Evening star., 1924-11-15
CAPTAIN BLOOD
Bu RAFAEL SABATINI
The Greatest Love Story Ever Told
Continued from Yesterdays Starr

Continued from Yesterdays starr
That" she said in small voice,
lis the unforgivable thing. 1t has
destroyed him-deservedly"
Destroyed him." His lordship
laughed a little. BE none so sure
Of that. He has grown rich. I hear.
He has translated, so 1t is said, his
Spanish spoils into French gold,
which is being treasured up for him
In France. His future father-in- law.
NJ. d'Oseron, has seen to that
His future father-in-iaw?" said
she, and stared at him, round-eyed.
with parted lips. Then added: M
d'Ogeron? The Governor OF Tortuga?"
The same. You see, the fellow 8
well protected. It's a piece of news
l gathered in st. Nicholas. ! am not
sure that 1 welcome 1t, for / am not
sure that It makes any easier a task
upon which my kinsman. Lord Sun
derlsnd. has sent me hither. But
there 1t is. You didn't know,
She shook her head without re-
plying. She had averted her face,
and her eyes were staring down at
the gently heavins water. After a
moment she spoke. her voice steady
and perfectly controlled.
But surely. IL this were true.
there would have been an end to
his piracy BY now. II he IL he
loved woman and was betroth ed
and was also rich as you say, surely
he would have abandoned this des-
perate life, and"
why. 80 I thought" his Iordship
interrupted, until had the expla-
nation. D'Ogeron is avaricious for
himself. and for his child. And as for
the girl, I'm told she's wild
Blood. Almost I marvel that he
doesn't marry her and take her a.
rowing with him. 1t would be no
new experience for her. And mar
vel, too, at Biood's patience. He
killed a man to win her"
He killed a man for her, do you
say?" There was horror now in her
voice
'Yes--a French buccaneer named
Levasseur. He was the girls lover
and Blood's associate on venture
Blood coveted the girl, and killed
Levasseur to win her. Pah It's an
by different codes out in these parts
She had turned to face him. She
was pale to the lips. and her hazel
eyes were blazing, as she cut into
his apologies for Blood.
They must. indeed, II his other
associates allowed him to live after
that"
"oh. the thing was done in fair
fight. 1 am told"
who told you?"
"A man who sailed with them, g.
Frenchman named Cahusac whom I
found in a waterside tavern in St.
Nicholas. He was Levasseurs lieu
tenant, and he was present on the
island where the thing happened, and
when 1.evasseur was killed"
And the girl? Did he say the
girl was present, too"
Yes. She was a witness Of the
encounter. Blood carried her off
when he had disposed of his brother
buccaneer.'
And the dead mans followers all
lowed it?" He caught the note of
tncredulity in her voice, but missed
the note Of relief with which Il was
blent. "Oh, I don't believe the tale.
l won't believe IT,
Il honor you for that Miss Bishop.
IT strained my own belief that men
should be so callous, until this Cahu-
sac afforded me the explanation.'
WHAT? She checked her unbe-
lief, an unbelief that had uplifted her
from an inexplicahle dismay. Clutch
his lordship with that question. Later
he was TO remember and perceive In
her present behavior a certain odd
ness which went disregarded nov.
Blood purchased their consent
and his right to carry the girl off.
He paid them in pearls that were
worth more than twenty thousand
pieces of eight" His lordship laughed
again with touch OF contempt "A
handsome price: Faith, they're
scoundrels ADJUST thieving, venal
ours. And faith, it's a pretty tale
this for a lady's ear"
She looked away from him again.
and found that her sight was blurred.
After a moment in a voice less steady
than before she asked him:
Why should this Frenchman have
told you such n tale? Did he hate
this Captain Blooc?"
II did not gather that" said his
lordship slowly. He related IL
Oh Just as commonplace, an in
stance OF huccaneering ways"
commonplace" said she. MY
God. commonplace"
Il dare say that we are all savages
under the cloak that civilization
fashions for u.s." said his lordship.
But this Blood, now, was a man of
considerable parts, from what else
this Cahusac told me. He was a
bachelor of medicine :"
That is true, to my own knowl-
edge"
And he has seen much foreign
service on sea and land. Cahusac said
though this I hardly credit-that
he had fought under de Ruyter."
That also is true" said she. She