Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-02

| traitor. I might ha sailed these ships into
the mouth of Tagus. I might So by GodI"
you'd have been carved in pieces on the
spot" said Sakr-el-Bahr
81 might have Rugged the land and run
the risk of capture and then claimed my
liberation from captivity"
"And found yourself back on the galleys
of his Catholic Majesty. But there!
grant that you have dealt Loyalty by me. You
have kept your part of the bond. 1 shall
keep mine, never doubt it,
'T do not. But your part of the bond
was to send me home again"
"WeH?"
"The hell Of it is that I know not where
to find a home, I know not where home
may be after these years. If ye send me
forth I shall become a wanderer of no ac-
count"
''What else I to do with your"
Faith, now, [ am as full weary of Chris
tians and Christendom as you was yourself
when the Moslems took the galley on which
you toiled. | am a man of parts, Sir OIL
Sakr-el-Bahr. No better navigator ever
sailed a ship from an English port, and I
ha' seen a mort O. fighting and know the
art of it upon the sea. Can ye make naught
of me here?"
''You would become renegade like me?"
His tone bitter.
81 ha' been thinking that renegade is a
!
on. I'll prefer to say that I've a wish to
be converted to the faith of Mahound."
Converted to the faith of piracy and
plumber and robbery upon the seas is what
you mean" said Sakr-el-Bahr.
"Nay, now. To that I should need no
converting, for all that I were afore," Cap
tain Leigh admitted frankly. ~ ask but
to sail under another flag than the Jolly
Roger"
you'll need to abjure strong drink" said
Sakr-eI-Bahr.
"There be compensations," said Master
Leigh.
Sakr-elBahr considered The rogue's
appeal smote a responsive chord in his
heart. 1t would be good to have man of
his own race beside him, even though it
we're but such a rascal as this.
"Be it as you wiIl,' he said at last. "You
deserve to be hanged in spite of what prom
/ Uses l made you. But matter for that.
So that you become Moslem [ will take you
TO serve beside me, one of my own lieuten-
ants to begin with, and so long as you are
loyal to me, Jasper, all will be well. But at
the first sign of faithlessness rope and the
yard-arm, my friend, and an airy dance into
hell for you"
The rascally skipper stopped in his emo
ton, caught up Sakr-e1-Bahr's hand and
bore it to his lips.
at is agreed he said aye have shown
me mercy who have little deserved it from
you. Never fear for my loyalty My life
belongs to you, and worthless thing though
it may be, We may do with it as we please"
Despite himself, Sakr-el-Bahr frightened
his grip upon the rogue's hand, and Jasper
shuffIed off and down the companion again,
touched to the heart for once in his rough
vilIainous life by a clemency that he knew
to be undeserved, but which he swore
should be deserved ere all was done.
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