Yield to Wanderlust
Cal ifo rn ia
T h u r s d a y e v c u .n g u lere
10 " • ta*Jr ’ “ *■" •□<! wife who hail
m ade th e tr ip “ fro m M aine to O re-
gon
w ith o u t
X .d Ä
«
tP L , k e H u r ° ° a » d
thru
Hall 8t. M a iie lakes.
h Z T ?
recourse to ra ilro a d
8l,’ ru* « »„d
’ " ‘“ lio
n.
- they"
- 1 hipped themselves
Otl,_
or au to , w ith oue s lig h t exception. ¡ J j “ ' 0"
Coeurd’ Alen'
T h e y were M r. an,I Mrs H o m e r
W h l n T b e ^ T " ? ‘ ° Sp° ue k " nioun-
n*-
D ean I ubbs, who had
started on them
a r
8 artei1 J.,leV had with
the 20th of last June from P h il. A ire d a le w hich "!«? 0
““
bps. M e ., for a to u r of the U n ited "A H u le ‘ his side o 7 S p o k in e ^ t h '
States on horseback.
' • n>«ual a lip e d ai|(1
•"» ‘h . ,
M rs. Tubbs is known on the stage 't h e v Ut|>',1° b ,le “ nd " as kille d
“
±
“.
*
W ta s , .
- « I? « b -n . « 4
±
i V
and
. h. 7 . ? "
vacatio n in the -ad d le f r o m * * " ’ ,,
to t h - ,„ k
- d o g th at was given
them because he was so vicion
th e boards.
I t l e y Blarted out w ith
Ü ; ' ” " , " . ; 1“ ' " " • » a n , h im . W °” ,
tw o rid in g horses and tw o ,,Kck-
Tu? ' “ ‘- « p , « — ,o ,
borses and have th
, .
.
e
» n ¡m a le
In
n C perfec* « « » ‘ Ie m a li
to d a y, none the worse for th e ir
jo u rn ey o f 4036 miles of . c“uJ i v i.i J A ” D “ k u U bMd I “ » '1« ‘ h eyl
»‘■lted for a week on a ranch ad'.
travel in th e last six months
o n " ' " 8. ’ h ' Roosevel‘ r »nch and'
W h e n o u t travelers reached Port-
and th ey had been in the saddle with t - lnJ k i ,Wc y were Pr«««nted
169 days and rested 31, m aking an • r e six - W‘ He h<’ r!e8’ 80 now there
• r e six equines m the p arty
average of 27 miles per day when d a ? o f U.Utr,,,tS ? ft Port la » d M on.
on fhe road.
y ot last week and spent T h u rs­
T h e y visited the W h ite m oun. day night
_
_
at _____
the hotel
Halsey,
ta in s , the Green m o u n ta in s, t h e ! . 1 th hey
propose
to
take* a J
e y nrnnoaaa
rest of
A d iro n d ac k« and other noted places thr#e months in southern
C a lifo
o f resort, w ent fro m N iag ara f a ll. ' “ a and from t h - .
'-»■
no r.
• » ™ gb
Canada
X
and across to P o rt H u ro n , on t h i- M o un tain s of V irg in ia
side of the lin e, and made a week- H
¡» ‘ erest w h . ^ ' X y
-T "
" K*
X ^ o i!
S u n s h i t > an d O r a n g e s
Appeal to countless thousands each year
»"noV.”i n r ° *° CaJ ifo’»*»'» Sunny Southland
beaches, outdoor w r t J í n d í h / L “
.P e r s a u d t h .
this w inter ? T here
" 2 C,??dr 1 sun
Through Sleeping Cars
Observation and Dining (’ars
Via
The Scenic Shasta route
Provide all the comforts of modern travel
■a W » a , „ a ,
Th. . n •
Round Trip Excursion Tickets
are on sale to
Sunia Barbara...Los Angeles...San Diego
v»»v. I t «.lie tt (uilgulng job. I nod
to stoop so.
“I spent so much time unloading the
‘
,b a ‘ »eforw I waa ready
go
n" r« M . and aald as clearlv s> —
words. Come, hunt p ig -
,th 1 -or my boat the tide waa up , „ d
“/B enjy.- I M ld .
,
I pounding on the rocks below the cave.
