The Pirate of Br RUPERT SARGENT HOLLAND Q Author of The Count at Harvard ," etc ) (ft Copyright, 1008, by J. B. Upplncott Company. All tight reserved. . :oi CII.MTBIt XIX.- UVntluucd. t Kodney thought "The poor French trorklngtuen, the widows and orphans, who bail saved and slaved. Rave hltn ev erything they had, because he knew how to make money multiply an no one else d.d. He drew them pictures of the swat factories and store and hotel he would build for them with their money, and told them how by adding their lnlte mite together they mljht produce something cl fantlc. How about them left without a oul , "It w their own lookout," I trjed to argue. -Well" raid Itodney. "the- right awl wrong of this iort of thins lie dee;, but It tnay be that a man baa no right to use hi own Imagination to see for other people: that he can build alr-calle only for hluwelf." "Perbai.," t agreed; "bat, as you nay. If he had aucrccded, he would have been a hero." "That's all the difference, llowerer, he didn't, and o he'i an outcast." Uodney langhed. "Ami to think that I've been doing my best to defend the wont scape grace the market ha known In year." I aat buck on my couch and claaped my hands about ay knees. "What must nt do now 7" 1 aaked a. length. "Give him up; deliver hi prectoui aelf and hi trvuur cheat to the blood hounds." I ahook my head. ".N'o, I can't do that. We're been too doe together. They may take him. but I can't oave a hand In It." I to. In e y aat staring out of the window. "Well." aald be. "I don't bellere I can tther, though at a broker I e my duty plain enough. I can't do It, I simply can not do It." We aat silent for some time, each. Intent en hi own thought. "Ought we to tell him that we know)" Rodney said finally. "I wa wonderjng: Perhaps we should, but I don't better we can. When you face- him and look Into those clear black yes and hear that voice I doubt If there'll be anything to do but keep your mouth hut." "Vet we must do something," objected Hodney, "for I muet be oS for New York In two hours from now, to try and straighten out my losses." "Suppose wo so down and look at him." I suggested. "loaIbly wc can think of ometnlng then.' Ws went down-stairs and looked In the dining-room, the hallway, and the kltch o. In the .kitchen we found Charles drowsing. Ws could find no tract of Du ponceau. I waked Charles and question d him. "When did you last see Monsieur Du ponceau?" Charles rose and polled a paper from Ills pocket. "Only a couple of minutes ago, Mr. Felli," he said, "he gar mo this note for you and told me not to disturb you, but to glra It to you when you asked for him." J opened (he paper and read It to Hod ney. "My ship has come at bat I am go leg on hoard. I can get there alone; no one could help me. If you knew all, per c&ance you would not wish to help me. J hare done sufficient harm without tak ing you and the others farther. Ask mademoiselle to pray for me. Uood-by." I looked up at Itodney in blank amaze ment, and as we stood so, a shot came from the beach. We turned and made (or the stairs. CHAPTER XX. From the balcony we sighted a schoon er lying between the beach and the Shift ing Shoal. A long-boat was in die water, and men were hurriedly manning It Below us on the beach stood Duponnceau, pistol In either band, fronting a half dozen of his enemies, who were between hltn and the cottage, I would hare leap ed to his help, but a glance told me that the matter ma too far gone for that. Uuijnceau flrsd quickly, steadily, then wheeled and ran for the dune. Itullets chased him, ploughed Into the sand be hind him, whizzed post blu, hut by tome miracle failed to hit him. II reached the nearest sand-wall, and was hidden from us. A moment later and we saw him appear, bis pistols reloaded, and vatched him stand again at bay and hoot. 'Then again he fled for the next dune up the beach, and the pursuers, tem porarily stayed, were after him again. It was to to a running fight, stand and deliver, then hide, until the long-boat bald (round upon (he beach and the fugitive spring Into it. I looked to the boat and prayed that It might com quick ly, but the distance was long, and the sea ruVed and choppy. Again Duponceau appeared, and again (ha enemy were held at bay, and dropped and ducked and dodged as his bullets flew among them. A moment's stand, and he was hidden la the next dune, loading, making ready for another dash. It was breathless, speechless work. Itodney and I gripped ear glasses, shut our teeth, watched and tioped and prayed. Again the enemy were a, after him, gaining fast, and again he tot out from th duBsa, and, a lea is- lastair ure, fronted and scattered them with his Ore. A man went down with a bullet In Ms leg, and Duponcvau had gained