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le ROVERS.

A gomance of Outlawry on Blue
Waters. A Companion Story
to the “ Red Rapier.”

 

E BY COLONEL PRENTISS INGRAHAM.

 

CHAPTER I.

s» ON THE mm OF DEATH.

“ A CRUEL, merciless storm had swept over the

. ‘ »Gulf of Mexico, wrecking many a gallant vee-
, eel, sending brave men to the bottom and dash-

upon the coast the wreckage of a fleet of

a 1 w {to-win ed craft, from the stately cruiser to

; 9 the small hing-smack.

Fighting against fate to the last, an armed
gcruiser had hoped to weather the storm. for her
commander was a perfect sailor, fearless and
skilled, and had fought hard for victory over

\ rdeath, even when his craft was almost a wreck. ’
' l The dark faces and uniforms of the crew
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sunny land of Mexico. Well trained seamen,
they had steed at their posts bravely, and shrunk
not when they beheld the remorseless waves
making a wreck of their vessel and tearing man
after man from his place of duty to bear him
away to die.

The masts of the vessel were gone, so she car-
ried no flag, but her rig had been that of a brig,
and her hull revealed a perfect outline for
beauty and swift sailing qualities.

Torn from their lasliings some of her guns
had dashed through the bulwarks, leaving great
ga iug wounds, and her deck and all showed the
eVIdence of having seen hot service in battle be-
fore the elements had visited upon her their
wrath.

The office's stood about in silence, awaiting
the commands of their captain, who clung to
the stump of the mizzenmast, his face undauut-
ed his manner stern and determined.

It was evident that bitter thoughts were surg-
ing through his brain, for his eyes flashed and
his lips were set with firm resolve.

It was a. handsome face to gaze upon, one to
fascinate, to command, fir the features were
re ular and expressive and the eyes intensely
fu l of power.

The form of the man was elegant and his
dripping uniform, for the seas broke over the
vessel unceasingiy, was well fitting and hand-
some.

At last an impatient execration came from
his lips, followed by the words:

“ I half believe that I have been tricked.”

His dark face flushed with anger now, and
again he muttered an impatient imprecation.

“ I will know the truth, even though the know-
ledge is followed by instant death,” he said,
grimly.

With this he made his way aft to the cabin
companionway and entered, after issuing an or-
der in a low tone to one of his officers who
stood there.

In the conipanionway stood a negro of hid-
eous mien'and gorgeous dress, for his attire was
of velvet and he wore a number of precious
stones in rings, earrings an iracelets.

He was deformed, but of giant strength and
cat-like quickness.

“ “here is the boy, Topaz?” asked the ca
tain, and the negro uttering no reply simpy
pointed on into the cabin.

The face of the negro was brutal yet intelli-
gent, for there was t at in it to admire as well

as f .
“poaz, where is the boy?” repeated the cap-
tain, and he spoke in the Spanish tongue.
“The senor will find him in the cabin,” was
the reply now, and the tone was hardly respect-

u .

Entering the cabin the captain stood an in-
stant gazing about him.

Luxuriously furnished as it was, the dash of
salt water down upon the velvet carpet and silk-
covered furniture had ruined all, and there was
every evidence that the dweller there had given
up hope of more comfort in his sea-home, his
beautiful vessel, which now threatened to be the
coffin for himself and his crew.

The glance he cast about him was a quick
and angry one, and his eyes fell upon‘a form
kneeling by the divan, the face buried in the
hands. —

Was it in prayer that the form thus knelt
upon the wet floor, or was it on account of the
reeling and plunging of the ship?

The seas were breaking wildly over the dis-
masted vessel, and to stand unaided was im-
possible, for the men were lashed to the bul-
warks upon the decks, so perhaps the attitude
was one of prayer.

The form was slender and graceful, that of a
mere youth, and it was clad in uniform.‘

“Well, do you find your prayers of any use
to you, boy, in this our moment of terrori”
savagely demanded t e captain, after regarding
the youth an instant in silence, the look upon
his face becoming almost one of hatred and
fury as he gazod.

A cry broke from the li of the boyas he
heard the stern utterance, or be had believed
himself alone. He rung to his feet only to be
hurled down upon t e divan bya sudden vio-
lent wrenching of the vessel, tossed upon a more
violent sea than usual.

“ t is a moment, senor, when prayer should
be upon the lips of all, yours as well as mine,”
' was the low response of the youth, though it
was not spoken with atone of disrespect.

“Hal bold words to come from a cabin-boy
to his captain, I swearl” almost savagely re-
torted the captain. '

“ At such a moment, senor, when death stares
usin the face, when the vessel is a wreck set-
tling toits doom, and the doom of all, there is
no rank to forbid the utterance of honest
words.”

“ Bolder and bolder you arel but I have come
here body for a talk with you.” .

.“ n I was praying for strength, senorhto
ask‘Topaz to brin you here -for a talk With
you,” was the quick y spoken response.

"Ali! and what have on to say to me?”

“ I would first know 0 your reason for a talk
Win me, Senor Captain i” -

Speak first!”

 

“ Not until I know what you have to say to
me, senor.”

“ Boy, I will force you to tell why you would
have,the negro T0paz ask me to come here to
you?”-

“ Senor Captain, with death only a few min-
utes away, you cannot force me to do anything
from fear.

“ You came here to see me, and when you
have told me why, I Will also speak, for I have
a secret to tell you—a strange story to relate.”

“ By Heaven, but I believe I am right in the
suspicion I hold regarding you I” savagely ex-
claimed the Mexican commander.

“And may I ask, senor, whut suspicion you
hold regarding me?”

“ I believe you to be a woman!”

“ I am a woman, Bertranrlo the Buccaneer,”
was the low but firm response of the supposed
youth.

CHAPTER II.
THE CABIN—Bor’s. SECRET.

“ YOU a woman?”

The words were spoken exultantly, as he gazed
with a strange look upon his cabin-boy.”

The Woman had sunk down upon the divan
and buried her face in her hands, as though the
confession had been her shame.

The man leaned heavily against the com au-
ionway, to steady himself with the rolling o the
vessel, and again repeated his words:

“ You a woman?”

“ I have confessed it, yes,” was the redply.

“And what does a woman do here, isguised
as a cabin-boy in my cabin ?”

The question was asked in a tone of severe
command or reproach, yet no answer came.

“ I have asked you woman, why you are
here?” demande'l the Mexican captain still more
sterniy. “Answer!”

" I am here for a purpose, Rudolph Revello,
Bertrando the Buccaneer, or by whatever other
name you wish to known,” was the reponse,
in a tone almost erce, and the» woman arose
as she spoke and leaning against the door of a
state-room she faced the man fearlessly.

There was defiance in her eyes n0w and an al-
most wicked expression upon her fine face.

“ at; are you here in my cabin, I asked you?"
repea the man, an ugly expression in his
9 cs

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To his surprise a laugh came from the woman,
but more bitter and defiant it was than merry.

“ Will you answer me?”

“ Yesl I am here i' r revengel”

The words were fu lof intense hatred.

“ r revenge against me?”

“ as to track you down.”

“ We] , and what have you gained?” contempt-
uousl .

' “ WS’Ihat have I gained, Rudolph Revello?
Your death!”

“ Bahl If the ship goes down I will die—yes,
but wherein lies your revenge, for I will see you
also go down to the depths of perdition with

e ” .

“ My loss will be little felt only by one human
being upon earth,” and the voice quivered, the
eyes dimmed with tears. , ’

But, choking back her emotion the woman

continued:
. “ But if you die, than a monster in human form
will be taken from the earth, and men Will no
longer turn pale when they hear the name
spoken of the Red Rapier.” .

“ in what way does the Red Rapier concern
you?” fiercely. '

“I will tell you. Years ago on cametoa
happy home upon the shores of obile Bay and
robbedit of a young girl, one who believed your
stories and sacrificed hersalf to save her father,
as she believed.

“ She loved another, but wedded you, to find
out that you were, though the captain of a_ Mexi-
can c'ruiser, also secretly a pirate, leavmg no
trace of your outlaw acts, however. ‘

“ You made the one I speak of your wife, and
upon the seas a child was born, a little boy
who the mother hoped would win the father
(from his evil ways.

“Vain the hope, for it was years before he
again took his wronged wife to her girlhood
home, and there she found death had come,
for her mother had died of a broken heart and
her father had become a madman through his
sorrow. »

“ The dear father, made a. madman by you,
fell by your merciless hand, and than, driven
away by American cruisers, you fled toyour old
island retreatto refit your vessel to again be
come a freebooter.

“ In that island retreat you left your wife and
boy, saying you would return, and in time would
give up your double life of corsair and cruiser;
but you sailed, intending to do a‘ still greater
wron toward aninnocent girl who had trusted
you, or, upon your vessel went one of the island-
ers as a cabin-boy.

“ You knew not the cheat, and your trusted
cabin-boy saw you land upon the Mexican Coast,
visit the home of the maiden you were to marry,
and then boldly sail into Vera Crux and report

 

 

to the Junta, unmindful of the fact that the
black flag of the buccaneer had been more frev
quently floating over your Vessel than had the'
colors of the land which you pietended to serve;
as a Mexican officer.

“ This cabin-boy then know that your pledges!
to your wife were false, that you would not give
up your ev11 life, that you had deserted her and:
your little son, and intended to still go on in.
your career of crime.

“ So the cabin-boy acted promptly, determined
to save the Mexican maiden whom you intended
to entice into a marriage with you, and to bring
you to justice.

“ With your own Government this cabin-boy
dared not make terms, so he went on board the
American schooner-of-war, Spiteful, then in the
harbor of Vera Cruz, and told all to her com-
mander, who, by a strange coincidence, was the
man whom your wife ha loved in the long ago.

“ This officer heard the story and entered into
the plot to capture the Mexican cruiser at sea,
convinced that the Rattlesnake brig-of~war was
none other than the Red Rapier.

“ So 'a letter was forged and sent to you, pre~
tending to come from the Mexican maiden who-
loved you, and hastily you went to sea to visit
her home upon the coast.

“ The American schooner had gone before
you; but, once outside, the tornado struck your
vessel and thus savedcyou from being swung up.
as a pirate at the yar arm of the S iteful.

“ Your vessel is wrecked, Rudo ph Revello,
and soon on must die; but I feel some joy in the
thought t at I at least brought you and you
pirate craft to your destruction, for I sent you,
to seal

“ Had it not been'for'this tornado I would have
seen you hanged—thus avenging my father and
mother and myself. _

“ Then I would have sought the island retreat,
where my son awaits me, and, going to my old
home would have dug up the pirate treasure you-
had hidden away, held my own counsel and.
lived a life of luxury—my boy and I.

“ Now, Rudolph Revello, the storm has.
changed all. You have {escaped the yard-arm,
but you will not escape your doom, to the here
in these mad waters, with all your sins unfor-
given, a man occursed.

“I cannot see my bofy again; I cannot shape
his life as I had hoped, or , too, must die with
you: but I have at least the joy of seeing you go
to your death. ,

“ Now you know my secret, know me as I am
not your cabin-boy, but your wife. Heaven will’
never show mercy to‘ the guilty soul of Rudolph.
Revello, the Piratel”

CHAPTER III.
HER noon.

THE Mexican captain, who bore .the stigma of
being secretly a buccaneer, did not change
countenance under the scathing words of his
wife, disguised as a, cabin-boy.

Had not death been 3138le him in the face’he
would have been glad ind to have her there
in his power, that he, too, might seek revenge-
for her having tracked him down in his villainy-

To his credit, be it said, and it is little enough
to say for him, he had always loved the woman
whom he had lured from her home to becom '
the wife of a sea outlaw.

She was beautiful in face and form, and had
tholily won his heart, so far as he had a heart:

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He had kept her-with him at sea whe not
upon cruises which took him into Mexican rte,
and their son had been born at sea, upon his
vessel.

To this boy, in his sixthqear at the time this
story Opens, he was fondlgfittacbed, but his
curse was his love of gold. 8 had turned his
vessel into a pirate to obtuin'it, had determined
to desert his wife for the time-being and wed a
Mexican maiden of vast wealth.

Now he heard how he had been tracked and
trapped, and could only feel a glad revenge that:
the one who had brought this doom upon him
should also perish with him. As he heard the
cold confession of the woman that she had loved»
another, that she had gone to that other as a
means to bring him to the gallows, all the ugly
passions of the man were aroused, and he only
regretted that it was not now in his power to be/
avenged upon her.

The tornado howled overhead like a thousand
demons of the sea rushin by; the waves were
dashed high in the air, an then, torn to atoms,
fell ip masses upon the decks of the dismasted
Vesse .

The wreck staggered like a drunken man, and
each wave threatened to send her beneath the
sea forever.

Her wounds received in action, as pirate and
cruiser, were strained open and the waters rush-
ed in in steady streams, their weight slowly set-
tling her down to doom.

The pumps were useless, and the men in sul-
len silence and despair had left them.

They expected death, felt sure of goin dawn.
before lon , and yet they clung for the lives
to the 1) works and whatever else adored.

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protection from being torn away by the mad

seas.

At last the man spoke, for the first time utter-
ing a word since the confession of the woman
had begun.

What he said caused her to start in horror,'and
his face to light up with mali nant hatred and
triumph at the feeling that he ad caused her to
feel fear of him.

“ Yes, Lucille, my wife, all is as you have
said, all is the truth that has fallen from your
lips, for I did, by carrying you away from your
home, break your mother’s heart, make a mad-
man of your father and then take his life when
he attacked me.

But on had for the while your sweet revenge
in tree ing me dOWn, to foi me and bring me
to death.

“ Now I shall have my revenge, short-lived
though it be, for I shall feel that you suffer
horrors in your last moments.

“ Perhaps I may escape, but you never can or

“ I shall take to the boats, I will be the one to
go in the life—boat, for it and one other still re—
main, and it will not be overloaded I promise
K32, so the chances are in my favor, for the

t may live where the wreck will go down.”

Then the man called out:

“ Ho, Topaz!”

“ Yes, senor,” and the negro came to the
cabin companionway.

“Say that I wish the boats prepared for
leaving the vessel at once.”

“ Yes, senor,” and the black disappeared.

“ Now, my wife, my sweet Lucille, you shall
feel what my revenge is, and you must knew
that while I escape, for my chances are even,
you will go down with the ship, with this
wreck as your tomb.” ‘

“ My God! what would you do?” gasped
the woman, struck by the malignant light in his

ace.

Before he could answer, Topaz ap red in
the companionway. What he would ave said
was checked by a warning look and gesture from
his commander, and he simply said:

“ I obeyed your orders, senor.”

“Ay, ay, good Topaz, we will soon be far
away from this old wreck,” was the answer, and
turning to the woman, he continued: . '

“ Now, Lucille, you shall know your doom.”

“ It can only be death,” she added, having re-
gained her wonderful nerve.

“ Only death! yes; but such a death.”

“ I do not fear to die, though Heaven knows I

. would give life to see my boy once more.”

“ You should have thought of your boy before
you sought to track me to my destruction.”

“ I care not for what you say, Captain Re-
vello. and I am ready to meet my fate, be it
what it may, so do your worst.”

She spoke now with no semblance of fear,
without a tremor in her voice.

“ We will see whether you will not flinch
when you know what your fate shall be.”

“ Never will you see me cower in fear to give‘

an an atom of joy at my doing so, Rudolph
vello.”

He smiled, and called out:

“ Topaz !”

“ Yes, senor.”

‘. “ Get from the room yonder that set of double

irons."

The negro made his way across the cabin as
best he could, and entered the state-room.

soon he appeared, holding in his hands heavy
chains, to the ends of which were manacles.

The woman’s face paled, but she remained
perfectly calm.

"Now, Topaz,” came the next order, given in
a low tone, in which intense hatred was mingled
with cruel joy:

“ Clas those manacles about the wrists and
ankleso this woman in disguise, and pass the
irons around the mast, so that she will go down
with this wreck, which is to be her coffin.”

CHAPTER IV. it
run sunvrvons.

Tn: words of the Mexican captain fell sav-
agely and remorselessly upon the ears of the
woman so wholly at his mercy.

Upon that shi he was king, and an appeal to
the crew would of no avail.

Then, too, the crew could never hear her cry
for mercy in that wild war of waters and how!-
ing of winds.

The deformed African even started at the
stern words of his chief, and yet he made no
remonstrance—no effort not to obey.

To the surprise of the man, the woman did
not flinch. She did not show the horror he had
hoped for, which was a matter of deep regret to
the steel-hearted husband, for her fear, her suf-
fering at such a moment was to be his joy, his
rave e.

“ on have heard your fate, Lucille!” said
Captain Revello, determined to make her plead
for mercy, for her pleading would be music to

his ears.
“ have heard, Sir Pirate, and have but one

 

“ Name it.”

“ That you leave me alone to die.”

“ Have you no last words, no instructions re-
garding our boy?"

She started now and her lips quivered, but
she answered, calmly: ,

“I would not leave my son to the care of a
tiger, and did I believe that you would escape,
then would I long not to die; but I feel that you
can not esca any more than I can, though you
will not go own in irons.

“I have 90 more to say to you, Revello, so
leave me alone in my last moments of life.”

The reply the man Would have made was
arrested by a chorus of cries upon the deck.

“ Breakers ahead!” was the cry, and with a
bound the pirate ca tain rushed from the cabin,
driving the negro fore him, and the woman
was left aloneto her fate, ironed to the mast
and with ankle:I and wrists encircled by the
manacles.

The door of the cabin companionway she
heard slammed to behind the retreating Mexican,
and there came the sound of rushing feet upon
the deck, and loud, wild cries, oaths and prayers
mingled with the mad roar of the elements.

The brig rocked more violently, lurching and
plunging and still drove on.

Darkness was just settling upon the sea and
yet ahead could be seen a wall of foam upon
which the wreck was driving with frightful

speed.

The boats which the Mexican captain had
claimed to have were useless, and the crew knew
this fact well, yet they rushed to them and seized
upon all that would float to save them.

Another moment? and upon a wave more sav-
age and towering than the others the wreck was
borne straight upon the white wall of foam.

There upon the crest she paused for a second
and then came the frightful sinking down which
ended in a crash that was terrible as the hull
was wedged flrmly upon the sunken rocks.

The following seas washed over her, sweep-.
ing all with them, tearing men away from
w ere they were lashed to bulwarks and masts,
and in an instant the decks were swept clean
of every human being.

Off upon the mad waters they were borne to
die; and curses and prayers again mingled
with the bowling winds until the men one by
one sunk to death in the sea.

A few clung to the 8 rs, rig ing and timbers
torn from the bulwar s, and ere held out as
long as strength lasted, and only put off their
dreaded doom. ,

And yet all had not perished, for when the
ship struck the Mexican captain had been near
the life-boat and the negro had said to him:

“ Cling to life-boat, senor !” '

“ It is useless.” "

“ No, senor.”

Something in the manner of the negro caused
the chief to spring to the life—boat.

Topaz did the same, and there they found
half adozen unfortunates, but these were torn
away with the fury of madman by the Mexican
and' the African.

Away went the boat, tossed about like a cork
in a mill-race, yet in it were the two who had
sought its succor.

On, away over the seas drove the boat, which
held up well, though full of water, and with the
weight added of the Mexican and the negro. '

As though content with having driven the
wreck to destruction, the tornado ceased its fury
suddenly, the winds sunk into gentle breezes,
and the wild waters became calmer and calmer
with each passing hour.

For a long while neither the Mexican nor the
African uttered a word; then the former
spoke!

“ You were right, Topaz; the life-boat saved
us, and I Owe you my life.”

“ Not safe yet, senor," was the response.

“ True, but we have not been saved from the
wreck, while others perished, to be drowned
now, or die of starvation, either.”

“Senor Chief, think all die?”

“Yes, for how could any one escape!"

“ The cabin-boy, too?"

“ Ah, yes! he went down with the hreakin up
of the ship, for that blow made drift-w of
her, beyond all doubt.”

" Maybe so,” was the laconic response of the
ne re, and then he said:

‘ To az expected the wreck, so wanted to
save li e, and put into life-boat all that would
repair it, for it was all smashed, as senor
kn0ws.”

“ Yes. it had two holes stove in it you could
crawl through.”

“ Topaz has canvas to tack over it, and ham-
mer and all in lockers. hidden away, with food
and cask of water. We are all right, Senor
Captain.”

‘ Give me your hand, Topaz.”

The African seemed pleased at the raise be.
stowed upon him by his chief and he (1 out his
hand eagerly, while he' remarked:

“ Yes, we are all right, for the sail and cars
are all lashed in the boat, and the cask of water
and food are in the lockers.”

“ Yes, we are the sole survivors of the wreck,
Topaz," was the triumphant response of the
Mexican captain.

 

CHAPTER V.
run LIFE-BOAT.

IT was a long, fearful night to the Mexican
captain, there in that sunken life-boat, whatever
the negro might feel, for Rudolph Revello long-
ed to live for his own selfish ends, and death was
viewed by him with horror now that there were
chances to escape it.

At last the morning dawned, and the sea was
comparatively calm, the skies were cloudless.

Eagerly the two shipwrecked men gazed
around them, and cheerin from the lips of the
Mexican came the cry:

“ Land, ho!”

“ Yes, senor,” complacently responded the ne-
gro.

It was only a barren island they saw,'a league
away; but it.afforded an asylum for the mo-
ment. and they were drifting directly upon it.

“ That tornado drove us well out of our
course, Topaz, for I had no idea we were near
any island, though in the darkness and storm I
knew not ‘which way we were driving.

“ But that is land and will serve us well, for
we can beach the boat and repair her.”

“ Yes, senor, we are safe now,” was the re-
sponse. '

With some difliculty they reached the sandy

'beach, where the waves did not break hard, and

the boat was hauled out and the things she car-
ried were spread out upon the shore.

Topaz had provided well, for there was a
stump mast with a small mainsail and jib wound
tightly around it.

Then came four oars, lashed securely together,
and in one locker was a cask of fresh water and
a roll of bed-clothing.

In the other was a box of provisions so secure-
1 y wrapped around with oiled canvas as to have
been kept dry.

“ Topaz, you are a wonder. But when did
you do all this?” said the Mexican.

“ The boats were stove, senor, and then I
knew the life-boat would float, and prepared for
the wreck.

“ The men laughed at me, but I am alive now,
while they are dead.”

“You are right there, Topaz; but what is»

this?” and the Mexican came upon a roll of

canvas.

“ It is oiled canvas. and the hammer and
tacks, senor, for repairing the boat.”

Captain Revello gave a whistle of delight, and
while the negro set about getting driftwood to
build a fire, be begun repairs upon the boat.

With the aid of dry driftwood and flints aflrs
was soon kindled, and a breakfast prepared and
eaten, after a pull at a bottle of rum which
To very wisely had not forgotten.

Rex work of repairing the boat occupied the
glamdand that night they passed upon the

an . v

But the next day the boat was run into the
water, and to the joy of both it leaked but
liti e.

Then they set sail and steered away from the
island, the compass also put in the locker by
Topaz, proving a valuable acquisition to them
as Captain Revello soon got his bearings and
laid his course in a direction which he knew
would bring him across the path of vessels
bound in and cut of the Caribbean See, or at
least to the shores of an inhabited country.

But several days passed and no sail came in
sight. while they had also to weather a severe

le.
g“,L'I‘heir provisions and water ran low, and the
face of Captain Revello began to look gloomy,
while Topaz shaved the same indifference that
seemed a part of his nature.

“ If we do not sight a sail, or make land in a
couple of days more, Topaz, we will be out of
prolvisions and water, and starve to death,” he
sai . .

“ May be, senor, but it will be all right in the
end,” was the laconic response of Tepaz, but
whether it wouldflbe all right in the end to
starve to death, or that they would be rescued,
the African did not explain, and Captain Re-
vello did not ask the question of him.

At last day dawned to find the cask empty
and not a crumb of provisions left.

Expecting early succor they had been a little
too generous in their use of them.

Captain Revello’s face wore a more serious
air, but Topaz looked as serene as ever.

“ Sail ho, senor!” at last called out the negro,
and with no more excitement than he would
have done had he been upon the deck of a yes‘
sel with plenty of sails in sight;

“Whereawayl”..was the jo ful cry of Cap-
tain Revello, and he look in the direction
where the negro pointed. ,

“ I see her! _

“ It is a brig and it will cross our course, so
we are saved, Topaz, saved 1”

“ Maybe!” was the complacent response, and
then both turned their looks upon the distant
sail, while the prow of the life-boat was headed
to set the stranger.

‘ It is a brig as you see, Tom, and an armed
one m her rig.”

“ as. senor: Americana.”

“ You are right: but whatever she may prove
to be we are saved.” . _

 

 

 

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V.

 

 

“ Yes, Senor Captain."
“Don’t make any mistake now in whatever
story you tell.”

“ No, senor.”

“ I wish you to tell what is the truth—that
I am Captain Rudolph Revello, of the Mexican
brig—of-war Rattlesnake, which was caught in
the tornado and wrecked.”

“ Yes, senor.”

“ All on hoard were lost, and we clung to the
life-boat, which. was stove in, and managed,
with some drifting rigging and canvas we pick-
ed up, to repair her so she would keep afloat.”

“ Yes, Senor Chief.”

“ I intend to return to Mexico, of course,
Topaz, and you are to go with me, and I Will
report to the Junta the loss of my vessel.

“ I have smile precious stones with me in my
belt, so am not poor, and I shall wed with all
dispatch the Senorita Marcelite Castile, and de-

art from Mexico, for I have reason to know,

opaz, that the cabin-boy betrayed to the com
mander of the American schooner-of—war, Spite-
i'ul, the fact that my brig was a pirate as well as
a. cruiser, and I might lose my head, should that
oflicer return to Vera Cruz and make his report
to m G0vernment.”

“ es, senor! but will the chief give up the
sea?”

“ If I marry the Senorita. Castile, Topaz, her
gold will give me ample fortune to live upon, for

will see to it that her father, the Don, is short-
lived,land that all his wealth also goes to his
daughter.”

‘f But if the Senor Chief does not marry the
Senorita Marcelite?" asked the negro, and his
tone was not so indifferent as was its wont.

“In that case, Topaz, I believe I shall go to
sea again.”

“ The scnor has no ship, no men!”

" No, but I will get them, Topaz for if I go to
sea again it will not be as Captain Revello of the
Mexican Navy, but as a free rover -—under
another name, for I must have gold—much gold,
Topaz, and I can get it b) levying tribute on
every craft I heard. See! we are sighted from
the brig and are saved 1"

“ Senor, it is the pirate, the Ocean Rapier,"
cried the African. -

Captain R“Vt'll(),8 face turned ashen in hue.
That was his freebooter rivall

 

CHAPTER VI.
THE BUCCANEEB.

“MY God, Topaz! that is the brig known as
the Ocean Rapier, and it may be death to us to
bepicked up by her, instead of life," cried the
Mexican captain.

“Yes, senor; it. will not do to say you are
Captain Revcllo."

“No, no indeed! I will not dare claim to be
a Mexican oflicer. It was fortunate that I cast
aside my uniform for a sailor’s snitl

“ I will say I~ am—am—Don Ricardo Castile,
a ranchero, dwelling upon the coast of Mexico,
and with you, my slave, were bound to Vera

'Cruz, when our craft was wrecked.”

“ Yes, senor.”

“Now get tbOSe togs of yours overboard,
Topaz, for rancheros do not dress their slaves in
velvet, silk and precious st: mes.”

The African hastily drew iii" his strange and
gorgeous costume which had but added to his
ugly looks, and hastily cut out with his knife a
canvas cowring for his deformed body.

In the meanwhile the brig had drawn quite
near, and a cr0wd of men Were visible upon the
bews gazing at the boat.

The brig was a Very handsome craft—tho
counterpart in fact of the wrecked Mexican
cruiser, Rattlesnake.

She came along at a swift pace, though the
wind was light, and carried a heavy battery it
could be seen and a large crew of as wild a look-
ing lot of human beings as could be gathered to-
gether in the four gunners of the globe.

There was no ag at the peak to tell her
nationality, if she had any, but the keen eyes
of Topaz had detected in her a brig known as
the Ocean Rapier, and which was a pirate
craft, a terror upon the Gulf and in the southern
seas.

At last as the boat drew nearer the brig,
Captain Revello broke the silence which had
ta] on between him and the negro since discov-
ering the nature of the vessel that was to save
them.

“ Topaz.” »

“ Yes, senor.” .

“That is the Rapier?”

“ Yes, chief."

‘ “ Her commander is Bertrando, a man merci-
less to all, as you kn0w.”

“ Yes, senor.”

“I have lost my vessel, and that one is her

counterpart.”
"‘ the is a twin to the Rattlesnake, Senor Cap-
tain. ‘*

“A perfect twin, well armed, well manned,
as you see, for she has a large crew on board,
8007;” as they are, and why will sho‘not suit
me . _

The African-emu! fairly astonished at the
boldquuticn.

 

A man picked up in an open boat at sea sug-
gest the idea of taking possession of an armed
craft. which he felt confident was a buccaneer
surprised even the serene Topaz.

“The senor means to be captain?” he asked
after a pau~e.

“That is just what I do mean, Topaz. for I
believe it can be done, if I play my cards right,
so keep yourself ready to aid,me.”

“ I am ready to obey the senor,” was the calm

reply. .
The bold thought he had givan utterance to
had brought the fire back to the eyes of Captain
Revello and he gazed upon the brig with the
look of a man already in command of her.

The brig was now but a short distance away
and there came a bail in Spanish:

“ Ho, the boat!”

“ Ay, ay, Senor Captain!” answered Revello,
calmly. ‘

“ Run under our lee as we luff, and board usr”
came the grufl.‘ command.

“ Ay, ay, sir,” was the answer, and a minute
after Captain Revello, followed by Topaz, went
OVer the side of the brig.

The scene that met their gaze was a strange
one, for there, grouped forward, were four-score
men attired in red skull-caps and white duck
pants, their bodies being naked and exposed to
the weather, while they were also barefoot.

Their fa ces showed that they mostly came
from the Gulf shores and South America, though
there were a few Anglo-Saxons seen here and
there amid the group, and also the red skin of
an Indian and the sable complexion of a negro.

A motley, murderous-looking lot they cer-
tainly Were, and each man were in his ‘Lelta
long-bladed, ugly-looking knife.

The decks and all about the vessel showed dis-
cipline however, and though weather-worn in
hull, rig and soils, the craft was evidently kept
in first-class trim. while the guns were shining
bri ht and ready for use.

1! any scars Were visible in decks, bulwarks
and rigging, and many more had been patched
up, showing that whatever her calling the ves-
sel had not escaped unscathed in her cruising.

Aft there stood a group of half a dozen officers
and they were resplendent in gorgeous uniforms
of black and silver, while upon the hat of each,
as upon the skull-caps of the men, was embroid-
ered a goldqn rapier.

A young officer had met the Mexican and
negro at the gangway, bade them cast off their
boat and follow him.

They did so, Revello walking upright. and pre-
senting a commanding appearance, while Topaz
shuffled along in, his awkward gait.

There upon the quarter-deck stood a tall man,
with long, jet—black beard and hair and the eye
of an eagle. -

“ Well, senor, give an account of how it is I
find you at sea in an open boat?" he said, in a
stern tone, though with a certain air of respect.

“Allow me to introduce myself, Senor Cap-
thin, as a MPle‘all ranchero, by name Don Cas-
tile, who was wrecked upon his way to Vera
Cruz, while all who escaped you see before you.”

“ Don Ricardo Ciistile?” repeated the captain
of the brig, who had given a start when the
name was spoken.

‘ , senor.”

“ And you dwell in Mexico now, senor?”

“ I do, Senor Captain."

“Cortez, have you ever heard the name of
the senor as a Mexican rancheroi” and the com-
mander of the brig turned to one of his omcers.

“ I have, senor, and he is a Spaniard of vast
wealth, who many years ago came to Mexico
and married there.

“ It is said that he is one of the richest man in
Mexico, and his home is somewhere within fifty
lesgues of Vera Cruz,” was the answer of the
(film-r addressed.

Revello did not show his uneasiness during
this answer of the officer, but started when the
brig’s commander asked:

“ Have you, Cortrz or any one else on this
vessel, ever seen Don Ricardo Castilei”

“ I have seen him, Senor Captain,” an officer
res onded.

‘ And is this gentleman Don Castile, Senor
Waldo?” .

“ Yes, Senor Captain,” was the prompt reply.
tit“ Then there can be no doubt about his iden-

.V.

“ I am sorry, Senor Captain, that you deemed
it necessary to cast a doubt u n my assertion
as to who I am,” haughtily sai Revello.

“ PardOn, senor, but I only wished to be sure,
for I desired to know how sure I Was of the large
ransom 1 am to demand for your release, for
permit me to present myself as Captain Ber-
trando, the Buccaneer,” and the commander of
the brig bowed with marked courtesy.

 

CHAPTER Vii.
run “coon-non.

Camus RUDOLPH Revamp felt that he had
made a mistake in claiming to beanother per-
son than himself. '

He saw that for some reason he was doubted
by the buccaneer captain. and he could not un-
derstand how it was that Officer Waldo had eon-

 

fessed to seeing Don Castile and yet said that he
was the rauchero, for they were not in the least
degree alike to each other.

As for Topaz he stood in a listless way, as
though life held no interest for him, and yet he
noted every look, heard every word that was
said.
“ I will see the Senor Don Ricardo Castile in
my cabin,” said Captain Bertrando, with some-
thing very like sarcasm in his tone. >

Revello bowed and folio“ ed him to the cabin
when a steward was called to bring food and
wine.

This was dispatched with c. relish that chow-
ed great hunger, and Bertrando the while was
silent.

When he had finished his meal Berti-undo
turned and said; .

“ Now, Senor Don Ricardo, as. you have satis-
iTed is re cravings of hunger I wish a talk Wlth

on.”

“ Certainly, senor,” and the courage of the
man arose now that his hunger was satisfied. '

“ I wish to know just where you were born in
Spain, and in what year?” _

Revello was the more. convinced by this ques-
tioning that he had made a, mistake; but he an-
swered: _

“ I was born in the Villa Castile, Madrid, and
I am thirty-six years of age.” /.

“ Ab! and your father was—J’ .

“ A colonel of cavalry in the Spanish Army,
and slain in battle ”

“I see; and you left Spain for Mexico for rea-
sons?”

“ Yes, senor, and I_ made Mexico my home.”

“ And married there?”

“ Yes, senor.”

“You not only brought a fortune with you
to Mexico, but married a very rich Mexican
lady I believe?”

‘ I have lost my riches, senor.”

“ Ahl that is bad; but I think, Don Ricardo
Cgst’ile, that you can raise a sum to save your
1 e

" A small sum.”

“ I will demand as the ransom of a man of
your wealth the sum of iiftly‘Y thousand pesos.”

“ Ah, senor, you must ta 0 my life. for I am
a poor man and could not pay one-tenth the sum
you name.”

“ Your life it must be, then, Don Ricardo.”

The Mexican winced at this and was silent.

He had in his belt a sum in precious stones and
gold amounting to half the amount named by
the buccaneer.

This he would naturally give up to save his
life, and yet did the pirate know that he had the
precious treasure with him, he would take it and
still hold him for ransom.

If he had only not said that he was Don Ri-
cardo, he would have been able to play the poor

man.
But he had made the mistake and must abide

it.

y“ Well, Don Ricardo,” and whenever the hue-
caneer spoke the name of the Spaniard, it was
with a peculiar emphasis. “ Well, Don Ricardo,
I wish to say that I have intended visiting you
in your home on the coast, well knowing I would
get a rich haul by so doing.

“But fate has thrown you in my way, and to
make your escape you must pay for it.

“ I therefore give you your choice of being my
pilot to your home, where you can pay , me the
sum demanded and save our life, or refuse, and
you shall be made to w the plank within the
hour.

“ Senor, I am not Don Ricardo Castile ” sud-
denly said Revello, thus brought to bay y the

irate.
p “ My dear senor, let me tell you that I knew
that from the first, for Don Ricardo and I were
boys together, and I know at once that you had
lied to me."

“Do not flash up at my words, for you cer-
tainly did not tell the truth, and this time I ex-
pect to hpve it.”

“ I am a poor Mexican sailor, senor, who could
not pay you ransom were you to offer me my
life for a thousand pesos.” ,

“ Is this the truth, senor!” and Bortrando
shar ly eyed his prisoner.

“ t is, Senor Captain.”

The buccaneer smiled, but made no reply.

Then he arose and left the cabin and Rovello
was alone.

He began to feel more and more his mistake
and what the outcome would be he did not
know. ‘

He dared not confess to the buccaueer who he
was in reality, for that would surely be the .18.
no] for his death.

At last Bertrando returned and thrusting him-
self into his former seat, he said:

“Now, senor, I wish you to tell me the
Wait: 1 V

‘ at won 6 you know, Senor Ca in!” ‘1

“ Who and what are you?” D“ ‘

' “ I am, as I said, a Mexican sailor, the mast“-

of a coasting craft that was lost in the storm of ,

ten days ago.”

“And you and your African slave was ch.
solo survivors, senor

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“You are wrong again, senor.”

“ How do you mean?”

“ I will allow another than myself toexplain.”

So saying the buccaneer captain stepped to
the companion we and called:

“ Senor Waldo! ’

“ A y, ay, Senor Captain,” came the answer,
and a moment after Officer Waldo appeared.

The Mexican did not change countenance, for
the eyes of Bertrando were upon him as he said:

“ Senor Waldo, you have met this gentleman
before?”

“ I have, Captain Bertrando,”

"You were pleased to recognize in him Don
Ricardo Castile.”

" I did say that he was the Don, but for a pur-
pose senor.”

“ I‘lame your purpose to me?”

“I know who he is and I intended to use the
information later, when I saw you alone, Senor
Ca tain.”

‘ It may be so, and it may not be; but ad-
mitting that it is, tell me now who this gentle-
man is?” _

The officer seemed a trifle anxious, and Revello
felt, as well as did Berti'ando, that he had not
told the truth in regard to why he' had made it
appear that he was Don Ricardo Castile.

‘ Senor Captain,” began the officer, with the
tone and manner of one who felt that he had a
surprise to giVe; '

“ I will now tell you who this gentleman is,
and you will beglad indeed to know, as he is one
whom you have often wished to meet.”

." Indeed! and who is he?” quickly asked the
irate.

“ Captain Rudolph Revello of the Mexican
Navy, Senor Captain,” was the reponse of the
buccaneer lieutenant.

V .-—._.

CHAPTER VIII.
rns: mama‘s ACCUSATION.

annLLo started at the words of Waldo, for
he knew now that he was recognized, that
furtliitelr attempt to conceal his identity was im-

e.

The huccaneer captain on his part sprung to
his feet with an ejaculation of half-delight, half-
anger.

He turned his gaze earnestly upon the Mexi-
can Ofllcer and asked sternly:

.1290 you deny the charge of Senor VValrlo,
r .

“ I do not, Captain Bertrando.

“ I am Rudolph Revello, captain in the Mexi-
can Navy," was the cool re ily, for now that he
had to face the ordeal the exican was wholly
unmoved.

“ And how is it. senor, that I find you at sea
in an gpen boat, with onlya negro as a com-
panion

“My brig was wrecked in the tornado and

. an npop ansunkeu reef, the African and I
" , ‘ ‘ escap ng.
l a“ mnYou commanded the brig-of-war Rattle-

e

“ I did.”

“ The sister ship of my own vessel 1"

“ Yes, only a superior craft and fleeter.”

“ You savaell, and I wanted that craft.

“ Senor aldo, I will excuse you now, and I
thank you for the secret you have made known
to me, though I cannot but feel you intended to
keep your knowledge for some reason best
known to yourself.”

Waldo made no reply, and thus dismiued, re-
tired from the cabin.

“ Now, Senor Captain, we can talk together.”

Revello simply bowed, and Captain Berti-undo
continued:

“ I knew your vessel well, and I knew you as
a Mexican officer who took advantage of the re—
semblance of your brig to mine, and the fact
that I was a pirate, to commit acts of piracy
upon the high seas which were laid at my door.

“Senor, IyOour words are insulting,” sharply
responded vello.

" Nevertheless, they are true, as I know well.”

“ I am in your power, Senor Bertrando, and‘
hence you can cast insults upon me with im-
punity.”

“ Bah! don’t put on a melodramatic air of
in ured innocence, Captain Revello, for I know
w at I am talking about.

“ You did rob vessels at sea under my flag,
and h0w you kept your officers and crew true to
(you I can not understand, though you did

0 so.

“ I heard of a vessel that was robbed at sea by
my brig, and her captain I sought for and
found.

“ He‘ told me that it was my brig, and more,
that l was the man, for the captain of the vessel
that boarded lzim wore a long beard and a uni-
form similar to mine.

“ This set me to thinking, and soon after an.
other case came before my observation.

“This time I was told the some thing by the
crew of the craft overhauled on the high seas,
that I was the man, my brig the one that cap-
tured their vessel, and that she carried the same
battery; her crew were half stripped, and her

was a red rapier.

,' Then I knew that my beautiful brig had a
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“I began my search for the double of my
vessel and myself, and to my surprise at last
learned there was a Mexican cruiser which must i
be the craft. '

“You remember that we crossed the path of
each other several times at sea, and each time, 1
though it was your duty to hunt me down, as a
cruiser should a buccaneer, you fled from me.

“ Perhaps you could have captured my craft,
perhaps not: but certainly you would not try
conclusions with me, and so fled from me.

“It suited your purpose to do so, for you
wanted me to remain a pirate at sea; you de— ~
sired to have a counterpart of your brig cruis-
ing as an outlaw craft, for it gave you the
chance you sought to live a double life, to en-
rich yourself as a secret buccaneer, while I,
Bertrando, of the Ocean Rapier, got the name
of all the piracies you were guilty of.

“Now you can understand, Senor Rudolph
Revello, why] have been anxious to overhaul .3
your craft, why I have been sodesirous of meet-
ing you.

‘ At last we do meet, and you play the part :
of a man I kn0w but too well, and have also
been anxious to find.

“Senor, you are more than welcome on -‘
board my vessel, I assure you.”

There was too much of sarcasm in the lasti
words of Bertrando to cause Captain Revello to i
feel that his welcome was genuine. i

He was glad to see him; yes, but it was be- ,
cause he had him in his p0wer, and intended, l

i

for some reason known to himself, to use the ‘ in
'power he held over him.

Revello had listened to the pirate’s charges in
silence, his face unmoved.

He uttered no contradiction, for that would
be useless, be well know.

When at last Bertrando told him he was glad
to see him on his vessel, he said in reply:

“ Senor Captain, I claim the rights due a
shipwrecked man, wholly at your mercy.

“ You are a pirate, yes, and I am a captain in
the Mexican service, and have been your foe,
have sou ht to hunt you down for your pi rncies,
as your c ar es against me are of no avail, you
having mists on my vessel for some other that
has been playing a double game, doubtless one
like ourself, a pirate.”

“ am not deceived in this matter, Captain
Revello, for I kn0w you to be the man who has
robbed on the high seas under my name and
flag, and thus led a dual existence.

‘ Why, I know that you have even had the
report of your outlawry sent to your Govern-
ment, for I have been in Vera Cruz, pirate
though I am, and I have heard much of you
and our life there.

“ on have been an extravagant liver for
a ca tain of the navy, but then you have had the
resu ts of our piracies to support you in your
luxurious ife.”

“ I can still only deny the charge you make
against me', and say that you have been de-
ceived into believing that I have impersonated
you and your.vessel.”

The hnccaneer laughed li htly and replied:

“I am right, I know; ut there is another
thing I wish to speak to you about.”

“ Well, senor?”

“ You know Don Ricardo Castile

H I do."

“ What family has he?"

“ Himself and daughter are all.”

“ Ah! his wife is dead then!”

“ She is.”

“ And he is very rich l”

“ He is said to be.” ,

“ Well, Captain Revello, your life depends
upon egour domg as I tell you,” and Bertrando
look very much in earnest as he uttered the

words.

 

CHAPTER IX.
ran DEMAND.

“So I am to bu my life from you, Senor
Captain Bertrandol said Revello with a sneer,
in answer to the remark of the buccaneer.

“ Yes, though not with gold, as I can hardly
expect a shipwrecked man to possess much i n
the way of riches.” , .

“Then how am I to purchase my life, may I
ask, if not with 1d?”

“ 9‘, doing as command you.”

“ hat is your wish?”

“In the first place you pretended to be Don
Ricardo Castile.”

“ You now kn0w me as I am.”

“ True, and you are the friend of Don Ricar-
do, I take it?”

H I am.”

“ Doubtless of his fair daughter, too.” .,

“ We will not discuss the senorita.”

“ Very well; let us talk of the Don.”

“ What do you wish to know regarding him?”

“ Very little, for I know far more of Ricardo
Castile than do you.”

“Indeed?” asked Revello, in surprise, struck
by the manner of the man‘.

“ I do. as you will understand when I tell you
that he is my brother!” .

“ Your brother!" and Revello laughed in a de-'
risive way.

 

’ “Yes, my brother; and though younger than
I am he holds my heritage and fortune to-day.

“You still doubt, and yet, if you know him
well, and will regard me closely, you Wlll see
many points of resemblance between us, for we
were said to be much alike in the long ago.”

“ I believe you do resemble him—yes, I am
certain of it.”

“ Did I cut ofi’ my long beard and hair you
would find at once h0w much we are alike.”

“And he is a gentleman today, a man hon-
ored and respected by all who know him, while
you are—”

“A pirate; yes, and be it was who made me
what I am.

“I wish to tell you that Ricardo and I loved
the same maiden, and I trusted in his honor al-
ways, so asked him to see her often in my ab-
sence, for I was a sailor, an officer in the navy
of Spain. -

“ left, with that maiden pledged to become
my wife.

“ I returned sooner than I had expected
wounded in action and ill with fever, and I
found them, the false maiden and the falser
brother, exchanging vows of love in the moon-
Ii ht.

g“They did not see me, and I heard her tell
him that she had never loved until he had taught
her the sweet lesson, a lesson she could never
learn from me.

“Maddened at his perfidy, I leveled a pistol,
which I had snatched from my belt, and fired at

m.

" Great God! they both fell, for the bullet
struck him on the head, glanced downward and
entered her false heart.

“ He was merely stunned, but I believed that
I had killed both of them and fled.

“Of course I became a Cain-accuraed wan-
derer, an outcast, and disgraced as an officer, a
deseiter, I became an outlaw, and turned to
piracy.

“ ell, I have been a pirate ever since, and
you know well my record as such, for you have
sought to emulate it.

“ I never knew unti‘llon after, that I had not
killed both my brother an my false lady—love.

“ Then I found out the truth, of how my bul-
let had pierced her breast and only wounded my
brother.

“ The influence of our father got Spanish law
to make my brother the heir to the title and es-
tates, and some years after my fli ht, Ricardo
became the Don, when our father (1 ed, and sole
heir to the vast fortune.

“ It was told me too how he had left Spain
and sought a home in some South American
country, yet I could never trace him.

“ Now you tell me that he has turned Mexi-
can, married a lady of wealth in 30m country,
and has a daughter.

“ This is so, is it not?”

“It is.”

‘ ‘ And you know where he dwells?”

The Mexican was silent, for he seemed to un-
derstand the drift of the buocaneer’s question.

“ Answer me, Senor Revello.” .

“ What would you know?”

“ Do you know where the house of Don Ric-b
do Castile is?”

“ Why do you wish to know?”

“ Answer me!” was the stern rejoinder.

“ I do' know where the home of Don Ricardo
Castile ix.” .

“ Then you are my man.” .

“ If you intend to wrong him, Or harm him, I
am got’the man to betray his whereabouts to

on.
y ‘f Do you love life?”

“ I do.” -

“ Do you love the Don‘s daughter?”

“ That is my affair.”

“I am amused, for I know that you do.”

“ Well?”

“ [do not think it would be right for me to
allow my niece to wed a man, who undbr the
guise of a man of honor is at heart a pirate.”

“ I am falsely accused by you.”

“You are not, and I mean what I say when I
ask if you love life?" *'

“ I have answered you.”

“ Well. should you again set foot in Vera
Cruz you would doubtless be given another
ship and wed Don Ricardo Castile’s daughter,
thus securinga vast fortune. .

“Thus all would be well for you; but should
you not do as I demand, then never will you set
foot again in Vera Cruz and never will you wed
Don Ricardo’s daughter, for on the contrary you
will dangle from the yard-arm of m brig, or
walk the lank into the sea, loaded with chains.

