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..FOR Next 3( WE OFF! ENTIRE AT C Comme June 25t W. T. BEA1 F. Q. Austell, - mwrni i Bj WEATHERBY OHESNEY and ALIOK w MEKRO. ____ [Cap/right, 1000, by Weatherby OWaocy and Allck muiuv. J CI - w ' til Alec stood up to be Inspected. A oi great liorn windowed lantern was 11 thrust out on the end of a boat book, w and Martin Snale, climbing into the tli main rigging, made a penthouse of his two hands and peered at us from under sn them. The fog was thick, the tallow I ah dip flickered badly and Martin's wits | in were sluggish; consequently he was w very long In coming to a decision. At ot the end of nearly ten minutes' scrutiny Tl he stepped down from his perch and. tli bidding us remain where we were, dis- a\ appeared for awhile. Presently he re- la turned and, scrambling luto the shrouds again, bawled out afresh: tli "Ye looks all right; solid enough, gi too, I don't deny. Hut when a man's gi been n mariner all the years I have he m learns that looks Is sometimes deeelv- eil In. 2$o I'll just make so bold as to of heave this ornnge at one o' ye to see p! whether It hits anything solid enough In to burst. If It does, ye can come abonrd." fo lie lifted his hand and threw. The sli yellow fruit, flying through the air, gr was stopped by Willie Trehalion's bald th pate. The boatswain never winced, tli and apparently tlic sight of the seat- lit cred pulp and Julee?tbe orange was tr an overripe one?streaming down Ids til atolld face was sutliolont. Martin Snale g<i demanded no more tests, and we ellinb- of ed up tbe round barrel side of our own old brig, tlie Bristol Merchant. to There was but one thing which less- tli ened our delight at meeting In freedom f' our old shipmates once more?we could ce not have the satisfaction of letting ed Don Miguel know how we had fooled hIi him. th kl CHAPTER XXXI. hi Three months had elapsed sin^e the f>t scourge bhiico from Lave island when the Bristol Merchant drew In between the hnrbor heads. to Directly she rounded the spit a glance told those who knew the spot )(r that something was wrong. All the ,v, works raised by Knglish hands had been nithlessly destroyed. Weeds were Jo growing among a few charred stumps ([t on {he shore, ami on the platform cl| iibpve fhpre was muk tropical Jungle ty place of our snug, trlnt built dwell- j pgs bener^h the pnlm grove. jlr 4 falconet shot rouaed speech from t(l fhe cliffs, but brought reply from jnipipn yqlpe. Tlie echoes died -away, c|, the screaming sea fowl settled down nj, again and silence once more brooded r)| f ver the Islaud. K(l We began to feel uneasy forebodings ?f 11L The old man could scurcely be ? % V* Vr,i * * . ; ... THE.. ) Days :r our STOCK OST :ncing h, 1901. v & co.; rianager. av to sucn n summons wore he anyhere In the neighborhood. True, ho iglit have wandered to the other side the island. But we dared not think Ills lameness made him loath to all; unnecessarily, ami for food he ould not require to go far afield. The vessel in which we returned as. It Is true, as different In every lint from the Scourge as Stie Vc.l mid he, but our spars and rigging ere gay with English ensigns and le voices which hailed the shore withit answer were English every one. ad the old man been nt hand he ould not have failed to recognize lein. With sinking hearts we ran down ill and anchored and then putting ihore looked about us in a sad dlsay. Wanton destruction was everyhere. Not a stick or a stone of nny of ir works had lieeti left untouched, lie Philistines had come down upon e stronghold while its guards were vay. and what Philistines could there > in these seas save Spaniards if We approached the cave. Small hop* at the rich harvest stored in that irner would be overlooked by stud ivn.v nini^rr* us me ii'iinw country en of those who had originally reap I It. Indeed the splintered woodworl the doors and partitions showei ainl.v enough where the ravisiterid been at work. Collecting htindles of resinous fagot r torches, we passed through tin mttered portal and hurried across tin 'eat main hall lit hy the sunlight rough Its crannied roof, away ovet e dry flooring of silvery sand which id once formed lied and table for out nop of slaves. running eagerly alone 1 we reached the narrow arch which ivc entrance to the gloomy windings the abyss beyond. Stopping for a ttn^Pm to light the relies, we advanced again, splashing rough the chilly stream which Issued out we knew not what darksome re 88 of the great labyrinth, and now Idled and gurgled round our knees, lettering the sntoky torch Haines front e trleklets Hint would linvo dropj>ed sses on them from the roof. scramIng through clammy mud