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BEING THE AUTHENTIC NARRATIVE
TRFAURE DISCOVERED IN
ISLANDHN - THE - YEAR - 1901
OVEN TO THE PUBLIC
tCHAPTIR III.
I Chartar ih "Maggla Darling,"
As lurk would have It, the limn, or
Hither th thi'ft o( Henry P. Tobias'
narrative wai nut no serious It at
Aral eeenird, fur It fortunately chanced
Hint Julin flnuudcrs hurt had It copied ;
but th tbtft remained none Hi lew
mysterious.
However, leaving that mystery for
later solution, John (founders, Charlie
Webstar and I spent the next evening
In a general and particular rrltlrlatn
of th narrative Itself. There were
several obvious objections, to be made
aitalnat Ita authenticity, To atari with,
Tobtus, it the time of hla dcpolllon,
waa tn.. old mun seventy-five yeara
old and It waa wore than probuhle
that his experiences aa a ilrato would
dot front hla eurly manhood; they
were hardly likely to have taken pluce
aa lata aa hla fortieth year. The nar
rative. Indeed, aucitested their tuklnaj
plar much earlier, and there would
thua be a apace of at leaat forty yeara
between' lh burial of th treasure
and hi deathbed revelation. It waa
natural to aak : Why during all those
yeara did he not return and retrieve
th treasure for hlmaelff Varloui
circumstances may hnv prevented
him, th Inability from lack of nieana
to mnke th Journey, or what not;
hut certainly on would need to Imag
ln clreumatancea of peculiar power
that ahould be strong enough to keep
a man with so valuable t secret In hla
noaaeaaloo to many yeara from taking
advantage of It
For a long while, too, th name
given to the purported alte of the
treasure caches puislcd u. Modern
mapa lv bo auch plaeea aa "Dead
Men's . Shoes" and "Hhort Shrift
Island,1! but at laat, In 1 map doting
back t4 1703, we ram upon tne of
th tw nanies. So far the veracity
rit Tobias waa supported. "Dead
Men's Shoes" proved to be th old
mini fur a certain cay some twenty
miles long) about a day and a half's
anil from Nassau, on of the long
at ring of coral Inlands now known e
the "Exuroa Cny." Hut of "Short
Shrift Island" we sought Id vain for
k trace.
"All the 'tump," aald I, "th adven
ture rails me; the adventure and that
million and 1 half dollars and thorn
Tend Meii'a Shoes' and I Intend to
undertake 'It. I am not going to let
your middle-aged skepticism discour
age to. Treasure or no treasure,
there will ' b th excitement of the
quest, and, all tho fun of the act."
"And some duck perhaps," added
Charlie.
"And some shark Ashing for cer
tain," aald' John.
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Th nex) thing was to act about
Betting a Bunt and a crew.
After looking over much likely and
unlikely craft w flnnlly decided on
two-masted schooner of trim but
solid build, the Macule Curling. 42
vauat fillip oil and in beam mnmethina
under twenty tn, with an auxiliary
gasoline engine of 24 horse power,
and an alleged speed of ten knots.
Next, the crew,
"You will need a cnptuln, cook, an
engineer and a deckhand," said Char
lie, "and I have the cuptuln and th
cook all ready for you."
That afternoon we rounded them
all up, Including the engineer and th
deckhand, and we arranged to start,
weather permitting, with the morning
tide, which set east at six o'clock on
July 13, 11)03. i.
Ship's stores were the next detail,
and thene, Including fifty gallons of
gasoline, over and above the tanks
and three barrels of water, being duly
got aboard, on the evening M July
12 all waa ready for the start; an eve
ning which was naturally spent In a
parting conclav In John Saunders'
anuggery.
"Why, one Important thing you've
forgotten," said Charlie. "Machetes
and spades and pickaxes. And Fd
take a few sticks of dynamite along
with you too. I can let you have the
lot. We'll get them aboard tonight."
