Beadle's New York Dime Library, No. 181 — page 1: what you’re looking at

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eee ea a eee ee Me ——- ~ ge os $- ce Vol. XIV. Se Published Every Week, The Scarlet Schooner: THE NEMESIS OF THE SEA. A Romance of Salt Water, and a Sequel to ** Don Diablo.” BY COL. PRENTISS INGRAHAM, AUTHOR OF ‘DON DIABLO,” ‘‘ THE CHEVALIER CORSAIR,” “‘ MERLE, THE MUTINEER,” “ MON- TEZUMA, THE MERCILESS,” ETC., ETC, ‘CHAPTER L. THE DOOMED CARAVEL. THe wind howls along the waters, lashing them into a tempest, and hurling giant waves upon the beautiful shores of Cuba, with a force that makes the very rocks tremble, The feathery palm and cocoa trees bend like bows to the blast, and the air is filled with light a \ \ ARR WN WAY THERE WAS SOMETHING SO APPALLING i IN HIS =I > > ea cCSorvrriGt Tem IN (82862, 8v 4 TL NATASAL ERA AB CIP RAS ia ——- « ad ee ENTERED AT THE PosT OFFICE AT NEW YORK, N. Y., aT Seconp CLass Mart, Rates. Keadle ¢ 98 WILLIAM STREET, N. Y., April 12, 1882, objects that the storm-fiend drives along with relentless fury. Heavy clouds, inky in their blackness, hang like a huge funerea gg upon the ocean, and sweep landward with the speed of a race- horse. Blue, vivid lightning plays with ghastly effect upon the wild waters, and bursts of thunder roll overhead, to add to Nature’s fierce anger and make up the terrible discord of the hurri- cane. Lege 2. the sun has not yet set, the day seems like night-time in its gloom. And yet, upon the seething bosom of the wild waters, a vessel is visible, struggling with the agony of a human being to save itself from the clutch of death. It isa small craft, ceful as a swan, and of the class known in Cuban waters as a three- masted caravel ; but under the blast of the re- lentless tornado her slender masts are stripped of canvas, and she is driving before the gale under bare poles. ; Upon her decks a score of men are visible, miei iit ee, ae yy AMT Nl idl i i t | ff eat i i! | | | TL Ee OT aye BEADLE & ————— Addams, Publishers / , ie DEFIANCE OF FATE AT SUCH A TIME THAT JOSE MORENA TREMBLED WITH HORROR, Ma, *, ebb etary, wl TED Pd ‘ P he, = o_o. v yQ. - po tee - — — - . ———— “ —w ~. > SSS ———— OD i > i ae ee Soya ph —— ii » oh Ra PETS et ALS) PL/I LONE SLOT Fe $5.00 a Year. lashed to bulwarks ‘and rigging, and doing all in their power to save their vessel. Stern, resolute, and with his eyes fixed alter- nately upon his vessel and the storm, stands a man who seemingly disdains to lash himself to the taffrail or wheel to save his life, but clings to the latter with one hand, that the mad waves cannot wrench off. : No dread rests on his dark, handsome face, as to what may be his fate, but rather a look of utter recklessness. Turning his dark eyes landward he suddenly discovers through the driving storm a ruined quinta, with its grayish-white walls appearing above the bending palms upon the hights, while further inland is a puebla, or villa, its strong walls and turrets standing firm against the hurricane’s rude shocks, ‘Jose, these mad waters and the driving tempest have deceived me, for we are more than a league nearer shore than I believed.” The voice of the er was calm and bis manner showed not that he felt the worst must come, for he even smiled as he saw the startled die V4, —_ —— _— ECOMMICOOOKS “ oe ee ee ee ieoed fd