The Monmouth herald., January 14, 1921, Image 5

SYNOPSIS.
BOOK I.
C H A P T E R I.—The author,
•tory. Is on a visit to his
Saunders, British official in
Nassau. Bahama islands.
turns on hurled treasure.
who tells the
friend. John
the town of
Conversation
C H A P T E R II.—Saunders produces a
document supposedly written by Henry P.
Tobias, once a pirate, telling o f two
nl&ces where gold had been secreted in
the Islands. Their conversation apparently
Is overheard, and the document disap­
pears.
C H A P T E R III.—The writer charters a
schooner, the Maggie Darling, and sets
out on a search for the treasure. As they
sail they take Bboard a passenger, whom
the author instinctively distrusts.
C H A P T E R IV .—The hero strikes up a
particular friendship with “ Old Tom ” a
negro member of the crew. The boat is
passed by the Susan B., a faster sailer,
also from Nassau.
C H A P T E R V —On the second morning
out they find that the supply o f gasoline
has been allowed to run out. Our writer
blames the engineer and in a fit o f temper
knocks him down. The passenger, toning
himself Henry P. Tobias, Jr., protests,
and It comes out that he is active in a
conspiracy to have the blacks rise against
the British government in the Bahamas.
H e attempts the life of the hero and
with two others is put ashore.
vras n ane s p ee d ; quite a Hi ¿Tit o f ora-
I tory, and I ’m sure I ’m obliged to him
i for the life that’s still worth having. In
spite o f this ungodly aching In my
head. But how about the poor cap­
tain there I Where does all his elo­
quence come In there? H e can't call
it self-defense.
They were waiting
ready to murder us, as you saw. I ’m
afraid the captain and the law be­
tween them are all that is necessary
to cook the goose o f our friend Henry
P. Tobias, Jr., without any help from
me— though, as the captain died fo r
me. I should prefer they allowed me
to make It a personal matter.”
“ I t ’s the beginning o f the price,"
said Tom.
“ The beginning o f the price?”
“ It’s the dead hand,” continued T o m ;
“ I told you, you'll remember, that wher­
ever treasure Is there’s a ghost of a dead
man keeping guard and waiting till
another dead man comes along to take
up sentry duty so to say. The ghost
Is getting busy.
And it makes me
think that w e’re coming pretty near
to the treasure, or we wouldn't have
had all this happen. Mark me, the
treasure's near by— or the ghost
wouldn’t be so malicious.”
And then, looking around where the
captain and the engineer and Silly
Theodore lay, I said :
“ The first thing we’ve got to do Is to
bury these poor fe llo w s ; but where,”
I added, “ are the other two that fell
in the water?”
"Oh,” said Tom, “ a couple o f sharks
got them just before you woke up.”
"W hich did I hit, T om ?" w ere my
first words as I came back to the
glory o f the w o rld ; but I didn’t say
them fo r a long time, and, from what
Tom told me. It was a wonder I ever
said them at all.
"T here he Is, sar,” said Tom, point­
ing to a long, dark figure stretched
out near by. ‘T m afraid he’s not the
mun you were looking for.”
“ Poor fellow 1” I said ; It was George,
the engineer; “ I ’m sorry— but I saw
C H A P TE R VII.
the muzzles o f their guns sticking out i
o f the bush there. It was they or
In Which Tom and I Attend Several
me."
Funerals.
"T h a t no He, sar, and I f It hadn’t
When Tom and I came to look over
been fo r that suckin’ fish's skin you
the ground with a view to finding a
wouldn't be here now.”
“ It didn't save me from a pretty burial place for the dead I realized
good one on the head, Tom, did It?” with grim emphasis the truth of
“ No, sar, but that was Just it— If Charlie Webster’s remarks— in those
It hadn't been fo r that knock on the snuggery nights that seemed so re­
head, pulling you down just that min­ mote and far away— on the nature of
ute, th at thar pockmarked fellow the soil which would have to be gone
would have got you. As It was, he over In quest o f my treasure. No won­
grazed your cheek and got one o f his der he had spoken o f dynamite.
“ Why, Tom,” I said, "there Isn’t a
own men killed by mistake— the very
wheelbarrow load o f real soil in a
fellow that hit you. There he is—
square mile. W e couldn’t dig a grave
over there.”
“ And who’s that other, T om ?" I for a dog in stuff like this,” and, ns I
asked, pointing to another dark figure spoke, the pewterlike rock under ray
feet clanged and echoed with a metal­
a few yards away.
lic sound.
"T h a t’s the captain, sar.”