“ Now, aptain Revello, it remains for you to
say whether you wish to save your life or sacri-
fice it, for I am in deadly earnest.”

That he was in earnest the whole manner and
tone of the huccaneer was proof, and Rever
read as much.

But he asked in an unmoved tone: v

“ Well, what am I to do to save m life?”

“You are to pilot my vessel to e home of
Don Ricardo, for he lives upon the coast I am
certain.” ‘

“ And what‘s your motive in going there!”

The huccaneer was silent for a minute and
than said: ,

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“ I desire to get the fortune that is mine by
' right, for the title of Don I do not care for, and
Ricardo can have.

“The fortune be secured from his Mexican
wife he can also retain, so he will not be left
a pauper; but the Spanish inheritance is my
heritage, and by the Ieavcn above I willhave
it peso for peso and a liberal interest on the
amount up to date.

“Now, Captain Revello, you are to pilot my
vessel to the nearest haven, to the Castile haci-
enda, and then guide me to the home andlbring
about a meeting betWeen my brother and my-
se 1'.

“ He believes you dead.”

“Hal you know this?” quickly cried the hue-
caneer.

- “I kn0w there is a shadow upon his life,
for he once told me of a brother who had
gone wrong and ended his life upon a pirate
deck.”

“He is mistaken, as you see and he will soon
discover. Now, senor, come on deck and put
the brig on a course for the Mexican Coast.”

“I refuse.”

“ Then you shall di’) within the hour, Captain
Revello.” was the savage retort of the Buc-
caneer Rover.

CHAPTER X.

BROUGHT TO TERMS.

REVELLO‘ could not but note a similarity in
the life of Bertrando the Buccaneer and his
own, as far as the act of the outlaw which had
put to death the woman he had loved, and his
own sacrifice of the one who had been his
wife and dogged his steps for revenge.

He was even more guilty than was the hue-
caneer, for he had coolly doomed the unfor-
tunate woman to die in chains, to go down with
the wreck, while Bertrando had shot his false
lady-love in a moment of sudden jealousy and
rage at discovering how she had betrayed his
trust in her.

Now he stood at the mercy of this same man,
an acknowledged pirate, and the brother of
Don Ricardo Castile.

Should he betray the home of the Spaniard
and thus rob himself of the fortune that was to
be the inheritance of the Don’s daughter, whom
he was determined to make his wife?

hll‘or the Don, Revello cared but little, if any-
t ing.

In truth, he would be only too glad to get the
Don out of the’ way by death, so that the Senor-
ita Marcelite would have the fortune in her own
right, and that meant that he would con~

'But if the_bnccaneer discovered his brother,
there was huhittle doubt he would force him to
give up the fortune he had brought from Spain
with him, and which was justly his own, outcast
and outan though he was.

If Don Ricardo gave up the inheritance, then
it robbed his daughter of her fortune, a half of
it at least, and that was in Revello’s eyes, rob-
bing him.

So he decided, as these thoughts flashed
through his mind, to try and make terms with
the pirate captain.

If he could not do this, then he would see if
he could not entrap him, and this Revello was
meet anxious to do.

“ So on d _ and that I pilot you to the home
of Don icar o Castile, Senor Bertrando, or, re-
fusing, lose my life!" he said, when he had de-
cided what he would do.

“ You understand exactly the situation, I am

lad to see,” said the bnccaneer in response.

“ And should I do this, what then?”

“ Your life shall be spared."

“ And is that all!"

“It is grunting much to a fee, for you have
been my foe, though you did not seek my de-
struction or to drive me from the sea.”

“Captain Bertrando, I have a confession to
make to you.”

“ Well, senor, I am most willing to hear it.”

“ I desire to tell you that I love the Senorita
Marcelite—” '

“ Marcelitel _Great God! does the daughter of
Ricardo Castile hear the name of Marcelite?"
cried Bertrando excitedly.

“ She does, senor.” .

“ It was her name, the name of the woman
who was false to me, whom I killed,” groaned
the pirate, and Revello saw that he was very
deep y moved.

" Such is the Senorita'Csstile’s Christian name,
Senor Bertrando,” repeated ReveilO.

“ Well, he has named her after that false

one. _

“So be it, I shall hate her because I hate the
memory of the false Marcelite. .

“ But you love the maiden, this Marcelite, you
said Senor Captain?”

“ I do, senor, with all my heart and soul.” ‘

“ And she returns-this love, this Marcelite?”

“ She does, senor.”

“She will be as false as her fair namesake,"
said the buccaneer with a sneer.

“Never! she will never be false to me.”

The bucoaneer laughed in a bitter way, while
he answered: _

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“ Her father was false to me, his brother; her
namesake was false to me, and mark my words,
Marcelite Castile will be doubly false to you.”

“ I will not hear you thus cast slurs upon her
honor, for—”

“HOW can you prevent, senor, for you are
pow erless here to resent even a blOW.

“ But we will not uarrel about her, for she is
not worth it, being his child and named after the
false Marcelite.

“Now to continue what you were pleased to
call your confession?”

“ Well, as I told you. I love the Senorita
Marcelite, and she is pledged to become my
bride.”

it Yes.”

“ You wish me to pilot you to the home of the
Don, to rob him of his fortune.”

“You are mstaken. I am merely going to
take back that which is my own.”

“ His Spanish fortune is even greater than
that which he received from his Mexican wife.”

“ Indeedl then he is a rich man; a very rich
man, as I know well what my inheritance was to
have been.

“ I shall have to make a still greater demand
upon my dear brother, now that I know he is so
wealthy.

“ I thank you for telling me this, Senor Re-
vello.”

The Mexican hit his lips at what he had said,
but soon resumed:

“ Now you demand that I aid you to rob the
Don, and in doing so I rob myself, for of course
the Senorita Marcelite would inherit all her
father’s riches, being his only heir.”

“ That is the situation, my dear senor.”

“ in return, you offer me my life, not even
pledging me my freedom.”

“ What more can you expect from a monster
such as I am said to be?”

" I do expect more, and I shall demand it.”

“ Demand?”

“ So I said.”

“ This to mei” .

“ You understand my words, Senor Pirate. I
said I would demand more.”

“ And you are my prisoner?”

“Yes, so become by accident, by the force of
circumstances I could not control, and of which
you have taken advantage.”

“ Granted; but now to your demand i”

“ To pilot you to the home of Don Ricardo is
torob myself, and I will not do so unless I get
my terms.”

“ You will die if you refuse.”

“ So be it.” .

” I shall have on loaded with chains and
force you to wall: he plank to your death. ”

“So be it!”

“ C’),r I will swing you up to die at the yard-
arm. '

“ There is but one death, Bertrando, one time
to die, and I will face it like a man, as I have
done many a time before.”

“ We shall see.”

“ Put me to the test, then, and end it.”

Bertrando uttered an oath between his shut
teeth. That he had caught a Tartar he discov-
ered, and he was surprised to find a man in his
power demanding terms. .

That he could frighten him into doingas he
demanded he believed was impossible, once he
looked into the determined defiant face of his
prisoner.

He felt that Revello would rather die than
lead the life of a poor man, to be bereft of a
fortune be regarded as his own through Mar-
celite Castile. '

So he was brought to terms by the bold stand
of the Mexican and asked in his sneering way:

“ What is your demand, Captain Revello?" N

“ That you make me first ciflcer under you of
your pirate brig—such are my terms, Senor
Bertrando!” was the startling response of the
Mexican captain.

CHAPTER XI.

THE COMPACT.

CAPTAIN Bnaraanno felt that he had met his
match.

Here was a man, taken out of a boat adrift at
sea, knowing that he was Bertrando the Buc-
caneer and wholly at his mercy, and yet making
terms with him, forcing him into a compact
which he saw no way of esca ing from.

He looked at» Revello with) a glance of un-
bounded admiration. and at last, when he had
recovered from his surprise, asked:

“ Do you mean it, Captain ReVelloi”

“Ida”

“ You are a commissioned ofilcer of the Navy
of Mexico?"

“ Yes, but without a vessel.”

“ at you wish to turn piratei’

“ I do ”

“ You have a motive?”
(I Yw.”

“Am I to know it?"

“ If I returned to Vera Cruz the Junta would
not give me a vessel, for the Government is too
poor to build me one. »

“ The brig I have lost was my own pro rty,
built at my expense, and so armed and ean: .
hence I was made her captain.

 

“ Now I have lost my all in the brig and could
not build another vessel.

“ Her loss will soon be known and I will be
supposed to have one down in her.

‘ Of course the enorita Marcelite will mourn
for me, and even if compelled to wed another
it will not be for a year or two, for she is still
very young.”

“ I see, senor.”

“Now, as senior .reutenant on your vessel, I
am entitled to share next to you in all spoils."

“ I understand.”

“ Thus the fortune you get from Don Ricardo
will in part return to me as my share of the
plunder, for the crew shall not be cheated out of
their portion of the plunder simply because you
do not get the money at the cannon’s mouth.”

“ You are a bold man, Senor Revello, to talk
to me thus.”

“I have never been accused, even by my ene-
mies, of being a coward, senor; but to my
storv.” ’

“ I am listening.”

“ Thus, as senior officer of your vessel, I come
in for my share of the plunder n0w on hand,
and what you will secure from piracies in the
future.

“ At the end of a certain time _which we will
agree upon between us, i will disappear, su
msed to be dead in fact, and I will reappear in
Vera Cruz and wed the Senorita Marcelite,
stating that I have been a prisoner of pirates,
of yourself in fact, who picked me up at sea
after my vessel was shipwrecked, and I was only
able to make my esca 6 after desperate dangers
and untold sufferings. ’

“ I understand, senor.

“ And then?”

“ Why, I will get my share of. what Don
Castile has left by marrying his daughter, and
if you feel revengeful toward your brother
and wish to remove him from life in some way,
say by a~raid upon his hacienda and killing him,
you will greatly oblige me, Senor Bertrando, and
receive my heartfelt thanks.

" Now what do you say, senor, to such a com-
pact between us?”

Bertrando regarded _Captain Revello with a
look of positive admiration, as one man will
regard another for whom he has the highest
respect and who has just done some heroic act.

‘ What have I to say, senor?" he asked with
enthusiasm.

“ Yes, Bertrando,” was the cool reply.

“Why I wish to say just this, that you are
a far greater villain than I am, and that is say-
ing a very great deal, my dear Revello, for I
am a very bad man.”

,“I feel flattered at such praise from your
Senor Bertrando.

“ But on do not answer my quostion.” .

“Put it straight now, just what you wish?”

“ To become your first officer for one year, 01'
moria, and, then be allowed to disappear.”

‘ see

“ In return for which I am to pilot you to tho
home of Don Ricardo Castile, whose Spanish
fortune you are to demand and receive from
him, leaving the balance for _his daughter,
whom I am to marry in good time, and then
you are to render her fatherless, thus gaining
your own reven e against your brother.

“ I understang, senor.”

“ And agree to the compact!”

“ There is a slight obstacle in the way?”

“ What is it?“

“ A man.”

“Yourself!”

to

“ Who, then?”

i “ The officer whose shoes you wish to step
nlo.

“ I do not care for that.”

“ He is a dangerous man, a very dlngmu'
man, senor, and there is no better swordsman
the world over than is Officer Cortes.”

“ I will meet him in the duello, and thus settle
the uestion.”'

“ pon what plea will you meet him?”

“ Tell him that if I can get the, better of him
my life is to be spared, and I am to step into his
place.

“ If he has courage he will‘be willing to meet‘
me, and defend his place."

“The Senor Cortez is not a man to refuse,
Senor Revello." ,

“ And you agree to the compact, I am to un-
derstand?” eagerly said Revello.

“ I have not so said, senor. .

“ I must have time to consider. and so will
give you an answer upon the mono": 300
meanwhile bein my es .

“ I will now grdel'gt‘IlP brig put away for the
Mexican Coast, in cafe I shzuld decide to do as

l s est, we will oseno Ime-
yo“‘(E‘ili’izigyon tell me about the course I am to
head to bring me near Don Ricardo’s home?”

“I will not say a word more. Bengt. upon the
subject, until I know your decision.

“ Very well, and remember if I do not agree
to the compact, death shall lie the penalty you
are to suffer, unless you mm to my terms,
which are to piiot me to the home of my traitor
brother?” i

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our brother’s home, except upon my own

rms, which you know, so you can put me to
death the moment you decide against me, and
"by any means you seem pleased to see me die,
for I shall' meet m fate like a brave man,
wicked one though I .”

Captain Bertrando recognized fully that he
ha! more than met his match, and so he rose
and left the cabin with an impatient impreca—
tion.

His first duty was to call Senor Waldo and
ask him if he knew where on the coast was the
:home of Don Ricardo.

But this Waldo did not know, though he had
heard that the rich Spaniard dwelt not very
:many leagues from Vera Cruz.

With this answer Bertrando ordered the brig
"headed for Vera Cruz, and then he sought Offi-
cer Cortex and had a talk with him of some
minutes.

The face of the Spaniard brightened as his
chief talked with him, and at last he said:

“ I will gladly meet him, Senor Captain, and
drill him, too.”

"Very well, Senor Cortez, it shall be upon
the morr0w,” was Bertrando’s response, and
descending to the cabin once more he found
Captain Revello serenely sleeping upon a divan.

gut he awoke at the call of the chief, who
can :

“ Captain Revello, I have decided to agree to
your terms—they shall be as a compact between
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CHAPTER XII.

THE DUEL WITH RAPIERS.

'THE face of Revello did not change color even
at the words of the buccaneer chief, which told
:him that he was to have his way in the terms he
offered.

He had decided upon a plot of his Own to win
all, losin nothing, and he intended to play the
.game be dly and to the end, making no mis-
Itake.

“ 1 am glad that you have decided to acCept
‘my terms, Chief Bertrando, and I suppose this
decision includes a duel with Senor Cortez?”

“ Yes, after we have reached the hacienda of
Don Ricardo.”

: “ It must be before, senor. for if I make a
single move it is only as first officer of your ves-
-sel '

This did not please Bertrando.

He well knew the desperate nature of his offl-
ICer, Cortez, his love of taking human life, and
his wonderful swordsmanship.

He supposed that there could be but one end
~to the duel, the death of Revello, and this would
prevent his finding the home of Don Ricardo.

So he replied: .

“I have yielded to your terms, Senor Cap-
tain, and can do no more.”

“ Then you may as well get your rope ready,
«or your chains, for either a yard-arm hanging.
or walking the plank, for I shall do nothing, I
pledge on my word, Captain Bertrando, ex-
~ce ta: eutenant of your vowel."

rtrando saw that the man was in earnest,
«or he so believed, and hence he went on deck to
have a talk with his lieutenant.

“ The prisoner is firm in his resolve. Cortes,
mot to uide us to the hacienda of Don Ricardo,
«exceptie be an officer of this vessel.

“He believes he can kill you and step into
your shoes, as I told you, which, of course, he
cannot do.’

“ No, Senor Captain, I shall kill him.”

“ But that is just what on must not do.”

“ Ah, Captain Bertran o, and why not i”

“ If you kill him, then we cannot find the
hacienda, see!"

“ True, senor.”

“ Disarm him, and he will have had his trial
1!or your place, and be willing to try the next
officer in rank, for the one he kills he steps into
his shoes, do you understand 1" T;

“ Yes, Senor Captain, I am to disarm him, to
flower his pride, to draw a little blood, so that
the can feel the prick of my sword point, but not
ito harm him materially.”

“ That is just it, Cortez."

“ I understand, Senor Captain, and am wholly
:at your command and the stranger’s,” and the
.Spaniard showed that he felt no fear of the re-
:sult. '

“ He was a large, powerfully built man, 'with
.a face that was brutish in its cruelty, and noone
shad ever known him to be merciful in a combat.

Captain Bertrando felt satisfied that he could
depend upon his lieutenant, under the circum-
:stances, of knowing that the death of the pris-
‘oner meant a loss in gold to the pirate crew,
~and Cortez was a great lover of the precious
metal.

So he returned to the cabin. and told Captain
Revello that the combat was arranged for the
\following morning, and to get himself in the
\best trim possible.

“ I will do so, Senor Captain, if I may be
allowed to have my slave, Topaz, come here to
'the cabin to ive me exercise, for ,my bein
'crnmped for ays in a small boat has stiffen
mp my sinews.”

Topaz was sent for, and he and his captain ex—
changed a few passes with rapiers, for the

black was a fine swordsman, and often gave his
master a bout with the blades.

Captain Bertrando looked on with interest,
and remarked, as he noted the Mexican’s play:

“ You handle a rapier well, senor.”

“I have had much practice with blades,” was
the reply.

Later in the day another bout was had with
the rapiers, between Revello and Topaz, and
into the hands of the latter the Mexican man-
aged to all a piece of paper upon which «he had
written as aw lines, for among the other accom-
plishments of the negro were reading and
writing.

The words written were:

“ I am to make a fight for the berth of first officer
of this brig.

“ Keep your ey es on me to obey all orders, and act
prompt y.“ .

The night passed away without incident, the
brig running swiftly along toward the Mexican
Coast.

The morning dawned and the arrangements

were made for the duel, the men being muster-
ed to witness it.
H The crew naturally supposed that the duel
“was simply a more merciful manner their chief
had determined upon of getting rid of the pris-
oner, for that any man could face their desper-
ate lieutenant and survive they had not the re-
motest idea.

At last Revello appeared on deck with Cap-
tain Bertrando, and Topaz followed bearing his
rapier, a weapon loaned him by the chief.

Cortez was already there, his rapier strapped
on and his manner indicative of the utmost in-
difference.

ln a few words the chief told his officers and
crew that the prisoner held a secret of value to
them, and which he would only make known on
condition that he was made senior lieutenant of
the brig, a high position being held by Senor
Cortez, to gain it the stranger could only do so
by killing the officer named.

Cortez still seemed indifferent, except that
there was an ugly look in his eyes which, seeing
Bertrando gave him a warning to remember
that he was to disarm the Mexican, not kill him.

“ I understand, Senor Captain.

“ I will not destroy the secret by taking his
life,” was the answer.

Excepting Waldo, who had been sworn to se—
crecy, not another person on the pirate brig
knew Revello as he was.

He presented a striking contrast to the boom-
neer lieutenant when he came on deck, for he
was tall, elegant in form and courtly in man-
ner, with aface that was handsome and win-
ning.

“ Senora, are you ready?” asked Captain Ber~
trando. and the two men faced each other, sa-
luted Revello in a graceful w;.y, Cortez in a
gruff manner, and the blades crossed.

It took only a few passes to show all that the
Mexican was not a bad swordsman, and a few
more convinced the crew that their desperate
lieutenant had met his match at last.

Cortex himself was mOst quick to realize this
and rendered furious by the knowledge, be for-
got the§warning of his captain and set to work
to kill the Mexican. '

Then followed some magnificent work on the
part of both men, the huccaneer black with
rage, the Mexican cool and skillful, until sud—
denly the guard of the outlaw was struck up
and the keen blade of Revello was driven into
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' CHAPTER XIII.
a nuccmnan IN manner.

No one was more amazed to see the blade of
Senor Cortez drop from his lifeless hand than
was Captain Bertrando the Buccaneer.

It meant that Cortez ad at last met his supe-
rior, his master. and when he dropped to the
deck a dead man, his last word being an oath,
all were horrified, even on that vessel, where
death so often held high carnival.

Every eye n0w turned upon the tall form of

the stranger, as he stood resting his hands grace.
fully upon the hilt of his rapier, and gazing
down at his victim with a look of calm indiffer-
ence.
I Then it was recalled that Topaz the African
had not shown the slightest uneasiness in regard
to his master’s duel with the buccaneer lieuten-
ant, seemingly conscious of his master’s skill as
a swordsman.

At last Captain Bertrando spoke, and he held
out his hand to the victor. ‘

“ Senor, allow me to congratulate you upon
your Victory.

“ You are a wonderful swordsman to get the
better of the Senor Cortez; but having done so,
you have the right to be his heir to the berth of
Ellis: officer of this brig, to his belongings and

“ Unless poms officer may object?” and Re-
vello cast his eyes over the group of assembled
officers.

There were brave men amon them, but there
was not one _with the example fore their 0 es
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pute the claim of Revello for first lace at the
head of the buccaneer officers, an hence all
were silent.

“It seems that no one cares to dispute the
claim with you. senor," said Bertrando.

“Not even Senor Waldo?” and there was a
challenge in the tone and manner of Revello as
he addressed that officer.

For some reason he wished to cross swords
with the Senor Waldo, that was very evident.

The face of Waldo flushed, but he responded
quickly:

“I have no quarrel with the senor, and con-
gratulate him upon having won the berth which
he sought.”

Revello bowed and smiled: but the smile
failed to provoke another reply from Senor
Waldo and Captain Bertra ndo said:

“Now, senor, may I a k if you care to as.
some your duties as first officer of this brig at
once?”

“I do, Senor Captain, and will put the bri
on her course. for the nearest haven to the haci-
enda of Don Ricardo Castile.”

This pleased Bertrando and turning to his
officers and crew he bade them obey Senor Re-
vello as next to himself in command of the brig.

A cheer was given by the men to their new
cfiiCer, for they admired his pluck, the body of
the dead buccaneer lieutenant was stripped of
its revolvers, sewn in a hammock unrl’tossed into
the sea without ceremony, and Revello took the
deck when eight bells struck as officer of the
watch.

A grim smile rested upon his face as he put
the brig on the course he wished, and paced to
and fro, congratulating himself inwardly upon
his good luck.

“A poor wrecked devil twenty-four hours
ago, and now second in command of a fine
armed vessel, pirate though she be,” he mused.

“Well, it is for me to use the means at my
command to carve out my own destiny as suits
my will and pleasure.

-“ To the hacienda 'of Don Ricardo we must
go: but then—ah yes, and then—”

He did not finish his musings, but turned to
the management of the vessel, sending the men
to work in a way that showed he knew his duties
and was a thorough and strict disciplinarian.

then he retired from his watch he sought the
stateroom of the man he had killed, and looked
Over all he found there with a coolness that
showed he had an eye to profit from the death
of Cortez as much as lay in his power to do so.

He soon discovered that Cortez had been very
miserly, saving up a very snug sum in gold and
precious stones, a 1 of which fell to him as Cap-
tain Bertrando had said, the heir of the dead
pirate.

And right here did Revello show his cunning,
which it would have been well for Bertrando
had he penetrated through, for he carried on
deck two thirds of the aavin s of Senor Cortez,
pretending that he gave 1, and distributed
them among the crew.

This at once won him favor with the men
who were already repossessed in his favor from
the fact that they ad picked him up at sea and
this held great weight _ in their superstitious
minds.

Then too his killing their oflcer, before sup-
posed to be without an equal, had made him a

ero in their eyes, while his generosity won
them completely over, as he intended it should,
for Revello was scheming to have things all
his own way in good time.

Captain Bertrando also seemed to have taken
a fancy to his new officer and sought his com-
pany, while he invited him to take his meals in
the cabin with him, an honor he had bestowed
upon no one else in his sea life.

This invitation was promptly aeoepted and
Revello had the opportunity to enlarge upon the
virtues of Topaz as a cook and servant, the re-
sult of which was that the African was at once
installed as the servant of the buccaneer cap-
tain, replacing, as his master had done, the
man who had occupied that position.

It was the third day after the duel between
Cortex and Revello, that land was sighted, and
the brig was headed for a high point that rose
above the surrounding country.

“The home of Senor Don Ricardo is under
the shadow of under hill, Captain Bertrando,
anda league in and, while we can find a haven
in a laguna to the left yonder where the shores
are heavily wooded," explained Revello.

“ You know the force of the Don, senor?”

“ Yes, he has too large a bomb r of servants,
and his hacienda is too strongly walled for even
your crew to carry it by storm, so you must use

stratefiI . -
“ V at would you suggest?
“ You esire to see the Don personally?”
“Certainly, for in that way Only cap I get
him to give up the inheritance that is mine?”

’ “ True, senor, and so I would advue that you
go in disguise by night, and [will accompany
you also disguised, and you can see and have a
talk with the Don. _ _ _

. “You can lead him to believe, if he declines

' your demand, that 1your men have his lace sur- '-
r

rounded and at the mercy, and thus oroe.him

to yield to his wishes; but of course I must re-

main unknown in this affair, senor, as my plan

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is fgr the future, to wed his beautiful daugh-

‘lThis is the very plan, Senor Revello, and I
will do as you suggest,” eagerly said the buc-
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(‘l‘AP'l‘liR XfV.
UNDER SUSPICION.

“Saxon, wmy i liuve‘ a worl with you?”

The 0",. WW) 1i'-l{“vl the question was Waldo
the secon-l liouienunt of the brig, and he ad-
dressed his captain.

“ Well, \Vul‘ln, what is it?” asked Bertrando
somewhat lnip‘itiwnHV.

“I bciieve, senor, that you know I look to
your interest?"

“ Yes, along with iur own; but What then?"

“ I only “lib tor .-.-r a warning, senor.”

“ A warning?”

“Yes, Captain Bertrando.”

“Of whom?”

“ The man u ho was picked up at sea, sir, in
an open heat, and Who is now next in command
of the brig to you.”

“ You are jealous, Waldo."

“ No. senor, I am only watchful.”

“ Well, what have you discovered?”

“I have seen R-wello become second in com-
mand to you. sir, <h0wing his superibrity over
Corcm by killing him.”

“ Well?"

“ Then he gave the eff acts of Cortez to the crew,
and thus gained their good will.”

do I see.”

“ His next move for power was to get that
terrible African of his into your cabin as cook
and servant.”

“ The black is harmless.”

“ Harmless, Senor Captain ?”

“ Yes, and as gentle as a lamb.”

“He is as ferocious as a tiger, senor, and a
perfect giant.”

it Bab I”

“ He has already thrashed half the crew, and
not two hours ago mastered a number of them
who sprung unon him.”

“ Can he be so terrible as you say, Waldo?"

“I only wish you could see him in a fight,
captain, for he is a terror, and the men,will let
him alone in future; but I tell you what 1 do to
warn~ you that your life alone is between the
captain of this ship and Senor Revello.”

‘éhl and you suspect him of being a trai-

“ Why should he not be, senor, for he is a
regular Officer of the Mexican N avy, and by the
capture of your vessel could win unbounded
fame.

“ He has lost his vessel and by taking yours
into port as a prize could more than square the

088.

“Then, too he would fall heir to the treasure
you have on board, while he would prevent you
from getting from Don Ricardo the fortune
{on hope for, thus saving all for himself as the

usband of Senorita Castile.”

“By Heaven, Waldo, but you are making a
very clever case against this new lieutenant of
mine,” excitedly said the buccaneer captaln.

“ It is all for your sake, senor, because I do
not wish to see you destroyed by him.”

“ Well, you have set me to thinking, Senor
Waldo.”

“I am glad of it, Captain Bartrando, for I
have been thinking‘ea great deal ever since I
have seen Senor vello come on board this
vessel.

“I know what passed between you, as you
are aware, and he knows that I have recognized
him as commander of the Mexican brig-of-war
Rattlesnake. '

“You remember that he sought to put me
out of the way, as he did Cortez, right after
the duel. and this was because I knew him as
he was.” /

“ I begin to believe you are half right after
all, Waldo.”

“I am wholly right, senor, and all I ask of
you is to be on your guard, trust him not and
do not iplace yourself in his power.”

“'l‘h is a terrible naming, Senor Waldo,

-and I thank you for it, as I intended this very

night to go with him to tho hacienda of Don
Ricardo.”

“ Not alone, surely, Senor Captain?"

“. Well, we were to go accompanied by Topaz,
who was to await near for us, and a party of
seamen wereto follow and be within call.”

“ Senor Captain, let it be so understood with
Senor Revello, but allow me to follow with a.
large force of men, to be within hearing of your
call ghould you need aid by being led into a'
trap. ,

“ I will allow you to do this, and thank you.‘

“If Reyello intends to play any bold game
zgainst me, then you will be on hand to thwart

im. '

“I thank you, Senor Waldo, for your warn.
ing, and it may haVn saved my life.

‘ Yes, I thank you most heartily,” and Cap-
tain Bortrando grasped his lieutenant’s hand,
after which he turned away. ,

But neither of t e two ball seen that than) was
who overheard their conversation word for

 

That one was Topaz, who had seen them walk ,
away together, and having his suspicions :
aroused against Senor Waldo, by his constant '
watching of him and his master, had glided to the
caboose, and throwing himself down as though
asleep had heard all that was said. '

The moment that the buccaneer captain and
Waldo had walked in way, Topaz arose and soon
after entered the cabin to prepare the table for I
dinner.

He made sure that no one was watching him,
and standing by the open state-room door of
Rovello, quickly it ld him just what had been
said, after which he glided away and went on
With his duties.

“ Forcwarued is forearmed,” muttered Cap-
tain Revello. '

“l have suspected Waldo all along, and now
I must make sure that he does no mischief.

“Let me think what is best to be done.”

Half an hour after, when Captain Bertraudo
descended to the cabin for dinner, he found '
Senor Rr‘vello apparently asleep on a divan and
aroused him.

“ Well, Revello, the land is rising rapidly and
we will be well in by sunset.”

“ Y(s, captain, and I have been thinking that ‘
you had best take quite a large force With you
on the march inland to the hacienda, instead, asi
we decided, a small one.”

“ Why do you think so?”

“ \Vcll, sunor Should the Don decide to resist
your (l--mnnds by calling upon his servants to
arrest you, then you Would be at his mercy, un-
less you had a forco large enough within call to
rescue."

“ You are right there, I believe.”

“ And perhaps, senor, it would be best not to
take Topaz in with us, but to leave him outside
the gates, prepared upon hearing a signal We
run agree upon, to call up the reserve under
Lii-utcnant Waldo."

“ Why do you suggest Waldo, Senor Re-
vello?”

“ You will gardon me, Senor Captain, if I
wrong Senor aldo in your eyes, but he is
jealous of my position over him, and with Cortez
out of the way, hm; ambitions, I feel certain.

“ If left on board the brig in command, he
might be tempted to turn captain himself, and
you know he is very popular with the men.”

“Yes, I do know that he is,” said Bertrando,
and he began to feel a very uncomfortable sus-
picion against his second (flit-er. '

“ I should feel sorry to wrong Waldo, Captain
Bertrando, but then I fear be is not the friend
to you that you believe him, for I, astranger,
have discovered that,” said the cunning Revello,
and he saw that his shot against Waldo had hit
the mark, as Captain Bertrando said:

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CHAPTER xv.
PLOT AND COUNTIBPI 0T.

HAVING excited the suspicion of Captain
Bertrando against Waldo, Revello determined to
make the best of it. .

He had already deC-idod upon his Ian of
operations, and had been able to give nto the
hands of Topaz a slip of paper. upon which was
written a few words of instructions.

He had noticed which were‘ the men who
seemed to be most friendly. to the second oflicer,
Waldo, and he was determined that all of these
should go on the expedition ashore, and so had

said:

“Senor Waldo, Captain Reveilo has decided
to take two score men ashore with him tc-night.
so pick out those you deem, the best, as you
know them well, and you are to command
them.” u

As Revello had supposed he would do, Waldo
at 01306 selected his favorites, and reported his
me ready when needd.

'Fhe brig had gotten within a league of the
shore when the sun set and the distant walls of
the hacienda of Don‘ Ricardo were plainly visi-
ble with the glass. located as it was Upon the
side of a wooded hill. ‘

.At the peak of the brig. for fear a glass might
beturncd upon her. floated the Mexican flag,
and Revello had remarked to Captain Bertran-
do that the vessel would be taken for the Mexi-
can cruiser Rattlesnake, if seen by the people of
the hacienda.

Standing by the side of the helmsmen, Re-
vello directed them how to steer, and the brig
glided slowly inshore, shortening sail as she
went. -

At last she entered the mouth of a lagoon,
where Revello had often anchored his 0WD vessel
before, and the anchor was let fall.

Then Captain Bertrando and Revello went
over the sideof the brig into the waiting boats,
the Mexican thoroughly disguised by a false
board, and both wearing the uniform of the
Mexican Navy.

Waldo was already in the, boats with his men,
and Topaz had taken his place in the bow of the
ca tain’s cutter.

 

vello led the way when a landing was made,

and after a march inland of nearly a league, he

halted the man in a timber motte'not very far
from tho hacienda. _

Lights wonvisibiointhohouu.and on wont

Captain Berti-undo, Revello and Topaz, a signal
having been agreed upon with Waldo to come if
needed, when the Afpcan should give the i all.

Captain Bertraudo was suspicious new of both
his officers as well as Topaz, and he was soon--
what nervous in manner, having almost regri t—
ted the undertaking.

But the rich harvest he was to reap, if succms-
ful, urged him to go on, and he merely deter~
mined to watch Revello and be on his guard-
against any danger that might unexpectedly
turn up.

Of course, if not suspected of treachery by
those at the hacienda, and if neither Revellu,
Topaz or Waldo proved traitors, then there-
woul‘l be no danger, and all would be well with.
him.

Approaching the hacienda gates, in the solid-
adobe wall, Revcllo knooked loudly, and a.
voice soon asked who was there.

“Captain Revello, of the Mexican brig-of—

war Rattlesnake,” was the reply.
4 There was an exclamation of pleasure at once
heard, for Revello was a liberal friend to the
servants of the Don, and the gate was at once
opened.

The man started back at seeing strangers, but.
Revollo said:

“We come with messages from Captain Re'
vello to Don Ricardo, so pray say to him that
two ("fiicers of the brig desire an interview with.
him.

Thus reassured, and furthermore by a gold
piece dropped into his hand, the gatekeeper de-
partvrl. and very soon after returned, to usher
the (flicers into the presence of the Don.

Don Ricardo Caxtiie was a man of fine pres—
ence, but wearing a look of settled sadnesa,
though his manners were cordial and winning.

He looked like one who carried a shadow 10‘
his heart, though he tried to hide the fact from
Others.

He was seated in his pleasant siitingroom, a
decanter of wine on the table near him, along
with a basket of fruit and some sweetments, but?
zirOse when the (flicers were usheer into his
presence.

On secount of his disguise Reyello was dosin-
ous that Captain Bertrando should bathe spokes-r
man, and in fact he was unzious to see just’
what the intention of the buccaneer chief W89...

“Senors, I welcome you: I saw, as 1 be-
lieved, Captain Revello’s brig off-shore at sun-
set‘ so expected 5 visit from him. I hope [10*
harm has befallcn him!” _

“ Yes, Don Ricardo, the Senor Captain Revel-
lo has been Wounded. and he is anxious ‘0 899
both you and your daughter on board his vessel,
and we are to escort you there,” announced Cap-
tain Berirando, glad of a chance to entrap Ibo
Don on board the brig. ‘

At his words Rovello started, for to have put
both Dol Ricardo and his daughter in the p0wer
of Bertraudo was 130': What he wished by any
meana
He saw that the cunning plrate’ had so plot-
ted, and had taken quick advantage of the-
chanco to entrap them. . .

This was not according to his wishes, or in-

tentions, and he saw that he must act quicklyyv
and with boldness, for Don Ricardo said at
once: »
“My dear senors, I am pained to learn the
sad news you are the bearers of, and I fear,
as Captain Revello also re hosts the present?
of my daughur on board is vessel, that bl.
condition is more serious than you care to make
known.”

“It is most serious, Don 'Ricardo, in fut I
may say that the captain is esp! ru tely “'Oundr
ed and so begs that the Senorita Mamllto W1"
accompany you.” . ‘

And this was a clever ruse then of “pain
Bertrando, to get the Don and Marcelite am)
into his power, thought Revello.

He was being used for this pufPOBP. and
once it was successful what would the bucoa-
neer care to him?

He wou break faith with him and perhaps
.visit upon the Don and his daughter the dime:
Vengeance.

This would never do, for then the Don. Mars
celiie and Revello himfself would be at the
mere of the irate chie . .

It lied beenptho intention of Revcllo tolallovv
the buccaneer chief to disclose to DouRicardo
who he was, and demand of him his Inheri-

nce. .
“That the high sense of honor of Don Ricardo
would make him Rive “P that “b‘Ch belonged t0
his brother. pirate though he “‘88. Revello felt
sum, and with this treasure on board the brig
then the Mexican intended to 910‘ the Ca hture of
the vessel and thus win undying fame for him-

If.
seShould they fail to get the Don’s gold, then.
Revello determined to have money at all costs .
intend to get rid of the buccaneer chief"
through the agency of Topaz so .as to cast no:
suspicion upon himself, and being then com-
mander of the vessel to cruise the seas for plun-
der until he deemed fit to turn up and claim the
Senorita Marcelite as his bride. '

But this hold stand taken by Bectrando toward
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CHAPTER XVI.

1131 PIKTPTEIUL

11' had seemed to Revello that he must win his

me, either to thwart Captain Bertrando the

uccaneer or capture him.

He was a man who believed in luck, and al-
ways played a bold hand to have it go his way.

He could not believe that he had escaped death
in the wreck, and then starvation in the life-
boat, as well as being killed by 3e desperate
'Cortez, to be worsted in his plot have all go
his way nOW. _

Bertrando knew well the surprise his words
«must be to Revello, but did not even glance at
him.

He felt that be had the Mexican piiiioned down
:as it were, from any chance to move against
'him.

Could he get his brother, the Don, and his
~-daughter aboard of his vessel, and at his mercy,
‘then there would be no doubt of his getting his

old and his revenge as well. for he still felt the
eepest hatred for the man who had caused him
to slay the woman he loved, and who had won
.her from him, as he believed had been the case.

But Revello had decided upon what he should
«do, and what he did he did promptly.

Suddenly the. buccaueer chief felt the cold
muzzle of a pistol against the back of his head,
and heard the words sternly uttered:

“ Captain B 2rtrando, move and you area dead

man.

“ Don Ricardo, this man is Bertrando the
Buccaneer, and I will leave him to your keeping
.«until I return for him.

“Quickly, call your servants l”

The surprise of Bertrando wasas great as that
of Don Ricardo.

He had been cleverly outwitted, and he knew
that he would be shot down did he offer any re-
eistance.

He caught at one ray of hope, the fact that he,
’Wuuld he left to the keeping of his brother, the
:Don, by the man who had so boldly made him a
prisoner.

He did not mave, he did not even speak, and
the Don, quickly recovering his composure,
obeyed the stern command of Revello to disarm
his risunsr.

e stepped forward and removed his pistols
“from his belt and his sword, though his sur-
prise was great at the change in the situation
of affairs.

“ I thank you, Don Ricardo, and will now ask
you to call our servants and secure this man,
who is, as said to you, none other than Ber-
trando, the Buccaneer, come here to rob you
send to seek revenge.

“ Hold him a prisoner here until you can send
1him to Vera Cruz, if I do not return for him."

The Den called for aid and several serVants
‘rushed in just as Captain Bertrando was able to
:speak after his amusement and cry out:

“ It is falsel I am not Sertranclo, the Bucca-
near.”

“ Upon my life he is, Don Ricardo, and a
band of his men are now outside your hacienda,
so call our servants to be ready to resist an at.
tack, s ouldone be made, though do not let it
be known that you are prepared for them.

" Here, men, some that man and put him in
irons!"

The servants who had entered gazed at their
master and at the stranger who gave them the
order, undecided as to whether to obey or not.

“Do as the senor commands you,” said the
Don, feeling that if the charge was true it
would be safer by far to have the man in irons.

At once Bertrando, now wholly disarined and
at the mercy of his captors, was securely iron-
ed, his bitter denunciation of Revello and his
savage oaths appalling those about him.

“ Now, Senor Don Ricardo, I leave this pris-
oner in your keepin until I return for him.

“ Do not allow h m a chance to escape. and
av‘lait my coming, be it when it may,” said Re-

vs 0.

“ But. P9007. '50- may I ask. are youl" sail
‘the Don, something about the man seeming fa-
miliar, though in diquise, he could not reCOg-
miss him. ,

" You shall know in good season, Don Ric"-
do, who I am; but now there is a work for me
to do and I must depart.

“ Pl ice your servants mostly on post to resist
attack, and if none Occurs, aroma the country
-on ihe morrow and hunt down the strangers you
find upon your shores, for they are followers of
 mans"

“I am not Bertrando, Don Ricardo. for that
'man speaks falsely," nuw cried Bertra‘ido, de-
termined to make a bold effort to eecipe.

He saw that Don Ricardo was puzzled, and he
continued:

“ That man’s charge has astounded me so that
.I could not find words to defend myself against
his vile charges, for he, not 1, is Bertrando the
Buccanv er!"

“ Hal can this be true?” cried the astonished

In an instant Revello saw that he must con-
tinue to ilay a bold game to win.
e di not wish to make'himself known to
the Don, but he saw no other course.
There were a score of servants nowin the

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room, and standin in the doorway, alarmed
and amused, was arcelite Castile, called toths
scene by the loud veices she had heard.

Springing to the, side of Don Ricardo, Revello
said in a low tone, and s aking rapidly:

" It is as I have said, on Ricardo; that man
is Bertrando the Buccaneer.

“ You must trust me in this, senor.”

“ He speaks falsely, Don Ricardo! Do not put
faith in him, for he seeks only to escape novv,"
cried Be 'rcmdo, l‘atching the low words uttered
by Revere. '

'i‘ue Don was undecided which to believe, and
stand like a dosed man.

The two officers of the Mexican brig-of-war,
as he bod beliexsd, at first seemingly friends.
had so suddenly become foes, and made such
hitter charges, the one against the other, that he
knew not Which to believe, or “hot.

Thu~~ he stood, undecidul, and ReVello saw
that he could only triumph by making a still
bolder stroke.

He had hoped to have it believed that he was
lost with his vessel, when her loss should become
known, until he saw fit to return and make his
escape known.

He now saw that he must tell who he was to
win the day, and vet he did not wish Marcelite
to know him, or t e servants either.

So he said in the same low tone in which he
had before spoken:

“ Don Ricardo, \\ hat I tell you of this man is
true, for he is Bertrando the uccaneer, and he
came here to rob you, to get you and your
daughter into his power.

“ Why I am here'I cannot now explain, but
you must trust me and pledge your honor not to
reveal my identity to any one, if I make known
to you who I am as a proof that I speak the
truth.

‘3 Do you so pledge your word of honor to me,
Don Ricardo?” _

“1 do, if your identity is proof that I can rely
upon your word,” was the re ly.

“ You shall be the judge of that, for I am
Rudolph Revello." __

CHAPTER XVII.

manho‘s BOLD s'rnoxn

Baa’rnanno did not hear the words uttered
by Rudolph Bevello to the Don, but he saw the
sudden start of the Spaniard and his quick
glance into the disguised face of his captor who
had turned the tab es upon him.

Then he heard the words of the Don:

“ I u ill believe you, senor, I do, and you may
depend u n me to aid you.”

“Than 3, senor, than s.

“ Now I will leave this man to your keeping,
for I have important duties to perform, as you
will know- ere long.”

With a. wave of the hand he moved quickly
toward the door, bowing to Marcelite who
stepped aside to allow him to pass her, while she
said eagerly:

“0h senor! what does all this mean, I begyou
to tell me?"

“Some day you will know all, senorita,” was
the hasty reply, and Revello passed out into the
corridor and thus out of the hacienda.

He crossed the Plaza, went out of the gate in
the wall, which the man in attendance there
opened for him, and a moment after was skirt-
ing along the encircling road towhere he had
lef TTI. ‘
hiThe frican was on the watch and confronted

m.

"Come, Topaz, the. captain is a prisoner to
Don Ricardo, and we must regain the vessel
With all haste.”

“ And the Senor Waldo and his men, senor?”
askled Topaz. ,

“Must remain where they are to fall into a
trap on the marrow.

“ Come, we must reach the lagoon by a differ-
ent path than the one we came and get on board
the brig."

The negro at once moved forward in silence,
Revello following, and they flanked the militia
in which Waldo and his men Were awaiting.

A rapid walk of nearly an hour brought them
goat; shores of the lagoon and Reveilo quickly

a :

“ He the Ocean Rapier ahoyl”

“ Ay, a y, senor," came from the omcer of the
watch in response. ,

“Quick! send a boat ashore, get up anchor
and set sail !” was the command of Revello.

“ Av. ay, senor,” answered the officer, and at
once all was excitement On board the brig.

a A boat soon came to the shore and Revello

,and Topaz sprung into it and were rowed quick-

ly'lbackuto tine bufcclaneer craft.

no excan ul aireciatedh para

situation, but did no’tv airfoil. u do. ta
What if the crew refined to obey his orders-l
What if the Senor Waldo and his men should

return to the shore before the brig should sail!
He dared not stop to think, the die was cast

and he must trust to his usual luck and pluck to

save him and accomplish his ends.

8 soon reached the deck of the brig and there
was no hesitation in his manner, no flinching
from the ordeal before him.

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Waldo and his men entrapped, and up the lagoon
here above us lies a vessel-of-war.

“ We must get to sea with all haste or we are
lost.

“ To your posts all. and see that every man
daes his duty, or the ard-nrm of a frigate will
cast its shadow over im on the marrow!"

The bucceneer officers did not stop to think,
for alarm was the paramount feeling that in-
fluenced all.

They saw their srnior (nicer return without
their captain. and Senor Waldo and his party
were. also left behind.

it it had been simply toland and recapture
them frrm the people of a hacienda, they would
have been willing.

But with the report thata vessel-of-war lay
in the lagoon above. them, ti at H ey must put to
sea with all dispatch, or expect to be ewung up
at the yard-arm, they had but one desire, and
that was to obey.

Perhaps later their lieutenant might explain
more fully, but just then the only chance for
them they beIIGth was to obey his commands.

To a man, the half-score of pirate oflcefi
sprung to their posts of duly, and did obey, and
the men, not understanding what it all meant,
also obeyed with alacrity.

It was just what Revello had supposed they
would do, and he smiled to himself as he saw the
brig swing around and head out of the lagoon
seaward.

When the shore was beyond hailing distance,
and the voice of Senor Waldo could not have
been heard to bail, be it ever so loud, Revello
breathed more freely.

He saw astern (if the hill the bacimda, bril-
liantly illuminated, and this told the (mcersand
men that something was going on there of an
unusual nature. '

Revello saw his oflicers grouping together
near him, as he‘stood upon the quarter-deck, and
he knew that they expected some explanation
regarding the loss of their captain, a lieutenant,
and ovrr one-third of the crew l

Revello took matters very coolly, howem

‘ gazed long and quietly through his lass tow

the brightly lighted hacienda in t e distance,
and then said:

“Senora, I am sorry the captain saw fit b
have his own way about getting into the had-
enda, for it cost him his liberty, maybe hi
life, unless he can be rescued.

“ The fact is. he went alt-he into the hacienda,
and left Senor Waldo and his men to seek an em
trance to the north, and at a gate a peon we met
told him was unguarded

“The peon deceived him, for the men went .

through the gate directly into the cam of the
cattlenien: and as I had remained at t e main
gate,l heard a horseman dash up to the haci-
enda and report the capture of a number of
pirates, (Inc of whom stated that their chief was-
then visiting the Don, under pre being
a Mexican oflcer.

“ Topaz had gone into the hacienda withtlu V

captain, and he now came toward the gate at a

run, and I was forced to kill the gatekeeper w, '

allow of his escape.

“ ‘ Come, Senor Master,’ cried my slave:

“ ‘There are (moors visitin at the hacienda
whose'vessel-of-war is in the agocn above the
anchorage of the brig. Captain Bertrando i!
captured, and so are Senor Waldo and his
men. ‘

“ ‘ Come'Senor Master, and save the brig.’

“ You may be sure, senors, that I lost no
time 'in hastening to the brig, and the situation
as it stands you are now acquainted with; but
bad Captain Bertrando entered with his men
at the main gate, where he did alone, he could
have sacked the hacienda and made ood his
escape to the brig before the men rorn the
frigate could have prevented.

“Now, senors, we will stand 0!! until the
land is well down and watch for what the mor-
row may develop, for it may be that we can
rescue our gallant captain and his men.”

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CHAPTER XVIII.
ran iuw CAPTAIN.

“ MY usual luck, Topaz," said Captain
Rudolph Revello with a smile of satisfaction, as
he sat at breakfast in the cabin, the morning
after his bold stroke and heard the report that
the land was just visibl‘, and in the lagoon they
had anchored in the night before was a large
vessel-of-war visible.

“ Yes, Senor Master, the vessel seemed to
have come there to help you out,” said the
African in return, and he chuckled ovorthdr
good luck, for the negro had seen that some few:
of the crew were doubtful of the new “mg!
and he told him so.

“ ¥oubt me do they, Topaz!"

