.
—
m rrnnt or a minx—•’
the supply tent with certain exnlowiv-«
i.
which were to be used In the digging
,WW " #t ’ " ns'v"«»<
I
operations later.
* ’
T>h <lo<’ ♦ scold Mr. Vane!” I lm
Having Inquired of the Honorable L ’T * ? RT* 2 r l‘aradls*f ha* »» * r
Cuthbert and found that for an h o u r J’* “ 1, Und “ th e r t ‘ a n ‘
» ‘ h * ™ h e re
<»• two the boat would not be ln I * suppO8e 1 am 11 Of course all lady I
requisition. I permitted the beautiful ' * 7 T a l r *
i ’,uslne* hav‘‘
»«...u . to understand
.
jouth
that I would not ren tialr. Don t blame Mr. Vane for
decliaie an Invitation to be rowed abont ' what was naturally all my fault.
Not a line of his face changed. In
the cove. Mr Shaw had left bla ma­
rine glasses lying about, and I had deed, before my most vicious stabs
been doing gome exploring with them. ’ It never did change.
“To be sure It seems unreasonable
Intler the great cliffs on the north
Order today, stating ho« many you w ill want
shore of the bay I had
an ob. to blame the lad,” be agreed soberly,
1 h‘t Lutfisk it prepared and will arrive in our .tore Dec, 20th.
je<'t that excited my curiosity.
It “hut then he happens to be under mv
e will only have enough for our orders, so order at once.
authority."
si^etned to be the hull of a small vea-
-el. lying on the narrow atrip of rocka
"Meaning. I suppose, that you would
and sand under the cliff. Now, wreck much prefer to blame me," I choked.
age anywhere tllla me with sad and
"There's logic, no doubt. In striking
romantic thoughts, but on the shore at the root of the trouble," he admit­
of a desolate Island even a barrel- ted with an air of calm detachment
hoop seems to suffer a sea-change Into
Then strike,"
I said furiously;
Mail orders filled
something rich and strange. I there­ "strike, why don't you, and not heat
fore commanded the b. y. to row me about the bush so!" Because then he
over to the spot where the derelict would be quite hopelessly In
ttaj
lay.
wrong, and 1 could adopt any of sev
1 lay hack Idly In the stern as the eral roles— the coldly haughty, the
^oat skimmed over the smooth water wounded but forgiving, etcM with
beneath the strokes of my splendid great enjoyment.
oarsman. More than ever he looked
But without a change ln his glacial
like the Island god. Every day he manner he quite casually remarked:
and stepped Back. Fear clutched my {
»rew more brown and brawny, more
"It would seem 1 had struck—
throat.
I had left my revolver In my | been left bare, f had’ watched th«
home."
superb ln his physical vigor.
quarters, Oh, the dreadful denseness emergence of their black Jagged sun
I walked away.
The cliffs o« the north shore of the
of these woods, tha certainty that no faces for some time before It occurred
Fortunately nobody undertook to ex
cove were considerably higher than
on the other side.
The wreck lay erclse any guardianship over Crusoe, wildest cry of mine could pierce them I to me that they offered a means ol
And then Crusoe, who had been access to the cave The cave— place
close In, driven high upon the nar and the little white dog bore me faith
row shelf of rocks and sand at the ful company In my rambles. Mostly waiting quietly behind me In the path, of fascination and mystery I Hers
slipped In between us. Every hair was the opportunity of all others to
base of the sheer ascent. Sand had these were confined to the neighbor
heaped up around her hull and flung hood of the cove. I never ventured on hla neck was bristling. Th© lifted explore It, unhampered by any on»,
Itself across her deck like a white beyond Lookout ridge, but there 1 went upper Up snarled unmistakably. He Just Crusoe and I alone. In the fash­
winding-sheet. Surprisingly, the ves­ often with Crusoe, and we would si I gave me a swift glance which said. ion that left me freest to Indulge mj
Shall I sprtng?"
sel was a very small one, a little upon a rock and talk to each other
dreams.
