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Show . . 1 rrjrvi-- ' ' ) r 1 ' TKeV : ' THE SAUNA SUN, SALINA, UTAH r PORTO BELLO GOLD Riirylalf Graham Arthur D. Howden Smith by WNUSarvfea THE This old attic Continued 23 We rowed on under the Walrus stern, and there we came upon an amazing siectucle. A longboat was always towed astern for the greater convenience In case there was a sudden necessity for Its use at sea. This boat had been drawn beneath the stern windows, from which a man was lowering a heavy box or chest, which a second man was receiving Into Its bow. The man In the longboat heard the rattle of our oars and gave us one lightning glance before be slashed at the mooring-rope and leaped to his own oars. The tide carried him Immediately behind us, and I had a vision of a bloody face wrapped In an old shirt. If he knew who we were he gave no sign, lie huddled onto a thwart and pulled downstream with the tide. But the man In the stern windows was not so reticent. He leaned far out, wringing his hands and clamoring to be saved': Oh, Master Bones, ye wouldn't go for to leave poor Ben Gunn as stood by ye stanch to the end, and held the cabl.n door the while ye shot the A Man Was Lowering a Heavy Box or Chest, Which a Second Man Was Receiving Into Ite Bow. bolt. vlllulns are Ah, and them It this moment. Dont Ye go, and leave me like keelhaul rue, they will. me to the cat" Back oars, Darby, this Theyll Theyll trice I I said. "We cant leave the poor fellow." or so after dawn we emerged upon a village lu a clearing, whose Inhabitants eyed us dubiously until Darby produced one of tlie golden doubloons from the store he had .acquired during his reign as Flints favorite. These people had uever before seen gold, and for a doubloon and an onza they sold us an old but serviceable powder-bormusket With bullet-poucand store of ammunition, and deerskin garments. They also sold us a small quantity of salt and flour, and put us on the trail to" Charleston in the Oarolinas. Of our Journey thither I can say only that It was such an odyssey as the frontier-dwellerof our provinces have long been accustomed to. To Ieter and me its perils of forest and stream, red savages, and wild beasts, were far less formidable than those of the sea, and Moira and Darby thrived upon the experience so much so that when at last, brier-torand footsore, vve entered Charlestons sedate streets and found awaiting us an ample choice of jacket ships to the north we four were unanimous for continuing our Journey by land. . I dont ever "Neen," said Peter. go to der sea again, Bob." A'h, who would be fool enough In his Ignorance to be wumlherin1 wet and bedraggled on the Rail waves of the sea when he might venture the forests and be shoot In at the red deer and the hears and the catamounts and.It-mtr- y be a Injun, If be was In the full tide o his luck?" snorted Darby. "I seem to remember one who was all for the sea, and would 'wave the skull and crossbones In anybody's face," I Jeered. Troth, and I knew less then than I do now," he replied unblushlngly. Them pirates was enough to lflr?ak the heart of Pontius Illate. Burrin' Flint, there wasnt a one of them would be able to hold his own against such as us." Sliver might " He was a clever one, Long John; but hell be In throuble, you see if hes not, Insisted Darby. Too graspin he Is by half." I care not how much trouble he Is In," I said. "I want never to see him or any of his crew again." Moira, sitting beside me on the settle of the tavern-porch- , twined her arm In mine with a slight shudder. Never again !" she cried. And If It will be the same to you, Bob, well stay off of the sea. I like fine the clutch of the earth on my feet and Men the whispering of the trees. may be cruel on the land, but faith.' theyre never so cruel as the crudest of the seafarers. And all my days when I hear the rumble of the surf and the suck of the tide running out Ill be thinking of himself that lies so far and lone under the Spyglass and of Master Murray, God rest his poor bones, and many another. The sett hud them all I Ah, Iloly Virgin, what a hunger It has for men I But Peter shook his head solemnly. "Neen, he said. "Der sea did not take them all. They died from der greed dot cankered In their hearts. I do not like der sea, but der sea Is der same as der landt. It works n s n "And him with Bones I" protested Darby. Twas not his fault." We rowed under the stern, and I called up to the stewurd Jump Into the water and well pick you up, Ben." Who're you? he answered shakily. 