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PAGE TWELVE. ,MJ THE DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL. RAT.BM, OREGON, SATURDAY. AIMTTSt 9, 191fl PIECE Eien - i , KING THE AUTHENTIC NARRATIVE rntnti inc rst c r-- ft ts r r lai -rtie Diiiiuii I r.Lr.UKC Wl jv.WVIIlL inC DrtnAi ia. jf OVEN TO THE PUBLIC -'. Pi Q Richard Lc Gall chapter v. 1 V V i ' 7M - tO. A. JS I Old Friend. - Next morning I dij t the "king" '"I " "if to do. The whole pro gram hum carried out just a b had planned It. I made my goodbye In the settlement, as, we bad arranged, not forfeiting to ay "Dleu et uiua I'roit" (,, Sweeney, ami watching with te humorous intent how tie would take It. Ho took It quietly, is a man i h signal loi take a signal, with 'i"iit ti much emotion and with ju-u. 1 i" necessary seriousness. I ell tlif bss," he said of course h meant the "klng"-J"that we are looking after him. Kulhinif'U slip iHTOHcn nerc, ir w ran help It. Good ! . No I went down to th boatto old Tout once more, and tbe rest of our Hide crew, who had lon since t bausted the attraction of their life ashore and were glad, as I was. to "t-i"3u t'n .1... 1,.,... ,. .. . ..-. v hut jiftifi n. sail. . , Oown In my cahlu I looked over some mall that had been wultlng f.,r oie at the post olti.e. Amongst It was crisp, ( hararterislle word from Charlie Webster for whom the gun will ever he mightier than the pen: Tobias ewcsped-Juxt heard he la on your Island watch out. Will fol. lw In a day or two." I came out' on deck about sunset. We were running along wlih all our hH drawing like a dream. I looked buck at the captain, proud and auU.t ana nappy there at the helm, and nod ded a amlle to him, which he returnetl ith a flaah of his teeth, Me loved me lioat; he asked oolhlug betle ' "" nrr oeiiHvinp Jllst as lie waa doing. And the other boys feemed quiet and happy too, lying out; tim awes or the house, ready for the captain' order, but meanwhile content to look up at the great Hulls ami uowd again at the ea. W.. - . ..1 i .... ... nt vuip anq a amp crew ail at pea. with one another, ami .contented with ourselvea riiHliInu and "njpnjr ana npnylng thtouuh the w er. We were all friends eea and Mailt and crew together. I couldn't help M-MKiiiR mat a mullny would be hard to arrange under u-h a combination or iiKiuencea, Tom was altilug forward plulilntr roe. For all our experience to gether ha never Implied that he wa anything more thau the ship' cook, with the privilege Of wailing Us,ii ine m rne cnt.tn at my weals. Hut of course Be knew that I had quite an wiher valuation of hltu, and as our eve met I beckoned to him tu draw closer to me. i I liliHll lifilfA i mmm m i ! i i vt mn y I ' f ill I,,. 4 1 -e . is ' F -i' i 'VN... . . S if s a.-r t . a5 ; v m i mm Kw I "Toin,' I said, "I hav found my treasure." "Toil don't say o, aar." "Quite true, Tom," I continued; "you mIihII aee my treasure tomorrow; meanwhile read this note." Tom was no much to uie that I wanted him to know all about the detail of the en terprise we shared together, and In with h he risked his Ufa no leg than 1 risked mine. Tihii took out hi spectacle from some recess of his trouser and ap plied himself to Charlie Webster' note, a though It had been the lllble. He read It as slowly, Indeed, as If It bad been Sanscrit, and then folded It and handed It back to tn without a word. Hut there as quite ft young smile In his old eyes. "The wonderful work of God,'" tie said presently, "I guess, ar, we mml! fcoon be nlile to mW hltu what be meant by that expression." Soon the long, dark shore loomed ahead of us, 1 bad reckoned It out ""' nsni. mil in captmg an- u umiuced thai we were In shoal water. Huw many f,vt?" i tad a - li-iy threw out the lead. 'Wlileen and a half," be said. "(In aheiid." t called out. run v.nnt to go agrguod?" ftsked the i-apuin. lor answer I puxhed him aside and took the wheel. I had caught tho smallest glimmer, Ilka night light. noaung n ttie water, "prop the anchor," I called. me tifiit iusiMir was clear and car t band, almiu one hundred yarl ava.r, mid there whs the big murmur and commotion of the long breakers "rrr I"? lHtsI, The tide was niniiitig out very fan, BI the white saort coining ever nearer to our eye in the ui.sinllglit ; gn, Samson' light, there, ag ke-pliig white and steady. With the thought of tny treasure and She -king" o ii, ,,r by It w hard rcsl-t the lernpisiloQ to plunge In Mini follow my heart ashore, l;ut J .