Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-01-11
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and came on. his c~ountenance JOY
ously alight.
But mademoiselle was shrinking
low. in horror.
He laughed, as a hero should, with
the tolerance Of q god for the mortar
to whom he condescends: lie
stood between us. Let his death be
a symbol. a warning. Let all VINO
would stand between us mark it ana
beware"
1t was so splendidly terrific, the
gesture of it as so broad and fine
and his magnetism so compelling,
| that she cast her silly tremors ana
Welded herself freely, intoxicated, TO
his fond embrace. Thereafter ne
swung her to his shoulder, and step
! ming with ease beneath that burden,
hore her. in a sort of triumph, Justify
| cheered by his men, TO the cabin OF
his own ship. where mademolseIIe
was confronted by her angry
br other. .
Don't you perceive your wicked
folly in the harm it has orought al
r? Lives have been lost-meni
have died-that this monster might
cyertake you"
"A might have sal more but that
Leyasseur struck him across the
MademoiselIe suppressed q scream
as the youth staggered back unoer
| the blow, He came to rest against a
bulkhead, and leaned there with
bleeding mouth.
With blanched cheeks the glr!
stood by the cabin table, cTleo
out to Leyasseur to stop. TO OBEY
her, he opened the door and hung
her brother through 1t.
Composing himself, he turned
again with a ~deprecatory smile. But
no smile answered him from her set
face. She had seer her beloved
hero's nature in curl-pdpers, as IT
were, and she found the spectacle
disgusting and to ~rifying.
He crushed her to him brutaily,
deliberately hurtful because h re-
sisted, and kissed her whilst she
Writhed in his embrace.
Some one knocked. CurSing the
interruption, Levasseur strobe OF 10
Open. Cahusac, his lieutenant, stood
before him. He came to report that
they had sprung a leak between
wind and water, the consequence oil
damage sustained from n Of the
Dutchman's shots. In alarm W.
Seur went off with him..
Ahead of them a low cloud show
ed on the horizon, which Cahusac
pronounced n of the n~orthernmost
of the Virgin Islands.
1--WE must run for shelter there,
and careen her." said Levasseur. "a
storm ma catch US before we make
land"
"A storm or something else" said
Cahusac grimly. Have you noticed
that?" He pointed away to star
board.
Levasseur looked and caught his
breath. Two ships that at the dis
lance seemed of considerable burden
were heading toward them some v
miles away.
For the remainder of that day
Levasseur's thoughts were of any
thing but love. He remained on
deck, his eyes now upon the land,
now upon those two slowly gaining
ships. And then, toward evening,
when within three miles of shore,
he almost tainted from relief when a
voice from the crow's-nest above an
nounced that the larger OF the two
ships was the Arabella. Her COM
panion was presumably prize.
Levasseur put of in q boat ac-
conlpanied by Cahusac and two
other officers, and went to visit Cap
tain Blood aboard the Arabella.
"Our brief separation has been
mighty profitable" was Captain
Blood's greeting. TITS a busy morn
ing we've both had" He was in
high good humor as he led the way
to the great cabin for a rendering of
accounts.
The tall ship that accompanied
the ArabelIa was a Spanish vessel of
twenty-six guns, the Santiago from
Puerto Rico with a hundred a.
twenty thousand weight of {. No,
forty thousand pieces of eight, and
the value of ten thousand more in
Jewels. A rich capture Of which two
fifths under the articles went to
L~evasseur and his crew. OF the
money and jewels a. division was
made on the spot. The cacao it was
agreed should be taken to Tortuga
to be sold.
Then it was the turn of Levasseur.
and black grew the brow of Captain
Blood as the Frenchman's tale was
unfolded. At the end he roundly ex-
pressed his disapproval. The Dutch
were a friendly people whom it was
a folly to ALLEVIATE, particularly for SO
paltry a matter as these hides and
tobacco, which at most would fetch
a Dare twenty thousand pieces.
But LevasSeur answered him that
a ship vas a ship, and it was ships
they needed. Perhaps because things