Quite suddenly the gorilla blandish­
sloop. Indeed, much like the fragile nbout our first encounter there, ami
I waited until the Scotchman’s back
ments of Captain Magnus came to an was safely turned, because If he saw
pleasure-boats that cluster under the the fright he had given me. Every
end.
Sausalito shore at home. The single body else had gone, gazed and ad
me setting forth on this excursion ha
’Say," he salt! harshly, “hold back «as quite certain to command me to
mast had been broken off short, and mired. But the only constant pilgrim
that dog, will you? I don't want to
the stump of the bowsprit was visi­ besides myself, was, of all people
return, and I had no Intention of sub­
kill H e cur."
ble, like a linger beckoning for rescue I aptaln Magnus. The captain's unex
mitting to his dictatorial ways and
You
had
better
not,"
I
returned
from the crawling sand.
pected ardor for scenery carried hln
yet was not quite sura how I was suc­
•'Poor forlorn little boat I” I said. thither whenever he had half an houi coldly. "I should have to explain bow cessfully to defy him.
It happened, yon know. As It It I
“W'liat In the world do yon suppose
spare from the work In the cave
Tha retreating tide had left deep
brought such a mite of a thing to thia Needless
-ccuic'» to
io say, Crusoe
crusoe and I time
timer I shall say nothing. But I shall not pools behind, each a little cosmos of
n r visits so as not to Conflict wltl
fnrk*t tny revolver agaln?when I go fairy seaweeds and tiny
unheard-of spot?”
scuttling
J to w alk.”
"Perhaps she belonged to the copra his.
craba and rich and wonderful forma o
And Crusoe and I went «¡»Iftly down life which were strange to me. O n
One day, ns Crusoe and I came down
chap. One man could handle her."
the path which the captain no longer soe and I were very much Interested
"What would he want with her? A from the ridge, we met Captain Mag
I
disputed.
small boat like this la better for flsh nus ascending. I had In my hand a
and lingered a good <leul on the waj
mall metal-backed mirror, which 1
big and rowing about the cove.”
But at last we reached the great arch
CHARTER V III.
"Perhaps she brought him here from had found, surprisingly, lying In a
way. and passed with a auddenneai
Panama, though he couldn’t have mossy cleft between the rocks, Ii
which was like a plunge into coo
-Lassie, Lassie . .
vas a thing such as a man might car
counted on taking back a very bulky
water from the hot glnre of the tropli
cargo."
ry In his pocket, though on the Island
Two or three days later occurred a sunshine Into the green shadow of tt«
I hen why leave her strewn about it seemed unlikely that anyone would painful episode. The small unsuspect­ cavern.
on the rocks? And besides”—here the Io so. I at once attributed the mlr ed germ of It had lain ambushed In
At the lower end, between tw<
puzzle of Crusoe recurred to me and •or to Captain Magnus, for I knew that a discourse of Mr. Shaw’s, delivered arches, a black, water-worn rock pav
shortly after our arrival on the Island, Ing rang under one's feet.
Furlhet
seemed to link Itself with this— “then no one else had been on the ridge fo
lays. I was wondering as I walkei on the multlfarloua uses of tha cocoa
how did he get away himself?”
In under the point the floor of tha
long whether by some sublime law palm. He told how the Juice from the cave was covered with white aaml
We rowed in close under the port
bow of the sloop, and on the rail I of comiiensatlon the captain reMlIj unexpended flower spathea la drawn All the great shadowy place was mur-
off to form a potent toddy, so that muring like a vast sea-shell.
made out a string of faded lettera 1 thought himself beautiful, and sough
his retired spot to admire not thi where every prospect pleases man may
began excitedly to spell them out.
I wished I could visit the place In
still he vile. Cookie, experimentally darkness. It would be thrice as mys­
s— I—oh. Island Queen I
You flew but his own physiognomy.
SYNOPSIS.