" he do, senor. _ _. .
" Wefi, i am captain of this vessel, and shed
so remain."

“ Yes, senor." _ _

“ You remember I suggested , chatter
when we were drifting in the boat .”

“ I remember oyster.”

“ It seemed like madnsm to you than, I sup-
pose, for me to have such a thought, but it is a

reality now, as you see.”

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“ I do see, senor.”

“ I suppose I must, to save trouble, yield cer-
tain ‘ri hts to the crew, so 1 shall run in ashore
when can. land with a force and make believe
rescue the captain and our men."

“ Yes, senor, it would be well.” _

' “ Of course, I will send you ahead to recon-
noiter, and you can take word to the Don to be
prepared for us, so as to beat us off, and the loss
of a,, few more pirates will be all the better for
me.

“ Yes, senor.”

“ Now keep your eyes and ears open, Topaz,
ID as to inform me of all that Occurs.”

“ I will, senor," aesured Topaz, and he left the
cabin.

.Captain Revello mused for awhile in his leas-
ant cabin, a satisfied smile upon his dark, and-
some face, for he felt that he was master of the
situation. -

Then he went on deck and turned his glass
shoreward, where was visible, just off the
lagoon, a large vessel-of- war.

‘ There is a smaller craft also, senor, just be-

“ yond the frigate, and she seemes to have come
out of the lagoon, and is now hidden by the
large vessel,” said an officer.

“ Yes, I see her now just coming into view.

“Lifear it is all up with poor Captain Ber-
trando and his men, for the frigate is Spanish
be and doubt, as Mexico has no such large ves-
se as that.

‘I will stand in and draw‘them off in chase,
and when we lose them at night, we can double
on our course and run back to see if we can cap-

. ture Captain Bertrando.” ‘ '

" If he is still in the hacienda, senor, and the
vessels-of-war are not on the coast, we can cap-
ture him and the men.” .

“ Yes, without doubt, Senor; Ravilez.

“At any rate we can try, for Captain Ber-
trando has beena true friend to me, and I would

a ' ' not have harm befall him if it could be averted.
“ If we fail, then I shall leave it to the officers
and crew to decid? who is to command them.
for, asastranger n your midst I may notbe
acczgtable," and Revello aiu leveled his glass
:. at e distant frigate, we knowing that his
‘ . words would be repeated throughout the ship,
I and with good effect, as no one would believe
him to be guilty of deserting the captain to his
fate, or seeking the command of the Ocean
Rapiernnless it was offered to him with the con-
- sent of all.

' Added to his words the appearance of the two
vessels-of-war, the frigate and a schooner, most
rtunel carried out his report the night
be are of t ere being a cruiser in the lagoon,
something he had notdreamed'of when he made

the assertion.

He npw gave the orders to run down toward
the coast again, so that the bri would‘be si ht-
edby the cruisers, for as yet a seemed n to
have been seen by them.

The bucfineer brig had been but a few min-
utes upon her course landward, when it was
logged she was sighted from the frigate. "

glass shower several persons going up
- into the rigging, and soon after there was a sla
nal flying-and the schooner hastily put out

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and

had run into the lagoon, wh the friga ’ was
anchored outside.

Believing the two vessels to have been in the

an that theyh run out in chase of their

era 1:, though Revellohuew better.
. ' He was aware thatno vessel could go far he-
. . yond where the brig had anchored, and knew
,‘f - , v that the frigate and schooner were just cruising
v~ ' ' ,. alon'gthe coast and happened.to arrive off the
c  ‘ at wrappormne moment for him person-

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The/j frigate had dr’ anchor, ofl-shore,
while  gone into the lagoon,

doubtless searching for coast ‘buccaneers.

. Now the schooner was di tched out toward
the brig while. the‘frigate was getting up an-
chorandsail to follow. , , 1) *

Revello had every confidence in the fleet sail-
” lug cfiialities of—the brig to outfoot the frigate,
for t e wind was fresh and steady, there being
no prospects of a calm to bring him within reach
of he cruiser’s beats. - ‘

' As for the little schooner he held no fear of

her whatever. ' = , ' I
V, Still he didnet intend to trust himself too near,
. the fri te’s nos. ’
 , t i “S the exican flag, Senor Bavilez,” he
. - said, as he saw the Spanish colors run up to the
i  k ofthe schooner and then on board the

 éiThey will take us for the Mexican-cw
Betti, ake senor,” was the answer of Bar ‘
Belle 0 ed the order given him. _ A
“ That s‘just whatl wish themto believe,” was
theanswer. ' ‘ . ', ,_ "3
,, 1 . The Mexican fl was accordingly set and yet
, I the brig held steafily on toward t e shore.’ ‘

 , Aunt Revslle ordered the signal officers to
' fifths signalstbat the buccaneer was the Mexi-
 ttlesnake, and’in chase of the hue.
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The answer promptly came that the buc-
caneer brig Ocean Rapier was reported of! the
coast and they were in search of her. ‘

Then the outlaw signaled that he would cruise
seaward, and head in toward the coast again in
a couple of days.

The irate crew read the signaling with con-
siderab e added admiration for their new cap-
tain, as had the officers also, and the brig was
headed away seaward once more under easy

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A lookout was kept aloft watching closely
theJrigate and the schooner, which had been so
cleverly deceived, and those vessels were seen to
continue their cruise slowly along the coast.

Thus twenty-four hours pulsed away, and then
the prow of the Ocean Rapier was turned back
toward the coast where was situated the hacienda
of Don Ricardo Castile.

“ Now we'go to the rescue of our captain and
his men,” Revellc had said, and his words were
cheered by officers and crew, while the new cap-
tain was still more highly regarded by all on
board the buccaneer craft.

CHAPTER XIX.
THE MISSION or worn.

IT was after nightfall of the third day follow.
ing her flight from the lagoon, when the buc-
cuneer brig came in sight of the distant light
that marked the hamenda of Don Ricardo
Castile.

Nota thought had Revello of the frigate or
schooner being in the lagoon, yet he was
anxious that the crew should feel that he was on
the alert to prevent a. trap, and so he said on the
quarter-deck:

“ We will lay to here, Senor Ravilez, as we
are within less than half smile of the lagoon,
and my slave can swim ashore and reconnoiter.

“ If there are no vessels in the is con, then he
can return and report and we wil run in and
land a force to march a amst the hacienda.

“Of course the wil .not ex an attack,
and we can easi y carry the place by storm,
unifies we can get secretly into the hacienda
we 8.

“If Captain Bertrando and his men are priso
oners there, we can secure them; but if not then
we must be content thh the booty we secure
from the hacienda, and the place is rich in
plunder I assure you.” .

“ But can the slave swim ashore, senor?” ask.
ed Ravilez. ‘

“ Oh yes for he is a’ perfect fish.

“ Here, 2, come to me.”

. At the cal of his master Topaz at once ap-
proached.
“Disrobe yourself of your cuter clothing,

Topaz, spring into the sea and swim to the

lagoon.

“ Reconnoiter it fully and see if there is any
vessel at anchor there.

“Then return to the brig, and lose no time
aboutit, for we must reach the hacienda soon
after midnight in order to' get back with the
rescued party‘and the louder by dawn.”

“ I under: ad, ma r,” was the response of
Tolgaz and he made haste to obey.

e soon came on deck with culyhgarment
about his waist and with a plunge went over the
bulwarks intot e'sea.

Theg saw hi disaper and that was all,
and Revello descended into the cabin to get
what rest he could while the slave was gone.

As for the crew they hoped that Topaz would
be eaten by sharks and never return, for they
had cease to stand in holy dread of the .,
African. ,

His phenomenal strength, tiger-like move-
ments, ightning quickness, added to his defox1n-_
ity, ferocity when aroused and weird nature,
made him a terror to the superstitious sailors.

.80 they higwd, if the rescue of the ca tain and
their comra es was postponed indefln tely that
Topaz would be eaten b the sharks that had
been seen about the vessc‘ for hours. .

In the meanwhile Topaz had. not the slightest
drew! of the sea monsters, for he had smeared
his black shining bodv all over with an ointment
which he knew Would kee the sharks at a dis-
tahce,‘as they dreaded t e scent of it he was
aware from experience.

He did not head toward
however, when he rung into the see, but
straight toward the ore, the light from the
hac en'da being his guide.

here there was no landing there for a boat
he could land be well knew with the sea quiet as
it then whs, and he swam with strong, swift
strokes straight for the nearest shore.

The breakers were falling upon the rocks as‘
 touched-though not» heavily,_and'he so
me is way as toland- without ident. ,

The monientxhe' nspehed the roe he. shock.

. if as ad .doos, and-then starindbfjf at a
run straight f the hacienda lights- h mile or
more away.  ' ' ’

Had he goneto'the lagoon for a landing he
would have had a couple of miles further to go on
foot and twice the distance to swim.

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3 call soon brought a cautious inquiry from within,
? as to who was there asking admittance.

“ Open the gate lb receive this letter for Don-
Ricardo,” he said. ,

The iron-studded gate was vefimutiously
opened the width of a chain that id it_.from

could be no shot red from ambush.

Into the opening the African thrust his hu ,
hand and it held a package wrapped securel;
with oiled silk to prevent its etting wet. ”

“ Give this to Don Rica 0 without a mo
ment’svdelaypfor it is a question of life or death.-
to him.”

“ Who shall I say sends it?" asked the keeper.

“ It matters net; do as I say, or your life will
be the forfeit.”

The keeper asked another question, but got no
answer, as To 2 was flying along the road
leading to the agoon.

He had carried out the secret instructions of
his master and was hastening back to the brig.

He reached the shores of the lagoon at a point.

ended, gave a quick, keen scrutiny of the
waters, and then continuad oh his run along the
marsh t0ward the sea.

He reached the point at the mouth of the-
lagoon, his eyes meanwhile having seen that,
there was no Vessel at anchor there, and plung-
ing into the waters, he headed out for the brig.

No light was allowed on board and so it was.
some little time before he could place herin the
darkness.

But soon, like a specter craft, the shadowy-
cutline of the vessel came into view and he»
swam swiftly on, hnmindful of the sea monsters
about him, and which kept well out of his way,
owing to the hated odor of the ointment he was
covered with. '

The crew stood looking over the bulwarks,
watching for his return though hardly expecting
it, and even the cflicers, as they heard the
splashing of the sharks about the vessel, feeling
sure that Topaz must bane met a terrible tats.-

They hard y expected him to o ashore and
back within less time than three ours, and yet,
before two-thirds of that time had pane-d Senor
Ravilez entered the cabin to report to Revello
that the African had not returned. ‘

Revallo yawned as though awakened from a
nap, glanced at the gold watch he carried, and
then said; ,

“ It is not yet time,‘8encr Ravilez, for he has
been one only two hours.”

“ es, senor, but the waters seem fairly alive
with sharks. . .

“You know that they have followed in the

brig’s wake all day?” I
“ es, senor, ut Topaz his no fear of.
sharks.”

“No fear of sharks, Senor Captain i" asked
Ravilez, with astonishment. V,

“ Not’tne sli btest fear of them. ,

“ Give him t me, and he will returnall right.’."

And as Revellc uttered the words there were

,‘heard startled cries cn‘deck and then came the

words: . .
“ It is not Satan or a black irit but the cam, , .
tain‘s slave. ” Sp '

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m naaca INLAND. .
Tim African well knew how he was re "

agding to their terror of him in every way pee-A
Si is. . ‘

So he had made a circuit of'the bri , as he
saw the heads of the crew, looking over t . buls
warks landward, and diving deep, had reached
the chains. and suddenly sprun
into the midst of half a,hund men.

That he was mistaken for Satan, or a black
spirit of the deep/by thess superstitious outlaws,
was not to be wondered at, and they shrunk
from him with cries of horror and terror. . .

It was these cries which had reached the ears
of Ravello and Officer Ravilez in‘ the cabin, and
they hastened on deck to find Topaz quiet) com~
ing aft, enjoying in his own grim way eter- V
ror he had caused among the crew. ,.

He approached the grounpfcflgcersaft, and
bent 10w in salute to Rgv’ello, who $14 sternly:

“ Well, slave, you ‘ vei'etumod .

” 1 have, Senor Mae r.” J
“ You reached the shore!" 1,
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obeyedrmy orders?”

" It t ere stressed in the lagoon?”
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Ca tain Bertrando and his men remains for us
to nd out.

“As they were Spanish vessels, 1 do not be-
lieve Don Ricardo Castile would surrender them
as prisoners to the cruisers, but rather keep
them at his hacienda until the Mexican Govern-
ment could send a vessel after them.

“ But“ at the hacienda we must rescue them,
and if not there we must get the rich booty that
is there, and also avenge our comrades.

“ You understand, senors, the situation?”

.Ths frigate oiilcers bowed, and Revello con-

nued:

“Now I shall run into the lagoon and an-
chor, landing in boats, and pushing across to
the hacienda.

“I must strip the brig of men, as we will
need all the force we have, and Senor Morel and
half a dozen of the crew will be enough to re.
main on board in charge,” and Revello referred
to the youngest of the officers, and one who he
was very sure held no ambitious aspirations to
turn irate captain himself, and so would not
run 0 with the vessel left in his charge.

The brig was accordingly headed in for the
lagoon, and soon came to anchor there.

All but Revello felt anxious regarding the re-
sult.

The on tain and a third of the crew, under
Oflcer aldo, had been captured, or killed,
and two Spanish vessels had been seen on the
coast, and there might be danger of their re-
turn, thought oflicers and men.

But Revello felt that the presence of the two
cruisers there was an accident, and that they
were then far awa .

As to what had become of Waldo and his men
he did not know; but he had certainly iven
Don Ricardo time enough to hunt them own,
and he had left Bertrando a prisoner in irons, in
the charge of a wicked brother whom he had
every reason to fear for his own and his daugh-
ter‘s sake.

There was dan r that some one of the men
under Waldo mig t have escaped, and seeing the
brig come in would join the land force and de-
nounce him as a traitor; but he had to take such
chances, and Topaz had his orders to look out
for any one who might thus appear and silencs

'him by a death-blow.

The boats pulled away from the brig with all
but the youn officer and half a dozen men of
the crew, and a landing was soon made, the
boats being left in charge of two men who were
told to keep well off-shore, and only land when
getting the proper command to do so.

Then the march inland began, Topaz leading
by the side of his master.

The men were divided into platoons of eight,
each under command of a pirate officer, and all
were thoroughly armed.

At last the lights of the hacienda came in
sight, and Captain Revollo said:

‘ Senora, it is my intention to knock and gain
admission into the walls.

“I will enter, followedrbiy To a, and when
we have mastered the gua I wi give the sig-
nal for you to enter. '

“Once within the walls we will have all our
own way.

“ Do you understand, senors?”

The officers bowed.

“ Now, senors, there must be no wanton de-
struction here, only follow me, killing where we
have it to do, and will lead you tothe hacienda
vaults, where there is a vast treasure kept by

“ Now we will advance, and once within the
walls we must keep together, for the Don has a
large number of servants and the place is well-
guarded against attack.

“The captain and his men, if still held prison-
or; here, will be in the vaults, where the treasure
is e t.

“ re you ready, senors?”

All signified their readiness to be led on to the
rescue of their captain and comrades, and to en-

rich themselves with booty, a desire in their“

hearts paramount to the releaseof their ship-
mates, and Revello gave the order to move on.
It was past the midnight hour and only a sin-
g]: light was visible, shining from a tower seen
yond the high adobe walls surrounding the
hacienda.

The house was a grand one, situated upon a‘
.hill heavily timbered. above which arose a

ri 9 running back inland.

' he adobe walls were high, thick and strong,
with entrances‘here and there, and a Plaza was
upon-the south side runnin back to the hacien-
da; which was large enoug to quarter a regi-
ment of cavalry, horses and all.

The men cre t up to the iron-barred gate and
Ca tain Revelih gave th loud.knocka

t first no reply ca 9, and they were re-

Ther; from within the guards’ quarters by
“'0 Kate came a sleepy request to know who was
without.

“ I desire to see Don Ricardo Castile, for I
have landed from my vessel now at anchor in
the lagoon,

“ I am a Mexican officer,” responded Revello.

And in response came the rattle of a chain;
“10 dumb of. an iron bolt, and in glided Re-
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CHAPTER XXI.

4 THE SURPRISE.

Till moment that Revello, again in the same
disguise in which he had left the brig with Ber-
trando, the Buccaneer, stepgd thro hthe half-
opened portal in the ado wall, opaz was
c ose at his heels.

There was a man there in the Mexican attire,
as seen by the light of the lantern he carried,
and instantly he was seized by Revsllc and the
African.

The lantern was placed u n the ground near
the open gate, while the exican guard was
dragged into the little but near.

The men, or those nearest the open gate, saw
the act and yet stood awaiting without the call
of their commander to enter.

In a few minutes the signal was given, Re-
;ello and Topaz being still in the little guard-

ouse.

Instantly the buccaneers rushed into the Pl za,
led on by their officers and they had just halted,
awaiting for Captain Revello to come and place
himself at their head, when from the hacienda,
and the dark recesses of the walls came flashes
of flame and the roar of musketry.

It was a complete surprise, and made known
that the people of the hacienda were on watch,
that they were not surprised by the coming of
the buccaneers, but had been on the watch to
give a surprise instead.

At the first fire a dozen men sunk down, either
killed or wounded, and among them was an
officer. G

Then Revello darted out of the little cabin
and his voice rung in startled tones: ‘

“Retreat, men, for those shots came from
men-o-war’s men!

“Retreat for your lives, but do not fly in
fear!”

The men crowded out of the gateway just as
another volley came, and several more of their
number went down.

“ We cannot flght' men in ambush, for it is
useless. .

“We must reach the boats, for the hacienda
is well defended,” cried Revello, and he placed
himself at the head of his men. n

The buccaneers were almost disheartened by
this turn of affairs, for where they had gone to
rescue their legitimate captain and their com-
rades, and to get a fortune in plunder, they had
lost more of their number and had lost all

y.

Perhaps even they might be pursued by their
foes, Lemmerl in and made to fight for their
lives with the chances all against them.

This belief was added to by loud shouts from
within the hacienda, and the firing of musketry
over the walls.

Then came the ring of hoofs upon the stone
Plaza and loud commands which set the bucca-
neers going at a doublequick. '

Revello bade Topaz lead the way back to-
ward the lagoon, by the nearest path, while
he bravely remained in the rear to heat back
any ursuers. ’

“ a! They have gone around the road and
we will savea mile on them.

“ They will not dare press too close, fearing
an ambush, and so we will reach the boats in
good time.

“ Steady, men, stea , and you who are un-
hgét aid your wound and brash-downwin-

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All turned out as Revello had said, for the
buccaneers reached the shores of the lagoon
while the sound of the pursuers pushing on was
yet a quarter of a mile away. -

“ Into the boats, lads and pull for the brig,”
shouted ReVello, and his orders were obeyed
With a gromptness that showed the men were
in dire read of capture. "

f“ He the brig!” shouted Revello a moment
a ter. ' ‘

“ A y, ay, sir,” responded the young officer left
in charge of the vessel.

“ Get up the anchor and let fall the sails as
well as you can.” -

“ Ay, ay, sir," came response, and as the last
boat ran alongside of the brig the anchor had
left the mud, while the sails were being set.

The wind was off—shore and the brig was
soon moving seaward while her crew were
hauling up the boats and spreading canvas.

The pursuers bad meanwhile reached the
shore of the lagoon and a few shots rattled
Earth toward the brig and Ravilez quickly ask-

“Csn I toss a few shots among them, senor,
and y o)! the score for our dead comrades?”

“ only wish that we dared do so, Ravilez;
but our heavy guns would be heard by the
cruisers which must be near up or down the
coast, for those who fired upon us were not
cattlemen by any means.”

“80, senor, I should think not; but as you
say it would not do for the cruisers to hear
our shots, for this wind is light, and may die
out to a calm.” ‘

This idea seemed to convince Ravilez that
the captain was on the safe side in not tiring upon
the party of pursuers ashore, and the same opin-
ion went the rounds of the ship when the reasons

. of Revello were known.

The crew seemed to realize most fully that but
for their captain being in command, they would
have been entrapped at the hacienda and shot
down or captured.

Revello accordingly rose still higher in the re-
gard of his officers and men.

All felt that a bold move had been made to
rescue Ca tain Bertrandc and the others, and
that it failed was no fault of theirs.

But, it had failed, and with the brig now very
short-handed, it was but right that they should
think of their own safety.

Not a man of the crew was there who did not
now congratulate himself upon having Revello
for their new captain, for they had not the con-
fidence in Senor Ravilez as a commander that
they would have had in Cortes or Waldo, who
would have become their chief under the cir-
cumstances but for the presence of the Mexican.

The dawn was not very far distant when the
brig got an offing, and as the wind was still very
light, the men looked shoreward anxiously to
await the coming light.,',

It might reveal to them a large vemel-of—war
—perhaps more than one—the boats of which in
that light wind could readil overhaul their
craft, if sent to the attack, an in numbers suf-
ficient to carry her by boarding. ,

But the dawn came, and no vessel was in
sight, so it was suplppeed by all that a crew had
been left with the in by the frigate, to protect
his home, or the Government at Vera Cruz had
sent some soldiers there.

Revello also gave this as his belief, and then
he called his oflicers together and asked them if
it was their wish that he should still retain com-
mand.

To a man they answered in the aiiirmative,
and then Revello said:

“ Well, seno'rs, as I am to be your captain, I
wish the brig at in perfect trim, and know
the very s t w ere this can be done in safety,
so we wil sail for the place I have in view at
once.”

And so the buccaneer in]? was put away for
a retreat on the shores of obiie Bay, to under-
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CHAPTER XXII.
'rnn PIRATE’S mrasuan.

THERE wasa stronger motive for sailing for
Mobile Bay in the mind of Captain Revello
than having the brig repaired.

She sadly needed repairs, that was certain, for
she was rusty for want of paint, a number of
ugly scars were visible in hull and spars, and
the sails were patched slow and aloft.

Then, too, her rigging had been considerably
cut up by shot in the various actions which she
had been engaged in. .,~

The motive that was foremost in the mind of
Captain Revello for seeking a secure haven in
Mobile Bay will soon be shown.

He had set the brig upon her course for the
retreat, and then descended into his cabin.

Up to that time he had not felt so wholly sure
of his position, fearing an outbreak of the crew.

But now he was captain to all intents and
purposes and determined toassume the power as
such. .

Calling his faithful black comrade to him, he
said: '

chief of this era t and crew.

“Yes, Senor Master, you have done as you
said ” was the reply of the African.

“ 0' on know, Topaz, why I am going to
Mobile y?”

“ No, senor.”

“ Well, Topaz, though I do not believe it pos-
sible that my—my—the cabin-b0 , Ivan, I
mean, could escape, still, should it possible
that he did, that the wreck did not go to pieces
and be thus be taken off by some ssing vessel,
there would be two things he won d do.’

“Yes, senor.”

“ He would first seek my island retreat, and
thinking that I might camps, lay a tra there
to catch me in, should I go there, whic I will
not do.

“Did we go there, then that would end our
lives, for you know the power held over the

ple of the Island Retreat by my wife, the

uccaneer Queen and she would visit ven-

geance upon me or leaving the cabin-boy to
die in irons.”

“Yes, Senor.”

The chief did not see the peculiar smile that
flitted over the face of the African.

Had he done so he would have felt convinced
that the ne ro knew that thecabin-boy was none
other than gis wife, Lucille.

But Captain Revello seemed to feel that the
slave had no thoughts beyond what he-hadg him
think of. v

“Now, Topaz, you see it would not be well
for us to go to the retreat.”

“ No, senor.” '

“ But should the cabinoboy escape and go to
the retreat, then my wife would at once depart,

.I am sun, for her old home on Mobile Bay.

“ Now, when I went there last, at the time I

 

took her back to her old home, along with our
little boy, and found her mother dead, the place

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a ruin almost, and her father a madman, whom
I was forced to kill, I buried there the treasure I
had on board the brig with me.

“I now desire to place more treasure there,
for what belonged to Captain Bertrando, the
Buccaneer, is mine. ”

“ Y senor.”

“I shall look over the treasure and take the
most valuable of it, and which can be easil’y
handled, for myself, and that means for you,

too.

“ The balance I shall divide between my om-
cers and crew, and that will make me more pop-
ular with them.”

“ it will, senor.”

“ After the treasure, my part of it at least, is
hidden away with the other, and we must get it
ashore secretly, then we can depart, as soon as
the brig is repaired, for a cruise.”

“ A cruise, senor?"

“ Yes; but just where I will go I have not yet
fully decided.

“ The truth is, Topaz, I intend to Wed the
Senorita Marcolite Custile, and this act of mine,
in becoming captain of the brig, will win me
everlasting fame.”

“ Yes, senor.”

“ But of that we will not now speak, though
to me the fortune looks all radiant now.”

“ Yes, senor.”

“ Now, let me ask you about your run to the
hacienda.”

“ I ran there, Senor Master, gave the letter to
the guard, and returned by way of the lagoon.”

“ Yes, I was sure of that, when (ur plans were
carried out without a hitch.

“ But I wish you to keep your eyes and ears
open, Topaz, for all that goes on, and to tell
me if there is any underhand work brewing.”

“ I’ll do it, Senor Master; but’the officers and
men all regard you highly, and have no suspicion
against you.”

“ It is well; but now I shall look over the
treasure of Bertrando, who I hope has been
hanged before this, and I am really anxious to
know his fate.

“ Let me have a warning if I am to be inter-
rupted.”

0.1 will, senor,” responded the African, and he
. left the cabin.’

l For a few minutes the Mexican paced up and
down the cabin in deep thought.

The wind was blowing lightly and the brig
was glidin smoothly along.

At last vello stepped to a closet in the panel
work and unlocked it.

From within he took a key and raising a rug
rt vealed a square trap in the floor of the cabin.

There was a keyhole in it, and into this he
thrust the key, turning it twice, while he mused
half aloud:

“ It is lucky I watched Bertrando do this or I r

would,have to break the secret hold open with
an ax.

The lid was then raised by means of a key,
coming out instead of opening upon hinges.

In each corner was visible a bolt, while in the
corners of the trap were sockets into which they
fitted when locked, each turn of the key shoot-
in abolt, or drawing it back to open it.

The opening revealed was some, two feet
fquare and three feet deep and it was :iron-
ined.

There was a quantity of massive silver plate
in it, some boxes and several ba 3 heavy with

d, while there was also some oose jewelry,
iamond-hilted swords and other valuables.

“ Here is a fortune for me to all appearances.

“ If the? boxes have gems then I am a rich
man; but will be generous, as I can afford to
be, for one-third of it goes to the crew, and
that simlply means a gift to m chernment. '

“Wei , it’s a bold game am playing, but
pluck and determination will carry me through
all right.”

So saying he began to n the foxes.

They were looked, but t 0 keys were attached
to than by a ribbon, and as the lid of each one
was opened the e es of the Mexican sparkled
with avaricious de ight.

“Bertrando was a man of taste, and he has
left. me a very liberal fortune, 1 must confess.

“ A short while since adrift in an open boat,
d ng of thirst and hunger, and now commander
o a craft only second to my beautiful wrecked
brig, and With every prospect before me bright-

enlnfi.
“ ow to value my treasure.”

CHAPTER XXIII.
Tn]: HIDDIN moans.

Tn boxes which Revello found in the cabin
of the buccaneer Bertrando contained jewelry
of rare value, and precxous stones. . .

With the eye of a man who well knew the
value of gems and gold, Revello went over the
contents of the pirate treasure, and made selec-
tions for himself.

These be carefully put aside and hid away in
his statero m.

The rest of the treasure was returned to the
fort: receptacle, and the lid was put on and

oc .
Then Revello went on deck and had a little
conversation with Raviles.
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officers were called,‘ and Senor Ravilez made
known the fact that their new captain was a
very generous man.

In truth he had proposed that, as Captain
Bertrando was beyond rescue. and the men with
him, that the treasure of the former chief, Senor
Waldo and their comrades should all be ut to-
gether and divided, he, Revello, as one w 0 had
not helped secure the booty, merely taking the
share that would come to him as an officer, not
as captain.

This proposition was received with delight by
the officers, who vbted the new captain a most
generous man and a splendid fellow.

Bertrando, Waldo and the others had held no
interest for them, they felt, and the proposition
was at once made to t e crew.

Of course, as captain, Revello would have been
entitled to cue-third the treasure, and the officers
the second third, the other being divided among
the men.

All costs to keep the brig going were of course
expected to come out of the captain’s third, but
as the vessel captured her sup lies and fittings
there was really nothing for rtrando to buy.

With Revello chipping in the captain’s share,
to be divided, be coming in simpl as an omcer,
and Waldo’s share, With those 0 the lost men
which had been left upon the brig, it gave to
those on the vessel a very snug sum, and this
further carried favor for the new commander in
the eyes of the avaricious pirates.

The men were fairly wild with enthusiasm
and Captain Revello bade Ravilez and another
officer, if they knew where Bertrando kept his
treasure, to bring it upon deck.

They soon found it, and Senor Waldo’sand the
captured and slain seamen’s booty was also put
in the general Contribution.

Of course not a man knew that Revello already
had hidden away the lion’s share of Bertrando’s
treasure, and in the division the men were most
willing to be generous toward the new captain,
in generosity he would not hear to, as he said he
had not risked his life in securing the 

Considering that he had what he he kept
hidden away from Bertrando, after coming on
board the brig, then what he had robbed the
secret hold of, and next what he received in the
division, he had done so well that his share was
greater than all the others together.

As long as this was not known, or even sus-

ted, it was all well for Revello.

He did make one claim, and that was for To—
paz, who he said should share as a sailor.

f course not a man disputed this, for they
had no desire to receive the greater ill-will of
the African. -

At last Dauphin Island came into view and by
night the brig glided into the pass leading up
Mobile Bay.

Revello took the wheel himself, and having
entered by night he hoped unseen, he was anx—
ious to find his hiding-place before dawn.

The mind held fair, and keepingl well over
toward the eastern shore he ran mm is place of
refuge in the gray of early daybreak. not far
from c deserted ruin of Spanish Fort. .

The ig was at once beached, as it was high
tide, and\the men set to work to clean and paint
the bottom, while others bent on new sails, ri -
ged new spare and patched u the scars whic
shot had made in the vessel a her rig. .

Thus the day passed, and the night coming on
Revello made known to Senor Raviles that he
should run across to Mobile, accompanied only
by Topaz, and seek What news he could, while he
would also bring back much-needed stores and
other things necessary in the repair 1' the vessel.

“I shall run in by night, get hat I need
to-morrow and return the next night, as I care
not to be pursued, or own suspected,” he said to
Ravilez.

He had no fear of the brig being run off
with by her officers, who might be ambitions of
bein in Command, as she was still beached and
woud not be in condition for sailing undera
couple of days at furthest.

Topaz had orders to put certain things in the
boat, and thus the treasure was smuggled
abOard, Revello took the tiller, the African stood
by the sheet halyard and the run to Mobile was

“no '

ut the prow of the boat was not turned
directly across the bay after leavin Spanish
River, but instead headed for the Ited Cliffs
down upon the eastern shore a league or more.

A small creek was found running into the
hey below the Red Cliffs and into this the
boat was run, the helmsman seeming to know
the waters and shores perfectly.

A landing was then made and both Revello
and the negro moved up a vale, each carrying a
heavy load upon their shoulders.

They skirted around a hill, crossed a rugged
valley, and a stream, and aseending a steep
ridge, halted upon a spur.

It was a wild, desolate spot, and where it
would seem no one would ever penetrate.

The negro then took from a canvas in which
they were wrap . , a sgade and shovel, and the
two men, so widely di erent, set to work dig-

gin .

Ige, sod was carefully removed and placed
upon the canvas, then the dirt, and soon the
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“ It is the box, Topaz"

“ Yes, senor. ”
su:eq’pen it, and we will put in tme-M

“ Yes, senor.” And the African obeyed.

A lantern was then lighted and Mmdom
into the hole, revealing a box filled with. tree»
sure, such as bags of gold and silver. jewelry
and gems.

The treasure brought by Revelio and Topan
was then placed in the box along with what Was
mm, the lid was replaced, and then the dirt and

Every particle of dirt that had been left upon
the canvas was then taken and thrown into the
stream, and the lantern revealed the fact that
there was not a trace of the. hiding-place of the
treasure, such as would attract mortal eye,
should one be led to that cutof-the-way, desolate
spot.

“ Now, Topaz we have the fortune of a prince
there in that ho e, and I. should be content.

“ But I am not, for I must have the fortune of
the Senorita Marcelite,” said Revelio, and in his
quiet way Topaz answered:

“ Yes, Senor Master.”

 

CHAPTER XXIV.
a HAUNTED sun. ’

HAVING satisfied himself that there was not a
trace of their visit visible around the secret bury-
ing-place ‘of the riches which he had placed there
upon some former occasion and then added to
that night, Revello said:

“ Now, Topaz, you return to the boat and
await my comgieig.

“Should I 11 you, I will give my call.”

“ I will be ready, senor," said the faithful
African, faithful in crime though he was, and
he ut out the lantern, took up the utensils they
h used in di ging, and wended his way back
down the val ey, toward the creek where the
boat had been left. .

The Mexican meanwhile went along the rid a
toward the top of what was known as the cli a,
or Red Cliffs.

He passed around a tumble-down fence which
had encircled a large vegetable garden now
overrun with weeds and grass, and came out in
a path running along the summit of the olifl.

t had once been a well-traveled road it.
seemed, but now it was OVerrun and neglected,

There was a growth of heavy timber upon the
ridge, and from the elevation a grand view of
the bay could be had, and up and down the
coast as well.

There were visible far across the bay in the
distance, the lights that marked the situation of
the tawn of Mobile, and to the northward lay
the dark spur upon which was the ruins of
Spanish Fort.

Following the path and walking slowly, the
Mexican halted at a turn and said aloud:

“ It was here that he attacked me and I killed

him.

“ And all the while beneath her velvety man-
ner, Lucille was plotting revenge because I kill-
ed her father. ,

“ I wonder if the old home is occupied now
save by spirits and vanishing memories!

“ Ah mel this is a stran life that I am lead-
ing, a double life, butit wi lend soon, and i will
be the richest of the rich, envied by all men, my
gold and my beautiful bride.

“ My God! what if Lucille should have es-
caped death after all and have returned here to
her old home!

“ I could not resist the inclination to come
here and find out.

“If she has, and is here, then she must die,
for large as this world is, it is too small for her
and I to dwell in together.

“if she is here, then my boy is here with

“ if she is dead, then some day I will look up
the boy, for why should he become what I have
been what I am!

“ Ah, nol he must not be that.

“ And yet I cannot have him near me to con-
stantly bring up phantoms of the past. I must
now forget-

“ Boshl I believe I am getting weak-hearted,
for why should I allow phantoms to fret me!

“ I will go to the cottage and see if she is
there, for somehow the thou ht will haunt
me that she did not die—that sh s not dead)!

He passed on along the pathway until in the
darkness there loomed up before him upon his

ht amansion.
t was almost hidden in foliage and surround-
ed by flowers, the scent of the latter filling the

air.

He halted at the ate, fallen from its Motel.
and gazed down t gravel walk toward the
piazza.

It was some time before he entered andat
last stood upon the piszss.

All was dark and silent!

Not a sound broke the stillness save the
break of the waves upon the beach at the base
of the olia fa below.

He knock at the door, first lightly, than
loudly, as no answer came. ‘

On y the echo of his knock was heard, and no
one came or asked his errand.

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7He turned the latch of the door and entered,
imrit was unlocked.

His footsteps echoed dismally through the
hails‘as hewent from room to room in the dark-
ness, finding his way readily as though perfect-
‘ly familiar with the spot. . '

Ati-last he turned and made. his way to the
i'outrr‘door and stood on the piazza.

“She is not here, and standin in this old
house I feel that she is dead, that can feel her
»~spir'it hovering about me. '

“‘ I n0w know that it has been only .the
‘fatcy of my fevered brain, that she is alive,
'that she escaped death in the wreck, loaded as
rvshe was with iron chains.

'“It was a cruel fate perhaps— Hal what
Hsound was that?”

The man started and listened, the cold sweat
‘ breaking out upon his brow.

“ I distinctly heard my words repeated—cruel 5

i ate. V
f “ My God! I cannot stand this, for brave as .
Iam IseethatItoocaubemaietofeei—thatl»

am a haunted man.”

“ A haunted man !”

The words were like an echo of his own, yet
strangely distinct, almost threatening they
seemed.

He started again and moved toward the gate.

Then he gained courage and laughed in a de«
risive Way at his fears.

“ Hal ha! ha! [am a fool to fear Hugh-t that
is dead or alive,” he said aloud.

“ Ha! ha! ha i” came the echo, if echo it was,

and than faintlv were heard the words:

“ A fool, dead or alive I”

“ I cannot stand this,” cried the man, now
thoroughly alarmed, and he started quickly to-
ward the gate.

As 'he turned from the dark path, overhung
with dense foliage, he breathed more freely, but
yet it seemed to him that he wms foihwed.

He distinctly heard the sound of following
footsteps.

He halted and the sound ceased.

He resumed his way and once more he heard
the footsteps.

Then it seemed that the air rew more chill,
and there appeared to be a rust ing of the tenves
about him.

Something brushed his face and he uttered a
cry, and then cursed himself for a coward when
he discovered that it was only the foliage of an
overhanging limb.

But he quickened his pace, and the steps be-
hind did the same. '

He halted, drew his sword and rushed back
among the trees.

But no one was there.

He called, but no answer came.

“ Lucille! is that your spirit that haunts me?!"
he cried.

" Spirit that haunts me,” was the echoing ne-
ply and with a thrill of horror the man turned
and walked swiftly away along the path.

The steps
quickening his pace he irresistibly n to run
until he was soon flying along like a ear.

He reached the spot where he had slain Lu-
cille’s father, and it seemed that he heard mock-

-i laughter.
nsown the steep path he bounded, acmss he

beach to the shore of the little creek, and there .

he found Torus and the boaoawaiting.

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CHAPTER XXV.
IN roar.

Torn had heard the coming footsteps of his

master, and felt that something was wrong, that
he was pursued. ’
7 80 he turned ,the pmw of the boat quickly sea-
ward, seized the cars, and the moment Revello
sprung into the stern, had sent it out of the
creek.

It was but a short pull, then over the bar and
into the waters of the bay, where the winds
struck the sail, which was hanging limp before
toAthe malslt.j b

sma i was also set and the boat was
headed directly out from the shore, the distant
lights from the tower being the objective

int.

Not a word id the African an a
long while he ore his master spokyei. nd it was 3'

Revello was striving to regain his breath and
composure. /

At last he said, and his voice was cum no“.
for he had gained control of himself thorough] ’
as he saw the cliff growing :iim astern with d 3’.

lanes: . ‘

“ Tops z?”

“ Yes, Senor Master.” ‘

‘ " Did you see any one chasing me?”

“ No, senor.” ‘

“ Did you hear any footfalls save my own 3”-

“ Yes, senor.”

"‘ But you saw no one!”

' "':It seemed to me, senor, when I saw you that
quivers eni:,eloped in a white robe.”

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“58‘: it seemed, renor.”

behind him.were again heard, and.

r the love of God get me away
i” he cried, and the strong arms

 

“ A robe around me?”

“ The white seemed like a vail about you,
senor."

“ But you saw no form!”

“ None, senor."

“Topaz, do you believe in ghosts?"

“ Yes, senor.”

“ You believe that the dead can come back
to life!”

“ I do, senor.” '

“ Well, so do I—n0w.”

“ Senor?"

“ I saw a spirit to-night.”

“ You saw a spirit?”

“ Well, no; but, I felt one.”

“ You felt its presence, senor!”

“ That is just it.”

“ Whose spirit, senor?”

“ It was the Spirit of my wife.”

“ Ahi poor lady, she is dead.“

“ Yes; but I can own go to that shore again
and I never will, save to get the treasure I
have buried there.

“ It was horrible, Topaz.”

“ Yes, senor.”

“ I am not a man who knows fear, and yet I
fled in terror to—night, in terror from a phan—
tom, a ghost, a woman’s spirit, Topaz.”

“‘I understand, Senor Master.”

“ And you helped me well, Topaz, and now
we are headed for the town.

'“ Tomorrow night we will return to the brig
and the following day we can put to sea."

"" Yes, senor.”

“ She will be in perfect trim for a cruise,

’ though her crew will be small, as we have little

over half a hundred men, Topaz.”

'“ I understand, senor.”

“But we are to go upon a cruise thatI have
made known .to no one—it will surprise even
you, Topaz.”

“ Yes, senor.”

“It will surprise many others, and hurt many

“. But the misery of one half the world, Topaz,
Bri’rfig’s happiness or contentment to the other
a .

“ Yes, master.”

The Mexican was silent n0w for a long while,
not speaking again until the boat ran into
the Mobile River.

Bevello held the helm and seemed to know
his surroundings well, for he guided the boat
to a secure wharf below the town.

There were a few dozen vessels in the bar-
her and the dim street-lamps swung to and fro
lazily under the pressure of the wind.

Making his boat secure while Topaz was furl-
ing the sail, Revello said simply:

“ Comei!” _

The African followed in silence, and the Mexi-
can led the way to a tavern, within which were
heard'many voices, though it was then Qanrly
dawn.

A knock at thesida door caused it to be open-
:‘di, and a man with a dark, Spanish face appear-

“Ho, Senor Belem Igreet on.”

M Ah! the Senor—W y

“‘Bhi do not call names here; but I wish
i ing and food for myself d slave.”

“ on can have both, Sen Captain.

“Come ht in.”

novella yed and was followed by Topaz,

the landlord of the inn leading the way up- »

stairs to what was a very comfortable room
overlooking the river and bay.

“ Here. senor, you will be comfortable and
your  can sleep on the rug yonder.

" But it is a surprise to see you—and a pleas-
ure.

“ I came out just to see you, senor Bolero;
but bring some food and wine, for we are starv-
ed. and then I shall rest until late tomorrow,
for the purchases I have to make you can ar-
range for me.”

“ Of course I will, Senor Captain,” and with
this the lan-llord hastened away. ' .

But he soon returned with wine and food, and
placed them before the Mexican.

“ Any vessels-of-war in port, Bolero?”

“ The American brig-of-war, Battle Bird,
senor, Captain Louis Dudley, is here.”

“ I have reason to know both the man and his
vessel.

“ He is a fine fellow. but I would not wish to
fall into his clutches under existing circum-
stances.

“ But is the schooner-of-war, Spiteful, here,
Lieutenant Archer Dean commanding?”

“ No, senor.”

“ When was she here last?”

“Not since she went off in chase of you, on
your last visit to these waters. "’

“ I am sorry, for I had hoped she was either
here, or at the bottom of the Gulf.”
ha: She may beblthewlattzr, sencr, for we have

me tort-i e run 068 0 late
dent; esslknow.” " ’ as you
es, do, to my sorr0w for m bri was
wrficked, though I have anoter vesse’l neg.

‘ Well, find out all you can of the Battle Bird’s
movements, get these purchases for me, which I
have made a list of here for you, and you will
find my ,boat at your dock—a yaw], bearing the
name of Sphinx 04.110)? bows.”

 

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“ I’ll find her, senor.” _

“ Have a watch put over her and. the things

on get storm away in her, for I wish to sta
back after dark to-night.” ~

“ Yes, captain. All will be ready for you.

“ But, then, your vessel is near?”

“ Not so far away, Bolero, but that I can
reach her within a few hours’ sail.

“ Good-night, nOW, and let me sleep
ternoon.”

“ Yes, senor,” and the landlord demrted from
the room, leaving Revello and Topoz to_seek the
rest they greatly needed, for dawn was Just then
breaking.

until af-

CHAPTER XXVI.
uNDER FALSE COLORS.

THE day had nearly gone by when Revollo
awoke from his deep, dreamless sleep, and found
himself in the inn of Landlord Bolero.

Topaz had rested but a few hours, and rising
noiselessly from his rug had finished the remains
of the supper and wine and seated himself at
the window togaze out upon the harbor.

It was a panorama constantly before his eyes,
of vessels running in to an anchorage or leav-
ing one for the sea, sailboats and row-boats
moving about and the wharves filled with busy
men.

The African seemed perfectly content to gaze
and it interested him wholly.

At last the Mexican awoke and gazed curious-
ly about him.

“ Ah! I remember n0w where I am.

" There is Topaz, too,” and he sprung from
the comfortable bed and gave the hell-cord a
pull.
Landlord Bolero soon appeared, and Revello
enjoyed the breakfast brought him.

“ Any news, Bolero?”

“I think, senor, the Battle Bird, brig-of-war,
is preparing to sail with all dispatch, for men
are at work upon her.”

“ h! and when can she get away?”

“ ardly before the niorrow will she be in
condition."

“ That is good; but have you no idea of the
cause of her haste?”

“Some news brought in by a fisherman, I
heard, that a pirate had been seen running along
the coast. of the Gulf and the lower bay."

“ That means my brig has been seen: but I’ll
be ready to sail before dawn, and I must get
awav from here by sunset.” '

“ Yes, senor, h ' sunset, for your purchases are
made and all wil be ready.” .

“ Good! Now go out and see if you can
glean any more news about the sailing of the
Battle Bird.”

This Bolerh did and it was nearly sunset when
he returned.

“ Senor Captain, it is said that the pirate is
hiding in some of the lagoons, and the Battle
Bird Will be ready by dawn to leave, for she
was undergloing repairs when the news came in.

“ Then t e orders are that no boat is allowed
to leave the river, but as I am allowed to send
down for my fish and oysters, I went to Captain
Dudley and got a permit to run out with my
boat, so you will have to leave your yawl and
take mine, or rather go with me.”

“ Can you not take mine in tow, saving it is
loaded with stores for your fishermen 7”

“I’ll try it; but if not, we can shift the things
to mv boat, and you can go in my cutter.”

“Well, arrange it as you will, but I must do-
part at sunset, for if I do not reach my brig she
is lost, that is certain.”

“ I’ll do all in mv power for you, Senor Cap-
tain, as you know,” was Bolero’s answer, and
he again left the room. '

The hour passed away anxiously to Captain
Revello, but just as it began to grow dark Bo-
lero returned, and he carried two disguises.

“You and the black must go as fishermen,
captain, and I go with you, towing your boat.

“I must head us to my camp of fishermen
down the bay, while you 'go your way, and let
me tell you that the brig has a double force
working on her, to get away in chase of this

irate, whoever he may be, or wherever,” and

lero laughed in a grim way.

Revellc hastily slipped on his disguise, as did
Topaz, and soon after, with boxes on their
shoulders, they left the inn and made their way,
accompanied by the landlord. toward his wharf.

There were two men already at Boler ’ boat,
but the ynwl of Reveilo was there, well oaded,
and it was taken in tow by the cutter, which
alone raised sail.

Down the riVer glided Bolero’s boat. and when
hailed by a guard-boat, gave the password he
had agreed upon with the captain of the Ameri-
can hrig-of-war, so that he was allowed to pass
unmolested.

Once he had dropped the town well astern,
the yawl was cast of! by Bolero, at a com-
mand from Revello, sail was set by Topaz, and
the little boat went dashing away,'her course
laid for Spanish River. 4

The wind was fresh and she went bowling
rapidly along, Revello losing no (firortnnity to

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Arun of three hours brought them alongside of
the brig, which had floated n0w, as it was high
tide, and her hull had been fully cleaned and

painted.

Then Captain Revello got aboard the stores
brought, repairs were quickly finished and before
dawn.the brig was standing down the bay.

“ Light hol” cried the lookout just as dawn
was breakin .

Turning hfii glass upon the light, Revello said,
calmly :

“ It is the brig-of-war, and she has headed us

off.

“She got away sooner than Bolero expected
Ihe would, and she has evidently knowledge that
we are up here.

“ I must play a game to deceive her captain,
honors, and if that does not do, then we must
fi ht it out.”

hat all were anxious on board the Ocean
Rapier there is no doubt, but then there ap-
peililred to be the greatest confidence felt in Re-
vs 0.

His first order was to dress the officers in the
Mexican uniform, the crew also, and to instruct
them that they were to pretend to be the Mexi-
can brig—of-war Rattlesnake.

It was not very long before the Mexican brig
was sighted from the decks of the Battle Bird,
for the day had dawned and every e e was on
the watch. The buccaneer was holding on her
course down the bay, while the American brig
was headin across her bows, and the drums
were heard heating to quarters.

Revello was as calm as a May morn, and kept
his glass upon the brig—of—war to watchlany
movement on board.

