Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1923-01-02


as a physician and not participating
In the rebellion.
Il was never with that army.
never was attracted TO the late re-
bellion. I regarded the adventure as
wicked madness. was summon
ed that morning to sucdor Lord
=, Gildoy, and 1 conceived It TO be the
sacred duty imposed upon me by
my calling to answer that sum
mons"
WAS there ever such an impu-
dent villain in the world as thouY
The Judge swung. white-faced. to
the jury. Il hope, gentlemen Of the
jury. you take notice Of the horrible
carriage of this traitor rogue. and
withal you cannot but observe the
spirit of this sort OF people, what a
yillainous and devilish one It is"
Upon that he proceeded to his
summing-up, showing how Baynes
and Blood were both guilty of trea-
son. the first for having harbored a
traitor, the second for having sue
cored that traitor by dressing his
wounds. Peter Blood looked round
the scarlet-hung court. He laughed,
and his laugh Jared uncannily upon
the deathly stiffness OF the court.
DO you laugh. sirrah. with the
rope about your neck, upon the very
threshold Of that eternity you are
so suddenly to enter into?" And
then the Judge delivered sentence OF
death IN the prescribed form.
CHAPTER ".
Human Merchandise.
On the morning OF the 18th there
arrived at Taunton a courier from
Lord Sunderland, the Secretary OF
State, with letter for Lord Jeffreys
wherein he was informed that His
Majesty had been graclously pleased
TO command that eleven hundred
rebels should be furnished for trans
portation TO some OF His Majesty's
southern plantations. Jamaica, Bar
BADGES. or any of the Leeward Is /
lands. Slaves were urgently required |
and a healthy, vigorous man could /
be reckoned worth at least from ten /
to fifteen pounds.
Thus ii happened that Peter |
Blood, and with him Jeremy Pitt |
and Andrew Baynes were conveyed
to Bristol and there shipped with
some fifty others aboard the Jamaica
Merchant. From close confinement
under matches, ill-nourishment and
foul water, a sickness broke out
amongst them, of which eleven died.
The mortality might have been
higher than II was but for Peter
Blood.
Toward the middle OF December
the Jamaica Merchant dropped
anchor in Carlisle Bay, and put
ashore the forty-two surviving rebel
convicts.
To inspect them. drawn up there
on the mole, came Governor Steed.
short, stout red-faced gentleman.
who limped a little and leaned
heavily upon a stout ebony cane.
After him. in the uniform OF a
colonel of the Barbados Militia. roll
ed Colonel Bishop. a tall, corpulent
man who lowered head and Shout
ders above the Governor. At his side
and contrasting oddly with his gross
ness, moving with an easy stripping
grace, came a slight young lady in a
modish riding gown.
Buyers came and stared and
passed on. Blood noticed that the
girl was speaking to Bishop. and
M the lines with silver
hilted riding-whip she carrieds
Bishop shaded his eyes with his
hand TO look in the direction In which
she was pointing Then slowly.
With his ponderous. rolling gait, he ,
Peter Blood found
himself staring into a pair OF beady ,,
lrown eyes He felt the color creep
ng into his face under the insult OF
hat contemptuous Inspection. Bah! :
\ bag OF bones. What should do :
With him"
He was turning away when the :
'aDtain in charge interposed.
He may be lean. but he's tough:
ough and healthy When half OF
hem was sick and the other half 9
ickening, this rogue kept his legs Z
nd doctored his fellows. Say ffteen !
POUNDS for him. Colonel That's :
heap enough" =
The Colonel finally purchased ;
'eter for ten pounds Jeremy Pitt =
vent to the same master for the +
UNI Of twenty pounds. S
CHAPTER V n
Arabella Bishop s
One sunny morning in January h
bout a month after the arrival of Z
he Jamaica Merchant at Bridge Z
own, Miss Arabella Bishop rode out 7
rom her uncle's fine house on the y
Fights to the northwest of the city. n
.eaching the summit OF a gentle. s
rassy slope, she met a tall, lean s
ian dressed in a sober gentleman a
7 fashion, who was walking in the L
pposite direction. He was a
tranger 10 her and yet in some o
ague way he did not seem quite a v
ranger. q
Miss Arabella drew rein. s.
Il think I know you, sir" said e
De. Il
The stranger came TO a standstill 81
pom being addressed. e
"A LADY should know her own o
roperty." laughed he.
She recognized him then.
Miss Bishop had heard that this
sbel-convict had been discovered to
e a physician. The thing had come
} the ears Of Governor Sfeed who
Uttered daTlnably from the govt
nd Governor Steed had borrowed