I ttnd that ouly at certain stages of
pork alone Just now, w e have work
n T * , . ” COUD‘ our “ '" > * *
W e r S l I re tide Is the cave approachable by
A t the turn s fter high water,
rich, old boy, rich, rich I’
for Instance, there
, uch . terr)flc
Iv
1 d“0’‘ 7W know exact- undertow that It s e t. up . „ „ a ll m .e l.
/ * ba‘ * * • * « ‘O* of the treasure is »trom among t h . r r r f , ,y,n< ()ff
thera.Ve. « ““ ? i i : . by 8 »? >
e h e « ; '•PuwL
At low tide Is (ba time to
£ *?
?“* hundred and forty e ig h t f'OIQS.
- n . s . n 7 f ‘ r * ’ ' h* V*
“ « ‘7 m . n * S
-Feb ru ary 12. (lot the cheat out of
which m s k ****
‘ b,,u“ «id doubloons. :— — ■*. >»»usu u “ was
a a difficult
Job
* “ rou,
«‘ •«
c u lt
7d
, * ° ,a l *
hundred , u<k,,f
no
.„ d
| * Job.
*
. * g it thouannd —
Estim
ating ’ “ • -7
B>u«tli passage a around
I be point. 1
each r a in r - -s.
i» u m u n <
ro u n u (U r u
at a Vain
» 'b* k ,k * of
B»«rer. ‘• ur t « l ralb er ruefully a t 1 passed
• s value of seven d o l l a r s - ,
lb« C a v , of the Two A rc h L .
ilium -yo u get o n . million, thirty
^ < 2 ^ 0
d° “ , r "
And “
m -T
•f the coin, are s n c l„ „ j
lhink ot M** *°M I wasted there 1 I
r ,“ 1
had e n t e r e d t M f ! J
ful pig .
’ rat-
’• B e 7 ‘7 ' , 7 ' fTO“ CO,,* ctora-
Bes dea the coin, I found, rather
I.y 7 re o’/ i
‘“ d
th i X "
u "°V‘ “ *• ' “ « « “ * » r d «he Island
W<M* “ " ‘ <1 «ow ed In the cabin
Not
l,f'
* k“ “ ”
nine Inch b* 1
* * * * “ V'‘r crut'‘B* •boot
■be Inche. long. I ,
Tery qua|n|
gold.
•f« * ™ « « . began moving the
I f . the deuce of . j „ b *
Its m ,m e?‘ T ' P" " nd bad,Jr ,a rn l«bed. ,a,“r * T * a
Uee" bar'> •» '« for
i Z
,
v.** mu’ ‘ h*
' r,BI»«. H re* d<7'- “ uat ut
«“ ' I » » " S
••olns T t h ? » r " me bU,k of
« . ’ * r°
,<M*’ °< p ro vl.tm ,, aud
ms. I think It must have had some
, l * r tor ,ha t r lP-
o , ' b* ra<',e r of “ «-redness which „ ■■’P«brua'7 18. On bourd the Island
o Ita preservation here.
it
|a Queen. H a re moved my tra p , from
t r £ X . ,0aon,,<J r e,> * rel'C amon» a w L S ’ tt ' ¿ d
- M p l n * 0,1
•'«’«P-
J O H N M. SCOTT,
General Passenger Agent
crime
b/
bl,MRl
,n ,l , i
°
° e‘ r ,ha
Tomorrow
J“ H
I ! bara„ ODlj “ >
«h* I« « of l b .
And now I have to think about
aboard- «
««fling m .t le r - < n d
moving the gold. F irs t of all I
i*’* “ , u oul w l‘ h
ebb. I would
<e« the chest Itself .bo ard rhe t . l Bnd ^ a , go, a " ,he b«<’ on board today
a»raln, and a falnl and far-off
L1*
“ > B" * r Us w
Queen. This means that I shall have • b“,5, 1 “ ° Oce<1 • worn « re tc h m the
»»
U
---
’’ “ J to ua
o empty it and leave the gold In th.- 2 * b * b<,ldl’1« 'be sloop and atoppod
tro u g h a web woven of the very »tuff
ave- * bl,e I get , he chef|| o(ji
«0 repair It. I can’t have the Bloop
night.