baths mid rn(ti;llnK over wet, shiny bowlders, award we pressed Into the very bows of the Island, skirting black botmless pools and shivering qulcknds. But everywhere we saw the neks of the countless feet that had en before us. Kvcr and again they nndcrcd olT Into some unknown depth the maze, but as Invariably returned the track which we now followed? e track which led to the treasure amber. Miles and miles must the Sp^p|s|| underers have traversed among these iknown windings and dogged Indcet) e perseverance which carried (hptp rough to the end. But at Inst tlie ustered footprints reached n narrow sle that had no turning, and we knew en that the rohbers had reached their al. At this point Alec, the boatswain and nil the Soonrm'V civw pxwpl Job Trehallon turned hack. They were satisfied tlint further ndrnnrp was useless and wished to spare themselves the mortification of seeing the empty vault where once their wealth had been banked. Perhaps It was mere Idle curiosity which Its] me on and perhaps It was a wish to show the newcomers what n store there had been waiting for us and them. Anyhow I followed Job Trchnllnn into the darkness. The path ran by the side of a deep water Oiled gully. It terminated In a small domed chamber, the only entrance Into which was through a narrow arch, which the stream more than half closed. And here had been our treasury. In this water guarded vault we bad dc|K>sltcd the pouches of pearls and the chests of coin won at the cost of so much good ICuglish blood. Now not a leathern hag nor n wooden case remained. The Spaniards had ruthlessly taken our all. liut there was in the place where our store had lain a sight which made my muscles <|uake with chilling horror. Supported by n niche in the rock sat a skeleton, pointing its l>ony lingers at tny breast and irrlimiinr nt me witi? half toothed. lies li less Jaws. I had almost trodden on Its outstretched shanks when the lit fill light Supported by a tiIrhc in the rock sat o skeleton. of tlie torches falling on the whitened bones revealed its ghastly presence. Mine was not the nervous start of a coward. Ileaven knows 1 had seen too many dead men In the tlesli and In the bone, too. for that matter, to <|nall at the sight of a mere piece of cold humanity. Ilad the skeleton been naked I might have taken it for that of a Spaniard and have given It no more than a careless glance in passing. But there was that about It which told me whose body it had once supi>ortod. Around the bony lattice of its ril>s hung a nioldcring leather Jerkin, once gaudy with slashings and lace, but now mildewed over with a soft gray fur. It was the old man's. I had seen lilni change it from a dead Spaniard's bnek to his own and knew that he had worn It ever since. And if other evidence was wanted, it was there in the broken and distorted bones of leg and wrist. It needs no wizard to read the writings of the Spaniard's clemency. Job 'Probation shared inv knowledge and for n will It* gazed with 1110 In silent horror. Tin? others clustered curiously round, wondering why a mere hag of twisted lKtnes should so affect us. At length Job found his voice. "Master Topp." he whispered honrsely,"d*you note the old man's outstretched linud? lie's built a wall o' mud an pebbles for It to lie on." "Yes," said I. "It seems a curious freak, but he was always strange and eccentric In his doings." "The old man nwver did aught without an object. Master Topp. Ilis brain might take after bis legs in being a bit crooked, but it were a clever brain, for all that, '*iHH'inlly when there was Spaniards to be gammoned. Let's see where the linger points. Itlow up your torches, lads. All. see there! Telled 'ee so. Master Topp! 1 knowed there'd be something." And Job broke out into a great chuckle, which well nigh ended in a sob. "See," he went on. "there's writing on the wall, scratted in with a knob o' stone. Head it,' Master Topp. I baln't scholard enough to tell what It says." "'Snake his trail' is what Is written. Job. It has neither rhyme nor reason." "No; It ha'n't rhyme, that's true, though none could turn a rhyme an set I* ? -? *? ii iu ii viitTn 111 11h 11k(* ino old innn tvlicn he put his mind to it. Hut T. warrant there's reason, though iuebbc*the nut's a l>ard un to erael;." "Like a date stone. Job." I answered dejectedly?"bard to break, and no kernel when you've broken it." "Well, Mister Topp. It won't do no barm to tell Captain Ireland what was the Inst words as the old man wrote. An now"? "And now." I interrupted, "we must carry ids poor tsutes hack to daylight and give them a decent burial. So run back, some of you, and cut saplings for a litter." "No need for a litter," said Job. "I've