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V Being the Authentic vV
f Narrative-of a Treasure (0
> Q . Discovered in the /) |
A . Bahama Islands in the A (
! Year 1903?Now First A \
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A RICHARD LEGALUENNE { \
Copyrlght by Donblcduy, Page A Company
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^Continu<!d From L*at Week)
CHAPTER IV. | \
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In Which We Enter the Wilderress.
Andres. as no other of the islands,
Is surrounded by n ring of roofs
stretching till tirountl Its counts. We
-were inside the breakwater of the '
' roofs nntl llfp roll Inn swell of ooetin ?
gnVe way nt once to n millpond oalin- j
noss. We wore nt the ontnmoo of "
North bight, one'of the three bights Sl
which, dotted with nuinorous low-ly- fl
Ing ottys, breaks uji Andros Island Tn
the n^lddle and allows a passage J "
through a maze-like archipelago direct 11
to the northwest end of Cuba. Here *
on the northwest shore Is a small and
very lonely settlement?one of the two '?
or three -settlements on the else-de- r<
sorted Island?Hearing's point. j s'
Here we dropped anchor and Char- '
lie, who had Rome business ashore,
proposed our landing with him; but 01
here again our passenger aroused his
suspicions?though Heaven knows "
why?by preferring to remain aboard. u
"IMense let nu*-qff," lie requested in '*
his most top-lofty Hnglish accent. "You v*
can see for yourself that there's nothine
of Interest?nothing but a beastly
lot of nigger cabins, ami dirty coral H
rock that will cut your boots to pieces. u
I'd much rather smoke and wait for
you in pence;" and, taking out his 11
case and lighting u cigarette", lie ^
waved it gaily to us as we rowed ?rfT. ,s
He had COftnlnlv I,nail -!?? ? - 1 I"
Hehrlng's point?Charlie was absurdly w
certain that he had known It before,
and hud some reason for not landing? ,l!
for a more forlorn and povertystricken
foothold of humanity could
, hardly be cohcelved; a poor little cliis u
ter of negro cabins, indeed, scrr.m- 1
bllng up from the beach, and with no -w
streets hut craggy pathways in and b
out among the gruy ellnker-like coral, ol
Rut it was touching to find even "
here that, though the whole worldly n*
goods of the community would scarce mi
ly have fetched ten dollars, the souls
?f men were still hel<? worth caring CI
for; for presently we came upon u n?
pretty little church, with ir school house h?
near by, whi^p from the roof of an ad- as
Jacetit building we were hailed by a hi
. pleasant-faced white man, busy with
some shingling. * nr
It was the good prlost of the lltth m
place, Father Seraplon, disguised In in
overalls and the hottest grime of hl^ j-i
labor; like a true Benedict inc. pray mi
Ing with his strong and skillful hands w<
Fatfier .Serapb/n and Charlie wen d<
old f.*l:;ids, and Charlie took occasion se
to eonfiiV In hlni with regard to To- vn
bins, and, to his huge delight, dtscov *k
erert flint ii mnn answering very clo?<?- nr
ly to his description had dropped Jn in
there with n large sponger two days
before. He hnd only stopped Irnig sti
enough to buy rum nt the little store cli
near the landing and had been oil sil
again through the bight, sailing west. U|
Father Serapion, who knew Charlie sn
Webster's shooting ground, promised an
to send a swift messenger should any- a!
thing further of Interest to us come ?t<
to his knowledge within the next week an
? or so. sh
Then we sailed away from Retiring'* wl
point, due west through the North fli
bight. Morning found ,irs sailing b>
through a maze of low-lying desert ls-~ n<
lands of a bewildering sameness of ?li
shape and size, with practically noth- 01
I tig to distinguish ny from another, th
We had hoped to reach, our camp, ro
out on the other side of the Island. Hv
that everting, lint that dodging the dr
shoals and sticking in the mud had Rl'
considerably delayed us. Resides. Wl
though Charlie and the captain both aN
hated to admit it, we had lost our
way. So night began to fall and, as
' thpre Is no sailing in such water.! at w'
night, we once more cast anchor un- 0,1
der a glooiny, black shape of land, ex- n<
oeedlngly lonesome and forgotten- "i
looking, which we agreed to call "Lit- 'r
tie Wood cay"?till morning. Ci
?oon uu \w>re aiieep except ?nuor "
?n?l me. I lay uwake for a long lime
wall-hint; the sipiiyjv yard of stars that
shone down through th?* hatch In our
cabin celling like a little window look- stl
Ink Into eternity, while the waters lapped
and li;pped outside, and the night rr
talked strangely to Itself. Next morn- t?