-.e..k.-, to otimd U.e boytsh lm I 'i: -. a-o I,r,..r!v e w,.re ( Hug ml o-,ie f,f ,h en-i-mg -IW $.kn ' 'it III ine loillf Stl'fin f ih eI,.,o.1 '"""'I '-:'U!y His 8n '"ne tu .-r the star ''"'I Ifli t IliS fefT jot "C ! if rmt-d Ihi "Orop th Anchor!" I Cried, I woke Just a drwn wa waklua too, very still and windless: for th threatening nor'easler had ( hanged Its minu. ana the world was as quiet a though thire weren't a human being in It. A the light grew I scutmed the shore to aee whether I could detect the entrance of the hidden creek; but, though I swept It up mid down again aud again. It continued to justify the "king'" boast. There wa no sign of an opening anywhere. Nothing but straight line of brush, with man groves here and there stepping down In their fantastic way into the water. And yet we were but a hundred yards! itoiii me snore. vr u n v -Riaeir. beard" if the haunt hud really been his had known Ids business; for an enemy could have nought hint all duy aloug this coast and found no clue to ins hiding place. nui presently, a my eve kent on seeking, a figure rose, tall and black, near the waier' edge, a little to our len, and shot uo a ion in.. by way of signal. It was Samson : and evidently the moulh of the creek was right there la front of us under our very noses, go to aay and vet it w Impossible to uiuke it out, However, at this signal, I stirred ud the sllli sleeping crew, and presently we had the anchor up, and the engine started at the slowest possible speed. The tide wus beginning to run In. m we needed very little way on us. I pointed out Sntuaon to the captain, and, following- the "klin-'s" !.,.,.,. Ions, told blm to steer stralirht for the negro. Samson Mood there and I aueu : ' "All right, aar. Keen rlahf on You'll aee your way In a minute." And, sure enough, when we wera liarely fifty feet away from the shore. uu mere seemed nothing for It but to run dead aground, low down throuirh the floating mangrove branches wa caught sight of a narrow gleam alart- lug Inland, and In another moment or two our decks wera awept with foliage a ine flamingo rustled In, like a bird to cover, through nn opening y the hushes barely twice her beam; and there before us, snaking throng' the brush, was a lane of water which Immediately began to broaden between palmetto frlngvd bunks, aud was evb iMnly deep enough fvr a nim h lurga vessel. I lemy of water, aar," hallooed SHiitson from the bank, grinning a hu,' welcome. "Keep a going after m,M and he etarted trotting along ttsa creea sine. Samson weut trotting along th twlstlug banks, we cautiously feeling our way aft-r blm. for something like quarter of a mile; aud then, com lug round a sudden bend, Ilia creek opene.1 )M,t iutu a sort of basin. On the left bank stood two large palmetto shanties. Samson iuiil.ated that there wa our anchorage; and then, as we were almost alongside of them!' lb cheery halloo of a Well-known voir hailed us. It was the "king;" and as I answered bis welcome the morning suddenly sang for me for there, too. wa Calypso at hi aide. The water ran o deep at the creek's side that w were able to moor (he f lamingo right up against the bank, and when I bad limiDcd ashore' and greeted my friends, and the "king" ns'i exeeireu a brief characteristic faulasia on the manifest advantages Of luring a hidden plratrS creek la tin family, he unfolded his plan, or rthr that purtioa of then that was aeceaxarir at the moment CHAPTER VI. An Old Enemy, ('ha HI Webster' laconic note was naturally our chief topic over break fast, "Tobiaa escaped Just beard he is on your island. Watch out. Will follow In a day or two." The "king" read It out, when I handed him the i note aero the table. "Tour friend writes like a true nan or action," be added, "like Caesar aud also the electric telegraph. We aiuit. sena word to Sweeney to be od the lookout for bias. I wilt send Sa bi son the Hedoubtable with a message to kiia this Morning. Meanwhile we will smoke and think." Then for the next hair the "king" thought aloud ; while Calypso and I sal aad Ikteued, occasionally