Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-01-26
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gunner Ogle, who had been driven
from his guns by water in the gum
deck, leapt shouting to the prov OF
the V~ictorieuse, to whose Level the
| high poop of the water-logged Ara
| bella had sunk. Led now by Blood
himself, they launched themselves
upon the French like hounds upon
the stag they have brought to pay:
| After them went others, until all
had gone, and none but WllIoughpy
and the Dutchman were left to
watch the fight from the quarter
deck Of the abandoned Ar9bella.
For fully half an hour that battle
ragged aboard the Frenchman. The
buccaneers fought with the desper-
ate fury of men who know that re-
treat is impossible, for there was no
ship to which they could retreat,
and here they must prevail and
make the Victorieuse their W or
perish.
And their W they made her In
the end. at a cost of nearly half
their numbers. Rivarol went down
with a bullet in his head, and the
French remnant, numbering scarce
" a score of whole men, called for
quarter.
men were not at an end. The Eliza
beth and the Medusa were tight
locked, and Hagthorpe's followers
were being driven back aboard their
own ship for the second time. Whilst
Pitt and his seamen bore their part
with the sails, and Ogle went below
with a gun crew, Blood ordered the
grapnels to be loosed at once. Lord
Willoughby and the admiral were
already aboard the Victorieuse. AS
they swung off to the rescue Of Hag-
thorpe, Blood, from the quarterback
Of the conquered vessel, looked his
last upon the ship hat had served
him so well, the ship that had be-
come to him almost as a part of
himself. A moment she rocked after
her release, then slowly and grad
ually settled down, the water gurg-
ling and eddying about her topmasts,
all that remained visible to mark
the spot where she had met her
death.
AS he stood there, above the
CHASTITY shambles in the waist of
the Victorieuse, someone spoke be-
hind him. Captain Blood, never
before have l seen the impossible
made possible by resource and valor,
or victory so CALAMITY snatched
from defeat"
He turned and presented to Lord
Willoughby a formidable front. His
~headpiece was gone, his breastplate
dinted, his right sleeve a rag hang
ing from his shoulder about a naked
arm. He was splashed from head
to foot with blood, and there was
blood from q scalp wound that ne
had taken mating his hair and mix
ing with the CRIME Of powder on his
face to render him unacceptable.
But from that horrible mask two
vivid eyes looked out preternaturally
bright, and from those eyes two
tears had ploughed each a furrow
through the filth of his cheeks.
CHAPTER XXI
His Excellency, the Governor
When the cost of that victory
came to be counted, it was found
that of $40 buccaneers who had left
Cartagena with Captain Blood, a
bare hundred remained sound and
whole. The Elizabeth had suffered
seriously that it "a doubtful If
she could ever again be rendered
and Hagthorpe, who had
so gallantly commanded her in that
last action, was dead. Against this
stood the facts that Blood's bucca-
neers had saved Jamaica from bonn
bardment and pillage, and they had
captured the feet of NJ. de Rivarol,
and seized for the benefit of King
William the splendid treasure which
she carried.
1t was not until the evening Of the
following day that van der Kuylen's
fleet of nine ships came to
anchor in the harbor of Port Royal,
and it's officers, Dutch and English,
made acquainted with their ad-
miraTs true opinion of their worth.
Six ships of that feet were in
stantly refitted for sea. There were
other West Indian settlements de-
handing the visit of inspection Of
the new governor-general, and Lord
Willoughby was in haste to sail for
the Antilles.
"And meanwhile" he complained
to his admiral, az am detained here
by the absence of this fool Of g dep
uty-governor."
$50" said van der Kuylen. But
Why should dad dedain youT"
THAT 1 may break the dog as ne
deserves and appoint his successor
in some man gifted with a sense of
where his duty lies, and with the
ability to perform it."
aha! But i'd is not necessary you
remain for dat. And meandime de
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