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CAPTAIN
SAZARAC
■ By
Charles Tenney Jackson
Illustrations by Irwin Myers
Copyright by The Bobbs-Meriill Company
“JEAN!”
SYNOPSIS. —Under the name of
“Captain Sazarac,” and disguised,
Jean Lafltte, former freebooter
of Barataria, proscribed, returns
to the city of New Orleans. He
is recognized by two of his old
companions, Alderman Dominique
and Beluche. At the gaming
tables Sazarac has won much
money from Colonel Carr, Brit
ish officer. John Jarvis, the city s
first bohemian of the arts and
letters, an oldtime friend of La
fitte, tells of a woman's face and
smile. As his last wager, Carr
puts up a woman, presumably a
slave. Custom compels Sazarac
to accept the stake. He wins.
His old associates and Count
Raoul de Almonaster accost him
as Lafltte. A project of the
youthful adventurers of New Or
leans Is the rescue of Napoleon
Bonaparte from St. .Helena, and
a ship, the fieraphirie, has been
ma.de ready. From De Almonas
ter' Sazarac learns that the girl
he ‘ won" at the card table is
white, of high estate, and that
the matter has been made a by
word.in the city’s resorts. Saz
arac "finds Mademoiselle Lestron.
sc fellow passenger'"on a rivei
steamer a few days before, and
with whom he had fallen in love,
is the girl and in chivalry, fore--
goejs his revejige against
Jarvis' admires Mademoiselle! Les
tron. -He is a witness of the
\eeting ap<j picks-up'a' camellia
which the girl had thrown, un
noticed, to Sazarac. Jarvis is
dangerous; he talks too much In
his cups.'
CHAPTER IV
The Old Sea-Rovers Awaken.
At initial girt -Captain - '—
turned from the rue de la Levee to
the broad pavement that skirted the
Place d’Armes, and, for a moment,
contemplated the changes which even
the few years of the American occupa
tion had wrought In the Paris of the
New world. A painted Iron palisade
with ornate grill gates enclosed the
square before the cathedral which he
had known os a dusty parade-ground
over which lazily flapped, now one,
now the other —the royal standard of
Spain or the fleur-de-lis of Trance. A
portion of the ancient wooden gallows
still remained, but about It, now, the
children played of mornings, listening
to the fearsome tales of Bras Coupe,
the terror of the swamps, who preyed
on human flesh and was proof to mus
ket balls, as the colored nurses had U.
In the narrow way between the ca
thedral and the old Spanish calabozn
the exile paused again. Documents of
court and avocat were tacked to the
wooden doors. Not so many years
-agone had not he —Jean Lafltte —sent
his men up from the pirates' fortified
refuge on Grand Terre Island to
bribe for the escape of his brother,
Pierre, from this same prison? And
time and again had they not both
laughed to read, on these same boards,
the city’s proclamation for their cap
ture —the law’s futile fury when no
man durst lay hand upon them, so com
pletely did the Grand Terre adven
turers awe the town?
"How many changes!’’ mused the
wayfarer. "Hailed by the city as a
hero, pardoned by the President and
acclaimed for service to the new re
public—denounced again and driven
from the seas! Yet I walked these
streets when no merchant was too
proud to traffic for the goods we
brought from the gulf privateering.
And again the good sea calls —again,
again!”
At a small door In a high wall of
the rue St. Peter, he tapped with his
sword hilt. It opened; he stood within
the small garden of the Cafe la Venu
Qui Tete. A dim light showed the
wine tuns in the warehouse shadows.
Old Dominique, the worthy aider
man, lifted a huge pewter mug iu
greeting. Half a dozen figures arose
with smothered exclamations. They
were about him, clasping his hands,
whispering joyously.
“Thou —Captain Jean!” came a
hoarse voice in the old patois of the
coast islands. “Here are we all —
ghosts, Indeed, out of old days!”
“Johanness! Old brawler of the
ports! I heard they had hanged you
for the loot of the Santa off Grand
Isle.”
The huge seaman laughed his Joy.
“And thou! That the British sank
thee off Galveston! Hang me? Ah,
no ! —the President’s pardon, Jean!
I—shan.. to say—peddle ducks and
deer in the city markets. The very
children point me out and put their
fingers to tlielr noses: ‘Old Tete John,’
they call me—l, who sailed with thee!”
