The Omaha morning bee., 1924-04-29

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HeAf ihe 1ahel t,nela. treated HIN as
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n hole SUMMER niehs II iaik viii hin1
saestionine him upcn this person and
that person. and thus gradually draw.
ms from him al the little history
- hss native place during he twe
Years thar we're sped since he had
left II. In this We gather an impres
sion Of the wlsiful lonEings. the fleree
nostalgia that must have overcome
the renegade and his endeavors 10
aiiav II hv HE endless questions. The
Cornish Iad had brought him up
sharply ana agonizinEly with that
..r f.ta ssk4ala A la saInNa4I
ihe door when he became a Muslin
and a corsalr. The only possible in.
Terence il that In these hours Of that
summers night repentance stirred in
him, and a wild longing TO return.
Rosamund should reopen for him that
door which. hard driven by misfor-
tune, he had slammed. That she
would do 80 when once she knew the
truth he had no faintest doubt. And
there was now no reason why he
should conceal the truth. why he
should continue to shield that das-
tardly half.brother OF his, whom he
had come to hate as, fiercely as he
had erstwhile loved him.
In secret he composed a long let.
ter giving the history of all that had
happened to him since his kidnapping
and setting forth the entire truth of
that and of the deed that had led to
it. His chronicler> opines that 1t was
a letter that must have moved
stone to tears. And. moreover, II was
not a mere matter of passionate pro-
testations of innocence, or of unsup-
ported accusation of his brother. 1t
told her OF the existence of proofs
that must dispel all doubt. 1t told
her of that parchment indited by
Master Baine and witnessed by the
parson, which document was to be
delivered to her together with the
letter. Further, it bade her seek con-
frmation of that documents gem
uineness, did she doubt 1t. at the
hands of Master Baine himself. That
done, 1t besought her to lay the whole
matter before the queen. and thus Sc
cure him faculty to return TO Eng
land and immunity. from any conse-
quences of his subsequent renegade
act to which his sufferings had driven
him. lie loaded the young Cornish
man with gifts. gave him that letter
10 deliver In person and added In
structions that should enable him
to and the document he was to deliver
with 1t. That precious parchment
had been left between the leaves of
an old book on falconry in the library
at Penarrow. where 1t would prob
ably be found stll undisturbed since
his brother would not suspect its
presence and was himself no scholar.
Pitt was to seek out Nicholas at Pen
arrow and enlist his aid TO obtain pos
session OF that document, IL II still
existed.
Then sakh.elBahr found means TO
conduct Pitt TO Genoa, and there put
him aboard an English vessel
Three months later he received an
answer--a letter from Pitt, which
reached him by way of Genoa--which
was at peace with the Algerines, and
served then as a channel of COM
munication with Christianity. In this
letter Pitt informed him that he had
done all that Sir Oliver had desired
him; that he had found the document
by the help of Nicholas, and that
In person he had waited upon Mis-
tress Rosamund Godolphin, who dwelt
now with Sir John Killigrew at Ar
wenack. delivering to her the letter
and the parchment; but that upon
learning on whose behalf he came
she had in his presence flung both
unopened upon the fire and dismissed
him with his tale untold.
Thus five years passed, counting
from that spring night when he was
tiepanned by Jasper Leigh, and his
fame spread. his name became q ter
ror upon the seas. and fleets put forth
from Malta, from Naples. and from
Venice to make an end of him and
his ruthless piracy. But Allah kept
watch over him, and Sakh-el-Bahr
never delivered battle but he wrested
victory to the scimitars of Islam.
Then In the spring Of that fifth
year there came TO him another let
ter from the Cornish Pitt, n letter
which showed him that gratitude was
not as dead In the world as he sup.
posed II. for II was purely out Of
gratitude that the lad whom he had
delivered from thraldom wrote to in
form him of certain matters that
concerned him. This letter reopened
that old wound. II did more: 1t dealt
him a fresh one. He learnt from IL
that the writer had been constrained
by Sir John Killigrew to give such
evidence Of Sir divers conversion to
Islam as had enabled the courts 10
pronounce Sir oliver as one to be pre-
siimed dead at law. granting the sue
cesslon to his half.brother. Master
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