Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-01-08
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head.
ne was beginning to torture hi,
hlino with conjecture, when the dooI
opeheu' and to Don Diego's increas.
ing hnystltlcatlon he beheld his bes-
SUIT OIL clothes step into the cabin.
Inc SUIT paused to close the door
then toward the couch or
when Don Diego was extended, and
INSIDE the suit came a tall, slender
gentleman of about Don Diego's own
height and hape.
Don Diego struggled up into a sit.
ting position on the red velvet couch
who the devil are your" he ask
ed. And what the devil are Won
doing in my clothes and aboard my
Mr.. Blood's black eyebrows went
up, a faint smile curled the lips of
the long mouth.
You are still delirieus, 1 fear.
This is not your ship. This is my
ship, and these ara my clothes"
Your ship?" quoth the other,
sghast, and still more sghast he
added: Your clothes? But
Then . ;" Wildly his eyes look
ed about him. They scanned the
cabin once again, scrutinizing each
familiar object. "Am / mad?" he
asked at last. Surely this ship is
the Cinco Llagas?"
Succinctly now Captain Blood dis
persed the mystery by a relation of
the facts.
And my son? What OF my son ?"
Your son is safe; he and the
boats crew together with your gun
ner and his men are snugly in irons
under h~atches."
With the utmost calm he in
quired:
And now, Senior Captain?"
Would You be willing, sir, to earn
life and liherty-for yourself. your
sen, and the other Spaniards who
+ on board?"
ITO earn it," said Don Diego, and
the watchful blue eyes did not miss
the culver that ran through him.
"Te earn it, do o say. Why, If
the service you would propose is one
that cannot hurt nay honor . :"
Gould l be guilty of that?" pro-
tested the Captain. II realize that
even a pirate has his honor" And
forthwith he propounded his offer.
THE only man among US schooled
in the art Of navigation is fevered.
A0hGa AZ law 90 q ISGQII VI GSE~
tain il-treatment he received ashore
before we carried him away with lis.
OF the higher mysteries of
ship and of the art of finding a way
yer the trackless wastes of ocean,
we know nothing. We desire 10
make for the Dutch settlement of
Curacao as straightly as possible.
Win You pledge ne your honor. If l
release o upon parole, that you
will navigate US thither? If So, we
will release you and your surviving
upon arrival there"
Don Diego bowed his head upon
mis- breast.
Il accept he said.
CHAPTER AI
FiliaI Piety
BY virtue of the pledge he had
Don Diego de Espinesa enjoy
ed the freedom of the ship that had
been his, and the navigation which
had undertaken was left entirely
in his hands.
IF this wind holds" he told thera,
we should reach Curacao inside
three days.
For three days the wind held. ia
deed it freshened a little on the Sec
ond, and yet when the third night
upon them they had still
made no landfall. Captain Blood uns
easily mentioned il to Don Diego.
1T will be for tomorrow morn
he was answered with calm
conviction.
Captain Blood passed on, content,
md went to visit Jerry Pitt, his pa.
lent, to whose condition Don Diego
owed his chance of life. To indulge
him Captain Blood consented that
he should take the air on deck, and
so, as the last of daylight was fading
from the sky. Jeremy Pitt came
forth upon the Captains arm. With
seaman's instinct his eyes wan-
Tered to the ~daFkenihg vault of
heaven. spangled already with a
golden points OF light.
he scanned it idly, Yacantiy;
then, his attention become
fixed, He looked round and
lp at Captain Blood, who stood be-
side him.
Dye know anything of astron-
2my, Peter?' quoth he,
Astronomy is it? Faith, now, I
tell the Belt Of Orion from
Girdle OF Venus
You told me-didn't you---that we
"a me west Of the archipelago be-