bless him
The frigate drove on to Holland,
where the Pilot landed in q small boat
that dwindled into a black speck and
in the setting sun. Twelve
years later Cecilia Griffith saw her hus-
bands face cloud as he read in the
newspaper of the death of great man,
but not even then did he divulge his
name. He had promised to keep it Sc
cret. He said only, Our happiness
might have been wrecked in the vOy-
age of life had we not met the I'M
known Pilot of the German ocean"
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