Ing Charlie and the captain were '?
forced to own up'that the island, ills- th
covered to the day, was not Little *"
Wood cay. No humiliation g?res deep- lh
er wiiii ii sailing man iiiiin naving to
' ask lila way. Besides, who was there a'1
to as!; in that solitude? Doubtless a
cormorant flying overborn! know It, 01
but no one thought to a.;k him.
However, we were In luck, Tor, after l)r
Hailing about a hit, we came upon two w
lonely nonroes standing up In their
boats and thrusting long poles into the
water. They were sponging?most
melancholy of occupations?and they
looked forlorn enough In the still 1
dawn. Hut they had a smile for our '
plight. It was evidently a good Joke J)
to hare mistaken Hapodllla cay for
Little Wood cay. Of cotirse we should al
have gone?"so." And "so" we presently
went, not without rewarding
them for their Information with two
generoua drinks of old Jiunaica ruin. mr
' One of our reasons for seeking Little
Wood cny, which It proved had ^
been close all the time, was that It M
one of the few cays where one can get
pi' . fresh water. "Good water here," aaya I
a* the chart. We wanted to refill some ^
of our Jars, and so we landed. there,
" glad to stretch our legs, while old Tom ..
cooked our breakfaet on the beach, un- w
They Were Sponaina.
Now that we kuw where we were,
: was clear, but by no means careless
idling to our camp. We were making
t/r whiTt Is known ns the Wide Openig,
a sort of estuary into -which a
stless stream or two crawl through
lanirrove bushes from the interior
wauipg, .
Here, a short distance from the
nnk, on some slightly uscending
)fky ground, under the spreading
linde of something like a stretch erf
oodlnud, Charlie, several years ago,
ad built a rough log shanty for his
limp?one of two or three camps he
ad thus scattered for himself up and
own the "out islands," where nearly
II tlie land is no man's, and so every
inn's land. The parMcuIur camp at
hieli We nmv arrived he had not vised
for a long time.
Here Tom brought us our dinner
ad the dark began to settle down
pon us, thrillingly lonely, and full of
'range, desolate erics of night creaires
frotu the mangrove swamps that
irrotihded our little oasis for mljes.
allor luy at* our feet J dreaitdng of tolorrew's
duek. His master's thoughts
Ore evidently in the same direction.
"How are you with u gun?" he
sked, turning to tin* hoy.
"Oh, I won't brag. I had better wait
11 tomorrow. But. of course, you will
iive to lend ine a gun."
"I have a beauty for you?Just your
eight,"' replied Charlie, his face
eair it z ?s it ?Hcl only at the thouglu
f his guns, which he kept polished
ke lewels and guarded as Jeulou?l>
i n violinist his violin, or on Aral) hia
i rem.
Dawn was just breaking as I felt
uivlie's great paw on my shoulder
t a moment, as I sat up, still half
leop, I thought ho had news of Tons.
But It was only duck.
I was scarcely (lrosswl whan Torn
rived with breakfast, n?d in a few
uiutoa we laid shouldered our guns
Hi wore crossing the half mile of
aty waste that divided us from the
nrl lakes. Ahead of us, the crew
ere carrying the skiffs on their shoul>rs,
and very soon we were each
a ted in regulation fashion on a canis
chair in front of mir respective
iffs, with our guns across our knees
id a negro behind us to do the pol-.
g.
Charlie went ahead, with Sailor
nnding in the bow quivering with exfoment.
