The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-16
CHAPTER XIV-Continued.

1 In answer, the half-caste pointed out beyond the frothing surf that marked the position of the reef con stituting one of thestronghold's main defenses. Away beyond it, mile or so 1 distant, sail was standing out to sea.
 There she go," he said. The Frenchman gazed and stared The half-cast shrank terrified before his fury. Then up anchor, and let us after the Dutchman," he cried.
 Steady. captain. Whats that?'' There was a restraining hand upon his shoulder, and the broad face of his lieutenant, Cahusac, a burly, cal lous Breton scoundrel, was stolidly confronting him. "A Dutch brig p said he. Impossible! We should never be allowed" And who the devil will deny us?'' LevaSseur was between amazement and fury
 For one thing. there's your own crew will be none too willing. For another, there's Captain Blood"
 II care nothing for Captain Blood"
 But it is necessary that you should. He has the power, the weight of metal anu Ot HClly anu, II hUOW HIEu ll, he'll sink us before he'll suffer inter- ference with the Duh. He has his own views of privateering, this Captain Blood, as l warned you"
 Cursing in his soul, and even be- fore the anchor was weighed, the as- sociation into which he had entered, he was already studying ways of evasion. What Cahusac implied was true; Blood would never suffer violence to be done in his presence to a Dutchman. But it might be done in his absence; and, being done, Blood must perforce con done it, since it would then be too late to protest.
 Within the hour the Arabella and La Foudre were beating out to sea together Without understanding the change of plan involved, Captain Blood, nevertheless, accepted it, and weighed anchor before the appointed time upon percelvlng his associate to do so
 All day the Dutch brig was in sight. though by evening she had dwindled to the merest speck on the northern ho- rlzon. The course prescribed for Blood and Levasseur lay eastward along the northern shores of Hispaniola. To that course the Arabella continued to hold steadily throughout the night. When day broke again, she was alone. La Foudre under cover of the darkness had struck away to the northeast with every rag of canvas on her yards.
 Cahusac had .attemptea yet again to protest against this.
 The devil take you!" Levasseur had answered him. "A ships a ship. be she Dutch or Spanish, and ships are our present need. That will suffice for the men,"
 Dawn founl La Foudre close on the Dutchman's heels, not mile astern. and the sight of her very evidently flus- tered the Jongvrouw. They sent a warning shot across her bow. The Jongxrouw veered, showed them her rudder, and opened fire with her stern chasers. The small shot went whistling through La Foundre's shrouds with some slight damage to her canvas.
 Five minutes after that they were board and board, the Jongvrouw held tight in the clutches of La Foudre's grapnels, and the buccaneers pouring noisily into her waist.
 The Dutchan's master, purple in the face, stood forward to beard the pirate. followed closely by an elegant, pale faced young gentleman in whom Levas- seur recognized his brother-in-law elect
 Captain Levasseur, this is an out rage for which you shall be made to from Tuscaloosa, where they spent the weekend.