The floor sloped a little
I downward. ,
In) w. „
“ 'J * • -
W hen (he . heat la safely |n t h i
'
r<’Ck’ ,n ' • • • ■ blow cornea
««Wo o f ,h . a lo o ^ -w h e r . H
“P “ >«“ •»>«. T here . r e ooI,
feet. ,n d c , me
,
'* a »e much room for Benjy and his ° * d ’ “ d * h a ,f ot ba« **f« «0 the
was going along a descending pa««nge
— ««er. I ’m s f r « , d _ I w .l, , . k . ,».*
cut at Its steepest Into rough. Irregu­
notlon “ ' “ «I me today
la r stairs. W ith either hand I ™ u|,| bag. of coin out by the land entrance* . . 1 ? A , que
I can t think of risking my precious t '
A
«^»« ‘A*. wbe0 I was bring
X
' he w,* 118
A" ,be while th* doublom,.
the voyage around the a " , '
,be r a ”
« “ « - 2 «.
light grew clearer. Presently, by an­
p,,lnt-
to‘ ° »«/ b ra in —I c ,„ -,
fr,,m
other sharp turn. I found myself |„ ,
“O f course ,
har<
what q uarter— that I had better ie»v.
« v u . tome thirty feel m depth by
eighteen aeroaa. with an 'opetimg on fl**
,b* ” ’ k
but a fte r th . th a n 'h ’^'h, / ° r Bl11' U
"“ W
Southern Pacific Lines
Inc things. This is th • m m .
Mon of the vision w h L 7 . T
the vision which has been In
toy mind so long.’
“I opened my eyes, and Io, the fan-
a».v. If fantasy It were, remained.
I «mote with my Hs, upon the stone
p i e stone was s o lid - lt bruised the
flesh. And as I « « - the blood run I
screarncl aloud like a madman, ‘I t ’s
real. real, re a lF
"Under the stone lay the guardian
of the treasure of the Bonny Lass—
And his secret was w ithin my grasp
don’t know how long I crouched
-he narrow
of cliffs.
beach I had seen
h tnyself
f Bs kr weak and * un-
• • th e X - hf “ no*
a" o n f e - , and
beside the stone, as drunk with Joy as from
the top atrip
of the
Ver’ T ' ? Tound
V .1 * « “ * f i * ,n “ ' '° " ' « " r*
»b
to
any hasheesh toper with his drug
I
make a man sleep well.
The roof U high, with an effect of nerved as a woman.
roused at last to find Benjy at my Gothic arches. Near the mouth is ,
•«Tort I came away and Is ft'm y g i7 l-
e“ u n * 1
” »• nlvsurd idea
shoulder, thrusting his cool nose
tiny spring o f Ice-cold water, which ous golden hoard. Now I i r e . « , and s t T r Z ? " “ d sbrt* , b ’ ,h * Cnjc,fla
kloal. playing with the Idqa that Ue J .7.7?
7 ' ^ th<
o f ,be <o,d
i r l 2 . r V r" a * tlean rock ftM,r'« * 1 f«r
J * <? d , r t* n 1J " 10* ,ba‘ «b«’
Itself to the sea. Otherwise the cave ^ r r o w I .h a ll find it all . f . ut„ y. v(±
covered
that
The pleasure of this Is. of course t h .t ,. vitrea
'1 7 have again '»
'•'*« « ««>
■ lonely.
• perfectly dry. There I , „ „ doubl
• Il the while I know thin wildest uf t i »* <r*v*stons from sight. I can’t
In my mind that In the grea, buc- •«I
Arabian f a ir ,
“ 7 .7 r^
‘u?
" L " ' my
* ,W,UUa «“" d
■aneerlng days of the Seventeenth
•a n L the
, . ct # f m f !
‘ ® “L T T * 0” a" *»«■«»« «» poor
'•entory, and probably much later the h
" * " most drab and
place was the haunt of p i r a t e . " ' , ^
" fa
Bill.
A fte r all, on the w .y back from t h . i a n d ^ . T I T ' T
«” ’ •
fsndes that Captain Sampson of tba
~ h* " tu‘T ,n r h«’m* <»d Helen r
Bonny U s s may have known o f It be­ iwve Benjy br.aigh, down a pig M„ h.
