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a | ; ee, Inch by inch the red decks of the Pearl were fought over with the ferocity that would dis- : tet tt ttt a es — tinguish a battle between two ranks of jungle | tigers. Captain Fortuno guarded by his doctor who stood near the door with a pistol in each hand, was obliged to withhold himself from the fight, but bis eyes flashed with the old light of battle, and he clinched his bands while he listened to the uproar that came down from above. “If Manton is there I am satisfied,” the Spauiard said. ‘‘I know that young American lion, When he leads, victory fights at his side.” It was even so, If Captain Fortuno could have reached the upper deck when he uttered these words he would have witnessed the final charge led by Manton. ‘No quarter! Down with the Spanish dogs!” cried the buccaneers as they met the charge with the courage of old lions, “No quarter bo it, then!” responded Manton’s ' men. ‘There shall be no trails for piracy at Cartagena after this battle. Death to the red Sea Spiders!” That wild shock, most impetuous of all, was the last. For the first time since the opening attack, Manton found himself face to face with Cap- tain Cutlass, The recognition was instantane- ous and mutual, and at the same moment the two enemies darted at each other. The two cutjasses descending with great force met in mid-air, and the combatants, separated by the shock, recoiled several paces, ‘*Come, boy, let us finish it!’ cried Captain Cutlass. ‘* By the water-gods! I must have a ship to-night, and this one suits me well.” “Get it if you can, captain!” shouted Manton, coming forward for a renewal of the en- counter. The next moment there rung out a voice which startled tbe two officers, **Call off your dogs of battle, Manton!” it said. ‘The man you face belongs to me,” Captain Cutlass saw the speaker before the young American, ‘** Roza!” he ejaculated. ing finished you in Cartagena.” _ “No, Captain Cutlass,” was the reply. “ That is what I got for freeing you from the dungeon under the palace—a band at my throat. I have seen the ttme when I would have died for you; now I am going to scatter vour brains over the last ship you have boarded!” Manton saw a pistol go up and cover the breast of the buccaneer, The sight sent a thrill to his heart. ‘‘No! That man is my foe!” he exclaimed starting toward the woman. Ere he reached her he saw the flash of a istol beyond where she stood and Captain Cut- ass reeled away! 7 ‘The victim of the raft has been avenged!” said a voice at the sound of which the baffled Serpent turned. ‘*He belonged to me—to the Serpent of Car- tagena!” she hissed and the nexi moment she would have thrown berself upon the firer of the shot had not Manton clutched her wrist. Proudly erect, with victory in her lastrous eyes and a smoking pistol in her hand, stood Lona Seward. ‘‘ When that Sea Spider spins another web the world will know it!” she said, looking at the mav in the embroidered velvet jacket, who lay on the bloody deck. ‘‘I have cheated the Council of Safety out of a captive; but I have also avenge'i my dead!” The sea fight was over when the beautiful avenger turned away. The Siders of the Wavo had failed to secure anotb r fl»iting web, and the look that appear- ed in Cuptain Fortuno’s eyes when be was in- formed of the termination of the conflict, told that their career was ended, A few days afterward the people of Cartagena were astonished to learn that the Pearl of Peru had come back to her old moorings under the guns of the forts. At first there were loud threats sgainst the audacious Man who had taken the ship away; but when they saw bim carried in a litter through the streets to face the Council of Safety and to tell it that Captain Cutlass would trouble ‘“*T thought my chok- the bonest sea traders no more, and that the | survivors of the last conflict had been swung off at the yard, they forgot all resentment and cheered him to the palace steps, ‘The good news made the council magnani- mous, and the Spaniard and his crew became the lions of the bour. The Jaguar Queen who had dealt the two al- Captain Cutlass, the Ocean Spider. — ee ——— most fatal blows on board the pirate-hunter, accompanied the visitors back to Cartagena, where she soon made her escape from custody and disappeared, It was said that, fierce as he was, Captain Fortuno could not find heart to punish the woman he had loved, but who had deserted him for his old enemy, Captain Cutlass. Several days after tue doom of the buc- caneers, an Eoglish merchantman found a de- lirious man in an open boat drifting aimlessly on the water at the caprice of wind and wave. When he recovered sufficiently to talk, he made himself known as Colonel Cristo, late of the French service, and told how he had de- stroyed the Sea Spider’s nest, He was taken to Cartagena where he did not attempt to get into Lona’s good graces, as cer- tain events told him that a certain handsome young American sailor was ahead of him, and he left quietly after his wound healed, and died under Napoleon’s eagles at Waterloo. As for Manton, he made the beautiful ay, nger bis wife, and returned to his native ec ntry, accompanied hy Fairweather Tom, who bore on his body to bis dying day the scar of the dagger wound inflicted by the Serpent of the Tropics! Captain Fortuno got a new sbip for his ser- vices to the merchant service, and whenever he entered the harbor of Cartagena, the forts ran up their gayest colors, and the brass guns belch- ed forth a salute, For it was all over! 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