throw ing In a parenthesis of comment or suggestion, it wa evident, we all agreed, that Calypso had been rlirht. It had been Tobias and none other whoae evil eye had sent her so breath less back to me. wailing In the shadow of the woods; and It waa the same evil eye that had fallen vulture-Hke oa her golden doubloon exposed on Sweeuey' couuter. It was clear that there were such colas on the Islaud In somebody" pos session. Then, when he had watched Calypso on her way home and with out any doubt been the spectator of our meeting at the edge of the wood I though we bad been uuable to catch sight of him there would of course be a suspldou in hi mind that my quest might at least be approaching success, and thut hi ancestral mil lions might be almost in my hands. That there might be some other treasure on the island with which nel I.- ,i- . .... . uirr ne nor ins gruuiuailier had auy I'witt-iu woutn not occur to him, nor wouia It be likely to trouble him If It did. My presence was enough to prove that the treasure was his for was It not bis treasure that I was aflert Logic ltTelulablet How was lie to know that alt the treasure bo fur discovered was that modest hoard unearthed, as I heard, In the gar- uen tne present whereabout of which was kuown ouly to Calypso. The "king" hud interrupted himself at thia pomt of argument. "By the way, Culypso, where I It?" he asked imexix-etedly, to the sudden confusion of both of us, "Isn't It time you revealed your mysterious Alad din's cave?" At the word "cave" the submerged rose In Calypso's cheeks utmost came to the surface of their beautiful olive. "Cave!" she countered manfully, "who said It was a cave?" It was merely a figure of speech. which If I may nay no, my dear fill s ln't It Tim You Revealed Your Mystertout Aladdin' Cavtf" might apply with equal fitness, nay lo a silk stocking." And Calypso laughed through an other tide of rose-color, "No, dad, not that, either. Never mind where It Is. It la perfectly aafe, I assure you." "Hut are you mire, my dear? Wouldn't It be safer, after all, here In the house? How can you be certain that bo one but yourself will acciden tally discover It?" "I am absolutely certalu that no one will," nIib answered, with an em phasis on the last three words which sent a thrill through me, for I knew that It was meaut for me. "Of course, dad," she added, "if ou Insist von! shall have It. But aeriousiy 1 think It is safer where It Is, and If I were to fetch It, bow can I he aure that no one sue paused, with a meaning which I, of course, nmlerstood To bias, for lust unco, would sea roe go ing and follow me." "To be sure to be ure," a.ild th "king." "What do yon think, Friend Llysses?" "I think It mure than likelv that one might he followed," I answered, "and I quite agree with Miss dlvnan I certainly wouldn't advise her to visit her treasure jut now with the woods pr.iiiai.iy full of eye. In fact." I added, smiling frankly at her. "I could scurcely answer fur myself even for I confess that h ha filled me wllh in oviTpuerinf curiosity." 'So be It then," said the "king;" "and now to consider what mir friend here graphically pek of a those eyes in i,a woods." The "king" then made a determined deseeat Into the practical. The wood. oi'M prv.i,y, w-re full of eves. In plain prose, we were almost certainly being watched. I' rile-. unless, in deed, my bogus departure for Nusssn had fooled Tobiaa a we had hoped. But. even so, with that lure- of Ca !.no doubloon ever before hint. It wit too probable that lie would norj rB ine neignoornood without some further Investigation "an Investiga tion," the "king" explained, -which might well take the form of a mid night raid; murdered la our beds, aud so rtwtn. That being o. being In fact almost certainty th "king" apoke as though be would be a much dlsaa- poiniea man otherwise we arast look t our garrlaon. After all. beside our selves, we had but Sanson aad Mre bu aad their dark brethren as, daukt. fut courage, while Tobia prebablyf bad command of a room! dw-fi doughty desperadoe. On the whole, peruana, it might be best t avail ourselve of th crew f the Fl at le go "under cover of the dark," a re peated with a smile. While we had been talking Saiasea had long since been on hi wav with the word to Sweeney