M’ d* d h rr*
fore he brought the treasure to the la as well pleased with tbe day as I I i ° , d
‘
,be «»«ok. and stared with
Island. There were queer folk to be am Now I am sitting In the doorwav
h
»"J’S directly after
’ b*
shadow,
breakfast, which we ate |n
cool
met with In those d ay, In the west­ of my c h in , w riting up m,
«nd trying to calm down enough to ro i 7
th* * nc®,l* * a«‘ng *o»ds
What
ern ocean
Tea. the rave h s. seen «»
or earliest morning. I dou|d r„t |rp to
bed
I f „ were no, fn r T . 1 , ‘ft 1 “‘ P^
“ >* ’ « «•« of the d ,.7 y
many a fierce, sea-tanned face and
the perusal of the Journal which I
fading of daylight. I would go back I ,’ L h
'’ Y ‘ rtP «» «b» rave? g „ , h<
tarry pigtail, and echoed to «ran ge
b" d rwovered from the wrecked sloop
«• the cave for another peep mto the , d * V* f
,h* '’ land- « > u « » was
oaths
and
wild
sen
songs
|
p
„
fiad
without
fear
of
Interruption.
hunt tor nb u ria 3 *nir? ,<. * ” e i P*<«ltlon to
-
beat
But
all
r„
und
lh<
W
#
w
j
* ’ ,b* wr” *
rarved
those
steps
In
the
passage—
I resumed my reading with the en
,a and Q " * * n *"««. I" all bu
thirty two of them.
In ths sand of * a is mimnlng with that peculiarly ?
try of February 10.
•n m u M r / f .1* < h ,r- • e,■
««>• vessel
melancholy note (hat comes with t b l
“ " der ' h* M nd w blrh
he floor
I kicked
up
•Km i . u n w l t m i . y ^ ^ ^ l o n i *
"Thia morning, having grown very
* * ' " Wn n f ,b* d» 1* " « WBB
reet hoping rather childishly to strike ' falling of n ig h t The seabirds bays
Mred of fish, of which I get ,,|pnty
i
, '«*»-*»«gt>t ct-est
the corner of the chest. I found the «»en from the cove ,„ d
he<i 1,, n
iór~?kL n°
ooncssllng every time I go out In the boat by
ftpanfBfe
mg off
tr ,^ , a t0
doubloon.
c o n t e m p i, im n S h i E r ? ? ‘O? and h"
hilt
and
part
of
the
blade
of
,
rusty
dragging a line behind. I decided to
« 1 *»
Somehow a curloua dislike,
’ 7 ’ J a* ,h* ">« •'» « » » • fata
-atlasa, and a chased silver
a|,oe
U r,
C t?i*
stay ashore and hunt pig
i
“•C, vane, and la somewhat Impress«!
JWrtle
I shall take tbe buckle home I almo-t fesr, of , h„ w|ld
•cross the base of the point, nearly
| |„nif . 7 7 2
P * nd ' * * " d "*w»ed»
to Helen—and yet how triv ia l It will tary place has cooie over me
HiiawA f ^ 7 :Ft M J - T « k l n g w ith Dugald
due south— wjiereas I had been work
« n m " v 2 S ?r\dn i . # t
« P e d d lo m V i r
or the s/.ond of human voices the Had he returned to the c e v ^ M
wem
with
all
else
that
I
have
to
of-
lug along the cogat to the north of
Pre! , ,<45,7 ¿ Z z i ' * «’ P’ ' « « « her views,
the waa be there aftllT It . . . .1, .
fa r h e r’ Nevertheless she w ill prtxe ty ,,' h of human hands. | think
m e m b e r, Xota^ “ * l 2 < , * “ n» , ‘ "U «he other
the cove. I reached the edge of the
It as my gift, and b e c u w it e o n *, ' * a d man lying there al lhe door of «rry - b u t a mystery which I burned la
* h a t u a e a rta in
,ncil^ ln < « «om«-
cliffs
and
found
that
cm
my
right
hand
nua a n a
Ì f» r» o n a < e . C a p ta i« M a i
'he .ave. I t , ,n e „ f
for
from tbe place to w hlct
.
the mountulo dropped “ In a sheer
O f rtmrse I might have rolved |t
2 °!
