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Flesherton Advance, 31 Aug 1927, p. 6

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"m* maaSm r I You Should Try GREEN TEA 074 when yoM want a change. It'» deliciotu*. h "^ Hijfael 6abaimi ©RAFAEL AABATINI MTQCT KEA AECVtCE^BW BEGIN HERE TODAY. ]ed to receive them. Blood obs&rvcd A Span'sh warr.hip successfully at-p'''^' '^' a'^^ost scared cxprcsaion en t.icks thf islimi cf Barbados, upon I ^-'-'^ ^"ce. uhich Pcvcr BlocJ and a number of "1 see that you'vo found it," he ether Enifl:. hnon have l.oooine slaves. ' said quietly. CcConcl ULshap. cwnar of Blcodt, is the I HaKthorp<i8 eyes looked a question. rr.:l lyr-n:cal of i^lave owners. B1:<J and hi.s fcl! %; .slaver., th. iii , But his mind dismif.'ied whatever nratc/y, eaplurc Iho Spanish ship! i'^?"f*'''^ ^^''*- ., ». \ â-  â-  and Bi h..p, who Uards the ve«^„t!l to I P^J" ^'*'"« â-  â-  "^ ,^*f beg,nni«K, Icara th3 idmtJty ©f tho j^Jaixl's ''"*"" '^"'^ ^t/^rped, and looked cunous- tp.-ic.-.-, •-: ?:;;^?'ki tokapoverl-oard.'y »* Blood. an-f swim t> srcre. â-  Nolin-ff the pause and the look. Den D;cvro, tb; Spanish commander, ' E&taban bound;;d forward, his face is oui"'.M-cl He is given the freeJom HviJ. f.rr:rj^ Uiai he' "Havo you broken faith, you curs? ve..scl curing the j„.^, ^.^ come to harm?" he criedâ€" I'ltt, a V'-jnir ship-' ... • c> • i u i_: j v marttr. Don iDc;.-o prove; false andi*"'^ ^^ ^"^ Spaniards behind him inits l"^ â-  ship q'..3 tj another N'essel i "'^"*' chorus to his furioua question- <f tb: !;}i'p ufx:: hi.s will nav';\.le Ih: iillnP! " of .Ic. jmv <%â€"• -'-.rrdDd by I '.^ biTtlwr. L!rx>d recrrtvi to Etratf^gy to .«av-e Iho ship end crew. GO ON WITH THK .STORY. "Nay. nepho.v, nay," Don Mitruel pict;Ktcd v.illi ironic repudiation. "I ca;^ have no knov^lcdj^e of thcfo thini-^. Already ycu have told inc mors then it is f,<cd for me to know." But h-> wir.xed into the twinl^ling tyett of Capfain Blood: then added malti"- that at on-.-e exfir.iT;-j.i3hcd that twinkle. "But f ineo Dic-gx) cannot ix'nic to ine, why, 1 wili go acrcs.s to hJm." Tor ii ir.cn-.cr.t Don Eslcban's faco was a nia k of pallid ftar. Then Blood was spcakirjr in a lowered, con.ficli:;n- tial vtice that admirably blended mavily. i:npi<.v.-ivcncss, and sly m<x'k( vy. "If ycu r'-co""?. Don Mifniel, but that 'iS th-' very thin>: you must not do th:> very t.hin;^ Don Dic.jro doco not wJsIi you to tio. It was hM con- sideration cf him.self and the falf.e roK^tlcn in which you would be placed if j"u hail direct word ficni him of what ha-: happened, lie paused a nioiiK'iit. Your ex.?ellency under- cian-ls." H\r. cxcc'.lcncy frowr.cd thought- fully. "! uncl:^:Ttand ... in part," â- aid he. Captain Blot-d ."wept en to affoixl tvrth-).- rriirmnalion Iwfore the Ad- miral ofyuld say .-motHcr word. "And v.e have in the boat l)elow iw-o chssts contuir.ui;? fifty th-nisand pisots of eight, which we are to de- liver to your excellency." His exi-ellciicy jumped; there was a i»ud,!.;:i stir among the officers. "Tii'-y arc the ransom extracted by IKrti DIojfo from tlva (Jovernor of . ." "Not another v/oi-d, in the name of Ilcjiven!" cried Uic Adnvia-a! in alarm. "My bifllhcr '.vi.^hes mo to assume ehaif?-!! cf thi-- mone\* to carry it to Spain for him? Well, that is family mattt r bctwccii my br'>th"r and niy- Bclf. But 1 must not know . . ." He broke <,fr. "Hum! A gl»<=3 of Malaga bi my caliin, v( you piea.se," he invit- ed them, "whilst the chests are being bauh'il jihoard." Th<?y lau-.;lied, and drank the damn- ation of King .lames â€" quite unoffi- ingp. "We do net break faith," said Hag- thorpe firmly, so firmly that he quiet- ed them. "And in this case there was not the neod. Don Diego died in his bonds before ever you reached the Encarnaeion." Peter Blood said nothing. "Died?" screamed Estaban. "You killed him, you mean. Of what did Hagthorpo looked at the boy. "If I am a judge," he .said. "Don pic^o dM^d of fear." Don Diego struck Hagthorpe acrose the faco at that, and Hagthorpe would havo struck back, but that Blood got between, whilst hi« followers seized the lad. "I was not concerned to insult," said Hagthorpe, nursing hi.s cheek. "It is what happened. Come and , Icok." j "I have seen," said Blood. "He died , before I left the Cinco Llaga.s. He 'was han^fin;; dead in his bond« when 1 1 spoke to him before leaving." Blood's council decided that, going east of Hii'spaniola, and then .sailing ulonj^ its northern coast, they should "MV NAME," PETER BIvOOD." HE .SAID, "IS make for Tortuga, that haven of the cially, but the more fervently on that [ buccant^rs, in which lawless port account. Tl-.'.?;i Don E.