'Tls Master Ormerod." I could hear the blows on the door at the end of the companionway. Hasten, man I We can't wait forGotts will. ever." We were silent for a space, looking He jumped, and we hauled him, out upon the busy life about us. the dripping, into our midst. negroes In their bright bandanna headdresses, the planters passing on CHAPTER XX the decent townsfolk In liodden-gray- . Home A chorus of yelping certified to the Invasion of the main cabin, but its note of triumph was changed to consternation as Silvers bloodhounds discovered that their bird had flown. , Gonel" The knaves scooped us Boats, lads; boats!" And presently the click-clocof oars behind us caused Darby and me to redouble our labors. We drove ashore several rods downstream from the town on the shallow Muff, and we dared not wuit to seek shelter withiu Its log walls. Truth to tell, we doubted now that the town Itself spelled safety to us. The Walrus' carronades would make short work of such defenses as Savannah had to boast. So we pelted up the bluff by a sandy path thut debouched upon the v cleared fields outside the stockade, urged on by that persistent ind the shouts the pirates exchanged retwlxt their several bouts. Whether aar,ey were fllo"'lng us we could not or t,le night, was Mack as 4u)ii'w'over bu we left nothing to vault! Vres"'t,llar and ran hot foot through the loanee, lu, Citations of the citizens, overhear-- f Bjso thi a3 we Passe(1. t,le excited com' t,ie n,eu 011 the firing-plat-at Tra tl,e 8tocka(le w,t0 evidently Lew tember liate(1 an atlaf k frolu their ugly lu nor to ia tt,e r'ver- - 'Ve never tarried several cltith untn we ,lad Ealned the 1 k oar-rattl- e forest' being the .the now in ,lIs element. He an?88 ilorers la wa about a 8trane Montana leg ,y dHy r night 83 easily 'This venri cou,(1 Ar . . ntKiite the track- sea. and he led us xfP Ha River jine north and east in the - -- V governors ' v , sjS tllfi 0UtyI18 set wnict intervened betwixt and the Carol 'aas. An hour ' - I said to English ! she cried. "Unless It be the Dutch." Will you come north with . But I am galloping ahead of my from us. us? My father story. Drop back across the years He jumped up, writhing and twist- 'tls no more of an effort than It was ing In an excess of embarrassment, for us to slide down the cable over aye, and with something of fear in bis the bow of the Walrus that night off Savannah to the settle on the porch fuce. t Twas yourself was promisin me of the tavern In Charleston. ' Ben be Gunn was disposed of ; our plans were Id not ba to wear a livery-shuiprotested. And before thut ye said made for the northward Journey along as bow yed find me a berth us a reul, the seaboard. . All that remained tc on ropes be done was to come by a priest to tarry sullor-man- , and standln tricks at the wheel. Yes, wed Moira and me; and that, It ye did. Master Ormerod ; and I be- seemed, was. impossible short of Balll veil ye, I did though theres a many timore, in Maryland. Yet at the last think naught o foolin poor Ben our luck held, for the day we were to start turned stormy and we delayed Gunn." Ill not fool you, Ben,"' I answered. our departure ; and that afternoon a If you would go to sea, to sea shall French. West Indiaman put Into the harbor under stress of tin? weather. you go." And on the morrow I found him a Among her company was a kindly berth upon a Barbados packet, cau- Franciscan, and he readily agreed to tioning him to employ discretion In perform the ceremony. For the rest, we rode Into New York discussing his past life, lest he be handed over to the admiralty officials about four of the clock on the afterhs a former pirate. He was our last noon of April the 24th, in the year link with the infamous company that 17o.1. My father was In the counting-roohad owned the Joint rule of my great-uncl- e of our house In Pearl street, and John Flint, and what be- and-hcame to the door at the sound came of him or of the remnants of of the horses hoofs on the cobbles. Flints crew aboard the Walrus I do The sun was sloping out of the west