Evening star., 1924-12-07

ing her.
"You are returning to Barbados?"
he. said slowly. VIII Lord Julian
be going with you?
"Why do you ask me that" she
confronted him quite fearlessly.
Sure, now, didn't he give you my
message, or did he bungle it,"
mo. He didn't bungle it. He gave
| it me in your own words. 1t touched
me very deeply. 1t made me see
| clearly my error and my injustice
I l owe it to you that l should say
| this by way of amend. I judged too
! harshly where it was presumption
| to Judge at all
He was still holding her hand. And
Lord Julian. then?" he asked, his
| eyes Watching her, bright as sap
phires in that copper-colored face
| Lord Julian will no doubt be go
| ing home to England. There is noth.
ing more for him to do out here.
"But didn't he ask you to go with
him?"
"He did. I forgive you the i'm
pertinence. ,.n,,
. him.
And you? Glory be. yen not be
telling me ye refused to become my
| lady, when
"Oh, You are insuftsrabler She
tore her hand free and backed away
from him. Il should not have come
! Good-bye."= She was speeding
10 the door.
| He sprang after her and caught
her Her face famed and her eyes
stabbed him like daggers. These
are pirates ways, l think Release
me-"
"ArabelIa" he cried on a note of
pleading. Are ye meaning it? Must
l release ye? Must l let ye go and
never set eyes on ye again? Or Will
ye stay and make this exile endura-
BILE until we can go home together?
Och, ye're crying now! What have
said to make ye cry, dear?
Il thought you'd never
say it." she mocked him through her
tears.
We'll now. We see. there was Lord
Julian, fine figure of a
There was never, never anybody
but you, Peter.
They had, OF course, deal to say
thereafter, so much, indeed, that they
sat down to say it, whilst time sped
on, and Gov. Blood forgot the duties
of his office He had reached home
at last His odyssey was ended.
And meanwhile Col. Bishops fleet
had come to anchor and the colone el
had landed on the mole, a disgrun
tied man TO be disgruntled further
Yet. He was accompanied ashore by
Lord Julian Wade.
corporars guard was drawn up
TO receive him. and in advance of this
stood Maj. Mallard and two others
who were unknown to the deputy
governor-one slight and elegant,
| the other big and brawns'.
Maj. Mallard advanced. "Col. Bish-
op, have orders to arres6you. Your
sword, sir"
Bishop stared, empurpiing. What
the devil =? Arrest me, d. de
say? Arrest me?"
maica," said the elegant little man
behind Maj. Mallard. Bishop swung
to him
THE governor? Ye're mad He
looked from one to the other. Il am
the governor"
You We're" said the little man
dryiy. But we've changed that in
your absence You're broke for
abandoning your post without due
cause, and thereby imperiling the
settlement over which you had
charge. It's a serious matter, Col.
Bishop, as you may find. Consider
ing that you held your Office from
the government of King James, it is
even possible that a charge OF trea-
)
with your successor entirely whether
ye're hanged or not"
| Bishop raped out an oath, and
| then, shaken by A sudden fear: who
the devil may you be?" he asked
Il am Lord Willoughby, governor
general of his majesty's colonies in
the West Indies. You were informed,
| I think, of my coming
The remains of Bishops anger fell
! him like a cloak He hrOk q
into a sweat Of fear. Behind him
Lord Julian looked on, his handsome
face suddenly white and drawn.
But, my lord . - began the
colonel
"Sir, l am not concerned to hear
your reasons" his lordship inter
rupted him harshly. Il am on the
time. The governor Will hear you,
and no doubt deal justly by YOU"
He waved to Maj. Mallard, and
Bishop, a crumpled, broken man, al
lowed himself to be led away.
To Lord Julian, who went with
him, since none deferred him. Bishop
! EXPRESSED himself when presently he
had sufficiently recovered.
This is one more item to the ac-
count of that scoundrel Blood" he
said. through his teeth. My God,
what a reckoning there Will be when
we meet"
Mai. Mallard turned away his face
that he might conceal his smile, and
| without further words led him a pris-
oner to the governors house, the
house that so long had been Col.
| Bishops own residence. He was left
to wait under guard in the hall,
while Maj AIaIlard went ahead TO
announce him.
Miss Bishop was still with Peter
Blood when Maj. Mallard entered.
His announcement startled them
back to realities.
"You will be merciful with him.
You will spare him all you can for
my sake, Peter she pleaded.
ITO be sure I will" said Blood.
But I'm afraid the circumstances
won't"
She effaced herself, escaping into
the garden, and Maj. Mallard fetched
the colonel
His excellency the governor will
wide the door.
Col. Bishop staggered in, and stood
waiting.
At the table sat a man of whom
nothing was visible but the top of a
carefully curled black head. Then
this head was raised, and pair Of
blue eyes solmenly regarded the pris-
oner Col. Bishop made a npise in
his throat, and, paralyzed by amaze
ment, stared into the face of his ex-
cellency the deputy governor of ia
maica, which was the face of the
man he had been hunting in Tortuga
to his present undotng.
The situation was best expressed
to Lord Wiloughby by van der Kuy
len as the pair stepped aboard the
admiral's flagship.
I'D is ferry boedigal!" he said. his