to look out far Webster, and a he had been admon ished to hurry back It wa aeareely noon when he returned, bringing In exennnge a verbal message from Sweeney. The pockmarked party," ran the' message a delivered by Samson, "had ten the harbor In his sloop that morn ing, xes. gar!" "Ha ! ha !" laughed he "king." turn ing to me. "So two can play at that game, nay Henry P. Tobias, Jr. But If we haven't fooled him let' make sure that he hasn't fooled us. We'll bring up your crew all the same what uo you think?" , "Under cover of the dark," I as sented. The "king'" Instruction to me were that I waa not to show my nose out side the house, I must regard myself as a prisoner with the entire freedom or his study a large, airy room on the second floor, well furnished with all manner of books, old prints, strange fishes In glass cases, rods, guns, pipe racks, curiosities of every kind from various parts of the world. And then I came upon a photograph hanging over the writing desk a tall, Spanish-looking young woman of re fnnrkable beauty. It needed but one glance to realise that here was Ca lypso' mother, and as waa natural I stood a long time scanning the coun tenance that was so like the face which, from my first sight of It, had seemed the loveliest in the world. This was a flower that had been the mother or a flower. It wns a face more nrtml. tlve In Its beatfty, a little less touched wun race tnan the one I loved, but the sume fearless natural nobility was In It, and the figure had the same wild Krace of pose, the same lithe strength of carriage. Two or three day went by. hut as yot there was no new of either Char He Webster or Tobias. Nothing fur ther had been heard of the latter In the settlement, and a careful patrol ling of the neighborhood revealed no signs of him. Klther his sailing away was a bona fide performance or he was lying low In some other part of tne island which of course would not be a difficult thing for him to do, as most of It waa wHdrnes and a, also, thure were one or two cove oa the deserted northern side where he oould easily bide his time. Between that coast aud us, however, lay some ten miles of scrub anil nunirrn,. swamp, and it was manifestly out or tna nuestion to patrol them too, mere was nothing to do but watch and wait. At last there came a message from Charlie Webster, another of hi Caesa rian notes: "Sorry delays few days longer. Any newr That seemed to decide the "king." What do you say, TJlyge,M he said, "If we begin digging tomorrow? mere are ten of us with as many guns, four revolvers and plenty of machetes not counting Cnlypso, who Is an excellent shot herself." I agreed that nothing would please me better o an early hour the fol lowing morning found us with the Whole garrison excepting Samson. whom it had been thought wise to leave at home as a bodyguard for i aiypso lined up at the old ruined mansion with picks and ahovel and machetes, reudy to commence opera-'ons. '-' ;WV's t -aaai an anasr i so nerved me up that I ran on through th brash like a madman, my clothe clutched at by the devilish vine and torn at every yard. I fled past the scene of our excava tions, looking more haunted than ever In the flashing gleam of th lantern. With an oath I left them behind, a the accursed cause of an this evil ; but I cannot have gone by theia many yard when suddenly I felt the ground giving way beneath me with a violent Jerk. My arm went np In a wild ef- lon w save myself, and then. In a panic of fright, I felt myself shooting downward as on might fall down the haft of a mine. Tainly I clutched at recsy wan as I sped down in the earth-smelling darkness, I seemed to be falling forever, and for a moment my neau cleared aad I had time to think of the crash that wa oaaiinf at the end of my fall crash whkjti, I said to myself, must mean death. I Wa th Pirat' Win Ctllar. "kin; observed, that If a roan should start to dig for gold In the center of Sahara, with no possible means of communicating with bis fellows, on the third day there wonld not fall to De someone to drop In and remark on the fineness of the weather. So It was with tig. As a general thing not on in a twetvemonth did a human being; wander Into that wilderness wnere the "king" had made hi home. There wa nothing to bring