"It's a pity you have to give It
away that It's a treasure hunt," aald
John, "but then you can't keep th
crew from knpwlng. ' And they're a
queer lot on the subject of treasure,
huve some of the rummtest supersti
tions. I hope you. won't have any
. trouble with them,'1 .' .
"Had any experience In handling
niggers?" asked Charily , ; ; ;
"Not the least,y Si1--.
"That makes' me wish I were coming
with you, TheV rum beggars. Aw-
fill cowards, and Just like a pack of
children. You ' know about sailing
Wyhow. That's a good thing. You
caoj-aptaln your own boat, If ne'd be.
U to the good. Particularly
Ike any dirty weather. But
you one word of advice
coarse, with them but
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keep your dlatanr all th aam. And
h careful about losing your temper.
You get nor out of them by coax
ing bard as It la, at times. And, by
th way, how would you Ilk to tak
old 'Sailor' with your '
"Sailor" waa a peat Labrador re
triever, who at that moment turned up
hla big head with a devoted sigh from
behind his msster'e chair,
"Hal her," I aald. 80 "Sailor" waa
thereupon enrolled as a further addi
tion to th crew.
"Old Tom," Ih cook, waa first 00
hsnd next morning. I took to bltn at
one. A simple, kindly old "dnrky" of
"Uncle Tom s Cabin" type, with faith-
fulueaa written ajl over him, and a cer
tain aad wisdom Id his old face.
"You'll find Tom a great cook," laid
Charlie, patting the old man on the
houMcr, "Many a trip we've taken
together after duck, haven't we, TomT
"That's right, suh. That's right.'
said th old man, hi eyes twinkling
with pleasure
Then cam th captain Capt. Janes
William a younger man, with an In'
telllgeot, self -respecting manner. Some
what noncommittal, businesslike, evl
dently not particularly anxloua a to
whether he pleased or not, but looking
competent and civil enough.
Next came (he engineer, a young
hulking hronce giant, a splendid phys
ical specimen, but rather heavy and
sullen and not over-Intelligent to look
at. Th deckhand proved to b a
shackly, rather silly, effeminate fellow,
suggentlng Idiocy, but doubtless wiry
and good enough for the purpose.
Whll they were busy getting tip the
anchor of the Maggie Darling I went
down Into my cabin to arrange various
odda and ends, and presently cam the
captain, touching hla hat.
"Thero'a a parly," he aald, "outside
her wants to know If you'll tsk him
passenger to Spanish Well." '
"We'r not taking passengers," I an
swered, "but I will look hlra over."
A man was standing up In a row
boat, leaning against the ship's sldo.
"You'd do me a great favor, air," he
began to any In a soft, Ingratiating
vole. '
I looked at him with a start of rec
ognition. II waa my pockmarked
friend, who had mad such an unpleas
ant Impreaslon on me at John Saun
dors' office. He was rather more gen
tlemanly looking than he had seemed
at th first view, and I saw that,
though he was a halfbreed the white
nlond predominated.
"I don't want to Intrude," he aald
"hut I have urgent need of getting to
Spanish Welle, and there's no boat go-
lug that way for a week. I've Just
missed the mall."
"I didn't think of takiug any passen
gers," I said.
"I know," he aald. "I know It's
great favor I ask." He spoke with
certuln cultivation of manner, "Out
I am willing of course to pay anything
you think well for my food and my
passage,"
I waived thut auggestlon aside and
stood Irresolutely looking at him, with
no very hospitable expression In my
eyes, I dare say. But really my dis
taste for him was an unreasoning prej
udice, and Charlie Webster'a phrase
came to my mind ''His fuco Is against
the poor devil 1"
It certainly was.
Then at last I said, surely not over-
graciously: "Very well. Get aboard,
You can help work Ihe boat;" and
with that I turned away to my cabin,
CHAPTER IV.
In Which Tom Catches an Enchanted
Fish, and Discourses ef th Dangera
of Trtaaurt Hunting.
Th morning was a little overcast,
but a brisk northeast wind soon get the
clouds moving as It want humming la
our sails, and the sun, coming out In
Its glory over the crystalline waters,
made a fine flashing world of It, full
of exhilaration and the very breath of
youth and adventure, very uplifting to
the heart.