Ï «uppo * tie
tm t*
ingel led me for her sake.
precipice from hundred« of feet above
fhe thought of the grdd a , I do- per- '•« T «inl'd'ly. m e rc i, b, comraonlcat'
,b*
raT*
and
hurried
back
to
me straight Into the sea. I consid­
ng the extraordinary knowledge which
hap. he has been brooding so tbeau
. Z _ ^ Wn for • H “ «1* ' walking on a ir
ered, and made up my mind that by
1eCaIArmrm? / r _tandlni »" tb* toland
I w.mder | f he |a
7 ^ . ' ° " * ,e
rr"»P«'"<ms
t e m b i * - ! ” “ “ atcb*»
'»e ninety years I
striking back some distance one
wo<xK whara ptesaed that I. a stranger, have c.<nia But for the presen, „ le„ t , t, ^ aD(
b e r t V o e T , K - i J ? “ *• lrm a of <-uth-
Under the Stone Lay the Guardian of « J I N « s tllh .^ s
might
by
a
very
rough
climb
gain
the
«»., bo*«^.;0
**"d -
n lo pauaaartsw of his ^ - r e t h-wrd at t» keep Ibis astjiundlug se-ret for tny
° * bl<" » ’ MM
ag
the Treaeure.
top of the precipice, and so swing
• B* ?
ffomehow or other, by gull« „
the
s
e
a
*
1
"
4
'
*
*
‘*
rnai
m
u
"
e
r
vt
around the shoulder of the mountain
<»b Helen torn ymjr hesvealy f e «
J Î Ï «rcumsfanc», | mBM
against tny feverish cheek.
I sup.
L 7 , Iy * 5a ^ ’w M i“ H lg rle e h y .
I did not feel Inclined to attempt It
-
- ' » f 'e f u g e fr«tm the»,. «f,n
• d • . abou that t h . dneumen, ,
"* ,n *'
i>ose he didn't understand aiy Ignor­
f-m
"• «
The cliffs at this point offered no
« M ia. Brow ne', hehe« . . . ^o c e w d .
s ’r S I É s y K
# * « «
»
rin
g
unwtioieaome
th
o
n
c
t'--
fe
v
w
l-b
ly
»
.
H
a
,
th<
|1<M
W
id
ing him so. or thonght I scorned him
means of descent and the few yards
'or losing out In bis race with the pig
« « d Is fo r you— for you I Surely that Was I. who all unaided bad dlscee-
i l
M i f *’ h w ’ • ’ a
««1
C uV hb eri rf? * £ ?, n»‘ «re“ ^ ’ or-
of sand which the receding tide had
Vet when I think of what I owe that
'»•re «• the angle o f the wall my must rleanae It of Ita stains, must «••d^ nr as good .« discovered, , h.
«he .xclu«oÓ òf “ l , i ^ n* ’'OU* a«“ M '
left bare at their foot led nowhere.
olg I cpuld swear never to taste pork
»Päde struck a bard surface, j , |a .
"°re the dutch of the dead hands valaly sought for treasure, to dlarioœ
“I turned to go back, and at that ran
it*
~ whereabouts to those
Tnn^ wbo wwj)<,
again.
<hsHA. ^ ? K
«-'<■ •<>»««» O»
‘ •'-■»'-I Judge. u n O r afeastt two feet that strive to hold If I
ment I heard an outcry In the bushes
-Feb
ru
sry
I
I
.
This
tnornjng
I
was
Z
??. ~
' 7 * ? al1" ’ r,a l® »P»« Its
m r m u r ot m . M r t k ^ . t . ^ h ^ ' ^
’’Brought back to earth and sanity, Z T i l
m ' b > ,i 'a id h * " ' F " " b
and Benjy came tearing out at tin-
Tsa, there It was.
M
I rosie and began to consider my of dark wood which r.n < , „ , ^ r m} -arly a, Ue c v c
heels of a fine young porker. I threw
o ln t " p . r - «>ed
.
I
had «ft.r ' lug golden r coing"
a little 'he same wonder cheat that
surroundings.
Somewhere close «• knuckles almost like Iron
him In?«, b~ j Bp * r U r ’
»roud'V «•«"«•
up my gun to fire, but the evolutions
isnd ws» the mouth of t h e _________
_________
and I had
cleared _ • • • y (he !rea,r.ad of all night long f, waa sh- tretween Miss Browns and M r Tubbs
of Benjy and the pig were such thai
where? The cliffs, as I have already
*“ “ d from «be top o f a "large chest ■rerd how the tightness In my breast and CMpfsln Magnus fthe three who
hutI i,AT r o ? r .\ii; T On ‘h * ‘alan<J >• «he
I was as likely to hit one as the other
mid. were too steep for descent
* l,h * « « » e x lid. heavily bound in relaxed.
of th*
f * t h « r e r . and th * pre»*nr «
The pig. of course, made desperat.