The necessity of absolute
lence. of course, laid been impressed
ion us all by the most severe of all
ortsmen. Tom. (who was poling me)
id I understood that our job, and
siT* that of my companion, was to
en I behind one mangrove copse after
lotlier til) we hud got vn the other*
tie of a quacking JJnck of tgni?
filch might then lie expected to take
glit In Charlie's direction and rush
him in n terrified whirlwind. This
?t very easy feat of stalking we were
it. to accomplish, thereby winning
uirlle's Immense approval and putng
litm In u splendid temper for the
st of the day; for. as the wild cloud
rept oyer him, he was utile to bring
iwn no less than seven. I-^ke a trim
fortsman, in telling the story afternrd
in John Saunders' snuggery, he
'erred ffiat the number was nine!
The days thut now followed f</r a
eek might be said to be accurate
iples of that tirsl day. Rut they were
me the less delightful for that?for
er* is a sameness that Is far Indeed ,
om monotony?though I will confess
at, for my own tastes, toward the
pok-end 'the carnage of duck began
partake a little of that latter qualv.
Still, Charlie and Sailor were so
ippy that I wouldn't have let them
ispect that for the world.
Resides, I had my wonderful young
lend, to whom I grew tlally more atehed.
I found myself feeling drawn
him as I can Imagine a young faler
is drawn to a young son! and
in.-i Mm-n .n-f iiitnj iu m* in ins t?ye?
e suggestion of u confldeiTce lit' was
i tli?' edge of making me?a whimrnl.
pondering expression, as though
nndcrfiig whether he dure to tell ine
not.^ " """"
"What Is It, Jack?" I asked him for
ice when, early In otir ac(|iialntauee,
e had asked him what iVe were to
ill hint, he' had answered with a
ugh: "Oh, enll me Jack?Jack Harkvay.
That Is my name when 1 go
1 adventures. Tell me your ad venire
names. I-don't want your prosaic
rery-day names." "Well," I had reled.
entering Into the lad's humor,
ny friend here Is Sir Francis Drake,
id I, well?I'm Sir Ilenry Morgan."
"What Is It, Jack?" I repeated.
Hut he shook his head.
"No I" he replied, "I like yon ever
> much?and I wish I "could; hut I
ustn't."
"Somebody else's secret agnlrt?" I
ntured.
"Yes!" 'And he added: "This time
's ndne, too. Hut?some day perlps;
who knows??" He broke off
i hdylsh confusion.
"All right, dear Jack," I said, patting
a shoulder, "take yonr own time.
Vre friend* anyfeay."
I?W||| n^|ii i i mii it " i
B?BHeag ! i i i?1 ' 1 i 1
I ?r1th a fine iter.
I mustn't be w bard on Char!
lie, lor Charlie had another object In
his trip besides duck. As a certain
poet brutally puts It, he had nntlclputo<l_nba>
"the hunting of man." In addltlori.Though
It Is against the law of
those Britannic islands, he had 'promised
me a flamingo or two for decorative
purpose's, lhiwever, flamingoes
and Tobias alike kept out of gunshot
! and, as the week gre\V toward Its end.
Charlie began to grow a little restive.
"It looks," he nigrum red one evening.
as we had completed our fourteenth
meal of roast duck, and were
musing over our after-duck cigars, "it
looks as if I am mrt going to have any
use for Ibis."
He iuul taken a paper from id -pocket.
Ii was a v.: riant with which In'
had. prnvhb d himself, einpov <-r:" '
Iiiin to arrest the wild Henry 1*. Tobias
or tli" person pass'ng under that
num.-. on two counts: Ki. st, thai of
ditloiis prnct'ees. with Intent to spin nil
treason among Ids majesty's sublets
nmh- seci nd that of willful murder on
the iilgh sees.
Charlie put the warrant hack Into
h's pocket and gazed disgustedly
across tin- creek, when* Hie loveliest of
young inocns was 1 sing beliind a
! frtef.e of the homeless,Jjyrhuric v <.-.h.
