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x Being the Authentic ! (/
v Narrative of a Treasure I Q
Q Discovered in the /)
(A Bahama Islands in the
)\ Year 1903?Now First j x
\ Given to the Public. !; x
| RICHARD LEGALUENNE | |
Copyright by iHmblcday, I'ajrc ?fc Company
SYNOPSIS.
BOOK I.
CHAPTER I.-The author, who tells tho
Story, Is on it visit to his frlciul. John
Saunders, l'.ililslt olllelal In the town of
Nassau. Uahnina islands. Conversation
turns on hueu'll treasure.
CHAPTER II.?Saunders produces n
document supposedly written l>> IR-nry I'.
Tobias, unco a pirate, telling of two
places where gold had been secreted In
the Islands. J heir conversation apparently
is overheurd, and tile dot ument disappears.
CHAPTER III.-The writer charters a
echooner, the Maggie Pariing. and >ts
out on a search for r..e ireasure. As Cicv
sail they take nhourd a passenger, whom
the author lnstlnt tivi ly distrusts.
CHAPTER IV The hero strikes up a
particular iriendship with "til.I Tom" a
negro member of the crew. Tho boat is
passed bv tho Susan 1J., a faster sailer,
also from Na -su i.
CHAPTI It V. -On the s i-r.r.d morning
out they find that tho suppl) of guHoline
has Mowed to run out. Our writer
platnes tl ngineer mid in u lit ol temper
knocks hint down, "i .. passenger, colling
himself llenry K Tobias, Jr.. prot<
and it conit - OUl tli it is :i live III U
consplr.i . to have I " bi.1 :<s rls.- against
tin in t. h go> t ; nii.nl In the Italian .s.
11.' utt. pts tin- i;t' of tho liero and
W itii two others is i t usllor .
C1I \1 |-';H VI -The Maggie l> fling arrive.'.
.it ?n . d stii 11. ti m l the party
finds tl Susan 1has roachod there and
landed u ?. A light eos .. s and li e captain
-f i Maggie' Marling Is kilted, but
his gang i tli several being lel't
behind d> <j.
CHAPTER VII.
In Which Tom and 1 Attend Several
Funerals.
When Tnjn hii'l I i"iin?' to look over
uie gmumi wiiii n view to tiii'Iiir." ti
burial place for t)i?? dead I realized
with grim emphasis ili?> truth ?rf
Charlie Wft stcr's remarks?in those
wiuggery nights that s,*,*nied so remote
and fur uwn\ ?on the nature of
the .-Oil which woilhl have to In- gone
over hi 'iitest of tn\ treasure. No wonder
he had spoken of dynamite.
"Win. Tom," I said, "there isn't n
wheelbarrow load of real soil in a
square mile. We < < uldn't dig a grave
for a dog in stuff like this," and. as I
spoke, the pewterlike roek under lay
feet clanged ami echoed with a metallic
sound.
"Come along. Tom, I ean't stand any
more of this. We'll have to leave our
funerals til! tomorrow, and get aboard
for the idcht"?for the Maggie Hurling
was still derating there serenely, as
though lie n and their violemo had no
exist* tii " on the plain t.
"We *; 'aetter eon r tli?-in up, against
tie turkey buzzards," said Tom, two
i f those unsavory bird- rising In the
air as we ret urn4! to the shore. Wo
did this as well as we Were able with
rocks and the wreckage of an old
hoat strewn on the beach.
I don't think two men were ever so
glad of the morning, driving before it
the hunt ted night. Alter breakfast
our lit , ihought was naturally to the
i-.d and disagreeable business beforo
us.
"I tell you what I've been thinking,
nar," said Tom, as we rowed ashore,
itnd I managed to pull down a turkey
j
Trey G deel Off With Scarce a Splash.
hii7. -'1 Mint rose lit our approach ?
Jripi y our "v?'rings had proved fair*
ly of i-rfu "I'vo boon Minikin# that
tlii <>iity one of the three that really
niaiuis is thu captain, anil we ?*D
find si:f! lent xolt for him In one of
those til# holes."