"Better for you all than swinging
at yardarms. Here is the worthy al
derman; Beluche, with a lawful com
mission ; Nez Coupe, still a fugitive In
the deep swamp, lam told. And here,
Monsieur de Almonaster 1"
“Eh, well—” grunted Johnnness.
“Dominique brought the gentleman.
D—n gentry, say I. Dominique fears
to whistle lest It hurt his politics.”
“We are, indeed, respectable,”
smiled the captain. “Only last year, I
am told, my brother, Pierre, now a
planter of St. James, was second to
Monsieur St. Geme In a due) —that Is
getting Into society indeed, gentle
men !”
“Pouf!” grunted Dominique. “Four
inches off my belly and I’d be at sea
again. Only today I argued with the
mayor. Roulffignac, that the city was
better off when It fattened cn the pri
vateering. Was It not equal robbery
when the Americans under Commo
dore Patterson looted our Grand Terre
warehouses?”
“We should have fought instead of
scuttling out —” grumbled Johanness.
“The Yankees could not have taken
us by storm. Glad they were later
to have our fellows aid them. Who
did General Jackson turn to but Cap
tain Jean’s skilled artillerymen when
the British threatened the city? Bah!
I never saw such a lame lot of dogs
as our fellows were the day the pom
pous governor announced we were all
recommended for n pardon! We stood
dangling our cutlusses, listening to
lawyers’ speeches praising us for sav
ing the city, when we should have
been to sea again. Captain Jean, thou
wert the only wise one of the band —
departing to the Texas country and
seizing Galveston island against the
Spaniards: I could curse my heart
-that I did not enlist again with thee I"
“I intended to have the new estab
lishment ..legitimate enough,” mur
mured Lafltte, “but after the war the
politicians lo§t no chance at Washing
ton, nor with the Spanish viceroy at
Vera Cruz, to poison all minds against
me. When they sacked Galveston, I
took young, Bowie and went Inland to
the Santa Fe. That was my history
since, comrades. I came back from
the West, drawn by I know not what
to tread these streets again.”
The old buccaneers watched his
calm face in the moonlight. He had
taken off the hat and peruke; a
bronzed handsome man with dark
eyes tinged witli melancholy—such
-was-Lafitte - .
“Eh, well,” grunted old Dominique,
“Pakenham would have taken the city
in the rear if you had accepted the
bribes the British offered you at Bara
taria. And in turn what have the
Yankees done for you, Jean —scattered
your fortune to the winds I”
“Aye, you enriched this city, and
you stand a fugitive upon Its streets!”
The captain raised his hand grave
ly: “I—am a citizen of the United
States, gentlemen. Proscribed, Just
now, it is true —but—it might be I
could serve again. There are curious
things reported in the Mexicoes.
Colonel Travis, I recall, and Crockett
—and young Bowie were hot for me to
join the Texans In anew republic.
And in Kentucky— ’’
“Ah, but, my captain,” growled old
Johanness, “what hast thou to do with
their miserable politics of the day?
The sea for us! D—d be this gabble
of the town! Look you, what It lias
made of Dominique!—sitting, twid
dling his thumbs on his fat belly 1 And
Beluche —taking off and putting on his
gilt chapeau, ticklishly, as if fearing
to get dust on his gewgaws!”
“Cease your spewing,” growled the
Cartagenian, “I sail with proper com
missions, I would have you kDow, from
Colombia.”
“And be d—d with your papers!”
roared the old man. “Admiral? There
does not live one for me!—nor coun
cilors, nor nobility—young sprigs of
dandies coming to pat our hard salted
fists!’’
He glared about, his gaze lingering
on Count de Almonaster.
“Old man,” said Raoul quietly, “you
had better keep your place.”
“D—n!”
The old sea dog was starting up;
Lafltte laughingly laid hands upon
him.
“Sit down, old tar-ears! I shall beg
pardgn for you. I know—l know I
Old days—old ways—lt is hard to put
things by.” He put his hand affec
tionately on Johanness’ shoulder. “Do
you remember the time I sent you with
the eight-oared barge to conduct Mr.
Grymes back to the city—after the
feasting, roaring week at Grand
Terre?”
