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V Being the Authentic v j
V Narrative of a Treasure Q < ,
b Discovered in the A ,
Q ; Bahama Islands In the /) |
'y\ Year 1903?Now First ; > i
\ Given to the Public. x i
I RICHARD LECALUENNE \
Oopfiifbt by Doubled*?, P*?e * Ooupu? '
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4 ' CHAPTER I. '
Once More In John 8aunders* Snuoo?ry
Need I bay that It was a great occa- I
slon when I was once more hack safe (
In John Saunders' snuggery, telling my
story to my two friends, John and
Charlie Webster, nil Just as If I had -i
never stirred from my easy chair, Instead
of having spent an exciting '
month or so among sharks, dead men, j
blood-lapping ghosts, card-playing1
skeletons and such UkpT
My friends listened to my yarn In
characteristic fashion, John Saunders'
eyes like mice peeping out of a cupboard,
and Charlie Webster's huge
bulk poised almost threatening, as it
were, with the keenness of his at tentlon.
His deep-set kind brown eyes.
glowed like a boy's as I went on, but
by their dangerous kindling at certain
points of the story, those dealing with
our pockmarked friend, Henry P. To,
bias, Jr., I soon realized where, for
W him, the chief Interest of the story
lay.
"The rebel 1" he roared out
once or twice, using an adjective peculiarly
English.
For him my story had but one moral
?the treason of Henry P. Tobias, Jr. <
The treasure might as well have had
no existence, so far as he was con- 1
cerned, and the grim climax In the I
Cave drew nothing from him but a preoccupied
nod. And John Saunders 1
wna little more satisfactory. Both of
them allowed me to end In silence. 1
They both seemed to be thinking i
deeply.
"I must say you two are a great au- *
dlence," I said presently, perhaps i
rather childishly nettled.
"It's a very serious matter," said <
John Saunders, and I realized that It
was not my crony but the secretary to i
the treasury of his Britannic majesty's
government at Nassau that wag 1
talking. As he spoke he looked across ;
at Charlie Wehster, almost as If for- 1
trof flnrr mo ? l. ? -? i
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done about It, eh, Charlie?" he continued.
" traitor 1" roared Charlie, once
more employing that British udjective.
And then he turned to me:
"Look here, old pal, I'll make a bargain
with you, If you like. I suppose
you're keen for that other treasure
now, eh?"
"I am," said I, rather stiffly,
"Well, then, I'll go after It with
you?on one condition. You can keep
the treasure, If you'll give me Tobias.
It would do my heart good to get him,
as you had the chance of doing that
afternoon. Whatever were you doing
to miss him?"
"I proposed to myself the satlsfactlon
of making good that mistake," ]
said, "on our next meeting. I feel J
owe It to the poor old captuln."
"Never mind; hand the captain's
rights over to me-r-and Til help yog
all I know with your treasure. Besides,
ToblaB is u job for an EngllshW
man?eh, John? It's a matter of 'king
and country' with me. With you If
would be mere private vengeanca
With me It will be an execution; with
you It would be a murder. Isn't that,
o. John?" I
"Exactly," John nodded. (
"Since you were away," Charlie began
again, "I've bought the prettiest
yawl you ever set eyes on?the Flamingo?forty-flve
over all, and this
time the very fastest boat In the harbor.
Yes! she's faster even than the
Susan B. Now I've a holiday due me
In about n fortnleht. Sav th? word.
and tho ''lnmlngo's yours for a couple
of niontlis, and her captain too. 1
make only that one condition."
"All right, Charlie," I agreed; "he's
you re."
Whereat Charlie shot out a huge
paw like a shoulder of mutton and
grabbed nay hand with an much fervor
a* though 1 had Raved his life or done
hlfb some other unimaginable kindno*s,
And as he did eo hie broad,
aweet smile came back again. He was
thinking of Tobias.
While Charlie Wr lister was arranging
his affairs ho that he might he
able to take his holiday with a free
mind I busied myself with provisioning
the Flamingo, and In casually chatting
with one and another along the
water front, In the hope of gathering
some hint that might guide us on our
coming expedition. I thought It possible,
too, that chance might thus
bring me some Information us to the
recent movements of Tobias.