"How about the oilers?"
"Well, to toll the truth, 1 was thinking
Mint sharks are good enough for
them."
"They deserve no hotter, Tmn, and
I think we may as well get rhl of them
first."
So it was done as we said, and enrrylng
them by the feet and shoulders
to the edge of the bluff ?tSeorge. and
Silly Theodore, and the nameless giant
who had knocked me down so opportunely?we
skillfully flung them In,
and they glided off with scarce a
splash.
Then wo turned to the poor captain
and carried him as gently as we could
over the rough ground to the hlggest \
of the hnnnna holes, as the natives J
call them, and there we were able to I
dig him a fairly ruspectublc gruve.
I I
Tom hdiI Sailor and T were now, to
the best of our belief, alone on the
Island, and a louesomer spot It would
be bard to Imagine, or one touched at
certain hours with a fairer beauty?
a beauty wraithlike and, like n sea
shell, haunted with the marvel of the
seu.
First we went over our stores, and,
thanks to those poor dead mouths that
did not need to be reckoned with any
more, we hud plenty of everything to
last us for at least u month, not to
speak of fishing, at which Tom was an
expert.
When, however, we turned to our
plnns for the treasure hunting we
soon came to a dead stop. The Indications
given by Tobias seemed, in the
face of such a terrain, naive to a degree.
Possibly the land had changed
since his day. Some little, of course, i
It must have doue. Tom and 1 went i
over Tobias* directions again and
there was the compass carved on the <
rock, and the cross. There was some- j <
thing definite?something which, if It
was ever there at all, was there still? J
for in that climate the weather leaves j
things unperlshed almost as in F.gypt. |
Sitting on the highest bluff we could ' t
litnl, Tom and I looked around.
"That compass Is somewhere among i
these infernal rocks?If It ever was ; 1
carved there at all?that's one thing i
certain, Tom; but look at the rocks!" j \
Over twenty miles of rocks north i 1
and south, and from two to six front ' |
ensl ?<> w.ict A ? i ?- - ??-- '
,v . UKIIV- ,I<MI IIIO | !
mind of 11111 ti could not conceive. Tout i I
shook his head, and scratched his j I
graying wool. 1
"1 go most hy the ghost, sar," he '
said. "All these men had never been ! !
killed if the ghost hadn't been smne- i i
where near. Mark me, if we find the i
treasure it'll be by the uliost." 1
"That's all very well," I hutched. 1
"Hut how are we golnc to get the ; 1
ghost to show his hand? He's got J
such bloodthirsty ways with hint." j 1
"They always have, sar." said Tom, i
no doubt with some ancestral shudder
of voodoo worship in his blood. "Yv-s, '
sar. the\ always cry out for Idood. It's I |
all they've got to live on. They drink ]
it like you and me drink coffee or
runt. It's terrible to hear them in the
night."
"Well, Tom," I remarked, "you may
he right, hut of one thing I'm certain;
if the ghost's going to get any one, It
sha'n't he you."
"We've both got one good* clianco
against them?" T< tn was beginning.
"I ain't tell me again about tluit old
sucking lish."
"Mind you keep It safe, for all that,"
said Tom gravely. "I wouldn't lose
mine for a thousand pounds."
"Well, all right, hut let's forget tbe
damned old ghosts for the present."
We decided to try a plan that was
really no plan at till; that is to say, to
seek more or less at random, till we
consumed till our stores except Just
enough to take us home. Meanwhile
we would, each of us, every day, cut a i.
sort of radiating swatlie,.working single-handed.
from the eove entrance.
Thus we would prospect as much of
tie; country us possible In a sort of
fan, both of us keeping our eyes open
for a compass curved on n rock. In
Ibis way we might hope to cover no Inconsiderable
stretch of the country In
the three weeks, and, moreover, the
country most likely to give some re- I
suli>, as being that lying In a seniicir- i
,-n. urn i?i? ---i ?- ->
.? ....... in.- mi' ii.ii i><i >\ 11 err uiu
ships would have lain. It wasn't much
of a plan perhaps, lint it seemed the
most possible anions the impossibles.
