Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-10-25
THE SEA HAWK
published by Arrangement With First National Picture
Inc Copyrighted by Houghton- Miffn Company.)
CHAPTER VI (Continucd)
BY RAFAEL SABATINI


N T ONEY enough to buy Jasper Leigh
! M was ready to LiOnels hand but it
Sir divers mOney--the money
that placed at Lones disposal by his
half-brother's open-handed bounty. And this
money he was to employ for divers utter
ruin He cursed himself for filthy, con-
temptible hound; he cursed the foul fiend
! that whispered such suggestions into his
mind; he knew himself, despised himself and
revled himself until he came to swear to
/ be strong and to go through with whatever
might await him sooner than be guilty of
such baseness; the next moment that same
resolve would set him shudderng again as
| he viewed the inevitable consequences that
must attend it.
Suddenly the captain set him question,
very softly, that fired the train and blew all
his lingering self-resistance into shreds
you'll ha borne my warning to Sir Oil
ver?' he asked, lowering his voice so as not
to be overheard by the vintner who was stir
ring beyond the thin wooden PARTITION
Master Lionel nodded nervousy fingerine @,
the jewel in his ear, his eyes shifting from
their consideration of the seaman's coarse
weather-tanned and hairy count%nance
Il did" he said. "But Sir Oliver is head
strong He will not stir"
Twill he mott" The captain stroked his
bushy red beard and cursed profusely and
horribly after the fashion of the sea "'Od's
wounds. He's very like to swing if he bides
him here
AYE" said Lionel eff he bides."
He felt his mouth turn dry as he spoke:
his heart thudded, but its thuds were soft
ened by slight nsensibility which the
liquor had produced in him.
He uttered the words in so curious tone
that the sailors dark eyes peered at him
from under his heavy sandy eyebrows There
was alert inquiry in that glance. Master
Lionel got up suddenly.
Let us take a turn outside, captain"
said he.
The captains eyes narrowed He scented
business There was something plaguly odd
about this young gentleman's manner. He
tossed off the remains of his sack slapped
down the pot and rose.
"Your servant Master Tressilian," said
Outside our gentleman untethered his
horse from the iron ring to which he had
attached the Bride; leading his horse he
turned seward and strobe down the road
that wound along the estuary toward
Smthick.
A sharp breeze from the north was whip
ping the water into white peaks Of foam;
the sky was Of a hard brightness and the
sun shone brilliantly. The tide was running
out, and the rock in the very neck of the
haven was thrusting its black crest above
the water. A cables length this side of it
rode the black hull and naked spars of the
SWailow-Captain Leigh's ship
Lionel stepped along in SILENCE very
gloomy and pensive, hestating even now
And the crafty mariner reading this hesita-
ton and anxious to conquer it for the sake
of such profit as he conceived might lie in
the proposal which he scented, paved the
way for him at last
Il think that ye'u have some matter to
propose to me. said he slyly. "Out with it
sir, for there never was man more ready
to serve you"
THE fact is" said Lionel watching the
others face with a sidelong glance, Il am
in a difficult position, Master Leigh"
I've been in a many laughed the cap
tain, but never yet in one through which
J. could not win. Strip forth your own and
haply l can do as much for you as 1 am
wont to do for myself"
why, it is this wise" said the other.
my brother will assuredly hang as you have
said if he bides him here. He is lost if they
bring him to trial. And in that case faith
| am lost, too. 1t dishonors a mans family
to have a member of it hanged. 'Tis a hor-
rible thing TO have happen.'
Indeed, indeed" the sailor agreed en-
couragingly
Il would abstract him from this" pursued
Lionel and at the same time cursed the foul
find that prompted him such specious words
to cloak his villainy. 81 would abstract him
from it, and yet tbs against my conscience
that he should so unpublished. for 1 swear
to YOU, Master Leigh, that I abhor the deed
"a cOWardly, murderous deed"
grim ejaculation should check Lis gentle
man he made haste to add
'"To be sure. To be sure!"
Master Lionel stopped and faced tho other
squarely, his shoulders to his horse.
''Ill be quite plain and open with you,
Master Leigh. Peter Godophin was my
friend. Sir Oliver is no more than my half
brother. [ would give a deal to the man
who would abstract Sir Oliver secretly from
the doom that hangs over him, and yet do
the thing in such a way that Sir Oliver
should not thereby escape the punishment
he deserves"
The captain looked grim. He laid a fin
ger upon Master LioneI's velvet doublet in
line with that false heart of his.
Il am your man." said he. But the risk
is great Yet We say that ye'd give a
deal
yourself shall name the price" said
Lionel quickly. his eyes burning fevershly
his cheeks white.
the captain. 81 know to a nicely what you
require. How say you nOw--if I was to
carry him overseas TO the plantations where
they lack toilers of just such thews as his?"
He lowered his voice and spoke with some
slight hesitation, fearing that he proposed,
perhaps more than his prospective employer
might desire.
He might return" was the answer that
dispelled all doubts on that score
All" said the skipper. What o. the
Barbary rovers, then? They lack slaves and
are ever ready to trade, though they be
niggardly payers. l never heard of none
that returned once they had him safe
aboard their galleys. l ha done some
him to do this that the color swept into her
face and her heart beat fast.
Il m going run over to the club for