Nassau looked very pretty In the
morning sunlight, with its pink and
white bouses nestling among palm
trees and the masts of Its sponging
schooners, and soon we were abreast
of the picturesque low-lying fort. Fort
Montague, that Major Bruce, nearly
two hundred years ago, had such
time building as protection against
pirates entering from the east end
of the harbor. It looked like veri
table piece of the past, and set the
Imagination dreaming of those old
days of Spanish galleons and the black
flag, and brought my thoughts eagerly
back to the object of my trip, those
doubloons and pieces of eight that lay
In glittering heaps somewhere out In
those Island wildernesses.
Then Tom came up with my break
fast. The old fellow stood by to serve
t . .iwi. touch of
th M aitwv taM in Dii dtfersrtlaj,
half-fatherly manner, dropping a
quaint remark every now and again;
when drawing uiy attention to the
auo bursting through th clouds, be
said, 'The poor man's blanket Is com
ing out, ah" phraiu-a In which there
seemed a whole lot of puthos to me.
f reseully, when breukfsst was over,
and I stood looking over (he side Into
the Incredibly clear water, In which
It seems hardly ponxllilo that a boat
can go on floating, au-inled as she
vim over gleaming gulfs of liquid
pare, down through which at every
moment It seems she must dizzily full.
As Tom and I gated down, lost In
I hone rainbow deeps, I heard a voice
at my elbow saying with peculiarly
alckenlng uuctlon:
"The wonderful works of Cod."
It waa my unwelcome passenger,
wbo hud silently edged up to where
w stood, I looked at him, with the
question very clear In my eyes ss to
what kind of disagreeable animal he
was.
"Precisely," 1 said, and moved away.
I hud been trytug to feel more kind
ly toward bltn, wondering whether I
could summon up the decency to offer
hlra a cigar, but "the wonderful works
of Cod" flnlxlM-d me. .
"Hello I cnptuln," I said presently,
pointing to some sails coming up rap
idly behind us. "What's thlst I
thought we'd got the fastest boat In
Ihe harbor."
"It's th Susan B., sponger," aald
the captain.
The captain wua a man of few
words.
The Susan B. was a raklah-looklng
craft with black hull, and she cer
tainly could sail. No doubl It was pure
Imagination, but. I did fancy that I no
ticed our passenger slgual to them In
peculiar way.
I confens that his presence was be
ginning to get on my nerves, snd 1
as ready to get "edgy" at anything
or nothing on irritated slste of mind
which I presently look out on George
the engineer, who did not belle his
hulking appearance, and who waa for
ever letting the engine atop and Ink
ing forever to get It going again. One
could almost have sworn he did It on
purpose.
My Isnguage was more forcible than
classical had quite a piratical flavor,
In fact ; and my friend of "the wonder
ful worka of God" looked up with
deprecating air. Its effort on George
was nil, except perhaps to further
deepen his sulks.
And this I did notice, after a while,
that my remarks to George seemed to
hsve set up a certain sympathetic ac
quaintance between him and my pas
senger, the shackly deckhand being ap
parently taken la aa an humble third.
They sat for'ard, talking together, and
my passenger read to them, on one
occasion, from a piece of printed pa
per that fluttered In the wind.
The captain was occupied with his
helm, and the thoughts he didn't seem
to feel the necessity of sharing;
quiet, poised, probubly stupid man, for
whom I could not deny Ihe respect we
must always give to content, however
simple, He was a sailor, and I don't
know what better to any of a man.
80 for companionship I was thrown
back upon Tom. I felt, too, that he
was my only friend on board, end
Then Tom Came Up With My Break
fast
vague feeling had come over me that
within the next few hours I might need
a friend.
"Are we going too fast fqr Ashing,
Tom?" I asked.
"Not too fast for a barracouta," said
Tom ; so we put out lines and watched
the stretched strings, and listened to
the sea. After a while Tom's line grew
taut, and we hauled In a five-foot bar
racouta.
