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I Pieces | I of Eight | V Being the Authentic 0 61 Narrative of a Treasure u ft Discovered in the /) 7) Bahama Islands ha the \ jh Year 1???Now First \ \ Given to the Public. x || I1C1IA10 LEGALUENNE | Copyright by Doubled*/, Pace * Company (Continued From Last Week) CHAPTER V. j . Better Than Duck. Charlie WebBter's discovery?If discovery It was?of "Jack Harkaway's" true sex seemed .so far plausible In that It accounted not only for much \ that had seemed mysterious ubout lilm and his mnuner, but also (though this | I did not mention to Charlie) It accounted for certain dim feelings of my own,, of which, before, I had been scarcely conscious. But wc were not long left to continue our speculations, being presently Interrupted by the arrival of exciting news lu the form of a note from Father Seraplon. Father Seraplon's note simply confirmed his conjecture that It was To bias who hud bought ruin at Behrlng's Point and that he was probably somewhere In the network of creeks und marl lagoons In our neighborhood. Charlie thought the news over. "I'll tell you what we'll do," he said presently. "I'm going to leave you " here?and I'm going to charter the sponger out there. Turner's sound has two outlets; this and Goose river, ten miles down the shore. Now, 11 Tobias Is Inside here he can only gel out either down here or down Goost river. I um going down In the HDoncei to the mouth of Goose river, to keep ' wutch there, und you must stay where 1 you ure uud keep wutch here. Be- 1 tween the two of uu a week will starve 1 hlui out.'* < So It was settled, cod presently 1 Charlie went along with two of his 1 best guns and Snllor, In the rowtoont and I saw hlm no more for a week. I At the end of the week the wind was blowing strong from the west und the tides ran high. Ahout noon we ' caught sight of trlumphunt sails making up the river. It was Churlle back again. "Got him I" was all he said, as he rowed ashore. Snllor yvas with him In the rowbont, but I noticed thut he was limping, going on three legs. "Yes!" said Chnrlle. "It's lucky for Tobias he only got Sailor's foot, or, by the living God I'd huve stood my trial for manslaughter, or whatever they call it. It'll soon be ull right, old man," he said, taking Sailor's wounded paw in his hand, "soon he ull right." Sailor wagged his tall vigorously, to show that a gunshot through one of his legs wus a mere nothing. "Yes!" said Churlle, as we sat at lunch In the shnck, under the tamarind tree; "we've got him Hiife there under decks all right; chained up like a buoy. If he can sret awuv. I'll be lleve In the devil." "Won't you tell me about it?" I asked. "Not much to tell; too easy altogether. I waited a couple of days ut the mouth of Goose river. Then I got tired and left the sponger with the captain and two or three men, while I 1^ went up the river with a couple of guns and Sailor, and a man to pole the skiff?Just for some duck-shooting, you know. We lay low for two duys on the marshes and then Sailor got snlfllng the wind one morning, as If there was something around he didn't care much for. lie grew more and more excited and, at last, as we neared ' a certain mangrove copse to which all the time he had been pointing, he harked two or three times and I let him go. Poor old fellow I" An he told the story. Sailor, who seom?d to understand every word, rubbed hta head against his master's hand. "He went Into the mangroves, Just as he'd go after cluck, but he'd hardly gone In when there were two shots und he came out limiting, making for me. But by this I was close up to the mangroves myself, and In another minute I was Inside; and there, was Tobias?his gun at Ids shoulder. He had a pot at me, but before he could try another I knocked him down with ~:roy flreNtnd? Well, we've got him all right. And now you cun go ufter your treasure as soon as you like. I'll tuke him over to Nassau and you can fool around for the next month or so. Of course we'll need you at the trlul, but that won't come off for a couple of months. Meanwhile, you cau let ine know where you are, In case I should need to get hold of you." "All right, old man," I