“Aye,” interrupted Beluche, “the
famous attorney who defended you
and Pierre in the first Indictment they
issued against you for piracy!”
“And you sent word, captain, that
If the lawyers wished their fee they
must come fetch It from our fort at
Grand Terre. The city wagered that
Grymes would never return alive, but
do you recall the week he ventured?
The feasting, dancing, the drinking
until the skies rocked, all in our
guest’s honor!”
“Aye, and me—” Johanness beat his
hair}' chest: “I, the bo’sun, it was, to
whom Captain Jean Intrusted the law-
THE DANIELSVTLLE MONITOR, DANIELSVILLE, GEORGIA.
yer on the return. By the river w%
came, eight armed fellows pulling the
barge and roaring chanties! At every
plantation wharf we stopped, the ad
vocate breaking bottles of the finest
vintages o’ Spain and shouting greet
ings. And on the deck, piled In the
sun, forty thousand dollars In gold
where all might see 1 Every gentle
man’s house from English Turn to the
city ga . must be routed out that Mr.
Grymes could gamble against his
hosts, so that, whe-ts. our villains
finally haled him into tewn, not a dol
lar did he have left tj all his fee.
E-oh I—even now they talk of It! Not
in all Louisiana such princely hospi
tality as the famous attorney found in
the house of Lafltte, the pirate I”
“Old man,” smiled the leader, “I
never liked that word !’*
“I know. That is all I ever held
against you, Jean 1 I recall tho day
you shot Gainblo through the heart
for boasting of a hit o’ blood he let.
You were ever a bit finicky for some
o’ our fo’ens’le scum, but I swear they
loved you, Jean I”
The adventurer looked at the grim
faces about the table. The silent Be
luche, the complacent Dominique, the
hairy bo’sun; and then the slender
elegance of the Count de Almonaster.
And to him he spoke gravely.
“You are hearing much, young sir.
The city sleeping, and these old com
rades creeping by stealth to greet me
here.”
“I’ve heard the old tales. I’ve
dreamed —” he laughed slightly.
“These are dull days. The gallants of
the town at tlielr ecarte, or projecting
some gentleman’s masquerade, or
dancing attendance at the opera.
They boast of making a little Paris
of New Orleans; but who, Monsieur,
wishes a little Paris after knowing
the big one?”
“Your modesty, sir, is refreshing,
after these town gallants who make
one trip to the Oaks, receive a rapier
tip in the arm, and the rest of their
days deem themselves. bravos who
have the ladles in a flutter.”
“I have been twice abroad,” said
Raoul,** “I stiw a bit'of pistoling In the
Indies during the blanks’ revolt. And
there, among a shipload of refugees, I
met the affair that sobered me—made
a muh of the boy. Monsieur!’’
“A woman,” smiled Sazarac.
“A child. I foftfkt for her In the
flames of her father’s house. When I
lay wounded they sent her away, or
phaned, In the ship captain’s charge."
He laughed: “That .isaal a trifle of
adventuring tq. Jean Lafltte 1”
*- “Bah l" growled JohannocV putting
back his long gray hair: “Womenl”
Then, seeing the figure on the bench
that had snored the hour through, he
forthwith kicked this hard couch from
under It. An uncouth disheveled man
struck the stones, rolled over and
cursed them a“.
“Jarvis I" growled the bo’sun. “He
has seen more than you, Monsieur de
Almonaster, and he has never handled
a pistol In his life I”
“Jarvis?" Sazarac started back.
“You did not tell me!”
"He Is utterly drunk. We did not
dare tell him In a public place because
of his clattering tongue. Ho, Jarvis 1
At the drink again 1"
The profligate staggered up, rub
bing his eyes. "D —n 1 Qld rumheads,
mulling away of Barataria days! Of
Jean again—” He broke off staring:
“Do I dream—still In the liquor I”
“It Is I, Jarvis. Come, clear your
eyes 1”
Jarvis reeled forth. “Jean, whom I
painted at the famous isle! Jean!”
“Not so loud,” grunted Dominique.
“I hear the watchman whlngwhanglng
down the street.”
“Jean 1" The two friends were
greeting fondly. “Jean! I knew you
lived. Jean of the Petral—my hand
upon him 1”
“And what have you done with your
genius, lad?”
