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PAGE TWO BfT of the Spanishflain Captain RAFAEL SABATINI SYNOPSIS. r* • t * Peter Blood, a young Irish physi cian, is arrested as a Monmouth r«b«l by soldiers of King James end sentenced to death by the bloody Lord Jeffreys. The King, however, realizing the need of man power in the colonies, orders the robels-convict sent to the Barba dos to be sold as slaves. Blood and his friend Jeremy Pitt, with others, are shipped to Bridge town. There Colonel Bishop, mili tary cotnmander, at the behest of hi* niece, Arabella Bishop, pur chased Blood for ten pounds when Ke learns that he is a skilled physi towm. Arabella offers her friend ship to Blood but in his own bitter ness over the cruelty of his posi tion he does not at first understand the true character of Arabella, hater he comes to know her true worth. A Spanish galleon com tnanded by Don Diego de Espinosa y Valdez attacks Bridgetown and the Spaniards sack the city. Blood saves Mary Traill from a Spanish ruffian and sends her and Arabella to safety back of the town. He then marshals his fellow rebels eonvict together and they capture ths galleon while the crew is feast ing and ravaging the city. p CHAPTER IX—Continued Crouching low, they glided, hoiseless as shadows, to the quar ter-deck rail, and thence slipped without sound down into the waist. In the vessel’s waist they hung awhile, until Mr. Blood had satis fied himself that no other sentinel showed above decks but that incon venient fellow in the prow. Thfii first attention must be to him. Mr. Blood, himself, crept forward with two companions, leaving the others In the charge of that Nathaniel Hagthorpe whose sometime com mission in the King’s Navy gave him the best title to this office. Mr. Blood’s absence was brief. When he rejoined his comrades there Was no watch above the Spaniards* decks. Meanwhile the revellers below continued to make; merry at their ease in the convlc-! tk>n of complete security. Suddenly out of an uncouth pack of savages that beset them, stepped a slim, tall fellow with light-blue eyes in a tawny face, eyes in which glinted the light of a wicked humour. He addressed them in the purest Cas tilian. "You will save yourselves pain and trouble by regarding your selves my prisoners and suffering yourselves to be quietly bestowed out of harm's way." “Name of God!” swore the gun ■er. which did no justice at all toj an amazement beyond expression.! “If you please,” said Mr. Blood, and thereupon those gentlemen ofj Spain were Induced without fur-i ther trouble beyond a musket prod, 1 or two to drop through $ scuttle to the deck bblow. It was soon after sunrise that the rebel-convict who paced the quarter-deck in Spanish corselet! and headpiece, a Spanish musket on his shoulder, announced thei approach of a boat. It was Don Diego de Espinosa y Valdez com-) ln< aboard with four great treas ure-chests, containing each twenty-! five thousand pieces of eight, thq ransom delivered to him at dawn' by Governor Steed. He was ac companied by his son, Don Esto ban, and by pl* mea who took the oars. O Dos a Diego mounted the ladder and. stepped upon the deck, alone, and entirely unsuspicious. Before! he could even look round, and sur vey this guard drawn up to receiva him, a tap over the head with a capstan bar efficiently handled byi Hagthrope put him to sleep with out the least fuss. He was carried SPREAD IT ON THICK! When buttering your bread fly with with Sumter Maid Butter, you need not fear putting it on A- -' ~ I to ° thick, for you will be so de- A. lighted with its taste that you i' £ w ' ll want rrore - J.