not know to this day. But from the full into .his eyes; and for the time fact that the Walrus was never re- that It took me to dismount and swing ported again I have suspected that Moira down from her saddle he stood she must either have been wrecked dazed, fearful les't the dazzling light or voluntarily abandoned by her was playing tricks with him. She left Savannah withIs it truly you, Robert?" he cried. people. hours of our landing in twenty-fou- r But It must be, for there are Peter -- -. there so much I discovered. by. cor-- , ttnd Darby." And-a of with I merchant answered. that Tes, father," rexpondence town. have brtiflghr home another." , . Did she put back to the Rendezvous He opened his arms with an eager and ransack the island's surface for smile. the treasure Flint, had buried? Or "Theres rqom here for two of you, did she try for the gold we concealed boy. Certes, you have but followed on the Dead Mans Chest? Hopeless In my footsteps arid fetched home a ventures, either of the two ! As well wife from your adventures. search for a certain grain of corn in a She is the little Irish maid I Whoever she is, shes more than heaping bin. And what happened to Bill Bones? welcome. But come In, come in, the Did he elude the pursuit of his desertpair of you. Safe and well and with ed comrades and seek an opportunity a wife! Robert, I can scarce credit to lift Flints treasure for himself? it. After a whole year! Peter, God Ill swear that was his Intent from the bless you ! I knew with you hed come first precisely as Ill take oath that to no harm. Ah, Darby, you have had Silver been first to get Ids hands more sense In that red noddle of yours upon Flints tnap he would have plot- than when you left here; and tf you ted so that only he and a small circle stuck by Master Robert yare forgiven. of his immediate familiars should What a tale youll all have to tell!" have shared in the prize. Ruthless That night as I lay In the upper But perhaps room I had occupied since childhood scoundrels, one and all Bones never won clear. Perhaps Sil- I was aroused by a distant Clatter and ver fastened upon his trail and pur- Jangling which became louder hnd sued him with that fantastic venge- louder. At the corner It broke off ance they called the Black Spot. I with a heavy clang, and a pompous have often wondered what It might be. voice proclaimed: As to the treasure, they are welPast twelve o'clock of a fine, come to It or any part of It If they bright night, and Master Robert Orcan find It. Moira and I talked over merod Is home from his captivity the desirability of notifying her amongst the West India pirates. God Jacobite friends of the hoard that save the king and the worshipful was buried on the Dead Mans Chest, magistrates of New York !" and for a time she leaned toward this Twas Diggory the watchman; and, course; but after she lind dwelt a listening to him, I recalled how Silver while In the Hanoverian prosperity of had cozened him the night I was kid New York she revolted against the Idea of taking any step which would embroil the peace of the realm, and any lingering doubts in her mind were dissipated by the titanic conflict of the Seven .Years' war, with Us worldwide convulsion of nations that set armies marching to battle all the way from the parched plains of India to the forests of our wilderness coun. 1 1 n Is no time to think of or Jacobite," said she. "We will all be English together." "Der Irish, too?" asked Peter gravely. Troth, the Irish will be the best at i Ilan-overia- t i There broken-dow- or- n bed,' some old trunks or a bun- dle of old, yellow newspapers, or a box of old pieces of silk or a spinning-wheel. lie felt too Does not affect the Heart Bayer Cross" package or. on tablets yon are not getting the genuine Bayer Aspirin proved safe by millions and prescribed by physicians over twenty-fivyears for 'Colds neadache Neuritis Lumbago Toothache Rheumatism Pain, Pain Neuralgia Each unbroken Bayer" package contains proven directions. Handy boxes of twelve tablets cost few cents. Druggists also sell bottles of 24 and lOOL' Unless yon see the on up-to-d- for the spinning - wheel for one thing and for another the. spinning - wheel . was so practical, or; rather, had been so practical. lie had always been for play-timHe had been for