South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-12-29
By Rafael Sobofirri
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and clean condition" said Mr.. Blood,
"and ! am glad 20 take this oppor-
tuni,y of doing SO.
And why do you thank me for
it?' IL was my uncle who bought
you"
But he would not have done so
had YOU not urged him. 1 per-
celved your interest"
You did not seem quite like the
the others"
Il am not" said he
"Oh.' she stared at him. br.dling
little. you have a good opinion
of yourself
"On the contrary. The others are
al worthy rebels / am not That
Is the difference. I was one who had
not the WIT 90 see that England re-
quires purifying I was content 10
pursue a doctors trade in Bridge
water whilst ms betters We're shed
ding their blood 20 drive out an un-
clean tyrant and his rascally crew"
But n YOU are not a rebel how
come YOU here?"
lie cav the thing she app~ehon6-
ed and ne laughed. Faith, now,
It's long story" said he.
And one perhaps that you would
prefer not to tell"
Briefly on that he told IL her.
What an infamy." she cried,
when he had done
oh It's sweet country England
under King James, There's no need
10 commiserate me further. All
things considered L prefer Barba-
dos. Here at least one can believe
in God"
OF the A who had been landed
with him from the Jamaica Mer-
chant. Col Bishop had purchased
no less than %.
Amongst Bishops slaves Peter
+ Blood came and went freely. sleep
ing i'm their quarters, and their lot
he knew to be a brutalizing misery.
Though the same blood ran i'm her
veins as in those OF Col Bishop yet
T Arabella Bishop was free OF the
vices that tainted her tncle's, for
/ these vices were not natural TO that
blood. Her father, Tom Bishop
that same Col. Bishops brother
. had been a kindly. chivaIrous. gem
I tie soul. who brOken-hearted by the
] early death Of young wife. had
abandoned the old world and sought
( an anodyne for his grief in the new.
\ lie had come out 10 the Antilles.
\ bringing with him his little daugh-
/ ter, then five years Of age. and had
/ given himself up 10 the life of a
! planter Prospecting. he had be
\ thought him of his younger brother.
a soldier at home reputed somewhat
/ wild. He had advised him to come
/ out 10 Barbados. William came,
and was admitted by his generous
\ brother 10 a partnership in the
/ prosperous plantation. Some six
I years later, when Ara bella was Is,
1 her father died, leaving her i'm her
/ unCle's guardianship.
one day toward the end of May,
when the heat was beginning TO
/ grow oppressive. there crawled into
/ Carlisle bay wounded. battered
l English ship. the Pride Of Devon,
/ her freeboard SCARED and broken.
her coach a gaping wreck. She had
been in action off Martinique with
& Nv ~ Spanish treasure ~ll4DSs ana al
/ though her captain swore that the
/ Spaniards had beset him without
+ provoCation. it is difficult TO avoid 4
suspicion chat the encounter hau
been brought about quite otherwise
. one of the Spaniards had fled from
. the combat. and if the Pride Of
. Devon had not given chase il was
. probably because she was by then in
F. no case TO do so. The other had
been been sunk but not before the
+. English ship had transferred 10 her
own hold a good deal of the treas
IRE aboard the Spaniard.
. Steed, however. after the fashion
OF most colonial governors, was will
ing enough to dun his wits to the
extent Of accepting the English sea
mans story. disregardinE any evil
dence that might belle It, There
fore he gave thu Pride of Devon the
shelter she sought I'm his harbor ana
every facility 10 careen and carry
out repairs.
Continued I'm Our Next Issuc)