I
VI ' — lld plff" abound on
When the captain saw me he stoppeil disposed, set to work. Mr. Vane, also terious. ailed with Its hollow whis­
I
"J, .iand Cookie- ' the colored see she did belong here. Probably she
m em ber of the party, insists he has seen
brought the original porcine Adam full In the path. There was a growth experimentally, sampled the reaulta of pering echoes, as In tbe day. From
ahiifA»?TKR L—Jane H arding respect- f ,„ rhant> ?, t.be form of a w h ite pig
¡ . ¿ L , d ™ n8er v a tiv e old a p ln a te r-b u t I i ¿ s i a ,WT,lk V irg in ia meets the " h a n t"
am) Eve to the Island.”
f fern on either side, I approached Cookie’s efforts. The liquor had mere
the ledge far above my head led off
er to° ° d J ° th in k o f m a rria g e —with
a w h ite bull te irle r, and proudly brings
slowly, and, as he did not move ly been allowed to ferment, whereas those narrow, teasing crevices In which
“Luckily forgot the snake, though!
him into camp.
r» tro n ’i°m T ya t aa n ,b ra ln "' la Inveigled by
a complicated process Is necessary foi
imused, and held out the mirror.
the three explorers did their unre­
T ?dc?. "P tn a trr. Miss H igg lesb y-
remarked the Honorable Bertie wltl
h iin t
tlo an cln g an expedition to | C H A P T E R V I I —On the l-la n d Is the
“I think you must have dropped this (he manufacture of the true arrack
warded burrowing. I could see the
unlooked-for vivacity. For to far Aunt
•Vina f i i bur,led tre a s u re on Leew ard
hut
o
t
a
copra
gatherer,
and
the
presence
» , „ » 7
n*ecev V |r a ln la H a rd in g , un-
lane’s trembling anticipations ha< Captain Magnus. I found It on the hut enough hiul tierti achieved to bring strands of a rope ladder lying colled
o f the dog, named "Crusoe“ by V irginia
.1 < h e r' *ie la on the vessel I is thus accounted for. R am bling about.’
rocka."
about dire consequences for Cuthbert at the edge of the shelf, where tt was
been unfulfilled by the sight of a sin
skm *^.di for..iihe ,b u n t- and ln the confu-
and feeling herself not to be a regular
Vane, who had found the liquid cool secured by spikes. The men dragged
■>on is u n w illin g ly c a rrie d along.
Foh an Instant his face chnnged
gle snake, a fact laid by me to the
m em ber of the expedition, V irg in ia comes
upon a sand-imbedded sloop, the Island
credit of St. Patrick and by. Cookie to His evasive eyes were turned to mi and refreshing, and was akeptlcal down the ladder with a boat hook when
h ( i, d i « T ^ R JL—B y no m eans concealing
Queen
R etu rn ing to the camp, she Is
that of the pigs.
searchlngly and sharply.
He took abont Its potency.
they wanted to ascend. I looked about
™ I , d!;
fo r th » exp e d itio n and her
intercepted by C aptain Magnus, who ac­
Aunt Jane took the matter very with a hope that perhaps they had left
tT r
P,' ,f 0.r 1,a “ » « m b e l t v i r g la la makes
costs her unpleasantly. She escapes him
“Snakes'd Jes’ be oysters on de half the glass from my hand and slipped It
w
ith
the
aid
of
"Crusoe."
h e r,af.dua' n ta 1 ce Of the H o n o ra b le C uth-
into his pocket. 1 made a movement hard, and rebuked the ribald mirth o( the boat-hook somewhere.
shell to dem pigs," declared Cookie.
°ert vane, and la s o m ew h a t Impressed.
to pass on, then stopped, with a faint Mr. Tubbs. He had to shed tears otbi
I found no boat-hook, but Instead a
As
we
rowed
away
from
the
melan­
CHAPTER V II.
K.