cArrled the old man living, whiles he'd laugh an say I was Ids moke, an I don't think ns he'd ask other arms than IaI, ? > > )uii iiviiiiiiiiu n m i-urrav mill iicail. Ami without nnotlicr word In* reveroutly ntid tenderly gathered up the shriveled corpse aud Isire it in his arms to the shore. We performed the last obsequies, and put up n great sluh of stone over the grave, on which Alec carved with a sword point, "Senex hie Jacet* And for two whole days Job Trohnllon snt l?y the grave or wandered in the woods alone, ami during the whole time we remained on the Island no man heard his laugh or saw his grin. It was a strange friendship which these two crazy ones had for one another. After the burying was done there was a great discussion about the mean Ing of the words which the old man had written. Some thought they were more wanderings of a diseased mind, while others maintained that they had a meaning, hut that It was scarcely worth while to attempt to dive very deeply after It. livery one had something to say; Alec alone remained silent and milled his lingers thoughtfully through his shock of tangled red lialr. I did not question him, lnit went to sleep, trusting that his wits would work out some solution. When the sun had scarcely risen and the uiglit mists were still wnvlug lazily over the harbor, a hand was laid on my shoulder, and I awoke to find toy sworn shipmate standing over me. lit bade me slip on my clothes and conic floU'll tit tlui cluteii VeHli ".hick." he said, when wo hail roach etl a path lending to the plateau above "what's a serpent's trailV" ."The mark of its misty slime on th< ground, which shows where it lint passed," 1 answered promptly, "01 mayhap it's ids InsWles, If you will have it so," I added, not seeing in tin least what lie was steering for. "flood, .lack! You'll make ft lawyei yet. And uow where shall wo lind oui serpent?" "In the woods, if there are ntiy, though 1 believe the island's free ol tlieia." "What do you say to a stone serpent?" "What, one of those at the tempU corners?" "Yes. The very one perhaps thai you and Willie Treliallon turned Into r bogy house to frighten Spaniards. St stir your stumps, .Tack, and per hap: we'll bring hack some good news n> sauce for breakfast." So away w? walked together to the great temple 01 the black heights of the farther eapt ??... t.-i?' We readied the platform, stcppci through the old opening nnd mounter the stair in the serpent's body. Scrawl ed on one of the walls we found .1 great "W." whose meaning 1 was at t loss to guess. Alee, however, as soon an he saw II went down again and made for the western corner of the temple. Here after a lengthy search and careful sounding of the walls and floor, we dis covered a loose slab of stone nnd wrenching it up, descended to a chain ber In the snake's gulletSure enough there was more writing nnd this time the meaning was qultt plain. "Look In the bole of the tree where!! the bear sheltered which gored Jni I'engony Ids thigh." Now fortunately I had witnessed tin Incident referred to. and we rushed to ward it with beating hearts. The hollow was choked with stick) and leaves and such like rubbish, bin this we clawed away with eager hand) nnd came at last upon a case botth bound in wicker. Peering down tin neck. Alec said he saw a parchment ami, breaking the glass without uiort ado. found that the letter was address ed to himself. It was written 011 tin back of an old ship's manifest, ami tliii is how it ran: I)r. t.ad?The Pay after thy Scourge salted, (null coasting llri^ liove to oil the Mouth of liar hour, aik] wd have conic in hail I not hailed ho with Throats. Whoroiipon sho turnod Tail. JudR td hor Master vrd tell his Mates and bring tin i Force. Bethought mo how to dispose of Treasure Schemed Plan'and o\o? utrd it. To repeat same follow ravine at Foot of Temple llill. and lind i poised Hock across Torrent. Three-ply Itlork am Tackle shifts it. Cave beyond then dry, formini Treasure ('handier. Chests and Pouches lie in it. Ant about to die, but will serve thee even in ilv in*. Itoinij in such evil Case, and hiiiiK knnwi liy none not ovt-n by ?>!<! Shipmates as Tro lialion, Scnr., anil IVngmiy?ili<l not through veri Shame own Kin-hip before, but now Milisorilto my golf Tliinc alTte father, lit \uv IntUND. Post Scriptuiu- Will band tine my Share o Treasure. Take as Co-legacy my Hate of Span iarda. CIIAPTKH XXXII. Sail away, llatk away, Plumler! 