them there, and, ai I have made clear, the way wa not easy. Yet we had hardly begun work when one and another Idle nigger strolled In from the settlement .and stood grinning hi curiosity at our labors. Toward evening of the third day we came upon a passage leading out of on of tbe cellars; It had such a prom ising appearance that we kept at work later than usual, and the sun had set and night was rapidly falling as we lurnea oomeward. As wa came In sight of the house we were struck by the peculiar hush aoout It, and there were no light in tne window. "No nghis!" the "king" and I ex claimed together, Involuntarily hurrv. Ing our ateps, with a forebodimr of we knew not what In our hearts. As we crossed the lawn theliouse loomed up dark and still and the door opening mo me loggia was a square of black ness In a gloom of shadow hardly less profound." Not a sound, not a sign of llfel "Calypso!" we both cried out. as w Tushed across the loggia. "Calypso 1 where are you" hut there was no an swer; and then I. being ahead of the "king," stumbled over something dark lying across the doorway. "Good heaven! what Is this?" I cried, and bending down I saw that It was Samson. The "king" struck a match. Yes! It was Samson, poor fellow, with aaggec armly planted In hla heart Near by something white caught my eye aitncned to the lintel of the door- way. It wns a piece of paper held mere wun a sanora knife. I tore it orr In a frenzv. and Hia Hni triklna; another match we read It to gether. It bore but a few words, writ ten all In capital letter with a coarse pencil : "WIU, RETURN THE LADY IN EXCHANGE FOR THE TREASURE," ana it wns signed "II. P, T." V V. IP' ' mm ? 7 Vainly I Clutched at Rocky Walla. We had worked for a week before we made a clearance of the ground noor. Then at last we came anon a olldly built stone talrca,se, winding downward. After clearing away the debri with which It wa choked to a depth of some twenty or thirty steps, we came to a stout wooden door stud ded with nails. The dungeon at last," said the "king." - - The kitchen. I bet." said I. After some battering tbe door gave way wttn a crash, a moldering breath of the grave met our nostrils, and ''""d of bat flew In our face and set th negroes screaming. A huge cavernous blackness wa before u. The "king" called for lantern. A we raised these above our heads! and peered Into the darkness, we both gave a laugh. lo ho ho and a bottle of rum, " sang the "king, For all along the wall stood or lay prone on trestles, a silent company of hogsheads, festooned with cobwebs IlUe huge black wings. It wa the pirates' win cellar! Such wa oar discovery for that day, but there 1 Knottier tua'ter which I must mention the fact that some how the news of our excavation seeiui-d to hate got down to the set- CHAPTER VII. In Which I Lose My Way. The audacity of the fellow!" ex- eiaimed the "king," who wa th first to recover. "But Calypso!" I cried. The "king" laid hi hand on my snoumer reassuringly. "Don't be afraid for her," he said. "I Know my daughter." tiut i lov her I" I cried, tho Diurrtng out In my anguish what I had deslgueil.to reveul In some tranquil cnoscn nour. "I have loved her for twenty year," srki tne "King." exasperating? calm. ."'Jack Harkaway can take car of himself. I wa not even astonished at the urn. "But something must be done," I cried. "I will go to the commander at once and rouse the settlement. Give me a lantern," I called to on of the negroes, who by tbis bid com op to os, and were standing around In a terrified group. I waited only for It to be Jit, and then, without a word. dashed wildly Into the forest. "Hadn't you better take someone with yon?" I heard the "king'' call after tne, but I wa too distraught to reply, plunging headforemost through the tangled darkness my brain boil ing Ilka cauldron wllh anger and a thousand fears, and my heart stung, 1 too with wild, unreasoning remorse. After all. It was my doins. To think! to think! to think V I cried aloud leaving th rest nnspo ken. ' I meant that It had srll come of my Insensate pursuit of that filthy treas ure, when at! th time the only tree, are I coveted was Calypso herself. Poor old Ignorant Tom had been right after all. Nothing good came of such enterprise. There was a curse upon