The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-06
CHAPTER 4-Continued.

THERE came a chuckle fom Gov
 ernor Steed: You hear, Colonel.
 Trust your niece. Her sex knows a man when it sees one." And he laughed. But lie laughed alone. A cloud of annoyance swept across the face of the Colonel's niece. Jeremy Pitt had almost ceased to breathe.
 I'll give you ten pounds for him, " said the Colonel at last
 Peter Blood prayed that the offer might be rejected. For no reason that he could lave given you, he was taken with repugnance at the thought of becoming the property of this gross animal, and in some sort the property of that hazel-eyed young girl. But it would need more than repugnance to save him from his destiny. A slave is slave, and has no power to shape his fate. Peter Blood was sold to Colonel Bishop-a disdainful buyer for the ignominious sum of ten pounds CHAPTER 5.
 ARABELLA BISHOP
 One sunny morning in January, about a month after the arrival of the Jamaica Merchant at Bridgetown, Miss Arabella Bishop rode out from her uncle's fine house on the heights to the northwest of the city. She was attended by two negroes who trotted after her at respectful distance. Reaching the summit of gentle, grassy slope, she met a tall, lean man dressed in a sober, gentlemanly fashion, who was walking in the opposite direction. Miss Arabella drew rein.
 "I think 1 know you, sir" said she.
 Her voice was grips and boyish. IL arose perhaps from an ease, direct ness, which disdained the artifices of her sex, and set her on good terms with all the world. To this it may be due that Miss Arabella had reached the age of five and twenty not merely unmarried but unwooed She used with all men a sisterly frankness.
 The stranger came to a standstill up on being addressed
 "A lady should know her own prop erty," said he.
 My property?"
 Your uncle's, leastways I am called Peter Blood"
 She recognized him then. She had heard that this rebel-convict had been discovered to be physician. Governor Steed, who suffered damnably from the gout, had borrowed the fellow from his purchaser. Peter Blood had afforded < luC UONSEuOT TelIel, ana Jne IOFernOr lady had desired him to attend her for the megrims. Mir. Blood prescribed for her and she had conceived herself the better for his prescription. After that Colonel Bishop had found that there was more profit to be made out of this new slave by leaving him to pursue his profession than by setting him to work on the plantation.
 If some other planter had bought me" Mir. Blood explained. as he thank ed her, ''it is odds that the facts of my shining abilities might never have been brought to light"
 II perceived your interest when your uncle bought me. At the time l re- sented it."
 You resented it?7 There was a challenge in her boyiSh voice.
 T have had no lack of experiences of this mortal life; but to be bought and sold was a new one and I was hardly in the mood to love my pur- chaser.
 II urged you upon my uncle, sir, it was that I commiserated you"
 She proceeded to explain herself My uncle may appear to you a hard man. They are all hard men, these planters. It is the life, I suppose. But there are others here who are worse"
 This interest fin a stranger. a" he