Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-11-18
THE SEA HAWK
BY RAFAEL SABATINI
D I HAFATL SABAIINI
published by Arrangement First National Pictures
= Inc Copyrighted by Houghton- Mifflin Company
CHAPTER X CONTINUED

Biskaine-el-Borak-wh was become 7.
his own second in commando young Corn
sh lad from HeIston named Pitt, whose
father he had known.
He took this lad home with him to the
fine palace which he inhabited near the
Bab-el-Oeub, treated him as an honored
guest and sat through a whole Summer
night in talk with him, questioning him
upon this person and that person, and thus
gradually drawing from him all the little
history of his native place during the two
years that were sped since he had left it.
In this We gather an impression Of the
wistful longings, the fierce nostalgia that
must have overcome the renegade and his
endeavors to allay it by his endless ques-
tons. The Cornish lad had brought him up
sharply and agonizingly with that past of
his upon which he had closed the door
when he became a Moslem and corsair
The only possible inference is that in
those hours of that Summers night repent
ance stirred in him, and wild longing to
return ROsamund should reopen for him
that door which, hard-driven by misfortune
he had slammed. That she would do so
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 fierceIy as he had erstwhile
loved him.
In secret he composed long letter CIV
ing 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. And, moreover, it was not
mere matter of passionate protestations of
innocence, or of unsupported 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 to-
gether with the letter. Further, it babe her
seek confirmation of that documents gen
uineness, did she doubt it, at the hands of
Master Baine himself.
That done it besought her to lay the
whole matter before the Queen and thus Sc
cure him faculty to return to England and
immunity from any consequences of his SUBJ
sequent renegade act to which his suffer-
ings had driven him. He loaded the young
Cornishman with gifts, gave him that let
ter to deliver in person, and added instruc
tions that should enable him to find the
document he was to deliver with. it. That
precious parchment had been left between
the leaves of an old Book on falconry in
the library at Penarrow, where it would
probably be found still undisturbed since his
brother would not suspect its presence and
was himself no scholar. Pitt was to- seek
out old Nicholas at PenarroW and enlist his
aid to obtain possession of that document,
if it still existed
Then Sakr-el-Bahr found means to con-
duct 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
A1gerines, and served them as a channel of
communication 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 Mistress Rosamund GOdol phiu, who
dwelt now with Sir John Killigrew at Arwe
mack, 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 dis
missed him with his tale untold.
Sakr-el-Bahr spent the night under the
skies in his fragrant orchard, and his slaves
reported in terror that they had heard sobs
and weeping. If indeed his heart Wept, it
was for the last time; thereafter he was
more inscrutabIe, more ruthless, cruel and
knocking than men had ever known him, nor
from that day did he ever again concern
himself to manUlnit a single English slave.
His heart was become a stone.
Thus five years passed, counting from that
Spring night whe1 he was trepanned by Jas
per Leigh and his fame spread, his name be-
came a terror upon the seas, and fleets put
forth from Malta, from Naples and from
Venice to make an end of him and his ruth
less piracy. But Allah kept watch over him,
and Sakr-eI-Bahr never delivered battle but
he wrested victory to the scimitar5 of Islam.
Then in the Spring OF that fifth year
there came to him another letter from the
Cornish Pitt, a letter which showed him
that gratitude was not as dead in the world
as he supposed it. for it was purely out OF
gratitude that the lad whom he had de-
livered from thraldom wrote to inform him
Of certain matters that concerned him. This
letter reopened that old wound it did more;
it dealt him a fresh one. He learned from
it that the writer had been constrained by
Sir John Eilligrew to give such evidence of
Sir divers conversion to Islam as had en-
abled the courts to pronounce Sir oliver as
one to be presumed dead at law, granting
the succession to his half-brother, Master
Lionel Tressilian. Pitt professed himself
deeply mortified at having been forced un-
Willingly to make Sir Oliver so evil re-
turn for the benefits received from him, and
added that sooner would he have suffered
them to hang him than have spoken could
he have fOreseen the consequences Of his
testimony.
So far Sir Oliver read unmOyed by any
feeling other than cold contempt. But there
tell him that Mistress Rosamund was newly
returned from two years sojOurn in
France to become betrothed to his half
brother, Lionel, and that they were to be
wed in June. He further informed
that the marriage had been contrived by
Sir John KilEgrew in his desire to see
Rosamund settled and under the protection
of a husband, since he himself was propos-
ing to take the seas and was fitting out a
fine ship for a voyage to the Indies The
writer added that the marriage was widely
approved and was deemed to be an excellent ,
measure for both houses, since it would
weld into one the two contiguous estates
of PpnarrOW and GOdOlDhin Court