He saw that the men went to quarters with
a will, the guns were run out and all was ready
for action. ‘

OH his port quarter lay Red Cliffs, over which
the rosy ight of the rising sun dispelled every
shadow, where the night before he had been
pursued, as be believed, by a spirit form.

As the sun appeared there was a roll of bunt-
ing run up to the peak of the hrig-of-war, and
the fighting flag of her captain to the fore,
showing that Louis Dudley, her commander, was
In deadly earnest.

Then came a flash from the bows of the Battle
Bird and a solid shot flew our the decks of the
buccaneer, and not any too high for safety.

Assured that he had a pirate to deal with, Cap—
tain Dudley was not at all backward in sending
his first shot as a command to come to.

To the surprise of all upon the American brig-
of-war, a ball of hunting ran up to the peak of
the stranger and another to the fore.

One was the Mexican flag, the other was a
rattlesnake in a blue field, the colors of Captain
Rudol Revello.

At .t same instant almost, to avoid a broad-
side from the brig-of-war, the huccaneer vessel
swept up into the wind and lay to, obeying the
command of the cruiser for her to do so.

 

CHAPTER XXVII.
rams 'rn suck rue.

RUDOLPH Rxnnm was as cunning as he was
brave and wicked.

Ks was in a trap unlem he could extricate him-
self, and onl pluck and boldness could do it, for
:ocloimbat w th the brigof-war meant sure defeat

in.

His crew were untried to him, the vessel also
in a manner, and with his small number of men
to fight against double their force would surely
and in disaster.

As the brig cams on, her men at their guns,
aring to suspect treachery of
some kind, Rove lo ordered his barge lowered
away, and instructing all as to their duty, pulled
for the Battle Bird, which seeing him, lay to an
eighth of a mile from the buccsneer.

it was Revello’s intention to thus head her ofi
from coming too near by boarding the enemy
and reporting as a Mexican commander.

He well knew the danger he ran, and that he
had before met Captain Dudley, in council with
Lieutenant Archer Dean of the schooner Spite-
tui, when his own vessel had been brought to as
the very vessel he was now on, the buccaneer
brl , Ocean Rapier.

'l . he had won the da , proving that he was
in reality Captain Rudolp of the Mexican brig-
of-war Rattlesnake, but could he now do so as
the commander of the pirate!

That was just the bold game he istended to
play, and when he was ,hailed from the brig-
of-war he nded promptly:

“ Captain evello of the Mexican brig-of-
war Rattlesnake desires to come aboard and
visit Captain Louis Dudley of the Battle Bird.”

Captain Dudley uttered an oath at this.

He was sure that he had caught the pirate

' brig Ocean Rapierunder Bertrando, and now he

was deceived in finding her to be the Mexican
brig Rattlesnake which before he had mistaken
’flhwfii‘“? i ted -

ve o congratu a himself u hav-
lng in his overhauling the huccanee'ron craft
made her lookas much like his own vsssslss
.waspossibls.

 

” Captain Dudley will be glad to welcome
Captain Revello on board,” responded the ofiicer
of the deck, and Revello’s barge moved toward
the brig.

He was met at the gangwpy with honors,
and escorted tovthe cabin, where Captain Dud-
ley said: ,

“ 1 am 'glad to meet you a ain, Captain Re-
vello, and as before it is un er circumstances
where your vessel was mistaken for that pirate
Bertrando, for I have worked a treble force of
men for twenty hours to come after you.”

“ I regret the trouble I have put you to,
Senor Captain; but I also am on the track of
Bertrando the Buccaneer and ran up flyour hay
here under information given me by a sherrran
that the Ocean Rapier had been seen in these
waters."

“ Ahl then I am cheered with the hope of
finding him, as it is not your vessel that was
taken for him.

“ How far have you cruised up the bay, may
I ask ?”

“ Up into Spanish River, and where Ila by
toflt up alittle as I needed it; but may ask
the whereabouts of Lieutenant Archer Dean of
the schooner-of-war Spitefull”

“I have not seen him since we parted com-
pany in the Gulf; but he is doubtless cruising on
the coast of your country, for he is most anxious
to capture the counterpart of your brig, the
Ocean Rapier, as you are.”

" Yes, I wish to wipe that vile pirate from off
the sea, I assure you, for he has, as you know,
senor, been the cause of a number of severe re-
flections upon myself.

“In fr ‘t I would not be surprised if I was
some time tried for piracy on account of Der-
trando’s actions, for his brig is indeed the coun-
terpart of my vessel.”

“ They are wonderfully alike, sir; but you will
surgly honor me by remaining to breakfast with
me

Revello bowed and accepted the .invitation,
the two vessels meanwhile lying to, the Ameri-
can greatly disappointed that they hud not had
to deal with the pirate Bertrando, and the crew
of the buccaneer brig anxious as to the outcome
of the long stay of their captain on board the
Battle Bir . '

But at last the boat was seen to put off, and
Captain Revello was soon upon his own deck,
when be promptly gave the orders to head down
the Ba toward the Gulf.”

“ I p ayed the captain of the Mexican brig-of.
war, Rattlesnake, senors," he said with a smile,
as he rejoined his anxious ofilcers upon the quar-
ter-deck of his own vessel.

" The American ea in re tted not finding
in our venue] Bertran o the p rate, and so urged
an; to remain to breakfast with him, which I

i .
“ We now go down the Bay into the Gulf to-
fiher, in search of the pirate Bertrando; but I
s lldod ethe American you ma be certain,
the first c ance I get, for I would ate to have
the schooner-of-war, Spiteful, put in an ap r»
ance here just now ” and Rave lo laughed, or it
will berememher that he did not know that
the tornado which had wrecked his brig had
sent the Spiteful also to the bottom.

His ofilcers joined with him in his laugh at
the clever deception practiced u n the Ameri-
can, and it was soon cum to 0 crew, who re-
garded their nsw'commander still more highly
as a man of nerve and clever ruses when brou ht
face to face with desperate danger, for, rock ess
as were the buccaneers, they had not cared to
test their strength in a combat with an Ameri-
can vessel-of-war.

Down the Bay sailed the two brigs, the Amer-
ican slightly heavier in tonnage than the beers-
neer, though her armament was lighter.

She doubled the pirate in the number of men,
however, and it would have been a desperate lot
of buccaneers that could have beaten 'off Cap-
tain Louis Dudle and his splendid seamen.

As the brigs sa led along together it was seen
that both vessels. were beautiful models and car-
ried a large spread of canvas.

The buccaneer, however, seemed to sail on a
more level keel in spite of her masts soaring
aloft some fifteen feet above those of the Beta
tie Bird while her bowsprit was longer and also
her ya it.

She was certainly built for rapid going and
seaworthy ualitics.

Though t e American had the wind of the
buccaneer, the latter, with the same sail set as
her rival, now began to forge ahead. ,

Captain Dudley had extra canvas set, but the
result was the same, although the buccanesr did
not add to her sail.

She was clearly the fieeter of the two brigs,
and those on board the cruiser realized that
had the come upon a stern chase, and the
other hr g had been, as they now did not believe
her to be, a pirate, they could never have over-
hauled her unless they had crippled her so as to
«inable them to come to close quarters in ac-
t on. , ‘

And then, sailin under false colo the buc-
caneor brig head out toward the Go] , with an
honest cruiser followingain her wake and no
means hostile toward what she too helisv an
honest craft.

 

CHAPTER XXVIII.

OCEAN ROVERS TO THE RESCUE.

THE two brigs reached blue water with the
buccaneer leading the cruiser fully a quarter of
a mile, though the former had not increased her
ganvas, where the latter had done so to a great

t was a disappointment to Captain Dudley
and his crew to see their crack vessel thus
beaten by a foreign craft, while the pirates were
greatly elated over their triumph.

Once the two vessels had sped out into the
blue Gulf, Captain Revello si aled that he
would follow the shores aroun as faras the
Belize, if that was satisfactory to Captain Dud-

ley.

It seemed perfectly so, for Captain Dudley
signaled back that he would hunt the shores as
far as Tampa before his return.

. Thus the two brigs rted company, and if
the American had (mi; known how cleverly
they had been deceived, they would have torn
their hair in their rage and mortification.

On board the outlaw craft the crew were
half-wild with deli ht, and Revello could hard-
ly restrain them rom breaking forth in yells
of triumph at their escape.

He received the congratulations of his offi-
cers in his quiet way, and at once became the
idol of his men, who little dreamed that they,
too, were being deceiVed, that they had over
them the very captain whom their chief had
pretended to ini rsonate. ‘

The did not now, as had Captain Bertrando
and aldo, that Revello was the ca tain of the
Rattlesnake, and well for him was it that they
did not.

Once the Ocean Ra ier had gotten well out of
sight of the Battle ird, sail was spread upon
her, the course was changed from heading to—
ward the Balize, and Senor Ravilez was startled
by the order to head for Vera Cruz.

The officers were not yet accustomed to the
surprises of their new captain, Bertrando hav-
ing cruised about as methodically as a man-of-
war.

“ It will be a little riSky. Senor Captain, will
it not. to venture so near Vera Cruz with our
diminished crew?" said Senor Ravilez, in a
slight tone of remonstrance.

“ It is because I am weak in crew. Senor
Raviloz, that I am going,” answered Revello,
with no sign of anger at the remonstrance.

“The situation is 'ust this,” he continued, and
in a tone that thevot er tvmcers could hearsa wall
as the men at the wheel, for he wished it to be
known through the ship.

“If Captain Bertrando was not taken on
board the S nish frigate or schooner, and I see
no reason vi; he should have been, captured as
he was in Mexico, then he will have been sent to
Vera Cruz.”

“ And Senor Waldo and the men, Captain
Revellof”

“ They will have been sent with him also.

“ N0w I have no reason to believe that they
were executed, so they must have been dis.

tched to Vera Cruz.

“If so they are confined In the cared, and
awaiting execution, which will hard! be for
several weeks yet, as the Junta is a ow-mov-
log body of men.

“ Now the cured is near the harbor shore and
not far from it is the us of Van Cruz.
wihich is not guarded save y one marinb at
n ght.

“Itisa lonely place at ni ht, and to get to
the cares! one must pass b t e no.

“I therefore ‘have an i of do ng a good
deed toward our comrades and also to our-
selves. .

“ If our comrades are there we can rescue
them, and also get the goldoout of the vault of
the hanque.

“ I have successfully passed as the captain of
the Mexican brig-of-wer Rattlesnake, and this
vessel has also gusset! as that cruiser, so we can
run in by nig t. anchor of! the cared. andI
will land with a force of men dressed in uni-

form.

“ I will state to the commandant of the cared
that I am authorized by the Junta to take the
prisoners On board my vessel for safe-keefiiug.

“ While we are at the cured, Senor v lea
and several of his men can capture the marine,

t one of his own party on duty, enter the

mine and get out the gold.

“ y this move we can enrich‘ ourselves,
men, and also aid our comrades to escape from
the gallows, for I feel sure they are confined

here.

“It is a bold move, senors, but I am sure it
will come right in the end, and it is only by
bold acts that we can make our fortunes. .

“ I will first land, however. and see thpt all
is safe ere I take a crew ashore. and suspected
of being the cruiser Rattlesnake there will be
no doubt whatever of our going in and out of
the harbor of Vera Cruz past the San Juan de
t,Uloa’, for I know the private signals of the
ort. .

This proposition of Reva fairly dazed his
officers by its boldness.

They looked at him with dumb admiration at
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talked it all over they felt assured that it was l

possible and could be accomplished.

If they captured the gold in the banque, it
would repay them, and more, for the loss of the
treasure they would have to return by the
rescue of their captain and comrades.

It was a scheme that they entered into with
more willingness, as there were several of their
number who knew the situation of the prison
and huge in Vera Cruz and felt that the rescue
zndhrob ry could be accomplished without a

itc .

Led by such a man as Revello was proving
himself to be, the buccaneers began to believe
that they would know no such word as fall in
anghing they might undertake.

the officers talked it all over, and the two
‘wlieelmen soon had it spread among the crew,
whp, almost to a man were ready for the expo-
dition.

“ If it’s a breezy night so we won't get calmed
in the harbor, it can be done without a hitch or
loss of a man,” said the boatswain of the hue-
cancer brig. ..

And this was the decision of all, and of course
they felt that Revello was not the man to run
into the port of Vera Cruz unless there was
wind enough to allow him to get safely to sea
again in case of trouble.

So away went the Ocean Rapier on her course
'for Very Cruz, and the men were all anxiety to
know just how the bold undertaking would ter-
minute.

But, as for Revello he was wholly unmoved in
manner and face, whatever he might feel, while
'Topaz wore his accustomed listless air of utter
indifference to all going on about him, unless he
was aroused by some wrong being done him.

And one afternoon came the cry of land ho,
while far away oil' over the seas were visible
the turrets of the San Juan de Uloa. the iant
:sentinel that guards the harbor of Vera ruz,
,giving it the name of the Iron Gate of Mexico.

CHAPTER XXIX.
THE PRISONER.

I WILL now return to the scene that followed
the capture of Bertrando the Buccaneer in the
house of Don Ricardo Castile.

Whatever intention the outlaw chief may
:have had regarding getting money from his
brother, when he went to the hacienda, he soon
became convinced that- the best way to mime
terms would be to get the man and his daughter
in his power.

He felt convinced that there was a love affair

‘between Revello and Lucille and that to state
that the prisoner lay dangerously wounded
aboard his vessel would get the Don and the
maiden there without any delay.

That Revello would dare to go against him
in the matter he did not believe, and so his sur-
prise‘and rage may bewell ims ined when m;
was put under the muzzle of the xican’s pis-
tol, and what was more, found himself a pris-
~oner.

What Revello said to the Don he did not
know, in the whispered words uttered to him;
but certainit was that hesaw the Mexican leave
the hacienda in safety, while he remained there

a isouer.
e had I hopes that Lieutenant Waldo
rescue, but this hope was very

 

would come to h
iquickly dispelled when he saw the Don rall his
moi-vents by the score, send them to the we is of

the hacienda fully armed, call for his cattle-

;mm to mount and ride around the place to look
up a fee, while he was sent to the vaults where
the Don kept his valuables for safe-keepin , and
which were beneath the main part of the mm-

in .

Each was the situation after the departure of
Revello.

That Don Castile was amazed at what Revello
had whispered to him the chief saw, and yet it
would not be that he had told him who his pris-
«oner was. .

As there was no attack by Oflcer Waldo and
ibis men, no flri heard without, Bertrando de-
(rifled that Revs lo had deserted him, played a
daring and cunning game and had gone with
the pirates back to the vessel to take command
himself.

0! course this could only mean that he, left in
the power of his brother, must go to the gallows
.-.if the Don so willed.

In the vault where he was tem rarin im-
prisoned Bertrando sat down waited for

the result with the deepest solicitude and im-
patience.

He heard no firing and felt that he was de-
zSorted: but he could only wait and discover what
the result would be.

At last a step resounded overhead, a man de-
fund“ the narrow stairway to the vault, and
by the aid of the lantern burning there Ber-
traiido discerned that his visitor was Don
JRiffll‘do Castile.

I 3m glad you have come, Don Ricardo for
desire a conversation with you," said the buc—
‘clgeer chief.
“ You will have to talk fast, senor, for I shall
and you to-night under a strong guard of my
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In”. "no," he charge 0 you

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“ I believe you to be an outlaw, who came to
my home for the purpose of robbery and mur-
der for my men report a band of seamen con-
cea ed in the chaparral outside the walls.”

“ I came here to see you, Don Ricardo Castile,
and have a talk with you.”

“ Yet you sought to get my daughter and my-
self (27),? board your vessel now lying in the la-
goof]

“ Do you know what that vessel is?”

“ I had supposed it to be the Mexican war
cruiser Rattlesnake, under command of Captain
Rudolph Revello.”

“ And now you know that it is not?"

“I believe that it can only be the counterpart
of that vessel.”

“ Name it.”

“ The Beecaneer Bertrando’s craft knewn as
the Ocean Rapier, for they are twin vessels I
have heard.”

“And do you know the officer who was here
with me an hour ago, and who turned traitor to
me?"

“ Do you know him, may I ask?” said the Don
somewhat anxiously.

“ I do." .

“ As whom i” .

“ A man who is secretly a pirate, though open-
ly an officer of the Mexican Navy." .

“It is false!” ~

“I say that it is true." ‘

“ And I repeat that it is utterly false.”

“ May I ask what the name of the man is whom
I you defend?”

“ I shall give no name to you.”

“ I am not so particular."

“ Well?”

“ He came here With me to rob your house, for
he is in league with me and has been for some
While,”

“ It is false!”

“ He has been my ally at sea, and losing his
vessel in a storm came to me to serve in disguise
on my craft.”

“ Irepeat that it is an infamous falsehood that
you utter.”

“ We shall see.”

“ You can give no proof.”

“It was he who told me of your home, your
riches and the vast amount of plunder I could
secure here.

“ It was he who told me that he was an aged
to your beautiful daughter, and that we siould
share alike the plunder of the place and the ran-
som secured from you.”

“ I do not believe one word you say.”

“ I mean all that I say, and we came here
under his guidance."

“ I will never believe it.”

“ What he changed his mind for, Heaven only
knows, unless he was plotting against me, to
have me captured and thus gain my vessel for
himself, but certainly be turned traitor to me
and left me here as your risoner, while he has
returned in safety to my ship.

“As he is first officer to my brig he will be
obeyed and become known as the Buccaneer
Chief, which will enable him to secure certain
genes, when he will come to wed your daugh-

 

r.

" Never! be will never be
char e against him.”

:1 refer to Rudolph Revelio, Don Ricardo.”

As I do, a ca tein in the navy of Mexico, and
a noble man an true.”

“ Well, I have told. on just what you may
expect, and now that e has turned traitor to
me you may ex t himto be treacherous toward
you and your laughter as well.” ‘

“ I can never be ieve it; but you are Bertrando
the Buccaneer?” 4

“ 1 am.”

“ You admit it with remarkable frauknem.”

" Why not!”

“ Have you no shame, no fear of your life?”

“ I am past the day of all shame long ago, Don
Ricardo, and as for fear, what have I to fear?”

“ The gallows for your crimes!"

“ I am not the man to die on the gallows.”

“ I shall deliver you over to the Mexican Junta
for trial for piracy upon the high seas, and land-
ing on the coast to rob my home.”

n“ you willldo such no thing,_Don Ricardo Cas-
t e. ’

“ You defy me?"

It I do.”

“ Here comes my guard now to take you to
.Vera Cruz.” 1

“ Dismiss that guard and hear what I have to
say.” was the command rather than the request
of Bertrando, the Buccaneer.

CHAPTER XXX.
Tait DON SURPRISID.

Tunas was something in the manner of the
baccaneer chief so impressive that Don Ricardo
hesitated and gazed fixedly at him.

“ Send your guard away, or at least order
them’to await without untl I have a talk with
you.

“ What have you to say?”

“ Do as I tell you.”

“ What you have to say let it be in the pres-
ence of the guard.”

“ No, for you would regret it.

“ Do as I tell you, Don Ricardo.”

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The Don hesitated, then 8 up the stone
stair am and told the men w ting there toawait
in the laza until he called them.

Then he returned to the vault.

The prisoner stood there ironed to a bolt in the
wall and heavily manacled, though he did not
seem to be inconvenienced by his situation or the
wei ht of the manacles.

“ ow senor, what have you to sayl"

“ Don Ricardo Castile is noted for his hospi-
tality and 1 am his est thou h a prisoner.

“ This place is dar , close an loathsome, while
above is a most delightful sitting-room with wine
and refreshments at hand.

“ I am tired and ban ry, and I can talk better
when refreshed by f and wine, and in pleas-
ant quarters, hence my lips are sealed unless you
lead me to the room above.”

Don Ricardo looked at his prisoner in amaze-
ment, for there was still that certain impressive-
ness in his manner which he could not but feel.

He would not have his hospitality questioned
even by a buccaneer, and intending to send him
to Vera Cruz, he thought it but just that he
should give him food before his departure.

So he took from his pocket without another
word the key of the irons, unfastened the chain
from the wall, and said:

“ Come with me.”

The buccaneei' bowed and obeyed, walking
slowly, weighted down as he was by his chains.

“ Be seated there, senor, and I will order re.-
freshments for you, and then perhaps you will
let me know what it is you have to say to me.”

“All in good time, Don Ricardo, will I do so,”
was the answer.

The Don called a servant, ordered refresh-
ments, and placing himself by the side of a table
upon which lay a cutlass and pistol, as much as
intimated thereby that he would stand no non~
sense.

A peon servant brought in a tempting repast,
with Mexican liquor and wine, and the prisoner
asked to have his hands unmanacled, so that he

could eat with comfort.

“ I shall do no more than I have, Senor Bucca-
neer,” sternly said Don Ricardo, and as though
convinced that he meant what he said, the pris-
oner began to attack the edibles before him with
a relish that showed be fully appreciated good

ood.

He ate slowly, drank the Don’s very good
health, and it was only when he saw that his
host was growing impatient that he said:

“ A very en 'oyable meal, Don Ricardo.

“ And now or a cigarn'to while I talk.”

The Don handed him one, and lighting it leis-
urely with a taper, he leaned back in his'chair
and said in a com lacent tone: .

“So you inten to send me to Vera Cruz, to
deliver me up to the Junta?”

“ I do."

" To be hanged!"

“ As you deserve, for your crimes.

" I did promise the one who delivered you into
my keeping to hold you here' until his return;
but I myself am going to Vera Cruz with my
daughter. and so will only consider that you are
safe when you are in prison there, and there
your cantor can find you?

“ Well, Senor Don Ricardo Castile, let me say
to you that I do not intend to go-to Vera Cruz
to be imprisoned, nor do I intend to remain
here, as my treacherous comrade requested until
his return.” .

“ You talk boldly {or a man in irons.”

“ I talk knowingly, for I am not going to be
han ed."

“ et you admit to be Bertrando, the Buc-
cancer!”

“ Oh, yes, certainly.”

“Ifyouarstheoneyouclalmtobefihsnyou
must certainly know that his crimes deserve
punishment.” ' .

“ Granted; but I will not hang.”

“ You have great confidence in yourself.”

H No.”

“ What is it?”

“ It is not in myself that I have confidence.”

“ Who, then?” .

“ in you.”

“ I am at a lom to understand you.”

“ it is in your good heart, your leniency that
I have the utmost confidence.

“ Pro. explain.”

“ I wi do so by relating to you a story.”

“ A story of what?”

“ 0!" you, of what I know of your goodne- of

“ Well, granted that my goodness of heart
often causes me to do acts that had better re-
main undone.” .

“You will do the same again.”

“ Not in your case.”

“ Yes, you will.” . v

“ You speak as though you expected me to set
yoa free.”

“. It is just what you will do.”

“ Never!”

“ I sag yes.”

“ An say never, for you came here to en-
tice by a falsehood my daughter and myself on
board your vessel. .

“Once there. once in your power, caught in
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“ But your comrade, whom I am sure you do
not know, saved me from you, savad my daugh-
ter from your vile power, and now you, a pris-
oner, a pirate, expect me to make terms With
you, expect me to set you free.

“ Ah, man, you have this time made the sad--
dest mistake of your life in trusting to my
dementia”

The n had spoken warmly, and with the
degest feeling.

0 had felt pained that 1 the prisoner would
deem him so weak as to spare him.

The manner of Bertrando showed that he did
really trust in the clemency of the Don, and
somehow he seemed to show no dread of his fate,
ironed though he was.

He spoke with an air that was confident, in-
diflerent in fact, and it was this that so puzzled
Don Ricardo While it annoyed him.

MOWn to be a man of great kindness of heart
be yet did not wish to believe that it would be
thought that he had not the nerve to send a man
to deserved punishment, a man who had con-
fessed himself as Bertrando the Buccaneer, a
perfect demon of the deep.

“ What reason you have, senor, for believing
that you may depend upon my mercy I do not
comprehend, but certain it is that not one atom
of clemency will I show you, not once Will I
stretch forth my hand to save you from a fate

ou richly deserve, and which should end your
ife upon the gallows if you are in fact the man
I have just heard you claim to be.”

The response of the buccaneer chief was a
laugY, followed by the words:

“ ou promised to hear my story.

“ Will you do so?”

“ Yes, as I promised."

“ Then we shall see what you will do,” and
again the buccaneer laughed.

CHAPTER XXXI.
THE BROTHERS.

Tim buccaneer poured out another glass of
liquor and slewly drank it, the Don watching
him the while.

There was a leok about his face that was
malignant, a smile like the grin of a wild beast
that had his rey at his mercy. "

“My dear on," he began as he puffed awe"
at his cigsrrito in a lazy way:

“I wish toaak you if you are a Mexican?”

“ I am one by adoption.”

“ But by birth?”

“ I am a Spaniard.”

“So I thought, and you were heir than toa
vast fortune and title?”

“ How does this concern you, may I ask?”

“ I wish to knew if you are the man I seek.”

“I am Don Ricardo Castile, once of Spain,
now of Mexico.”

“ You married in Spain, I believe?”

it No!"

The word was uttered vehemently.

Then, in the same drawlin way, as though
seeking to find out all about past, the buc~
cancer cautioned:

“ You are married?"

“ My wife died some years ago."

“ A Mexican lady!"

“ Yes; now say what you wish to me, and be
quick, for the past is something I care not to

well upon.” '

“ You had a brother once?"

The Don started and his face paled.

“ Yes, I had a brother.”

“ Younger than you!"

“ No, older.”

“ He was a soldier?”

~30, an oflicer of the navy.”

“ Where is he now 1"

“ Why do you ask 1"

“ Becausel wish to know, Don Ricardo.”

“ He is dead.”

9‘ Ah! killed in battle!”

“ No- he was lost at sea in a vessel in which
he left pain.”

“ Why did he leave Spain?"

“See here senor, what interest do you hold
in me and in as to cause you to become so per-
sonal in your questions?” .

“ I hold an interest in that I knew your
brother.”

“ You knew him?” gasped the Don.

“ Yes; he was my friend, and I wished to
know if all that he told me of himself was true.”

“ Poor Bertrand, he had a sad life of it, and it
was better that death called him away as it did,
for, as I said to you, he was lost at sea.”

“ He was my friend, Don Ricardo, and he told
me that he had been cruelly wronged by all

whom he had loved.”

“ Poor Bertrand so believed, for he was
under the impression that one loved him who
did not. .

“The truth.was, now you tell me you have
heard his story, he loved one who did not love
him, but as he was the elder of us two, and
heir to the title and estates, the maiden's father
forced her to accept my brother's offer.

“ He came home to behold the partin of the
maiden and myself, for I would not stan in my
brother‘s way, or hers, when so much' was at

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failed in its aim at me, though I was wounded,
while the maiden was slain.

“ The result you can surmise, for my brother
fled, went to the bad utterly, and a vessel in
which he sailed from Spain was lost at sea one
night and not a soul survived;all perished, poor,
unfortunate Bertrand anion the number.

“Now, senor, ou know t e truth: a truth I
have been led nto telling you through your
words that my brother was your friend.

“The maiden wasulaid to rest in Spain, while
I, broken-hearted at her death by my brother’s
hand, and by his sad life and end, came to Mex-
ico and found here a wife who was taken from
me by death a few years ago.

“ So you were my brother’s friend, senor?”

The Don had been deeply moved as he spoke.

He had risen from his' chair and paced to and
fro, his hands behind his back.

In the tall, splendidly formed man before him,
with his long hair and beard, he saw no resem-
blance to the brother who twenty years before
had fled from Spain a slender youth of twenty-
two or three.

He also believed that his brother was dead, and
having deeply loved him, the fact that this
stranger was his friend made him feel toward
him more kindly in spite of his admitted life of
crime.

Bertrando, the Buccaneer, regarded him curi~
ouslv the while.

His face worked convulsiver as he told his
story of the maiden who had loved him, Ricar-
do, while forced to engage herself to the elder
brother who was the heir to the title and for-
tune.

He, too, seemed deeply moved, and he said
earnestly:

“ Such is your remembrance of your brother
that you have no unkind word for him, Don
Ricardo?”

“ Not one unkind word have I to say against
h

1m.
“ He is dead, but, oh! had he only waited un-
til he knew all.

“He died with her life upon his conscience,
her blood upon his hands, and certainly be was
punished enough by such a thought of anguish.

“ But, senor, what know you of my brother,
and did you as his friend seek to rob me?”

“ I knew him well, senor, but I do not believe
that he understood the affair between you and
Marcelite, or he would-”

“Ab! you know her name—you called her

'Marcelite ’
“Yes, I have heard vyour brother speak it ,

man; and man a time.
“ nd you ave remembered it all these
years?” a

“It is the name of your daughter, I. be-
lieve’i"

“ lt~is, for I named her after the Marcelite I
loved, who loved me, alas! and who fell by my
brother’s hand. '

“Ah, senor, I have carried a very heavy af-
fliction through life.”

“ And your brother?”

“Ah! happily for him his life ended, and
thus ’did his sorrows, his conscience, his suffer—
wire.

The buccaneer was silent and for a moment
neithers ke. .

Then t e Don seemed to recall himself from
the and said quickly:

“ at why do I talk thus to on, a stranger,
an outlaw, and of things that ave long been

t, of deeds that I deemed forgotten, even
though they lived in my own heart and mom-

or , .

“Because I was your brother’s friend, Don
Ricardo.” ‘

“True, yet you are a pirate and he has long
lain at the bottom ,of the blue Mediterranean
Sea' but you had a story to tell me’, you said!”

“ on have told it already, senor.

“,I have told it?”

“ Yes, senor."

“ I have told your story?”

“ It is true.”

“ Pray, explain!”

“ Yen were to hear from me a story.

“ That story was to be One of your brother
Bertrand Castile.”

' “Yes.”

“ You spoke to me of him, you told to me the
story that I was to tell you, only different, for
he never knew that the maiden Marcelite never
loved him and only was to wed him at her
father’s command.

“ He believed that she did lovo him and was
false to him.”

‘ “ How know you this?”

“ I know it, Don Ricardo Castile, because I
am your brother, Bertrand Castile, now Ber.
trando, the Buccaneer,” came in deep, earnest
tones from the lips of the man in chains.

CHAPTER XXXII.
ran nsuann.

Tin announcement of Bertrando of his rela-
tionshi to Don Ricardo he saw was most start-
ling to im, that he had in reality believed him
to be dead. ,

The Doa was staggered as though from a
heavy blow, his face turned pallid, and his look

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was one of such intense agony that the baccao
neer feared he was going to fall from his chair,
and said hastily:

“ You are ill, let me—”

“ No! no! it is such a blow, so cruel, so hard to
'bear ” he gasped.

“ To know that I am alive, Ricardo?” sneered
the irate.

“ es, and to be what you are.

“ I could forgive your act toward me, toward
her even, committed in a moment of desper-
ation, of Jealous rage, but to feel that it was not
a lesson to you, to cause you to lead a desperate
life, is: at you should add more crime to your
deed of murder, become the man you now are
as Bertrando the Buccaneer, is something I
would rather lie down and die than knOW.”

“ Yes, because you know that with Bertrand
Castile alive you are not the Don and the heir‘
to the Castile estates.”

“ My God, Bertrand, do not put it like that,
do not put my love of gold and rank against:
your crimes I beg of you.” -

“ Well, I am very much alive, even if I am a
prisoner in chains." ,

I“ Yes, I know you now and‘there is no doubt.
o it.

“ It is twenty years and more since we last,
met but I know you now, Bertrand.

“ It is strange that I did not recognize you be.
fore; but then you were a beardless boy of
twenty-two, and time has changed you greatly.

“Still it seemed to come OVer me that you
were more to me than (other men, and your face
your voice, impressed me, and I was mercifu
toward you, as you know.

“ Ah, Bertrand, my unfortunate, erring bro--
ther, had you but come back to me poor and
repentant, a vagubond, I would have gladly
welcomed you, and tried to soothe your later
years, to take from them all in my power the
shadows upon them.”

“ And as it is?” sneered Bertrando.

“ As it is, you come back a self-confessed
pirate, bearing a name as a demon of the dee -
that causes brave men to fear you, and to whic i
is allied, if the half said of you be true, deeds of
fiendish cowardice and crime that a monster in
heart only could be guilty of.”

“ But I come bac as Don Bertrand Castile,
for the title and estates are mine."

“ No, you forfeited your title and estates, by
act of the king. when you became a murderer
and fled the country, and you are dead to elk
claims, Bertrand, as you now are.

“ Would to Heaven it were different for most.
gladly would I yield all to you.”

“1 have come to claim my title and my ss--
tates from you, Ricardo.”

"You may claim them, butI will not yield’;
an honorable title and home to a pirate, Bor-~
trend.”

The Don was very firm navy. and the [mesa--
neer saw that he did not find him the yielding
nature he had expected he would.

“ I made a mistake ” he mused, “ not to have
come as other than Bertrando the Buccaneer,
for then I would have gotten all, I am sure.”

Aloud, he said: ’ '

“ lam Don Bertrand Castile, Ricardo, and
no payer can keep from me my title and cs--

ates.

“ Make the claim before the Spanish sovereign
and if he decides in your favor I will yield.”

“Yhs, for you know that he will decide to
send me to the gallows.”

“ Do you not deserve such a fate?”

“What I deserve is not for you to say; but.
let me tell yea that the title you unjustly hold
I do not care for, as I could never wear it; but.
my gold I want and I will have.”

“ A man who has committed the piracies laid‘
at your door should not be in need of gold.”

_  But I am in need of gold and I will have

it.

“' May I ask how you are to et it?”

“ You have in the vault be ow this room a
very large sum in gold.”

“ You are mistaken, for I keep little gold here-
at the hacienda, as it is too dangerous, living so
near the coastas I do, where pirates can land
and rob me.”

“You must give me an order on your bank-
ers then in Vera Cruz for the Sum I demand.”

“ Are you aware that you are a prisoner!”

“ What care I for that, for I am your
brother.”

“ Do not venture too far on that relationship,
Bertrand, for though my brother you are yet a.
pirate.” ’

“ Well, what do you intend to do about my
estate?”

“ It is yours no longer."

-“ I shall claim it, however.”

“ Do so before the roper authorities and if
decided against me I sEall gladly yield.”

“ You know that I dare not appear to make
my claim.”

“ Then be content with your pirate fortune."

“ I will have what is mine that on hold.”

“ See here. Bertrand, for the go d for myself I
care nothing.

“ I have not dishonored our name. and I have
a daughter whose mother was born of a noble-

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0 the fortune that is to be hers.

“ Now you understand the situation exactly.

“You are a pirate and a prisoner, without
a ship now, and in chains, so it does not seem
that you are in a cou-iition to demand more of
me than one thing." -

“ And what is that one thing?”

“ Your life.”

“ You will not dare send me to Vera Cruz to
be hanged."

“ No, I will not let you die at the yard-arm
through not of mine, or rather, when it is in my
power to save you, and so I shall set you free.

“ When you are free, it is my hope that you
will leave your guilty career and become a dif-
ferent man; but more I will not do, unless it is
to give you some gold, as you may need it to
make your escape.”

“ And I demand a draft on your bankers for
every peso of my justinheritance," was the stern
demand of the buccaneer chief.

 

CHAPTER XXXIIL
rm: DON AROUSED.

DON RICARDO was a man of nerve.

He had a heart full of gentleness as well, and
he had dearly loved his erring brother.

Not even had he felt bitterness toward him
when his mad not had killed the woman who was
all the world to him.

He had felt deep pain for his crime, rather
than hatred, and he had felt glad for his broth-
er’s sake when he heard that he had been lost at
m in a wrecked vessel, in which, however, he
had not sailed.

The remembrance of the bitter past had been
softens l by time and his marriage to Marcelite’s
mother, who had been a devoted wife to him in
the years that she had lived.

All of his heart was centered now upon his
daughter, and he knew all the happiness he could
know in life in his daughter’s love and society.

Now came across his path the brother he had
believed to be dead, and he came to rob him, to
boast of his being a pirate, and, though in chains,
to demand of him an inheritance he had forfeit-
ed by his crimes. _

Driven thus to take a stand for or against, the
Don determined not to yield, but to remain firm
in his determination not to allow Marcelite to be
rob .

He had fought against Fate in the past, when
life held for him no charm, and now he would
fight for the daughter in whom his whole life
was centered.

“ Bartrand,” he mid at last, and he spoke very
seriously:

“ The night is waning and you must be far
own from here by dawn.

“ will ask you to excuse me a moment.”

He left the- room, took a lantern and descend-
ed into the vault.

There he found a wide leather belt so made as
as have a bag of buckskin in the inner side.

Into this he placed Spanish gold laces, taken
from a chest near by until he had completely
filled the belt.

Then he filled a la silk purse and returned
to the room where h brother sat in silent and

on r meditation.

‘gILrtrand, here isa belt made intoa purse/
and it contains just five thousand pesos-in gold.

“You can buckle it around your waist and
thus keep it secure, wearing it beneath your gar-
ments. , _

“In this purse are five hundred pesos for im-
mediate needs, for I am acting as though you
have no money of your own, which however
you doubtless have. '

“ I shall order one of my best horses saddled
for on, and send with you a faithful man to
gui e you along the coast to some port where
you can catch a vessel leaving the country.

“ Not a soul here knows you as Beme the
Buccaneer that you need fear, or I need have
dread of their knewing, and I will make what
peace I can with the one who left you in my

eeping. ‘

“ Now, Bertrando, in addition tothe gold, I
will give you a draft on a New Orleans banking
house where I have some money, fortsnthouasnd
pesos more, to be drawn only by you in person,

" This money and yourlibsrty aré all you need
expect from me or will get.

“Now you have my ultimatum.”

“ You are generous to ofi'er me a pittance out
of what is justly mv own.”

“ It’s all you shall have.”

“ You refuse to give me what is my own?”

“I refuse to give 90 my bmthel‘, Bortrando
the Buccaneer, the fortune he has forfeited,

es.” '
y “ I will yet wring it from you."

“I will he prepared for that.” \

“ If I refuse to accept that gold you now
offer?”

“ Do not refuse.” ,

“ If I do!” ~

“Then you can receive from me only your
life.”

“ If I refuse that?"

“ Then you shall remain here until-I, hear
from the one who left you in my kgopinz-

“ I, your brother, to be hanged as a pirate.”

“ So be it, Bertrand, if you care not to ac-
ce t the terms offered you.’

The bucca neer seemed to feel that his brother
was in earnest, that he would do no more than
he said.

But he urged again by saying:

“It will be very hard for your daughter to
have an uncle hanged for piracy.”

“ Yes, but she is a brave girl and will bear up
undi r it.”

“ it will he a disgrace.”

“ Yes, but not through any act of hers or of
her father’s.”

“Then I am to expect no more of you?”

“ Not a so.”

“ I shalIMaccept your terms,” and the man
wore a savage look as he uttered the words.

He was by no means moneyless, for he always
wore a. belt in which were a number of valuable
gems, should he lose his vessel, or have to make
his escape suddenly.

The money offered by his brother he would
not refuse, and yet he said, after having re-
marked that he would accept the Don’s terms:

“I will depart from your hated, accursed
roof, Ricardo Castlle, but you will see me again
some day, and when next I do come it will be to
force from you the inheritance that is my own
and which you stole from me.

“ You will see me when you least expect, and
mark my words, you will yet pay to me every
peso that is mine, or I will wring your heart
with a deeper grief than you felt when Mar-
celite fell dead in your arms."

“ Beware, Bertrand, for you may go too far
in your threats.

“ You or: my brother, but I love my child too
dearly to have her suffer, and it is she that you
threaten through me.

“ Beware, senor l"

The bnccaneer winced under the flashing eyes
of the Don, who was now aroused almost be-
yond control, and seeing that it would be dan-
gerous for him to anger him further, while, at.
east, he was helpless in his irons and could not
protect himself, he said:

“Come, release me of my irons and let me
leave your hateful presence.”

’ “ Yes, I will set you free, but it shall bebo-
fore my servants, so that I will not be forced to
kill on to defend my Own life.

“ do not aspire to becoming a Cain, Ber-
trand, so shall not tempt you to ill me and thus
have to take your life.

“ I will order your horse, and the guide to be
ready, and meanwhile you can strap onyour
belt and put away your purse.

“My servants will have their orders, so 1 will
not return, and in saying farewell to you, let
me urge lyou to live a different life, for as you
are may _eaven have mercy on your soul.”

With this the Don left the room.

CHAPTER XXXIV.
FREE.

Buocama Bnraanno made a step toward
Don Ricardo. as though either to detain him
in the room, or to strike him with his manacles.

But the Don looked not back and left the room
hastily. ,

“ urses! I'did wroug to get into this trap,”
growled the pirate. .

“ But my day of reckoning will come, for I
mu’st have my inherit‘nce. yes, and I will have
it. '

Soon after five men entered the room and all
of them were armed.

One wasfrepared for a journey. and he said:

“Senor, have orders from Don Ricardo to
‘take you with me, and your horse is ready.”

“ Rdieve me of my irons and I am ready,”

“ The orders of Don Ricardo are that you are
not freed of year irons until dawn, when we are
open our way.” '

“ Would he send me away in irons!”

“ I am to release you when we get well upon
the trail, and when we reach a port to which
I am" to guide you, I will give you your wea-

DR.

‘9 I refuse to go on such terms.”

“ Then, senor, I must obey my other orders.”

“ What are they?”

“To take you to the vault, chain you there,
and then leave you.”

“ So be it; but this is in your master.”

“ He knows best what he wishes todo, senor,
and permit me to say that if you left here with-
out your irons, our people would kill you, for it
is known why you camasn’i who you are."

“ I will go with you on your conditions,” said
Bertrando, nicklv, alarmed by the manner of
the man, and the fear that the hacienda people
might carry out his suggestion.

“ So heir, senor, and it is supposed that I am
to take you to Vera Cruz. '

“ It I do not do so, through your making your
escape, then it will be I that am to blame.

“But I would not advise delay, for the dawn
is not very far off, your comrades are surround.
ed in the chaparral. and they are to be captured
and banged at daybreak.”

This news startled Bertrme visibly.
Waldo and his men, then, were in danger, and

 

“Thsait will beform'etohang.
“amass”.

he had best make his esos assoon as possible.
“ The whole country if. aroused, senor, and I

alone could guide you away by a trail that“.
would be safe,” continued the guide.

“ 1 am ready; let us go at once,” eagerly said
Bertrando.

The guide led him to the Plan door, where
there Were two horses in waiting.

A scrape was thrown over the buccaneer to»
hide his cnains, and he was aided to mount.

Then the guide mounted and the two rode
out of the hacienda walls in silence.

“ We go through the Chaparral here. senor,
foo men are abroad surrounding the buccaneers
you brought with you,” said the guide.

“ I believe they have returned to the vessel.”

“No, senor, only the comrade who came to
the hacienda with you has done so, he and his
slave.”

“ Ah! and they have gone back to the vessel.
alone!”

“ Yes, senor.”

“ Why did they not go with my men?"

“They avoided the party in waiting. senor,
flanked the chaparral and thus made their way

to the lagoon.”

“And my men?”

“ Are still awaiting orders in the chaparral'
unmindful of the fact that they are surrounded
and will be hunted to death in a few more-
hours.”

“ Curses upon that accursed traitor!” savagely
said Bertrando.

A moment after he said quickly:

“ See here, senor, are you a rich man!”

“ I am chief of the Don’s cattlemen. senor, and.
so am but a poor man.”

“ I can make you rich.”

“I would not accept blood-stained gold.”

“Bah! let me tell you that I have a belt of‘
gold given me by your master, and I will give it ‘
to you entire if you will conduct me to the
lagoon and place me on board my vesael.”

“I believo that the vessel has sailed. senor;
but had it not, I would not do as you wish.”

“ Why i” g

“ I would obey my master’s orders.”

. “ B ihi be a fool and lose a fortune!”

“ Yes, senor.”

“It will bea very large fortune for such as:
you. that I will give you.”

” I most obeymy master’s orders, senor, gladly
as I would like to be rich.”

“ The Don need not know that you put me up- -
on my vessel.”

“ I have orders to take you to a port some
leagues down the coast. "

“ l have a brother there who is an innkeeper.
and he is to take you in charge and secure your ‘
passage out of the country, senor.

“ Those are my onden, senor, from Don -
Ricardo.”

“And by simply taking me to my brig you-
can enrich yourself, for I will give you five -
times the sum I romised, and more, a hand-
some purse of go d, to buy absolutiou with,
for using ld gained by piracy.”

“ I am at a poor man, as I told you. senor, .
but you cannot tempt me. never! never!"

The buccaueer cursed the honest man roundly ‘
for his honesty, and rode on in silence.

The “:2 taken h the guigie flanked the head
of the _oon, an was t rough the resin
lands of the Don’s cattle. ‘ g

After several hours’ ride, dawn came, and
they halt/ed on a hill commanding a;.view up»
and down the coast.

“ Sea, senor, yonder is the lagoon, and no ves- -
sel is there.”

“And yonder she is, far 00 upon theses-
yes, and there are two vessels-of-war rounding
that point of land.”

“ They are Spaniards. senor, I think,'and are»
doubtless looking for your vessel.

“ You were fortunate in leaving the hacienda
when you did.” '

Bertrando gave a sigh of relief at his escape, .
and was only too anxious to press on once more
along the coast. .

“ I will free you of your irons here, senor, for ‘
I have no fear of your scape, and if you at»
tempt it I have my orders.”

“ Given you by the Don?"

“ Yes, senor.”

“ What are they?"

“ To kill you.”

' “ And you would do so?"

“ I would only do to in case you attempted to
escape me, disobey the Don’s orders and remain
in Mexico.

“ I am to see you into my brother‘s keeping,
he is to see you out of Mexico, and if you at-
tempt other plans I am to kill you, senor, so do
not force me to do so, as I do 'not wish your life
on my hands.” ,

Bertrando saw that his guide was not a man
to trifle with, and so he held out his hands, and
was soon free of his irons. ,

At noon the two rode into a mm“ D?" 0!! the '
coast. and that night Bertrando $1105 from
Mexico a free man, in a vessel bound for Yuan.
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‘in whose sagacity he could rely as well as on his
honor.
That the guide did not disappoint himJias been

seen.

Until the buccaneer left the hacienda, the Don
:stood at a window in his darkened room regard-
'ing‘ him.

hen, when the forms of the departing horse~
men disappeared in the gloom of night, he utter-
ed a groan of anguish and stag cred back .into
the room where he had held is conversation
'with the buccaneer.

As he entered the room, he started back in al-
‘mmt horror, for there, in the recesses of a cur-
tained alcove, he beheld the form of his daugh-
:ter.

A wondrously beautiful girl was the Senorita
~Marcelite, even though now her face was death-
]y pale.

She possessed a form of exquisite grace, and
her eyes were large, dreamy and full of expres-
=swu. 4

She was dressed in the costume of the Country
:and - callous heart, indeed, must the man have
possessed, who would not be won by her beauty
:and fascination of manner.

And this was the beautiful being who was
pledged to Rudolph Revello, the Mexican cap-
tain, a man then in command of a irate craft,
.a man who had left his wife chain to the mast
of his vessel, to go down with the wreck into the
depths of the Gulf.

‘ Marceiite i”

It was all that Don Ricardo ,could say, and he
:sunk into the nearest chair, the very one in
which the buccaneer had been seated.

Had she heard all that had passed between
.him and that guilty brother?

0r had she come to the room just now?

He had not the power of speech to ask the
question, but sat like one who had been struck a
stunning blow.

And to his side lided Marcelite, and taking
:his hand she said so tly:

“ Come, father, you must not sit here. I do
'not wish to see you sit here; any other seat but
this one.” '

These words told him that she had heard all.

He sprung from the chair as though stung by
so serpent and sunk into the one he had always
occupied.

“ M child, you have heard—”

“ l, father."

“ You knew him then as—”

“ You brother, my uncle.”

“ He was, as I believed, dead.”

“ It had been better for him had he been dead,
father.”

“ My brother, Bertrando the Buccaneer?"
gasped the Don.

“ And my uncle?”

" Ah, my child, do you blame me!”

“ Blame ou, father?”

“ Yea. celite.”

“ How can you ask such a question?

“ I know now, what you have always kept
:rom me, that my mother was not your first

ove.

“ Iknow now, father, that the one you loved,
who loved you was pledged to him, my uncle,
Bertrando the Succanecr, and that she fell by
his hand, dying in your arms.

" That is the scar you received from his bullet,
there on our head. and which you would never

~ all ma ut.