"There vis never sueli a place in
the world,* he usserled, "to hide in?
or get lost in?(>r to starve in. I have
, often thought Unit it would make the
I most effective prison in the world."
The young inoon rose and rose,
while Charlie sat in the dusk of our
shanty, like a meditative mountain,
saying nothing, the glowing end of his
cigar occasionally hinting at the cir
. nmr <11 ill!* nice.
"I'll get him, ?ll the .sumo," lio'snhl
presently, coining out of a sort of
trance, in w^ileli, us I understood luter,
liis mlml Inn] been tnnk'ng a geographical
survey <>f our neighborhood
going up and down every creek n;id
corner on a radius of fifty miles.
So we sought ojir respective eots;
but I had scarcely begun to undress
wJien li f'ml sli accident for \v!ik-Ii I
was ri pohsihie happened. ai? Meelilenl
tlm might l? ?ve bed s^rlous't^e
sequem vs. aim which u.s a muttei of
(Joa.inusd on I.\?l Pj|?e)
"Rat-Snnp Seats the Beat Trap Ever
Mailc," Mrs. Emily Shaw says.
"My huso.iml bought a $2 trap. 1
bought a 50c box of RAT-SNAP. The
trap only caught 3 rats le.it Rat-Simp
killed 12 in a week. I'm never without
Rat-Snap. Reckon 1 couldn't
raise ch eks without it." RAT-SNAP
comes in cakes. Three sizes, 25c, 50c,
$1.00. Sold and guaranteed by Farmers
Hardware Co.. Square Deal Drug
Co., and A. ! '. Davis.
CALOMEL DYNAMITES
A SLUGGISH LIVER
Crashes into sour bile making you
sick and you lose a day's work.
Calomel salivates! It's mercury.
Calomel acts like dynamite on a
sluggish liver. When calomel comes
into contact with sour bile it crashes
into it, causing cramping and nausea.
If you feel bilious, headachy, constipatedaiul
all knocked out, just go
to your druggist and get a bottle of
Dodson's Liver Tone for a few cents
which is a harmless vegetable substitute
for dangerous calomel. Take
a spoonful and if it doesn't start
your liver and straighten you up better
than nasty calomel and without
making you. sick, you just go back
and get your money.
If you take calomel today you'll be
sick and nauseated tomorrow; besides,
it may salivate you, while if
you take Dodson's Liver Tone you
will wake up feeling great, full of
ambition and'ready for work or play.
It's harmless, pleasant and safe to
trive to children; they like it. Adv. 4.
I I Anderson
county farmers are form
mju a br;yich of the South Carolin
i Cotton Asociution.
Pickens county has adopted th
slogan "Pr.erucy must ;;o." Meet
ings are be.'.ip: held in every schoc
house in the county for the purpos
of organis^n^ adult schools.
PROMISSORY NOTES hi pads o
100. Priyes reasonable.
The Advertiser.
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"During tho winters of 1897
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with catarrh of tho head and
thoyght I must surely did from
It. After trying many doctors
and an other recommended remedies
made known to me, I w;is
Induced to use Peruna. I tnraa
cared entirety by \ising twelve
bottles of l'eruna and ono bottlo
of M anal In.
Since that tlmo, I have never
been without l'eruna. I use It
for coldn and an a general tonic
daring Spring and Fall month*
and find It the greatest human
vltallzor."
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DR. L. II. TROTil,
Dental Surgeon
Chesterfield, S. C.
Olfice on second floor in Rust
uilding.
All who uesire my services will
lease see me at Chesterfield, as 1
live discontinued my visits to othei j
>wns.
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DR. R. L. M c M A N U S
Dentist
Office over Rank of Chesterfield.
Oil visit I'ageland every Tuesday,
!t. Croghan every Wednesday.
Other days in Chesterfield.
Prices reasonable. All work guar
ft teed
J. ARTHUR KNIGHT
Attorney-at-Law
Office in Courthouse
Chesterfield, S. C.
MANNA A HUNLEY
?Attorneys?
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Cheraw. Chesterfield I
Offices:
The Courthouse, Chesterfield
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