"I have learned to drink,” retorted
Jarvis, “drink and debt. Into Jail and
out again. Betimes I belabor Domi
nique for a dollar. He gives It with
fatherly advice, and hales me to Pere
Antoine for reformation. Between the
alderman and the priest I am utterly
lost.”
“A pity,” murmured De Almonaster.
"The best families would befriend
him, but be Is oftener In the gutter
than elsewhere."
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Poor Mere Man.
Women are the easiest of all God’s
creatures to understand. The phone
rings. It is our wife speaking.
“Stop on your way home and bring
a pint of cream.”
Home from the dairy with bottle In
hand the missus stares at us wildly.
“Well of all things! What on earth
did you bring? I wanted ice cream.”
—Great Bend Tribune.
Japan raises goldfish with large
flowing tails, which can be used as a
support when the fish is at rest.
The elevator is a boon for men whc
are in a hurry to get to the top.
“This week the sensation !■
choosing the crew to man the
Napoleon ship.”
ORION of the
NAMES
STATESaM
PART 1
(Prepared by the National Geographic So
ciety, Washington, D. C.)
To all Americans the origin of the
names of our states should prove an
interesting subject, and from it no
small amount of history and geography
is to he learned. It Is, however, a more
complicated subject to trace than the
origin of the nomenclature of Euro
pean states, which, for the most part,
bear names derived simply from the
ancient tribes by which they were
formerly inhabited.
Of our -IS states, we find that 25
bear names of Indian origin, while
12 are English, six Spanish, three
French, and two bear names that must
he considered, from a historical
standpoint, American.
Considering the states with English
names first, the origin of most of these
will be familiar to us from our studies
in American colonial history. The
first of tiiese Is New Hampshire, the
original territory of which was con
veyed by a patent of the Plymouth
company to John Mason in 1029 and
named by him for the English county
of Hampshire.
When the Dutch navigator Adrian
Block sailed into Nnrragansett bay,
about 1014, he encountered an island
of fiery aspect, due to the red, clay
in some portions of its shores. Ho
called it Itqode Eylandt (Red Island),
nnd the surrounding country received
its nnme from that of the island.
The English settlers, who, with Roger
Williams at their head, received a
charter for this region from the Eng
lish Crown in 1044, Anglicized
tiie name, making it Rhode Island.
There Is u theory, also, that our small
est state was named after the Island
of Rhodes, In the Mediterranean, hut
It Is difficult to substantiate this claim,
as the two localities In no way re
semble one another.
The Empire State, New York, as
is well known, wes originally called
kew Netherlands, while the city was
known as New Amsterdam. But when
the colony was tuken over by the
English, In IG.C4, the names of both
were changed to New York, not, as
might be supposed, after the city of
York, England, but in honor of Charles
ll’s brother, the Duke of York, after
wurd James II of England, to whom
the grant was made.
The duke, in turn, transferred the
southern portion of his grant to Sir
George Carteret, who settled there and
named the country after the Channel
Isle of Jersey, which place he had
bravely defended ngainst tiie parlia
mentary forces in the English Civil
war.
Only One Named for Its Founder.
Charles II of England, the “Merry
Monarch,” spent so much of his coun
try’s funds on pleasure that state
debts often remained unpaid. One of
these was for salary to one Sir Wil
liam Penn, one of the lords of the
admiralty, who, on his death, be
queathed the claim, which amounted
to some 10,000 pounds, 'to his son,
William Penn, a Quaker. The latter
agreed to accept a land grant from tho
crown in exchange for the debt.
Penn wanted to call this land “Syl
vanla” on account of Its vast forests,
hut the king Insisted that the founder’s
name be incorporated in that of the
colony, and thus It is as Pennsylvania,
literally “Penn’s woods," that the Key
stone state Is known to us today. It
Is the only state named for Its founder.
Our second smallest state, Dela
ware, bears the name of Lord de la
Warr, first governor and captaln-gen
erul of Virginia, who In 1030 went on
an exploring expedition in the buy
and river after which the state Is
named.
The first English Roman Catholic
settlement in America was made In
Maryland, in 1034, and this colony,
by the w’ay, was the first to extend re
ligious toleration to all. It was named
after the queen of Charles I, Henrietta
Maria, who was the daughter of Henry
of Navarre and was of the Roman
Catholic faith.
