Adventure, January 20, 1922 — page 73: what you’re looking at

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Tides of Hate ‘Yes, Ed,” Nell put in with animation. “T saw them. I thought you knew. Didn’t you note Cook’s face when he saw for the first time the face o’ Steve Carr?” ©) other. He had entirely overlooked the fact that Cook supposed Carr to be still on Aves, or a king’s prisoner, or dead from hanging at Port Royal. Now he saw why Steve had protested against the command given him. His voy- age had but one object primarily—the kill- ing of John Cook for his treachery. Cook would desire much the same end with regard to Carr. Ed now saw Cogk, himself intent upon his own quarrel with Swan, sending back some of his men to visit his vengeance upon the upstart commandant of the cap- tured fort. “Count ’em!’ Ed snapped. the tally.” In half an hour the feast was cooked and eaten half-raw, the men finding comfort in mere fulness and the sight of open water. Nell brought up the count of men, Goliath’s as well as her own, and Davies whistled in bewilderment. ‘““And all o’ the missing men are made up 0’ Cook’s and the Frenchmen,” Nell re- marked. “You killed L’Escuyler and flouted Cook to some purpose, Ed.” Davies sat in deep thought for some minutes. He stared into the blazing fire, then away across the lake, lying placid and shadowy before him, with never a hint in its flat bosom of treasure or death. Behind him the gloomy jungle rolled. Beyond that lay the great sea, the town, his ships, his world when once he had solved the riddle of those ass-loads of yellow gold, vanished like the mists in the space of a night. “Aye, Nell,” he replied at length, rising to his full height, “‘I did all to some purpose, no doubt. Do you keep near Goliath, lass. I’ll make the purpose good, never fear, but ‘twill be no performance for you. J’ll ha’ somewhat to tell ye in the morning. -Sleep safely, girl. Ye ha’ a good guard in Go- liath.” He stalked away and called the Indians. They accompanied him into the black forest amid the muttered fearful comments of the men, and together they made a detour and reached the lake shore again beyond a low hillock over which a round moon was rising. DAVIES glared from one to the “Bring me yA Far out on the water, in a broadening beam of mellow light, a hundred tiny black specks seemed to dance. Davies regarded them with a sailor’s eye, then turned abrupt- ly upon the guide. : “Boats?” he snapped. “Canoe,”’ replied the Indian in one of the few words of English he knew. “Go island.” : “What for?” “Gold!” Davies stared at the man in speechless question.” While his doubt was yet un- solved, from the direction of the camp came howls of fury, an ear-cracking scream, and the explosion of a gun. XXVITTI : THAT was a brave sight that “yi Davies burst upon at the edge of : the camp. In his first glance he saw murderous intent, and he sprang over to Nell Clark, thrust her into the arms of the Indian, and sent her protesting away. Then, detecting the giant figure of Go- hath leaning nonchalantly against a tree, outwardly unconcerned but nevertheless gripping fast a cutlas and pistol, he slipped - around through the bushes and joined him. The entire camp seethed with fighting, cursing, snarling men; the grass was littered with dispersed fires and sprawling men who lay in attitudes of peculiarly permanent sleep. ‘“‘What a fiend’s name’s this, Goliath?” Goliath grinned broadly, licking his thick red lips. “Dat’s de sta’t ob de finish, cappen,”’ he chuckled. “See de brave lads a-slicin’ demselves into li’l bits! Dat’s how de good Gawd ob de white man set to wuk a-evenin’ t’ings up, sar.”’ ‘“There’s blood on th’ moo-oon! Raw- aww-awk!” screamed Bravo, swinging head downward from a limb over ,the thick of the fighting. ‘Davies peered through “the moon-shot forest gloom and soon realized that his own lads of the Cadiz were opposed to the com- bined bands of Cook, Swan, and L’Escuy- ler in the main; but at one side separate, smaller combats had developed, and in them he saw Swan’s men and Cook’s men at rubbers in earnest, and their leaders themselves locked in a death grapple. Already the fight had gone too far to be conniclsoolkks CO