“ Come along, Tom, I enn’t stand any
“T h e captain? Oh, I ’m sorry for
that. God knows I ’m sorry fo r that.” more o f this. W e’ll have to leave our
“ Yes, sar, he was one o f the finest funerals till tomorrow, and get aboard
gentlemen I ever knowed was Cap­ for the night”— for the Maggie Darling
tain Tom linson; a brave man and a was still flouting there serenely, as
good pavlgator. And he’d taken a pow­ though men nnd their violence had no
erful fancy -to you, for when you got existence on the planet.
that track on the head he picked up , “ W e’d better cover them up, against
your gun and began blazing away, with (he turkey »buzzards,” said Tom. two
words I should never have expected o f those unsavory birds rising In the
from a religious man. The others, ex­ air as we returned to the shore. W e
did this as well as we were alyle with
cept our special frien d—”
“ L e t’s call him Tobins from now on, rooks and the wreckage o f an old
boat strewn on the beach.
Tom ," F Interposed.
I don’t think two men were ever so
“ Well, him, sar, kept his nerve, but
the othqjs ran fo r the boats as if the glad o f the morning, driving before it
devil was after them; but the cap­ the haunted night. A fte r breakfast
tain’s gun was quicker, and only four our first thought was naturally to the
o f them got to the Susan B. T h e other sad and disagreeable business before
two fe ll on their faces, as I f some­ us.
“ I tell you what I ’ve been thinking,
thing had tripped them up, in a couple
o f feet o f water. But Just then Tobins sar,” said Tom. as we rowed ashore,
hit the captain In the h ea rt; a h ! If nnd I managed to pull down a turkey
only he had one o f those skins— but he
always laughed off such things ns su­
perstitious.
“ There was Only me and Tobias
then. ami. the dog, fo r the engineer
boy had gone on his knees to the Su­
san B. fellow s at the first crack, and
begged them to take him away with
them. There was no one left but T o ­
bias and the dog and me, and I was
sure my end was not far off, fo r I was
never much o f a shot.
“ As God Is my witness, sar, I was
ready to die, and there was a moment
when I thought that the time had
com e; but Tobias suddenly walked
%way to the top o f the bluff and
called out to the Susnn B., that was
Just running up her sails.
A t his
word they put out a boat fo r him, and
while he waited’ he came down the hill
toward me and the dog, that stood
growling over y o u ; and fo r sure I
thought It was the end. But he said :
T e ll that fellow there that I'm not
going to kill .a defenseless m an.. He
might have killed me once but he
didn't. It’s bound to be one o f na
some day or other, but, despise me all
he likes— Tm not such carrion as he
thinks m e; and I f he only likes to keep
out o f my way I ’m willing to keep out
o f Ms. Tell him when he wakes np
that as long as he gives up going after
what belongs to me— fo r It was my
grandfather's— he Is safe, but the min­
ute he seta bis foot or hand on what
la mine. It's either bis life or mine.'
And then be turned away and was
rowed to the Susan B „ and they soon
sailed away."
“ With the black flag at the peak, I
suppose, Tom ," said I. “ W ell, that
They Glided Off Wish Scarce a Splash
buzzard that rose at our approach—
happily our coverings had proved fair­
ly effective— “ I ’ve been thinking that
the only one o f the three that really
matters U the curtain, and we can
find sufficient soil fo r him In one o f o f the flesh. And the ghost o f John P.
Tobias still kept his secret.
those big holes.”
"H ow about the others?”
CHAPTER V III.
“ W ell, to tell the truth, I » ’as think­
ing that shurks are good enough for
An Unfinished Game of Card*.
them.”
*
One evening as I returned to the
“ They deserve no better, Tom, and
I think we may as well get rid of.them ship unusually worn out and disheart­
ened I asked Tom how the stores were
first.”
So it » a s done as we said, and car­ holding out. H e answered cheerfully
rying them by the feet and shoulders that they would last another week and
to the edge o f the bluff— George, and leave us enough to get home.
“ Well, shall we stick out the other
Silly Theodore, and the nameless giant
» h o had knocked me down so oppor­ week or not, Tom ? I don’t want to
tunely— we skillfully flung them In, kill you, and I confess I ’m uearly all
and they glided off with scarce a In myself.”
“ May as well stick It out, sar, now
splash.
Then we turned to the poor captain we’ve gone so far. Then we'll have
and carried him as gently as we could done all we can, and theTe’s a certain
over the rough ground to the biggest satisfaction In doing that, sar."
.So next morning we went at It
o f the banana holes, as the natives
cull them, and there we » ’ere able to again, and the next, and the next
again, and then on the fourth day,
dig him a fa irly respectable grave.