- X. • ; ’1 Your grocer has Sumter Maid ’ •,’:Butter on sale, order a pound of it today if you haven’t already tried it, and you will be more than pleased with it. 5 1 _ • It’s a Sumter County Product fT Patronize Home Institutions Americus Ice Cream and Creamery Co. Cotton Avenue I. E. Wilson, Manager Phoncf 4 I i ! Hi, ’ j il Bi jl lli;|h- v * W- P O i A courtly gentleman met Colonel ; Bishop. away to his cabin, whilst the treas ure-chests, handled by the men he had left in the boat, were being hauled to the deck. That being satisfactorily accomplished, Don . Esteban and the fellows who had i manned the boat came up the lad der, one by one. to be handled with the same quiet efficiency. With Colonel Bishop at their head, and gout-ridden Governor Steed sitting on the ruins of a wall beside him, survivors on shore glumly watched the departure of the eight boats containing the weary Spanish ruffians who had glutted themselves with rapine, murder and violences unspeakable. The boats pulled away from the shore, with their loads of laughing, jeering Spaniards, who were still flinging taunts across the water at their surviving victims. They had come midway between the wharf and the ship, when suddenly the air was shaken by the boom of a gun. A round • shot struck the water within a fathom of the fore most boat, sending a shower of spray over its occupants. A sec- I ond shot came to crumple one of I the boats into splinters, flinging its I crew, dead and living, into the I * water. The iesolute Ogle was making I excellent practice, and fully justify I ing his claims to know something I of gunnery. In their constwna I tion the Spaniards had simplified I his task by huddling their boats I together. If the Spaniards understood noth ing of all this, the forlorn islanders I ashore understood still less, until to help their wits they saw tlr flag of Spain c coma down fror • he mainmast of the Cinco Llagas, and the flag of England soar to its I empty place. Ogle, however, con tinned to give proof that his know! edge ‘of gunnery was not of yes terday. After the fleeing Spaniards went his shots. The last’of thei boats flew into splinters as it touched the wharf, and Its remains were ■■burled under a shower of loosened masonry. The mystery of the succour that had come at the eleventh hour to wreak vengeance upon the Span lards, and to preserve for the .island the extortionate ransom of a hundred thousand pieces of -'l.t remained yet to be probed, i’.tai the Cinco Idagas was now in friendly hands could no longer I.e doubted after the proofs it bad given. It remained to aseert.-.ii the precise identity of these m~ terious saviours, and de them fit ting honor. Upon this errand wen’ 'Colonel Bishop as the Governor's deputy, attended by two officers .is.lw At’! l —d ff?m Bites-stings Apply wet baking soda or household ammonia,followedby VICKS ▼ Varoßwb Over 17 Million Jara Uaed Yearly Into the vessel's waist, the Co’.nn I beheld there, beside the main hatch, the four treasure-chests, the contents of one of which had been contributed almost entirely, by himself. Ranged on either side, athwart the deck, stood a score of men in two well-ordered files, with breasts and backs of steel, polished Spanish morions on their heads, overshadowing their faces, and muskets ordered at their sides. A courtly gentleman advanced to greet him—a lean, graceful gentle man, dressed in the Spanish fash ion, all in black with silver lace, a gold-hilted sword dangling beside him from a gold embroidered bald rick, a broad castor with a sweep ing plume set above carefully curled ringlets of deepest black. “Be welcome aboard the Cinco Dlagas, Colonel, darling,” a voice vaguely familiar addressed the planter. “Peter Blood! Was It you •then . . "Myself it was —myself and these, my good friends and yours.” "Gad’s my life!” he crowed on a ■note of foolish jubilation. “And ft , was with these fellows that you /took the Spaniard and turned the tables on those dogs! As Gad’s my life, you deserve well for this.” . "I am entirely of your opinion," eaid Mr. Blood. '"The question is how well we deserve, and how grateful shall we find you?” “Why—his excellency shall write iome an account of your exploit, and maybe some portion of your sentences shall be remitted.” "The generosity of King James (Is well known,” sneered Nathaniel Hagthorpe, who was standing by and amongst the ranged rebels iconvict some one ventured tr, [laugh. i And one Intervened —the brawny, -one-eyed Wolverstone, less merci fully disposed than his more gen tlemanly fellow-convict. “String him up from the yard arm,” he cried. Mr. Blood turned. “If you please, Wolverstone,” said he, *U conduct affairs in mv own way. That is the pact. You’ll /please to remember it.” His eyes looked along the