Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-01-11
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PETER BLOOD is wrongly con-
victed of treason against the Eng
llsh king. He and JEREMY PITT,
among others, become the slaves OF
COLONEL BISHOP, a Barbados
planter and uncle of ARABELLA,
between whom and Peter Blooo an
interesting friendship springs up. A
Spanish ship conquers the island,
but is captured through the strategy
of Blood, who heads a boarding
party of slaves. DON DIEGO, COM
znander of the vessel, who was given
freedom of the ship, attempts to be-
tray Captain Blood and his fellows,
hut fails. Blood sails to yortuga,
headQuarters of buccaneers, where
be joins with LE|ASSEUR, another
Rdventurer.
GO ON WITH THE STORY
CHATTER XIV
Leyasseur's Heroics
1t would be somewhere about 10
o'clock or the following morning, a
full hou before the time appointed
For sailing. when a canoe brought up
alongside La F'oudre, and a half
waste Indian stepped out Of her and
went UP the ladder. He was the
baarer of q folded scrap of paper
For Captain Levasseur.
Its contents may be roughly trans
Hated thus:
MY well ~beloved--I am in the
Hutch brig ~Jongvrouw, which is
Rbout to sail. Resolved to separate
US forever. my cruel father is send
sng mo to Europe in my brothers
charge. 1 implore you. come to my
rescue. Deliver me, my we1l-beloved
hero-Iour DeSolated Madeleine,
who loves you"
The well-beloved hero was moved
no the soul of him by that passionate
appeal. His scowling glance swept
She bay tor the Dutch brig, which he
knew hau been due to sail for Am
sterdam with a cargo of hides and
bobacco.
She was nowhere to be seer
hxnong the shipping in that narrow,
rock-bound harbor. lie roared out
Rhe question n his mind.
In answer the half-caste pointed
out beyond tne frothing surf that
marked the position of the reef con-
shutting one of the stronghold's
main defenses. Away beyond it, a
mile or so distant, a sail was stand
ing out to sea.
Cursing in his SOU the association
into which h. had entered. Lsvas-
seur was already studying ways of
evasion. Blood would never suffer
violence TO be done in his presence
to a Dutchman; but it might be done
In his absence.
Within the hour the Arabella and
La Foudre were beating out to sea
together. Without understanding
The change of plan involved, Captain
Flood, nevertheless, accepted it, and
weighed anchor before the appointed
Tune upon pereeiVlng his associate to
do SO.
All day the Dutch brig was in
sight, though by evening she had
dwindled to the merest speck on the
northern horizon. The course pre-
scribed for Blood and Levasseur lay
eastward along the northern shores
of Hispaniola. To that course the
Arabella held steadily through the
night with the result hal when day
fbroke again, she was alone. La
F'oudre under cove of the darkness
had struck away to the northeast
with every rag OF canvas on her
Dawn found La Foudre close on
the Dutchman's heels. not a mile
nstern, and the sight of her very eVi- |
dustered the JongVrouW The
Dutch ship veered. showed them her
rudder. and opened fire with her
Rtern chasers. The small shot went
swhistling through La Foudre's
Will some sL]Snt darnage TO
her nva Followed a brief run
ming fight in the course of which
che Dutchman let ny a broadside.
Five minutes after they were held
tfght in the clutches OF La Foudre's |
and the buccaneers pour
ing noisily into her waist.
The Dutchman's master, purple in
the face stood forward to beard the !
pirate, followed closely by an eIe-
giant, p~aIe-faced young gentleman in
whom Levasseur recognized his
hrother-in-laW-elect.
From the quarter rail Mademol-
selle d'Ogeron looked down with
slowing eyes in GREATNESS wonder
upon her well-beloVed hero. He saw
her, and with glad shout sprang
toward her. The Dutch master got
In his way with hands upheld to ar
his progress. Levasseur did
act stay to argue with him; he was
20 impatient to reach his mistress.
5Ee swung the poleaxe that he car
led, and the Dutchman went down
blood with a cloven skull. The
s@gsr lover stepped across the body