H l . —T a lk in g w ith Dugs laid
“Tkt
spade, which had been driven deep Into
choly little derelict I saw that near­ lawning of discomfort. For the heavy a devastating poem called
Shaw, the leader o f th e expedition. V ir -
JP" a * * P r fr a n k ,X expresses h e r views,
by a narrow gully gave access to the figure of the captain still blocked the Drunkard's Home.” before she would tha sand and left, too firmly Imbedded
An Excursion and an Alarm.
forgive him. Cookie made hla pears for the tide to hear away. At once a
m,
‘ f u s i n g S haw and th e other I
top
of the cliff, and I resolved that path.
members o f the p a rty , in cluding a some­
As the only person who hud discov­
A dark flush had come Into the man’s by engaging to vote the prohibition burning hope that I, alone and unas-
what uncertain personage, C ap tain M ag-
I would avail myself of this path to
ered
anything
on
the
island,
1
was
now
His yellow teeth showed he ticket at ihe next election.
H Tnsi? a . 8i'a.dy
tlnaacler, H a m ilto n
slated. might bring to light the treas­
visit the Island Queen again. My mind face.
ris.ia i i ” ' o f be,hg In a conspiracy to de-
Invested with a certain Importance.
Mr. Hhaw was disturbed over Cuth
ure of the Bonny Lass seethed In my
n a tu l.? ? *" Jane H a r d |hg T h e ir relations,
continued to dwell upon the unknown tween hla parted lips. Hla eyes had a
Also, I had a playfellow and compan­
naturally, a re s om ew hat strained.
bert. who was not at all had. only veins. I Jerked the spade loose and
figure of the copra gatherer. Perhaps swimming brightness.
ion for future walks, In lieu of Cuth
queer
and
sleepy,
and
had
to
be
let'
fell
te.
“What’s your hurry?" he remarked
the loss of bis sloop had condemned
C H A P T E R IV. - T e n d in g on the Island
bert Vane, held down tight to the
away to slumber In retirement. Also
I* a m a tte r o f souie d iffic u lty . V irg in ia
I now discovered tbe great truth that
him to weary months or years of goll- with a certain Insinuating emphasis.
P*‘hg varrled ashore in the a rm s o f C u th -
thankless toll of treasure-1: tinting by
It was exceptgonaJly low tide and ,H«<lng for treasure la the moat thrill-
I. began to tremble.
inde upon the island, before the rare
o e it Vane, to h e r disquietude. T h e la n d ­
his stern taskmaster. But at the same
ing. however, la s a fe ly effected.
’’I am on my way hack to camp. Mr. Shaw had counted on taking ad
in« and absorbing occupation known
glimmer of a «all or the trull of
time I was provided with an annoying,
to men Tima ceased to be, and the
steamer's smoke upon the horizon Captain Magnus. I’lease let me pass ' vantage of It to work In the cave
n i i A P T E I* V .—Led by M iss H lgg lesb y-
because unanswerable question which
Now
Cuthbert
was
laid
up—
"It won't do you no harm If you're
weight of the damp and dose-packed
gladdened his longing eyes.
m»nTneU th ? I* l r ' y d ra w s up an agree­
had lodged at the hack of my mind
’’Yon and I will have to manage h» ■and seemed that of feather» Thia
ment whereby V irg in ia H a rd in g Is barred
Suddenly I turned to Cuthbert Vane. a little late There ain't no one there
.T iT a p a rtlrlpAbon In the profits o f the
like a crumb In the throat:
ourselvee,
Magnua.”
keepln' tab. Ain't you always a-
temporary state of exaltation paaeed.
expedition. B
ll—
' ■ th in g to
"How do you know, really, that lie
B e
elieving
the whole
By what strange chance had the
"Nothing doing—boat got to be to he sure, and the sand got very
n* a fraud. V
strayln' off with the Honorable? I
V I irg in ia Is not g re a tly w or-
ever
did
leave
the
Island?”
I
demand
C u th b ert V ane alon e votes against
copra gatherer gone away and left
patched up—go out there without 11 h»avy, and my back ached, but ■till I
ain’t so pretty, but—”
the exclusion o f V irg in ia .
ed.
Crusoe on the Island?
