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

you did not seem quite like tn
others"
Il am not" said he.
"Oh!" She stared at him, brldlinl
little. You have a good opinion
of yourself"
ION the contrary. The others are
all worthy rebels. l am not. That
is the difference. was one who
had not the wit to see that Eng
land requires purifying. l was con-
tent to pursue a doctors trade IN
Bridgewater whilst my betters were
shedding their blood 10 drive out
an unclean tyrant and his nascally
crew"
But II you are not a rebel. how
came you here?"
He saw the thing she appreh end
/ ed, and he laughed. Faith, now.
it's a long story" said he.
And one perhaps that you would
prefer not to tell"
Briefly on that he told II TO her.
What an infamy!" she cried,
when he had done.
"Oh, it's sweet country England
under King Jamesl There's no need
to commiserate me further. All
things considered I prefer Barbados
Here at least one can believe in
God"
or the forty-two who had been
landed with him from the Jamaica
Merchant. Colonel Bishop had pur-
chased no less than twenty-five.
Amongst Bishops slaves Peter
Blood came and went freely, sleep
ing in their quarters, and their lot
he knew to be a brutallzing misery
Though the same blood ran in her
veins as in those OF Colonel Bishop.
yet Arabella Bishop was free of the
vices that tainted her uncle's. for
these vices were not natural TO that
blood Her father. Tom Bishop
that same Colonel Bishops brother
had been a kindly. chivalrous.
gentle soul. who, broken-h hearted by
the early death Of a young wife.
had abandoned the old World and
sought an anodyne for his grief I'm
the New. He had come out. to tn IL
Antilles, bringing with him his little
daughter, then five years OF age
and had given himself up to the life
OF a planter. Prospecting. he had
bethought him of his younger broth
err. a soldier at home reputed some
what wild. He had advised him to
come out to Barbados. william
came, and was admitted by his gen
erous brother 10 a partnership in
the prosperous plantation. Some
six years later, when Arabella was
fifteen, her father died. leaving her
In her uncle's guardianship.
one day toward the end Of MAY
when the heat was beginning n
grow oppressive there crawled into
carlisle Bay n wounded. battered
English ship, the Pride OF Devon
her eeboard Scared and broken.
her coach a gaping wreck. She had
be - in action Off Martinique with
two Spanish treasure ships. ana al
though her captain swore that the
Spaniards had beset him without
provocation. It Is difficult to avoid n |
suspicion that the encounter hod
been brought about quite otherwise. |
One of the Spaniards had fed from
III combat, and II the Pride of |
Devon had not given chase It was
probably because she was by then I'm |
no case to do so. The other had been
sunk, but not before the English
sf'p had transferred to her own hold |
a good deal of the treasure aboard |
the Spaniard.
Steel. however, after the fashion
OF most Colonial governors. was
willing enough to dull his wits to
the extent of accepting the English
seaman's story, disregarding anv |
evidence that might belle it. There !
fore gave the Pride Of Devon the 4
shelter she sought in his harbor and (
every facility 10 careen and carry |
out repairs.
Continued I'm Our Next Issuc) /