Argosy All-Story Weekly, Vol. 123, No. 4 — page 80: what you’re looking at

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wv C. J. eS Hynem THE. first “" c. J. Cutcliffe . Hyne’ Ss series of stories 5 detailing the adventures of Teach: Pirate De Luxe,” was printed in the ALL-STORY WEEKLY, issue r in each of our issues throughout the summer months. While each story is complete in itself, all are concerned with the adventures of that likable blackguard, Captain Teach — descendant of the notorious pirate Blackbeard—and charming Mary Arncliffe. of May 22. Ons will appea XI—THE the history of Captain Edward Teach will need a good deal of editing and pulling together. I do not think I have set down anything that is in the least inaccurate. On the con- trary, I have left out much that was told me, but which I have not been able to check. But, as regards chronological or- der, there I admit that in more than one place I am very probably hopelessly at sea. For instance, there is the doctor epi- sode. I have not the remotest notion where it ought to come in. Obviously it must have taken place some time when Teach himself was off the coast of the Carolinas, his great grandfather, Blackbeard’s, old cruising ground. , But when ships were “ held up” by the Teach emissaries in those seas, Teach was always himself elsewhere. So, as I have not been able to run across to Conistone myself to verify dates, I give the account Gee! day or other these jottings from 586 Digitized by (Go : gle DOCTOR of Dr. Peter Cray’s abduction here, and must wait till a later time to fit it into its proper place. Teach, of course, cared remarkably lit- tle in reality for the welfare of his men. If they were killed there was so much the more for. the survivors to divide up. - If they were wounded, that was largely their own. affair. His annoyance at their becoming ineffi- cient, temporary or otherwise, was more than counterbalanced by the stream of re- cruits that was always pressing itself upon him. It says little for the bed-rock hon- esty of the seafaring peoples in 1919, or much for, their taste for old-fashioned piracy (whichever you like) when one con- templates that eager string of recruits. Teach’s views on the matter were, in fact, very much the same as those his redoubt- able ancestor ¢garried in the early seven- teen hundreds. The modern pirate crew, however, showed a Original from (GCO)| 6) Oy 0) 45 S CO) HE OHIO STATE UNIVERS