11 loom.) Gather all the valuables you can. Conic back. Nothing lot k, Thunder! Illooin.) Scatter all the money like a titan. The Bristol Merchant's anchor hai kissed Severn nuitl once more, nntl Wil lie Treiialion's favorite song, sting roared and shouted in every variety o voice and key, is rising from tin throats of her brown faced crew am compelling attention on the wharfs am lauding stages of Bristol city ? aye and throughout the whole town too. The years of nil vent tire ami perl have come to an end at last, ami now before the quill is laid aside ami tin ugly, uncompromising word Finis h scrawled across the bottom of the las page, a few more dips In the iokhort will enable Captain Alexander ire laud's brave lads to make their bov and march off the stage with ensigt and pennants (lying. For .lolin Top| prides himself oil being too old a sea man to leave the strands of his ynri lying littered about the decks, but pre fers Instead to see them snugly mousei and pointed to an end. When the Bristol Merchant set oil from the muddy Severn to seek ndven ture and gold in the faraway west 101 men, drunk ami sober, had wntcli ed from her decks the black, wavy lltx which marked the Iron bound coast o Devon until It sank slowly beneatl the horizon astern and had then turn ed, with hearts full of hope, to follow the Itcckoning arms of the flnshlnj sun as it dipped, all molten gold, int< the waste of western waters. It wai the beacon which tohl us that out then beyond the Atlantic rollers lay Manoa tllO eltV whoso strnots vvoro nnviwl rnltl gold. All. but It Ued! That golden glorj of the sunset was a wlll-o'-the-wisi which led nil but n few of those 10 brave men to their dentil. Mnuoa h:i: never yet enriched by so much as t piece of eight the tunny bold ndvctt turers who have sought It. nor evei will, for. to my thinking at least. Its golden wealth exists only In the hopei of the bold lads Whom It lends to death Ave, Mauoa is but a dream cltv. nu? i the story of Job Trehallon's tame pagan was hut n Circe song of death. There are some men who can be Imp[ py only when they are doing and daring. To enjoy the rewards of adventure past and peril safely bra veil is to them Impossible. Only sword in hand, and in the sharp grnspiug of battle do they breathe easily and believe that they really live. Now, I ask no better comrade than sueh a one to stand by my side when the hot breath of a foe Is sarcitis la my face, but ashore, in I a tavern, or at supper in a Bristol mercer's house, a man may have n more congenial comrade. Of this restless sort was my sworn shipmate, Alex? ntider Ireland, and before a month's i mud and rust had gathered on the Bristol Merchant's anchor llukos, he was at sea again, lighting in Captain Cranky Brake's company against the enemies of lCuglntid and Queen Bess, t Job Trehalion spent his prize money t in 14 days and then slopped for the r Guinea coast, from which he lias not I yet returned. His uncle, after a shortf er trial of dissipation, resolved to eschew the delights of sack and ale " mid started a tavern to aid him in keeping his vow. The rest of the crow "scattered all their money like men," . and tlu'ii went a lion t once more to col' loot a further supply for the same good purpose. It Is the way of sailor tueu mid always will he. lint there Is still one person In this i tale of whose fate 1 have not told, and I had meant that there should he half t a score more of chapters written to t say how I sought her and won her. , But she has read all that 1 have writ} ten, and she refuses to form any fnr4 ther part In what she calls my tale of , robbery and blood. If I wish to tell , how 1 sought her at Vigo and found > that she had gone, and how I finally tracked her to Grenada and stole her j then, says she, I must write another j tale of that alone. She is my wife. I have bought a roll t of pa(ter ami -a score of ijuills and t could write the tale with easy glibuess if It were permitted me. Hut. as 1 say. I Inez is my wife now, and t?i she must , be obeyed. TIIE ENI>. 1 . . wi'vt-'-.. Hnrd I.lnen. J ^ ^ "What's the matter with him?" "Well, yer see, he's allers counted on prow in up an be In a detective, tin now .. t*r fortune teller's done said lie's sure r he president some day.'"?New York frening Journal. n Foiled K Id nn |icrtt. a They kidnaped Tommy Jiggers, j Some bold and wicked mm; ( Tbi y grabbed tlie l>oy one evening Anil took him to tlivii ilon. They wrote a tearful loiter. , In xvhirh lliey vowoil ami swere 'Txvoulil cost ten > Ih>u-m>> I dollars f To sec the lad onre more. Next day in all the papers f The nclghlmrs advertised, 'Attention, Bold Kidnapers! You hereby are advised That if you'll keep young .lingers And never aend him lurk Just twenty thousand dollar* Will come along your traik." It was some two weeks later Young Jiggers sauntered in; Ilis fare xvas proud and happy; He wore a tickled grin. He bore a plaintive letter; "Take this kid back," it said, s "And liero's the twenty thousand, In three weeks we'd lie dead." ' It seems that Tommy Jiggers f Bail talents that were great, , For from his early childhood lie always could orate. And while the neighbors rested I In peaceful, ralm delight, The poor, deceived kidnapers Had heard the boy recite. ^ ?Baltimore American. 