Evening journal., 1923-01-10

which re renamed the Arabella.
To the score OF followers he al
ready possessed. he added three
score more. with them he entered
into the articles usual among the
Brethren OF the Coast under which
each man was TO be paid by a share
in the prizes captured.
Toward the end of December,
when the hurricane season had
blown itself out, he put to sea and
before he returned in the following
May from protracted and adven-
turous cruise. the fame of Captain
Peter Blood had run like ripples be-
fore the breeze across the face Of
the Caribbean Sea.
One day, as Captain Blood sat with
Hagthorpe and Wolverstone over a
pipe and a bottle of rum in the
sitting reek OF tar and stale tobacco
of n waterside tavern, he was ac-
costed by a splendid ruffian in a
gold-laced coat of dark-blue satin
with a crimson sash, a foot wide.
about the waist.
"Cest vous qu'on appelle lie
Sang?" the fellow hailed him.
Captain Blood looked up to con-
slider the questioner before replying
The man was tail and built on lines
of agile strength. with a swarthy.
aquiline face that was brutally
handsome
Captain Blood took the pipe-stem
from between his lips.
MY name" he said, lis Peter
Blood. The Spaniards know me for
Don Pedro Sangre. and a French
man may call me lie Sang II he
pleases."
Good" said the gaudy adventur-
or in English. My name" he in
formed the three men, two OF
whom at least were eyelng him ask /
ance, 1T is Levasseur. You may
have heard Of me-"
They had, indeed. He commanded /
a privateer Of twenty guns that had |
dropped anchor in the bay week /
ago. A roaring, quarrelsome, hard
drinking, hard-gaming scoundrel.
his reputation as a buccaneer stood
high among the wild Brethren OF
the Coast. There was about his
gaudy, staggering raflshness some-
thing that the women found singu-
larly alluring.
1t was current gossip that even
d'Ogeron. the Cover
nor's daughter, had been caught in
The snare OF his wild attractiveness.
This was the man who now thrust
upon Captain Blood with
proposal of association, offering him
not only his sword, but his ship and
he men who sailed in her.
Because he disiked the man Can
-ain Blood would not commit him
self at once. But because he liked
ne proposal he consented 10 con-
iider 1t. The end Of the matter was
nat within a week articles were
lrawn up between Levasseur and
Blood and signed by them and-as
vas usually the chosen repre-
ientatives OF their followers.
All being now settled they made
'eady for sea, and on the very eve OF
falling, Levasesur narrowly escaped
)eing shot in a romantic attempt TO
icale the wall OF the Governors gar
len, with the object of taking pas
tonate leave of the infatuated
d'Ogeron.
That night he slept on board his
hip, which with characteristic fam
'oyance he had named La Foudre.
md there on the following day he
a visit from Captain Blood,
vhom he greeted half-mockingly as
MS admiral. The Irishman came TO
settle certain final details of which
al that need concern us is an under
standing that, in the event of the
TWO vessels becoming separated by
accident or design, they should re-
Join each other as soon as might be
At Tortuga.
Thereafter Levasseur entertained
his admiral to dinner, and jointly
hey drank success to the expedi-
ion.
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