The Ely miner., 1926-08-20

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part Of this treasure is to supplement
the eight hundred thousand pounds
| intended for your fathers friends
and they, my lass, are King James
friends. You are a good Jacobite. /
trust, and would not see our Cause
deprived of single doubloon that
might buy muskets In Lyons or sword
blades in Breda?"
| "Ah, tits little enough / feel for
King James or any Of them that will
have sent the padre to his doom!"
she cried. "And what Is Jacobite
or Hanoverian, or what worth King
| George or King James, that you must
| be numbering and Staying and he that
was a good man and kind-when he
wasn't in liquor-should lie In heath
en- groundT
She leaped up, quivering with pas
sion lashed af1ame.
"Jacobitel The toe of my boot to
the word and them that use 1t! Lit
tie enough hath 1t meant to me but
poverty and exile and the death of
her that bore me and now-and now
the padre-and now"
She fled from the cabin In tears,
and her stcteroom door slammed aft
er her.
Poor LASS Poor lassl" sighed my
| great uncle "It hath been trying
day for her. We must be lenient."
"You should be down on your knees,
beseeching her forgiveness, you who
wantonly dragged her into this dan
ger!" I snarled at him.
'Wantoniy,' Robert" he objected
mildly. "Certes, you should know bet
ter by now. My reasons were of the
best, my motives of the highest"
He rang the silver bell In front OF
him, and when Gum appeared said
"Send Coupeau to me-"
Then he turned to me again
"You, Of all persons, Robert, have
least cause to censure me for Mis-
tress O'Donnells presence"
81 have most!" / retorted hotly. II
am so unfortunate as to be related to
!, you, and therefore must be in some
measure sharer of the obloquy at
tached to your deeds"
He wagged his head sadly.
"Words! What rash, unreasonlng
: words will not youth sponsor In Its
, blind prejudices! Peter, I appeal to
, YOU: Doth not my grandnephew lie
in my debt for my conduct In arrang-
: ing for him the opportunity to squire
our little Irish maid?"
[ Peter drained a glass of brandy.
"You better not say any more, Muir
f raw" he grunted. "Neen! Maybe
e you say too much"
81 had supposed myself the model
0 of diplomacy" protested my great
uncle
Peters little eyes twihkled behind
t their protective rolls Of fat.
"Ja, you been pretty smart, Murray.
+ But der smart feller, he has to look
!. oudt or he gets too smart. ia! Andt
d when he gets too smart he is in
+ trouble"
e Coupeau's hideous mask Of face
d showed in the companionway entrance
It "oui, m'sieuY' he growled.
y "An, Coupeau," answered Murray
}. "a strange sail approaches the island
/, perhaps Flint, perhaps another. To
d us 1t matters not. We must entrenen
: ourselves ashore. The treasure anc
e sufficient stores for two weeks SO
l. journ will be shifted to the stockadee
e fort on the hill north Of Captain kidd's
e anchorage. The men must work all
5 night again II necessary. Do you un
j. derstandf
/ "Oui, m'sieu." replied the gunner
d And Coupeau dumped off down tns
companionway. A moment later hi'
d hoarse voice split the quiet OF INT
shin as he commenced to bark orders
le "a stout fellow, Coupeau," com
1t mented my great-uncle. II have never
D. regretted the salvaging of him. Bu
rt perhaps 1t would be as well IL w
ct went on deck and lent him mora
support"
AS a mater of fact, there was les
le disposition than we anticipated on tn
part of the crew to object to thi
le new labor. And the reason was no
n. far to seek The transfer OF tn
er treasure to the fort by the Anchorag
'e furnished them an opportunity to es
~ tabish an intimacy of contact Wit
it they had not known previously, al
ls intimacy alluring. stimulating, dis
composing. True, they already ha
er transferred the entire cargo Of tn
le Santissima Trinidad once, had re
: moved the half Of it from the Roya
8 James to the Dead Mans Chest, an
only two days since had broken on
the remainder for division with tn
Walrus.
Peter and l, with Moira and Be
- Gum and Scipio, followed the NAL
column Of the evacuation about mic
20 night. Coupeau had led the firs
~ contingent, some of whom we met RI
~ turning to the ship, to fetch a secon
load of stores. My great-uncle wa
a TO come after us with these and tn
y remainder Of the crew, leaving bt
hind on the Royal James only som
twenty-odd men who had not yet n
covered sufficiently from wounds n
ma ceived in the two actions with tn
al Santissima Trinidad and the Walru
va TO permit of their removal, and VIII
10 were made as comfortable as possibl
on the gundeck.
| noted uneasily that the grouI
who passed us were talking eagerl
- amongst themselves, with no appea
- ance of the surliness to be expecte
"a normally from any sailors put to e.
=. ira work, although they fell silent {
~ soon as they saw who we were.
- sThey have never been drinking
muttered to Peter.
"Neen," he answered. "But ths
es' get drunk on der treasure"
'se "Do but see how 1t Is fell cur
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