5 'r' BROTHER GARDNER. I Home Flillosophy hy the President of I the l.inteklln ('lull. jcopynxht, l'.oi, iiy R. I/wls.] r Ebery innn wants to go fisliin now i on don. l>nt 1 neither j ot found one who ) was willin to see Ids hens take a vnea shun. i It am mostly moil who do-Mar' dat 1 marriage am a lottery, an it am mostly men who try deir best to make it so. t When yo* have diskiberod a man who lots de world slide an nebbor worries . about anything, yo' have found a pusl? son dat would like to got into yo'r debt f an stay dar. It's do honest men who i do most of de worry In. When my nayhur's i?ianor kept mo j; awake, I wanted to go to law about it, > hut when do barkin ??f my dawg kept s him from slumber an ho raised a row u about It 1 put hiifi dowu as a bad man. x When a man lias got all ready to go dowu to do tax office an swear off bis j personal taxes, uuflin puts him out so > much as to have de newspapers come I out nn speak of him as an honest man. , i When a man finds himself de owner . of a vicious mewl, be at once reflects r dat he was bo'n so an can't help it, but * when he diskibers de same traits about 4 his feller man he wants him punished . nt once beknse he isn't like himself. 1 ARIZONA KICKLETS. Rome Live It Item* From a Bntr FR1tor'* Frn. (CopjT'-Ut. 1001, by r. n. I.-wis.J The cirruv.?t!??n "t 'I'ho Ivlohor has not rt iiclird inu.otHUHH) yot, hut Is so oloxo to it that wo rail fool this shle of the continent gradually tipping up. A pnrty wbirli visltrd Rill Williams' mountain last week In the Interests of science found undeniable evidences of n rnee pf people at least lo.OUO years ohl. We regret that It Is too late to shake up a few subscriptions among them. During our temporary absence froin iho Wiui.iiiuiin? ill favored stranger who is Rii|tp(wo<l to be a teamster entered the corrhlor and tired six bullets Into the clock and FTTtET) HIX m i,I,ET8 INTO THE CIJOCK. cot safely away. If he will come some day when we are at home and start In to repeat the performance, we will cuarantee him the lincst coffin to he had in town and a funeral procession half a mile long. We have been invited to deliver an address on Shakespeare before the (Irass Valley Literary club one night next week, hut we have begged to decline with thanks. We know tlie elub of ohl. It is composed of seven men and a poker game, and when last we addressed it we dropped $."<0 on three jacks. In order to maintain our dignity as mayor of this town we had to throw Colonel Chiivers down the e!ty hall stairs one day last week, and we understand that he is likely to he laid up for some time to eoiue. Sorry for the colonel, who is a gecd fellow at bottom. l>ut our dignity must and shall be pre,served. The editor of the P.'ue ITill Times charges us with hoMing 11 dlfTcreiit oil ices and grabbing for others. We hold only live others, and the only other we are reaching out for is the presidency of the 1'lilted States. Please correct and oblige. That we still have, the esteem and confidence of the people was proved last week when we were elected chief of the fire department, named as orator for the next Fourth of July and asked to lead the church choir for the coming year. Integrity of character backed up by two guns will always win. I'njtn Know*. Roggo?1 lienrd papa say the other day that labor is sweet ami noble. Mamma?So it is. lleggo. Reggo?Then, mamma, why does papa hire a man to cut tlie grass while he sits on the veranda and only looks on? -King. Hrnipmbor^il to Forpfot, Askit?And did your uncle rementhor you In his will? Tollit?Well, he retnetnhered me all right, but that was why lie didn't mention tue in the will. ? Haltitnore Ameriean. O -5K- -Hfr ? * _ 1HE - ! Farquhar 5 T has been the lending ' : THRESHER * ^ for -1"> years?too well known to i & need'description here. i ?, Send for illastrad d catalogue of T * Engines,. Thrashing Much n"rv. * |s >aw NtilK and Agricultural lui- ? pleinents, mailed free. ? & A B. FAIUK'IIAK CO., Ltd. * ^ *2*2-It Y'lltK, PA. X Health ()/Tne Honrs. Will lie in my office, at. the Coumtt ''bomber, from Ida. m. to 1*2 in. eveiy day, Sundays and hol-day a excepted, toi the convenience of citizens wishing hurial permits or to transact any other bush ess pertaining to the office. 30?tf. W. D. IlAnnis. NOTICE. 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