them from th beginning. And then, a I thought of Tobias, my body shook that I could hardly keep on wa!k- It came with sudden crunching pain, a swift tightening round my heart, as though black rojtes were being lashed tightly about it, squeezing out my breath ; then entire blackness engulfed me and I knew no more. '..,, How long I lay there In the darkness I cannot, tell. All I remember is suddenly opening my eye on Intense blackness and vaguely wondering where I was. My head seemed entire ly detached from my body, of which o far I wns unconscious. But pres ently the realliatlon of It returned, and Involuntarily I tried to move to find with a ort of Indifferent mild surprise that It wa Impossible. bo there I lay, oddly content, in tho dark the pungent smell of the earth my only sensation, and my head use lessly clear. The remembrance of what had linn. pened began to grow In fore .nrf keenness and, of a sudden, the thought or uaiypao smote roe Ilka sword! Spurred to desperate effort, I stood ' up on the Instant and leaned ngalnst a rocky wall. Miracle of miracles! I could stand. I wa not dead, after all. I wa not, ludecd, so far as I could tell,' seriously hurt. Badly bruised, of course but no bones hrn. ken. It seemed Incredible, but It was so. The realization made me feel weak again, and I sat down with my back propped np against the rock, and waited for more strength. Slowly my thoughts fumbled around tho situation. Then, as bv force nf. nunir, my naud went to my pocket. God be praised! I had matches, and I cried with thankfulness, oat of very weakness. But X still sat on In , dark for a while. I felt very tired. After thinking about It for a long time, I took out my precious matrhhn-r" which unconsciously I had been hug ging wlh my hand, and struck a light, looking about me In a dnied fashion' The match burnt down to my fingers, and I threw it away, as the flame stung me. I had seen somellilmr nt ny surroundings, enough to last mv tired brain for a minute or two. I was at the bottom of a sort of crevasse. narrow cleft In the rocks which con tinued on In a slanting downward chasm Into the darkness. It was a natural corridor, with a floor of white aand. The sand bad accotinteo' rr my coming off without any broken bones. After another minute or two rather: "Don't be afraid for her. I know my daughter.! Whatever hap pened to me, she would com eut all right. A her brave shape flashed bo fore my' mind' eye. down there under the earth, I could hav no doabt C that. : My Instinct had been right to giving way to my drowsiness, for I woke aa from my sleep a new man. How leng I bad been there, of course, I had means of knowing; bnt I fancy I mast have slept a good while, for I fett ao refreshed aad full of determination t tackle my escape la good earaeat I had hardly reiit my lantern wheat it rays revealed something w diets It seemed Impossible for anyone wit" eye, however weary,, to have vew looked. In the right-hand . corner f ti little cavern, five or the feet abov my head, wa a dark hole, like the -. trance to a tunnel, or, more property sieaking a good-slxed barrow for 1t waa aeareely more than a yard in di ameter. It eemed to be aeutetfcia; more than a mere cavity in the reck, for, when I flashed my lantern np ta it I could ee no end. To climb a to It at first seemed illffl,-..!! - w providentially, I had a stoat clasp knife In my pocket, and with thte l cut a step or two In tbe peroas nek, and so managed It. Lying flat oa my stomach, I looked in. It was, as I bad thought, a aarrww natural tunnel, snaking through tk rock as often happen la those enrt ous fantastic coral formations for all the world. Indeed, as If It had been made ages ago by some monstrona primeval serpent, a giant wormhole, no less, leading heaven alone knew where. There was Just room to crawl aloas; It on ail fours, so I storied cautiously, making . sura I bad my wertoaa matches and my Jackknife all safe. I progressed, I should say, for corns twenty or thirty yards, when, to aay inexpressible relief, I came out, still on all fours, onto a spreading floor; then, standing up, I perceived that I wa In a cave of considerable lofti ness and some forty feet or so across. It wa good to breathe again Bach comparatively free air; yet, aa