ranks, making it plain that he addressed them all. “ T desire that Colonel Bishop should have his life. One reason is that I require him as a hostage. If ye insist on hanging him, ye’ll have to hang me with him, or in the alternative I’ll go ashore.” (Continued In our next issue). UPPER AMAZON DRAWS AMERICANS ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., Sept. 23. (A. P.) —Dr. M. W. Stirling, it has been learned here, is soon to start on a trip to South America, where he will spend several months in the unexplored regions of the upper Amazon, taking photographs of the life and customs of the local Indian tribes. Dr. Stirling, who was formerly at- I tached to the Smithsoman Instßu- I tion, excavated a number of Indian mounds near St. Petersburg earlv | this year. As a resule of these I labors he was able to report the I discovery of new methods of Indian burial, and various interesting finds I of pottery. I Football’s here. We heard a I quarterback telephoning and he I scared central calling the signals. $5,000 TO LOAN On Americus Residence Property Phone 830 LEWIS ELLIS CUSTOM HATCHING DIAMOND POULTRY FARM z Phone 845 Eggs set in our Mammoth incubator every Tuesday at 3c per egg in tray lots; 4c in less than tray lots. Now is the time to hatch off your chicks for fifty and sixty-cents-a pound fryers and broilers. , , We have large orders for baby chicks, and we will help you sell your hatch, if they are of pure bred stock. Chicks hatched in the fall are easier to raise than at any other time of the year and grow faster. DEMONSTRATION MISS MARTHA BROWN Will be at BRAGG’S MARKET, on Wednesday, September 24th from 9 A. M. to 6 P. M. demonstrating the famous .* nw Veribest Flours All the ladies of Americus are invited to attend this demon stration and partake of the delicious samples that will be made by Miss Brown. Everything free. BRAGG'S MARKET 123 W. Forsyth St. Phone 181 •*<*-*; y/V- W*- ' *#-<**** •'•Awd-Ui THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER ’ Kiwi® HSSFS 96TH M Mrs. Graham Is Grand-daughter of ‘Mother Jones,’ Who Went to Coffee Counity in 188 Mrs. Elizabeth Graham, of Doug las, Ga., the grandmother of James C. Graham, Americus attorney, nas passed her 96th birthday, which event was celebrated at the Coffee county home of her daughter, Mrs. W. F. Sibbett. Regarding the hap py event, the following story is sent u. 3 from Douglas: DOUGLAS, Sept. 2”. —Mrs. Elizabeth Graham, of Douglas, who was born September 13, 1828, c.-le brated Saturday at the home of ho daughter, Mrs. W. F. Sibbett, her ninety-sixth birthday. Mrs. .Graham is a granddaughter of "Mother Jones,” who came to Coffee court;’ from North Carolina in 1800, trav eling in a covered wagon and bri ag ing with her six sons, the three Ward boys and the three Hargrave boys. With these sons, she settled in what is now Coffee county, while the country "was a wilderness and was inhabited largely by the Creek Indians. ’ It will be recalled that Judge W. P. Ward, ordinary of Coffee coun ty, wrote a serial story about two I years ago, giving the early history of the pioneer settlers of the sec tion embracing Coffee count/ ‘‘Mother Jones” was one of the per sons who figured prominently in the early history of this section, and he: descendants among the Wards and Hargraves have since been promi nent in this section of the state. . Mrs. Graham is in splendid health: vigorous in body and mind with the exception of being slighHv deaf. She speaks authoritatively on events which happened in the early nineteenth centrury, and her memory is clear on all of the inci dents. Many friends and relatives are bestowing gifts upon her on this oc casion. HUGE QUANTITY CROSS TIES USED WASHINGTON, Sept. 23.—Ac cording to data collected by tne Bureau of the Census in co-opera tion with the Forest Service, De partment -of Agriculture, it is an nounced by the Department of com merce that 135,916,117 crossties were purchased by steam and elec tric railroad companies in 1923, as compared with 123,766,000, this Lv ing an estimated figure, in 1915, and T 35,053,000 in 1911. The number of poles purchased in 1923, the report says, by steam and electric railroads, electric light and power companies, and commercial telegraph and telephone companies was reported as 3,060,794, the fig ures for 1915 and 1911 being 4.