Tom and Sailor and I were now, to when our »'e e k was dra»'lng to Its
the best o f our belief, alone on the close, something at last happened to
island, and a lonesomer spot It would change the grim monotony o f our days.
It was shortly a fter the lunch hour.
be hard to Imagine, or one touched at
certain hours with a fa irer beauty— Tom and I, »'h o were now »'ork ln g too
a beauty wralthllke and, like a sea far apart to hear each other’s halloos,
shell, haunted with the marvel o f the had fired our revolvers once or twice
to show that all was right with us.
sea.
First we went over our stores, and, But. for no reason I can give, I sud­
thunks to those poor dead mouths that denly got a feelin g that all was not
did not need to be reckoned with any right with the old man, so I fired my
more, we had plenty o f everything to revolver and gave him time fo r a re­
last us fo r at least a month, not to ply. But there was no answer. Again
speak o f fishing, at which Tom was an I fired. Still no answer. I was on the
point o f firing again when I heard
expert.
When, however, w e turned to our something coming through the brush
It was Sailor racing
plans for the treasure bunting we behind me.
soon came to a dead stop. T h e Indi­ toward me over the jagged locks.
cations given by Tobias seemed, In the Evidently there was something wrong.
“ Something wrong with old Tom,
face o f such a terrain, naive to a de­
gree. Possibly the laud had changed Sailor?” I asked, as though he could
since his day. Some little, o f course, answer me. And Indeed he did answer
it must have done.
Tom and I went as plainly as dog could do, wagging
over Tobias’ directions again and his tail nnd whining and turning to go
there was the compass carved on the hack with me In the direction whence
rock, and the cross. There was some­ he had coice.
“ O ff we go, then, old chap,” and as
thing definite— something which, if It
he ran ahead, I follow ed him as fast
was ever there at all, was there still—
as I could.
for In that climate the weather leaves
things unperlshed almost as In Egypt.
It took me the best part o f an hour
" Sitting on the highest bluff we could to get to where Tom had been work­
ing. Sailor brushed his way ahead,
find, Tom and I looked around.
“ That compass Is som e»’here among pushing through the scrub with canine
these Infernal rocks— I f It ever was importance. Presently, at the top of
carved there at all— that’s one thing a slight elevation, I came among the
certain, T o m ; but look at the rocks 1” bushes to a softer spot where the soil
Over twenty miles o f rocks north had given way, and saw that It was
the mouth o f a shaft like a wide chim­
and south, and from tw o to six from
east to west. A more hopeless Job the ney flue, the earth o f which had evi­
dently fallen In. H ere Sailor stopped
mind o f man could not conceive. Tom
shook his head, and scratched his and whined, pawing the earth, and at
the same time I heard a moaning un­
graying wool.
“ I go n.oit by the ghost, sar,” he derneath.
“ Is thnt you, Tom ?” I called. Thank
said. “ A ll these men had never been
killed If the ghost hadn’t been some­ God, the old chap was not dead at all
where near. Mark me, If we find tne events.
“ Thank the Lord, it’s you, sar,” he
treasure it’ll he by the ghost.”
"T h a t’s all very well,” I laughed. cried. “ I ’m all right, but I ’ve had a
“ But how are we going to get the bad fall— and I can’t seem able to
ghost to show his hand? H e’s got move.”
"H old on and keep up your heart—
such bloodthirsty ways with him.”
“ They always have, sar,” said Tom, I ’ll be with you In a minute,” I called
no doubt with some ancestral shudder down to him.
“ Mind yourself, sar,” he called cheer­
o f voodoo worship In his blood. "Yes,
snr, they always cry out fo r blood. I t ’s ily, and Indeed It was a problem to get
all they’ve got to live on. They drink down to him without precipitating the
it like you and me drink coffee or loose earth and rock thai were ready
rum. It ’s terrible to hear them in the to make a landslide down the hole, and
perhaps bury him forever.
night.”
But, looking about, I found another
"W ell, Tom,” I remarked, “ you may
be right, but o f one thing I ’m certain ; natural tunnel In the side of the hill.
if the ghost’s going to get any one, It Into this I was able to worm myself,
and In the dim light found the old man
sha’n't he you.”
“ W e’ve both got one good chance and put my flask to his Ups.
"Anything broken, do you think?"
against them— ” Tom was beginning.
Tom didn’t think so. He had evi­
“ Don’t tell me again about that old
dently been stunned hy his fall, and
sucking fish.”
another pull at my flask set him on
“ Mind you keep it safe, fo r a " that,”
said Tom gravely. “ I wouldn’t lose Ids feet. But as I helped him up, and,
striking a light, we began to look
mine fo r n thousand pounds.”