“ I know all now, father, and that your life has
been as nob as- honorable, aa his has been
wicked and he nous.

“ I know, father, that you have acted bravely
and well in what you have done this night."

“Then you do not blame me for not giving up
the estates?”

“ They are ours, not his, for he could not
claim them in aw, or before his king.

“,He has forfeited all rights, my father.”
“ So I feel, my child.” '

“ And you were generous to an ply him with
gold,” more generous to give im his free-

om

“ I could not see him die on the gallows,
Marcelite, richly as he deserves it.” ‘

‘f No, yet it will behis fate in the end, for
how can it be otherwise?

“ He came here to rob'you, and he was thwart-
ed, and how strangely.”

“Yes, so strangely that I cannot understand
it, father.”

“ What do you meant”

“ He accused the one who was his comrade,
the one who came here with him, of treach-

er i”

Y‘ And that one protected you, saved me, for
.Bertrando wished to get both of us into his
power.” I

“ True, true."

“But what was he doing as the comrade of
.Bertrando, the Buccaneer?” '

“ Ah, my child, what can you mean?” and the
Don was really alarmed now.

“I mean, father, that I know who his com-
rade was.”

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“ You recognized-J '
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Navy, as the comrade of Bertrando, the Bucca-
neer.

“ He came here in disguise, and yet the buc-
caneer knew that he was disguised.

“ He came here with Bertrando for a purpose,
and only when the buccaneer sought to carry
us aboard the pirate craft, did he resent it and
protect us.

“ He left here, leaving the buccaneer a pris-
oner in your hands; but oh, my fatherl what
does it all mean, for I cannot solve the terrible
puzzle, cannot realize that the stories I have

card of Captain Revello may after all have
truth as a foundation.

“ Father, tell me, if you can, what it all
means, for my heart is so heavy, my life seems
crushed out by this blow, that Revello comes
here with a sea robber.”

That Marceli'te felt deeply the recognition, in
the disguised comrade of the buccaneer, the
man whom she was pledged to become the wife
of, showed in her intense manner and haggard
face, for suffering had stamped its seal upon
ever beautiful feature.

“ y child,” at last, said the Don, smothering
his grief in the the anguish of his child

“ It was a shock to me to know who the
comrade of Bertrando, the Buccaneer was, and
yeti let us hope that it will all come well in the
en .

“ But the buccaneer knew him, for remember
what he said of Revollo‘i"

“ True, and yet Revelio made himself known
to me, and said all will be well.

“It is a terribly mixed up affair, Marcelite,
but do not prejud e Captain Revello, but wait
until you know a1 , unt1l you can hear his ex-
planation.
h“He has gone, and he left the buccaneer

ere.

“ He returned to the brig and yet left the
men of the buccaneer concealed in the chap-
arral. and they are still there.

“ Wait, my child, and see what the future re-
veals.” ‘

“I will not judge him yet, father, but trust
him as before,’ was the low response and Mar-
celite sunk into a chair and covered her face
with her hands.

CHAPTER XXXVI.
suanounnnn.

MARCILITE’S trust in Revello was a cause of
pleasure to the Don, for he did have confidence
in the man himself, and he believed that he was
playing a part out of which good would eventu-
ally come in being with Bertrando the Bucca-
near.

If not, why had he made known who he was,
and why he captured the buccaneer.

Of course it seemed strange to have a Mexi-
can naval omcer come to his house in company
with a buccaneer; but it also looked as thong
it must be for a purpose for good. ,

So argued Don Ricardo and he was glad
to see that Marcelitc sided with him in his
views.

“Come, my dear child, do not give way to
your grief, for I have something to ask your
advice about,” he said, as he saw that Marcelite
was grieving with emotion while she sat there
with her face buried in her hands, as though
to shut out the terrible thoughts that haunted

r.

“ Well, father, tell me if I can do anything
to Ihelp you?” she said, with sudden self-con-
tro .

“These men came from their vessel in the
lagoon?”

“ Yes, father.”

“The buccaneer chief had with him a force
of men who are concealed in the chaparral, so
my men report.”

“ Yes, sir."

." Who brought the vessel into the n I do
not know? unless it was Revello, who d d it for a

or .

“ He must have had a urposc for ood.”

“ Certainly.” ' p g

“ And yet what he was doing on board the
pirate vessel is beyond finding out, father.”

“ Just now, yes; but wait in patience, and now

two will look at the situation as it is.”

“ I will, father.”

“The pirate came into the lagoon, landed a
force, w lab is now within half a mile of the
hacienda awaiting orders.”

“ Yes.”

“ The two who came here were Bertrando and
Revello.”

“.A huccaneer and naval officer as comrades,”
and there was sarcasm in Marcelite’s voice.

" I believe that they came fora purpose which
Revello lulleved for good, for he seemed sur-
prised at Bartrando’s manner and words and
then captured him.

“ But he left, after making himself known to
me, telling me to keep the prisoner until his re-

urn.
“ He was joined outside the wall, my men say,
by an African, and the two went to the lagoon.
“ It is sup , naturally, that they boarded
the vessel, or it at once put out to sea, and
without takin on board the force of men lying
concealed in t o chaparral.” '

 

“ It is all very strange, father.”

“Now, this vessel we saw and set down as
Revelio’s brig.”

“ And yet when night came Captain Revello
visited us in company with a pirate.”

“Yes;but that is yet to be explained, while
the work in hand is to capture that party in the
chaparral.”

“ What have you done about it, father?”

“ I have ordered in all my men, and the tim-
ber is being surrounded.

“ Then, when day dawns, we will demand the
surrender of the men.

“ I will tell them that their chief is a prisoner,
and that their vessel has gone to sea, while if
they do not surrender no mercy will be shown
them."

“ If they surrender?”

“ Then we must get at what all this means.”

“ How, father?”

“ They are without doubt under an officer.”

“ Certainly."

” He can be made to tell by bribes or threats
just what the situation is.”

“ You can at least try it, father.”

“Well, now go to your room and get what
rest you can, my child and I will do the same,
leaving word to be called just before dawn.

“ Then I will ride to the timber, and we will
knew the result in a very short while.”

“Well, father, I know that what you do will
be for the best, but do not question this outlaw
officer before any one else, regarding Captain
Revello’s being on board the pirate craft.”

“That is a good suggestion, my child, and I
am glad you mentioned it.

“ Now seek what rest you can.”

Marcelite sought her room and threw herself
down upon a lounge, but it was not to sleep,
for her mind was too excited for sleep to come
to her eyelids.

She lay there in deep meditation for several
hours, and then rose quickly, as she heard the
sound of boots upon the Plaza.

Her father was mounting his horse to ride
to the chaparral.

Quickly she decided upon her course.

She would go, too.

Her maid was awakened and ordered to go
have her horse brought to the door.

Then she put on her riding-habit, armed her-
self with a pistol, and going to the door, found
her horse there held by a peon.

“ Minto, get a horse and come with me,” she
said, and the peon darted away).

The man at the gate let or through with
the remark that she would find the Don at the
Red Chaparral, and then up dashed Minto
hastily and joined her.

She rode rapidly on to the chaparral, and in
the gray dawn of day saw a line of men
around the timber motto, which was about an
acre in size.

Her father was there, and she rode quietly
up to his side.

“ Why, Marcelite, you here!” he cried, in sur-
prise at seeing her.

“ Yes, father I know not what would be the
outcome of all this, so I wished to be near you,”
she answered. » -

“The pirates are in the chaparrai still, and
they can see us surrounding them, so I just sent
in a man with a white flag demanding their sur-
render.” ' _

“ If they are wise they will light it out to the
bitter end and thus die by bullet instead of

r .”
oneYes, my child, you are right.”
“How many men are there, father?”
" I do not know.”
“ And your force?”
“ We have half a hundred, nearly all of whom
are in full view of the pirates.
“ But here comes my man.”

’The man sent in by Don Ricardo was now
seen leavin the chaparral. carrying the white
flag be h borne aloft in going toward the
pirates. -

The Don and Marcelitc anxiously awaited his
coming, and the former called out as he drew

near.

” Well, Diaz, what news bring you?”

“ Senor the officer told me they were men
from the Mexican brig—of~war Rattlesnake who
had landed to search for pirates, and their vessel
had gone to sea without them.”

“ You know the ofllcers of Captain Revello’s
vessel. Diaz’i”

“ Yes, senor.”

“ Which of his officers was it?”

“ Not one, senor, and in my opinion they are
pirates themselves. ’ __

CHAPTER XXXVII.
Tar: PARLEY.

Tm: answer of Dinz was not a surprise to Don
Ricardo, who-felt that the pirates, finding them.
Jolytgient’rapped, were playing a game.

“Yes, senor.”

“ Return and say to the officer in command
that I wish to meet him. «

" The white flag shall protect him, and I
pledge him my word he can return to the chap-
arral if he deems it best for him to do so after
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“ Yes, senor,” answered Diaz, and he went
back toward the motto.

There stood Senor Waldo surrounded by his
men.

The faces of all of them were anxious, and
each man clasped his weapons firmly.

They had waited in vain for the signal callin
'them to the hacienda to pillage, and the men, 81
rexceptin a watch, had lain down to rest and
.gone to s eep.

When dawn Came they saw half a hundred
thorsemen surrounding the timber and then came
Diaz with a flag of truce. -

“ Something has happened to the captain, an
we must brazen it out. for yonder is the brig
.far out at sea,” said Waldo.

So he had told Dina the story which he had
made known to the Don and Marcelite.

When Diaz returned. Senor Waldo had met
him, and asked with some eagerness:

“ Well, senor. has your master seen those
pirates?"

“ He thinks he has, senor, and he desires you
to come under flag of truce and talk with him.”

“ But will I be allowed to return?”

“ Yes, senor, Don Ricardo Castile is a man of
honor and will respect this white flag.”

After a talk with several of his men. Waldo
said:

“ I will accompany you."

The Don saw their ap reach and as the pirate
drew near bowed polite , with the remark:

“ I am Don Ricardo astile, ranchero, senor,
~80 whom have I the honor of addressing?"

“ Ofilcer Waldo, Don Ricardo, of the Mexican
cruiser Rattlesnake."

“Indeed! is thereacruiser of that name in
the Mexican Na 7y?”

“ Yes, senor." ,

“ And may I ask her commander’s name?"

“ Senor Captain Rudolph Revello."

“ Ab! and where is the cruiser now?”

“ We landed last night in chase of pirates in
"boats. who took rein in a lagoon, and we lost
our way and cam until morning. when we
discovered our brig far out at sea—there she is,
senor.”

“ Yes, we had discovered her. and yonder is a
frigate and schooner-of-war flying the Spanish

fla ."

The start of Waldo did not escape the Don,
and he asked: ,

“ Why has your vessel run away from youl”

*“ Fearing those two cruisers, doubtless, senor.”

'“ Who landed with you last night, senor?"

“ No one, senor, other than my men.”

“Father. wh not end this at once by saying
‘that you made rando the Buccaneer prisoner
«last night, and that these men are from his ves-
sel, and came here to rob your home?” said Mar-
celito.

Waldo started again at this, but quickly re-

lied.

? “ You captured Bertrando the Buccaneer,
tsenorl"

.lt Ya.” ’ .

'“ Then you will deliver him up to me of course,
that I may take him on board the brig when she
returns for usi"

M Na”

" And why not, may I ask, senor?"

“ I will instead. ask your surrender without a
combat that will force you to do so.”

“ My surrender, senor?" asked Waldo with
well assumed surprise.

“ Yes. for on came here with your chief. Ber-
trando, to re my house.

“ Receiving no signal from him to come to his
old, you remained where you were. and your
'vesso'l will not return, for she, sailed without

“Hal did you capture also one who was with
the chief!" eagerly asked Waldo, thrown off his

‘03 -
“ I did not, for he returned to the vessel.”
“Then he is the traitor that led Ca tain Ber—
trando into a trap and now com the ves-

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“I warned mo of that man. but he
would not heed, and now he is a risoner, we are
‘here without a ship and Rave o is now the
chief.”

“Ah! Revello did you say?” cried Marcelite

eagerly. .

' ‘ Yes, senorita, Rudol h Revello ca tain of
the Rattlesnake brig-o -war in the exican
Navy."

“ And how can itbe that a Mexican naval om-
«oer is on board a pirate?” mrcasticaliy asked
Marcelite,.while Don Ricardo left the question-
dng to her, confident that she would eke out of
'the man some information which he could
mot.

Unmindful that a trap was set for him to fall
dew, and which had be suspected the motive,
‘23 would have steered clear of. Waldo respond-

“I might as well admit that I am from the
‘bl'lg Ocean Rapier, for I seethat she isroturning
110' and we will soon return to her.”

“ But I asked you how it was that a Mexi-
can captain was on a irate vessel and not as
1‘ imam-i" persisted lite.

"We picked him up at sea in an open best, he
‘ud I negro slave.

“ y were half starved to death, and he

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' said first that he was Don Ricardo Castile, a
ranchero.”

“Ah! he claimed my name!" said the Don,
angrily, while Marcelite remarked:

“ Perhaps for some good motive, father.

“ But how did you know that he was not Don
Ricardo?”

“ Because I knew him to be Captain Revello
and so told the chief."

“ Well?” '

” He, the chief, then had a talk with him be-
fore me and I denounced him as Revello when
he admitted who he was.

“The chief decided to give him a chance for
his life if he would lead him here to your home,
Don Ricardo, and Revello consented if he would
make him an officer.

“ This was done only by his offering to fight
our first ofilcer, a doe rate fellow with the
sword; but he killed 0 cer Cortez and so stop-
ped into his shoes.

“ From that day he and the chief became
sworn friends, for Bertrando would not listen
to my warnin s against him. that he intended
to play him fafise.

“So the brig headed for this place, and we
came ashore last night and the rest you kn0w,
for they left me. the chief, Revollo and the ne~
gro to go to the hacienda.

t‘e‘filhl the brig is signaling the Spanish frig-
a .

“ Yes, and see, the frigate answers.

“There, the brig puts away southward and
the two Spanish vessels head along the coast,"
said the Don.

This caused Waldo to look very anxious, and
he said:

“ I cannot understand it.”

Nor I.”

“ Ahi he is playin honest to the Spaniards, I
guess.” suddenly sai Waldo.

“ He has certainly deceived them.”

“ Yes, and now you see a pirate craft sailing
away under a man who has played traitor to
Bertrando, leaving him here to hang, and to us
who will have to fight for our lives."

“ That would be useless, for I have you sur-
rounded by a larger force than you command."

“ Well, senor. am not one to yield without a
struggle, so I will return to my men and do as I
deem best.‘

“ If we fall we will at least have made a
brave fight of it,” and Waldo turned upon his
heel and walked back toward the motto where
:1“ men were most anxiously awaiting his re-
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' CHAPTER XXXVIII.

ran RETREAT.

“ WILL, father. what do you think 'now?”
asked Marcelito, when Waldo was out of sight.

“ It is all a mystery to me Marcelite.”

“Yes, and Captain nevoiio is either playing
some sharp game for the capture of the buccaneer
vessel or he is—”

" What. my child?”

“ A pirate himself.”

“ I can not believe the latter of him.”

“It would notseem so, and that mantold us
how he had been picked up at sea in an open
boat alone with that queer slave of his.”

“ Yes, and he said his vessel had been wrecked,
my child.” ‘

‘ Yes, father, and fought the pirate officer for
his place.”

“ And claimed to be me.”

“lconfessIdo not it rstand it,for he led
the bnccanser chief here, i: t is certain.”

“ Yet why did he return to the brig with the
negro and leave those men there in the motto!”

‘ And just now exchange signals with the

Spanish cruiser, which certainly did not seem to
regrd him as a pirate!"
" one of these questions could either the Don
or Senorita Marcelite answer with satisfaction
to themselves, so they turned their guns upon the
vessels.

The buccaneer brig was flying along seaward
under a pressure of sail sin is the two cruisers
were keepin close in toward the coast.-

“ Well, amelite I must now see if these
men are going to fight or surrender."

“ You will attack them, father?”

“Certainly, so you withdraw out of range,
as I shall give the si nal to advance.”

" No. father, I s remain by your side."

A ment to the contrary was uselem, for
the p ucky girl would do as she said, and so
Don Ricardo gave the order to Dias to move
the men toward the timber.

Just as he did so the pirates marched out of
the motto in close order, their guns ready. and
at a swift pace headed for the lagoon.

_ “ Hal they expect to find boats there, and
thus escape us.

“ They must be headed ofl, Diaa.’

“ Yes. senor,” and Dias premed forward with
a cry to the men. -.-,

The Don shouted, his order to his men to en-
circle around the pirates, and open fire upOn

ms ‘" .

“ There aris’just forty-one of them. father!"
cried liarcelite, uickly countiu them.

“Yes, but I he love we can eat them.”

The horsemen now dashed out of cover and

 

 

rode down upon the pirates, who opened fire,
yet still moved on at a quick march.

A horse went d0wn here and there. and a
man or two fell from his saddle.

This enraged the oaqueros, and they returned
the fire, and with deadly effect.

They encircled the band like Comanches, and
a marching fire was kept up.

Moving as they were, and not accustomed to
that mode of fighting, the damage done by the
pirates was not half so severe as what they
suffered from the fire of the horsemen.

But they left their dead and wounded where
they fell, showing heartlessneas by deserting
their comrades who were rendered incapable of
doing further work.

But on they marched. steadily and swiftly,
Waldo leading and making a brave fi' ht of it.

“ The hacienda boats are in the lagoon, some-
where, men, so reach them and We are safe,”
cried Waldo.

And on they went, up hill and down dale,
while the horsemen circled about them like In-
dians, still keeping up a hot fire.

The trail of the pirates was marked by dead
and badly wounded men, and the oaqueros re-
moved their dead and wounded as quickly as
they fell.

Then on marched the bnccaneers, drawing
nearer and nearer to the lagoon.

“Make a stand now, men, on this side, and
beat them back,” cried Don Ricardo, who, ac-
companied by Marcelite, who would not leave
his side, and who was an interested spectator of
the marchin fight, had ridden to the front on
the trail the uccaneers were following to the la-

goon.
The men near the Don obeyed, and stood at

y.

But the pirates marched unflinchineg on, and
their well-directed fire and a charge broke the
lldlie of horsemen, causing them to fall back rap-
i y.

A cheer from the pirates at their success was
answered by the clear voice of Marcelite calling
to her father, who was a few rods away rallying
his men. .

“ Well, my child?” cried the Don.

“ Call off a dozen of your men, and send them
to the lagoon to get the boats out of the way for
those pirates will reach the shore.”

“ Marcelite. you are a born commander, and
I will deputizeyou to'do the work. so take what
men you wish.

“ No. father; I shall remain by "our side, so
let Dias go.”

Diaz was called and told what was expected
of him, and he quickly drew off a few men and
rode with all sped! to the 1 con, for the bucca-
inears had-already traversed f the distan' co to
v t.

Away they sped and the logger, several sail-
boats and a barge were quickly gotten out of
reach. sail set on the larger one the others
taken in tow, for the men were sailors as well as

horsemen.

Hardly had the boats gotten well under way
when the retreating horsemen appeared oyer the
hill falling back, and then came the bnocaneers
lwhogave aringlng cheer as they beheld the
a can.

at their cheer was turned to cries of diunay
when they behold the boats. which Waldo had
marked in the lagoon when they had landed at
night.'far outof their mob upon the waters.

 

CHAPTER XXXIX.
ran summons.

Tn! buceaneers were disheartened. when they
mw that the boats were beyond their roach.

There was wind enough for the logger to stand
out to sea towing the bats, so that tocapture
them was impossible.

The men looked at (‘fllcer Waldo, and heknew
not what to say, though he held on with the
party toward the lagoon. .

He moved too toward a wooded point with
open land around it wherebe would have shelter
for his men if it came to a pitched battle.

The Don now felt sure of the band. and so
ordered his men off, to protect them all in his

war. ,
p0“ They cannot leave that point unless they
swim out to sea or beat us ofil, and we can keep
gem Essieged and starve them into surrender.

sai

Then he added to bias. that he wished his
men to keep well out of range and not sacrifice
themselves.

These orders were pamed along among the
horsemen, and the men took ition in crescent-
sha about the wooded poin which the rates
at set reached withtbe loss of just hal their
men. ,

“But for you. Marcelite, they would have
gained a victory over us in securing the boats,
and escaping to sea.

“ You have a wisehead on your shoulders,”
said the Don.

“ hanks. father. for the compliment; but
what are they to do now!”

“ Wait‘untll they are starved out.”

“ If they knew that there wis a fishing ham-
let some leagues further down the coast they
could reach t, for thede keep in theses:

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where the nature of the ground prevents horse-
men from going near them.”

“ You are right again my child.

“ I declare you would make a splendid com-
mander; but the buccaneers feel now that they
are hemmed in and must soon surrender."

“ They might hold out a day or two, and it is
best' to hurry them into a surrender, father.”

“ Certainly if it can be done):

“ It can be."

it How?”

“ Send half of your men with all speed around
the head of the lagoon, let them hail the logger,
board her and she can, With this breeze stand
back and forth to the point, her crew protected
by her high, thick bulwarks, while they can
pour in a hot fire.”

“ Marcelite, my child, you are a wonder.

“Ho, Diaz."

“ Yes, senor.”

“ The Senorita Marcelite has suggested a plan
which you are to carry out, while 1 remain here
with the balance of the men,” and the Don ex-
plained fully Marcelite’s plan.

“ If we bag them, senorita, and we surely will,
the credit will beto you,” said Diaz as he hast-
ened away.

Watching from their position of advantage
the Don and Marcelite saw Diaz and his men
soon riding on the other shore of the lagoon near
the sea.

The logger was signaled and returned with
the boats In tow, and then the men on horse—
back were seen to dismount and go on board.

The other boats were left in charge of one of
the men, all ready to put out to sea, and the
logger set sail for the point where the buccaneers
were.

The latter were not long in realizing what was
intended, and quickly sought places of cover
from the water side.

But to get cover they exposed themselves on
the land side, and the Don and his men opened a
hot firs upon them.

This put them between two fires when the
logger stood close in, and the pirates were seen
to be ver much demoralized.

Then side was seen to spring forward and
rush for the water’s edge.

He was followed by his men and they plan ed
into the lagoon just as the logger was won ug
around to go about, having stood close inshore.

“My God! they will board her by swimming
and carry her,” cried the Don.

The logger was lubberly and slow in going
about, an as the wind was light she was so long
in going about that Waldo saw his chance to
swim out and board her. ,

He saw that he had more men than had Diaz,
and at close quarters he knew what the pirates
could do. , ' ‘

Could they reach the logger before she could
go about and get headway he could carry her
easily, knife in handr ,

If not, he could swim back to the point and
.hold the position as before.

To do this he left a few men with the rifles

of all. loaded to cover their bold move and drive
back the horsemen should they charge.
“ Oh father, rush your men upon them now i”
cried ilmim, and the non, who had decided
to do this very thing, called to his men to mount
and follow him.

In an instant Marcelito was by his side,
and persuasion or pleading would not send her

   

 

But just as the men were moving to the

5' charge, they saw that Dias had not been taken
by surprise, for he was pickln off the swim-
miing pirates, who were driven ck toward the
po nt.

At the same moment. the horsemen made a
rushyand quickly came the cry of surrender
from the buccaneers, who were not a moment
too soon, for the blood of the Mexicans was up
and they meant to kill.

“Spare thoae who cry for mercy l” shouted
the Don, and he dashed into the timber, Mar-

. celito by his side.

‘ There stood the remnant of the band, who
had fought so-bravely in a bad cause, and all
were humble now. .

“ Where is your commander?” asked the Don.

“The Senor Waldo is at the bottom of the
lagoon»

'He was shot when his hand was upon the

l r,” said one of the men.

‘ ell, he was a brave fellow and deserved to
die in a better causal,” was Marcelite‘s response.

 

CHAPTER XL.
rail: aussmo wanna.

Tn: buccaneers who surrenderexl were but
ten in number, while there were half adosen
wounded ones, who had fallen in the retreat to
the lagoon.

“That‘young officer was a dashingfellow,
Marcelite, and would have made a gallant man
to have been in an honorable service.

“I am really sorry he w s killed,” said the
Don, when he and his daughter had returned to
the hacienda to breakfast. .

t “ is biitter as it  high .fathezuas he
. wou sure y have ban or e was «soa-
tssssdasas deer under hams-do.”

I

 

“ True, he would have been hanged, and I
hate to see a brave man die a dishonorable
death.”

“ But are you sure he was killed, father?”

“ So his men said.

“ He was shot just as he put his hand on the
logger."

“ And what will you do with the prisoners,
father?”

“ Put them on the luggerso that Diaz can run
them to Vera Cruz to—morrow, for by that time
1 will have the cargo to send down there ready,”
answered the Don, who was wont to send the
In ger to Vera Cruz every couple of Weeks.

‘he boccaneers were accordingly put in the
hold of the logger, the Wounded ones also being
taken on board, and the crew of three men, a
mate and two seamen, went on board.

The next day when her cargo was ready Diaz
was to go with her to Vera Cruz and surrender
the prisoners to the Junta with a re m: from
Don Ricardo that the pirates under i'trando
had landed to rob his hacienda, and had been
thwarted.

More the Don did not care to say.

The wounded men of the ranch were tenderly
cared for and the dead, pirates and ranchmen,
were decently buried during the day.

That night Marcelite sat at her window in
deep meditation. '

It commanded a. view of the lagoon and the
Gulf in the distance, and she was gazing upon
the rising moon.

It was late and yet she could not sleep.

She was thinking over the past few hours,
and her heart was with her sailor lover upon the

sea.

Suddenly she started, for the moonlight re-
vealed a white object in the lagoon.

It could only be a sail, and why was it there,
for the logger was not to depart until the next
(in .
he and was not entering the lagoon from the
Gulf, but moving out of it.

Quickly she sprung for the glass she always
ke tin her room. .

he look through it and she recognized the
logger.

It was under sail and standing out_to sea.'

She at once thought that her father had de-
cided to send the logger sooner than he had in-
tended.

But then she recalled that she had been in the
room with her father a couple of hours before,
when he told Diaz that he wished him tossil at
sun the foll0wing day. .

“ here is something mysterious in the sailing
of ghat logger now that I must find out," she
sai .

Hastily she left the room and sought her
father.

He was not in his bed-chamber, but she found
him in the sitting-room, pacing to and fro, his
hands behind his back.

He, too, could not also , it seemed.

He started at sight of r, and asked anxious-

y:

“ What is it, my child!”

“ Father, have you sent the logger to seal"

“ No, my child; certainly not. ’

“ Then there is something wrong, for she is
standing out by the lagoon now.

“ I saw her distinctly with my glass when the
moon roseand cast its light directly upon her
white sails.”

“ There is something wrong in this,” cried the
Don, and at once the servants were aroused, the
rsnchmen were called 2 in, and mounting his
horse, Don Ricardo, escorted b a number of his
men. sods rapidly toward the oon.

B his side was Marcelits, for she had pleaded
no to be left alone at the hacienda.

A rapid galio soon brought the party to
where a view 0 the Gulf was had, and there
was visible the in ger, half a league offshore.

She was crow ed with canvas now, and was
standing on a course that would carry her far
out to sea.

“ I cannot understand it,” the Don said.

“ I can.”

“ Well, Marcelite ’

“ Some of those pirates escaped in some mys-
terious way, seised the logger and are gone.”

“ Yes, there were but three of my men 'on
board to-night, and they have been overpowered
by the buccaheers, or bribed.” .

“ Or perhaps, as I said, some of the pirates es-
caped and boarding the in ger to-night, for she
lay a ainst the shore, fr their comrades.”

“ V5e may make some discOVery at the shore,”
responded the Don, and they dashed into the la-

n.
80There upon the bank they found a man Writh-
ing in pain and groaning.

“ It is Felipe, the lugger’s master,” ried Diaz
who threw himself from his horse an bent over
the suffering man.

“ Ah. my poor Felipe, what has happened?”
the Don said tenderly, having also dismounted.

“ It was that young devil of a pirate oflicer,

nor.”

“ Hal was he not killed ayl”

“Not he, senor; ut he ung on in some way
to the in or asterfiwith Several of his men, and
to-ni ht y boar ed us.

“ hey were upon us with their knives before

 

 

we could resist, me and my two mates, and!
while the boys were killed I got this in my side,
and it’s my death wound," and he placed his.
hand upon a knife-thrust in his side.

“I hope it is not so bad as you thinh,good.
Felipe; but 1 will have you taken at once to the}
hacienda and we will do all in our pow" to save
you.

" But are you sure it was the pirate officer?"

“Ah yes, senor, for 1 saw him in the fight to--
day and marked him well. i

“ He is a devil, senor, and I heard him my toe
the prisoners, his men:

“ ‘ Now, lads, I will set you free, for. theydid-
not kill me as they soppOSed.

“‘1 am all right, and as the lug eris-provi--
sioned we Will soon he at sea and sag...

“ ‘ Now, lads, to strip you of your irons."

“That is what he said, senor, and they soon
had the logger flying out to sea.

“Ah, senor, I fear I am done for.”

“No, Felipe, I believe we can save you," and
the Don started the men to the hacienda with:
the wounded man, while he and Marcelite fol-
lowed slowly discussing the esca of. Waldo
and his comrades who were hel ~ in- irons on.
board the logger. __

CHAPTER XLI.
STRANGELY mar.

THE story of the mate of the logger was a
correct one for the daring young pirate officer,
Waldo, had managed to save himself by diving,
and coming up under the stern of the logger.

When he saw that it would be impossible to-
carry the craft, he called to several of the men
about him to save themselves as best they Could-

Three others besides himself managed to cling
to tho logger, under her stern,. where, for-
tunately for them, they were not looked for.

To his delight Waldo saw that the men were,
to be kept on board the logger, and when night.
came on, after a long clinging to the sides of the
craft, they went up over the bulwarks, their
knives in their teeth, and in an instant, almost,
held session of the deck.

Fe ipe was tossed overboard with the others-
of the lugth crew, for it was supposed that he-
had received his death wound.

Then the anchor was gotten up,,s'ail was set,
and the lugger stood out to sea.

The next morning, to the dismay of all, for
the buccaneer prisoners had been freed of their
irons, it was discovered that there was not a
dro of water on board.

'1‘ casks had not been filled, that duty being
left by Felipe until the last.

The lugger was well out to sea, and the
wotuended men on board began. to plead for
wa r.

There was a sail in sight, andvsa- Waldo de—
cided to hide all but a couple of‘ his men and

retendlng to be a coaster, run down an ask
or water, saying that his casks had sprung
a leak in the night, and had drained out every
drop of the precious fluid.

“ We can run alongside in thiscalrn sea and
light wind, lads, and carry the craft bygoard—
iug, now I think of it, and it will'be t, for
yonder schooner is not a bad vessel, and we
inlay be able to secure considerablehooty, after
a . .

Such was the plan formed by Waldo for the
capture of the coaster, and it was carried out.

7 successfully, without the loss of any of his men.

The men in msnacles, in the luggar’s hold
had been released the day before, and armed
with knives and with whatever weapons they
had brought with them or fomd there, they
wouljd make a very formidablehand to with-
stan .

Then, too, they were desperate men and saw
hogs before them if they were uocesstul, the
gs ows if they failed.

So the flags of the logger were setto mark
distress on board and she _was. steered to head
the vessel off.

' The wind was light, and Waldo and two
others were all .there wereon deck. .

f course, he expected the stranger would be
shy of him, dreading lagoon irates, but the
coaster showed no fear and the ogger was soon
within hail.

The men in the cabin and hold, fifteen of them
all told, stood ready to come out at Waldo’s.

cal . .
b Tlhus the logger neared the cutter and Waldo-
ai ed.

He told the one who answered that it was a
ranch logger and out of water, so they Wished’
to get a cask if it could be spared them.

Sailors are always generous and willing to.
help their mates, so the coaster was brought to-
and the logger’s skipper was told to run.
alon lde.

“ y Heavens, men, but there stands Captain.
Bertrando on the deck of that craft,” whispered;
Waldo, and the men could hardly refrain a.
cheer at his words.

It was true, for Bertrando, the Bowman,
was standing near the wheelman of the coaster..

it was the very craft on which Bertrando had-
taken passage the day before. and thus he was;
to meet some of his crew oncemore.

“There are but ssvsn  on than.

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craft, lads, besides hptain Bertrando, so we
double them in number.

“ Stand ready to come at my call,” whis red
Waldo, as he passed the cabin and open atch
forward.

Then came the order:

” Stead y at the wheel there—now lay her along-
Sill-‘l

’l‘he helmsman obeyed the order and as the
longer drifted alongside the coaster,Waldo shout-

ed:

‘ Now, lads, follow me to the» rescue of our
chief!”

Captain Bertrando was almost as much sur-
prised nt the sight of Waldo and his men, board-
ing as they did, as was the skipper and crew of
the little vessel.

There was but a short resistance and the red
work was over, for all who tried to save the ves—
sel quickly met death at the hands of the desper-
ate pirates, Captain Bertrando also joining with
his men in the attack.

In five minutes of time the coaster was in the
hands of Waldo, who now approached his chief.

“Well, Waldo, my brave friend, what does
this mean!” cried Bei'traiido as be grasped the
hand of the other» who had so pluckily carried
out his plan to capture the coaster.

“It is a long story, Senor Chief, which I will
tell you when l have gotten our wounded com-
rades on board this craft, removed what valu-
ables the lugger may have on board and then
scuttled her.

“ But you are in command, chief.”

“ No, hold command until I kn0w all.

“ Then we will decide what is best to be done,”
answered Bei'trando.

Waldo quickly attended to the duties in hand,

removed the wounded pirates to the schoon r,.

along with a few things of value on the luggei' and
then the latter craft was scuttled and set adrift.

“Now, Senor Chit-f, I have to report for or-
ders,” said Waldo us he came aft.

“ Well, put the schooner on her course again
for Havana, as she was bound to that port and
has a valuable cargo on board, which I can play
skip r and dispose of there.

“ hen we can ship a cargo for Vera Cruz, for
I desire to visit that port for various reasons.

“ You have left none of the schooner’s crew
aliv I hope?” -

“ ot one, Senor Chief, for dead men never
tell tales,”

“ True, and it is well; but how many men
have you!”

“ Fifteen of us for duty, Senor Chief, though
several of us are slightly wounded.

“ Then there are five below severely wounded.”

“ Well, see to them, and then report to me
here, for we will divide the men into watches."

This was done, and then Wal-io, having select-
ed a man as second mate, followed the chief into
the schooner’s cabin to have a talk with him, af-
ter their unexpected and strange meeting at sea.

——q—

CHAPTER XLII.
nsnraasno n m: am.

Tn craft which had been so boldly and mur-
derously seized by Waldo and his men, was a
Mexican schooner of a hundred tons burden,
trading generally along the coast of Mexico, but
willing to seek a port elsewhere if there was
money in it for the captain.

She had shipped a cargo for Havana, and the
skipper was very glad to have a passenger who
would pay him liberally, for so had the inn-
keerper told him of Captain Bertrando.

' hat the voyage would be interrupted, as it
was, the buccaneer chief had never dreamed, and
lie was in a very moody Spirit when the logger
was sighted.

There were in the schooner besides the master,
a mate, five seamen and a cook, and not a show
of mercy had been given to one of them by the
dos rate buccaneerl.

aptain Bertrando had grumbled at the skip-
per for not going on, and stopping to heed a call
from the lugger, for he was anxious to get well
away on his voyage.

Now when he was seated in the cabin of the
craft, with Waldo opposite to him, and a bottle
of aguardienfe between them, Beltrando the
Buccaneer never looked in a more cheerful
mood.

“ My dear Waldo,” he said, “you must tell
me all about yourself, and how it is that i find
you here at sea whenI believed that are this
you had been shot or hanged?” .

“ I will tell you all, Senor Chief, and  believe
you will feel that I was right in warning you
aguiiiat that traitor Revello.” _

“ Right! yes, a thousand times right, and I
only wish to find him to settle a score With him
which only his death by inches can pay,” was
the savage response of the buccaneer chief.

“ I have a like score to settle with him, Senor
Chief, for he deserted me and my men,to be shot,
or captured and banged.”

“ Do you know where he is howl”

“ At sea, senor, in command of your brig and
ing on piracies.”
on are right! He will seek to enrich him-
self by piracies, and then desert his crew, or

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give them over to the hangman, while he sneaks
to the hacienda of Don Ricardo Castile and
marries his dau hter.”

“ A beautitu girl is she, too, senor; but he
shall never have her!”

" No, neverl” firmly averted Bertrando.

Then he asked:

“ You have seen her?”

“ On my march from the chaparral where
you left me to the lagoon.”

“ Was she there?”

“She was by her father's side in the whole
fight, senor.” . '

“ The fight?”

“ Yes, senor, for we cut our way from the
Chaparral to the lagoon.”

“ indeed?”

“The Don surrounded us at night and in the
morning demanded our surrender.

‘_‘ I refused, and when he told me ou were a
prisoner and that the brig had gone, decided to
cut my way to the lagoon and capture one of
the boats I had seen there.”

“ A bold stroke, and just like you, Waldo.”

“ Thanks, Senor Chief. for your praise.”

“ And so you cut out the lugger?”

“ Not then. sir.”

“ When?”

“ You shall know all, senor.”

_ Then Waldo told the story of the retreat under
fire, his intention to seize the logger, and how it
had been run oil‘, and then ihe attempt to board
her by swimming out and seizing her when she
stood in near shore to fire upon them.

_Beitrando praised him again and again for
his courage, and when his story was finished
grits him warml by the hand and said:

‘ aldo, I will ave command of another
vessel soon, yes, of my own beautiful brig, and
you n as my first officer.”

" bank you, senor.”

“ And [shall have in my pdwer that man Re-
vello.” '

“ Yes, senor.”

‘_‘ I Will not put him to death, but he shall live
a life of torture that will make him pray to die.”

‘ That iSJust it, Senor Chief, just what be de-
serves”

“ And when I have command of my vessel
again I wxll make another visit to Senor Don
Ricardo Castile.”

‘1 Anhyes, senor.”

‘ I Wil go by night, with my whole force,
and the Don and his daughter shall become my
""‘4’%?°“é; Ch f

‘ es, nor is , yes and 1 will ask on for
the hand of the beautiful‘Senoi-ita Castilg, for I
fell in love with her at sight, in spite of her hit-
terness to me.”

_ Bertrando was silent a moment and then said
in a low, earnest tone:

“ Waldo!”

“ Yes, chief.” I
H“ you shall marry the Senorita Marcelite Cas—

i e.

“ Oh, senor?” ‘

2: You have my promise and I will keep it.”

“ Thanks, senor; many thanks,” bowing‘ low.

It shall be my revenge on her on account of
her name to marry her to you.”

“ Am  so bad then, senor, so ill-looking?”
asked the crestfallen pirate officer.

“ N o; it is not that; only that she is a beauti-
ful woman and honorable, and it Will humble
her to. the dust to be forced to wed a buccaneer
while it Will break her proud father’s heart.”

. Ah, I see now, Senor Chief, how you mean
it; but I was hurt for women say I am a
very handsome man.” ~

“ You are, Waldo, you are, and a great devil
as well.

“ But you deserve all .the good I can bestow
up‘ml ihujk ' hi "

‘ an on c of said the w

Waldo. y , ’ no mp”

After some further conversation together. it
was decided that Bertrando should answer the
name of the dead master of the schooner, Pedro
Velasquez, and run the Vessel into the port of
Ba‘vana. h 1

here t c cargo wou d be quickl disposed of

Bertraudo pocketing the proceeds iyn shares with
his crew, and another cargo would be shipped
for Vera Cruz.

Itwas to this latter port that Bartrando was
anxious to go, for somehow he believed there he
would hear of Revello and hisibrig.

. At any rate, he knew he could go from there
in the little schooner with another cargo for
New Orleans, where he could cut out a craft
suitable for him to go cruising again as a pirate.

If he could not cut out one he had the gold,
and gems that would bring enough more, for
hl'li‘] to buy one.

hen, too, he could draw the draft ven '

by his brother, Don Ricardo. 8‘ mm

But Bertrando’s main object in getting a vee-
961 was to hunt down RcVello, and then by mak-
ing his brother and Mart-elite prisoners, to bring
the Don to terms.

And so Bertrando was'once more at the helm
in his cruise of crime upon the seal.

l‘floor to think,

 

CHAPTER XLIII.
ran nooxrn wrrn.

AWAY back to the opening chapters of this
story I would have my reader glance, not so
long in the lapse of time, but in which time
events have crowded upon the mind, making it
seem like an age that has passed.

It is upon the night of the tornado that had
wrecked the brig Rattlesnake, the scene of a wo-
man in irons, I would now have them glance.

There in the cabin, with manaclee upon her
slender wrists and ankles, and iron chains hold-
ing these to the mast, was the one who had been
known in the brig as Ivan, the cabin-boy.

Slender and graceful in farm, retiring in
nature, no one had suspeCied the fast that the
“boy” really was a woman, until the secret
came out in the storm when Rudolph Revello
sought the interview that ended with the sen-
tence of the woman to die in chains.

BraVely had she borne. the brutal sentence,
and bitter had been Revello when he could not
force from her a cry for mercy.

The crash had come when the wreck was car-
ried by a wave mightier than the others upon a
sunken reef.

In that mad struggle for life, Revollo and
Topaz. had sought Safety in the life-boat in which
the cunning African had stoWed away certain
things for future use, for he had known that the
boat would float, no matter how much dam-

agf‘d.
he result of that cruise in the life-boat is
known, and so it is that we leave Revello and
Topaz upon the brig of the buccanec-rs, and re-
turn to the woman in chains upon the wreck.
The first following wave, after the wreck
struck, had torn from their hold the. pirate crew,
and all had been swept merc1lcssly into the

see.

The shock had been a terrible one, and yet, to

the surprise of the woman, it had not torn the
wreck apart.
- She heard the wild rush of waters over the
deck, felt the quivering of the hull as it settled
firmly upon its rocky ledge, listened to the
shrieks, curses and prayers of the drowning
crew, and hurled upon her knees as she had been,
she remained thus, praying that Heaven would
spare her life for her boy’s sake.

“ I must live, I must not die, for I have tolive
toavenge the deed of that man, have to live for
iiig‘little son,” she moaned.

he next waveJell less heavily against the
vessel, and the next merely caste shower of
spray heavily upon her. ,

The sea appeared to be rapidly running down,
and it seemed that it had, in that huge wave
which had borne the wreck upon its mighty
crest, exarted its last dying energies.

Satisfied with the carnival of death in the loss
of the crew, the storm’s fury rapidly abated.

The wreck yet trembled under the shocks,
the waters yet roared about it, and the winds ;
howled overhead: but the storm was surely dy-
ing out, and the woman uttered a cry of delight
as she realized that it was so.

“ Oh, Beavm, I thank Thee! Thou but an-
swered my prayer, even though I live to
avenge!” she cried.

Then it came eyer her after this flash of jo
that the storm was dying out, that the wrec
was not going to pieces that she was yet in
irons, manacled hand and foot.

Alone on that wreck, for she felt no one had
withstood that rush of waters, she must surely
die a lingering death, worse by far than to have
gone down quickly beneath the waves had the
vessel gone to pieces. .

In her despair at the thought she writhed in
agony, and overcome, at las she swooned away,
from grief, despair and ex nation. _

She must have been unconscious a long while,
she knew, for when she came to consciousness
the seas were not pounding away at the hull
with mighty blows.

The spray still dashed upon the deck heavily,
and yet it was preof to her thatthe sea was get,—
ting over its “:1, while the Winds had ceased
to bowl 0‘78er .

The fact that the companionway had been
closed by Revollo had saved her, for the waters
otherwise would have rushed in and drowned
her. I

The cabin was comparatively dry, and look-
ing about her she suddenly gave a cry of joy,
[(tn‘kthfl‘f at the companionway steps lay a bunch
0 eye

She knew them well; they were the keys of
Bevello, and one of them would unlock her
irons.

She started toward them, but the chains
checked her progrssa

How was she to get that which was beyond
her reach, chained as she was?

The thought was maddening; but she nerved
herself tocalmnese and sat down up' in the cabin
her back leaning ainst the
must, her hands clasped as though a prayer
that she might free herself from the chains
which held her.

And as she sat there she cast her eyes upward
to behold overhead, upon the ceiling of the
cabin, a pair of rapier- crOSsed and fastened by
straps.

 

 
 

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Revello, the Pirate Cruiser.

   

 

 

Instantly she was upon her feet, and in spite
of the weight of chains she was leaping up to
seize the blades.

Leap after leap she made and each one seemed
weaker than the other, for the weapons remained
just beyond her reach.

80, tired out with the exertion, she sat down
in despair.

But the rest did her good, and nerving her-
self once more for the task, she made a mi hty
leap, her hands caught in the hilt of one o the
swords, the straps gave way beneath her weight
and she fell heavxly.

But the rapier was in her hand!

She gave a cry of joy as she grasped it more
firmly, and turning, reached out the point for
the keys.

She touched them, but she had not the power
to draw them along with the slender point of
the blade. _

Again she tried and again. She would not
despair after discovering the keys and the ra-
piers and securing the latter.

Surely she would not fail now, she thought.

Then it came to her to turn the rapier around,
and taking it by the point she pushed the hilt
alon over the floor until it reached the keys.

It rely did so, for it was a long stretch of
the arms and a strain at the chains to get the
hilt so as to catch around the keys.

At last she did this, however, and at once
slowly but sureliy drew the keys toward her.

She scarcely ared breathe in the act, for fear
she might lose them.

But, slipping her hands up the blade of the
rapier she drew the keys nearer and nearer,
and then with a shriek of joy, she clutched
them in her hand.

This was joy, was triumph!

She felt utterly prostrated as though from
some iant task, and dropping down upon the
cabin oor, her head upon the carpet, sunk into
a deep sleep. "

CHAPTER XLIV.
A WOMAN’S FIGHT FOR LIFE.

THE cabin lamp in the Mexican brig had
burned out when the woman awoke from her
deep sleep of utter prestration, after she had
gotten possession of the keys, and the sun was
shining bright] over the sea.

How long s e had lain there she did not
know or care.

She only knew that the irons still held her
fast, and that in her hands she clutched the
ke that would give her liberty.

n his mad flight for safet on deck the com-
mander of the vessel, he w 0 had so cruelly
sought revenge upon a woman, and that wo-
man his wife, had dropped his keys, and thus
she had secured the means of freedom.

She sought the keys that unlocked the man-
acles about the ankles and gave a cry of joy
when she had freed them.

Then workin nervously with one hand. as
well as she coul she found a key to fit the irons
upon her wrists.

It was a hard task to fit the key and turn it,
hampered as she was. '

But at last she did so, and dashing the chains
to the cabin floor she sprung to her feet and
shouted aloud in her joy.

“ No, I am not doomed!

“ I will not diel

“Just Heaven has s the to be avenged
on you, Revello the nccaneer, for you are
nothing more, even though you float an honest
flag above your decks. '

“ Hal hal ha! now I am free!”

She darted about the cabin like a child at
play, so glad was she to be free, the thought
that being so was not yet safety never entering
her mind.

Feeling a gnawin of hunger she went to the
caboose forward an soon prepared a breakfast
for herself from the food she found there,in the
water-tight locker.

This partaken of she felt better and then went
on deck. .

What a scene was it for alone woman to gaze

 

upon. ,
There was the boundless sea about her upon
every hand, and the reef upon which the wreck
had struck was just level with the waters in a
calm at high tide.

It seemed that nowhere else could she behold
a break in the sea denoting a reef.

The wreck had driVen directly there to its
doom and the doom of those on board.

Afar off on the horizon to the northward, as
she gazed she beheld a dark line, broken here
and there. ‘

“ it is land?

“ Land hol” she shouted and she ran for a

lass. .

At last she found one in the cabin and leveling
it, land was revealed to her vision.

But it was thirty miles and more away and
she knew that it muxt be an island. '

Then she sat down and considered that she
had been praying to be spared to seek vengeance
upon a man whose life could not possibly have
been spared while he was on deck.

He too surely must have sunk,as she knew
that the boats were all stove, or at least she had
heard some one say so.

 

If she could only find a human being on
board now she would be content.

So she roamed over the wreck from stem to
stern but not a shnl could she find.

All were gone, all torn off by that mighty
wave and sent to their doom.

The wreck seemed safe enough there in that
calm sea, but a storm or two would surely
beat it to pieces.

Provisions enough she had for a long while,
blut it would never do to risk another storm
t ere.

