Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-01-05
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By Rafael Sabafint
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over that swarthy countenance-
which, indeed, by now vas tanned
to the golden brown of a half-caste
Indiana mask descended.
"Doing?" said he b%landly. why,
the duties of my Office"
The colonel, striding furiously
forward, observed two things. The
empty pannikin on the seat beside
the prisoner, and the palmetto leaf
protecting his back.
81 said he was to have neither
meat nor drink until I ordered it."
Sure, now, / never heard ye."
"You never heard me? How
should you have heard me when you
weren't here?"
Then how did we expect me to
know what orders ye'd given2 ?" Mr..
Blood's tone was now positively ag-
grieved.
The planter thrust him aside with
an im%precation, and stepping for
ward tore the palmetto leaf from
the prisoners back.
"In the name of humanity, now
. :" Mr.. Blood was beginning.
At that moment a terrific rolling
thunderclap drowned his voice and
shook the very air. Colonel Bishop
Jumped, his negroes jumped with
him, and so even did the apparently
imperturbable Mr.. Blood. Then the
four of them stared together ca
wards.
Down in the bay all that could be
seen Of the great ship, standing now
within a cable's-length of the fort,
were her topmasts thrusting above
a. cloud of smoke in which she was
e~nveloped.
As those men stared from the en-
inence on which they stood they
saw the British Jack dip from the
main truck and vanish into the ris-
ing cloud below. A moment more,
and up through that cloud to re-
Place the flag of England scared the
gold and crimson banner of CASTLE.
And then they understood.
"Pirates!" roared the colonel
CHAPTER VIII
Spaniards
The stately ship that had been
allowed to sail SO leisurely into Car
Isle Bay under her false colors was
a Spanish privateer, coming to pay
off some heavy debt piled up by the
predacious Brethren of the Coast,
and the recent defeat by the Pride
of Devon of two treasure galleons
bound for Cadiz. 1t happened that
the galleon which escaped in a more
or less crippled condition was COM
nlanded by Don Diego de Espinosa
y Valdez, who was OWN brother to
the Spanish Admiral Don Miguel de
Espinosa.
Called by his defeat, and choosing
to forget that his own conduct had
invited it, he had sworn to teach the
English a sharp lesson which they
should remember.
He had succeeded so we'll in his
Intentions that he had aroused no
suspicion until he saluted the fort at
short range with a broadside of
twenty guns.
AS commander of the Barbados
Militia, the place of Colonel Bishop
was at the head of his scanty troops
in that fort which the Spanish guns
were pounding into rubble.
Remembering it, he went off at
the double, despite his bulk and the
heat, his negroes trotted after him
MIR. Blood turned to Jeremy Pitt.
He laughed grimiy. Nov that"
said he. "is what I call a timely In
terruption."
BY this time the rebels-conviot
~ St1 N0AS SOllAlS A41 All LNOo
and threes, having abandoned their
work upon finding themselves I'M
guarded and upon seeming the gen.
eral dismay.
The landing was contested by the
militia and by every islander capa-
Bile of bearing arms with the fierce
re~soluteness of men who knew that
no quarter was to be expected in
defeat.
All through the scorching after
Don the battle went on. By sunset
two hundred and fifty Spaniards
were masters of Bridgetown, the
islanders were disarmed, and at
Government House, Governor Steed
his govt forgotten in his panic
supported by Colonel Bishop ana
some lesser officers, was being In
formed by Don Diego, with an ur-
banity that was itself a mockery, Of
the sum that would be required in
ransom.
For g. hundred thousand pieces Of
eight and fifty head OF cattle, Don
Diego would forbear from reducing
the place to ashes.
Mr.. Blood, greatly daring, ven
tured down at dusk into the town,
What he saw was fetching him in
haste and white-faced out of that
hell again, when In a narrow street
a girl hurtled into him. wild eyed,