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I Pieces I j 1 of Eight |i V Being the Authentic 0 j 0 Narrative of a Treasure Q <1 Q Discovered in the /) I 7) ; Bahama Ialande in the A c ft Year 1903?Now Pint \ 1 \ Given to the Public. V ? ft RlCHAtO UGALUENNE \ Oopjnrletal by Doubled*;, P*ge * Compeoy (Continued From Last Week) fl "Do you mean, brother, that the 1 Lord has given you second night?" P "Dat am It I Glory to his name, hal- ( lelujnh!" he answered. "I look In a ' glass ball?so; and If de spirit helps R me I can see clear as a picture far " under de ground?for, far away over V de sea. It's de Lord's truth ? ? blessed be his Dame!" I naked him whether he would look I t into hlR crystal for me. With a hurst I ? of profanity, oh unexpected as It wun j k vivid, he cursed "dem boys" that had ?' stolen from him a priceless crystal I which once had belonged to his old ? royal mother, who," before fc'ro, had d had the same gift of the spirit. But. r he added?turning to a table by his t side, and lifting from It a large cut- tl glass decanter of considerable capac- c Ity, though at present void of con- h tents?that he had found that gazing h Into the large glass ball of Its stopper n produced almost equally good results h at times. t< First he asked me to be kind enough to shut the door. 1 \We had to be very quiet, he de- ? clared; the spirit could work only In t <, deep silence. And he asked me to bo c kind enough to close my eyes. Then , r vj heard his voice muttering. In a f Mtrunge tongue, a queer dark gobbling ( kind of words, which may have beer, f undent African spell-words, 01 sheer ? gibberish such as magicians In ull times and places have employed to t, mystify their consultants. n 1 looked at him through the corner of my eye ?as doubtless he had nntlci- H pa ted, for he! was glaring with ?m nil t of Inspired abstraction Into the hall of ? the decanter stopper. So we sat silent for 1 supjMise some ten minutes. Tbei \ I ku.nl I.I... ' ' * m. iiv.nava iiiiu ^i?'C tllHUIIt'I llt't'P M^D Opening my eyes I Haw him slowly v linking his head. n "De spirits don't seem communicable t dlH afternoon," he muttered tilting tiie p decanter slightly on one side und ob- II serving It drearily. r "Do you think, yonr majesty," I h asked with as serious a face as I " could assume, "the spirits might work a better?If the decanter were to be filled?" "Mebbe, sar; mchhe. Spirits Is curious things; dey need Inspiration sometimes, Just like ourselves." "What kind of Inspiration do you think gets the best results, your majesty?" "Well, sar, I can't say oh dey is very particular, but l'se noticed dey do ? seem powerful 'tached to Just pluln good old Jamaica rum." "They shull have It," I said. I had noticed thut there was a saloon u few yards uway, so before many j more minutes hud passed I had been . y there and come back nguin, and the V decanter stood ruddlly filled, ready for I the resumption of our seance. Hut be- I fore we began I of course accepted the | seer's invitation to Join him and the spirits In a friendly libation. I Then?I having closed my eyes?we C huiflin o rro I n <>n<) i * nioo aul.?nlol*ln<r I ft"" ?????? 0*111 II ?i?o nniwiuniiui^ n with what rapidity the thick-coming | pictures begun to crowd upon thut In- I ner vision with which the I-ord had en- ? dowed* his faithful follower! Of course I waJ Inclined now to take the whole thing is an amusing Impos- I turc; but presently, watching his face t and the curioua **geelng" expression of his eyes, and noting the exactitude of one or two pictures, I began to feel that, however much he might be Inventing or elaborating, there ^wns some substratum of truth lii what he was telling me. The ilrst pictures that came to him Were merely pictures, though astonish- ' ingly clear ones, of Webster's boat, the Flamingo, of Webster himself, and of the men and the oid dog Sailor; but In all this he might have been visualizing from actual knowledge. Yet the details were curiously exact. Presently his gaze becoming more dxed: "I see you uuchort d under, a little settlement. You are rowing ashore. Dere aret. little pathways running up among de coral rock, and a few white houses. Seems to he a forest; big trees?not like Nassau trees?and thick brush everywhere; all choked up so Thick und dark, can't see nut'n. Walt a minute, dough. Dere seems to he old houges all sunk In and los\ like old ruins. Can't see detn for de brush And'walt?Lord love you, Bar, hut I'se afraid?I seem to see a big light coming up trough dg brush from far under de ground?Just like you see old rotr ten wood shining In tie dark?deep, deep down. Didn't I tell you de I/??rd gave me eyes to see Into tie bowels of do earth??It's rle h/iwets of de earth for sure?oil Ut up and shining. Praise ' tie I.ord?It am de gold, for certain, I all hidden away and shining dere un- I der de ground?" 