Show 0 0 a c. c o. o O O. O fb b o. o t. t 0 YELLOW MEN EN and d GOLD Copyright 1910 U by tho time Ridgway company By Gouverneur Morris Author o of The Voice in The Rice IC Copyright 1311 by Dodd Mead Stead Co A oe t f f et f O. O ee O. O b I. I lit 1 SI SYNOPSIS sT OF CHAPTERS Jim tho narrator a writer with morn mom than BU hie and not ph rbra IX fe all ally b hu bas K been flying ng in SAn SAO Mateo Matco ant ami contracting maD many debts debt Ills big apparently 1 Jo 7 nel neighbor k III Carrol UI ht on way bump a 1 murdered man man just In a gully bt bungalow lo ls Js dl tt J. J In tb the few words the can CRU utter to t find n wallet Ilio tho r were reeking Making llo lb finds the wallet later r and It 11 shows that the tho man was nor Hoy m and he ho bed bad a n document telling I the ha loca loca- of ot the pf of be the tu Santo a rl rich h Spanish of time lost near at the Ille rl tells So the t scant to Carrot m who proposes O that t they r tr with somo who be bare secured a 1 schooner h tho o Calliope Pt go In search h of the treasure D never sus- sus pectin that Garrol C ms m's murderer Cartel Carrol and lInd hb friends get of In wallet and drug In Sau u co when b paper In fn tile the hold hoM ot of R a at sea Ica lie bad been In be finds left left limas to to death but the Chinese new crew him Iud and brIng him OU on deck Tho 1100 crew ue with an American A t IrI with a nud her yon 1011 arc owners OI of 0 the thet t t e tin Shantung bound for tor l' l ru lI ru on It a ont coast trip In explaining his hili presence on In ship lie ht or of finding document tb the I of If which ho homa ma Thu e decide to belp him find ll the Ibo wreck ot of the treasure ship p. going M 1 1011 8 IS 6 In Peru U. U locate C a 1 girl lUll waiting tut lor rt n- turn She hc helps them tells them ebe he hu scamp II the Manta nto wreck nud to t tike t cm thither that nay murder un Carrol and tb the men on 01 the thu IH C. pt tb the I nad R 1 named Jerry Top there N to lead them wew 10 to ino We treasure a trea u Continued From Prom Yesterday CHAPTER lt XV XVI I he Ambush i ERRY TOP was for making b by the tho FERnr h shortest lino IIno tor for tho truncated cono cone A that Chang and I had decided to tobe tobe tobe be the old time Islet IsI t. t But nut Chang the ultimate ll destination being onto once In Indi Indicated l- l cited himself assured assumed tho part of or guide Kulde ulde choosing a route which If it at times anything anything- but direct kept our heads below lolow the general enolal level and our feet upon substances that left no mark It would not do ho lie said ald for tur Carrol Carrot or orone orone orone one of hl his men to come b by chanco chance upon a broad t trail rail and follow It to where tho tiro treasure Ja lay There must be he no trace of oC our comings s or goings el else e the business s upon which h wo W were wore ont engaged sed must bo ho discovered Not to hurry hurr breathlessly forward rent the tho heart but ut no one except the till Irrepressible Top thou thought ht for tor ono moment of going against Chang ChanS' Once Orco we heard a 1 shot from rom far Car off to tho I left Ct In the general direction of ot the Calliope and we wo could see tho the thin S ancke of or a fire towering to tho the sky and once a flock Clock of oC crows flew suddenly sud sud- denly upward from a distant hollow cawing angrily a as av It If f they thoy had hall been disturbed disturbed dis dis- I j In tho the midst of a feast but of other disquieting 31 signs we had none none- Nor or had we need of ot exterior excite excite- m moJU l. l for tOl that furn furnished b by the quest queston on which we were wert engaged and every err everyman's everyman's mans man's Inward vard anticipations sufficed I r Imay may liken In my feelings e lIngs to those of oC a n nervous neno bridegroom room on his way to church sure that ho is late and believing ing o cr overt every watch to he a liar About 9 o'clock we wore were In tho shadow of oC the cone and twenty minutes minutes minutes min min- utes lal later r we were looking down dawn Into a kind of a bowl the bottom choked with sand-and sand little beech trees Tho The bowl had the exact hearing bearing to tho the cono cona that tho the submarine berth of at the tho L EspirItu spir Itu Santo had had to tho the rock rocky Islet off which so went down and It was was with witha a kind of galvanic spasm of excitement nn and U think dread that I leaped eap Into the tho place an and plunger plunged erl m my hand Into the sand as if Ir each grain of It must prove pro a gold old coin A sharp exclamation exclamation exclamation tion from tram brou brought ht mo me to m my feet He lie had found not a bar of oC gold but hut a black and rotted fragment of timber It t went rapidly front from hand to hand and we wo ejaculated and exclaimed and swore that It W was ls a part of oC a ship But If Jt we had expected and I for ono one had to find all manner of precious things laid out as on a shelf In Tiffany's TJ- TJ fany's fans wo we were doomed to disappointment disappoint disappoint- men ment If the tho treasure was anywhere In that bowl of rock It was beneath tho the accumulation of sand and beech l leaves aves that choked tho the place and w we m must st dig But where to begin bogin 1 Even on Chang ChanS' was wasat