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She was in sore trouble through her love for me. for Dou .Miguel had for bidden her to have anything more to do with me and had locked her in her room to make sure that his commands were obeyed. And there was even worse news than this in the letter. Or ders. she told me. had 1 een received from the court to seize all the English shipping in the hay. to eontiscate the car-i.i > and to imprison the crews. As eu;ilive in the town dungeon I should he farther from her than ever; but, still a free man, 1 might some day re turn and carry her off. and by the love 1 liore her she entreated me to be gone at once. Here was a pretty piece of news! We quest "Je•:,. i • lore yo.I reached her." "1 meau . > try all the same." "It'll be foolhardy, I tell you. Much better ta! •• the advice she irive« you, escape now and come hack again to carry her off." "Alec. I can't go away and leave her in that . • i's power. 1 must go ashore." Alec shruggi-d his shoulders. "Well, if you must, you must. I'll go with you. of course, and try to see you safe through, but 1 quite expect we shall both be locked up for our pains. We will spread the warning among the other English ships on our way." We went on deck at once and began to lovrer the boat. We were lying a good two miles farther out than the other ships, so we had a stiff pull be fore us. Night was just beginning to fall, and there was some hope that the darkness might cover our movements and enable us to rescue Inez and then slip out of the harbor heff re the Spaniards had made up their minds to strike. It was a desperate chance, though. The boat was already on the bul warks when Alec shouted. "Hold on, all!" "Too late," lie said. "There's a fleet of boats putting out from the shore now. each one crammed full of sol diers. We must leave the other ships to shift for themselves. I'm afraid, and make a bid for our own freedom. That big fellow there, coming up before the wind, seems to have been told off to look after us." We were well armed, of course, as the most peaceful ship has to be when there are so many sea thieves unhang ed, and though the Spanish galleon was five times our size we would have thought nothing of tackling her. five Spaniards to one Englishman being by no means crushing odds, but there were three other ships outside of us evidently waiting to pick up stragglers, so we were to all appearances hopeless ly shut in. The men looked at one another in consternation. Alec, however, had made his plan. "Put back the powder," he cried, "and buckle on your side arms. Not a shot must be fired, mind, or we shall have the whole nest of wasps buzzing round our ears. Every man of you take a pike or ax and hide under the bul warks. We must make that fellow think he has caught us napping." Our preparations were quickly and quietly made, and long before the big Spaniard was near enough to see what we were doing every tuan of us was under cover, and the decks looked quite deserted. But when he sheered along side and hove his grapnels into our rig ging Alec gave the word, and with a ringing cheer 50 lusty English lads rushed from their hiding places and were hacking and prodding away among ills crew before the unsuspect ing Spaniard knew that anything had happened. They were taken complete ly by surprise, but after the first min ute or so they recovered and fought like wildcats. They were about three to our one, so counting one English man to five of them the odds in our fa vor were overwhelming. The Span iards fought desperately enough until about half of them had been killed, then the rest threw down their arms, called for "quarter" and scrambled down the ladders In utter rout. We clapped the hatches on them, and the big galleon of Spain was ours. Leaving me with mca to take care of our prize (whose sails were all set), Alec tumbled back with the others to our own ship and set about making sail as quickly as lie could. "An ax here and cut the cable!" X heard him call. "Xo time to weigh! *Put bach I lie powder," he cried. "Not a shot must be fired." Let go those spritsall brails! Lay out along the bolt sprit and cast the gas kets off! Flatten iu the starboard Kheet and cant her head round! Hand somely, now! Topsails next! Work with a will, lads! Time's precious!" I lost the next words through the distance, and not wishing to slip too far ahead I bagpiped my mizzen, brail ed'my main course and so allowed Alec to creep up to me again. He made sail with marvelous qulck- ness and soon was within speaking distance. "Are your guns all loaded. Jack?" "Aye, and double shotted and the lint stocks lighted and lying in the tubs beside them." "Then make straight for tfcat big chap on your larboard bow as If you meant to speak him. Fool him if you can. Say I'm your