'.'Look t" said Tom, as he pointed to
a little writhing eel-like shape, about
nine Inches long, attached to the belly
of the barracouta.
"A sucking fish!" said Tom. "That
good luck;" and he proceeded to turn
over the poor creature and cut from
his back, Immediately below his head,
a flat Inch and a half of skin lined
and stamped like a rubber sole the
device by which he held on to the
belly of the barracouta much as the
circle of wet leather holds the stone
in a schoolboy's sling.
"Now," he said, when he had It
clean and neat In his fingers, "we mast
hang this up and dry It In the north-
I il" y'ltJS-M m
r" nor'east end there la no mascot
like It, specially when" Old Tom
hesitated, with a slyly Innocent smile
In hi eyes.
'What Is It, Tomr I asked.
'Well, sir, 1 meant to say that this
particular part of a sucking fish, prop
erly dried In the northeast wind, Is a
wonderful mascot when you're going
fler treasure."
Who said I was going after treas
urer I asked.
"Aren't you, aahr replied Tom,
asking your pardon."
'lrt't talk It over later on, when
you bring me my dinner, Tom."
Later, as Tom stood, serving my
coffee, I took It up with blio again.
What waa that you were saying
about treasure, Toinf I asked.
'Well, ssr, what I meant was this:
that going after treasure Is a danger
ous business , . . It's not only the
living you're to think of" Here Tom
threw a careful eye for'ard.
"Th crew, you meanl"
He nodded.
"Hut It's the dead' too."
"The dead, Tomr
"Well, ear, there was never a burled
treasure yet thut dldu't chilm Its vic
tim. Not one or two either. Six or
eight of them, to my knowledge and
the treasure Just where It was for sll
that. I (bis'say It sounds all foolish
ness, but It's true for all that. Some
thing or other'll come, mark my word
Just when they think they've got
their hands on It: a hurricane or a
tldnl wave or an earthquake. And
well, the ghost laughs, but the treasure
stays there sll the same."
"The ghost luughsr I asked.
"Kb I of courso; didn't you know
every treasure Is guarded by a ghost?
He's got to keep watch there till the
next fellow come along, to relieve
sentry duty, so to speuk. He doesn't
give It awuy. My not He dnssn't dc
that. But the minute someone else Is
killed, coming looking for It, then he's
free and the new ghost has got to
go on Bitting there, waiting for ever
so long till someone else comes look
ing for It"
'But what has this sucking fish got
to do with It?" And I pointed to the
red membruue already drying in Tom's
hand.
Well, the man who carries tills In
hrs pocket won't be the next ghost," he
answered.
"Take good care of It for me, then,
Tom," I said, "and when It's properly
dried let me huve it. Kor I've a sort
of Idea I may have need of It, after
all."
And Just then old Sailor, the quietest
member of the crew, put up his head
"Tom and You and I."
Into my bauds, as though to say that
he had been unfairly lost sight of.
"Yes, and you too, old chap that's
right. Tom and you and I."
And then I turned In for the night.
Continued next week
The Lure of Fame..
"What waltes you keep to your ne
farious trade after so many promises
to reform?"
"Well," auswercd Kill the Burg, "I
never had no education much; an' at
the same time I'm Jes' as anxious as
anybody fur a little Intellectual recog
nition. I keep tbltikln' that If 1 stick
at It a while longer maybe I'll be
wrote up In all the papers as a 'mas
ter mlud.'" Washington Star.
; BREEZY BUBBLES
Can the yardstick Its best foot for
ward? r
Even the round world la made up
of square Inches,
v -. ' ' ' '
The honest commercial traveler re
sents being called a "snare" drum
mer. '
The pipe organist may be a handy
player, but as a rule he is Inclined
also to put his foot In It.
A woman's dress may be after her
own mind,' but ; It takes her much
longer to change the former.
The women regard the census as one
of the perils of the age, because they
mtist tell their real enes, Philadel
phia, Bulletin, l. -
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