an- other breastwork Now the boat from the schooner was coming closer In. I caught an agonized stance from Duponceau In Its direction, then his eye returned to his foe, and he was shooting, ducking, an3 ,tulrmlns In to the sand-wall. It was a pitiful chase, like that of a hare by hound, but It war also hcNTotc, for the man made a noble juarry, and the hound were more than fearful of hi fire. "He's down!" cried Itodney. True. Duponctwu had fallen, but on the second he was up and on again, and now ha hnd found the last dune, ami be must stand there or dash across the unprotected beach, "Come on I" We fled down the stairs, through the open door, and hard up the shore. Now we could see another ele ami of danger. Some of the enemy had stolen through the pines, and were firing at Duponceau down the length of his dune. "Ixokt" I muttered. We stopped, breathless, panting, wide-eyed. Dupon ceau bunt out from the dune, whirled about, fired back at the hidden foe, wheel ed and shot at the men who were follow ing him up the beach, and, turning, head ed straight for the Ship. "Run!" I murmured, and Rodney echoed me.: "Run, Duponceau, run, and may Heaven help!" I hare seen men run, but never as Du ponceau ran that day. He seemed to sVIm, almost to fly, across that open space, and behind him cam his enemies, no longer firing, no longer cursing, match ing their speed aralnst his frantic flight. The Frenchman neared the rocks, was on them, was up and clambering orer the Ship's side. Then came a sharp report, and I coold see Dupponeeau quiver and hang uselessworse than useless, for he was only half orer the ressel's rail. "He's done!" I breathed. Rut as be hung there Itarbara sudden ly appeared beside him and pulled him pinboard, supported him across the deck, and got hint as far a the cabin door be fore he collapsed on the boards. Rarbara disappeared, and then reap peared with something In her arms. "Th chest I" I muttered. "He couldn't forego that!" I saw Rarbara lift and steady Dupon ceau on bla feet, saw him clutch the box with one hand, while he held a revolver In th other. II staggered across the deck. "Com on I" I breathed, and w were off for th Ship. Th long-boat was half way In when a new shout threatened to sound Dupon ceau's deatb-knell. Men cam oat on the cliff and stood high abov him. ready to fir down upon him. There was a ring about him now enemies on th rocks, on th cliff, and men already scrambling through the water to lay their band on blm. "Look 1" cried Rodney. I saw Rarbara whisper In Duponceau's ear, saw blm straighten up to his full height and fire at the men above him. One bullet ripped Into the cliff, another shattered an arm. We stood now on the rocks, a stone's throw off. Duponceau looked seaward and gar a cry. With terrible effort, he leaped to the farther rail, raised himself to plunge the box still In bis arms Into th sea, and sink or swim to help. He balanced, crouched, and then clear report and he fell, a teg broken, down Into the waves. Ills stand was orer, th fight done; his enemies bad taken him. A couple of men lifted blm from the water and carried blm to shore; another man followed with the chest. Rodney ami I drew near and looked at him; he was conscious, and only his set teeth showed th agony be suffered. "It's orer," be said. "The boat was late." Then his eyes lighted on me, and b tried to smile. "Good-by," fa mut tered. "Take my good-by to ber." Carefully the men lifted blm and car ried blm Into th pines. "He will lire," said Rodney briefly, and I nodded. It was not for Duponceau to surrender easily, though I wondered If now It would not prefer It so. CHAPTER XXI. The long-boat returned to th schoon er, and In a quarter-hour th latter had vanished as silently as she bad come. Itodney and I went on tioard th Ship, and found Rarbara sitting against the broken mast, her eyes deep with unshod tear of pity. W sat ttu and talked of Duponceau's flight and capture "If It liadn't been for th chest, he would bare escaped," said Rarbara. "His face light ed when he had It In his arms again." It was torn little time after this when Rodney stood up. "I'm going to th dub. I hart to pack and catch th next train to New York. May I take you borne, Rarbara?" Th girl's eyes looked orer at th beach regretfully, then roamed orer the Ship, standing there all desolate, lapsing again Into that sllenc from which It had Just been awakened. I saw a certain wistful ness steal Into her y. -No, Rodney; I don't think I'll go boas Jeet yst, I'm not la th humor to I meet aunt and the. people at the oln.b. I'd Ilk to sit here and think a while." I "Well." said Rodney, "good-by." II ' shook hands with her. "Hooddiy, l'ellx. If j on ever find this place too lonely for you. com and see m In New York. Thins do happen there sometimes, though I not such thing as here lit Atastalr." I We shtvik hands and I cvwht ' n I gllmpw of some pnMnif regret beneath ' the smile on the surface of his eyes. I A I had watch! Duponceau. 