prize. If he sus pects you, give him a broadside for his sharpness. Only keep the wind of him, and you can do what you like. I'll slip across his bow and pepper that side of him. And if that isn't enough do what your mother wit suggests, but mind it must be quickly done what ever it is or we'll have the other two beating up to help him." Now. had 1 acted on my opinion I Ihould have steered straight for the open sea. dead before the fair wind, in which case I should inevitably have aroused the suspicions of all three ships and so have allowed them to con centrate on our course and cut us off. Alec's plan was obviously the best, for whin they saw I was sirring plump for the southernmost one the others held tjun fly to their places in tile mouth of the bay. When 1 got within a cable's length, an otiii i failed me. 1 waited as long as 1 il.i.vti and then answered, but ap parently there was something wrong with my Spanish, to' e replied ang.ily that i w. drm. k ;.:ul an insolent scoum::vl tor ila.i.. > to address him. At tli. - juncture ■t. • ( my men. a soft hearti I fellow. \. i... knew enough of the to;._rue to make out that the don was Uv at i.. HI v. th his gun and sent a tliie«- ounce ball straight Into his breastplate. That i i.i < '.uully put au end to our di plomacy. so I gave the order to fire as each g...: I ».'<• I i..1:1 warned tile gun ners to a...> lugli. atld at tiie third shot the ; i.i.u.ard's tnaiiitopn,..st broke off shi.r! ..he a carrot ilis maiuyard. too. came dou a by the run. bringing the sail will: it. but as he was still under command 1 put up past hiin. reloading the gt.;> meanwhile and then hauling my wind once more gave him a second dose over either quarter. Meanwhile Alec and his men had been working like furies and tossing their guns about like child's toys, rain ing such a shower of broken shot into his hull from their lesser elevation that his lower deck must have been almost untenable The Spaniard had been unprepared for our attack and took some time to boat lis men to quarters, but they serv -d their guns well and fast when they did get to them, and the shot soon came flying about our ears like hail stones. Ilis running rigging, however, was pi'etty well cut to pieces, and as we had half a dozen good bowmen sta tioned ready who sent a clothyard shaft through the ribs of every man who srt a foot on his ratlines he lay pretty helplessly head to wind, with his remaining sails In the most thorough confusion. Had we been able to play the gat*ie out at long bowls we could either have sunk him or reduced the number of bis crew sufficiently to al low us to carry him by boarding, but the other two Spanish ships were beat ing up to us. and on her next tack the nearest would be within gunshot. Alec therefore gave the word to run away west by south, before the wind, through the southern entrance of the bay. The order did not come a minute too soon, though the majority of us were so worked up by the excitement of the fight that we would never have uoticed that it was high time for us to quit. We held ou this course for about two hours, and then, as the sky had fortu nately clouded over, we hauled our wind and stood due south to give our pursuers a chance of passing us in the darkness. They would never expect us to turn south, so when they missed us at daylight they would naturally look for us to the northward if they contin ued the chase. That was our theory. What they actually did I cannot say, for we never saw them again. We held on this strategic course for a time, and on the second morning rose a brig coming toward us, and as every one at sea Is presumed a rogue until he is proved an honest man we cleared the decks for action and beat to quarters. As the stranger neared tis one of Alec's men recognized her as the brig Catch all, belonging to Captain Fleming, the well known freebooter. So as he was not likely to let such a vessel as our galleon pass without nn overhaul we quite expected another fight. How ever, he drew within long hail and, bringing his ship to, signed that he wished to speak us. "What ship's that?" "The brig Severn of Bristol, Alex ander Ireland, master. What ship's that?" "Brig Catchall, Captain Fleming What's the galleon?" "The Lope de Vega of Vigo, a prize to the Severn." "llow the thunder did you get hold of her?" "Fought for her." "Then is there war with Spain?" "I think so." "You think so?" Then followed some talk with his own people which we could not hear. "Will you He to and let tne bring my boat alongside? I'm honest as the whole bench of bishops today." "Aye, aye!" Alec called on me to come on board the Severn, and presently a weather beaten, thickset man of middle age was rowed across to us. We went be low and pledged one another in a Jack of ale (as the Severn's hold was still tilled with