^Leban, uneasy they had at least no fear of recapture Ml the scare of his father, rose and to apprehend. announced that they must be return- It was now a question whether they int;. should convey the .Spaniards thither As iliiy itcppcd into the wai.st of , with them, or tum them off in a boat the Cinco l.laga.s, Haglhon>e advanc- to make the best of their way to the ., coast of Hiispaniola, which was vut ten mile« off. This wa.f the oour.se urged by Blood himself. "There's nothing el.se to be done," ho insisted. "In Tortuga they would lx> flayed alive." "Which is less than the swim* do- j serve," growled Wolverstono. "Oh, faugh I I'vo no stomach for cold-blooded killing," said B^ood. "At ; da>-break pack the Spaniards into a boat with a keg of water and a sack of d'umplings and let them go to the dovi.|." WL d'Ogeron, the goveiror of the island, who levied aa hja harbor dues a rcrcentage of on«-tenth of all spoils brought into th« bay. Moreovtir, to a mfln, those who had escaped with Pe^er Blood from the Barbadv,>3 plantatiiona, and who knew .r.ot whither t-> turn, wei^e all resolved upon oining the great Brtthorhood cf tho Ooa.st, as thooa rovc^rs c alio J themsolvce. And they united their with other voices that wvce persuad- in.^ Blcs;'J, demanding that he should conTnue now ini tho lead'^rship which ho had enjoyed since they had left Barbados, and swearing to follow him loaylly whitherr-oever he should lead them. Tbo rosolv© being taken, he went actively to work. Ogeron advanced him money for tho proper equipment of his sh'ip tho Cinco Llagas, which ho renamed tho Arabella. To the score of followers he already possessed, h© added threescore more. With tliem he entered into the articles usual among tho Brethren of tho Coast under which each man was to bo paid by a share in the prizes cap- tured. Toward tho end of December, when the hurricane season had blown itself out, ho put to sea and before he re- I turned in the following May f romi a protracted and ad-venturoua cruise, , tho fame of Captain Peter Blood had I run like ripples before the breeze across the face of the Caribbean Sea. One day as Captain Blood sat with Hagthorpe and Wolverstone over a pipo and a bottle of rum in the stifling reek of tar and stale tobacco of a waterside tavern, he was accost- ed by a splendid ruffian in a gold- laced coat of dark-blue satin w;ith a crimson sash, a foot wide, about the waist. ''C'est vous'qu'on appelle Le Sang?" the fellow hailed him. Captain Blood looked up to consider the questioner before replying. The man was tall and built on lines of agile strength, with a swarthy, aqui- line face that was brutally handeome. Captain Blood took the papestem from between his lips. "My name," he said, "ia Peter Blood. The Spaniards know me for Don Pedro Sangre, and a Frenchman may call me L© Sang if he pleases. "Good," said the gaudy adventurer in English. "My name," he informed the three men, two fowhom at least were eyeing him askance, "it is Le- vasscur. You may have heard of me." They had, indeed. He commanded a privateer of twenty guns that had dropped anchor in tho bay a week ago. A roaring, quarrelsome, hard- drinking, hard-gaming scoundrel, his reputations aa a buccaneer stood high among the wild Brethren of the Coast. There was about his gaudy, swagger- ing raffishness somethang that the women found singularly alluring. It was current gossip that even j Mademoiselle d'Ogeron, the Gover- nor's daughter, had been caught in the snare of his wild attractiveness. I This was the man who now thrust himself upon Captain Blood with a proposal of association, offering him not only his sword, but his ship and the men who sailed in her. Because he disliked the man. Cap- tain Blood would not commit him- self at once. But because he liked the proposal he consented to consider it The end of the matter was that within a week articles were drawn up between Levasseur and Blood, and signed by them and â€" as was usual â€" by the chosen repi-esentatives of their followers. All being now settled they made ready for sea, antl on the very eve of sailinfT, I.evasseur narrowly escaped being shot in a 'romantic attempt to scale the wall of the Governor's gar- den, with the olo'ect of taking pas- sionate leave of the infatuated Made- m<^i8ellc d'Ogeron. That night he slept aboard his ship, which with characteristic flamboyance he had named La Foudrea, and there on ths following day ho received a visit from Captain Blood, whom he greeted half-mockingly as his admiral. Tho Irishman came to settle certain final details of which all that need concern us is an understanding that, in tho event of tho two vessiel.