1 watch ed Rodney disappear Into the pines The , cheerful man In tweed, like the mysteri ous nun of th sea, had said farewell to the beach, but eaeh had left a trace of himself therf which I should never for I get. I turned tack to Rarbara. "It's all over," she said. "They've all come and gone, and It might have been a dream." "Here's the Ship," I answered, "riding at anchor, Just as h did before," "That makes It seem more like a dream." she said: "that after all that has happened, the Ship I Just the same as on the first day I found her, and the beach" she turned to face It "Is Just as sunny and as desolate. " "Yet the pirate came," I answered, "a real pirate, a lineal descendant of Ch tain Klild, and he brought treasure and hid It and dug It up again, and fought like the thorough going gentleman advetv turer he wa. Monsieur Plerro Dupon ceau was no ordinary man." "Tell me what you know about him," she ii) nmn ruled, and settled down, lean Ins against the mast. "He was an uncommon man," I began, "but whether an uncommon man bro a hero or a scapegrace depends upon the lurk of time. Duponcean had Ideas that were far about the heads of most men, Ideas that some one at a later day might ue to grrat ends, or which he himself might have used so had ho been given time. II planned, gathered his cargoes, launched his ships In search of th Gold en Fleece, and was on his way to win ning It when a quartering gate drove his craft upon the rocks. Had the. wind veer ed by a nedle-polnt, he might have won. He was planning to make the poor of France well-to-do; Instead he made them much poorer than they were; and yet those same plans' pushed on may succeed when It's too late for the poor Investors or for blm. That's about th way It stands." Rarbara was silent, her ye watching tte distant glitter of th sea. "There's so much luck In things, Isn't tbrr eh said finally. "I Ilk him. anyway: l Ilk blm for what ha tried to do." Then, after a pause: "You wer always sure something would happen here, weren't you 1 So was I. Something had to happen. Do you suppose b cam of his own free will, or because w had wished so hard for an adrenturi" "Wishing hard can accomplish almost anything, I've been told." "What ar you going to do now that everything la over" sh asked presently, I shook my head disconsolately. "I hare barely yet faced th possibil ity of no more teas on th beach, no more sunsets from th cliff, no more adventures on the. Ship, it's not a very pleasant prospect. Is ItV "Rut th beach and th cliff and th Ship will still b here," sh answsrsd. I followed ber gaze seaward. "A week ago I discovered a curious thing. For years I had lived here and found all th bsauty I wanted In watch ing the changing colon of th wave, and th golden glow through th woods, and th dawn pinks of th sand, and ytt all of a sudden I found thsy had absolutely vanished, that I couldn't possibly find them any more." I waited, and finally I caught her low- whispered. "Why)" "Something had happened. I couldn't e them alone; I could se them only when somo one els wo there to e them, too," She gave a little sign. "I know; I can understand Just what you mean." "Th pines show no mor armies, and th Hlilp gives up no mor adventures, unless there Is some on els her to see and live them with me." "And," sh said slowly, thoughtfully, "if titer wer some on else, would all these wonders still comer" "Surely, for w would b living them all th time we. wsr together." "Poet!" sb sold. "Dreamer!" I waited, fearful and hopeful In on. "And yet I dream, too," sh said at last; "and I think that you hav shown me more wonderful things than an on els could." Then do you still think," I asked, "that some other man will com who can show you more?" Sh would not answer my question. "Th man we Imagined cam out of th see. and Is gone. I feel as If I'd lived year In a fortnight. Dear old Ship, bow I bat to lear her!" "W.hy must youT Why not sail on and on In her forever? 'Vby not set sail in hr for the Fortunate Isles? Radiant, will you?" Sh turned and looked Into my tyre, and I read ber answer. Bo, with Rarbara sitting against the mast, our Ship sot sail. (tub en p. Hastr Correction. Hojax I hear you are engaged old man. Allow me to congratulate you. Tomdlx You didn't hear It quite right, my boy. I'm married. Hojax Ob, I beg pardon. You have my sympathy. Justice. "My wife and I alwaya settle our little disputes by arbitration." "And who is the arbitrator.?" 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