wheat Instead of the cargo of Spanish wine we had expected to bring back), and then Captain Fleming was told of the seizure and fight in Vigo bay. He listened attentively, nodding his grizzled head at every sen tence, but making no remark until he had heard the whole story. "It was a lucky, plucky escape, cap tain," lie said, looking approvingly at Alec, "and one that does credit to the stuffing of your headpiece. But make no error about its being an affair of unauthorized individuals. It Is the be ginning of war. I tell you, and a bloody war it will be. I've seen It coming for this year or more. Ships are being gathered into all the ports, and great nobles are chartering vessels for other purposes than honest trade or a little free cruising. King Philip of Spain will make a big move before long. Mark my words, sir." "England will bo ready for him when he does," replied Alec proudly. "Aye, lad, I warrant she will, but it's time she was stirring, or the Span iards—curse the whole nation of them —will be cruising about the English channel and up to London towu before any of us are many months older. Now, Captain Ireland," he continued, standing up and beating his list on the table in time with his sentences, "I'm a freebooter and an outlaw; but, though there's many an Englishman would be glad to hear that I was dead, I love tay country with the best of them. So when you get back to port gpread the news of this threatened in vasion and say that a warning shall be brought when Philip's armada sets sail and that 1 am the man who will bring It. And may God keep me and mine on sentry go about the seas till the crack of doom if 1 fail in this my watch over England's safety!" And he brought his fist down upon the table with a crack that made our ale pots dance. "Pardon me, captain." said I. "We honor you for those words, but I'd like to remind you of one thing Franky Drake will hntiK you If he gets his fin gers on your shoulder. 1 have heard him say so." "Master Topp," he replied, looking at me steadily, "if 1 can save England by my news I don't mind if I swing for the bringing of it. and you can say so from me to any one that asks." We gave Captain Fleming a ringing cheer as he stepped Into the boat. A watch had been stationed to guard the honor of England, and It was a com mon pirate who went on sentry go. But pirate though he was be was a patriot too. May England never have any lack of such sturdy sons as Cap tain Fleming, freebooter! CHAPTER VII. As the bearers of news of the seizure of the English shipping in Vigo bay we were persons of some consideration in Bristol. The good folk of the town were all eager to hear from our lips a true account of the outbreak with Spain, and the result to us was that except for our beds and a light morn ing meal of cold beef and ale we were very little In debt to our host of the Blue Mermaiden. the tavern in which, as It was a place frequented by seafar ing men. we had made our headquar ters. The adventure had left us well la pocket, too. for though the Severn's cargo had of course not been sold It had been brought back unspoiled, and our Spanish galleon, a new ship and well stored, turned out a most valuable prize. So our lads promised them selves a good time ou shore, and. judg ing by the number of them that we met In the streets with broken heads and blackened eyes, they kept faithfully to that promise. Trade with Spain was naturally out of the question for the time being, and any attempt on my part to return and carry off Inez was practically useless. To try it would be to condemn myself to the galleys or a Spanish dungeon for life, so I had reluctantly to resign myself to waiting In the hope that bet tc times were in store for us. Alec had some wild notion of fitting out a ship for the purpose of harrying the Spaniards and breaking up their armada before It could leave the coasts; but. as 1 pointed out to him, Drake and Hawkins and Sir Richard Grenvllle and 20 others would play at that if it were at all feasible, and we had better wait for a lead from them. So, as none of these well known cap tains gave any sign of moving, we, too, staid where we were and enjoyed our selves among the hospitable people of Bristol. One night, however, we learned a piece of news which put a sudden period to our Idling. We were return ing arm in arm from a pleasant supper at the house of Peter Waltham, one of the city aldermen, I chattering In my heedless fashion about the charms of our entertainer's youngest daughter, and Alec as usual listening gravely to my nonsense and putting in a word here and there. The yellow moon ogled us through the crannied clouds, and by the time we reached the Blue Mermaiden the rain had begun to fall and the alehouse sign was swinging and croaking dis cordantly In the now rapidly rising