said, "but I ' > wish you were coming along with me." "I've got all the treasure I want," laughed Charlie. "Send me word where you nre, as soon as you get a chance; and good luck to you, old chap, and your doubloons and pieces of eight I" Then he walked down to his rowboat and soon he was aboard the sponger. Her sails ran up and they # were off down stream?poor Tobias, jmanacled, somewhere between decks. "Bee you In Nassau I" I shouted. r "K^ht-o!" W hi CHAPTER I. m UK Which We Gather 8belle?end * Other Matters. \ With Chgrlle gone and duck-shooting not being one of my passions, there was nothing to detain me In Androa. Ho we were eoou under way, out western shore of the big monotonous | 1 Island. We had some fifty miles to | 1 make before we reached Its northern . i extremity?and, all the way, we sel- 1 dom had more than two fathoms of , ' water, and the coast was the same In- ' ' terminable line of mangroves and ( 1 thatch palms, with occasional clomps ' of pine, trees, and here and there the ' mouth of a creek, leading Into duck- * haunted swumps. 1 At last we cuius to a little .foam- 1 fringed cay, where It was conceivable ' that the shyest and rarest shell 1 would choose to make Its borate?a tiny ' aristocrat, driven out of the broud : 1 tideways by the coarser ambitions und I ' the rpder strength of greut molluscs 1 that feed and grow fat and house themselves hi crude convolutions of 1 uncoutlily striving horn. It was Impossible to imagine a cay better answering to ray conchologlst's description of Short Shrift Island. Its ' situation and general character, too, | bore out the surmise. On landing, nlso, ? we found that It answered In two important particulars to Tobias* narru- j t tlve. We found, as he had declared, 6 that there wns good water there for pusslng. ships. Also, we found, in ad- t dltton to the usual scrub, that cab- v bnge-wood trees grew there very plen- s tlfully, particularly, as he said, on the d highest part of the Island. So, having n talked It all over with Tom, I decided F that here we would stay for u time t and try our luck. I' But, first, having heard from the c sponging cuptuln that he was en route for Nnssau, I gave lilin a letter to v Charlie Webster, telling him of our 1 whereabouts. In case he should hnve ^ "uuueu ueeu or me witu regard to Tobias. . Ii The reader may recall thut Tobias narrative In reference to his second " "pod" of one million dollars had run: ^ "On tbe highest point of this Short 8 Shrift Island is a large cabbage-wood 8 stump, and tweuty feet south of that 0 rtump is the treasury burled five feet 0 lcep and can be found without dlftl:ulty." Hut which was the highest >olnt? There were several hillocks 8 :hat might claim to be that?all about 11 K|ual In height. However, as the high points of the 11 sland were only seven in ull, It was ' ao difficult matter to try them all out, Jne l?y one. as we had plenty of time ' and plenty of hands for the work. For, i I it course, It would huve been Idle to S attempt any concealment of my object 8 Trtnn the crew. Therefore, I took them v from their shell-gathering and, having <3 duly measured out twenty feet south ? from euch promising cabbage-wood t stump, set them to work. They worked t with a will, for I promised them a f generous share of whatever we found. Alas! It was an Inexpensive prom- s Ise, for, when we hud duly turned up s the ground, not only twenty feet, but Ii thirty, forty uud hfty feet, not only u south hut north, east and west of the d various cabbage-wood stumps on the t seven various eminences, we were l none of us the richer hjy. single piece a of eight. Then we tried the other cab- s huge-wood stumps on lower ground, und any other llkely-looklng spots, till, a after working for nearly u fortnight, a we must huve dug up most of the Island. And then Tom came to me with the 1 news that our provisions were begin- J ning to give out. As It was, lie sahl, ? before we returned to Nassau, we . should have to put In at Flying Fish !' Cove?a Hmall settlement on the lar- 11 ger Island some five miles to the nor- K 'ard?for the purchase of vurlous no- d cessltles. C "All right, Tom," I said, "I guess the 1 game Is