at a loss he looked across tho the place and around It and up and down It and rested reste his chin upon the heel of hl his hand and frowned then quite suddenly sudden sudden- I ly and without an any change of oC expression slon sion as one of those persons gifted with the ability to find four leaved clovers stoops and r one ono surely from a clump where all the others have o but three so Chang stooped and picked from tram the sand saud between his feet teet a r raw w green emerald as big as a California cherry lie Ho held It between his thumb and forefinger and turned It slowly this wa way and that for tor all to see Then pointing between his feet Chang n think dig here said ho he and stopped back At t Hoan Hoang's s 's second powerful thrust tho the edge cds of at his spade struck with Ith a kind of oC chug into something solid Ho lie paused grinned from flom car to ear cat and as an In actor sure of or his effect Him feel teel like gold said ho he and with a quick deep scoop ho brought up upon tho the broad of the tho spade a chunk chunky Ingot of ot tho the virgin metal Then Indeed tho digging became fast and furious with tho the two spades the tho pick and bare hands even Jerr Jerry Top cau caught ht the exo excitement and began to dl dig like a n. dog doS stooping and a shower of sand backward between his legs As luck hick would have ha It wo we had lI lighted first of oC all on tho the Ingots lon long since burst from Crom their chests and scattered and to be found now non In twos and threes and now singly ly and often orten for tor long IonS periods of furious digging not at tIt all We c dug as men cat eat who havo a a. train to catch I have havo never nover seen men In such a passion of hurry nor do doI I exclude I du dug myself to tho Yer verge e of exhaustion and kept on digginS' digginS dig dig- ging ginS I was dimly a an a it are that It had come on to rain that It was pouring that I had a great to-do to keeping my myon myown myown own on private ate excavation atlon from filling and could make but precious little progress progress progress pro pro- gress downward or 01 laterally and still stillI I 1 dug bare handed with torn nails and bleed bleeding InS InS' knuckles We Re e dug without rest ono one and all ofus of ofus ofus us not excepting from half past nine until one Then the pourIng pouring pour- pour In Ing rain became a veritable and upon the tho sharp and thrice repeated command of Chan Chang we l stopped reluctantly antl antly The Tho gold l a was parcelled out and l loaded load loaded load load- ed cd Into the strong bread bags oven even was given an In ingot ot and leaving lea the tho spades and the pick we wo began to climb out of or tho bowl I remember laughing aching AS 8 I was with fatigue to think how easy It had been to reach roach tho the place poor how arduous it was to leave leavo It rich Owing to the tho inclemency of tho the weather weather weather wea wea- ther wo we began the return with less loss caution a assured that none nono would be bo abroad to SP spy upon us liS and that thal tho rain would soon obliterate all tracks Chang Chan In the load moved mo vcr very swiftly and It was ani only b by the most strenuous and co courageous exertion that for tor a time I kept his pace paco Then I began besan to lag Jag behind and glad of oC an ex excuse e to ease his fat tnt little HUlo pins lagged with l me etc What hat with the digging jigging and the excitement and the gold I carried and the rifle I was near dead and soon eoon came camo to tho rho conclusion that 1 I must mast t lighten m my burden hurden or continently collapse col col- lapse A As the time rifle seemed of no particular particular par par- use lIse I laid 11 it aside together with In my cartridge colt In tho the cleft ofa of or ofa I Ia a great greet split rock whence I should have havo no difficulty In recovering reco It next I da day and once moro more dragged myself onward After many n ages ngos es of or time I saw V that Chang now far fur ahead ha had reached the tho upper tipper end of the time fissure that marked ed edthe the termination of tho the Journey and as tho time rain had now no settled Into a light drizzle I made mado up m my mind that I would sit down clown If only for tor a moment and rest I said man no cando cando can cando do sit down or bust So I sank upon a rock with a groan roan of at relief relict and anel his lips scornfully curling stood waiting until I should be bo read ready to go on I watched Chang and the tho others disappear disappear dis dis- appear one ono b by ono one into the fissure Hoang tho the last to go o down turning atthe atthe at atthe the last mom moment nt and beckoning impatiently Impatiently to me mo to follow tollow And I 1 had at last Jast risen to do so whon when I saw Raw a bulky bulk boarded bearded man and even en at ut that distance I know knew him for Carrol despite the time beard rise Ise from behind a n rock step stop to the tho brink of the tho fissure and lean cautiously cautiously cau cau- forward until he could look lookdown lookdown down Into It Then freeing one ono hand from tho the rifle that he ho carried ho he made mado madea a gesture of or beckoning and seven more men emer emerged from their hiding place pIneo ant an and 1 Joined him A moment the tho el eight ht stood