The strong tendency of the earlier
English settlers to perpetuate English
royal names in their settlements is
indicative of their loyalty to the crown
and is further illustrated In the names
of the Virginias, the Carolinas and
Georgia.
The first of these was named by
Sir Walter Raleigh for Elizabeth, the
Virgin Queen, who was op the throne
of England when the first settlements
were attempted, in 1585.
When the stnte of West Virginia
was formed, in 1863, it was first pro
posed to call it “Kanawha,” after
one of its rivers, and much regrer
has been voiced that this fine old
Indian name wtw not adopted.
There has been some confusion ns to
which King Charles the Carolinas
were named for. In 1560 Jean Iti
bault, a French explorer, named tills
region after Charles IX of France.
The name, however, did not come Into
general use and for a time dis
appeared. About 1000 tiie country was
referred to as Carolina in some Eng
lish state papers, and it was con
sidered to have been so named after
Charles I of England, but it was
not until 1003 that the name Carolina
was definitely applied to this section
by the lords proprietor, who had re
ceived a grant to tiie land from Charles
II nnd who named the country in his
honor.
Georgia was named by and for King
George II of England, and the colony
was referred to under this name in
tiie charter which that monarch
granted to General Oglethorpe, the
founder, in 1732.
Of tiie three states bearing French
names, the origin of one Is doubtful.
Tills small number is out of propor
tion to the extent of French explora
tions, evidence of which can lie gained
from' the trail of French place-names
from tiie mouth of the St. Lawrence
to New Orleans.
Vermont was first explored by
Samuel de Champlain in 1009 and was
so named by him after Its Green
Mountains (Vert Mont), which are the
dominating natural feature of the
state.'
The generally accepted version of
the origin 6f the name of Maine is
that It was so called by some early
French explorers after tiie French
province of that name, wherein was
located tiie private estate of Henrietta
Marla, wife of Charles I of England.
There is another meaning ascribed
to the name, fairly well supported by
authorities. According to this version,
the fishermen on the Islands along tho
coast of Maine always referred to thut
region as the "Mnyn land,” and In
support of this theory we find the
colony referred to In a grant of Charles
I to Sir Fernando Gorges In 1039 as
“the province or county of Mayne.”
Louisiana for Louis XIV.
The third state name of French
origin is that of Louisiana, so called
in honor of Louis XIV. The name
was first upplled in 168.1 by the dar
ing French explorer, La Salle, who
employed it to Indicate the vast ter
ritory watered by the Mississippi and
Its . tributaries.
Permanent Spanish settlements with
in the present boundaries of the Unit
ed States were made earlier than those
of any other country and they were
numerous. Asa result, we have six
states bearing names of Spanish origin,
and In them and their neighbors we
find n large number of town and coun
ty names from this tongue.
The first stnte to bear a Spanish
name was Florida, which was dis
covered by Fence de Leon on Easter
Sunday, 1512. TwJ theories exist re
garding the origin of the name. One
refers to the Spanish term, “Pfisrua
Florida (Euster Sunday—literally,
“Feast of the Flowers”), having ref
erence to the flowers with which the
churches in Spain are decorated on
that day. In view of the day on
which the discovery was made, this
is probably the correct explanation of
the origin.
The second theory is that Ponce de
Leon simply used the word “Florida,”
ineunlng “flowery,” from the aspect
of the country.
The other Spanish-named states lie
in the Far West. Any one who has
seen the snow-clad peaks of Nevada
can well appreciate the descriptive
word, “Snowy.”
While not explored or colonized by
Spaniards, Montana bears a Spanish
(some say Latin) name. This large
state’s giant ranges and cordilleras
make It" name, which means “Moun
tainous,” singularly appropriate.
Colorado was probably named from
the river, although only its tributaries
flow through the state. The word
la Spanish for “red” in the sense
of “ruddy,” and may come from the
color of the stream at some places.
Then, again, It is possible that the
state wus named from the red earth
of some regions which were settled In
the early days.
Like Father, Like Son.
“Do look at the way baby Is work
ing his mouth,” exclaimed young Mrs.
Scrapplngton. “See! Now he proposes
to put his foot In it.”
“Mm!” said her husband grumpily.
“Heredity! That’s what I did when I
proposed." Boston Evening Tran
script.