1 "Can't you nee It closer, clearer?" I * exclaimed involuntarily; "get aome Idea of the place It's In?" ' The old mun gazed with a renewed 3 Intensity. I "No," he aald presently, and his dH*appolnted tone seeme<l to mo the heat i evidence yet of hla truth, "I only see a 1 little golden mist deep, deep down un- I der de ground; now It Is fading away, t L It's gone; I can only aec de woods ami 1 " de ruins again." This brought hla,virions to an end. 1 The spirits obstinately refused to < take* any more picii^es, though the pld man continued toagaze on In the i decanter stopper for (fully Ave mln- < rT mmmKomaeaBmrnemmmmmmammmmm ?///? CHAPTER III. . ^:B^r' In Which W? Talc* 8hlp One* Mora. The discovery which?through my tlend the dealer in ''marine curloslles"?I had made, or believed myself o have made, of the situation of lenry P. Tobias' second "pod" of rea8ure, fitted exactly with Charlie Vebster's wishes for our trip, sinull i itock as he affected to take In It at the | aoment. "Short Shrift Island" lay a few miles , o the northwest of Andros Island, j 'low Andros Is a great haunt of wild t luck, not to speak of that more august tlrd, the flamingo. Attraction number me for the good Charlie. Then, though t is some hundred and fifty miles long ind some fifty miles broad at Its irondest, It has never yet. It Is said, men entirely explored. Its center.Is still a mystery. The mtlves declare It Is haunted, or at all vents Inhabited by some strange peole no one has yet approached close nough to see. You can see their ] louses, they say, from a distance, but s you approach them, they disappear. ] lere, therefore, seemed an excellent , ilnce for Tobias to take cover In. ] 'lmrlle's duck-shooting preserves, end- , ess marl lakes Islanded with man- , ] rove copses, luy on the fringe of this ( lysterlous region. So Andros was , ilninly marked out for our destlna- | Ion. t Sailor had watched his master get- ( Ing his guns ready for some days, nd, doubtless, memories stirred In ^ il 111 of Scotch moors they had shot j ver together. He raised his heud to j he night wind and sniffed Impatiently, , s though he already scented the wild I , H/.L- ??1 ... ? ..v~ wu niiuros isiftim. He was Im- I mtlent, like the rest of us, because, | hough it was an hour puRt sailing- | line, we had still to collect two of the j rew. The two loiterers turned up at ^ ust and, ull preliminaries being at f L'ngth disposed of, we threw ofT the j loorluc ropes and presently there wus f eard thai most exhilarating of sounds o utiyotie who loves seafaring, the rip- f >llng of fhe ropes through tho blocks s our mainsail began to rise up high ? gainst the moon which was beginning < o look out over the huge block the 1 lolonlal hotel, the sea wall of which I an along as far as our mooring. A 3 ew lights in its windows here and here broke the blank darkness of its I acade, glimmering through the ave- i aies of royal pnlms. I am thus ex licit because of something that pres- 1 ntly happened and which stayed tho , lalnsnll In Its rippling ascent. < A tall tiguro was running along the i ea wall from the direction of the ho- i el, calling out, u little hreuthlessly, In m rich young voice as It run: i "Walt a minute there, you fellows 1 j Vnlt a minute 1" i We were already moving, parallel idth the wall, and at least twelve feet ( way from It, by the tiuie the ilgure? hat of u tall hoy, cowboy-hatted uiul i dcturesquely outlined In the hulf Ight?stopped Just ahead of us. He | alsed something that looked like u | tag In his right hand, calling ottt ; Catch" as he did so; and, a moment | if tor. before a word could he spoken. Before a Word Could Be Spoken, Ha Took a Flying Leap. le took a flying leap and landed imnngst um, plump in the cockpit and ivns clutching first one of us and then the other, to keep his balance. "I>ld