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The Pirate Woman By: Aylward Edward Dingle (1874-) |
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ALL STORY WEEKLY VOL. XC NUMBER 2 SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1918 The Pirate Woman by Captain Dingle Author of "The Coolie Ship," "Steward of the Westward," etc.
[Transcriber's Note: This novel was originally serialized in four
installments in All Story Weekly magazine from November 2, 1918, to
November 23, 1918. The original breaks in the serial have been retained,
but summaries of previous events preceding the second and third
installments have been moved to the end of this e book. The Table of
Contents which follows this note was created for this electronic
edition.] Table of Contents
November 2, 1918 I. THE CAVE OF TERRIBLE THINGS. 193
II. DOLORES RECEIVES HER DIADEM. 196
III. THE GROVE OF MYSTERY. 200
IV. THE PIRATES' BARBECUE. 203
V. MILO SIGHTS A SAIL. 206
VI. THE PARTY FROM THE YACHT. 209
November 9, 1918 VII. THE ATTACK ON THE FEU FOLLETTE. 466
VIII. DOLORES DELIVERS JUDGMENT. 469
IX. THE SULTANA DECIDES SEVERAL THINGS. 472
X. A REED SHAKEN BY THE WINDS OF PASSION. 475
XI. PASCHERETTE UNVEILS HER PURPOSE. 477
XII. SANCHO SETTLES HIS ACCOUNT. 480
XIII. DOLORES FLOATS THE FEU FOLLETTE. 488
November 16, 1918 XIV. YELLOW RUFE'S FINISH. 697
XV. THE FIRES OF THE FLESH. 701
XVI. PEARSE ENTERS THE CAVE OF ALADDIN. 704
XVII. THE TREASURE TEST. 707
XVIII. PASCHERETTE DEALS AGAIN. 711
XIX. WHILE VICTORY HANGS IN THE BALANCE. 715
November 23, 1918 XX. DOLORES DEMANDS A DECISION. 147
XXI. THE SLUMBERING SAVAGE. 150
XXII. THE FLIGHT OF THE FEU FOLLETTE. 153
XXIII. STUMPY FIRES THE MAGAZINE. 155
XXIV. MILO CROSSES THE BAR. 157
XXV. THE TOLL OF THE GODS. 159
The Pirate Woman by Captain Dingle Author of "The Coolie Ship," "Steward of the Westward," etc.
CHAPTER I. THE CAVE OF TERRIBLE THINGS.
A great unrest brooded over mountain and forest; the blue Caribbean lay
hushed and glaring, as if held in leash by a power greater than that
which ordered its daily ebb and flow. Men moved or stood beneath the trees on the cliffside in attitudes of
supreme awe or growing uneasiness, according to their kind: for among
them were numbered Spaniard and Briton, creole and mulatto, Carib and
octoroon, with coal black negroes enough to outnumber all the rest and
it was upon these last that profound awe sat oppressively. Apart, followed by a hundred furtive eyes, Dolores, daughter of Red
Jabez, ranged back and forth before the mighty rock portals of the Cave
of Terrible Things, like some magnificent tigress hedged with foes.
Beyond those portals Red Jabez, Sultan of pirates, arbiter of life and
death over the motley community, lay at grips with the grim specter to
whom he had consigned scores far more readily than he now yielded up
his own red stained soul. Red Jabez was dying a death as hard as his
lurid life had been. Beyond those rock portals none save Jabez and Milo, the herculean
Abyssinian slave, had ever passed. Dolores, next in line, was in
ignorance as deep as her meanest slave, concerning what lay beyond the
great mass of rock which formed the door, and which Milo alone could
move. She knew, as did every one, that the great chamber of Red Jabez
held some vast mystery; she suspected, as did the rest, that it
concealed wealth beyond dreams; deep down in her soul she hoped that
inviolate chamber held for her the means of emancipation; but of this
hope, none knew save herself. For Queen of Night though the white men
called her, Sultana though she was named with fear and submission by the
blacks, though her power was second only to that of Red Jabez, and
barely less than his, a canker gnawed at the heart of Dolores, the
canker of a suspicion that her power was but a paltry power, her freedom
but a caged freedom... Continue reading book >>
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