In this way I made the acquaintance
of several old salts, both white and
black, one or two of whom time and
their neighbors had Invested with a
legendary savor of the old "wrecking
days," which, If rumor speaks true,
sre not entirely vanished from the
remoter corners of the Islands. Itut
ollhar ?hnlr rninnntte hnlrtH were en
tlrely due to ImiiRinntlve gossip, op
fti*7 themselves wire too shrewd tQ 1
he drawn, for I got nothing out of
thein to my purpose.
One afternoon In the course of these
rather fruitless If Interesting Investigations
among the picturesque ship- ,
yards of Bay street I had tendered
1 farther along that historic water front
r than la customary with sightseeing pedestrians.
and had come to where the ,
road begins to be left alone with the
N mo* except for a few country houses
tiers and there strong the surrounding
te.i
itrayed away from the othero-r-a am all
timber erection painted In bine and
white with a sort of sea-wUdnees and
onellness about it, and with large,
naive lettering across its lintel announcing
Itself as an "Emporium" (I
hlnk that was the word) "of Marine
Curiosities." . |
I pushed open the door. There was
10 one there. The little store wus
evidently left to tuke care of Itself.
Inside it was like an old curiosity shop I
)f the sea. every available Inch ot
{pace, rough tables and walls littered '
ind hung with the queer and lovely
jrlc-a-brac of the sea. Presently a
Iny girl came in, as it seemed, from
lowhere and said she would fetch her
father. In a moment or two he came,
i tall, weathered Englishman of the
ml lor type, brown and lean, w^th
onely blue eyes.
"You don't seem afraid of thieves,"
I remarked.
"It ain't a Jewelry store," he said,
'You Don't 8eem-,Afraid of Thieve*.'*
with the curious soft sing-song Intonation
of ?he Nfissau "conch."
"That's Just what I was thinking It
was," I said.
"I know what you mean," ho replied, ?
his lonely face lighting up as faces c.'o
it unexpected understanding In a
utranger. "Of course there are some
that feel that way, but they're few and
far between."
"Not enough to make a fortune out
!>f?~
"Oh ! I do pretty well," he said; "I
mustn't complain. Money's not everything,
you see, In a business like ,
this. There's going after the things,
you know. One's got to count that In
too" |
I looked at him In some surprise.
I hud met something even rarer thnn
the things lie traded In. I had met a
merchant of dreams, to whom the mere
linndling of his merchandise seemed
uidlcleut profit; "There's going after
he things, you know. One's got to
?ount that in too."
Naturally we were neck-deep In tnlk !
In a moment. I wunted to hear all he [
-arwl to tell me about "going after ;
he things"?such "things!"?and he
was nothing loth, as he took up one
orange or beautiful object after another,
Ills face aglow, und he quite
evidently without a thought of doing
mslness, and told me all about them?
low and where he got them, and so
forth.
"Rut," he said presently, encouraged ;
>y my unfeigned Interest, "I should
like to show you u few rarer things I
k?..? t.. ? *
imvr in nit; iiuunr, <11111 wiiitii 1
wouldn't sell, or even show to every- 1
i>ue. If you'd honor tne by taking a
my of tea we might look them over."
So we left the little store, with Its
loor unlocked us I had found lt? and "
i few steps brought us to a little ouso
had not before noticed, with a neat
cnnlen In front of It, all the garden
>c<J? symmetrically bordered with :
ouch shells. Shells were evidently
he simple-hearted fellow's mania, his
evolution of the beauty of the world,
'lore In a neat pa-rlor, also much dec>rated
with shells, tea was served to
is by the little girl I had first Seen ,
ind an elder sister, who, I gathered,
liade all the lonely dreamer's family,
riien, shyly pressing on me a cigar, he
urned to show me the promised trens?res.
He nlso told me more of his
nnnner of finding them, and of the
ong trips which he had to take In
teeklng them, to ont-of-the-way cays
ind In dangerous waters.
He was showing me the last nntj
arest (it his specimens. He had kept,
le said, the best to the last. To mo,
is a layman, It was not nearly so afflictive
as other things he had shown
ne?little more to my eye than a rntlp
>r commonplace though pretty shell |
nit he explained that It was found,
ir had so far been found, only In one
ipot in the Islands, a lovely, seldom/(sited
eny several miles to the north>nst
of Andros Island.
