The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, August 14, 1919, Image 3
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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. The udvenure
to w)ilch It called me was no
onger single and simple as before, hut
, gloriously confused goal of cloudy
plemlors. the burning core of which
-suddenly raying out, ami then lost
igain in brightness?were the eyes of
i mysterious girl.
(To Be Continued Next Week)
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lOLUMBIA PHOTO FINISHING Co.
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Kat-Snnp Bcati the Beat Trap Ever
Made," Mrs. Emily Shaw says.
"My husband bought a $2 trap. I
oupht a r.Oc box of RAT-SNAI*. The
rap only caught 3 rnts but Rat-Snap
illed 12 in a week. I'm never withut
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:o., and A. F. Davis.
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you know you've got the
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"Years ago 1 bought some rat poison,"which
nop.rly killed our line watch
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a long time wuh rats until my neighbor
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Davis. ,
PROMISSORY NOTES?In pads oi
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The Advertiser.
Weighed SO Po
PERUNA
Recommends it to Her Friends
"1 don't need Peruna any more.
I am all well. I have taken six
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before I started, with Peruna. I
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