“You are lmi>ertlnent I«et me pasa.” and gat caught I" growled the captain
dug. Crusoe began to fuss about nnd
“Who—the copra chap? Well, why
One morning. Instead of starting dl
Well, lend a hand. then. We can bark
’Oh, I ’m impertinent, am I? That
He came and tugged at tny
rectlv after breakfast for the cave else was the cabin cleared out so care­ mean« fresh, maybe. I'm a plain man he ready with the boat Inside an hour
skirt, uttering an uneasy whine.
fully—no clothes left about or any
The captain hesitated qnecrly. Hla
and don't use frills on my langwldge
Be quiet, Crusoe I” I commanded,
thing?"
«
'Veil, when I meets a little skirt that wandering eyes seemed Io he search
threatening him with my spade The
'That's true,” I acknowledged. The takes my eyes there ain’t no harm In ing In every quarter for something madness of the treasure-lust possessed
Inst occupant of the hut had qyldent- lettln' her know It, Is there? Maybe they did not dn«L At last he mum
ly made a very deliberate and order­ the Honorable could say It nicer— "
bled that he thought he felt a touch
ly business of packing up to go.
m a a t) m is
With a forward stride he laid a of the sun, and had decided to lay
We drifted about the covo for •
hand upon my arm. I shook him off off for the afternoon and make hla way
across the Island. He said he wanted
vhllr, then steered Into the dim mur
to shoot water-fowl and that they had
muring shadow of the treasure-raven
all been frightened away from the
Electrical gifts make the Christmas time last all through the year
Mr. Vane Indicated the point at whlcl
cove, but that with the glass he had
" e liave on display in our store the best in things electrical, and we
they had arrived in their exploratloi
f i t cordially in rite you to see them
seen them from Lookout thickly about
among the fissures opening from th
the other bay.
ledge.
“Very well,” eald <be Scotchman
The place held me with Its fasclna
coldly. “I suppose you must suit your
tlon, but we dared not linger long, for
self J can get the boat la shape with­
as the tide turned one man would h a *
out help. I dare say.” I saw him pres­
much ado to manage the boat. So
ently looking In an annoyed and pux-
«lid through the archway Into th<
*
zled fashion after tbe vanishing figure
blight sunshine of the cove, an<*
of the sailor.
heailed
for
the
camp.
. ... $3!)50 .*45 an d 55.00 W
Mr Tnbba and the umbrellas soon
As we neared the beach we saw s
disappeared Info the woods I bellave
figure pacing It. It was Dugald Shaw
the search for Bill Halllwelt's tomb­
And quite unexpectedly my heart be
stone was no longer very actively pur­
gun to beat with staccato quickness
sued. and that he and Aunt Jane and
*
Dugsld Shaw, who didn't like me an<
Violet «pent their time enamored In a
who never looked at roe—except Jar
snug little nook with hammocks and
.00
to
sometimes, when he was perfectly sure
cushions I more than suspected Mr.
I didn't know It—there he was, wait­
Tubbs of feeling that such a bird In
ing for us, and splashing Into the
the hand as Aunt Jane was worth many
foam to help Cuthbert beach the boat
doubloons ln tbe buab. But In spite
—he for whom a thousand years ago
of uoea«lneaa about the future, for the
the aka Ida would have made a saga—
present 1 reeled secure in the certainty
The b. y. hailed him cheerfully
that they could not elope from the
as we sprang out upon the sand. But
Island, and that there was no one on
the Scotchman was unsmiling.
It with authority to metamorphnae
"Make baste after your tools, lad,”
Aunt Jane Into Mrs. Hamilton H. A «brisk Eebe©d Threu«b the Cave.
he ordered. “W ell have fine work now
Tubbs.
to get Inside the cave before the turn."
The waters of the cove had receded n>»
I was panting now. and my
Those were his words; hla tone and
until a fringe of recks under the high hands began te feel Ilka baseball mitt»,
hla grim look meant. **Ro In spite of
land of the point, usually covered, bad hut still I dug Crusoe bad cased to
all mi care you are being beguiled by
importune me; vaguely ] was aware
that be had got tired and rqj» qff,
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