wind. There was every promise of a wild night, and we were not sorry when we reached the friendly shelter of the inn. It was long past midnight, an hour at which the house was usual ly as still as the cable tier in a calm; but as we entered we heard voices coming from the kitchen, so we peered in to see who the visitors were. There on the settle lolled the host, with his rosy treble chin on his chest, snoring heavily. Beside him was a tall, spare man, with tangled black hair, and an ugly scar running right athwart his brown forehead, which pave him a truculent appearance that his weak, shiftless mouth failed to corroborate. On the edge of the table sat a short, squat, broad man, older than the other; he wore a seaman's skin cap and a huge brown coat whose wide skirts spread out far behind him on the table. These last two were talking to one another in a language that I did not understand. I made a move as though to go In, but Alec put his hand on my arm and drew me gen tly back. "It's Cornish they're speaking," he whispered, "and we shan't be able to make out a word of It. Let's go to bed and be thankful there's no watch to keep till the sun's well up tomorrow morning." So up the ladder we climbed to our chamber, and the voices of the two men followed r.s dimly through the empty passages. Suddenly, with utter disre gard of the effect that his vocal efforts would Ijave on a sleeping household, one of them began to sing, but our window shutter made such a din, rat tling in the wind, that we could not distinguish much of the song beyond the lilt, which, however, sounded strangely familiar. Alec went and made the shutter se cure, so that the second verse came to ua distinctly: Sail away, Hack away. Plunder! I Hap.] Gather all tlie valuables you can. Come back. Nothing lack, Thunder! [Rap.) Scatter ail the money like a nun. The singer repeated this verse time after time, and the other man Joined in an occasional chorus, while both, so far as we could judge by the sound, were beating a vigorous accompaniment with their fists on the hard oak table. The song was a common enough one among mariners, but there was no mis-, taking the rasping tones of that saw like voice. "It's Willie Trehalion!" cried Alec und rushed to the door. 1 followed, and, scrambling ilowu our ladder again, we made for the kitchen. "Art lying, nephew?" we heard the older man ask as we approached. "No. uncle— sober truth," replied the one with the scar. "You always was a vagabond. Job." "Like you. uncle.'* By this time we tiad reached the door and saw that the skin cap was now lying on The table, and an iron hook was thoughtfully scratching that same bald, shot shaped head which hail excited our admiration In the old Whitby days. "What cheer. Willie TrehalionV" sang oat Alec. The man on the table slewed around, dropped to the ground, knuckled his forehead, said "Bravely, my masters," and. without showing the least sur prise at seeing us. asked us how we did. "Well." 1 said, "and prosperous, both of us But surely that can't be Sep?" and I poiuted to a gaunt, black cat that had slid from Willie's lap when he jumped off the table and now stood with its back arched and its tail like a furze bush, spitting and glaring at us with a most evil look. "Aye. but it is. Been with me ever since an remembers you both. 1 see he does tlo an give the gentlemen your duty. Nep." The cat. who never disobeyed a com mand from his master, came and rub bed his shaggy sides against our legs in greeting "It's Sep. sure enough," said Alec, "though rather more age battered and scar torn than he was. And this is your nephew, Willie?" "Yes. sirs: Job Trehalion, my neph ew. au a gracious rogue." Job grinned and saluted. "Where have you been wandering, Willie, this long time?" 1 asked after we hail thus formally made the ac- quaintnnce of the man with the scar. "Spanish main, master, with Captain Andrew Dove. Brought up at Bide ford eight days since." "Made a good voyage of it?" "So. so Missed the plate ship we went a'ter, but picked up a tidy caravel au half a dozen smaller fry. Naught much to complain on, save lack o' sound liquor, an that did run uncom mon short. I tell 'ee we was put to supping that thin sour vinegar stuff them dotis fancies. Nep ain't got over It yet." "Tell the gentles what I told 'ee about Manoa. uncle," put in Job. "Hold your meddling tongue. Job!" said Willie angrily. "They knows about it already, nn didn't Captain Ireland's own father lose his life seeking for It?" Job grinned and said perseveringly, "Tell about the pagan." Willie Trehalion waved hia hook with a gesture of dissent and said nothing. But my curiosity was arous ed. "Come, Willie," I said. "What about the pagan?" "Take no notice o' what Job says In usual, masters; he's but one peg re moved from being a natural." Job