Yet how was she to escape, for there was
not the vestige of a boat there?

The decks had been swept perfectly clean by
the waves, the guns even had been torn from
their lashings and driven, through the bulwarks,
were piled up in heaps upon the rocks aft, for
the hull had gone on stern foremost.

But, the woman was not now to be denoted
in the face of obstacles and dangers.

Down beIOW she went, and it was not lon be-
fore she came up again with her arms ful of
oars.

Pieces of spars followed next; the, the cabin
doors were taken from their hinges, after
which she brou ht up a hammer, an ax and
nails, with bun les of ropes and canvas.

She noted that the tide was going out, and that
it was the very time for her to build her raft.

So she selected a spot upon the reef that was
then under water a few inches, and under the
lee of the wreck.

Here he laid her heaviest spars, six in num-
ber, cu ing the longest to the length she wished,
and working with the strength of a man and un-
tiringly.

Across those she placed others, and ropes and
nails made them fast together.

The ears were stretched across in the center
then and secured, and next came the cabin
doors.

These were firmly fastened,.and so arranged as
to make a space to protect her from rough seas,
for four of them formed a bulwark.

She worked rapidly, skillfully and well, and
when the tide began to come in, she was bring-
ing to the raft several sailors’ small chests.

into these she placed provisions and bedding,
and when this was done she looked about for all
she might need on her voyage, perhaps for days,
perhaps a voyage that mi ht end in death,
{hoggh she woul not allow erself to think the
at r.

A cask had been put upon the raft, and then
filled with water by bucket.

She had gotten aboard plenty of rope, for
when the raft was afloat she could tie it more
securely together.

She had braced a spar for a mast, and had a
square sail which she could lower across what
she called her cabin, if need be.

A barge oar had been made fast as a rudder,
and the woman was more than delighted with
her work.

If it would only blow fresh, she could drive
along with fair speed toward some haven, or
across the course of some vessel, she was sure.

If a terrible storm came, she knew that her
danger would be great, for though her raft was
strong, it might be tossed bottom upward in a
wild sea.

It was night now, but she dared not remain
until morning, and thus lose valuable time, for
there was a fair wind blowing.

So she got from the schooner all that there
was left 0 Revello’s valuables, and oing on
board the raft, shoved off upon the Wild waste
of waters. V

She had lighted two lanterns, and placed one
at each end of the spar of her little square sail,
so as to be seen by a passing vessel should she
fall asleep; and now, taking the long oar for her
helm, she set of! on the wide sea—to what des—
tiny only the coming hours could tell.

CHAPTER XLV.
GOLETA AHOY!

THE daring woman who had boldly ventured
upon her v0 age on a raft, held the helm of
her frail are t until sleep overtook her, for she
was worn out with all that she had passed
through.

The raft drifted on under pressure of the
wind, and the woman slept on.

Only when the sunlight peered over the door,
stood on end as a bulwark, and fell upon her
face did she awake.

She did so with a start, and was upon her feet
in an instant. '

The craft was rocking upon the sea, and
whitie-ceps were beginning to show ofir‘ to wind-
war . "

But the raft was firm and the little cabin
space the woman had made was dry and com—
fortable.

Setting her sail again she let the craft drive
on while she went to work to prepare her
breakfast.

In spite of her peril and hardships, she was

downright hungr and ate heartily.

Then she look all over her raft, tightened

ropes here and there, added others, drove more
nails in braces and was satisfied that she had a
very secure craft. ‘

Of course, she could only go before the

 

wind upon such a boat, but that course in
time must bring her somewhere, she argued
and1 a severe storm did not set in she was alt
r1
0 the day, the wind increasing until.

even the raft was gouig at a five-knot pace.

Now and then a heavy following sea would
come tumbling aboard, but the doors were high
and thoroughly braced, so that the space within
was comfortable.

When night’came on the lone woman felt all;
the desolation and danger of her position.

Time and again she regretted not havingre-
mained on the wreck.

Then she was sorry she had not at least-

waited until the wind would have wafted her to

the island she had seen far away from the

wreck.

The wind increased and the waves ran high,
but she remained at her tiller and held the raft
on its way.

The two lanterns were swung at the yard-
tips, and she hoped they would be seen by some
passing vessel, for she could only see a short dis-
tance off.

Thus the night passed away, and an angry
ni ht it was.

ith the dawn she had hatchet and nails in
hand, and ropes were tightened and others.
added.

She saw that her raft had stood the strain:
well, but a few more hours of such strain with-
out repairs would cause trouble, she felt con-
fldent.

But the gale swept over with the rising of
the sun, and yet the wind remained fresh and
steady, still driving her along.

The day passed as the other had, and another
night came on, the woman getting what sleep‘
she could.

The water and provisions held out well, and»
the raft was still firm, her cabin still comfort»
able so that her spirits rose with the passing of
time.

Thus another day and night passed, and yet
the woman’s pluck upheld her.

She knew not where she was going, but it
was to the eastward steadily, and she must
soon find land or cross the course of ships in
the W est Indian trade. .

Another night settled down, and worn out
the woman slept through it

When she awrike it was with a start.

Voices were ringing in her ears.

Then, not far distant from her was a small,
lateen-rigged craft, and her crew were calling
to arouse any one who mightbe ugn the raft.

As she sprung to her feet and held the ves-
sel, gladly from her lips rung the bail:

“ Golda, ahoyl ahoy l”

“Ahoyl what craft is that, and where
bound!” responded I. ruff voice.

“All that is left 0 a wreck, and bound to
some havon of safety, sir,” responded the we-
man, who now hastily prepared to play the role
of cabin-boy once more.

“ Ay, ay, lower away your sail, and I will
send a boat aboard of you,” came the answer,
and the woman waved her tarpaulin again and
again around her head.

A boat manned by four sailors now came
near, a rope was tossed them and the raft was
towed to the side of the goleta.

She was a craft of sixty tons burden, trime
built and had a crew of a dozen men on board,
the woman noticed with surprise.

A bronzed-faced man of fifty met her at the
gangway, and said in a grufi' though not unkind
tone:

“ Now, my lad, give an account of yourself.”

“ Ay, ay, sir. I was cabin-boy on the Mexican
brig-of-war Rattlesnake and We were wrecked
far to the southwest of here. V

“I was in the cabin and so escaped, while I
believe all others on board were lost.

“ We struck on a reef and as the hull did not
go to pieces at once I rigged up this raft for a
voyage and here I am, sir, owing to you my
life.’

“ Well, you are a plucky fellow to save your-
self as you have. -

“ But you were on a vessel-of-war you as ’l”

“ Yes. sir, the Mexican cruiser Rattlesna e.”

“ And she has gOne to the bottom?”

“ Yes, sir.” /

“ With all on board?”

“ I am the only one whose escape I can vouch
for, captain.”

“ I am glad of that.”

U Sir!” -

“ I say I am glad the cruiser has gone down,
for 1 hate those kind.”

“ You hate cruisers, captain?”

u I do.”

Ivan, as I must now speak of the woman,
looked at the man in surprise. ,

Then a glance at the crew showed that they
were a very hard-looking set of men.

“ There is something wrong about this craft,”
mused Ivan.

Had there still been a lingering doubt in
Ivan's mind it was soon dis led by the words
of the captain, a man of [i ty with a weather-
br0nzed face and fearless eyes.

“Yes, I am a wrecker, and the, cruisers are
always after me.

  

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“ It makes no diflerence whether they are
Mexican, American, English or Spanish, all are
alike in hunting me down, and only a few weeks
ago captu ed two-thirds of my crew, leaving me
short-handed, for I need thirty men in my
work.

“ I am glad you came aboard, lad, for you
appear to be a bright fellow, and can help me
greatly.

“Now to get your things off that puny-look-
ing raft of yours, and then we will go on our
cruise once more.

“ But who built that raft?”

“ I did sir.”

“All alone?”

“Certainly, sir, as I told you I know of no
one else who was saved from the wreck.”

“ Well, you are a smart fellow, and a good
sailor.

“ We will be mates, lad, for I like you.”

“ Thank you, sir," and Ivan spoke smilingly.

 

CHAPTER XLVI.
IVAN MAKES a PROPOSITION To THE wancxnas.

HAVING been saved from death, the woman
decided to accept the situation and turn to with
with a will.

She desired to conceal the fact that she was
not a youth, and was glad to discover that she
was not even sus ted of being other than she
re resented herse f to be. _

ghe told the rough old wrecker captain that her
name was Ivan, and that she had been the cabin-
boy of the cruiser, and would be glad to serve
him in a like capacity.

It was very evident that he took a fancy to
the one be deemed a fearless lad, and told him
he should bunk in the cabin and do his cooking
for him. I

This suited Ivan exactly, and Captain Breeze
as he called himself was glad to have some one
to talk to for he talked incessantly.

Thus [van was not long in discovering that the
man was a wrecker captain, cruising among the
Bahamas and setting false lights to lure vessels
to destruction.

When he could fill his little vessel with lun-
der he would run for Havana or New Or cans
and sell his cargo of ill-gotten booty.

He was returning from a run to New Orleans
when he had sighted the little raft at daylight,
driving along over the sea, and thus had Ivan
been rescued from peril.

Some weeks before a number of his men had
been captured, and Captain Breeze was, as he
had told Ivan, very short-handed for a crew.

Aftera day or two upon the golcta, in which
he had been kindly treated by the captain and
his men, Ivan said to the skipper, as the two sat
in the cabin together:

“Captaig, I can tell you where you can get

“Yes, sir.”

“ I don’t want men-of—war’s men, lad.” I”

“ These are men who will suit you.”

“ Who are they?”

“ Mostly Mexicans.”

“ Where are they?"

“Can I tell you a secret?”

“ Yes.”

“You will keep it!”

H Yes.”

“ Well, the craft I sailed on was not altogether
a cruiser.”

“ What?” _

“ It was not altogether a cruiser.”

“ How do you mean, lad?” ~

“ Well, she went on cruises, it is true, but her
captain picked up a prize now and then for his
own pocket.”

H Ohol”

“ Yes, sir."

“And he picked up prizes quite often, I take
' g”

“ He did when there was no chance of his
being found out.”

“ What then?"

“ Well, he had a place where he kept his plun-

”
dead see.” .

“He was wont to cruise there, and put the
booty and then send after it once or twice a
year.”

“ Yes.”

“ It was an island.”

“ Where i” _

“ About a couple of days’ sail from here.”

“ Do you think you could find it?”

“ I know I could.” .

“ And there are men on the island?”

“ There are.”

“ They may have left.”

“ They cannot.”

H  I!”

“ There is no boat ever left there for them to
leave on if they wish.”

“ Ohol”

“ And then they don’t care to leave.”

“ I see.”

“ They have their families with them, are well
§upplied with food by the captain, the island
19 a pleasant one and havmg nothing to do
they are content.” .

 

“ How many are there?”

“ I suppose you would find nearly a hundred
peo le on the island, counting men, women and
chi dren.”

“ Good! bus how many of those are men?”

“ You would find fully twenty able-bodied
men who are good sailors.”

‘élgetter still; but tell me more about this isl-
an .

“ There is no more to tell.”

“ It is simply an island retreat of a man who
was a pirate under an honest flag?”

“ That is about the situation,
Breeze.”

‘C‘WWell. my lad, you know them at the isl-
a .

“ All of them, captain.”

“ And would like to go there?”

“ Gladly, sir.”

“ And you think 1 could equip my craft
there?”

“ Without doubt, sir, for the people no longer
having the cruiser to depend upon would beglad
to serve you to have you help them.

“ It would be a fine rendezvous for you, cap-
tain.”

“ I’ll sail there at once.”

" But, captain?”

" Yes, lad i"

“ I wish you to make me a promise?”

“ Yes, lad i”

. “That is that you will in return for my tak-
ing you there, irant what I ask of you i”
‘ Is it a very ig grant, lad l”

“ No, sir.”

“ To give you a claim upon the booty then?”

“ No, sir, for you shall have my share.”

“ I’ll agree to what you ask, lad.”

“ I thank you, sir.”

“ Now we will head at once for the island, so
what course shall I put the goleta on?”

Ivan gave full directions for finding the
island, and the craft was soon sailing for the
secret retreat of Revello, the Mexican: officer
who had been living a double life for long
years as naval commander and pirate as well.

The goleta’s captain was only too glad to
learn of the island, for his own retreat had been
discovered by an American cruiser and half of
hislgzien captured, he barely escaping with the
go , a. -

If out of the way perhaps, the island retreat
w0uld be that much safer on that account.

So_ the skipper told his men- what he had learn-
ed from the su posed boy and all were glad to
know of it an congratulated themselves upon
having picked up the craft and its sole occu-
pant.

The next afternoon the island loomed up
ahead and in lancing carefully over it with his
glass Captain reeze said:

:: Lad, that island has not a living being upon

Captain

it.

“ So it looks, sir, but the people are there.”

“ And the coast is like a wall of rock, with no
place to run in.”

“ There is a channel, air, and if you will give
me the tiller I will take the oleta in.”

“ You know the way I ope, for these are
mighty dangerous waters.”

‘ I kn0w the way in, Captain Breeze, and will
not touch reef or bar,” was the confident reply
of Ivan, who then took the helm and headed for
the island which did indeed appear to be desert-
ed and barren. '

CHAPTER XLVII.
THE ISLAND RETREAT.

STANDING steadily in under the pilotage of
Ivan, the goleta went swiftly along, for the
breeze was blowing fresh astern.

The skipper and his crew watched the rugged
island shores with deepest interest, for to them
there appeared to be no break in the rugged
walls of rock. n

Then they glanced at Ivan to see that there
was no hesitation in his face.

Nearer and nearer the goleta drew to the wall
of rock, and as no break appeared the skipper
asked anxiously:

“ You are sure this is the island, lad?”

“Perfectly sure, sir.”

“ You do 11on any channel?”

' “ Not yet, sir.”

“ Perhaps you are on the wrong side?”

“ No, sir.”

“ If you do not soon show an opening you
must 0 about.”

“ on fear to trust me, sir?”
u 0.”

“Then why go about?”

“ These are dangerous waters for a vessel, and
the skies look threatening.”

“ There’s~no break in that island, sir,” grufliy
said the mate, from forward.

“ So I think.

“ Come, lad, you have made a mistake in your
island, so go about.”

“ Ca tain Breeze, take the tiller and hold her
as she is until Iget a flag from my traps in the

 

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ca in.

“ I will then show you that I am right.”

Captain Breeze took the helm, and Ivan dart-
ed into the cabin of the grleta.

He soon came out with a black flag, in them-
ter of which was a red rapier.

 

 

This he bent on to the halyards, and ran up to
the fore.

As it was shaken out, he ran back tothe helm.

Almost instantly on the island there was seen
a flag run up u n a staff just raised.

It was a blac flag, and it had a red rapier in
the center.

The men of the goleta cheered then, and turn-
ing to Ivan gave him also a cheer.

“ You are right. lad, only I don’t see that.
opening yet,” said Captain Breeze.

“ And you will not until you get within a
cable’s length of the shore, sir.

“ These are nasty waters for a boat to be
cau lit in when it blows."

“ es, sir, but there is a fine haven in the
island."

The staff on the island that had been raised
with the flag that was an answer to the one set
upon the goleta, was now lowered by the two
men who had shown themselves upon the sum-
mit of the isle, and once more no signs of life ap-
peared there.

But the goleta’s crew had confidence now in
Ivan, and said no more in doubt of what he was-

about.

A short distance more the goleta ran, and just
as Captain Breeze was about to take oath that
there was no 0 ning in the rocky shore of the
island, and tell van to go about, there appear.
ed a break in the wall.

The men again cheered, and the goleta glided
in through overhanging cliffs and was soou at
anchor in a small basin, deep and thoroughly
protected on all sides. .

The men of the goleta saw shelving shores
then covered with verdure, and a settlement of
huts was visible among the trees.

Women and children were seen upon the
shore, and a boat-load of men was coming off to
the goleta, whose coming was not understood,
though, as she had set the signal, no fear of her
was felt by the islanders. '

The boat soon drew near, and Ivan hailed:

“ Ho, Senor Bravo, I have news for you 1”

“ Ah! it is you, Ivan, is it?” answered the man
addressed, and he sprung upon the goleta and
grasped the lad’s band.'

“ Yes, Senor Bravo, and this is Captain
Breeze of the Spray, and he is a Bahama
wrecker who picked me up at sea, for the brig
was wrecked with all on board.”

This news startled the man Bravo and those
in the boat with him, and many questions were
asked and answered.

“ It will send up a wail ashore, this news will;
but they have meta sailor’s fate, Ivan.

“ But I am glad to welcome Captain Breeze
and his men, asall of us will be when, it is
known he comes to ally himself wi us.

“ No, Ivan, you must go up to the cabin
and tell the news to our queen, for I cannot.

“ You see, Captaii Breeze, we have a queen,
the wife of our on tain, and she is ruler here.

“ She remained bind when the Cruiser sailed,
and she has not been well, for she has kept
mighty close, and this news will hit her hard, I

ear.

“ You will tell her Ivan, for I cannot?”

“Yes, Senor Bravo, and I will leave Cap—
tain Breeze and his men to your care,” an-
swered Ivan, and soon after he was set ashore.

He was greeted by the people gathered there
with welcomes and questions, but said that the
queen would tell them all, and so hastened up
the hill to a cabin standing apart from the
others.

There, under a rude piazza sat a woman in
black. ' .

Her form was slender and graceful and the
face was one of beauty. \

As the other approached she arose‘and said
eagerly;

“ elcome back. lady.”

“ ’Sh! I am still Ivan, and I have news for
you as soon as I can change to my own attire.

“Have you been suspected?”

“ Not once.”

“ And my boy?” I

" Is 011' with Linda in the island somewhere.”

“ Thank Heaven no harm has befallen him.

“Now come in and let us quickly make the
change.” \ . .

They entered the cabin and in half an hour
reappeared, and it would take a very keen eye
to note what change had been made.

What that change was their conversation
will make known to the reader.

“Now, thank Heaven, I am again Lucille
Revello, my natural self, and mare Ivan.

“ I was recognized by my hm mud before the
Segs’el was wrecked, and I will tell you what he

i . ,. _
Then followed the story of the wreck and
ali that had happened.

“ Now, Ivan, for you too a. woman must ‘
still play the part of a ho until we can leave
this island, I wish to than you for your deep .
devotion to me and my boy. _

“ When your'parents were found, With you,
on a wreck, by Revello, and, brought here,
allied themselves to these ple, no one ever
suspected you of being a girl, and it was wise
in your father to dress you as a 

‘ The cheat, with your wonderfu resemblance

to me, has me well, for it enabled; me to

 

 

 
   

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.~,go as cabin-boy of the cruiser, while you re-
mained here as the Island Queen, and you have
played your part well.”

“ I have hold aloof from all, senora.”

“ Well, now we are to go from here, for I
have the pledge of the goleta‘s captain to do as I
ask, and a diflerent life is before us."

CHAPTER XLVIII.
sun: IN roar.

Tm: reader has thus seen how a maiden, play-
‘ing the part of a boy, and from her striking re-
semblance to Lucille, the wife of Revello, the
merciless Mexican, was enabled to deceive the
comm-under of the cruiser, as was done.

“Lucille, going as Ivan De Sol, the cabin-
<boy, hilll deceived all up to the time of the
wreck of the Rattlesnake.

" The African, Topaz, had been in her con-
fidence. but when it came to a question of
which he should cling to, his master or Lucille,
he had chosen the former, as he oWed to him his
life and left the latter to perish on the wreck.

a... fate of the African and Revello has been
'seen, and also he - Lucille, the wife deserted to
die in chains on the wrecked brig, escaped both,
,and returned to the island retreat, where [van
was playing her part, and where she had left
her little son, Reginald, in the cure of the faith-
to] black nurse, Linda, who had lid with her
from her home when she had sacrificed herself
by becoming the wife of Rudolph Rewllo, a
man without mercy for man or woman.

When they had talked oVer their clever ruse
together, Lucille, as the cabin-boy is now kno\\ u,
.arose to go in search of her boy, when they be-
held coming toward the cabin the people of the
island.

“You know the story, Ivan, as I have. told
,you, so you must tell it to them, for they sus-

t soinng is wrong, and are coming to
- now ah‘: it,” said Lucille.

The crowd of islanders, men, Women and chil-
dren, n0w came near the cabin, and LUcille sold:

“ My people, this young man has just brought
to me the saddest tidings, for he has told me of
'the loss of the cruiser with all on board.

“He will tell to you the story, and how he
happened to be in the cabin alone when the brig
drove on a reef and was wrecked, and thus
escaped' with his life, while all others on the ves-
sel were swept to a watery grave, my husband
among the others.”

“ A wail went up from the crowd of women
and children at this, to them, most startling and
distressing tidings, and Ivan told the story as
though he had been the actor in the terrible
scenes.

- Then Lucille spoke of the coming of Captain
Breeze and his men in the galeta, and said that
they shouli be welcomed.

The crowd then departed just as a negress
came down the hill accompanied by a handsome
boy of six, clad in sailor costume.

He too had know the cheat, that Ivan was not
his mother, but had kept the secret well, young
as be war.

Now be rushed into his own mother’s arms,
with the cry: ‘

“ My mammal my mammal” '

Long he was clasped to her loving heart, a
heart that was as brave as any man’s; a heart

. that had known enough of sorrow to crush it,
since she had become the wife of Revello the

Boyer.

Linda, the neurons, also came in for a warm
greeting from Lucille, and then they talked to-
.gether until Ivan went down to tell Captain
Breeze and his men that the Island Queen would
receive them at her cabin.

Not a soul suspected the cheat, that the one
who went as Ivan was not- the one they had
picked up at sea, and they went on with him up
to the cabin.

There Lucille welcomed them, and told them
she was glad to have such strong allies, while
she said to Captain Breeze that he should remain
as commander in the place of Revello.

“ And n-.-w, captain,” she continued, after he ‘

had dismissed his men to mingle among the
people of the island, “ Ivan tel s me that you
made him a promise?”

“ I did, lady, and I’ll keep it.”

“ Well, he will allow me to say what you are
to (1').”

" Yes, lady."

“Now that my husband is dead I no longer
care to remain on this island, so I desire you
to give me. my little son, [Van and Linda, pas-
sage. to on American port in the goleta.

" What I hold here in property 1 fold to the
people, you to share with them, w ile I will
-pu\' you sell for your services. '

“ Now, captain, get your goleta in the best

. of trim for u~, as I desire toleave the island one
Week from to—day."

“I’ll do it, lady, only I am sbrry to See you
go,” said the wrecker.

And then Lucdl‘e went around among the
people. comforting them in their sorrows over

he loss of those they loved on the cruiser, and
had to them all that. she was going away from
L» island forever. and Would carry Ivan with
ya” well as her boy and Linda.

 

They urged her against it, many of them say- :

ing that they‘ would lose their good fortune
when she departed.

But she was determined and in just one Week '

the goleta Sailed away, half of the crew on
board being the islanders.
Away sped the fleet craft, and her destina-

tion was the Belize, for there Lucille knew that 3

she could overhaul and board some vessel bound
up to New Orleans.

Nor was she disappointed in this, for a
coaster packet was found, and the transfer from
the aoleta was made, the story being told to the
American skipper that Lucille and her party
held been picked up at sea from a wrecked ves-
se .

Away sailed the golrta back to her mission of
lawlessness, and it may be well to remark just
here that the islanders became noted as wreck-
ers and law-breakers generally, while their de~
scendants, now respectable citizens, still occupy
the island and others in those waters.

As for Lucille she and those with her arrived
in safety in New Orleans, and then Ivan sought
relutivvs whom he had there and told the sad
story of her parents’ death among the islanders
and how she had played the part ofa‘boy for
several years.

But once at borne again Ivan De Sol became
her natural self, and as Miss Eva De Sol, 8.
beauty and an heiress in her own right, was not
long in winning her way As a belle in the society
of the Crescent City, though no one suspected
the romance of her life, as she kept it as a sealed
book.

Having seen her island friend safe and happy
among her kindred, Lucille Revello placed
Linda and her boy in pleasant quarters and
once more in the disguise of a boy, started
forth upon a mission she was determined to ac-
complish.

’l‘hat mission was to discover if Rudolph
ReVello had escaped 'death when he left his
wrecked vessel that night of storm.

 

V ' CHAPTER XLIX.
THE narrLicsruixE‘s DOUBLE.

WHEN Rudolph Revello found that his crew
would stand by him in anything that he did, he
had, it will be recalled, set sail for Vera Cruz.

He had told them that they should rescue
their chief and comrades from the carcel, for
they had been already taken there he assured
them, though he did not believe such to be the

case.

In reality he thought that Captain Bertrando
was then a prisoner in the hacienda of Don
Ricardo while the men under officer Waldo had
been hunted down and Captured or killed.

Revello was a bold man, as has been seen, and
he was one who made desperate moves to carry
his point.

He had lost his own vessel, through no fault of
his it is to be admitted, and now he intended to
redeem himself in the eyes of all and more than
do so by a daring stroke.

80 he sailed for Vera Cruz under false pre-
tenses to his pirate crew, but for that he did
not care.

He had formed his plans and was already in a
fair way to carry them out.

When the brig came in sight of the Castle of =
San Juan de Uloa. Revello signaled that it was f

the Mexican cruiser Rattlesnake, and so swept
on up to an anchorage of! the city.

He said to his men that he would go on shore
to recounoiter. and that no boat must be allowed
to come alongside the brig under any circum-
stances.

When he returned he would know if their com-
rades were in the cured and if it was possible
for them to be rescued, while he would also make
sure of robbing the banque of its gold on the
same expedition.

“ it can all bedone within a couple of hours
after we start about it, and the brig can be on
her way out to sea before dawn,” he had said.

And so he was set on shore, while the boat was
told to return to the brig and orgy come when
they heard his signal from the shore, and which
was agreed upon.

The moment he landed Revello hastened with
all dispatch to the quarters of the commandhnte
of the port.

He found that august individual at home. and
was graan an immediate audience.

“ Glad to see you, Captain Revello, for we all
felt "Kilt anxious regarding the safety of your
vessel as the tornado that followed your sailing
was the worst we have ever known, and the
greatest damage was done by it.”

“ Yes, General Rivera, I lost my vessel in that
some tornado.”

glui- was startling news, while the general
Ia :

“ But it was signaled that the Rattlesnake was
in sight at sunset.”

“ True. for it is so believed; but the vessel is
the Double of the Rattlesnake, senor, and none
other than the famous pirate craft of Bertrando,
known as the Ocean Rapier.”

“You astound me. Captain Revello.”

“I will astound on still more when‘I tell you,
senor, that I am 11 command of the buocanoer

 

 

 

craft, and have brou ht her in here to surren-
der her to you, or rat er to obtain command of
her with a different crew under me, for, except-
ing my slave Topaz and my self, all others on
board are pirates.”

The general was speechless with amazement,
and then Revello went on to tell him the stor
of the wreck of his brig, with all on boar
though he made no reference to the wife he had
left in the cabin in chains.

He told of bein picked up at sea by Bertran-
do, and what ha followed to make him com-
mander.

“ I had hoped to plot at the hacienda of Don
Ricardo Castile to capture Bertrando, General
Rivera, but he upset my plans by deciding to
have the Don go upon his vessel, and I knew
what that iregnt.

“So I returned to the vessel, and began to
plot anew.

“ I ran to a retreat in Mobile Bay, refitted the
brig, and then propmed to the crew to rescue
their chief and comrades from the camel here,
and also to rob the barque.”

“Captain RtVellOl”

“ You understand, general, I was playing
pirate and planning to capture that ship, for
though in command, what could I do?”

it True.”

“ Now, the shi is here, and supposed to bemy
vessel. and I wil land a force and march for the
camel.

“ “'e will gain entrance, and you Will have a
force there to seize the men, while you can send
another force ( if under me to seize the brig
while hcr crew are ashore. ‘ g

“ Thus, general, we will get the brig and her
pirate crew. while Bertrando himself is new a
prison ‘r at Don Ricardo’s hacienda.”

“Splendid! you are a wonderful man, Cap-
tain Revello.

“ This will make you more famous than ever.

“But now to work i”

The plan was soon arranged, and Revello
started upon his return to hisgvessel.

He gave the signal, theboat put 03 for him.
and he was soon on board the brig.

“It is all right, senor-s, for theaxief and his
party under Waldo are in the 0 el, and we
can rob the bank and r. scue them at one b10w.

“ I will lead you, so get into the boats all but
a few to remain in charge of the brig.”

The men were elated at the news, and the
boats soon pulled for the shore with muffled
oars.

It was after midnight now, and that part of
the town was as still as a gravsyard.

The men landed, and Revello led them, past
the bank toward the camel.

“ I will leave you at the cared to gain admit-
tance, and return with a couple of men to the
banque, so as to have the gold out of the vaults
and ready for you on your way back,” he had
said to the officer he had placed in command of
those who were to enter the camel.

So he left them at the carcel to gain admit-
tance, and with two of the men he returned to
the banque.

As they reached the door they were suddenly
confronted by a file of soldiers. and in an instant
the two pirates were prisoners, while Revello
hastened on to the shore, where a party was
waiting in the brig’s own boats for him to go
of! us .their leader, for so it had been arranged
between the general and himself. ‘

The men who had reached the camel mean-
while had gained admittance. as they had said
they were from the cruiser Rattlesnake, bring-
in pirate prisoners.

n they rushed to suddenly find themselves
within stone walls, around which were a couple
of hundred soldiers covering them with their
muskets. ,

'Ihey had been well trapped by their new cap-

» tain, that was certain.

CHAPTER L.
anaraanno’s PLOT.

THE schooner which had been seized by Wale
do. and on board of which Captain Bertrando
had been found. made the runs the chief had
planned for it and safely anchored in the mouth
of Very Cruz.

By a strange coincidence it had run in not
two hours ahead of the buccaneer brig under
Revello.

And strange was it also that Revello anchor-
ed not Very far away from the supposed coaster.

Those on board the little schooner could hard-
ly believe their eyis when they saw the brig
come to anchor near them.

It startled them at first, for they felt sure that
it was the cruiser Rattlesnake, which had not
been lost as Revello had said to Bertrando and
Waldo, who knew him. '

They saw a boat put off for the shore and re-
turn. and then later they saw four booth leave
the brig and row ashore.

What could it mean?

Bertrando at last decided to know if it was the
Hatflesnake or the Ocean Rapier, for the more
he ooked at the brig the more he became con-
vinced that it was his vessel.

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“ Yes, senor.”

“ I believe that Revello has dared venture in
here in my brig.

“ I feel sure that yonder craftis the Ocean
Rapier. and I intend to find out.”

“ How can you, senor?”

“ I will sing a song which the men all know so
well, and if it gets a response on board the brig,
for you know it is a signal song I have, then
the craft is the Ocean Rapier.”

“ Sure, senor.”

And then there broke out on the still air of
the harbor a rich voice singing a Spanish cava—
lier song.

A movement was at once noticed on board
the brig, and as soon as the song was hushed
there came a reply in a tenor voice, another
Song, hOWever, being,' sung.

“ Waldo, it is my vessel.

“ Revello has run her in here for some pur-
pose perlia s to entrap me and my men.

“ ome, lidave this craft and we will board the
brig.

“ If mine, then am I once more Demon of
the Deep, and woe be unto Revello the Rover.”

The boat Was quickly lowered from the stern
davits, and the chief and all on board armed
themselves and crowded into it.

“Boat ahoyl” came from the brig as it ap-
proached. .

“Bertrando,” was the low response, and in-
stantly came the words:

“ It is as I said, the chief.

“ Come aboard, song!”

And as the boat moved forward once, more
out from the shore shot those of the brig, re-
turning.

But though Captain Revello was in one of
them, the men who had gone ashore nitli him
were not returning, for they were safe in the
carcel.

“Hal what boat is that boarding the brig?”
he cr.ed, and the order came for the oarsmen to
pull still faster.

As they ran up alongside, Bertrando had reach-
ed the vessel and_a word from one of the offi-
cers had told him all.

“ Quick! hurl these devils back into the sea 1”
he cried, and as he spoke, Revello sprung on
board to be felled to the deck.

'At the same moment, the men who were fol-
lowmg him were hurled back into the sea and
willing hands kept the others from boarding
whilea part of the crew ran forward, slippe
the cable and set sail.

There were several who had followed Revello

. who got on board and were quickly made pris-

oners and toased into the cabin, while Bertran-
do, once more on his own deck, and with his
Own crew about him, fought like the demon he
was when aroused.

The cable was slipped and the brig was oing
seaward almoat in a moment of time, sail ing
set as she went along, for nothing bad been
furled on board. -

And the boats beaten ofl, when their leader
Revello was lost, and which contained soldiers,
not sailors, were glad to pull back for the shore
where General Rivera had driven up in his
carriage and was astonished at what he saw and
1:

ea .

“ A boat-load of men, Senor General, boarded
the brig from yonder craft, and Captain Revello
was shot dead as be reached the deck and we
wereJiurled back into our boats.

“I tried to lead the men on board the vessel,
but the brig was moving, and being strongly de-
fended we were forced back, senor.”

The general gave orders to row out and capture
the little schooner and then springing into his
volante drove to the carcel.

There he found that the pirate crew had
been captured, and next he drove to the signal-
station.

But it was some time before a signal could be
set and then the air was misty and if seen at the
castle was not answered, while the brig was
amid] y becoming more indistinct in the dis-

nce.

And thus did the bold plan of Rudolph Revello
miscarry in the very moment of success.

CHAPTER LI.
A STRANGE VESSEL.

DON RICARDO CASTILE and Marcelite were
very much Worried over _the escape of the
pirates, whom they had Certainly considered un-
able to do so under the circumstances.

The Don had slime satisfaction in the fight his
men had had with them, and who, if they were
themselves losers, at least felt content over the
loss inflicted upon the buccaneers. _

The lngger was watched as she sailed away
until she could be seen no longer, and then Don
Ricardo said:

“ Well, my child, that young pirate is worthy
of a far better career than one of outlawr‘y,
for he has shown himself a very daring and ski -
ful officer.”

“ Yes, father, and he it one who be}! every
Opportunity :0 make a name for himself had

soc . .
“ I do not undershnd you, my child.”

 

“ I recognize him, father.” 9

‘ You know the pirate lieutenant?” asked the
Don with surprise.

“ Yes, father.”

“ Who is he, may I ask?” 9,

“ Do you remember some ears ago at a ball
in the City of Mexico, whenI was hardly more
than in my teens, how a young ranchero follow—
ed me about from place to place?”

“ Yes, I do recall the circumstance, now you
speak of it.”

“ Well, father, that young pirate oflicer is
the very one who so haunted me as to cause me
to dread him.

“ He wrote me love letters which I dared
not Show to you, and some time afterward he
fought a due] and killed the one he thus met on
the field of honor.”

“I remember, now.”

“ He was very wild, dissipated, and was
forced to fly for some of his BCC< which got him
into serious trouble, and since then I have new r
heard of him, but now know that he went to the
bad and turned buccaneei‘.”

“ It is too bad that a man with all the attain-
ments to make a name for himself and to cause
men to respect him should thus go astray; but
see, there comes a coasting craft very near in-
shore, as though to run into our harbor.”

The Don pointed as he spoke to a small
coaster seen heating cluse inshore, having
rounded a point of land as though to head in for
the lagoon, which was the harborage of the
ranch.

There the logger, which went to and fro for

stores to the City < f Vera Cruz, and the pleasure

craft were kept, for the Don and Marcelite also
were very fond of a cruise upon the Gulf in pleas-
ant weather.

The vessel which had caught.the Don’s eye
was of lath rig and of not over thirty tons
burden.

She was trimly built and sailed well, pushing
her nose deep into the sea as she came along iin~
der a stiff breeze through the mug waters.

“ Yes, father, the craft is co ing into the
lagoon.

“ I hope we are not to have a visit from more
pirates.’

“ No, they would not come by day, my child.

“ It must be Captain Revello taking that
means of coming to visit us,” said the Don re-
calling how Captain Revello had last been at the
ranch, and feeling that an explanation was
necessary.

“ I hope so, father, for after the charges made*
against Captain Revello I feel that he should
come and explain all away, if he can.”

“ If he can?”

“ Yes, father, so I said."

“ Why you surely do not think he will be un-
ab‘le to do so?” '

“ I hardly know what to believe, father.”

‘ ‘ M» rcelite l”

“ Yes, senor!”

“ May I ask you a direct question?”

“ Certainly, father."

“ Do you really love Rudolph Reveilof”

“ A t times I feel that I do love him devotedly,
and then there comes over me a feeling that
something is lacking.

“ What it is I do not know, cannot explain
even to myself, father." .

“ I have thought of late that you did not real-
ly love the man as you should, or as you should
one whom you expect to marry.”

“ I think now that I do not.”

“ He may fully explain away any doubts on
entertain of him now since the coming of r-
trando the Buccaneer.” _

“ It is not that wholly, Senor, only I believe I
am capable of loving some one else differently,
far better than I do Rudolph Revello.”

“ Who is it, my child?” asked the Don in real
alarm.

"No one, senor, for I have met no one else
that I care more for than I do for Captain Re-

(llo.

“ But still there is the idea in my mind, the
feeling in my heart that there is some one.”

“ Then you should never marry Revello.”

“ If I feel this way you are right, father; but
then it may be a sinful fancy of mine.

“ I will await my next meeting with him,
and then I will understand myself better.”

“ Well, Marcelite, as you know, Revello be-
longs to an old and respected family.

" He is in moderate circumstances, I suppose,
though I have never been able to discover just
how he stands financially, though that does not
cut any decided figure with me, for you “ill
have fertune enough for any one.

“ Of course these reports about_Revello I have '

not the slightest thought of, for they originate

with his enemies, and he has many who are

Jealous and envious of aim, especially since it

has become known that you‘are to marry him.”
“ Yes, father, he has many foos, I admit.”

. “ Well, I ho and believe all will come round
right, my chil ; but see, the goleta is running in
for the lagoon, so I will send horses down to
bring up any one who may land.”

The Don then called a servant, and he was
dispatched with several led horses tothe shore
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melfioom
Thou ocraftwu soon automation-And

half an hour after the servant returned, accom-
panied by one person who had landed from the
strange craft.

That one wasa youth in sailor attire.

 

CHAPTER LII.
A vrsnos To run RANCH.

IN the one who returned with the servant sent‘
to the lagoon, Don Ricardo saw a mere youth,
scarcely over seventeen he seemed.

He was attired in sailor costume, wore a
jaunty tarpaulin, and had a face that was strik-
ing in the extreme.

“ My name is Ivan De Sol, senor,” he said
when the Don bade hiiii welcome.

“You are Welcome, Senor Do Sol,” was the
quick and pleasant reply, and Don Ricardo won-
dered why the youth had come to the hacienda.

‘.‘ His coming affects ine strangely.

“I wonder what it means, for i feel that he-
has come here for a purpose, not by chance."

80 mused Marcelite, and as she was presented
to the young visitor she can ht his gaze fixed
upon bet with an expression t at she could not
read, a look which however seemed to read her
inmost soul. '

“ Pray do not retire, senorita, for my visit to
Don RiCardo you hold interest in also, for I con--
fess that I have sailed here to see you both,”
said the youth, in a tone that was not at all
ruffled by his years or surroundings as one might.
have suspected in one so young.

M ircelite calmly bowed and resumed her seat,
while the Don said:

“Then your visit is not an accidental one,~
senor?”

“ By no means, Don Ricardo.”

“ May I ask its nature?”

“ I wish to find one Captain Rudolph Revello
of the Mexican Navy,” was the startling reply,
for both the Don and Marcelite started.

“ He is not here, senor." ..

“ May I ask if you knew whether he escaped
death in the wreck of his vessel some time ago?”

“ His vessel wrecked, you' say?”

“ Yes, senor.”

“‘ I have heard nothing of this.”

“ Then you have not seen or heard of‘Captaian
Revello of late, Don Ricardo?”

The Don was silent.

Could he tell of the visit of Revello to the
ranch in disguise, when he brought Bertrando
the‘Buccaneer with him.

He would not tell of this, but he would find‘
out when his young visitor had last seen the
captain.

o be asked:

“ When was this wreck, senor?”

The youth looked at a memorandum he car»
ried and gave the exact date.

“ ou are sure his vessel was wrecked?”

“ I was on the vessel, Don Ricardo, at the
time.” .

“ Indeed, then you were one of the crew of
Captain Revello?’

“ I was, sir.”

“ And did you have reason to suppose he lost.
his life then?’

“ I did not know how many escaped, senor.

“ But I am anxious to know whether the cap--
tain did or not.”

“ He did not.” k

The youth sprung to his feet in his excitement
at this statement, and cried: -'

“ Are you sure of this, Don Ricardo?"

“ Perfectly.” ‘

“ Captain Revello did not die?”

if  n

“ How do you know, may I ask!"

“ I have seen him.” , -

“ Have seen Captain Rudolph Revellof”

u Yea.”

“ Commander of the Mexican brig-of—war,
Rattlesnake!”

H Yes.”

“ When 1"

“ Within a very short while.”

“ There is no mistake?”

“ None.”

The young sailor took a quick turn back and
forth for a minute, and then said:

“ Don Ricardo, you will pardon my excite-
ment, and my coming here when you know all.”
“ I will hear wh t you wish to say, senor.”

“ Pardon me, but may I ask you a few ques-
tions, and you not deem it oflicmusi”

“Well, sir?”

“ Is not Captain Revello en a ed to marry
your daighter here?” g g

“ As it is no longer a secret, I may as well an~
swer yes.”

“ Don Ricardo, this must not be.”

“ Senor l”

“ I repeat it, Don Ricardo; this marriage
must never take place.” .

“Pray explain, senor,” said Marcelite, more
calm now than was her father.

" I will explain, though it is a long story.

“ Yet you must hear all, and on will heed.

“ I wish to tell you that Rud ph Revello is an
impoetor a man of no honor, a man living a
double his.” .

The. words fairly rung from the lips of the
youth, and Don Ricardoarooe hotly angina;

 

 

 

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Revello, the Pirate Cruiser.

 

“ Senor, I will not hear my friend, who is ab-
sent, my son-in-law that is to be, thus abused by
you astranger.”

“ t does you credit, Don Ricardo, to thus
stand up for your friend, the man who was to
marry your daughter; but then I wish you to
hear my story, and when on have heard all,
listen to the proof of what tell you.

“ Will you grant me this?”

“Yes, father, we will hear what the senor has
to say,” said Marcelite, and she spoke with
strange calmness.

“Yes, senor, we will hear you, for there is
something about you that causes me to feel that
you would not willingly strike at the heart of

‘thislpoor girl.”

“ won d save her from harm, from sorrow,
for well I know that she had believed in one
whom she believes to be the soul of honor.”

“Which you say Captain Revello is not?”

“ Senor he is a snake in the grass, at man who
leads, as I said, a double life.

" “ Years ago he wedded a young American
'girl dwelling upon the shores of Mobile Bay.”
“ Beware, sir!”
, “ I am meaning every word I utter, senor.”

“‘ Well, sir?”

“This girl bore the name of Lucille Loans:
and her father was a well to do merchant, and
dwelt there with his wife and only child.

“ The Mexican officer led the maiden to marry
him through threats of harm befalling her
father, and yet she was not indifferent to him,
fascinating and handsome as he was, though her
heart was another’s.

“ She ran away with him upon his vessel, be-
.came his wife, and from that day a life of sor-
row was hers.

“ A child was born to them, and yet Captain
Revello would not return her and their little ho
to the home of her parents, that she might ask
forgiveness of them.

“After seven years nearly had gone by he
consented to do so, landing there at night.

“ The home of her girlhood was a ruin almost,
for her' mother was dead through a broken
heart, the servants gone away and her father
yet haunted the place, though as a madman.

“ She went to the house that moonlight night,
carr ing her little son with her, and found all
deso ation, the place deserted.

"A shot and a cry startled her, back where
she had left her husband, and running thither
.ahe found that her Captain Revello had killed her
father.”

“My God! this is terrible,” cried Marcelite,
while the Don said almost savagely:

“ If true?”

CHAPTER LIII.

m irasx annovan.

'“ Ir is true, Don Ricardo, every word that I
utter,”1aid the youth, warmly.

“ I came not here to lie to you and that beauti-
ful lady, your daughter.”

“ You have the proof, you say 1”

“ I have.”

“You will give it?”

u  fl

“ I shall demand it.”

“ You shall have it, senor.”

 on with_ your story, if there is more to
u I r i‘ I

“ I have not told the half.”

“ Shall we‘hear it, my child?”.

“ I wish to hear every word, father, that the
tenor has to say,” was Marcelite’s low and earn-
est response.

“ I will not detain you long, senorita, or cause

ou more sorrow than is necessary.

“ I wishto say to you that the father of Re-
vello’s wife in his madness may have attacked
the Mexican officer, yet he was, nevertheless, his
murderer.

“ He had stolen from him his child, by his act
breaking the mother’s heart, and then taken
his life, not to speak of the harm he had wrought
upon the girl.

“ Well, she went with him again to see, she
and her child, after all that had passed.

“ But she had a motive, and it was revenge.

“ The Mexican had deceived her, for, besides
being an officer in the naval service of the
country whose flag floated at the peak of his
vessel, he was also a pirate.” ,

“ A pirate?" gasped Marcelite, while‘ Don
Ricardo cried:

“ Hhve a care, young man i”

“I repeat it, Senor Don Ricardo.” I

“ You accuse Captain Revello of being a
pirate?” .

“ I do, sir.”

“ Though an oflcer of Mexico?”

H I do.” .

“ You must produce your proof.”

“ I will do so in good time, senor.

“ Captain Revello had an island retreatwhere
.‘he kept the people who served him and his
piratlcal booty.

“ Here his wife was k wn as queen, and here
ehe and her boy were 0 ten left while the brig

was cruising elsewhere.

“ But she suspected that Reyello' intended to

lay her false, and when he left her again at the

d that he meant never to return.

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I

“ So she went in disguise upon his vessel and I

he came hither, anchoring in the lagoon.

"He went then to Vera Cruz, and it was
there'his wife, in her disguise, arranged to have
him fall into the hands of the Americans.

“She informed the captain of an American
cruiser then in port of all she knew, and Re-
vello was sent to sea by a paper forged and
pretending to be from you, senorita.”

“ From me?”

“ Yes, senorita.”

“ I do not comprehend quite.”

“A letter purporting to be from you asked
him to return here to you.

“He did so, and the American cruiser was
lying in wait for him on the way.

“ But that terrible tornado swept the Gulf
and I have since learned that the American
cruiser has never been heard of.

“The Mexican brig was caught in the tor-
nado, dismasted and driven like an arrow to
her destruction upon a reef.

“But Revello had recognized his wife in her
disguise and he sought to punish her.

“From her he heard of her plan to entrap
him, to prevent his sacrilegious marriage with
you, and he had her put in double irons and
placed in the cabin, chained to the mast, to
go down with the wreck.”

“ Senor l”

“ Have a care, senor!”

“ I have a care, Don Ricardo, to speak only
the truth.

“ Captain Revello and his negro slave went
on deck and left the woman thereto die.

“ The vessel struck and the crew were washed
into the sea; but you say that Revello yet lives,
Don Ricardo.”

“He does.”

“ Well, senor, he escaped death in some mys-
terious way while his crew did not.”

“ And this wife?”

“ She too escaped, for he had dro pad the ke s
of her manacles, in his hasty flight From the ca -
in an 1 she freed herself.

“The tornado had blown itself out, she made
a raft, was picked up at sea by a wrecker craft,
visited Revello's island retreat, secured herchild
and escaped to New Orleans.

“ There she left her child in the care of a faith-
ful negress, one who had left her home with her
and followed her sad wanderings, and she deter-
mined to discover whether Revello yet lived, and

,if so to save you, senorita.

“ he chartered a small vessel and sought you
here, and—” -

“ Your proof! your proof!” cried the Don,
amused thoroughly and believing yet doubting
the story. '

“ I am the proof, Don Ricardo."

“ You l”

“ I am Lucille, the wife of Revello, and if you
will go with me to where we can face him 1 will
prove all that I have said.”

Words are inadequate to picture the scenes
that followed this denouement of the young
stranger’s story.

It was indeed Lucille the buccaneer’s wife.

CHAPTER LIV.
naroun ALI. nounr. -

To the amazement and delightof Don Ricardo,
his daughter did not take the story of Lucille to
heartas dee ly as he had supposed and feared
that she won d.

She had listened to every word. drawing her
own conclusion as she heard, and long before
Lucille declared herself she knew that the speaker
was a woman, that she was telling the sad story
of her own life.