I looked about and made the circuit of the walls, I saw that I had bnt ex changed one prison for another. Ther was this difference, however: wbereaa there bad only been one passageway from the cave I had Jnst left, there were several similar outlets from that In which I now stood. . Two or three of them proved to- be nothing bnt ad coves that ran a few yards and the stopped. But there were two close by . each other which seemed to continue There wns not much choice between them, but as both made in the same direction, so far aa I could Judge the uirecnon in wnich I bad so far pre- uieivwu, i aeciaea to take th larger one. It proved to be a passage mnch like the tunnel I had already trav ersed, only a little roomier, and there fore It was easier going, and It, toe, brought me out, as had the other, eta another cavern but one considerably larger In extent. I had stumbled on something Ilka Monte Crlsto suite of underground apartment. And here for a moment I released my imagination from her blinder, and allowed her to play around these strange halls. And la one of her suggestions there waa com comfort It was hardly likely that caverns of such extent had waited for me to discover them. They most sore ly have been known to Teach, or what ever buccaneer It was who had ocea- pieu tne ruined mansion not so very far above ground. I set about the more carefully t examine every nook and corner. Twa Iron staples Imbedded in one of the wall, with rusting chains and men aclcs attached, were melancholy proof of one of the uses to which the place had once' been put. Melancholy for certain nnhappy souls long since free of all mortal chains, but for me need! I ay It? exceedingly joyous. For If there had been a way to bring pris oners here It was none the less evi dent that there had been a way to take them out. But how and whereT Again I searched every nook and cran ny. There wa no sipn of entrance anywhere. Then a thought occurred to me. What If the entrance were after thai manner of a medieval oubliette through the celling! There was thought imbed to send one's hope soaring. I mu In my eagerness) through one cavern after another, holding my lantern aloft. That moot be the solution. There could be o other way. I sought and sought, bat alas! It wns a false hope, and I threw atruck another match, and lo! another! 0 " n,rnpT despair, miracle. There was my lantern lying flecid,n that the prisoner most hav t lenient. It is a mI-os fa.-t, as the I ,nf' ad '-"It minute tny hatred of hint beside me. The glass of It was bro ken, but that was no matter. As I lit the wick my hope leapt up with th flame. At the worst I had llirht I swung my lantern aloft, aeeklnr he possibilities tt climb, but every where It wa sheer, without a ledee or protuberance of any kind to tat dvantage of, and it wa utterly de void of vegetation not a sign of a friendly shrub or root to hold by. i nau sense enough to know that I oeen xorced to crawl in as 1 bad though It was hardiv like hit. . put themselves to nch inconvenience. I leaned back against the wall and gaied listlessly upward. Next a ent I had bounded to my feet again, Surely I had seen some short, regular line rnuning up the face of the roe, like a ladder. I raised my lantern. Sure enough, they were Iron rounds) et In the face of the rock, and they mounted up till I lost them in the oh- was too tired to think profitably, aad curr. for the cave here most bav drowsiness coming over me told me that aa boor or two' sleep would give me the strength I needed to renew with a will and more chance of suc cess my effort to escape. Light was too predou to waste, so I b!ew out my lantern, and. curling up on the sand, almost instantly fell sleep. But before I lapsed into on consciousnes I hd clutched hold of one sustaining thought In the dark he the assurance of Clypo' safe- confl'tea'ly announced by her been forty feet high. Blessed heaves I i wa saved ! (Continued Next Satarday.) j N'ew York Ci.arle, W.lwm, the most married ataa in the warld," . is being brought her from Waapaa. . " o answer to the rbirse ef aurrv- iag eight New York woman. Cleveland Whea Mrs. Harry Wkite !f tevtif rd that ter husband' "high, temperature" caused him to beat her rcg'iiariT, the jadw seat Harry tk tow.er for tea Oav i