grinned. "There!" cried Willie. "Look at him ein judge for yourselves! But about the pagan. We catched an Indian—a brown colored varmint with no more clothes on him than there Is on a hand spike—an brought him along with us." "Well?" said I, seeing by Job's face that there was something more. "Well, If you must know, on the voy age home he was sullen an mute as a stockfish, but once here he finds his tortgue nn. speaking in scraps o' English he picked up among us, says that if we'll take him back he'll lead us to that goulden city I tell you of up at Whitby. Rays as he was borh there. That's all." "Tell about the goulden houses, un cle," persisted Job, with a cunning leer, "an tell how the pagan blacked his fingers with a burned fagot an draweil a picture chart on the wall, The man on the tall* *l*wed around. same as life, an tell how Captain An drew Dove copied it down on a piece o' sheep parchment nn sworo to walk through them streets afore he was a year older." "You'll never learn gumption, neph ew," said Willie Irritably. "Captain Dove ain't the first as has made that vow an then broken it An if Captain Dove ain't old enough to know better than to carry his carcass into a coun try that's chock a block with fevers au savages an Spaniards an famish nients an the devil knows what, why, then lie deserves all he'll get by bis foolishness, an that's a belly full o' troubles an not enough gould to make a thumb ring out on. But Captain Dove'll go back on them words when he's sober, I tell you, an no shame to him for doing it. No man's bound to do sober what he promises drunk." And Willie Jabbed at the table with his hook as though to work off the Irri tation which his nephew's persistence hail evidently aroused in him. "Tell 'ee he were as sober as I be now," retorted Job, grinning still In spite of his endeavor to look earnest. "An he meant going, too, for he telled us to be back In three months If we wanted to join the venture. He said It the very day after you'd left, uncle, nn bade us give you word o' it if so be as any o' ns ran athwart you." "Did you copy the chart, Job?" I asked, for this tale of gold to be had for the seeking excited me strangely. "Him!" said Willie Trehalion, point ing scornfully with outstretched hook at his nephew. "He couldn't draw a fishline without making ten mistakes, let alone a chart. He's a graceless vag abond. Master Topp, one peg removed from a natural." .Tob still grinned. "I ain't got a chart, misters, but I got that as can make one." "How so?" I asked. "The pagan Itself," he replied, rub bing his hands In glee. "You've got him!" "It's snoring In the cow byre. The folk treated it ill at Bldeford—tried to see if It could swallow Are as other blacks can an set It eating live rats an matched It to light ag'ln two tarrlcr dogs. It didn't like being used like that, an so it tinned away an tracked me like a hound to Lyumouth. It'd took a fancy to me on the voyage"— "Fools alius mate," grunted Willie Trehallon. "An thought maybe I'd be kinder to It than the others was, an so as it prom ised to sarve me I let It come along, an It's the first time as Job Trehallon ever knew what It was to have a sarv- Into' his own." "An desarves to be well trounced for his impudence In daring to npe his bet ters," growled Willie. "Sarvint in deed! It'll be a gilded coach an six horses you'll want next!' There was every prospect of a lengthy wrangle on the subject be tween the two curiously assorted rela tives. so as I felt considerable curiosity to see this pagan. whose rf'isky hand pointed the way to uutold wealth, 1 told Willie to hold bis tongue and Job to lend us to the cow byre. The pray dawn hail begun to struggle through the chinks of the kitchen shut ters. and at intervals the wind, which had risen now to half a pale, sent a splash of rain driving through the crevices on to the sanded floor of the room. When the door was opened, the morning looked cheerless enough to make even tough old Willie shudder. But. wrapping his huge coat more closely round him. nnd tucking the long tails under his arms to keep them from blowing about in the wind, be rolled out with his clumsy sea walk Into the muddy ?ard. and Nep. after a yawn and a stretch and a low tnurr of pro test at being asked to go out in such villainous weather, left the warm hearth and trotted dutifully at his master's heols. The cow byre, in which the pagan had been stowed away, was a poor enough lodging even for a four footed thing. Years of wind and weather had torn away the thatch In places, and the boarding of the walls was about as effectual as a sieve for keep ing out the cold and wet Huddled in a corner Into which the rain beat less violently than elsewhere lay the pagan. He was colled up beneath some loose straw sleepiug. and as he slept he talk ed