the end of the day when children came Indoors. He had been so active on rainy days. He had such glorious times. And now he was up here.. There were two beams In the attic and they were covered with bars of yellow washing soap. What companions for a fine old rocking-horseold There were three moth-eate- n coats over the back of a broken chair. No companions for an old rocking-hors- e ? e. There was an old cradle. The rocking-liked the cradle better than But even nnythingi.unreompanion. the cradle wasnt in the same class with the rocking-horse- . The rocking-horshad been the companion of children. The cradle knew about them as babies. The cradle wasnt grown-uf- 5 though to talk to the horse aI (1 e rocking-horse- Nothing more comforting than Vaseline" Jelly. Eases pain. Hastens natures healing. Wonderful for cuts, scratches, bruises and other little accidents. CHESEBROUGH MFG. CO. . (Con The cradle would remember such things as, Goo, goo, goo, and would be so proud of itself when it rememma-m- a bered how and dadda were said.. Now that, as you can see, was no gort of conversation for a rocking-horse- w Hdefd Joyous Hours . The rocking-hors- e had heard about Is Bernice happily married?" games and the world "Yes, indeed, her husbands away had heard about most of the time." The rocking-hors- e snow men and snow forts and coasting and skating and also about swimming Culticura for Pimply Faces. and tennis playing and croquet and To remove pimples and blackheads clock golf, and driving the cows to smear them with Cutlcura Ointment. things. pasture, and really grown-u- p Wash off In five minutes with Cuti--. had heard about cura The rocking-hors- e Soap and hot water. Once clear lessons and about teachers and about keep your skin clear by using them for prizes and punishments, good marks daily toilet purposes. Dont fall to Inand bad. clude Cutlcura Talcum. Advertisement. You can see how out of his element Just completewas the rocking-horse- . Many a man has noble alms but It Is the hits that count. ly out of his element. And he stood there on his runners, ready to rock and rock and rock. But he had to stand still. No one eared that he always stood in a position to show you how always ready he was. He used to be very sad as he waited Good Elimination Ettentiul to . Good Health. and waited for the good old days to return again. lie was so happy when are the blood THE kidneys If they fail to funche heard steps coming up the attic, tion properly there is apt to ba and then his poor heart almost. broke a retention of toxic poisons In ' them to hear say: the blood. A dull, languid feal-in- g Heres ati old box that will do. and, sometimes, toxic backThen the steps would fade away. And aches, headaches, and dizziness he would remain unnoticed. are symptoms of this condition Further evidence of improper It was all because of automobiles ' kidney function is often found and all such mo'dern things. They in burning or scanty passaga even made toy automobiles and meof secretions. Each year mors chanical toys. They had put the rocking-and more people are learning horse up in the attic. the value of Doans Pills, a And oh, how lonely he had been all stimulant diuretic, in this condition. Scarcely a nook or ham- the last winter. Winter was the time let anywhere but has many he had always been so happy. What enthusiastic users. Ask your lovely winter evenings he had known. neighbor. had been it time beautiful a What seen children the had he before just go to bed. .He didnt think he. could get through Stimulant Diuretic to the Kidney another winter. He knew that soon Co., Mfg. Chemist, Buffalo, N. Y the hot weather, be would gone and the children would be Indoors Absorbing reduces thickened, more. That was swollen tissues, curbs, filled tencouldn't he what dons, soreness from bruises or stand to know jtrains. Stops spavin lameness. Does not blister, remove hair or they were indoors and not wanting lay up horse. $2.50 et druggists, r postpaid. Valuable horse book him. S free. Write for it today. And then, one Read this: "Hone had large swelling juet below knee. Now gone; haa not day, they came H orse good as ever. Have need up and they took Abaorbmeforveanwithgrestsoeceaa.'' him down stairs, lie could hardly believe It was And they true. s; Keep in Trim! pf (Tim, mvrrninifte latter was a young man zealously devoted to Judaism, lie Is generally identified with the very celebrated Jewish doctor, Gamaliel, who was the son of Rabhl Simeon, and grandson of the celebrated llillel. lie was president of the Sanhedrin, the great council of the Jews, during the reigus of the Roman emperors Tiberius, Caligula and Claudius. naped, and thereat I fell until Moira stirred sleepily and plained com- Tis an ill thing If ye'U not sleep the first night we will be in' your own home, Bob." I said. ' "I No, no, sweet heart, was but thinking what an odd bundle of accident is this life we live. For If that fellbw braying upon the corner had not been a stupid fool I should declared: never have seen you after I took you The sage whom two worlds claim to the Whales Head. as their own. the man for whom the "Do you think so! she retorted. Love After Marriage history of science and the history of Then 'tls you will be the fool, for 11 Adoteseeut love is an event. Mar- empires contend with each other, held Captain Murray had not carried you ried love is a situation. The first is a without doubt exalted rank In the hume I should have contrived to after critical phase of ' development, the man race. Antiquity would have return to New York, though It kept second Is sustained romance. The de- raised altars to this mighty genius, me treading the highways and byways sire to retain a special mystery or at- who. to the advantage of mankind, of the world some fifty years. Now traction Is Imbecility. Ixive for a wife compassing In his mind the heavens get you to sleep! I am none of your Implies an inability to conceive of life and the earth, was able to restrain wives to encourage a husband In without her. The music of the spheres alike thunderbolts and tyrants. Eu- loose fancies and romuntical longings. begins, years after the marriage cere- rope, enlightened and free, owes at Your wandering days are by and done mony, when this happy condition Is least a token of remembrance to one with, and the sooner you square your dchleved. For both man and woman of the greatest men who have ever back on them the better will I be the domestic atmosphere should hold been engaged In the service of philos- pleased. I'll not let you forth again, and sympathy. ophy and of liberty. rest, understanding and of that you may be prime confl So is one ready for the great advendent !" ture. Eaton Mayo, In Harpers The number of ehlldless marriages Bo I turned over ami went to aleeix In the United Stales Is Increasing. THE END and-histor- - Fotter-Milbur- -- For CS years Benjamin Franklin served his country and mankind, affirms the judgment of his contemporaries, expressed most notably In the tribute adopted by the national assembly of France upon announcement of his death. Offering the resolution, which was seconded by Rochefoucauld and Lafayette, Miru-bea- u werent DOANS ( Tribute to Franklin e many companions for him. Not his kind of companions. lie didnt want to talk to a t, . E was up- -i the He was lonely up there. rocking-hors- And you, Ben Gunn?" try. "Here Take without Fear as Told in Bayer" Package ROCKING-HORS- the stewurd who sat across the porch Where Name Gamaliel Occurs in the Bible Two men by the name of Gamaliel are spoken of lu the Bible. The periods in which they lived were widely The name of the first Is separated. found In Numbers 1:10. lie was the son of Iednhazur, a prince or cap tain of the Tribe of Manaxseh, and he Is here mentioned In connection with the census of Sinai. He again mentioned in chapters 2:20; 7:."4 and 10: 23, the latter reference being to Gamaliel as captain of Ihe Tribe of Munusseh at the starting of the on their nmreu through the wilderness. The second Gamaliel was a Pharisee and celebrated doctor of the law, who gave sound worldly advice to the Sanhedrin Inspecting the treatment of the followers of our Lord. This will be found in Acts 5 :34. It Is also learned from- 22 :3 that he was the teacher of St. Paul when the now. SAFE PROVED Bonner Copyright by Arthur D. Howdaa Smith CHAPTER XIX BAYEIl ASPIRIN" DaddysEvming MBSQMim put their arms around him and said how th e y had missed him the winter before, and what a big, he beautiful, wonderful rocking-hors- e was. 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