Harder work than we had undertaken
no men have ever set their hands
to. It would have broken the buck of
the most able-bodied navvy; and when
we reached the bout at sunset we had
scarce strength left to eut our supper
and roll Into our bunks. A machete
is a heavy weapon that needs no little
skill in handling with economy of
force, and Tom, who had been brought
tift to it, was, in spite of his years, a
better practitioner thun I.
I have already hinted at the kind of
devil's underbrush we had to cut our
way through, hut no words can do Justice
to the almost Intelligent stubbornness
with which those weird growths
i'pposed us. It really seemed as though
they were Inspired by a diabolic willforce
pitting itself against our will,
vegetable incarnation of evil strength
and fury and cunning.
I ?ay after day Tom and I returned
home dead heat, with hardly a tired
word to exchange with each other.
We bad now been at it for about a
forti igln, and I loved the old chap
more every day for the grit and courM.e
with which he suiuiorted our ter
i*lI !*' InItors and kept up his spirits.
Onee or twice we had made fancied
discoveries which we culled off the
other to sec, and once or twice we hud
tried ware blasting on rocks that
Keen, c io suggest mysterious tunnelin.'s
into the earth. I tut it had all
proved a vain thing and a weariaesr
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Millions of fraudulent Asnirin
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the true, genuine, American made
and American owned Tablets, arc
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\sk for and then insist upon "Bayer
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which contains proper directions
and dosage.
Aspirin is the trade mark of Bayer
Manufacture of Monoaceticacidester
of Salicycacid.
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of the flesh. And the ghost of John P.
Toblus still kept hts secret.
CHAPTER, VIII.
An Unfinished Game of Csrds.^
One evening as I returned to the
ship unusually worn out und disheartened
I asked Tom how the stores were
holding out. He answered cheerfully I
that they would last nhother week and
leave us enough to get home.
"Well, shall we stick out the other
week or not, Tom? I don't want to
kill you, and I confess I'm nearly all I
In myself."
"May as well stick It out, sar, now
we've gone so far. Then we'll hav?
done all we can. and there's a certain
satisfaction In doing that, sar."
So next morning we wont at II
again, and the next, and the next
again, and then on the fourth day
when our week was drawing to Its
close, something at last happened tc
change the grim monotony of our days
It was shortly after the lunch hour.
Tom and I, who were now working tor
Tar apart to hear each other's hnlloos
had tired our revolvers once or twic?
lo show that nil was right with us.
Hut. for no reason I can give, 1 sad
lenly got a feeling that all was not
right with the old man, so I fired in5
revolver and gave him time for a re
l?ly. llut there was no answer. Agair.
I firoil Still .... 1
- ... ... ..V/ Uiinttvii A Will* Ull lilt
point of tiring again when I henrf
ounethlng coming through the brust :
behind tne. It was Sailor raclm
inward me over the Japped rocks
Evidently there was something wrong
"Soinothinp wronp with old Tom
Sailor?" I asked, as tliouph he could j
Answer me. And indeed he did answer 1
us plainly us dop aould di>, wappina
Iris tail and whinlnp and turnlnp to pc
liack with mo In the direction whence
he had come.
"off we po, then, old chnp," and a*
he ran ahead, I followed him as fast
us I could.
It took nie the best part of an hout
to pet to where Tom had been work
inp. Sailor brushed his way ahead,
pushinp tlirouph the scrub with canine
importance. Presently, at the top of
a slipht elevation, I came niiinnp the
hushes to a softer spot where the soil
had given way, and saw that it was
the mouth of a shaft like a wide chimney
flue, the earth of which had evidently
fallen in. Here Sailor stopped
and whined, pawing the earth, and at
the same time I heard a moaning underneath.
"Is that you, Tom?" I called. Thank
God, the old chap was not dead at till
events.
"Thank the Lord, It's you, sar," he
cried. "I'm all right, but I've had a
bad fall?and I can't seem able to
move."