Her heart went forth to her in deepest sympa-
thy, and she felt for her the greatest gratitude or
having saved her from the fate of having been
bound to Rudolph Revello by a mod: marriage.

“ I can hardly believe it all,” said the Don,

sadl .

“I believe it, father, in every particular.”

“ There is no mistake,” answered Lucille.

“To think that after all he was a pirate.”

“ Would not one who denied/this dear Woman
as he did, be guilty of any other crime,
fat???" hild

‘ es m 0 es.
would)” y , y

“ Now, father, we must feel that he came
here for a purpose, when he came as the com-
panion of Bert'raudo, the Buccaneer.”

“ I cannot understand it. '

“Lady, I will now consider that Ineed no
lon er keep the secret imposed upon me, and
ma eknown to you of'ReVelln’t coming here
and what followed,” said Dan Ricardo. '

“Then, he has been here?” eagerly asked
Lupine. ”

I am sure that he

“ Since the wreck of his vessel!”

“ He has.”

“ Will you tell me of his coming?”

“ Yes, 1 will tell" you all.”

“ And if you know where he now is?”

“ I do not.” .

“ I should like to hear all, Don Ricardo.”

“ Yes, father, tell all of the story,” urged
Marcelite.

 

“ You shall bear and judge for yourself.

“ Perhaps, together, we can come.upon some
solution of his movements.”

Then Don Ricardo told the story of Bertran-
do’s coming with Revello, and what followed.

The fight with the pirates under Waldo, the
escape in the logger, all was told, and then they
talked over the matter seriously so as toflndv
some solution to just what it all meant!

“ Don Ricardo, it was Bertrando, the Bucca-
neer’s vessel that was the twin ship of Revello’s,
and so it was that the piratical acts of the Mex-
ican were thrown upon the pirate rover.

” I can tell you of Revello’s escape from crui-
sers, when he was almost beyond’ hope of escape,
by his daring and trickery. ‘-

“ He is a very wonderful man, one devoid of
honor, heart or feeling, and he is false alike to
God, woman and man.

“ He has deceived his Government and his
countrymen, and he now seeks to enter into a
mock marriage with your daughter, which,
however, happy am I that I am in time to pre-
vent.”

“ Yes, I can never forget you, never,” mur-
mured Marcelite.

“Nor I,” the Don said, with deepest feeling.

After a while ‘Don Ricardo asked: ,

“ Now, my dear senora, you have a very level
head’and brave nature, so what would you pro-

e?’

“To bring you face to face with Revello in

my )rcsence.” a
‘ ut then i”

“ lie must no longer be a disgrace to the coun-

try‘ lg?  pretended to serve.”
0

“Don Ricardo, that man must go to the yard-
arm for the crimes he has been guilty of.”

Both Don Ricardo and Marcelite started at
this, for it had not so come to them before.

“ You mean that he should be hanged?”

“ Why not, for is he not guilty of piracy?”

“ Well, I will not be a bar in the way when he
{sprgven guilty of the charge you make against

im.

“ But will you, unaided, and a woman, be able
to prove all?” asked Marcelite.

“Yes, for I can pilot those to his late island
retreat who can discover all for themselves, as,
if his crew are all dead, there are these there
who will know all and can be made toconfess
under the death penalty if they do not.

“ Then, too, there are others, the negress who
has my child, his child in keeping, and one other,
a young girl who was his prisoner, though she
wgslin male attire and supposed to be a lad the
w is.

“ I owe much to her of my'successful tracking
of Revello in his villainy.

“Ah, es, I can bring proof that he is all I
have so he is, and far more.”

” Then I will be guided by you, Senora Revello,
in What ‘you deem best to be done," said the

Don.

“ As I will,” added Marcelite.

0'“ Then go with me in my little vessel to Vera
ruz. '

' “ The craft is fleet, comfortable and well
fitted out for a cruise, so there is ample room
for you and what servants you care to have ac-
com ny you.

“ if you do this, Don Ricardo?” '

“ What do on say, my child l” and«%n
Ricardo turn to Marcelite as though fear 1
she might accept the ofler made by Lucille.

“1 will accept the invitation of Senora Re-
vello most gladly, father, for this matter must
now be sifted to the very drags,” was the reply.

“ Then the sooner we set sail the better, I take
it, for all concerned,” answered Lucille.

It having been agreed upon to sail in the
fittle craft to Vera Cruz. preparations were
quickly made and that night the vessel ran out
into the lagoon upon her voyage, which was to
be an eventful one.

 

CHAPTER LV.
'ro ESCAPE DEATH.

WHEN Captain Revello r0wed out to the hue-
cancer brig, flying the colors of his own vessel,
and which he had so well planned tocapture, he
was met, it will be recalled by the reader, by
none other than the pirate chief himself.

Not knowing that the Mexican cruiser had
gone down, the buccaneer had naturally sup-
posed that the vessel in port was the Rattle-
snake until at last he was undeceived and found
her to be none other than his own beautiful
craft the Ocean Rapier.

He had therefore decided upon the bold move
of boarding and cutting him out, for he realized
that Revello had run into port“ under false
colors. .

He reached his deck in safety, made himself
known to his men, as has been seen, and met
Reveilo and the boarding soldiers at the bul—
warks. - ‘

He did not wish to kill Revello, and so he was
allowed-to board and then brought down with a
stunning blow. '

, The soldiers, however, were hurledyback into ‘
the sea, the cable slipped and awaysped the

cruiser down the harbor and out to sea.

’Ma‘fi‘éa .~ ..

hf -.‘..'

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27 

 

 

She passed the San Juan de Uloa without the
slightest suspicion on the part of the officers of
the fact that she was other than the Mexican
cruiser Rattlesnake going hurriedly out to sea
again, from some nows gleaned in port that de-
manded it. '

Once he got the vessel well on her way, Ber-
trando had Revello placed in double irons and
carried to the cabin.

Then he devoted himself to caring for the
:safety of the brig.

But there was no danger, no demand to fight
of! a fee, or run the gantlet of the forts, so that
the buccaneer chief called his men about him
and glanced them over.

He had as his devoted officer the Senor Waldo
and one who had been left with the few men
whom Revello had ordered to remain on board.

The goleta in which they had reached Vera
Cruz had been left at anchor, crewless, and
hastily stripped of all that they had cared to
carry with them to the brig.

At last San Juan de Uloa was left astern, and
the chief ordered the prisoner brought on deck.

He had recovered from the stunning blow ho
had received, and glared savagely at Bertrando
.in the light of the early morn. _

“Well, Ca tain Revello, we meet again, do
we?” sneered rtrando.

“ It so appears,” w s the answer.

“ A‘nd this time I a the winner of the game
'we have been playing.”

“ Yes, you have me in your power.”

“ And I intend to put you to death by the
~cruelest torture.”

“ You will not surely show so little of man-
hood, pirate though you are, as to torture to
«leath one who is in your power?" said Revello.

“ I will do so."

“Shame on you! for, as man to man, you
should give me a chance for my life.”

“ Did you give me a chance when vou left me
in the power of Don Ricardo Castile?”

“ It was different, for you sought to destroy

dhe woman I loved, to rob her father of his‘

,Iriches.” ,

“ Did you show mercy to my men when you
‘ran my vessel in here, took them to the curcel
and then came back to board and seize the craft
with soldiers?”

.Revello was silent at this.

*‘ Answer me. I sayl Did you show mercy to
me or my men ?”

“ I am a Mexican officer, and as such it was
my duty to capture you, knowing you to be
pirates."

“ I tell you, Reyello, that you have been a
traitor to your Government, to your people, and
to all whom you have had to serve.

“ You became an officer of my vessel by a bold
stroke and you very nearly cost me my life, the
loss of my vowel, and the stringing-up to the
yard-arm of every man of my crew. .

“ But you were foiled, and now I say to you
that you are to die, and you shall die by a tor-
ture that will wring your heart and body with
anguish. -

“I Wilfgivs you to-day to make your peace
with Heaven, and this is showing tqyou a mercy
you do not deserve.

“ But you shall have the time I say, for I will

have to think umnst how to make you go out‘

of life with the greatest suffering.”

“ Monster!" shouted Revello, and Bertrando
the Buccaneer’s answer was a burst of derisive
laughter.

The men then removed the prisoner to the
cabin, and a guard was placed over him though
in irons.

At once Revello began his plot to save him-
self. so he said:

" See here, my man, don’t you know that as
.a “irate you will yet be strung up?”

I'm thinking that may be my end, senor.”

“ Have you saved up much gold i”

"‘ Only what you gave ‘me, senor, when you
were captain.” .

“Now, my man, I did not intend to sacrifice
one of you, for my plan with the conimandanto
at Vera Cruz, was to take the crew without
killing any one by entrapping then: in the car-
cel at the fort, and then securing those on
board. ’

“ This done you were all to be given your
freedom by the Government on condition that
you served me as a crew in the legitimate ser-
wice.

it Do you mt” . .

“ Yes, senor, l half-thought it was something
of the kind.” I

“ Now I want you to give up piracy and help
me out.

" The entire treasure of Bertrando the Bucca-
neer shall be divided amon you few men now
on the brig, if ou will he p me, and those in
the carcel shal have their pardon as well as
370“. though you only on board here who aid
me new will get the treasure on the brig.”

“ es, senor, it would be a snug fortune for
each one of us,” eagerly said the man. . '
‘ “ Well, think it over, and more, I Will add to
it every peso I possess to also go to you.”

“ Ab. senor.” ‘

"NO". When you are relieved from duty here
mkbgiut the man you believe will help me some

 

“ YesLsenor; but Captain Bertrandol”

“ What of him?"

“ He must not be carried back to be hanged,
for be its: been a good captain to us, senor."

“ it; if you feel that way about it, I will
let him 0 free, landing him at the nearest port
out of .exico.”

“ This will make the men feel better over
their actions senor.”

“ Well, tell them that he shall go free.”

“ And Senor Waldo and the other officers,
senor?”

“ Do you wish them to be set free?”

“ Yes, senor, for the Government will not
pardon the officers, you know.”

“ All right, I will set the officers ashore with
their chief."

.“ And all the treasure on the brig will be di-
vide; angong those who aid you?"
es

“ And your treasure will be thrown in also?"

“ Yes.’

“ Then, senor, you shall be a free man this
day,” was the answer of the guard, and Revello
smiled grimly at his triumph.

 

CHARTER LVI.

TEE uU'rINY.
' THE guard over Revello had greedin drank
in all the words of the prisoner.
. He had believed all that he- had said, and,
tired of piracy, and fearful of ending his life
upon the ga110ws, he was only too willing to
escape it, if along with it he could get a hand-
some sum in treasure. and not prove a. traitor to

" Bertrando and his officers by surrendering them
i with the vessel.

He now knew Revello as the commander of a
Mexican cruiser, and who had played a bold

i game to get possession of the buccaneei' vessel.

l
l
l
I

He was eager, therefore, to get off duty and
have a talk with those of his comrades whom he
could trust.

He felt very sure that there would be some

? who would side with the chief, but they must be

 

taken by surprise, and either slain or tossed into
the sea. and the more of them who were thus
gotten rid of the larger would be the share of
the faithful ones when the treasure was divided.

When relieved from duty at noon, the man
hastened to carry out his plan by making known
to the comrades he felt he could rely upon just
what the plot was.

He left Revello to corrupt the other guard as
best he could, and a signal had been agreed upon
between them whether he was successful
or not.

He had already unlocked the manacles of the
prisoner, and placed his weapons where he could
seize them the moment he decided to act. ‘

One by one the man went among his ship-
mates, and in each case he made a successful
hit for not one could refuse the tempting offer
of Revello under the circumstances.

There were upon the vessel, all told, just four-
teen seamen, with Bertrando, Revello, Waldo
and another officer.

Perhaps when the stand was made-there were
more who would join Revello, upon knowing the
situation; but Bertrando, Waldo, another officer
and several of the men were sure to hold out.

It allowed to go ashore at the nearest port out
of Mexico, the than might yield.

But then it mi lit and in a battle to the death
upon the deck 0 the brig. . ,

What Bertraudo was plotting meanwhile as
the means of torture to be used to at the ris-
oner to death no one knew; but a the a ter-
noon the weather became thick the clouds look-
ed black and threatening, and needing all his
men to work his vessel, he decided to put an end
to the prisoner. \

So he hailed the guard and told him to bring
Ca tain l'tevello on deck.

0 did so, but not as Bertrando had ex ted,
for suddenly Revello rushed upon dec , and
from his lips broke the cry: -

“ To the rescue, men, for pardon and treas-
urel”

It was the rallying cry of the mutineers
agreed upon, and instantly it was answered by
loud shouts.

. Revello was armed with cutlass and pistols,
and rushed toward Bertrando.

Though taken completely by surprise, Ber-
trando also gave a rallying cry, and instantly
his officers and half the crew sprung to his side,
and there they stood glaring at those who faced
them under the leadership of Revello, who
called out:

“ Come, men, it’s a pardon and division of
treasure if you side with me!”

“ Men, don’t turn traitor, but let us recapture
that dog of a Mexican, and those mutiheers who
have sided With him.

“ Come! see, there rushes a storm upon us, so
let us get rid of our work quickly, and then save
the brigl” -

The backers of Bertrando answered his words
with a yell, and all made a rush at Revello and
his men. '

The man had left the wheel and joined in the
combat, and the brig came to with a lot of can-
vas aloft, and a storm rushing down upon her.

 

But the blood of the pirates was up, and about
equally divided, they began to fight with des-
peration.

Nearer came the storm, until it struck the
brig savagely, tearing out her masts, and nearly
throwing her upon her beam-ends.

But still the maddened buccaneers fought on,
dying one by one, bleeding from wounds, and
unheedihg that their vesael was a wreck upon
the waters, wildly tossed about at the mercy of
the waves.

Did they waver upon either side for an
instant the master spirits that ruled them a sin
urged them on and it became indeed a batt e of
giants, a fl ht for the mastery betwmn Ber-
trando the uccaneer and Revello the Rover.

CHAPTER LVII.
CONCLUSION.

THE little vessel bearing on board Lucille
and her guests, Don Ricardo Csstile and his
daughter Marcelite, had been caught in a
severe blow soon after leaving the lagoon,
which had driven her for off her course.

It was the second day after the storm, and
while beating back on her course to Vera Cruz,
that the lookout aloft had startled all with the

cr :

‘3: Wreck be!”

At once every eye was strained to see the
wreck.

It was over two leagues away and that of a
large vessel.

As the vessel drew nearer it was seen to be
firmed, and that her masts had been torn out of

er.

There were large holes in her bulwarks, where
her guns had broken through, when she was
tossed about by the storm, and she appeared to
be settling very fast.

Suddenly a cry from Lucille starth all.

“ It is the brig!" she said.

“ What brig?’ eagerly asked Don Ricardo.

“ The buccaneer brig! ‘

” The craft of Bertrandol

“ The Ocean Rapier l” came reply.

The vessel was soon run alongside of the
wreck, for the sea was smooth now and only a
light breeze was blowing. ‘

What a sight presented itself to the gaze of
fiducille, Don Ricardo and Maroelite who board-

Tbere was no living soul on board.

But the dead were there, and they had died in
a last death-stmggle. -

Between the other dead lay two forms.

One was Revello the Rover, and his sword
was thrust into the heart of Bertrando the Buc-
caneer, the hilt still grasped in his dead hand.

In the grasp of Bertrando was a pistol from
which he had fired his last shot when he felt that
his time to die had come, and the bullet had
crashed into the brain of Revollo.

Thus each had died by the hand of the other. ’

It was a scene from which Don Ricardo quick-
ly led Marcelite, and from which he also turned
sick at heart. "

And not a moment too soon, for the wreck
gavea lurch, causing all to hasten back to the
little vessel, which at once fell 06 to preVent be-
ing) ingulfed by thesinking of tr 0 Ocean Ra ier.

no mighty plunge the wreck gave and own
she went forever beneath the blue waters of the

Gulf.

“ At last he is dead.

“ You are saved, Senorita Marcelite, mid I am
avenged,” said Lucille.

And back to the ranch sailed the Don and his
daughter, while Lucille went on to Vera Cruz
alone and got proof of all she had said; but as it 4
was best to let the dread secret of Revello's life
remain a secret still, it was kept from the public
eye, and those who learned of the wreck of his
own vessel, and how he had tried hard to capture
the buccaneer, gave him the name of a noble and
daring man, for the tale of the finding of the
Ocean Rapier a wreck had been told to the com-
mandanie in a -.letter from Don Ricardo which
Lucille had borne to him.

And Marcelite was content to live the life of a
recluse, happy alone in the love of the father
who loved her so well, and who mourned the
death of his brother as Bertrando the Buc-
caneer, a scourge of the Gulf in his fleet brig the
Ocean Rapier. ,

And the wife of Revello? When hér own eyes
had shown her that her buccaneer husband was
dead, she had gone back to New Orleans, and
soon after an elegant home went.up at Red Cliffs,
the home of her girlhood, and there she was con-
tent to pass the last years of her life, keeping
from her boy the dread secret that~ he was the
son of Revello the Rover, and whose inheritance
had been the pirate treasure hidden back in the
hills, and the secret hiding-place of which was
only known to Lucille, the bride of the merciless
Mexican.

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 KM Bandy, Dotectlw; or, Silver Star, tho Boy Knight.

. ‘8 Kit. Bondy ill Texan; or. The Young Mutongor.

.808 Kit llnmiy'o Catch; or, The Boy Hercules:
m Ki ‘llzht Bower; or, Bully Som.tha Boy Giant
44‘ K“; Bandy‘n swoop; «r, Littio Buckskin. lno Contour.
«4.28 Kit Randy's Slick Scheme; or,()ld Tom Rattior.
(L Deliverance; or, Bonner ilsn.

680 Kit Bondy’o Ford; or, Dm-nlleso Dan, the Freeioneo.
791 Kit Randy Rattled or, The lnlantb‘llult.

t. ilondy ill fled Ruin; or, The Young Whirlwind.
799 Bit, ilnndy’n ill: Rustic; or,Smldle King Sam.

it Bondv’o Brigade; or, lion, the Mountain Guido.
Kid Randy's Brigade In Arizona.

it Bundy’n Stur Engagement.

58 Jack Drew. the Nt‘lnooln. or, Eagle Kit the B0
Drop; or, Little Hurricane, the
02 Jack Drew In Deadwood; or, Prospect Pete.

‘ I? Keen Knife on Guard; or, Antelope Abe, tho Boy Guido.
( 81 Keen-Knife. tho Prince of tho l’rolrleo.

ogolpond Joe, the 's'oung “'andorlng Jow.

Lam Jilt‘k. lln- Young Mustnnzer.
‘ 58 The Border King: or. Tho Secret Re.
,1 Delaware Dick, tho Young Rumor Spy.

148 Bear-Face Saul. the Silent Hunter.
Solitary, the Hermit Trapper.
er Tom. the Texas Torrnr.

Dial. ; or, Trapper Tom’s C
It lo \ ildiil'e, the Young i’rnlrle N
he l'amn Hotel-tire; or The Little Rang».
348 The ill-culled Guide; or,
.00 Dore-Devil Dun, tho Young Prnlrlc Rougor.

.79 Mlnklldn Mike, tho Boy Sharpuhootor.

.990 Little Foxfire, tho Bo ' Spr, or, Old Cniob Am

Ill Joe, the Boy RKllCllEm.
409 hero-lien: “r, Dick, the Boy Rnnger.
417 Wehi’oot Mona. the Trump Detoctivo.
‘57 Wing-“foot Fred t or. Old Polor Soul.
9 Tamaroc Tom, the Big Trapper Boy.
all Bob, tho Boy Trojan.
ring Booil, the llrrmlt Boy Trap”
65$ lion liar-r, tho Pininl Freelnnco.
Nor 'ay Neio, the Big Bov Mountaineer.
h and Harry. the Wi'urd Riilomnn.
.9. Po or look, the Detoctlve Sport.

BY T. J. FLANAGAN.
idohipmon Dore. the Pirate Catcher.

owhoy Captain.
ohiprnen; or, 'l‘ho]Corooir—Clnoer'o First

"lid anon, tho Rumor.

 

BY DAN DUNNING.

'._,t Jack, the Secret Servlco Sp
no and Jack, the lnvlncihioo; o

"lo Girl Ferret.
898 Farrel. Fox‘o Sweep-Stokes.

Bl GEORGE C. JENKB.

Git Thor Owney tho Unknown.
Git Thor owney’o
3 The Demon Doctor; or, Doodhoid, the Kid Douctivo.
Curve Dan, the Pitcher Detective.

tao Singer Dotoctlvo; o
ltoher Doteotlve'o

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Owney in o New Role.

oil; or, Dan’o Dauhlo Ploy.
the: or. The LootOrnloo oiiho rtluh Door.
to Pitcher Detootivo’o To
.orry the Thoroughbred; or,
ron "and. tho Charmed Do I .
Unclo Bons’o Detective in Chko‘o.

BY WM. 0. PATTENo

tho Voivot Sport; or. Tho Jnhlloo oi Jultown
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$4 Violet Vone‘o less
80 Violot. Vono’o Ver lot; or, Tho Gsme s Conn City. ‘
4| Violet Vane, the Vontrll nhtl'ldocq: or, s
tho Vanquio od, or. Tho Life 1
inlet v... o Violon; or, Tho Flory Hand of sto.

or, Tho Donhlo Fm oi Bod Rock.

A

The Monond Sport

i re tho port irom Donor.

onobohell the Room Dotoctivo.

"s. Fern tho . an oi l‘iro: or, Among tho Vuitoroo.

Ive; or. Tho Douhlo Griletnooo
ord: or, Tho Ciao “"04”. CM

lid Vulcan, the Lotto-Rams Rldor.

14 Old liloory tho Mon from Miranurl.

, tho NovorSry-Dlo BM".
8. 8o!- Shoridon, "as ounthsogle. Spock'

Hobby Nat. tho Tendoriuot Dotoctlvo.
Sshor r Stoke‘oxllonblo Pool.

Spot. er Bob's Bowery Rocket.
BY comma. BELLE IARL' .

Lion oftho Soot or, The Voliod My.
Boo-0nd; or. Tho Gonhlor’o Bil Gallo.

BY CAPTAIN FRED. wm'r'ram

Tho BoooCat; or. 'l'ho Witch oi Dorian.
r, Tho Don’s Donghtor.

Lam: or. Tho Chlldron oitho Chow.

Snot-d Ills-tent or. Tho Loud oitho l ill“!!!

50 The Loot 0a tolls: or, Skippor John Cofln'o loo.
oolnor or, Tho Brothoro oi tho Pin-Dd inoo

tho Rohhor of tho Rhino.

9 Milo Rooter tho Animal Klng; or, Round tho Wofld.

ho Looguo oitho Junglo.

:I The nnsnlo P

“I The Tlfior
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ornio Joo’o War Troll.
BY CAPT. J. F. C. ADAMI.

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in Tho anio oi Death.
The: White ndlnn l or, Tho Scout oit o Yoilm
’o Cabin; or, The Groonhorn in tho Woodo.
Lit.“ I. «'0, tho Terror oi tho Prolrlo.
Buck Bnokrola: or, Boll, the Fomolo 1'
nd llio Petot or, 'l'ho Wu
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BY T. C. IIARBA‘UGII.

‘8 Nick 0' the Night: or. Th» Boy Spy oi ’16.
87 The Hidden Lodge; or The Littlv Huntor.
47 Nightln ole NM.- nr, 'l‘no ForestCn tnllll.
64.]lnnd ' ui-k; or, This Outlaw: of the )rogon Trail.
89 Kit I nrefoot. tho Wood-Howl; or, Old Powder-ion
94 M lclnlght Jot-l. ° or, The Boy Trapper.
106 illd Fronty, the (wide; or, The White Queen.
123 Kiowa orley the White Must-mg".
189 Jun! (5 .jm-h Jr.t or. The Bo ' Vigilante.
155 (lull, Tri. or, the Sr: rl; or, T «9 Girl Avenger.
169 Tornado 1 om t or, njnn Jnrk Frmn Rvd Core.
188 Ned Temple, the. Unrtlt-r Boy; or, The Mad Hunter.
198 Arkanfinw; (.r. The Quw-n oi Fate’s Revenge.
20? Navajo Nick, the Boy Gold Hunter.
815 Cnptnin Bullet; «r, Little Tor-linot's Crusade.
Elli l'luoky l’llll: or. Rmos, the Rm Jezebel.
94] lllll liruvu: hr, The Rhugho of tho Rodd".
255 Contain Apoli‘ , tun King-Pin mi llowle.
367 The liur-knkln Detective: or. The- Klng oi Rood-agonto.
279 (lid “'ilu-h; or, ‘Tllo ilur‘xnkin Desperado“.
294 Dynamite "an: or. Thu Bowie Blade of ‘lnchoitjm.
802 The Mountain Hotel-live: or, The Tr “a [in Bully.
818 Old Ecllpno, Trump Card of Arizona.
826 The Ten i'nrdo: -~rY The 'i'erroroiTuko-Notlzo.
386 “ll newton: or, The Queen of the Loan.
845 l’ltlleu Matt; 0'. lied 'l'lluruierholl’n Secret.
35')“ Omsl \nm mul I’nw‘x o- The'l'orrlbie Six.
$66 Velvet. Foot. tho lruliuh ill-union.
8"“ Captain (‘utlaonx or. ’ he B ccuneer’r Girl Foo.
396 Rough llohi or, ’l‘lm lwin Champions oi Blue Biol”.
4" The fillken mono: or, The Rose c Rnnch Robin.
4!!! Felix Fox. the Buy Shatter; nr,’i'ho Gold Gang oiNew Yo..\
25 'l‘oxno 'l'rump. tho Burner Rattler.
436 Phil Flu-n, lilo New Tori: Fox; or.Tlle hlyrtoryoi Room 91.
‘45 The (‘Ity Vumnlroot or. lied lloii’e's Pip-on.
46] ""e A “Innt Flfiyi or. The llnlt Man of Keno Bll’.
470 The lfily fihntlnw: or, Felix Fox’s Hunt.
477 The Exocinior h‘portx or, The Wuhington Spotter.
499 ilngie Night, the (inn-Eyed Sport.
llrnndeli lieu, tho Night Ferret.
'lodker ilk-k. tho Wham-Spy Detective.
lodzcr lllok’o tier-t Dodge; or, The Goth-m Gold Gang.
5% Fox and ‘uloon, the lloweryshadows.
Dodger ink; the Dock Ferrot.
losixer lliok a Double: or. The Rival Boy Dctoctivoo.
'Dodu-r lllck'o Doom-rate Cube.
568 Dodger Dink. thl- ilny Vida-q, or. The Gnngoi'l‘hroo.
578 The Two Shadowing or, Dodger Dick’s Slap Gould.
538 Dodger llir-k’l "row or, Th» Man from Janey.
594 Little Lon. the Slrretafii er Detective.
610 (Did Skinner, the Gold . lurk; or Tony Shorp on Guard.
09‘ The Champion Par-do: or.The Lucilor oi Silver Bor.
637 Dick "mm. the Dock Boy Detective.
845 Hit the l‘nvem‘bnt Sharn.
653 Billy Bantam. ow, an Bowie.
6?] Jersey Jed, the iloy Hustler; or. Shadowing tho Shadow".
“5 Happy "u is tho Boy Musician brutal”.
1 Photo mph i‘rod. the Camera i‘lhnr .
715 Wide wake lion. the lekrr City orrot.
739 llnl-y Doll, the l‘nvvlllellt Detective: or, Trapping Big Game.
743 Billy “’lnka, the Bull Boy Duloctlve.
754 Billy “'inkl, the Born Boy Shadow. '
763 Eng (5 Ned, tho Boy on Gunrd'. or, The Comp Spldorn.
7H0 Tonknway Tom. the Red Wizsrd
881 The Bantam Sport.
84% (flip. the Battery Ferret; or, one-coon: tool Ploy
89? Davy lloon'l Big Bounce.
906 llnndv Nugget, the Ru" Shadow. 'g
981 The noy trons Denver.

in CHARLES MORRIS.

18 Will Homers», the Boy Doloctlvo.
9. Phil llord , the Boot; "My.
96 l'ioayune 'otcx or, Nirodemnl, tho Do. Doha“
80 Detective Dick: or, Tho Hero In Ms.
D llomloomo llarry, tho Booihiorl Dotoctlvo.
.7 “'ill Wildilro, tho Thorou hhrod.
5. lilock'lleu, “'Ill “'iidiire I Hour.
5? . lite lorry the Harbor Poiloo Boy.
3: mill him." i" inhhlllfiii.
1 on ogo. t o ro .
70 A T Earth or, Will “'iidtlyro Wino and la.
17‘ “oh Iloo kett: or, My-torioo of Now York.

 

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lgil Bob lloc lot the Bonk Runner.
1 S Tho llidd enhand or, Will Wildflro’s Rowan.
181’ Fred Ilo yo , tho iio Boot Darvon Tho 3mm

189 Bolt Roe item or. on... to the ll .11.
I96 Ilhodowod or, Bob Rochott‘o Fight for Mifi
306 Dark Pan . tho Tiger King.
ll. ilaohing Dove. tho Dood Doioctlvo.

l‘ Tnlcrt or, The B rick Shoop oi tho M

m ' osn

8.5 llosn Charcoal tho Promlum rlry.

'85 llhadow Born tho Meooon'or Boy.

“I ' ‘ho Two “ Ill oodo ”; or. Shorts dooh Bill ood Iii-Gong.
0” Dick aohowoyx or, A Dalton y In Chlta .

.0. ' "ho onng Bhorpo; or . Rollicllln. Mlhl's ll?» M
on o oily Jinn; «h.- Detoctlvo Ar notice.

.89 . olly «II— o Join or, Tho oung Dow-tho.

.98 'll‘he Wotor-llonnd: or. Tho Ynnnx Thorouohvrod.
.05 “boob-away. of Dakota: or. A Wootorn Lsd Io Qouor My.
.94 Ralph Ready, tho Hutol Boy Dotoctivo.
841 Tony Thorno. tho Vagabond Dotoctivo.
“I The Reporter-Bowen”; or, Frod Fly-m Mimi.
IO? Wide-Awake Joe; or. A gay ni‘tho Timon.
I79 Lorr . the Love rt or. Tho Bloods oi tho Boniovoro.
“8 rm yJaok. tho lvor—Ratllotottivo.
The Loot Finger-t or. The Entroppod Coshior.

428 Fred Fiyer. the Report" Detective.
488 invincible Loo-n. the Pinth Form»-
:‘0 Bill Brick. tho Jolly Vagabond.

(to WI e-Awo 0 Jerry, Domtlvo: or Enlmnhod Ailvo.

9 lllrtootivo Dod or or. Tho Mvstorv oi Front Hearty.

lNild lliok Roe on or, How He Fought for Honor.
501 lilooto. the Boy Firemnn I or. TM Sharp in tho Show
non 'l‘he Secret. ’orvice llov Detective.
MM .llrnrn tho Kid or. A numb Amen! Wolvoo.
027 'l‘orn ruce oi rkononol or. The Woliin tho Fold.
3int-.le Paul, the Boy Speculator.
lob‘ and Ram, tho Daisy Drifr lvoo.
09 The (‘urhotono Detective: or. Horry Holo’s Big Boat.

5? leteotlvo Fronk'o Bweop-otakoo.
S69 Ned Norman. the Comin Broker.
881 Turkei Billy. the Slulneo’vm-up Detective.
911 Flull lghtning, tho Mountnln Mnocot.

BY ALllERT W. AIKEN.

ii The Two Deter-liven: or, Tho Fortonos oio Bowory Girl.
76 Abe Colt. the Crnw-Kllior.
79 lol Ginger, tho Ginnt Tro per.
III Joe [luck of Angel! on "in Boy Pord.
44? New York 'Nat. A Tnio oi'l‘rioks and Tropo in Colhn.’
458 New En land Nick; or.1‘h« Fortunoo oio’ooodliu.
‘04 Nimble iok, tho Circus Princo.
O98 'l‘aoo Tod. tno Arloonn S ort.
:10 Cool Colorado. tho Hol -Breod Doteotivs.
18 Cool Colorado in New York: or, The (‘Jowhny's m

BY CAPT. ALFRED B. TAYLOR (j. I. A.

191 Bololo Bill . tho Boy Buliwhoohn
9‘ Bnlolo Bill Beta or. Tho (la-blot GINO.

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BY J. W. 0580!.

“9 The ilivol Giant. ofNo‘hor'.

498 (laetuo Burr, tho Mon from Hard inch.

587 old llucke"e. tho Sierra Shuiow.

564 Powder l'i’ul, m. Boy Minor. mmnnwlooaor a
600 Holly Dorrit, tho Rotor-n Detoctive. '
020 Little Lifihtnlnf’o Leone: or. The Immortal“. i
688 l'lnoky an], t e an Proopoctor.

751 Gold-Dust Dan, lheTroii Patrol.

T55 Gold Dun-t llan‘u (lath: onliecll. Bog.th¢

938 Gold-Dust Dan‘s Snap-Shot.

BY JilSEi’ll E. RAINIER. In.

I Yellowstone Jack; or, Tho Tra r.

48 Black John, the Road-Aunt; or. e Gull-5w

66 Hurricane Bill; 0r, Mllltnnz Sun ond lilo Pond.
119 Mnotonf Saln or,The King of tho Ploins.

uw Ii 'it: M, The Doughtor oi tho Boog\

1 ointy Lam-e the Boy Sport.
151 l’anthrr Paul; or, Dninty Lonco to the Roocuo.
180 The Black Giant: or, Dainty Lane. in Joopordy.
168 Deadly llaoh‘ or, Fighting Fire with Firo.

84 The Boy Tra lens; or, Dnlnty Lona on tho WJ-m
208 The Bo Pardo: or. Dainty Lonco Uumuko.

Ill Crook . Cole, tho Caliban or' Coioltloi City.
Ill) The linrram-a W olf; or, The Booutliul Doeny.
819 The “look Rider; or,Tho iloroo-Thlovoo’lm
885 Old Double Fit-t. or, The Strong Guido
855 The King oi‘tiu- and!" or Dnnloi Boom'll‘u
“9 Kit. Fox. tho Bordor Bo - Detoctlvo.
625 Chim-apin “an, the oy Troi r.
677 Chinonpin Dnn'o Second Tro .
638 (‘hincopin Dnn’n Home Stretch.
69H illd Crazy, tlu- Mnn Withonts flood.
70!“ nght-"r-nrt l.utr’n Leona-y.
Till Light-lionrt- Lntc’o Loot rail.
723 Silvv-rhlsulo, the Shoshone.
729 Silverhlade, the Half-Blood; or, The Bordor o.-
789 Sliverlriade, tho Hootile', or, The Bordor Bagio’a
748 Silver-blade tho Friendly; or, The Border Booglo’olyu

BY C. DUNNING CLARK.

1'5 Captain Paul: or, The Boy Sp v oitho Mountains.
.80 The Yankee Rajah; or. The Ito oi tho Block H

BY LIEUT. II. D. PERRY. U. B. N.

116 The Boy Runaway; or The Bucconeor oi tho~.
180 The Sea Trailer: or, A ’Vow Woli Kept.
l9. Contain Kit; or, The Mystery of Montoch m '

llY JACK FARRAGUT. r

.15 Nod. the Cobln Boy; or, The Witch oi tho M
3.0 The Sea Sorcereoox or, ’l‘ho Boy Silppor. ‘

BY CAPTAIN MAYNE REID. 1
78 Blue Dick or, Tho Yellow Chloi’s Vongoonco. ’
8‘! The Land l’iroteo or, The Losguo oiDovil'o lol‘,
I? The llel looo lion : or, Bockwoodo trihnIoo.
“9 The Col ooecker Guide! or. ‘l‘ho Loot I

BY BRACEBRIDGE llEMYNC.
89 Inland Jim: or. Tho Pot of tho P‘nmilgI
i9] The Captain of the Clnbt 9r. Tho vol All“ ‘,
101 Jack ilarhowoy in New ‘ ark. -
IIICELLANEOUI AUTHORS. ‘
4 The Wild-lloroe Huntero. By Coot. “no 'fi
Mulch Whittohor.
O Advent-rm of Baron Munch-Ion.
1. Cnlliver’o Travolo. By Don Swift.
14 Aloddin: :r. Tho Wondoriul 
10 Robinson Crusoe. (91lllustrot oos.)

18 Blndhad t he Bollor. ills sans Vo
I. The Goo Berpcntt or,‘l‘hs Boy Wooster-on. I1 1-

Lowio.
u The Ocean liloodhonndt or, Tho lo! M oi tho
Cardin". B I.W.Ploroo.
I. Tho Boy (ilown; or. Tho Aron Qnooo. By I Ilka.
.8 Ned Wyide. tho Boy Scoot. By Tona- look.
.1 The Boy “floor or. Tho Uolo¥rooad Coup. Iy A.C.lrooo
95 The Rivol Rovolr'os or. Tho roohootooo oitho I”

By Mono-Col. Haoo t no.
98 Robin Hood. tho own-u lorl: or,‘l'ho lion, loo oi Ono-F
wood. 3 Protfllldorolom.
10‘ Old Rn . tho Huntor: 07,11" Crow Good". Dyco'hb
Hamilton Hoimos.
1“ Mod Ill-tori or. 'lhoCovo «booth. Iy I'M-Io-
!” annoy. the Toxont or. Tho Young Chonploa. Dy Goa-
ooonn.
1.8 Tile l; wrivokon ".11.. Pinto'o Noll. I.
my ov .
148 Sharp GonzL-onj’ho Advoohrold o m " u 1»
‘ . or. rs. o..- W «to. 1.5
or r "r" ""th aura‘ hr o, o 1......
2 cor-on ow . .
“0 Kill a-r. the fin es 1r, Dory Cnohott‘otodol 1h"
Dy In C. Dr Worron.
.08 Rod (all... the Ono-l5“ Tron-r. can. “do. coo
‘l'horIo.
m o y Memva' or, A Boy's“ ior Mad“...
3 Motor Mkloy Froo

85. ed Ralph. the inn.» Rover: «.15. W I.

no Fl". 3’ 'lih'iliréoomm Dotoetlvo s. p I...
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874 953.333 Toe-3 or. M's Doohlo latch. C I. Inn.

816 California Joe'o Firot Trail. Dy 1 Tho-I

Ho or Monstory. -
 grilly'amfimu. «3'0ng (tuna: to. m
e no . o a
m Colnonoho their" and m. Throo ruinous. Dy
Hoary .Thomao.
uo Tho Cowbo Dnito. Dy Edwin Broohol‘ornot.
:2: on w  t; “r” . ..
ate tovom.v.o.
«II Tho Bead muoflvo’o Donhle. 3! lie-Ion.
"l aneriek Mot-“0“ tho Arlrooo Dotoctlve; 07.1% 'ud

Urhoo Pol-o. By ll Lioonhoo. .
809 Don Dantonr the Grant from Donm. By Klonlungd.’
514 A. "ti silk???“ n r u ByGE 1n...
vex. arm oeovr. -
880 The, Grim Indoor-o in For Ailey; 0!. Cithon M
of Numho-r Sat-n. By Ben D. Hallldov.
“81 The Chioogo llrl'lrnsner’o Deni. By 1.9.3“
841 Prince Charlie, the (‘at’o- Pow Inert. by M-

(In o Dov,
801 Billy Brine. tho Swamp For. liy Choo. F.
879 llluo-llght lllli, tho Sspnhm Sport: or.'l‘ho p
five’o Lone Hand. By King Koono.
A New loono Every Tneaday

no Half-Dino Lihrory is tor solo by .n
ooatoyor oqry,oroout by nail on Moldova.

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True Manhood, I
"The Mystery of Life,
The Ups and Downs,
The Truly Great,
8813; Retiring and Ris'g,
A. ard's Oratiou,
'True Nationality,
’Our Natal Day,
lfcrino.

ntelliqenco the Basis of

he War, [Liberty
. hargo of Light Brigade,
After the Battle,
{The Glass Railroad,
(Jase of Mr. Macbeth,
Prof. on l‘hrenology,
Annabel Lee.
Washington‘s Name,
The Sailor Boy‘s Syren,

Dime National
Union and its Results,
()ur Country‘s Future,
The Statesman’s Labors,
'l'rue Immortality,

Let the Childless Weep,
gur Country's Glory,
nion a Household,

Inde .ndence Bell,
The -holar’s Dignity,
The Cycles of Progress,
A Christmas Chant, .
Stability of Christianity,
".l‘he True Higher Law,

6 One Great Need,

Ship and the Bird,

ecumseh‘s Speech, I
IBrritorial Expansion, i
rtha Hopkins, {

Bashful Man‘s Story, i

Matter-of—Fact_Man,

°h “WEB

e pse,

midget; of the Law,
Be—lang! Git U9,
The Rate of Life,
Creownlng Glory of U. 8.,
Three Fools,
thington,

ur Great Inheritance,

ulogy on Henry Clay,

l Dime Patriotic

merica to the World,

ve of Country,
Mht of Self~Preserva-
Cur Cause, ition,
A Kentuckian's ap
Kentucky Steadfas ,
Tlmidlty is Treason,
Ilhe Alarum,
é Ti] 15, 1861,

» e S irit of ‘61,

The I’iiecious Heritage,
The Irish Element,
Train‘s S ch,
Christy‘s peech,
Let Me Along},e L
Briga ~icr- nera
The Bligh,
Union Square Speeches,
The Union.
Our Countr ’5 Call.
The Story 0 an Oak Tree,
Log On My Leg,

 

 

Dime Comic Speaker, No. 4,

on the War, '
Considered,

Egbggn ly

The United States,
‘Brfl's Acc’t of lmaelf,
,fiacttigal “hmnology,

' r

age.
reeable P00
is a Margins:
Ms,

 

. Gates of Sleep,

Speaker, N o. 1,

J. Jcboom‘s Oration,

A Dutch Cure,

The Weather,

The, Heated Term,

I’hiloso )h)’ A )plied,

An Oldlllall ~ ,

Penny Wise, Pound Fool-

'I‘ruc Cleanliness, I Iish.

Sat'd‘y Night’s EnJoy ’ts,

“ In a Just Cause,“

No Peace with Oppres-
sion,

A Tale of a Mouse,

A Thanksgiving: Serm’on,

The Cost of Riches,

Great Lives im erishable

The Prophecy or the Y’r

Unfinished Problems,

Ilonor to the. Dead,

Immortality of Patriots,

Webster‘s I’olit‘l System,

A Vision in the Forum,

The Press,

Woman‘s Rights,

Right of the Governed,

My Ladder,

\V oman,

Alone,

The Rebellion of 1831,

Disunion.

Speaker, N o. 2.

Ohio,
OLchr Hazaid Perry,
Our Domain,
Svstcms of Belief,
The Indian Chief,
The Independent Farmer ,
Mrs. Grammar‘s Ball,
How the Money Comes, ‘
Futuil-e of tlie‘Fa'tshious, 3
Loya ty to i )e y, '
Our Country First, Cast,
and Always, '
British Influence,
Defense of Jefferson,
National Hatreds,
Murder Will Out,
Strive for the Best,
Earlv Rising,
Deeds of Kindness,

 

The Bugle.

A Hoodish Gem,

Purity of the. Struggle,
Old Age, '
Beautiful and True

The Worm of the Still,
Man and the Infinite,
Lan uage of the Eagle,
Was iington, o

The Deluge.

Speaker, No. 8.

Histo of Our Fl

T. F. eagher‘s Aagdress,

go Gite t3! the Union,
'uco n’s

Last Speech 0? Stephen
A. Douglas,

Great Bell Roland,

'lt‘he New Year and the
in Cotton, [Unlom

Bat e Anthem,

The Ends ot.’ Peace,

Freedom the Watohword

Crisis of Our Nation,

But of Christian Pa-
ti ots, ‘

Turkey Dan ’s nration,

A Fearless Plea,

The Onus of Slavery,

A Foreigncr’s Tribute,

The Little Zouave,

Catholic Cathedral,

The “Speculators. ’

A Song of Woe,
Ward's Trip to Richm'd,

Paroiiiy,

The ountebank,
Compound Interest,

A Sermon on the Feet,
Old DfiJock,

The F‘ es‘ Toilet,

Brian O‘Linn,

Crockett to Where
Who Is My Opponent?
Pohtleal Stump B h,
Cunic Grammar go. 2,
Farewell to the Dottie,
The Cork Log,

The Smack in School
Slick‘s Definition of Wife,
Tale of a Hat,

The Debating Club,
A Dutch Sermon,
Lecture on Locomotion,
Mrs ‘budlc on Umbr’lla. l

 

SEC. lI.

SEC. III. Tm; COMPONENT ELEMENTS or Ah

 

Dime Elocutionist, No. 5.

SEC. I. PRINCIPLES or Tans Echunon.—Faults

in Enunciation; How to Avoid Them. Special Rules
and Observations.

THE ART or Om'ronv. Sheridan‘s List of
the Passions: Tranquillity, Cheerfulness, Mirth,
Raillery, But'foonery, Joy, Delight. Gravity. In-
uiry, Attention, Modesty, Perplexity, Pity, Grief,
lclancholy, Despair. Fear. Shame, Remorse,
Courage, Boasting, Pride, Obstinacy, Authority,
Commanding, Forbidding, Affirming, Denying,
Difference, Agreeing, Exhortiug, Judging, Approv-
ing, Acquittinr, Comb-inning. Teaching, Pardon
ilg, Arguintr, ismissing. Refusing, Granting, De-
pendence, Veneration, Hope, Desire, Love, Re
speet. Giving, Wonder, Admiratiou, Gratitude, (‘u
rlosity, Persuasicx‘, Tempting. Promising, M‘fecta-
tion, Sloth, Intoxication, Anger, etc.
ORA
TI(.\N.-—RuleS of Com osition as applied to Words
and Phrases, \‘iz.: ’nrity, l'ropriety, Precision.
As applied to Sentences, viz.: Length of Sentence,
Clearness, Unity, Strength. Figures of Speech: the
Exordium, the Narration, the Prolmsition, the
Confirmation, the Refutation, the Perorution.

SEC. IV. REPRESENTATIVE Exsncxsss IN Pnosn AND

Vulcan—Transition; A Plea for the Ox; Falstat’f's
Soliloquy on Honor; the Burial of Lincoln; the
Call and Response; the Bayonet Charge; Histor '
ofa Life; the Bu lo; the Bells; Byron; Macbeth
and the Dagger anilet‘s Solilo< uy; Old Things;

Look Upward; king William Ru us; the Eye; an
Essa Onto Musik; Discoveries of Galileo. .
SEC. V. OBSERVATIONS or Goon AUTHORITIES.

Dime Humorous Speaker. No. 8.

A Sad Storfy,
A String,r o Onions,

; A Tragic Story,
, Cats,

Courtship,
ebt
Devi s
Dow, Jr. ’s Lectures,
Ego and Echo
Fashionable Women,
Fern Thistlos,
Geod'Nature,
Gottiieb Klobcyergoss
Schlaekenlichter‘s sna e,
Hosea Biglow's O )inions,
How the Money oes,
Hul-ki-do-ri’s Fourth of
July Oratlon,
If you Mean No, Say No.
J o ‘Bows on Leap Year,
Lay of the Heurecked,
Lot Skinner’s E cg ,
Matrimony,
Nothing to Do
Old Caudle‘s Umbrella,
Old Grimes’s Son,

Paddle Your Own Canoe,
Parody on “ Araby’s
Daughter,”

Dime Standard
The World We Live In,
Woman's Claimfi
Authors of our berty,
The Real Confluemr,

The Citizen’s eritage,

Italy

The Mechanic,

Nature and N alure’s God

The Modern Good, [Sun,

Ossian's Addrem to the
ndence Bell—1777,

The eck,

F0 Thou hts,

The dies‘ an,

Life,

The Idler,

The Unbeliever,

The Two Lives,

The True Scholar,

Judges not Infallible,

Fanatlctsm,

Instability of Successful
Agriculture, [Ci-line,
Ireland,

The Pee 0 Always Con-
Music of fibOl‘, [quer,
Prussia and Austria,
Wishing,

Poetry Run Mad,

Right Names, ,

Scientific Lectures,

The. Ager,

The Cockney,

The Codflsh,

Fate of Sergeant Thin,

The Features’ Quarrel,

Hamel-lean Voodchuck,

The Harp of a Thousand
Strings,

The Last of the Sax-pints,

The March to Moscow,

The Mysterious Guest,

‘ The Pum

The Sea-g6; at

The Secret,rpe ’

The Shoemaker,

The Useful Doctor,

The Waterfall

To the Bachelor's“ Union

Leggue,

Unit States Presidents,

Vagaries of Popping the
Question,

What I Wouldn’t Be,

Yankee Doodle Aladdin,

1Z63thoskcetare,

Speaker, No; '7.
John Burns Gett sh ,
No Sect in email, us
Miss Prude‘s Tea-Party,
The Power of an Idea, .
The Beneflcenoe of the
Suffrage, , [
Dream of the Revelers,
HowCyrus Laid the Cable
The Prettiest Hand,
Paradoxical,

Little Jerry, the Miller,
The Blarney Stone,

The Student of Bonn
The Broken Household,
The Bible,

The Purse and the Sword
’i‘" Cii‘m’ib

‘ rue ora our-age.
What is War?

