New Britain herald., 1923-01-13
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 On the sesend day bnl the Royal Nay met the mad-,iag spanish Ad- mirsi. 'ths Captain of lhs Royal lars aas aat disposed to be intimi- ia,c,l even when Don Miguel opened hr. un him, lsul lucky shot from the Milagrosa got among some powi ID hsll his ship almost before the light had started.
 iiefors the men Of the Rosal Mary haj recovered from their eonsterna- ton The spaniards boarded her.
 h thu Captains cabin under the poop. 10 which Miss Bishop had been conducted for safety. Lord Julian was seeking to comfort and encourage her.
 And then the cabin door flew open. and Don Miguel himself. tall. sum burned. and aaui'lne of face. strode .il. Lord Julian span round. to face him. and elapped hand to his sword.
 The spaniard was brisk and to the point.
 Don't be q fool" he said n his own tongue. ''or you'li come by Il fools end. Your ship is sinking
 They stayed no longer than was necessary to enable Miss Bishop 10 collect some spare articles Of dress and my lord to snatch up his valise.
 As for the survivors in that ghnst- iy shambles that had been the Royal Mary. tkcy were abandoned by the epaniards 10 their own resources. If Lord Julian and Miss Bishop were re- tained. it was because Don Miguel perceived their obvious value. lie received thefn In his cabin with great urbanity. Urbaneiy he desired to have the honor Of being acquainted with their names.
 Lord Julian. sick with horror Of the spectacle he had just witnessed, commanded himself with difficulty to supply them. Then haughtily he de- manded to know in his turn the name Of their aggressor.
 T am Don Miguel de Espinosa," he IS answered.
 T offer you no violence. On the contrary. have saved your lives"
 Don Miguel's smile persisted. Meanwhile it is your lives that will cost you dear. Colonel Bishop is a rich man; and you. milford, ar no doubt also rich. will consider and fix your ransom"
 CHAPTER KIN.
 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 following morning. Don Miguel came upon the Arabella at time when. separated from the rest of the fleet, she was alone and at disadvantage.
 Miss Bishop, newly risen, had come out to take the air on the quarter deck with his iordship in attendance when she beheld the big red ship that had osace been the Cinco Llagas out of Cadiz. The vessel was bearing down upon them, the long pennon with the cross of St. George fiuttering from her main truck in the morning breeze.
 They advanced to the poop-rail. and watched the hustle. Telescope in hand on the quarterback. Don Miguel was issuing his orders and signaling to his consort, in response to which the Hidalga had drawn steadily forward until she was now abeam of the Mila- grosa.
 The Arabella was advancing now along a course which, If continued, must carry her straight between the two Spanish ships.
 The Admiral raised his hand; In the waist, below him. a trumpet blared, and immediately the gunner on the prod touched off his guns. As the thunder of them rolled out. his lord shin saw ahead beyond the English ship and to larboard of her two heavy splashes. Almost at once two suc- eessipe spurts of flame leaped from the brass cannon on the Arabella's's beak head, and scarcely had the watchers on the poop seen the shower of spray, where one of the shots struck the water near them, than with q rending crash and shiver that shook the Milagrosa from stem to stern, the other came to lodge Tn her forecastle. To avenge that blow, the with both her forward guns, But Hidalga blazed at the Englishman. even at that short range-between two and three hundred yards--neither slot took effect. 2 At a hundred yards the Arabella's forward guns, which had meanwhile