^ be- coming separated by accident or de- .Mgn, they should rejoin each other as soon as might be at Tortuga. Thereafter Ijevnsseur entertained hi.s admiral to dinner, and jointly they drank success to the expedition. (To be continued.) CORNS Qaickralifffroro painful corni. Under toe* and preaaare of ti^ffat aboea. DrSchatTs ,^ XMno-pads "l^^u::^ ISSUE No. 95â€" '27 CHAPTER XIII. TORTUGA. It was no part of the desi^ of Blood to Join handa with thto buccan- eers who, under ^ semi-ofAcial French protection, made of Tortuga a lair whence they could sally out to drive their mercdlcss piratical trade chiefly at the expense of Spain. U was Blood's ori^rutl intention to make his way to France or Holland. But in tho lonj; weeks of waiting for a ship to convey him to one or other of these countries, his resources dwindled and fi^nally vanished. Tomptation.s proceeded not only from aivcnlurcus buccaneering ac- quaintances in the tavctn» of that evil haven of Toi-tuja, but even from Man of the Hour. "Since ho became so popular he says he has to live by the clook." "Naturally â€" he's tho man of I'lo hour." • Files are among the latest things used for trimming women's hats. And wo thought there were no flies on Eve! Several other American aviators are planning to fly to France. These heroic men are undeterred by the (act that Captain Lindbergh was kissed by several politicians on hla arrival. The Rattlo of Jutland was fought In 1916. It la not known whan It will be flnlshed. IMinard's Liniment for tore feet Sailing for Peru When I told my friends I was go- ing to Peru t)!;ey becaraa flippant. Tlio most staid and serious Immediately quoted Limericks about young men of Peru who had nothing to do and sent snakes to the Zoo. Others made; puns about Peruvian bark and severaU declined altogether to believe that , Peru existed anywhere but In a poet's i fancy. 1 uni still unable to understand I why Peru, of all the countries In the world, should be treated aa a geo-| graphical Joke, but I know to my cost that It is. Two or t3iree people treated me seriously. One Fleet Street man said all ho knew about Peru was that It was where Ink carao from. I asked him If he were not thinking of "Incas" rather than "ink." He said it might be so. He knew he bad heafd of Peru in connection with something allied to Ink. Another Journalist said I did woll to go to Peru. I should be a missionary of Empire. "How so In Peru?" I asked. "Why, Isn't Peru part of the British Empire?" he demanded. He was nonplussed to learn that Peru had somehow or other escaped absorptiou. "If it doesn't belong to us then," he said, "I suppose it belongs to the United States." My literary agent bad heard of Peruvian condors, cannibals and crocodiles. SIbe desired me to leave In London a full power of attorney. "Your return being so doubtful," as she explained. The first shipping agent I consulted confeesed himself quite in the dark as to how one travelled to Peru. "We have never booked a passage there," he said. He declared that I should In any case have to change ship at Panama; but after some seardhdng dis- covered an Italian line which sailed from Genoa direct to Callao. Callao, I had explained to the agent, was the port of Lima, the capita) of Peru. . . . The Genoese ship I selected was to call at Barcelona and take her last sight of EXirope at Gibraltar. Thence sho would skirt the coast of Africa to Teneriffe and from there run down tlhte trades to Trinidad. Who could resist the idea of first setting foot in America at Trinidad, so named by Columbus himself when he sighted its three hills on his third voyage? So it came about that I left Eng- land for Peru by way of Newhaven. A thick mist sihirouded the Seven Sis- ters as we left the harbor and spared us a pang, for no tne would willingly leave the chalt cliffs of Sussex astern when they arc shining, under an April sun. Farther out the sun was Indeed shining, but the coast of England was already below the horizon. Dieppe was siiowing up ahead when we began to overhaul a sailing boat whose bellying topsail instantly made me think of the Overland Passage into London lllver. "Why, she is like a Thames barge," I sa'id to a sailor. "That Is what she is," he replied, "an old Thames spreety bound for Diepee." A westerly breeze was carrying her forward at a good speed. Her red sails shone like copper and Jier great sprit, newly scraped and varnished, sparkle<l in the sun. 1 watched her as we overhauled and passed her, for of all the rigs in the world there is none which makes tho same appeal to the Londoner as ttJe Thames sprit-sail barge. With regret I saw her top-sail dim and fade away in our wake for I knew that with her had vanished tho last sight of home. The next morning I was crossing the prench Alps Into ItaJy and some tliiio after dark reached Genoa. Out- sldo tflie railway station stands the sitatuo of ("olurabus and from a little wj^y down the street can be seen the funnels of the sliips in harbor. We sailed for Peru at three o'elocjc the next afternoon. No mist veiled the