The c ,

The Pin and Needle,
The Modern Purita

1m mortality of thelSoul,
Occu atlon,

Hero am and During,

A Shot at the Decanter.

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Dime Stump Speaker, No. 8.

Hon. J. M. Stubbs‘ Views
on the Situation,
as Schwackheimer on
Women's Sufl'mge,
All for a Nomination

Old Ocean, a,
The the Sea. the
Star angled ner,

STI-
Stay Where You Belon ,
Life‘s What You Make t,
Where’s My Money,
from Conscience,
n’s Beiatton to Society

 

The Limits to Ea pine“,
Good-nature a Blessing,
Sermon from Hard-shell
Toil-enders, Baptist,
The Value of Money,
Meteorlc Disqulsltlc-n,

Be Sure You are Right,
Rogue! Good Cheer

Taming a Masculine
Farmers, [Our Country
The True Greatness o
The Cold-water Man,

Permanency of States,

Liberty of Speech,

New England and Union,

g The Unseen Battlefield,

Plea for the Republic,

America, (Fallacy,

“Right, of Secession“ a

Life‘s Sunset,

Human Nature,

Lawyers,

Wrongs of the Indians,

A pea] in behalf of Am.
iseriesof War,[Liberty,

A Lay Sermon,

A Dream,

Dime Juvenile
A Boy‘s Philosophy,
Hoe Out Your Row,
Six-Year—Old‘s Protest,
The Suicidal Cat,
. A Yuletlictiou,
l Popping Corn,
" The Editor,
The Same. in rhyme,
The, Fairy Shoemaker,
What Was Learned,
Press On.
The Horse,
The Snake in the Grass,
Tale of the Tropics,
Bromley’s Speech,
The Same, second extract
The Fisher‘s Child.
Shaks warian Scholar.
A Mail en‘s Psalm of Life,
A Mixture,
Plea for Skates,
Playing Ball,
Ah, Why
Live for Something,‘
Lay of the Hen-Pecked,
The Outside Dog,
Wolf and Lamb,
you in Love, Kl
rogs Askin for a ’ ,
Sick Lion, g “g
Country and Town It---e,
Man and Woman,
Home,
The LotusPlanter,
Little Things.
A Baby‘s Soliloquy,
ReFentance
~ lea for
Humbug Pat oflsm,
Night A ter Christmas.
Short Legs,
Shrimps on Amusements,

 

Ben Buster‘s Oration,
Hans Yon Spiegel‘s 4th,

Josh Billia ’8 Advice,
A Hard-she Sermon,
The Boots, -

The Squeezer,
Noah and the Devil,
A Lover's Luck
Hitaiuhin Adol us,
Digestion and aradise,
Distinction’s Disadvant—
Smith, [ages
Guahalina Bendibus,
A Stock of Notions,
Speaking for the Sheriff,
Daking a Bhweat,
Then and Now
Josh Mir ’8 Loam-mg,
Doctor De lister's Ann t,
Co meats,
gardB ms, 8

an ryant’s pooch,
A Colored View,
Original Maud Muller,
Nobody
Train of Circumstances,
Good Advice

L—Dm-mto Socxm.
Its Ofilce and Usefulnes.
Formation of,
Constitution of,
By-sts of,

Rules of Government.
Local R of Order,
Local Rules of Debate,
Subjects of Discussion.
n.—How To Dan's.
Why there are few good
7

P pm to Oratori-

Maxims to 0
The Preliminabgygml’remke,

Order of Argument.
Summary.

 

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Astronomical,

The Moon, [was
Duties of American Citi
The Man,
Temptations of Cities,
Broken Resolutions,
There is no Death.

Races,

A Ih'uitful Discourse, I
A Frenchman‘s Dinnern
Unjust National Acqui‘n
The Amateur Coachman.
John Thompson‘s Dau‘x
House Cleaning,

It Is Not Your Dishes.

Speaker, No. 9.

g How the Raven 560KB!
‘ Black,
I A Mother’s Work,
; The Same,
; “’ho Rules,
: A Sheep Story,
A-Litllc Correspondent, _
, One Good Turn Deservd

 

 

My Dream, lAnothor,
RainJ
I‘ll hover Use Tobaccq

A Mosaic,

' The Old Bachelor.
Prayer to Light

‘I Little Jim, ,
Angelina’s Lament,

Jlobnny Shrimps on 800'

n e. ',

Choice of Hours

. Poor Richard‘s S21 'ng'q

Who Killed Tom per.
Nothing to Do

Honesty Best Policy.
Heaven,

Ho for the Fields,
Fashion on the Brain.
On Shanth
A Smile,
HGasabitmai.in so
out t (3 up.

hose and Eyes,
Mala [Como
A undred Years t
The Madman and he
Little Sermons,
gauges cameotncity,

8 \VO  l
The Ooea 1 Storm,
Do 'I'liy‘Little—Do nwd
Little ms,
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Drum-head Sermons, c‘
chhfnmerl‘snfghm’

“ ornan's '

Luke Lather,

'1“ Ancient

Jacob Whittle's

Jerks Prognos '

A Word With fiiooks,

Sut Love

Ii :‘iiumlle 1m 32' sum
0 ‘ on

11 Trovatore,

Kissing in the Sta-ea."

Scandalous,

sugh& Mixed,

The ce—seeko"

avid Bachelors,

 

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994 Buffalo Bill‘s Lone Hand.

98931101110 Bill’s Marked Bullet.

m4 Buflalo Bill‘.: Life Radio.

979 Buflalo Bill’s Relentless Trail.

£64- Buffa'o Bi.l‘s Invincibles.

5960 Buffalo Bill's blue Belt Bri ado. ,

Q56 Biffalc Bill’s VolunteerVig antes.

3950 Buffalo Bill at Bav.

w: Burran Bill's Block Game.

~996 Bridal.) Bills Buick Paul.

927 Buflalo Bill’s Blufi'; or, Dus Dick the Snort.

921 Bdflalo Bill‘s uandary: or, elvet Bill's Vow.
Buflalo Bill the Surgeon-Scout.
Buflalo Bill’s League; or, Red Butterfly.
Buffalo Bill‘s Tangled Trail.
Buffalo Bill's Rough Riders.

895 Buflalo Bill’s Secret Ally.

890 Buil‘alo Bill's Lite-Stake.

882 The Three Bills: Buflalo Bill Wild Bill and Band-
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874 Buflalo ill‘s Buckskin Braves.

‘869 Buffalo Bill‘s Road-Agent Round-up.

863 Buflalo Bill’s Dec. h Charm.

:857 Buffalo Bill's Royal Flush.

851 Buffalo Bill‘s Double Dilemma.

845 Buffalo Bill‘s Redskin Ruse.

830 Bufl‘alo Bill‘s Bovsin Blue.

826 Buflalo Bill’s Sha Shooters.

822 Buffalo Bill's Best wer.

816 Buffalo Bi l‘s Red Trail.

812 Buffalo Bill’s Death-Knoll.

794 Buffalo Bill‘s Winning Band

787 Buflalo Bill’s Dead Shot.

781 Buflalo Bill‘s Brand.

7‘77 Buflalo Bill’s Spy Shadower.

769 Buffalo Bill’s Sweepstake.

765 B 138.10 Bill‘s Drzen; or, Silk Ribbon Sam.

761 Bufldlo Bil’s Mascot.

757 Buffalo Bill’s Double.

750 Bufl'alo Bill’s Big Four; or, Custer‘s Shadow.

748 Buihlo Bill‘s Flush Band.

789 Buflalo Bill‘s Blind: or, The Masked Driver.

[W5 Buffalo Bill and His Merry Men.

731 Buffalo Bill's Beagles: or Silk Lasso Sam.

727 Buflaio Bill's Body Gnar .

722 Buflalo Bill on the War th.

716 Bnflalo Bill’s Scout Sh owers.

l710 Buflalo Bill Baffled: or. The DeserterDesperado.

,092 Buffalo llflI'S Buckskin Brotherhood.

691 lluflslo Bill‘s lilind Trail- or. Mustang Madge.

.667 Buflalo Bill‘s Swoop; or. The King of the M nos.

.658 The Cowbav Clan; or, The Tigress of Texas.

{658 Lasso King’s Lea e;or. Bu Taylor in Texas.

1649 Bulfan Bil ’s Chic of Cowboys; or. Buck Taylor

644 Buflalo Bill‘s lionansa; or. S ’ver Circle Knights.

€362 Buflalo Bill's on ; or. Oath Bound to Custer.

I819 Banalo Bill’s Pl . ge: or. The League of Three.

a Wild Bill‘s Gold Trail; or, The Desperate DOZen.

175 Wild Bill's Trump Card: or, The Indian Heiress.

158 Wild Bill, the Pistol Dead Shot.

By Buffalo Bill.
E The Dread Shot Four.

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'87.? Wild Bill, the Wild West Duelist-

900 Wild Bill. the Deadoenrer Shot.

989 Buffalo Bill’s Gold King.
8599 The Dead Sh ot Nine: or. My Pards of the Plains.
414 Red Renard. the Indian Detective.

I401 One-Armed Pam; or, Borderland Retribution.
.397 The Wizard Brothers: or. White Beaver‘s Trail.

894 White Beaver, the Exile of the Platte.

19 Wild Bill, the Whirlwind of the West.
Texas Jack. the Prairie Rattler. “

943 The Pilgrim Sharp: or. The Soldier‘s Sweetheart.
I 83 Gold Bullet Snorr; or, Knights of the Overland.
* 52 Death-Trailer. the Chief of Scouts.

By Leon Lewis, Ned nnnfllne, etc.

(773 Buffalo B ll‘s Ban; or. Cody to the Rescue.

.682 Buffalo Bill’s Seer: t Service Trail.

:629 Buffalo Bill’s Darin Role; or. Daredeath Dick.
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1117 Buffalo Bill s Strange Purd' or, Dashing Dandy.
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SQ The King-Pin Shark; or, Thad Burt‘s Ten Strike.
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“ The Policy Broker‘s Blind.
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891 The Tramp Shadower’s Backer.
813 The Sham S ter‘s Shrewd Scheme.
816 The Grand treet Gold-Dust Sharper-s.
m Detective Burr's Luna ic Witness
7% The Wall Street Shoroor's Snap.
W4 Thad Burr’s Death Drop.
742 Detective Burr Among the New York Thugs.
734 Detective Burr’s Foi - or, A Woman’s Strategy.
728 Detective Burr. the eadquarters Special.
718 Detective Bur-r‘s Spirit Chase.

7“ Detective Burr-’3 Seven Clues. _
698 Thad Burr. the Invincible; or, The “L " Clue.
The Matchless Detective. 

XX. the Fatal Claw; or, Burt’s Master Cass.

III (10].. THOMAS H. MONSTEBY.
9% The Czar’s Sny.’
936: Iron Wrist. the. Swordmaster.
m Chain ion Sam; or. The Monarchs of the 8110*.
El Ru lo Bravo, King of the Swordsman.

BY J w. boson.

m Shadrach. the Sport Detective.
922 (Nibert Goldspur, the Dandy Sport.
lg Shasta Sam, the Sparkier.

Cool Creode, the Dead-Shot.
759 The? ‘from St. Innis. ‘
519 Boy , the Thoroughbred.

 

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929 Gentleman George, the Showman Sport.
912 Gentcel Joe’s Lone Band.
963 The Train Detective.
896 Kent Keen, the Crook«Crusher.
% Ni htshade in New York. 1
Fa con n, the Flash Detective.
871 The Cr Cashier.
859 Claw-Hawk Keene’s Right Bower.
847 Hiram Hawk, the Harlem Detective.
846 Major Bullion Boss of the Tigers.
88! Shadowing the London Detective. '
817 Plush Velvet, the Prince of Spotters.
803 The Bogus Broker‘s Right 80mm
788 The Night-Hawk Detective.
779 Sfilk Ribbon‘s Crush—out.
766 Detective Zach, the Broadway Spotter.
751 The Dark Lantern Detective.
736 The Never-Fail Detective.
724 Captain Hercules, the Strong Arm Detective.
711 Dan Damon, the Gilt-Edge Detective.
701 Silver Stow, the Branded Sport.
694 Gideon Grip, the Secret Shadower.
684 Velvet Van, the Mystery Shadower.
678 The Dude Desperado
571 Jason Claw the Silk-Handed Ferret.
664 Monk Morel, the Man-Hunter.
654 801 S hinx, the Ferret Detective.
642 Red ard and Yellow.
608 Silent Sam the Shadow Sphinx.
592 Ca tain Si , the Shasta Ferret.
579 Ol Cormorant, the Bowery Shadow.
569 Captain Cobra. the Hooded Mystery.
559 Danton. the Shadow Sharp.
550 Silk Hand, the Mohavo Ferret.
548 The Magnatc Detective.
589 Jack Javert. the Independent Detective.
523 Reynard of Red Jack; or. The Lost Detective
512 Captain Velvet‘s Big Stake.
505 Phil Fox. the Genteel Spotter.
496 Richard Redfire. the Two Worlds‘ Detective.
487 sunshine Sam, 8. Chip of the Old Block.
Hawkspear. the Man with a Secret.
468 Coldgrip in Deadwood.
460 Captain Coldgrip. the Detective
453 Captain Coldg‘ri‘P’s Long Trail.
447 Volcano. the ' 800 Spy.
441 The California Sharp.
434 Lucifer Lynx, the Vi onder Detective.
421 Father Ferret. the Frisco Shadow. .
413 Captain Coldgrip in New York.
407 Captain Coldgrip‘s Nerve; or. In un Nick.
400 Captain Coldgrip: or. The New ork Spotter.
392 The Lost Bonanza: or, The Boot of Silent Hound.
382 The Bonanza Band: or, Dread Don of Cool Clan.
874 Major Blister. the S ort of Two Cities.
365 Keen Kennard. the hasta Shadow.
852 The Des rate Dozen.
347 Denver uke. the Man with "Sand."
340 Cool Conrad. the Dakota Detective.
385 Flash Dan e Nabob. or, Blades of Bowie Bar.
821 California undo. the Lone Bandit.
294 Broadcloth Burt. the Denver Dandy.
941 The Shadow Sport from Frisco.

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981 FriscoFrsnk at 910 Gulch.

920 The Montana Miner n New York.

908 The Doomsday-Den Detective.

899 The Double~Quick Detective. ,

898 Yellow Gid. of Dark Divide.

885 The Expert Detective‘s Shake-up.

875 Trs ing the RaceTrack Judge.

864 The olice Spocial’s Dilemma.

849 The Genteel Sharper's Combine

84f Graydon’s Double Deal. _

888 The Sport Detective‘s Grrr}:

823 The Athlete Sport About own.

8% TheCrook-De tective's Pull.

790 Plus or Pete, the Race Track Detective.

782 Boys Rock, the Round-up Detective.

774 Steve Starr, the Dock Detective.

764 The New York Sha ’s Shadower.

738 Deer Claxton, t e Record Breaker.

714 Gabe Gall, the Gambolier from Great Hump,

703 Spokane Saul. the Samaritan Sus .ct A

692 Dead Shot l‘mfl. the Deep~Ran e Blorer.

655 Strawberry Sam. 1‘ 3 Man wit the irthmark.

646 Dark John the Grim Guard.

638 Murdock. Dread Detective.

623 Dangerous Dave, the Never-Beaten Detective.

611 Alkali Abe the (lame Chicken from Texas.

596 Rustler Ru ‘ the Round-Up Detective.

585 Dan Dixon‘s Double.

570 Steady Hand. the Napoleon of Detectives

583 Wyoming Zeke, the Ho ur of Honeysuckle.

551 GarrBoKean, the Man wit Backbone.

539 Old ubleliark. the Wily Detective.
Saddle-Chief Kit. the Prairie Centaur.

5 Paradise Sam, the Nor‘-West Pilot.

513 Texas Tartar, the. ,Man With Nine Lives.

506 Uncle Honest. the Peacemaker of Hornets’ Nest.

498 Central Pacific Paul. the Mail Train Spy.

492 Border Bullet. the Prairie Sharpshooter.

486 Kansas Kitten. the Northwest Detective.

479 Gladiator Gabe, the Samson of Sassajack.

470 The Duke of Dakota.

463 Gold Gauntlet. the Gulch Gladiator. .

455 Yank Yellowhird, the Tall Hustler of the Hills.

449 Bluff Burke. King of the Rockies.

442 Wild West Walt. the Mountain Veteran

487 Deep Duke: or, The Man of Two Lives.

Q7 The Rivals of Montana Mill

415 Hot Heart. the Detective Spy.

405 Old Baldy the Brigadier 0 Buck Basin.

297 Colorado Rube. the: Strong Arm of Ho ur.

879 The Gold Dragoon, or, California Bl hound.

BY NE. BUNTLINB.

671' Long Tom. the Privateer.
Q1 The Red steer; or, The Midshipman Rover.
584 Fire Feather. the Buccaneer King.
517 Buffalo Bill’s First Trail. '
961 Tombstone Dick. the Train Pilot. '
122 Saul Sabberday, the Idiot Spy.
111 The Smuggler Captain; or. The Skipper‘s Crime.
18 The Sss Bandit; or, The con of the Isle.
16 The wring-ard- m- T Seminole Prophet.

 

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Dick Talbot Series.

991 Dick Talbot at the Mines: or. Kentuck. the Sport.
988 Rocky Mountain Rob.
976 Overland Kit: or, The ldyl of White Pine.
741 Dick i‘alhot’s Close Call.
7817 Dick Talbot in Apache Land.
783 Dick Talbot. the noh King.
7139 Dick Talbot‘s Clean-Out.
725 Dick Talbot in No Man‘s  _
354 Dick Talbot; or, The Brand 0 Cnmgjn (host
36 Dick Talbot: or. The Death-Shot of acts.

Aiken’s Fresh of Frisco Series.

825 Fresh, the Race-Track Sport.
669 The Fresh in Montana; or. Blake‘s Full Hand. é
652 The lfi'esh's Rustic at Painted City. ’
647 The Fresh at Santa Fe; 01‘, 'l'hl- Stranger Sharp.
556 Fresh. the Sport: or, The Big Racket at Slide Out.
587 Fresh Against the F‘ieldaor, Blake. the Lion.
497 The Fresh in Texas; or. The Escobedo Millions.
461 The Fresh 0! Frisco on the Rio Grande.

97 The Fresh in Big Walnut Camp; or. Bronze Jack,

Aiken’s Joe Phenix Series.

965 Joe Phenix‘s Mascot.

959 Joe Phenix’s Double Deal.

954 Joe Phenix in Chicago.

949 The Doctor from Texas; or, Joe Phenix’s Clue.

944 Joe Pheuix’s Ri ht Bower.

865 The Female Bar r Detoctiw; or, Joe Elenix in

Silver City. A
799 Joe Phen x’s Great Blue Diamond Case; or, The.
New York Sport at Long Branch.

793 Joe Phenix's Decoy: or The Man of Three.

760 Joe Phenix‘s Lone Band.

749 Joe Phenix‘s Big Bulge.

745 Joe Phenix’s Mad Case.

708 Joe Phenix‘s Siren; or, The Woman Hawkshaw.

700 Joe Phenix’s Unknown; or. Crushing the Crack:

681 Joe P enix‘s Specials' or. The Actress Detective

637 Joe P. enix in Crazy Camp.

632 Joe Phenix's Master Search. _

628 Joe Phenix’s Conibin- ;or,the Dandy Conspiraton

6!) Joe Phenix’s Silent Six. 7

601 «doe Phenix’s Shadow; or.the Detoctive’s Monitor

419 Joe Phenix., the Kine of Detectives '

161 Joe Phenlx‘s Great Man Hunt. l

112 Joe Phenix, Private Detective; or, The League.
79 Joe Phenix. the Police Spy.

Aiken’s Miscellaneous Novels.

980 The All-Around Athlete.

940 Captain Jack, the Scalper

985 The Hawks and Wolves of New York

932 Detective Gordon’s Grip. 1
“5 Old gungower. gingham Snag“. a l:
923 Old un ower. e ayseed. ec m,

901 The Hotel Swell-Sharp; or. The Siren 3%
892 The Country man Detective.

876 Gold Button S rt; orbThe Miner Sharps” 

842 Teton Tom. t e Half- lood.
885 The King-Pin Detective.
814 The ew Yorker Anions Texas Sports.
775 King andy. the Silver Sport.
758 Gideon’s Gri st Babylon Bar.
717 Captain Pat cGowen, tlze Greencoat Detesflvo.‘
674 Uncle Sun Up, the Born Detective.
079 The Li htw eight Detective. _
665 The F sco Detective; or, The Golden GM find,
618 Keen Billy. the Sport.
CW Old Benzine the “ Hard Case " Detective.
594 Fire Face, t e Silver King's Foe.
566 The Silver Sh arp Detective.
577 Tom, of Calif arms; or, Detective's Shadow A
570 The Actress Detective; or. The Invisible Han
562 Lone Hand. the Shadow.
520 The Lone Hand on the Caddo.
490 The Lone Hand in Texas.
475 Chin Chin, the Chinese Detective.
465 The Actor Detective.
440 The High Horse of the Pacific.
423 The Lone Hand; or. The Red River Recrcants.
408 Doc Grin. the Vendetta of Death.
ill] The Gy sy Gen tleman: (1‘. hick Fox. Detectivd
376 Black ,ards: or. The Rio Grande High Horse,
870 The Dusky Dete ctivc: or. Pursued to the End.
363 Crowningshield. the Detective ‘
390 The Genteel Spotter: or The N. Y. Night Hawk.
252 The Wall Street flood; or. The Telegraph Girl
208 The Double Detcc tive: or.’l‘he Midnight Mystery.
196 La Marmoset, the Letrcnvc Queen.
101 The Man from New York.
91 The Winning Oar: or. The Innkeeper-'3 Daughter.
84 Hunted Down: or, The Leagueo Three.
81 The Human Tiger: or. A Heart of Fine.
75 Geritleman George: or. Parlor. Prison and Street,
72 The Phantom Band: or. The 5th Avenue tress.
56 The Indian Mazenpn: 0r. Madman of the lains.
49 The Wolf Demon; or. The Kanawha can.
42 The California Detective: or, The Wit of N.Y.
31 The New York Sharp: or. The Flash («111$ng
27 The Spotter Detective: or. Girls of New alt.

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Old Sobersides the Detective of St. Louis.
te-Horse Wheeler, the Revenue Detective.
The Double. Edged Detective.
‘ Maverick Mark. the Man from Nowhere.
- . Silky Steele, the Stay-in Sport.
Tye S tter-S ort s Neck-Tie Party.
High- ater ark; or, Silver-Tip Sid.
Riata Bob. the Range Cham ion.
The C whov Chief s Sure-S ot.
The Rival Red—Hat Sports.
tly Kid. the Cheyenne Sport.
' . he Soft Hand Detective.
l The Soft Hand’s Clutch.
- Dan Dunn the Soft-Hand Sport.
1796 The Frisco Detective’s Thug-Tangle.
539 Slim Gary. the River S ort.
160 The Dead Sport’s Don le.
"(71 Prince John. Detective S ecial.
y Don, the Denver etective.
754 he Man from Texas; or, Dangerfield. the
octor Detective.
744 Swee takes Sam, the Silver Sport.
720 The cret Sir or, Old Halcyon.
712 The Man of suit
705 Bantam Bob. the Beauty| from Butte.
698 Kent Kasson, the Preac er Sport.
688 Bob Breeze, the Rounder Detective.
575 Steel Sorry, the Sport from Sunrinz.
668 Solemn Soul’s Luck Streak
661 T Getr'i‘here Sharp.
651 ' "estip St-ve, the Sky Scraper from Siskiyou.
645 Gopher Gabe, the Unsven Detective.
636 Dandy Darling, Detective.
627 11105st MOSr, the Mountaineer.
617 The Grip Sack Sharp’s Even up.
597 Big Bandy, the Brigadier of Brimstone Butte.
588 Sandy Sands, the Sharp from Snappity.
576 Silver-Tongued Sid; or, Gri Sack Sharp’s Sweep.
564 The GrlpSack Sharp; or, he Seraphs of Sodom.
556 Grip-Sack Sid. the Sample Sport.
547 The Buried Detective; or. Soul’s Six Sensations.
541 Major Magnet, the Man of Nerve.
585 Dandy Dutch, the Decorator from Dead-Lift
(327 Dandy Andy, the Diamond Detective.
514 Gabe Gunn, the Grizzl from Ginseng.
504 80an San]. the Sad an from San Saba.
495 Battlepate Rob; or. The Roundhead’s Reprisal
488 The Thort u nbred Sport.
‘74 Wily Dea -Eyc, the Desoot of Dew Drop.
Old Rough and Ready, the Sage of Sundown
Dutch Dan. the Pilgrim from Spitzenberg.
443 A Cool Hand; or. Pistol Johnny‘s Picnic.
“36 Oklahoma Nick.
5,138 La hinz Leo; or, Sam‘s Dandy Pard.
a The host Detective: or. The Secret. Service Spy.
416 Monte Jim. the lilacs Sheep of Bismarck.
‘09 Rob Roy Ranch: or, The imps of Pan Handle.
‘63 The Nameless Sport.
. .dlv Aim, the Duke of Derrin ,ers.
irk Dug.I the Ishmael of the ills.
(laggin up. the Man with a Record.
A al Flush; or, Dan Brown’s Big Game.
an Jumping Jerry, the Gamecock from Sundown.
816 Storm Steve, the Mad Athlete.
351 Hor' est Nick. the Border Detective.
845 Masked Mark. the Mounted Detective.
‘ Eagle Sam. the Hercules Hide Hunter.
33’! ispa Charley. the Goivaugget Sport.
317 Frank Lightfoot. the Miner Detective.
292 oke Homer. the Boss Roustabout.
285 1 Johnny; or. One Man in a Thousand.
283 Sleek Sam, the Devil of the Mines.
957 Death Trap Dig ngs: or, A Man ’Way Back
249 Elephant Tom. 0 Duranzo.
241 Solthre Saul. King of the Bustiers.
288 he Old txoy of Tombstone.
no: to of the Pincers: or. Joaquin’s Death Hunt
180 Old ‘49; or. The Amazon of Arizona.
170 Sweet William, the Trapper Detective.
165 Joaquin. the Terrible
154 Joaquin, the Saddle King.
141 Equinox Tom, the Bul.I ' of Red Rock.
119 Alabama Joe; or. The azoo Man-Hunters.
105 Dan Brown of Denver: or. The Detective.
88 Big George; or. The Five Q tlaw Brothers.
71 Captain Cool Blade: or. M1. :issippi Man Shark.
67 The Boy Joekey; or, Honesty vs. Crookedness.
50 Jack Rabbit, the Prairie Sport.

BY \VNI. G. PA'I‘TEN.

810 Fire-Eye. the ’i‘hug’s Terror.
795 Old N ght-Hawk, the Crook Shadower.
768 The Prin e of New York Crooks.
756 Old Burke, the Madison Square Detective.
747 Double-voice Dan s Double Disguise.
715 Double-Voice Dan on Deck.
702 Double-Voice Dan, the Always-on-Deck Detective
596 Double-Voice. Dan, the Go-it Alone Detective.
689 The Sparkler Sharp.

Hurricane Hui, the Cowboy Hotspur.
669 Old True Blue, the Trusty.
668 The Giant S rt; or, Sold to Satan.
556 Old Plug gly. the Rough and Ready.
643 kl Glove Gid the Man of Grit.
541 cc Jack, the Desert Nomad.
631 Colonel Cm], the Santa Fe Sharp.
.92 Ca ain Nameless. the Mountain Mystery.
671 01 Dismal, the Range Detective.

Hustler Harry, the Cowboy Spon-

BY GEOIKGE (3. JENKS. .
no The Arizona Detective.

5 , lver Sam. the Shasta Sport.
he Silver Sport‘s D )ublo.

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\ o Hayseed Detective.
% in Cordon, the Twister Detective; _
Pvte the Broncho-Buster Detective.
7’23 . - Sam, the Grand Combination Detective.
‘ Boston Bob, the rt Detective.
“119v Joe, the ockey Detective.
BMW. the Rustler
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BY WILLIAM R. EYS'I‘EB.

916 Two Dead-Square Sports.

902 Soft Velvet, the Man from Sandrock.

891 Genteei Jim, S ort-atLarge.

881 The Clubman- rock’s Cat‘s-paw.

867 The Frisco Sport.

852 The Stranger S ort’s Shake—up.

828 Kirk King, the an from Kirby.

818 Gentleman Dave, the Dead Game Sport

783 The King-Pin Tramp.

767 The Sport of Silver Bend.

718 Uncle Bedrock‘s Big Bounce.

707 The Rival Rovers. v

687 Double Cinch Dan, the Sport With a Charm.
677 Mr. Jackson, the Gent from Jaybird.

659 Gilt-Edge Johnn ; or, Roldan and His Rovers.
650 Luck Lester's ne Hand.

634 Old andcart‘s Big Dump.

622 The All Around Sports.

603 Desert Alf. the Man With the Cougar.

590 Gentle Jack, the High Roller from Humbug.
578 Seven Shot Steve, the Sport with a Smile.
568 The Dude Detective.

558 Hurrah Harry, the Hi h Horse from Halcyon.
549 Belshazzar Brick, the 1111! of Blue Blazes.
533 Oregon, the Sport WithaScar.

503 The Dude from Denver.

478 Pinnacle Pete; or. The Fool from Way Back.
459 Major Sunshine, the Man of Three Lives. ‘ .
429 Hair Trigger Tom of Red Bend.

402 Snapshot Sam; or. The Angels‘ Flat Racket.
396 The Piper Detective; or, The Gilt Edge Gang.
375 Royal Geor e, the Three in One.

856 Thrt e Han some S orts; or, The Combination».
333 Derringer Dick, the an with the Drop. v ., 7'
268 Magic Mike. ‘he Man of Frills. ;. ,
229 Captain Cutsieeve; or, The Little Sport. ‘

 

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214 The Two Cool Sports; or, Gertie of the Gulch.
182 Hands Up; or, The Knights of the Canyon.

160 Soft Hand, Sharp: or. The Man with the Sand.
145 Pistol Purds; or, The Silent Sport from Cinnabar

BY NED BUN'I‘LINB.

657 Long Tom, the Privateer.

633 The Sea 8 y.

621 The Red rivateer; or, The Midshipman Rover.

584 Fire Feather. the Buccaneer King.

517 Buffalo Bill’s First Trail.

361 Tombstone Dick, the Train Pilot.

122 Saul Sabberday, the Idiot S 

111 The Smugglcr Captain; or, ie'Skipper's Crime.
18 The Sea Bandit; or, The Qu ,en 01’. the Isle.

16 The White Wizard; or, The Seminole Prophet.

BY JACKSON KNOX—“Old Hawk.”

838 Old Grips Still Hunt.

827 Detective Walden‘s Web.

778 The Butler Detective' or, Old Grip’s Grip

770 The Showman Dete t ve.

762 Old Grip, the Detective.

740 Captain Clew, the Fighting Detective.

732 The Hurricane Detective.

643 Castlemaine, the Silent Sifter.

616 Magnus. the Weird Detective.

606 The Drop Detective.

595 Wellbom, the Upper Crust Detective.

582 Joram. the Detective Expert.

574 Old Falcon's Double.

561 The Thug King- or. The Falcon Detective's Foe.
548 Faiconbridge. t e Sphinx Detective.

536 Old Falcon s Foe; or, The Detective's Swell Job.
515 Short—Stop Ma'e, the Diamond Field Detective.
509 Old Falcon, 1; e Thunderbolt Detective.

501 Sgt'ingsteel Steve, the Retired Detective.

494 T e Dctective‘s S y.

485 Rowiock. the Ear r Detective.

477 Dead-arm Brandt.

467 Mainwaring. the Salamander.

462 The Cincus Detective.

451 Griplock. the Rocket Detective.

444 The Magic Detective: or, The Hidden Hand.

424 Hawk Heron’s De utv. .

386 Hawk Heron. the alcon Detective.

BY J. C. COWDRICK.

752 The Sns cct S ort of Daisy Drift.

626 Ducats ion, t is Nabob Sport Detective.

612 Sheriff Stillwood. the Regulator of Raspberry.
598 The Dominic Detective.

591 Duke Daniels, the Society Detective.

580 Shadowing a Shadow.

565 Princo Paul. the Postman Detective.

557 The Mountain Gravheards; or. Riddles’ Riddle.
519 Old Riddles. the Rocky Ranger

499 Twilight Charlie. the oad Sport.

47?. Gilbert of Gotham. the Steel-arm Detective.
452 Rainbow Bob, the Tulip from Texas.

436 Kentucky J can. the Sport from Yellow Pine.
422 Blue Grass Burt. the Gold Star Detective.

390 The Giant Cupid; or Cibuta John’s Jubilee.

Bl EDWARD \YlLLET'I‘.

483 Flush Fred. the River Sharp.

368 The Canyon King: or. a Price on his Read.

348 Dan Dillon. King of Crosscpt.

387 Old Gabe the Mountain Tram .

327 Terrapin Rick, the Wild wood etective.

315 Flush Fre '5 Double; or, The Squatters’ League
368 Hemlock Han K, Tough and True.

298 Digger Lem: or. Li to in the Pine Woods.

289 Flush Fred‘s Full Hand.

274 Flush Fred, the Mississippi Sport.

248 Montana Mingle Lion of Last Chance Camp.
222 Bill the Blizza ; or. Red J ack’s Crime.

209 Buck Farley. the Bonanza Prince.

129 Mississippi Mose: or, a Strong Man '3 Sacrifice.

BY CAPTAIN MAYNE REID.

$7 The White Squaw.

2‘34 The Hunter‘s Feast.

21% The Wild Huntress; or. The Squatter.

200 The Rifle Rangers; or. Adventures in Mexico.
74 The Captain 0 the Rifles; or, The Lake Queen.
66 The Specter Baxque. A Tale of the Pacific.

55 The Scalp Hunters 5 Romance of the Plains.

   
       
 

 

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911 The Blue Blockader; or, The Coast Grayhountf
906 The Cuban Cruiser. "
854 The Ocean Gipsy, ‘
834 The Wild Steer Riders;or, Texas Jack‘s Terrors.
819 The Rival Monte Cristos.
805 The Last of the Pirates; or, Doom Driven. ‘
801 The Water Wolves’ Detectrve; or, Trapping M

Grave , oula.’}":‘ -
791 The ‘ 'der's Death~0hase.
748 Arizona Charlie, the Crack-shot Detective.
704 Invisible lvan. the Wizard Detective.
685 The Red-skin Sea Rover.
679 Revello, the Pirate Cruiser; or. The Rival Rovers
672 The Red Rapier.- or, The Sea Rover's Bride.
662 The Jew Detective: or, The. Beautiful ConviCt.
640 The Rovvr’s Ret ibution.
635 The Eli-Buccaneer: or. The Stigma of Sin.
625 Red Wings; or, The Gold Seekers of the Bahama
 Tge  lauccaneers.

e Flag Rover;or,White ngs' of the Deep

605 The Shadow Silver Ship.
600 The Silver Ship; or, The Sea Scouts of ’76.
593 The Sea Rebel: or. Red Rovers of the Revolution.
597 Conrad, the Sailor Spy; or. True Hearts of ’76.
581 The Outla wed Skipper; or, The Gantiet Runner.
560 The Man from Mexico.
553 Ma. 3: Monte, the Mutineer; or, The Branded Brig.
546 Th9 Doomed Whaler: or, The Life Wreck. '
539 The Savages of the Sea.
524 The Sea Chaser; or, The Pirate Noble.
510 E1 Moro, the Corsair Commodore.
493 The Scouts of the Sea. ‘
.467 The Sea Insurgent: or. The Conspirator Sen.
fl Ocean Ogre, the Outcast Corsair.

"‘85 The One-Armed Buccaneer.

430 The Fatal Frigate; or, Rivals in Love and Wan.
399 The New Monte Cristo.

393 The Convict Captian.

377 Afloat and Ashore: or. The Corsair Conspinton
369 The Coast Corsair; or. The Siren of the Sea.
364 The Sea Fugitive: or. The Queen of the Goad.
341 The Sea Desperado,

836 The Magic Snip' or. Sandy Hook Freebooters.
335 The Gentleman Pirate; or. The Casco Hermite.
318 The Indian Buccaneer: or, The Rovers.

307 The Phantom Pirate; or. The Water Wolves.
235 The Pirate Priest; or. The Gam bler's Dan bier.
246 Queen Helen, the Amazon of the Overian .

235 Red Lightning the Man of Chance.

224 Black Beard. the Buccaneer.

no The Specter Yacht; or, A Brother’s Crime.

210 Buccaneer Bess. the Lioness of the Sea.

“305 The Gambler Pirate; or, Lady of the Lagoog
198 The Skeleton Schooner: or. The Skimmer.

184 The Scarlet Schooner: or. The Sea Nemesis.
104 Montezuma. the Merciless.

103 Merle, the Mutineer; or, The Red Auhorm f

BY PHILIP S. WARNE.

802 Dan Dirk King of No Man’s Land.
583 Captain Adair, the CattleKin .
56? Captain Midnight, the Man 0 Craft.
5.44 The Back to Back Bards.
522 The Cham ion Three.
502 Bareback uck, the Centaur of the Pidu.
472 Six Foot Si: or, The Man to “ Tie To."
481 California Kit, the Always on Hand.
464 Silver Sid; or. A “ Daisy ” Bind.-
880 Tiger Dick‘s Pied e; or, Tue Golden Serpent.
859 Yellow Jack, the estizo.
388 Jack Sands. the Boss of the Town. .
299 Three of a Kind; or, Dick, Despard and the Sport.
251 Tiger Dick vs. Iron Du _ .
207 Old Hard Head; or. W irlwind and his Mare.
171 Tiger Dick, the Man of the Iron Heart.
114 The Gentleman from Pike.
80 A Man of Nerve; or, Caliban the Dwarf.
5! Always on Hand; or. The FoooHitls Sport,
29 Tiger Dick, Faro King; or. The Cashier’s Crime.
'4 The Kidnapper: or, The Northwest Shanghai.

BY CAPTAIN MARK WILTON.

323 Hotspur Hugh; or, The Banded Brothers.
811 Heavy Hand: or, The Marked Men.

305 Silver-Plated Sol, the Montana Rover.

291 Horseshoe Hank. the Man of Big Luck.

2&5 Lightning Bolt, the Canyon Terror. \

276 Texa< Chick. the Southwest Detective.‘

271 Stoneiist, of Big Nu%et Bend.

266 Leopard Luke the 'n of Home-’1‘an-
268 Iron-Armed Abe, the unchback Destroyer
258 Bullet Head, the Colorado Bravo.

237 Long-Haired Max; or, The Black 0.
227 Buckshot Ben, the Man-Hunter of I a 10.

2% Canyon Dave, the Man of the Mountain.

219 The Scorpion Brothers; or, Mad Tom’s Missic
202 Cactus Jack, the Giant Guide. .

194 Don Sombrero. the liforma Road Gent.

176 Ladv Jaguar. the R0 ber Queen.

BY OLL GOODIES.
619 Kit Bandy 8: Co , the Border Detectiver.
148 One-Armed Alf. the. Giant Hunter.
99 The Giant Rifleman: or. Wild Camp Life.
43 Dakota Dan. the Reckless Ranger.

BY COL. THOMAS II. MONSTEBY.

236 Chum ion Sam; or, The Monarchs of the $00
150 El Ru io Bravo, King of the Swordsmen.

B" on. NOEL humane.
919 The Sea Scout; or. The Patriot Privateer.
686 The King of Crooks.
858 Number One. the Dead-set Detective.
850 The Planter Detective.
736 ant- DeSpard, the. Gambler Duelist. -

604 The Detective in Rags; or, The Grim Shad“
500 The True-Heart Pards. .
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Buffalo Bill's invin'clhles; or, The same smij-l?
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Buffalo Bill’s Blue Belt Brigade; or, Sun-i

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Buffalo Bill's Volunteer Vigilantee;~ or, The!
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Buffalo Bill at Bay; or, The Gold Seeker’s
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Buffalo Bill's Block Game; or, The Mounted
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Buffalo Bill's Black Pard;
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Buffalo Bill's Bluff; or. Dusky Dick.
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Zuffnlo Bill's Quandary: or, Velvet Bili's
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Buffalo Bill and the Surgeon Scout: or, ‘Go-
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Buffalo Bill’s Tangled Trail; or, Gentleman
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Buffalo Bill's Rough Riders; or, Texas Jack’s
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Ally; or, 'The Texan’s
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Buffalo Bill's Life-Stake; or, The Pledged
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The Three Bills; Buffalo Bill, Wild Bill and
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Buffalo Bill’s Buckskin Braves; or, The Card
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Buffalo Bill's Road Agent Round—Up; or, The
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Buffalo Bill's Royal Flush; or, The Pony.Rl—
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Buffalo Bill's Redskin Ruse: or. Texas Jack‘s
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The Ranch King Dead-Shot; or, Texas Jack’s
Proxy. By Buffalo Bill.

Rand‘s Riot-out. By Col. P. ‘Ingraham.
Buffs] Bill's Sharp-Shooters; or, The Surgeon
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By Colrin017820 \V’hite .Benver's Still Hunt; or, The Miner

Liurauder’s Death-Truck. By Buffalo Bill.
rnvw‘v ‘f'vw‘i‘mi Trail; or, The Road-R‘ider
item-guides Run Down. By Col. P. lngraham.
inhibit) l::ll’s lu-ntiulinell; or, The lit-(i lland
ltniers of the Rockies. By Col. 1’. lng‘u'nam.

7 Will Bi 1, tie Wild \Yes‘ i uoli<tz «r, The Girl

Mascot of Moonlight .‘mnv. lly Huh-aim Bill.

“'ild I’llli. HIP VVilll “'est Duelist; 01‘,Tlie Girl‘

Grande Ralph, the Cowboy Chief. ~By Buf—

falo~ Bill. ,

Buffalo Bill’s Winning Hand; or, The Masked
W'omnn of the Colorado Canyon. By Col. P.
Ingraham.

Buffalo Bill‘s Dead Shot ; or, 'l‘heSkeleton Scout
of the Colorado. By Col. Prentiss Ingraham.
Buffalo Bill's Brand; or. The Brimstone
Brotherhood. By Col. Prentiss Ingrahom.
Buffalo Bill's Spy—Shadower; or, The Masked
Men at Grand Canyon. By Col. P. Ingraham.
Buffalo Bill's Ban; or, Cody to the Rescue.
By Leon Lewis.

Buffalo Bill‘s Sweepstake; or, The Wipe-011’,
at Last Chance. By Col. Prentiss Ingraham.
Buffalo Bill's' Dozen; or. Silk Ribbon Sam.
By Col. Prentiss lngraham.

Buffalo Bill’s Mascot; or. The Death Valley
Victim No. 13. By Col. Prentiss Ingmham.
Buffalo Bill‘s Double; or, The Desperado De-
tective. By Col. Prentiss lngrahani.

Buffalo Bill's Big Four; or. Custer's Shadow.
By Col. Prentiss ingraham.

Buffalo Bill‘s Flush Hand; or, Texas Jack's
Bravos. By (‘01. Prentiss Ingraham.
Buffalo Bill's Blind; or, The Masked Driver
of Death's Canyon. By Col. Prentiss ingra—
ham.
Buffalo Bill
Robin Hood Rivals.
ham.

Buffalo Bill’s Beanies; or, Silk Lasso Sam.
By Col. Prentiss lngraham.

Buffalo Bill's Body Guard; or. The Still Hunt
of the Hills. By Col. Prentiss Ingraham.
Buffalo Bill on the War Path; of. Silk Lasso
Sam. the Will-o'-the~Wlsp. By Col. P. In-
graham.

Buffalo Blll's Scout Shadowers: or, Emer-
ald Ed of Devil's Acre. By Col. P. lngraham.
or, The Deserter Des-
perado’s Defiance. By Col. P. lngraham.
Buffalo Bill‘s Buckskin Brotherhood; or,
Opening Up a Lost Trail. By Col. P. In-
graham. 4" y
Buffalo Bill's Blind Trail; or, The Daughter
of the Regiment. ‘By 001. Prentiss Ingraham.

Buffalo Bill's ngct Service Trail. By Major
r ‘Jt‘

and His Merry Men; or. The
By Col. Prentiss Ingrn~

Dangerfield Bur

Buffalo Bill's s ‘p; or, the King a; the
Mines. By Col.” entlsa Ingraham.

The Cowboy mention The Tigress of Texas.
By Colonel Prentiss Ingraham.

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653 The Lasso King’s League; or, The Tigers of
Texas. By Colonel Prentiss Ingraham.

649 Buck Taylor, the Saddle King. Buffalo Bill's
Chief of Scouts. 133 Col. P. Ingraham.

044 Buffalo Bill's Bonanza; or, The Knights of
the Silver Circle. By Col. P.‘ Ingrahnm.

639 The Gold King: or. Montebello, 'the Mognlfl- -

cent. By Buffalo Bill

029 Buffalo Bill's Daring Role; or, Daredeath
Pony Express Rider. By Ned Buntline.

414 Red Renard. the Indian Detective; or, The
Gold Buzzards of Colorado. By Buffalo 15.11.

401 The One-Armed Ford; or. Red Retribution in
Borderland. By Buffalo Bill.

397 The Wizard Brothers; 01‘,
Trail. BY Buffalo Bill. ,

394 \‘Vhite Beaver, the Exile of the Platte: or,
finWronged Man'sned Trail. By Buffalo

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362 Buffalo Bill's Grip; or. Oath-bound. to Custer.
By Col. Prentiss Ingraham. I

329 Buffalo Bill's Pledge; or, The League of
Three. By Col. P. lngraham.

319 ‘Wllri Bill, the Whirlwind of the West. By
Buffalo Bill.

804 Texas Jack. the Prairie Rattler; or, The
Queen of the “'lld Riders. 13y Buffalo Bill.

243 The Pilgrim Sharp; or, The Soldier’s Sweet- ‘,
heart. By Bull’an Bill, Government Scout ‘4
and Guide. '5

18!) Wild Bill's Gold Trail; or,
Dozen. By Col. P. Ingraham.

175 W'ild Bill's Trump Card; or, The Indian
Heiress. By Col. Prentiss Ingrahnm.

168 'Wild Bill. the Pistol Dead Shot; or, Dagger
Don's Double. By Col. Prentiss Ingraham. -

158 Buffalo Bill. Chief of Scouts; or, The Doomed
Dozen. liy Dr. Frank Powell. 1

117 Buffalo Bill's Strange Pard; or, Dashing
Dandy. the Hotspur of the Hills. By Major
1). Burr. I

92 Buffalo Bill, the Buckskin King;, or, The
Amazon of the \‘Vest. By Major Dangerfleid(
Burr.

88 Gold Bullet Sport; or, The Knights of the
Overland. By Buffalo Bill.

52 Death Trailer, the Chief of Scouts; or, Life

Bill.

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and ve in a Frontier Fort. By Buffalo

White Beaver-’3

Dick, King of the Cowboys. By Leon Lewis.
599 The Dead Shot Nine; or, My Pards of the
Plains. By Buffalo Bill. .
517 Buffalo Bill's First Trail; or, Will Cody, the
The Desperate
981 The Gold Lace Sport; or. The Texan Sam-
son's Wide Swath. By Joe. E. Badger, Jr.
982 Chris Crowley's Winning Hand; or, The
Rsscally Valet's Double Game. By A. 1’.

Morris.
983 Kid Glove Kris. the Sport. By J. C. Cow-
driek. Ready August 25. '
984 Buffalo Bill's Life Raffle;
Three.

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By Col. P. Ingraham. Ready Sept. 1.

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