Evening journal., 1923-01-13
SYNOPSIS

Barbados planter and uncle Of Araoells
betveen whom and Peter Blood an IN
terestlng friendship springs up;
Snanish ship conquers the island. pu
h caDtured through the strategy Q
Blood who heads a boarding parry .
slaves. Don Diego, comman9er OF ~ T..
sster,nts 10 betray Captain Blood AM
Mis- fellows but fails. Blood salls y
Tortuga. headquarters OF nuccanee9Is
where he joins with Levasseur' anothei
The governor Of Tortuga tries e
break up an attachment between ~ "
daughter, Mademoiselle p oger9n. ane ~
Tevssseur. He sends his daushteI o ou
Levasseur follows and klonaps M"Ne
naoiseHe and her brother. -, .,-,.,,
Caufain Blood engages IN a ouel VIII
Ievasseur 10 save Mademoiselle anu
her brother.
II was soon over. The brute
strength upon which Levasseur SO
confidently counted, could avail
nothing against the Irishman's prac-
tioed skill. When, with both lungs
transhxed, he lay prone on the
white sand, coughing out his ras-
caily life, Captain Blood looked
calmly at Cahusao across the body
Il think that cancels the articles
between us" he said.
IF you will come 10 our anchor
axe. you shall receive at once your
share OF the booty OF the Santiago.
that you may dispose OF It as you
please"
They crossed the island. the two
prisoners accompanying them, and
later that day, the division made.
they would have parted company
but that Cahusac. al the Instances
OF the men who had elected him
Ievasseur's successor. offered Cap
tain Blood anew the services OF that
French contingent.
IF you will sail with me again"
the Captain answered him, you
may do so on the condition that you
make your peace with the Dutch. |
and restore the brig and her cargo"
The condition was accepted. and |
Blood went OF 10 find his /
guests. the children OF the Governor 4
OF Tortuga-
n. d'ogeron was not In a forsiv-
ing mood.
''dademoiselle." said ne. aboard
his ship you shall be treated with
HI honor. So soon as we are in case
% put 70 sea again. we steer a
course for Tortuga to take you
iome TO your father"
CHAPTER XVI
The Trap
That affair OF Mademoiselle
lOgeron bore as its natural fruit
IN improvement in the already cor
Iiai relations between Captain
Blood and the Governor OF Tortuga
SO when II come to fitting out his
ieet for an enterprise against Mar
lcaybo, he did not want for either
hips or men 10 follow him. He re-
,ruited five hundred adventures in
III. and he might have had as many /
thousands II he could have offered |
hem accommodation. Similarly
without difficulty he might have in
ireased his feet to twice its strength
u ships but that he preferred to
,eep It what II was. The three YES
els to which he confined It were
he Arabella, the La Foudre, which
,ahusac now commanded with a
ontingent OF some six-scorei
'renchmen, and the Santiago. which
iad been refitted and rechristeued
he Elizabeth. Hagthorpe, in vir-
ue OF his service in the navy, was
ppointed by Blood TO command
Ier. and the appointment was con-
rmed by the men.
Il was some months after the
escue OF Mademoisells d'Ogeron-l
n August OF that year 16S7-that
his little feet sailed into the great
axe OF Maraoaybo and erected its
AID upon that opuient city OF the
Main
The affair did not proceed exact
y as was hoped, and Blood's force
,arns 70 fnd itself in a precarious
'os.tion.
A dispute was being conducted
By Hagthorpe, Wolverstone. and
Pitt on the one side, and Cahussc.
but OF whose uneasiness It all arose,
on the other.
rs Il that have not warned you
from the beginning that all was TOO
aasy?" Cahusac demanded. I see
an abandoned fort at the entrance
Of the lake. and nobody there to
FIRE a gun at us when we came in.
Then suspect the trap. What do
We find7 A city. abandoned like the
'ort. Captain Blood. he will go on.
md we go on. We go TO Gibraltar.
True that at last. after long time,
We catch the Deputy Governor; true,
We make him pay big ransom for
sibraitar: true between that ran
on and the loot we return here
With some two thousand pieces of
light. Il IS a piece Of cheese in
rnousetrap, and we are the little
nice. The cats are those four
'panish ships Of war that have
ONE meantime. And they wait for
IS outside the bottleneck OF this
agoon."
He checked. At that moment. up
auntered Peter Blood. With him
anne tough, long-legged French
ea-wolf named Yberville, who,
hough still young, had already won
anne as a privateer commander be-
ore the loss of his own ship had
Iriven him to take service under
3lood. The Captain advanced to-
yard that disputing group, leaning
lghtly upon his long ebony cane. his
ace shaded by a broad-plumed hat.
He spoke quietly. almost YEARLY.
You Will be telling them that we
iave delayed. and that it is the de-
ay that has brought about our
LANCER. But whose is the fault Of
hat deiay2'
BURN COSGROVE HOME.
DUBLIN. Jan. 1s UNITED Press)
The home OF William T. Cosgrove,
PRESIDENT Of the Irish Free State. at