up! Let's start out tomorrow morning. You may as well have your " sucking fish back, Tom," I said, laughing In self-disgust. "I shall have no more need of it. I um through b with treasure hunting." ? "I'd keep It little longer, sar," answered Tom; "you never know." ? I had made up my mind to start on c the homeward trip early the followInK $ morning, bnt something happened e that very evening to change my plans. < I hnd dropped Into the little settleinent's one store, to buy some tobnceo, the only kind that Charlie Webstei declared fit to smoke. I stayed chattlug with the store keeper?a lean, astute-looking English man, with the un-English name ol Sweeney?who mude a pretty gooc thing of selling his motley merhundlsi to the pour natives, on the good olf business principle of supplying goodi of the poorest possible quality ut th< highest possible prices. W'hile he was attending a lltth group of customers I hud wandered to ward the back of the store, eurlousl; examining the thousand and one coin modifies which supplied the strung) needs of Immunity here In this los corner of the- world; and, thus occu pled, I was diverted by a voice llkt sudden music, a voice oddly rich uu< laughing and confident for such grin and sinister surroundings. It was one t)H?, which I deemed to have heard be fore, and not so very long ago. NVhei I turned In Its direction 1 was immedl ately arrested, as <nie always Is hj any splendor of vitality ; for a startllni contrast Indeed?to {he spiritless, fur tlve figures that liad been coming an? going hitherto?was this superb youm < i < mt uri-.^i ^ n11 ^ I ^ ^^^ ^ ^' '' carried heed on glortom shoulder* Her skin was a golden olive, and 1< had beer* hard to say which was tin more intensely block?her hair, or tin proud eyes which, turning presently it my direction, seemed to strike upof me ns with an actual impact of sof Bre. My presence seemed at once to put her on her guard. The rausioof hei voice was suddenly hushed, as though she had hurriedly, almost in terror thrown a robe of 'reticence about at Impulsive nnturalness uot to be dls played before strangers. As for th? storekeeper,. he was evidently a fa miliar acquaintance. He had knowi her?lie said after she was gone? since she was a little girl. While he spoke, uiy eyes had accidentally fallen on the coin still In till hand, with which she had Just paid him. ^.Why," I said, "this 1* a Spanish doubloon I" Trul's what It Is," said the Englishann laconically. "But doesn't It strike you us strange hat she should pay her bills with Ipnnlsh doubloons?" I asked. "It did ut first," he answered; and hen, ns if annoyed with himself, he rns attempting to retrieve an oxpresion that curried an implication he ovllently didn't wish me to retain, he dded: "Of course, she doesn't always my In Spanish doubloons. I suppose hey have a few old coins In the fumly and use them when they run out of ithers." It was ns lame an explanation ns veil could be, and no one could doubt hnt, whatever his reason for so doing, le was lying. "But haven't you trouble lu disposal of them?" I Inquired. "Gold Is always gold," he answered, and we don't see enough of It here to >e particular as to whose head Is tamped upon It, or what date. Beildes, as I said, it Isn't as If I got many if them; and you can always dispose if them as curiosities." "Will you sell me this one?" Tasked. "I see no harm In your having It." he aid, "hut I'd Just as soon you didn't nentlon where you got It." "Certainly," I answered, disguising ay wonder at his secretlveness. "What s It worth?" He named the sum of sixteen dolRrs and seventy-five cents. Having taf/l him that amount 1 bade him ;ood-night, glad to he alone with my iager, glowing thoughts. These I took villi me in a till el rural bench, made loubly white by the moon, rustled iver by giant palms, and whispered to >y the vast living Jewel of the sea. I ook out my strange d<ruhloon and lashed it in the moon. But, brightly us it shone. It hardly eemed as bright as It would have eetned a short while hack; or, perlaps. ii were truer to say that in anither, newer aspect tt shone a luminal times more brightly. 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