"Hold on and keep up your heart?
I'll he with you in a minute,** I called
down to him.
"Mind yourself, sar," he called cheer*
ily, <ind Indeed it was a problem to get
down tp him without precipitating the
loose earth and rock that were ready
to make a landslide down the hole, and
perhaps hury him forever.
But, looking about, I found another
natural tunnel in the side of the hill.
Into this I was able to worm myself,
and in the dim light found the old man
and put my tlask to his lips.
"Anything broken, do you think?"
Tom didn't think so. He had evidently
been stunned by his fall, and
another pull at my flask set him on
his feet. But as I helped him up, and.
striking a light, we he0an to look
around the hole lie had tumbled Into,
he gave a piercing shriek and fell on
his knees, jabbering with fear.
"The ghosts! the ghosts!" he
screamed.
And the sight that met our eyes was
certainly one to try the nerves. Two
figures sat at a tuble?one with his
hat tilted slightly and one leaning sideways
in his chair In n careless sort of
attitude. They seeeined to he playing
cards, and they were strangely white?
for they were skeletons.
I stood hushed, while Tom's teetli
rattled at my side. The fantastic awe
of tiie tiling was beyond telling. And
then, not without a qualra or two,
which I would he a liar to deny. I went
and stood nearer to them. Nearly all
their clothes had fallen away, hanging
but In shreds here and there. That
the hat had so jauntily kept its place
was one of those grim touches Heath,
that terrible humorist, loves to add to
his Jests. The cards which hail apparently
just been dealt, had suffered
scarcely from decay?only a little dirt
laid sifted down upon them, as it had
into the rum glasses that stood, too,
at each man's side. And as I looked
at the skeleton jauntily facing me, I
noticed that a bullet hole had been
made as clean as if by a drill in his
forehead of hone?while, turning to
examine more elnwelvr hie elh.ro
ii?t. I noticed a rusty sailor's knife
hanging from tho ribs where the lungs
laid lien. Then I looked on the floor
and found the key to the whole story.
For there, wliliin a few yards, stood
a heavy sailor's <he.at, strongly laamd
around with iron. Its lid was thrown
hack and a few coins lay scattered at
llu- bottom, while a few lay about on
the floor. I picked them up.
They were pieces of eight!
Meanwhile Torn had stopped Jabbering
end had come neurefr, looking on
In awed silence. I showed liltii the
pieces of eight.
"I guess these are all we'll see of
one John I'. Tobias' treasure. Tom,*'
I said. And It looks as if these poor
fellows saw as little of it as ourselves.
can't you imagine tii?*m with It there
at their feet?perhaps playing to divide
it op a gamble, and meanwhile
the ?tie".' fellows stealing In through
some of these rabbit runs?one with a
Ktilfe, the other with a gun?and then:
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off with the loot and up with the sail*
Poor devils! It strikes me ns a very
pretty tragedy?doesn't It you?"
Suddenly?perhaps with the vlbra- ?
tlon of our voices?the hat toppled off
the head of the fellow facing us In the
most weird and comical fashion?and
thut was too much for Tom, and he
screamed and made for the exit hole.
I Waited a Minute to Replace the Hat
on the Rakish One's Head.
Rut I waited n minute to replace the
hut 011 the rakish one's head. As 1
was likely often to think of him In the
fui are I preferred to remember him
at the moment of our first strange
acquaintance.
Ho uc mtinurd Next Week)
Argentina has ratified the League
of .-.uiiont, *1 ii11 is the first nation to
go on record as desiring to become a
ncn .'ur of the league. Argentina
thus t ikes her place alphabetically.
The United Slates wil have some time
in which to follow suite if the alphabetical
order is maintained.
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George Johnson, colored, was executed
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an attempt to rape. He went to the
electric chair proclaiming his innocense.
He was convicted at Aiken on
.May 1st and was sentenced to die on
June IS, hut was granted a reprieve
by Gov. Cooper. He was 19 years of
age.
James Allen, also colored, is in the
death house awaiting execution next
Friday, for having kiled a white man I i
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