"What Is It called?" I asked, for It
was port of our plan for Charlie to do
i little duck shooting on Andros, before
we tackled the business of Tobias
ind the treasure.
"It's called Cay nowadays,"
fie answered, "but It used to be culled
Short Shrift lslnnd."
"??hort Shrift Island!" I cried In
'pile of myself, Immediately annoyed
it my lack of presence of mind.
"Certainly," he rejoined, looking a
little surprised hut evidently without
msplclon. He was too simple and too
taken up with his shell.
"It Is such an odd name," I said,
trying to recover myself.
"Yes I those old pirate chaps certainly
did think up aome of the ruinml
est names."
"One of the pirate haunts, was ItY*
I queried with assumed Indifference.
"Supposed to be. Hut one hears
that of every other cay In the Bahamas.
I take no stock In such yarns.
My shells are all the treasure I expect
to find."
"What did you call that shell?" ]
asked.
He told me the name, but I forgot
It Immediately. Of course I had asked
more
precisely about Short Shrift Island. He ' *TC
told me Innocently enough just where *
It lay. | wl
"Are you going after It?" he laughed.
"Oh I well," I replied, "I am going
on a duck-shooting trip to Andros beforo
long; and I thought 1 might drop
nround to your coy and pick a few of
them up for you."
"It would be mighty kind of you, but ? '
they're not easy to find. 1*11 tell you ?'
exuetly?" He went off, dear fellow, eri
Into the minutest description of the
habits of , while all the time I
wn? eager to rush off to Charlie Web- ^
ster and John Saunders and shout " 1
Into their ears?as later I did at the n<
first possible moment that evening:
"I'tfe found our inlsslng cay! Short
Shrift island Is ." (I mentioned e
the name of a cay, which, as in the
case of "Dead Man's Shoes," I am un- w*
able to divulge.) ***'
"Maybe!" said Charlie, "maybe! er;
We can try It. But," he added, "did
you find out anything about Tobias?" nn
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CHAPTER II. h.u
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In Which I Am Afforded Glimpses Into f>?
Futurity?Possibly Uoeful. T?
Two or three evenings before we
were due to sail, at one of our snug- l,r'
gery conclaves, I put the question
whether anyone hnd ever tried the dl- Wl
vinlng rod for treasure In the Islunds.
Old John nodded uud Raid he knew r'c
the man I wanted, a half-crazy old negro
buck there In Ornnt'H Town?the
negro qunrter spreading out Into the
brush behind the ridge on which the ,,a
town of Nassau proper Is built. ,
"He calls himself a 'king,'" ho 101
added, "and the natives do, I believe, w'
regard him as the head of a certain ***'
tribe. The lads call him 'Old King
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p ! And walking by my side, lithe as a
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t, ine to n cabin much lifie the rest,
though perhaps a little poorer looking
^ "Shh ! There he Is!" and she shook
e all over again with suppressed giggles,
r I gave her u sixpence and told hci
to he a good girl. Then I advanced up
1 a little strip of garden to where I had
caught a glimpse of a venerable
.j white-haired negro seated at the winf
dow, as If for exhibition, with it great
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Great Solemnity.
peared to l>e reading with grout solemnity,
through enormous goggles,
though I thought I caught n side-glint
of his eye, as though he had taken a
.swift reconnolterlng glance in my direction1^.!
"* which apparently
had but deepem>r di^at tent inn and
. Increased the dignity ofnifc
ltememherlng that he was not ino^
ly royal but pious also, I made my salutation
at once courtlcr-like and sanctimonious.
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"God's good, God looks after his servants,"
"Do Lord Is merciful," he answered
gravely; "God takes care of his ehll.
dren. Be seated, sar, and please excuse
my not rising; my rheumatism is
a sore nfllietlon to me."
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; a marked accession of mysterious im1
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could. But I should have to go wld
j i you, nnd It's de Lord's will to keep me
here In dls chair wld rheumatics. I)e
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many a time, und f have fulth In do
Lord dey would turn again?yes. I'd
find It for you; sure enough. I'd find
, It if any man could?and It was de
Lord's will. But mebbe I cun see It
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