exfi'ifsito city of Genoa from tho eyes cf tho Italian exiles on board. Some were so much affected that they wont down to their cabins. "I am going out for five years," said ono youiig engineer afterwards. "It I li-a.fl as much as looked at Genoa as we went out of tho harbor I should have Jumped overboard." The ladles heartily agTee<l with him, ' and a day jimong the splendid shops cf Barcelona failed to revive their j spirits. The lordly peaks of the Sierra | Nevada, whlcRi wo passed at sunrise, ] were not worth a glance, and even ' Olbraltar failed to Interest. . . . Two days later the Peak of Tene- riffe rose on the starboard bow. Tho sun was setting as we approache<l the Island and Sugar Loaf Rock off the north coast was silhouetted against a flaming sky. In a few. minutes the color faded and we drew under tall blue-grey cliffs already ahadowy In the dusk. The Ilgibts of Santa Crun gleamed ahead, but while still a good way from the town we dropped anchor. ... We salleU fro.n Sni.ta Cms, at seven o'clock, on a bright spring morning. In the town we could see the tope of palms and other trees but the south coast of the island was composed of bare, red, volcanic recks. We saw the opening into the crater on f. e Peak, and about the middle of the morning passed Red Point. Here were Many flying fish, come about a fool in length and others smaller. They darted up from under the bowa and skimmed away in flashes of silver over the waves, finally dropping with a sud- den plop into the water. Seagulls fol- lowed us for some distance and then left us and aboaJs of porpoises played alongside. In the channel between *Tenerlfle and Gotnera I»laod we met a north- westerly wind and swell, but soon we ran under the lee of Gomera into smooth water. . . . Beyond Gomera Is Hierro, or Iron Island, the westernmost of the Cana- ries and the test point of land to be seen in the Old World. . . . No one leaving Europe can look on the cliffs of Hierro with obsolute in- difference. On its inhospitable hills are patches of ligjht green verdure, and here and there a few white houses. Ahead of the ship is the open Atlantic, and when Hierro disappears astern we shall see no speck of green and no human habitation until, all being well, we arrive at Trinidad. â€" Anthony Dell, in "Llama Land." All Royal Guests Are Well Guarded Systematic Watch Kept on Possibly Dangerous Organizations When King Fuad loft London re- cently one group of men breathed moro freely. They are the secret ser- vice agents, whose business it is to secure his safety, writes F. A. Mac- kenzie in the London Daily News. Everyone sees the open protection, the police car that drives in front of the royal guest, the attendant high police ofllcials and the like. But be- hind this is an organization that goes much deeper. Tha real guard is the systematic watch that is kept on every possibly dangerous organization in this coun- try. This is not a new thing. Thirty years ago, when the Internationale had its club and secret groups cen- tred behind Tottenham Court-road, some of the most violent members of these groups received police pay, not always from Britain. To-day the system is more far- reaching. Our secret service has its agents or Informers in practically every violently revolutionary group in this country. People likely to make trouble are known. Just as each class of thief is known to the C.I.D. Their records are docketed, and their faces are familiar to the men behind the scenes. Before any state visit to this coun- try our secret service gets in touch with the secret service of the other country and learns what dangerous elements, it any, might get hero, who the men are behnd them, where they are and what their appearance is. Suspicious nationals find the ports closed to them. . On the day of procession through London, any suspected man who comes anywhere near the Royal visit- or is kept under close watch. If he starts to make trouble he is qutetly, swiftly and effectively put on one side, and the men who do it are not particularly careful about the meth- od employed. Quite recently on the occasion of a big royal ceremony ,a violent Com- munist who had been waiting quietly among the spectators started to shout as the royal carriage drew near. "This Is what we want," he cried, pultiuB his hand Into his Inner breast pocket to pull out a red flag. Before he had the 'flag half out, three men standing near turned on him. "You'll get what you want," said ono, and three firsts simultan- eously struck his jaw. The man took no more interest in tho proceedings. Now, of course, these three men may have been loyal <itlzen:;, suddenly moved by the same Impulse, hut It was a curous coincidence that they happened to be Just where they were.. 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