Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-01-17

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And upon that she passed at once
% speak Of other things.
On the second day out the Royal
Mary met the mad-dog Spanish Adj
miral The Captain of the Royal
Mary was not disposed to be in
undated even when Don Miguel
opened fire on him. But a lucky
shot from the Milagrosa got among
some powder stored in his %forecastle
snd blew UP half his ship almost be-
fore the first had started.
Before the men of the Royal Mary
lad recovered from their consterna-
Ion the Spaniards boarded her.
In the Captains cabin under the
poop, to which Miss Bishop had
been conducted for safety, Lord
Julian was seeking TO comfort and
encourage her.
And then the cabin door few open,
and Don Miguel himself, tall, sun
burned, and aquiline of face, strobe
IN. Lord Julian spun round, to face
HIM, and clapped a hand to his
sword.
The Spaniard was brisk and to the
point.
Don't be a fool" he said in his
tongue. cor you'll come by a
AOO1 u Suus LOuT snip IS SlHklHBs
They stayed no longer than vas
necessary to enable Miss Bishop to
collect some spare articles Of dress
and my lord to snatch up his vallse.
As for the survivors in that ghast-
" shambles that had been the Royal
Mary. they were abandoned by the
S~paniards to their own resources. If
Lord Julian and Miss Bishop were
retained, it was because Don Miguel
perceived their obvious value. He
received them in his cabin with
great urbanity. Urbanely he desired
to have the honor of being acquaiht-
ed with their anne
Lord Julian, sick with horror of
the spectacle he had just witnessed,
commanded himself with difficulty
TO supply them. Then haughtily he
demanded to know in his turn the
name of their aggressor.
II am Don Miguel de Espinosa,"
he was answered.
81 offer you 30 violence. On the
contrary, | have saved your
lives . . !"
Don Miguefs smile persisted.
Meantime 1t is your lives that will
cost you dear. Colonel Bishop is a
rich man; and you, MILFORD, are no
tQuOt dlSO L4CIls 4 WILL COIlSluST ailu
TX your ransom"
CHAPTER XIX
The Meeting
The Milagrosa, with her ~consort,
the Hidalga, rolling after her ran
straight into the arms Of Captain
Blood. That happened early on the
morning. Don Miguel came
upon the Arabella at a time when,
from the rest of the fleet
she was alone and at a disadvantage.
Miss Bishop. newly risen, lad
come out to take the air on the quar-
ter deck with his lordship at at
tendance when she beheld the big
red ship that had once been the
Cinco Llagas out of Cadiz. The ves-
sci was bearing down upon them,
the long pennon with the cross of
st. George fluttering from her main
truck in the morning breeze.
Ifiey advanced to the poop rail,
and watched the hustle. Telescope
In hand on the quarter deck, Don
Miguel was issuing his orders and
to his consort, in response
TO which the Hidalga had drawn
forward until she was now
Rbeam of the Milagrosa.
The Arabella vas advancing now
AAOttS d NOQISG NL1CilY IL COIlllIIuGl !
must carry her straight between the
two Spanish ships.
The Admiral raised his hand: IN
waist, below him, a trumpet
and Immediately the gunner
on the prov touched off his guns. |
AS the thunder of them rolled out,
lordship saw ahead beyond the
ship and to the larboard OF
her two heavy splashes. Almost at |
two successive spurts of flame
from the brass cannon on the
beak-head, and scarcely
had the watchers on the poop seen
the shower of spray, where one OF
shots struck the water near them |
than with a rending crash and q
that shook the MaIagrosa
from stern to stem, the other came
TO lodge in her ~forecastle. To avenge
blow, the Hidalga blazed at the
En~glishnaan with both her forward
guns. But even at that short range
two and three hundred
vards-neither shot took effect.
At a hundred yards the Arabella's
guns, which had meanwhile
been reloaded, fired again at the
Malagrosa, and this time smashed