Nothing but a fly could have crawled
b rM *-
I began at ones tbe work of re
1. th... .
¿ Crusoe
la .
it
vru»oe by
by V .ra in
inla,
efforts to escape from the cul-de-sa.
n - ° r twrbaP* •'•cep, a Uttia
and
fo r
f U ^ b »Imf
li i
abo ut.
down them. 1 turned to tbe rreggy
"Furiously j g„„t
aaJ4< moving the bag, trrno rire .best and
m * m b ^ i i / » k < rM if^no1 lo
»
a rarular
r*< u la r
In wldcb he found himself. H it oiilv
’ "b<7 rr'sAnl of , f » . ,
,
face of the mountain. There Surely.
«be 'best «ood free for h a lf ita •tacking them In the corn«- of the
“pò» » a ? n ,'-n! b* dd* d ,, a “ p ' th« Island
hope was to get back Into thg worst,
wueen
ssn t very covet ou, afco a, ty„ money.
HQBt be the entrance to the cave!
4eptb - which Is roughly three ( * * ,
jt
Quwn.
m ’e r c e p t^ 'h ,
«£.• cam P- she Is
on the point. Benjy kept him headed
L * -. .
* * ^ o o o j - bat consider» !
-’or hours I clambered U s « the
bandies at the ends, great hand-
costs r ? î < „ ï 7 G a p ta la M agnns. who sc
•>«h ! £
h‘"
off successfully, and I began to edge
as burled freasuze It made my mouth
ocks. risking mangled limbs and sun- wn*°<bt bmp» of metal
| tugged my
up. watching my chance for a sbol
« r»k*— and found no rave.. I came , barteat but l i e cheat teemed fa « in
.f c ^ , W , ^ u l r F 'rad w,0> ««»• |d««
w A * t 7 * " ' * * ' • * • ’ n «W«,d "bsw .
Suddenly
the pig came dashlnt-
reek at last, wearily, to the g rave I . r* __. 1><ar’ * • the
nati i»e rock
i
F n la M t . l * * ? ' : " 1" « «he treasure. V lr -
• b » bed saved O y life,
and
whe
strelght toward me— oblivious. I sup
There lay the dust o f the brain that
t..-M
a v la lt io the cave which baa
•»«bed e x a lta n t,,. The . « g g ,
lr‘ » h .c 8 <^ , “ t ' . ? * .,f>* m o ,t ‘Ik e lT place
pose, to everything but th.- while
«•
bare
forgotten
It.
and
that
<•>«<»—
«old
I
I
had
ha
mmer
and
rhA^,
had known a ll—and a w ild Impulse
bh'l ever had my arma about hla
snapping terror at his heels. Taken
»1th » . a « j wltfc
f f o |W l
am» to me to tear away the earth
" * 7 ~ “®d 9i>n » * • «»or -aad brava—
death 1 T h m i^ '4 »» ihAW’ frcm certain
by surprise. I Bred— and missed. Th<
passive ancle«,
Th„„, we/>
with my bare hands, to dig deep
Trs decidedly I sbccjld keep my
’ ’'¡spire . 4 ? / r
«v»»
«bree of them, .me for each „ rlp
lc*p—and then with listening ear wait
•hs f?eiu7eJi
• nd“ r“ *»«- »hlch | pig shot tret ween my knees Ben J
y « a while, all I m o bow tha
a fte r him. I withstood the shock o
brass which hound the cheac Then I
for a whfspere<l word.
"*r4a » « a going to fail.
I fen
f in is A d ? ik ,t * * - —I " Id le curio s ity V |r- j the pig. but not of Benjy.
" I put the delirious fancy from me f^ng up tbe Hd.
Issnd dab ong ab o u t toe w reck o f the I clawing wildly. Into a malted mass o
No guttering treasure daisied me.
itid moved away to the edge of the
oc.y as
- n^ 5 • • a n ', identiflw ,
creepers that covered the ground be
I »uw only • surface o f stained cs«.
C H A R T E R X IL
cliffs Ixmklng down. I saw .
G -m e r 2 3 3 " * S'**«1 * *« ” by ’’P e ter. ” a
side me
'M . tucked kt carefully around the
«e-.s o '
th * ’ « * * • “ '•• I" 1« he
sloping «heif which dropped from -he
« 1 thirl" -?"dto5
M1* h,dd* ,
"igea. Th s I tor» off sf,d flaw . ,
I Brieg re Light a Chea.
