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...BLACK SWAN-Rafael Sabatini- Houghton Mifflin...
After a good holiday spent in writing his last few fizzlers, Author Sabatini in The Black Swan returns to his true character as romancer. The scene of his romance is the Caribbean Sea, the time soon after the death of England's second Charles. At this period pirates and buccaneers, having buried their pots of gold, were beginning to bury themselves. Even a respectable pirate like Henry Morgan had been retired to the governorship of Jamaica, bribed with a knighthood, pending his extermination of what few old buccaneer friends of his still carried on. Most reprobate, most elusive...
When Major Sands, from the poop deck of the trading-ship Centaur, just under way from Antigua to England, sees the 40-gun Black Swan sidling up, he trembles for himself and for his charge. He is escorting back to England lovely Priscilla. daughter and heiress of Antigua's onetime governor, the late Sir John Harradine. The Centaur's captain maneuvers his ship like a fool and the only other passenger, de Bernis, is known to have been a buccaneer...
...brother. De Bernis, an old associate of Tom Leach's, was on his way to tell him of a plate fleet soon to sail for Spain. To withhold Leach from treachery, he withholds all information as to whence the fleet will sail, insists that Leach careen the Black Swan on a certain island's beach and scrape her bottom clean for the fast fight to come. On the island trouble brews. Leach makes goat's eyes at Priscilla, would murder de Bernis but for his men, who want a lick at that Spanish treasure. When finally Leach...
Most fanciful of all were concessions listed as "X," "Y" and "Z." Lee, Higginson were content with Kreuger's story that these assets must remain anonymous for high diplomatic reasons. In 1931, when President Joseph R. Swan of Guaranty Co. asked for detailed information, Herr Kreuger reported about $70.000.000 invested in "X." "Y" and "Z" but still insisted on anonymity. Last week it was revealed that X stood for Italy, Y for Spain, Z for Diamond Match Co. But the "concessions" did not exist, the $70,000,000 "investment" was pure falsehood...