wildly and incessantly in his barba rous tongue. One bronze hued leg pro jected from the straggling coverlet of straw. Nep saw It before we did, and, picking his way daintily among the filth on the ground, went up and sniff ed at the limb. Then he quietly turned his claws down into it and laid back his gaunt body for a comfortable stretch. As might have been expected, the pagan awoke, but to our surprise he neither pulled back his leg nor made any move to drive the cat away. Job Trehalion noted my look of as tonishment at this and broke out Into a loud guffaw. "Ho, ho! You wonder why he don't move. He don't feel It, bless 'ee, not he! Them pagans hasn't feelings like as we has." "Shut your silly mouth, nephew," Kid Willie. "A pretty way this Is to treat your sarvlnt! Why, the poor brute's too numbed with cold to feel the prick of Nep's fingers. Bring him In to the kitchen fire, an see If we can't thaw him a bit." Job, still grinning, took his dusky ►ervant on to his back and carried him Into the kitchen. The effect of the heat on the pagan was marvelous. He lat down iu front of the fire, chuckling ind gurgling with glee, !jnd, after rins ng his uumtwd fingers with the glow ng ash as we might with water and bathing his shivering limbs with the hot embers, though not actually de vouring any of the flames as I had confidently expected to see him do, he was a new man again. A pot of warm ale, which we roused our sleeping host to brew, completed the cure, and Job's pagan was as blithe and cheerful a pagan as one could wish to see. When he was thoroughly recovered, we spoke to him about the city of Manoa, and by means of broken sen tences, copiously helped out by ges tures, be expressed Ills willingness to lead us there. He took a glowing stick from the tire and drew a chart us on the lime washed wall, showing the position of the golden city, and quaint pictures he made, too, of the bouses and the men and of the treasures that were to be had there for the taking. And we stared at his uncouth draw ings and listened to his gabbling talk as if moonstruck. Suddenly Alee sprang up from the stool where he was sitting and called to me to come up to our room, and, though I longed to hear more of the pagan's luring tale, there was a look of excitement on Alec's face that was even more interesting, and so I went. "Jack," he cried when we were alone, "It's time we were moving!" "To Manoa?" I asked eagerly. "Yes. Here we have been sitting idle, while the sibyl Is tearing leaf after leaf from the book of destiny. Even now we may be too late." "Well, let's start as soon as we can. But, Alec"— And I stopped and looked at him. "Well, Jack? What Is It?" "Inez." "You can't help her by staying. Use less to think of going to Vigo Bay again for her till the Spaniards have been utterly crushed, and now Is our chance to help at that crushing." "How, Alec? I thought you meant to go to Manoa." "Don't you see? At this very mo ment the Spaniards may be thundering at the gates of Manoa Itself, and if once they carry off the golden wealth of that city and get It safely Into Phil ip's hands he will raise armadas that will squash us like so mahy beetles. Here is our opportunity for serving England, Jack!" "I see," said I, "and of filling our own pockets too." "No, no. Jack! Never hanker after the gold. It's a good bait to catch a crew with. Might as well give up the sea, settle down and become a mer chant at once." "Not while there's adventure to be had for the seeking—adventure, that is, with plenty of your golden bait at the end of It," I declared shamelessly. "You've got a good smack of the pirate In you. Jack, I fear." "Perhaps. And you of the knight errant. Well, fortunately we can each of us sail with our own particular ideal in front of us and still keep to gether nnd work together. I fight for gold, to win wealth for myself and my sweetheart; you fight for glory, to win your country's thanks. Perhaps In the event neither of us may get what he hopes." "Perhaps not Anyway, we can do no more than try. Where can we get a ship?" "Peter Waltham's brig, the Bristol Merchant, is nearly ready for sea. He will be glad enough to let us have her for such a venture." "Then let's go and see him now. We have had no sleep tonight; but, never mind, we can make up for it tomor row." And so It happened that Peter Walt ham, who had given us our supper the night before, was called upon to fur nish a breakfast also. Manoa, whose wealth had lured the father to his grave, was now summoning the sou. Heaven grant that our fortune be better than that of Captain Hurry Ire land, who had gone before us. [TO 11E CO^TIXUKD.] A One Sided llndcraCnndlnir. "They say that rich girl from Sklboo can marry the Duke of Manctiest*-- If she wants him." 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