looking down upon the heads of at Chang n and the others surmising surmising ing perhaps the contents of or those ob obviously obviously ob- ob Iou h ponderous bread breall bags baJI Thon Than and the thing was US so BO sudden that I r hall hail hadnot not even time to shout a n warning tho time eight as ono one man put their rifles to their shoulders depressed the muzzles to the perpendicular and fired tired a broken broken broken bro bro- ken murderous volley One harsh sharp cr cry as of a man in his mortal agony camo came from tho the fatal depth of at teh fissure no no more And I I. I seized bv by b an accursed unmanly unmanly un un- un- un manly damned panic slipped from tram my load toad of gold geld cau caught ht Lidice b by the hand and fled away Inland with a power and burst of at speed that were al almost almost almost al- al most demoniac lac CHAPTER A HE flight be begun un In a very vary VOr mania of T TUg THE fear was without goal oal or Jo logic lc But as I ran sometimes Jerking completely oft off his feet teet the tru tragedy tragedy trag trag- cd edy whose whoso Inside workings I had hind been beena a witness hung hunS before mo me like hike a paintIng painting paint- paint In Ing I saw those poor who had hail been m my friends and comrades huddled shockingly In unprovoked death face taco down own face up Ull among the tho rocks I saw the murderous descend nd warily t to put the finishing touches upon the time crime to put the Into that body which still contained per per- haps tho the breath of or life lito and to rob the tho dead men of at their gold cold I do not know at what point In my flight grief got s-ot the bettor of fear at what point grief yielded to shamo shame I know that I ran and slower muttering and talking to myself and that gradually a passion of anger ruse rose strongly n h from some unknown hollow of or m my nature as a n. full tull river and flood nood- flooded ed cd me mo Then as S suddenly as I had hoj be begun un flight II ht I broke it off stop 4 short and faced about My 1 Im Impulse mm- mm m- m pulse to go S-O back was almost as stron strong as 9 that which had brou brought ht mo me where I stood But nut tho the fall folly of so doing beat mo to a standstill with swift sharp strokes I had the courage to go back plenty of ot it It and to sell my 10 life lito us liS dearly as possible but but to what end ond I was Wag unarmed and a long longWay longway on Wa way from whore I had hind left my rifle and cartridge belt If It I went vent back It must be to o somo some terrible blow Armed and from above I might massacre massacre massacre mas mas- sacre tho the enemy as tho they had massacred us us- but oven overt now the they must have finIshed finIshed fin fin- their work In tho the fissure and were probably climbing out with time the gold fold There was no Jon longer r time to take talco them thorn at that particular disadvantage ti tage taga o. o How else CIRO could I 1 strike them What would be bo their next nett stop step Wh Why back to their own schooner of course coure to put tho gold sold aboard T There ero were eight of thorn them but the tho gold old was heavy hean Even If IC thc they know knew that I had been of at tho the shore party the they would not disturb themselves with the tho thought of anything any any- thing thinE that I might do It was WI that that that- tho contempt In which I believed myself myself my my- self sel to bo be held that held that finally goaded mo ma into action which In tho the event of there thero being no moro mora than el eight ht all aU told In Carrols Carrol's par party would be bo as easy of at accomplishment as rolling off ocr offa ocra a lo log Roughly my plan was to get getto getto to the tho Calliope before Carrol Carrot and his men an and If as I expected sho proved pro to bo be un unguarded to board her In one I of Carrol's Carrols boats act her on fire tIre and I return in tho the same boat to tho the Shan Shan- Shantung tung tunS' That stroke I thou thought hl would put the tho enemy at the tine mercy morcy of those of at us who survived sur But Dut I could not risk in an any such desperate business and anel for tor a few faw moments more marc I hesitated Then knowing tho the childs child's natural qualities of or patience and obedience obedience obe obe- I appealed to them theta I said you ou sit sll here her no matter how long Jons Maybe Maybo man come conic back maybe marbe J JIM Jill III come maybe maybo Bessie nessle You give gl word pelican man you ou not move till some somo one come comeZ cl ee seated himself stolidly but with a fl wondering look in his eyes ees he said I bent over oYer on tho the impulse and kissed his forehead God Gall keep you YOli little I said and grow you ou into a fine stron strong man Then Thon I turned and hurried off oft upon m my errand I know about where tho the Calliope must be anchored and made mado for or that point cs s fast as tho precaution of keeping below the skyline would permit I kept a pretty good lookout for tor Carrols Carrol's party part halting from flom time timeto to time and poking my head over some cas easily II accessible elevation but saw nothing of them or theirs until after some twenty m minutes of going I came to tho beginning of a long IanI sweeping sweep sweep- In ing downward slope and |