- 077,964 and 3,418,020, respectively No report was made for last yeur of purchases by small rural tele- WANTED YOU TO SEE OUR COMPLETE LINE OF RADIO EQUIP MENT, S U PPLIES AND PARTS. SEE ING THE BEST WILL CONVINCE YOU. CHAPPELL MACHINERY CO. * She Might Great Britain’ to** ' ■•* • > I llllllk * i— hßl!b '' q ■ 11 —' F- Would this young woman be "Miss Gre.yt Britain” if the peo-’ pie across the Atlantic duplicat ed America’s,, annual nationwide beauty contest? Many English-—, men contend she would, arguing she is the most stunning beauty of the islands. She is Ivy Som erset, daughter of Lord Raglan. phone lines, of which there are ap proximately 56,000 in the United States, purchasing few poles. LARGE EAGLE GOBBLES UP A GOLF BALL TALLAHASSEE, Sept. 23. ( A P-) —A possible eagle on the course of the Tallahassee country club here was made impossible by a real eagle, the big bird swooping down on the eighth green to seize a golf ball as it was trickling m the gen eral direction of the cup. Fred C Elliot was the victim and gained scant comfort from the assurance that the eagle was “an agency out- RYLANDER THFATER WEDNESDAY-THURSDAY y- ' A New Leah Baird Thriller That’s a Corker ! -rsraea Another spectacular action drama in which our fascinating star fights for noble • womanhood. 1 Below you see the heroine held captive, in a Barbary coast joss house. She is asked to barter her soul th have those nearest to her heart. . ifiiiw ;a A\X jMg&hi'. Smektssin c FJHilwraWlw s I ' K! Klb juflll 1 • l 4Mn» i : w l nMK tW 1 * wsS . JwP I '•! fwY<;|g|P I\T . fa Ta? l . £■ j ; i iim Mi i xfMW T 1 -y» '‘ X. Lean Baird The Miracle Makers" Gripping story of the United I Miracle working wonder of worn- i States Secret Service and Air Pa- I an’s love and sacrifice in the un- trol conflict with. Pacific Coast I equal battle with the powers of Smugglers. | evil. | With the Star You Can’t Forget The Cast Includes GEORGE WALSH MITCHELL LEWIS EDITH YORKE EDYTHE CHAPMAN “DICKIE” HEADRICK GEORGE NICHOLS ALSO EDUCATIONAL HER DANGEROUS COMEDY PATH 9 uy Ry tender £ ou P° n Books. S3.CO for $2.00. On Sale at the Box Office. . w 5 Americus Drug Company HjgHTtfflTFnt 1 • TUESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 23, 1924 side the match” and the incident, could not bp held "a rub of the -’green.” Days are getting shorter right •along now, but the distance fro n payday to payday reamins the same It takes two to start a fight or a family and too often there isn’t any difference. RADIO HEAD PHONES Am offering a number of the best makes, some Brandes, Murdock and Blue Streak at $3.75 per pair. None better. Get Ready for the Radio Season W. W. M’NEILL Hampton and Plum Street Phone 271 ATLANTA, Sept. 23.—Because E. A. Steele, college student and fraternity man, cf Jacksonville, Ind., could not wait just a few min utes, he will spend the next six years, and maybe longer, in the convict camps of Georgia. Steele was sentenced Monday in Fulton Superior court by Judge W. E. Thomas, of Valdosta, to serve' from two to three years in each of three cases of forgery. Judge Thomas a few days previously had fixed as punishment in the same cas es the payment of a $250 fine. According to the story brought out in court Monday, Steele was or dered to pay a fine of $250 in the three cases, after his mother had traveled all the way from their home to make a plea to the court in her son’s behalf. Steele was ordered to await in the detention room, after the sentence had been passed, while his mother when to a nearby tele graph office to wire for money to pay the fine. In the meantime, Steele sneaked out and made good his escape. De tectives told the court that his first act after leaving the courthouse was to appropriate an automobile belonging to Fred E. Smith, of 361 Peachtree street. Detectives Poole and Smith recaptured Steele Satur day and returned him to court Mon day. Even though you hear a lot about - self-made men we can’t think of it any men who are not that. WILLIAMS’ LIVER & KIDNEY PILLS? i*’ Keep Lazy Livers Lively”, Kidney Komplamts ft -*—■———