“I got to my feet quickly, dreggln:
brink to a distance of ten e r twelve
“ srs her ree d ,n g le In terru p te d
the whole mass of vines up with me
feet trelow. where It met a aHght pro-
P»»r Benjy, who
.
•
7
* nd aU b ,f • T ,r>»re*Ttag
_n_ • I n
HBAflB t Interested
llfna «a — a ___ » _ »
mprelan was to poaeas myveif »f a
* o p ,r l<>i»s aa to the proper
thè rock.
h . . .d a
,t __
Theo I saw that they had covered s lectl'ui of sh.
• i ’***t>f**c
mp 1
«•sevure X r .* T? * * ClíLl^‘, * * • , “ r' h
■päde sad dash for the
proreedina - l -
curiously regular little
irerch nf
'ore -.f course, but It had carried no «range
____
bo r’*ir» of
sf the
• n - * 1» A * J v
a ’r,d * <«»*'•^1
Island Queaa
Robor
ro«« «f pjsT1Mp
ground, ootlinevl at intervals wltt
dgnlflcance for my mind.
Now I
ii’ ti*
la ,h< cewuil» uf th*
eader^i the
In U e
browa
(mgs
With
b-wh
hands
I
me
T
a
dig
-hrough
dbe
tepped down „j» « fh< ledge and fm-
■mail «ones. At one end s a i l large
*« P*4iLon taen
? s? n f ’'" *
“ ■'I f «b» reMa
r? rb7 i f* ,k* "
f* - ’•> «ra.p thaa.
owed it to Its end in the angle of the
doae.
•"• d ko no trlff.r.g Lash, for I should
***• 1 ‘re*1 «• be '«nrest with two. ke
"The patch was narrow, about sit
C H A P T E R X I.
be hampoced hy the need of thrmsing
Mnngly hidden lo the eagle was a 2 * ° ^ .’ h*7 ww* * ° beuvy. so
feet long—Instantly suggestive of a
ow d»reway leading Into hlacfcaeaa
T X *7/
7!
- •» « *’ •««» “ M beh.nd mo
grave
But swift beyond all proces-
Th» i t iang Questi'. Freight.
'» r'W h the narrow -om pnnioa».»
"N o w .. course I ought la prudeace S ' W>r«ad the square »<
of reason was the certainty tian
•
1
s 111 n<x
‘“ " ° '** ,'“‘
tm
the 7 7 * n* I t Dorl1' * with a greet
,' ‘ ° f ’ »bilarerton. Perhaps before
k * *un
down again I should
n" ’
fhe secret of the island,
wt f ,W"
Is . 7 Wer*
d ,T |*’» n»
» f »ur party,
by toe prtvate-
J the Land and Sea Forres, went
F
flashed In.’o my mlud. I fell on mi
knees bealde the «on e and pulle>
ssray the torn vine-tend rite
I saw
the letters B. H. sod an attempt a*
cross-b'-nes rudely cut Into the sot
face of the «on»
“T Houed ray eyeu and tried to
Mead/’ m/seif. I thought, J am aee-
to have goa* hack to the hat asd gm b*
* * * *« » « « from the t«gs
.itches and a laatera aad a rape *? / pr” r~ 1 ’’• t — ga'd. gold ’ All fair
before I set foot la the dnrkneaa nt
-was drey were, are a
•hat unknown place. But what had I ^ •I’ rT « lT»r pleee among them! Aad
to do today with prud«aca—Fartaae "T*7 ’M d * •
««dsa anmlc as
red me by the head I la I went M t , '" * 7 **•’ «»■ g»c>noua yellow heap
y. Benjy at my here« The pesaegs
1
bow tang | m t 'hero. . ____
anted sharpty, aad for a little way *>'*?*®« wpk my goM
ruaotag it
* * • * " **
«bf”ufb my tag en , cliafciag the
t í re>k£J «4 fejach
* * • Wa»h sf Reassew
’I
I raaid achieve my sad. aa douht. hr
K f'd h t burrowing, hre l< would re-
quire mach moro tima thaa I had at
before
the nooadny
• f Cookie a gOBg
I maat
* • " • * d^nr»ing ar refs rotas
a spada o«t make off with the
«a a «saithy aad burgtart
Above an. i
riak berroylng my