It, by Jove!" he exclaimed In i beautiful English accent, und then darted laughing as only ubsurd dureJevll youngsters can. "Forgive me!" he said, an soon as he ould get his breath, "but I had to do t. I leaCen knows what the old man >vill say!" "You're something of a long Jutnp I" ;a!d Charlie. I "Oh! I have done my twenty-two ind an eighth on a broad running lump, but I had no chance for a run there," answered the lad, carelessly. ) "Hut suppose you'd hit the water Indent! of the deck?" Vl'hul ,it 1(9 Pont nnn ou.lmV' "I guess you're all right, young nan," nalcl Charlie, softened; "but . . well, we're not taking passengers." The words had u familiar sound, rhey were the very ones I had used o Tobias, as he Htood with his hand on he gunwale of the Maggie Darling. [ rapidly conveyed the coincidence? ind the difference?to Charlie. It struck me as odd, I'll admit, that our second sturt, In tlilH respect, should t?e ho like the first. Meanwhile, the roung man was answering, or rather ' heading, In a boyish way: "Don't call me a passenger; I'll help ivork the boat. I'll tell the truth. I heard?never mind how?about your rip, and I'm Junt nutty about burled treasure. Come, be a sport. We cuu et the old guv'nor know, aomehow . . and It won't kill him to tear hla ^alr for a day or two. He knowa I ran take care of myself." "W?\'l! said Charlie, after thinking iwhlleVi hia alow way, "we'll think it >ver. YAu can come along till the nornlng. Wp i c&g get ft gQfid Ififik 4 % I' "v,v > ? *c V t you. If I don't like your look* well till be able to put you off at West End; and If I do?well?right-ho 1 Now, boys," he shouted, "go ahead with the sails." Once more there was that rippling of the ropes through the blocks, as our mainsail rose up high against the moon and filled proudly with the steady northeast breeze we had been waiting for. So two err three hours went by, as we plunged on, to the seething sound of the water, and the singing of our sails, and all the various rumor of wind and sea. After all, It was a good music to sleep to and, for all my scorn of sleeping landsmen, an Irresistible drowsiness stretched ine out <m #the roof of the little cabin, wonderfully rocked Into forgetfulness. My nan enme to an end suddenly, ns though some one had flung me out through a door of blue and gold Into a new-born wortTT. There was the sun rising, the moon still <m duty, and the morning star divinely naked In the heaven. And there was Charlie, his broad face beaming with boyish happiness. and something like a fatherly geutlenegs In his eyes, as he watched his companion at the tiller, whom, ^or a half-asleep moment of waking, I could T account for, till our st?rt all came buck to me, when I realized that It was our young scapegrace of irverxlght. Chaclle and he evidently were >n tlio host of terms already. Old Tom had heen busy with break'ast and soon the smells of coffee and 'reshly made "Johnny-cake" und fryng bacon compete<l not unsuccessfully vith the vurlous fragruuces of tlie nornlng. Breakfast over, Charlie filled his >lpe, assuming, as he did so, a Judicial ispect. I filled mine and our young 'rlend followed suit by faking u silver 1 garotte case from his pocket and itrlklng a match on the leg of his thakl knickerbockers with a profesdonal air. "All set?" asked Charlie, and, after i slight pnuse, he went on: "Now, young man, you can see we ire Hearing the end of the Island. An>ther half-mile will bring us to West Bud. Whether we put you ashore here, or take y?ni along, depends on four answers to my questions." "Fire away," answered the youth, >lowlng a cloud of cigarette Hmoke In 1 delicate spiral up Into the morning iky; "but I've really told you all I ihvi to tell." "Ni; you haven't told us how you Mime to knmv of our trip, whut we were supposed to be after, and when we were starting."