"W ell, all right, but let’s forget the around the hole he had tumbled into,
he gave a piercing shriek and fe ll on
dumned old ghosts fo r the present.”
his knees, Jabbering with fear.
W e decided to try a plan that was
“ The
ghosts 1 the ghosts I”
he
really no plan at a ll; that is to say, to
seek more or less at random, till we screamed.
And the sight that met our eyes was
consumed all our stores except Just
enough to tuke us home. Meanwhile certainly one to try the nerves. T w o
we would, each o f us, every day, cut a figures sat at a table— one with his
sort of radiating swathe, working sin­ hat tilted slightly and one leaning side­
gle-handed, from the cove entrance. ways in his chair In a careless sort of
Thus we would prospect as much o f attitude. T hey seeemed to be playing
the country as possible in a sort of cards, and they were strangely white—
fan, both o f us keeping our eyes open for they »-ere skeletons.
I stood hushed, while Tom ’s teeth
for a compass carved on a rock. In
this way we might hope to cover no in­ rattled at my side. The fantastic awe
considerable stretch o f the country in o f the thing was beyond telling. And
the three weeks, and, moreover, the
country most likely to give some re­
sults, as being that lying In a semicir­
cle from the little harbor where the
ships would have lain. It wasn't much
o f a plan perhaps, but It seemed the
most possible among the Impossibles.
Harder work than we had under­
taken no men have ever set their hands
(o. It would have broken the back of
the most able-bodied navvy; and when
we reached the boat at sunset we had
scarce strength left to eat our supper
and roll int^ our bunks. A machete i
Is a heavy weapon that needs no little |
skill in handling with economy of
force, and Tom, who had been brought ‘
up to It, was, in spite o f his years, a
better practitioner than I.
I have already hinted at the kind of
devil’s underbrush we had to cut our
iy iy through, but no words can do jus­
tice to the almost Intelligent stubborn­
ness »-1th which those weird growths
opposed us. It really seemed as though
ihey were inspired by n diabolic will-
force pitting Itself against our will, !
vegetable Incarnation o f evil strength
and fury and cunning.
Day after day Tom and I returned [
home dead beat, with hardly a tired !
word to exchange with each other.
W e hnd now been at It fo r about a ,
fortnight, and I loved the old chap
more every day for the grit and cour- j
age with which he supported our ter­
rible labors and kept up his spirits. I Waited a Minuta to Replace the Hat
on tho Rakish One’* Head.
Once or twice we had made fancied
discoveries which we called off the then not without a qualm or two,
other to see. and once or twtee we bad which I would be a liar to deny. I went
tried some blasting on rocks that and stood nearer to them. Nearly all
seemed to suggest mysterious tunnel­ their clothes had fnllen away, hanglrg
ings Into the earth. But It had si!
but In shreds here and there. That
proved a vain thing and a weariness the hat had so Ja until- kent Its niece
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his Jests. The cards whjch had ap­
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scarcely from decay— only a little dirt
had slftqd down upon them, as It had
Into the rum glasses that stood, too,
at each man’s side. And as I looked
at the skeleton Jauntily facing me, I
noticed that a bullet hole had been
made as clean as if hy a drill in his
forehead o f bone— while, turning to
examine more closely his silent part­
ner, I noticed a rusty sailor’s knife
hanging from the rihs where the lungs
had been Then I looked on the flo o r !
and found the key to the whole story.
For there, within a few yards, stood
a heavy sailor’s chest, strongly bound
around with Iron. Its lid was thrown
back and a few coins lay scattered at
the bottom, while n few lay about on
the floor. I picked them up.
They were pieces o f eigh t!
Meanwhile Tom had stopped Jabber­
ing and had come nearer, looking on
In awed sllpnce. I showed him the
pieces o f eight.
“ I guess th“ se are all we’ll see o f
one John F. Tobias' treasure, Tom ,”
I said. And It looks as If theae poor
fellows saw as little o f It as ourselves.
Can't you Imagine them with It there
at their feet— perhaps playing to d i­
vide It on a gamble, and meanwhile
the other fellows stealing in through
some o f these rabbit runs— one with a
knife, the other with a gun— and then:
off with the loot and up with the soils
Poor d e v ils ! It strikes me as a very
pretty tragedy— doesn't It you?”
Suddenly— perhaps with the vibra­
tion o f our volcea— the hat toppled off
the head o f the fellow facing us In the
most weird and comical fashion— and
that was too much fo r Tom, and ha
screamed and mffde for the exit hole.
But I waited a minute to replace the
hat on the rakish one's head. As I *
was likely often to think o f him In tho
future I preferred to remember him
at the moment o f our first strange
acquaintance.
. ,s.
Continued next week
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