* , "That's true!" flushed the lad, monentarily losing his composure. Then, warily regaining It: "Is It necessary to inswer that.quest ion?" "Absolutely," answered Churlle, beginning to look really serious. "Because, If you don't mlud . . . well, I'd Just as soon not." "For that very reason I want to fcnow. We are out on a inore serious justness than perhaps you realize, und pour answer may mean more to us [ban you think." "I'm sure It cannot he of such Importance to you. Itcally, It's hardly fulr for me to tell. I should have to give iway a friend." i 111 wirry, inn i sunn nave to inilst," replied Charlie, looking very grim. "All right, then," answered the youth, looking him straight In the eyes, "put me ashore." "No; I won't do that now, either," declared Charlie, sternly setting his Jaw. "I'll put you in Irons, rather? and keep you on bread and water?till you answer my questions." "You will, eh?" retorted the youth, Bashing Are from his tine eyes. And as he spirke, quick ns thought, he leaped up on to the gunwale und, without hesitation, dived into the grout glassy rollers. Rut Charlie was quick, too. Like a flash he grabbed one of the boy's ankles, so that the beautiful dive was spoiled; and there was the boy, hanging by an Imprisoned leg over the Bhip's side, a helpless captive?his arms in the water uud his leg struggling to get free. Rut he might us well have struggled against the grip of Ilercules. In another moment Charlie had him hauled ulx/urd again, his eyes full of tears of boyish ruge and humiliation. "You young foof!" exclaimed Chnrlie. "The water round here is thick RATS PIE so do mice, once they eat RAT-SNAP. And they leave no odor behind. Don't take our word for it?try a package. Cats and dogs won't touch it. Rat pass up all food to get RAT-SNAP. 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"All right," agreed Churlle, beginning to lose his temper, too. "I'm damned If I don't'." And, his hand on the tiller, he made as If to turn the boat about aud tack for the shore, j "No! no J" cried the hoy, springing ; between us and nppenllngly laying one j hand on Charlie's shoulder, the other 1 on mine. "You mustn't let me spoil ' your trip. I'll compromise. And, skipper, I'll tell your friend here all there ; Is to e1! ?everything?I swear?If you will leave It to his Judgment." "Rlght-o!" agreed Charlie ut nit: i no oiir passonget and 1 thoro?ipc?- 1 withdrew for our conference. It wns soon over ami 1 couldn't heplaughing aloud at the simplicity of tt all. ".lust as I told you. Charlie," I exclaimed; "it's Innocence Itself." Turning to the lad, I said: "Dear bo\, there Is really no need to keep such u ' small secret as that from the skippei here. Yiru'll really have to let me te'u him." The boy nodded acquiescence. ! "All the same, I gave my word," he said. When I told Charlie the Innocent secret, he laughed as 1 had done, aim his usual good humor instantly returned. The stubbornly held secret had | merely amounted to this: Our lad was | acquainted with my conchologist, and j had paid him a visit the very ufterI noon I did, had lt\ fact seen me leavI lag the house. Answering to the hoy's romantic talk of hurled treasure and ] j so forth, the shell enthusiast had j ' thought no harm to tell him of our 1 ; projected trip; and that was the whole of the mysterious matter. I Yet the day was not to end without u little Incident which, slight though indeed it was, was momentarily to ( arouse Charlie's suspicions of our . charming young companion once more, j Presently, in the far southwest, tiny ' points like a row ?*f pins begun very ' flllntlv fn Ponon iKomool.inn * iucumrivrn UIHIIK mu i sky-line. They were palm trees, 1 i though you could not make them out | to lie such, or anything in particular, ' till hmg after. 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"What do you mean: '<n the smi?'" "I mean that I've done it tunny a time?on the chart. I know evet\, bluff ami roof and sluml and ca> around Andros front Morgan's Itluft to Washington's Cut?" "You do, eh?" "On the chart. Why, I've studied charts since I was a kid, and goto every kind of voyage you can think of ?playing at buccaneering or whalirtg or discovering the north pole. Kvery kid litres that." "They do, eh?" said Charlie, evidently quite unimpressed. "I nevet did." ; "That's because you've about as much imagination as a turnip in thai head of yours," 1 broke in, in defense ^ of nty young Apollo. "Maybe, If you're so smart," continued Charlie, paying no attention to me, "you can navigate us through the North Bight?" "Mtiybe!" answered our youngster pertly. with mi odd little smile. He hud evidently reeovered his nerve, mid seemed to tuki? pleasure in piquing Charlie's .suspicions. (To Be Continued Next Week ) WEALTHY NORTH CAROLINIAN DIES B. D. 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