Show Tte MIX ISLE I I 9 99 Copyright under the name nm or of little Anna Hark by S R B Crockett Copyright 1599 by S R Crockett Crockett Synopsis Sir James of ot New in company with his kitS grandson oung Philip meets in an nn his hison hison hisson son on Philip and ad his lile sons parm ur Janet Mark They Thoy quarrel sir James goes home taking along his grandson That night he ho Is murdered by b his I dissolute son eon and Janet Mark They take his body outside and effort to I lay It ft upon an IU In the fasten the crime upon other shoulders But ut the tho boy Phillip has the I crime He tells teUs his hla chief tenant Um hrey at Spur I way succeeds In having haing the r rial al murderer brought to Justice He lIe is sentenced to ca ie his woman accomplice to be transported Mysteriously Philip Stans field escapes the gallows seeks out his wife finds linds her In the company ot of ft J t g and tries to murder her but does not quite succeed She is taken away to for cure caving her son young oung Philip in charge of uC and in the company ot or littia Anna Stark Mark from om whom he learns that In some coma wa ways as s girls are worth quite na 15 much c as boys For example e In the Jg ll es esway of the tho cattle I oJ when Master itaster t Spur way bought his winter beast in the theli 2 Mart Anna beats Philip l in eh helping h to cut li thorn them m out t Still SUil they ore are e excellent friends though she beats him at ather ather ather s oven even her studies In the school to which they together to John Stanfield Philips po lo lawyer Untie Uncle In e brings In p new teacher Dominie a small maji man with wonderful eyes Shortly after niter his com coin coming comIng coining I 4 ing the countryside is shocked and I with a number of bloody and mysterious murders er evidently Int for the sake of rob robbery robbery or bery Business UI calls edlis u Umphrey from froni home In his absence a big bl packing purporting t to be e full of ot fine fi Span Spanish Spanish case f Ow t Bowman ish wool F Is delivered r to Will l clerk Ho lIe Puts it tt in the I Weaving shed That night Philip playing about it sees shining through the gauze a pair of or eyes He of ot orth the packing case calls Will wm Bowman who counts three then stabs a the e packing core t with a small s sand sword Blood flows they open the case and find I Dominie inside apparently apparently apparently dead Shortly after fter the house Is had attacked by br robbers who meant to let In fn They are beaten off ort but afterward Philips mother mather refuses to let him spend the holidays at New Mew Re Returning Returning Returning turning from a days visit to New MUns Philip falls in with Saul Mark Annas rather father who under pretense of or gyps showing him Sir Harry Morgans Mor ns treas treasure treasure makes him a prisoner Anna finds Unas ure uro out hits his plight t and leads lead Umphrey Spur way on his bis track By B the help of his sil sit silent eat ent partner Gregory GregorJ Bartan Saul Mark supercargo SU ot or the ship Corra mantee Imprisons Im ns both Anna Anwa end and Spur 1 robbing or of much money 1 way war sad a a portrait t of Philips P I mother th Philip Ri 1 the elder i who Is In league with th Saul Mark takes the tha portrait and sends young QUng Philip away Leaving LeMing Imprisoned Imprisoned imprisoned Philip tb the elder goes out In cloak to his house housend end nd by threats Induces her bar to go aboard the Con mantee Anna and an Philip make friends with He Ha shows them themI is ts where Sir Harry Morgans treasure I guarded by b and ana his hosts CHAPTER CAPTE mu muI I The Jolly Boat Yellow Jack hud had Indeed more more than thant t kept his promise He had shown us the thin crust of or kindly treatment mt on I which no wo were ware depending Why Cap Captain Captain Capt t tain tam had ha not gone goone with ship I could not then understand I understood afterward 1 that th t as the wretched white while were disposed of ofin I in itt his plantations and tho tha thaI j t I transaction must be one o or of considerable publicity it was not prudent for Cap Captain CapI I tain tam to appear ap ar For Since atnee his escape descriptions of him had been I sent Dent across to the colonial governments and all aU Scottish ships were closely scrutinized acm for the condemned mUr Also in Virginia and the Carlines Carolines 1 there was waa no Provost Gregory to blind the eyes e of the authorities But ht lit that time I put down my fa ta fathers thors being secretly on the island toRome to toRome Rome some fell design upon my mother I resolved therefore immediately to de deiso deI Isle of vise iso means of escape from the I the Winds Winde and to take uke my chance upon I the mainland whenever we could reach it I thought that the distance could not be very ery great at l t to some of the dJU and larger Islands But I 1 II TI f the geography geographY had no 00 more m re exact Idea of I remembrance of a phy ph than a vague ague I be belonged belonged belonged had thad map in the Molts Molls atlas which longed to my grandfather However I resolved first to question H L our guide and so 60 after resting a few i aln to accompany ID li days I 1 asked him again a Anna and myself m l into the woods on pretext of gathering the tile ripe plums of a atall atall at t tall and beautiful tree tr which grew there I I said as soon scon as we ire were sere it without the village and safe from the I i I prying pring ears care of the liberty men must mustI I we always stay here Is there no way to escape ape among Christian people I He smiled his wistful smile 1 Already Y you ou are tired of poor Obeah man Christian you like bettor better Are not these Christian He pointed with bitter irony to the buccaneer village I beneath us use e I Nay I said we are arc not 1 tired of you ou And Anne Anna ma chimed in Nay truly You are the only onh friend we have on this I accursed CUrsed a island ti And our quick speech h pleased him mo me 1 little On this occasion we kept to the right skirting the high woods and walking first along mg the shore and md then among the easier casler herbage on the margin of the theba bay ba I had noticed not that the sailors of the never by any chance wandered In this direction but always J took their walks southward along the opposite curve of or the crescent cre ent We were ware now flOw no heading toward Its northern horn hornI I I 1 asked Yellow Jack Tack the reason why ilY i i fh avoided this He pointed to tea a low lUte like 11 4 alders I which grew along aloI The he hc J nel water at home which overhung the 11 path That Is the th reason he said eaid sententiously sententiously And he indicated t a hJ ce snake ake which I lay along a branch with its head I swaying a little over and toward us ci 1 Ferd lance strike at faces of or those ti 11 who WM pass beneath strike like a whip whiplash I lash ao and then come back hack to his 1 place iJ N Let us go further r out I said ii thinking of Anna where there th re is lean clean leani td yellow ellow sand to walk on Why run the i I risk of dying In a by serpents i l poison I He will never touch tot ch nor yet et pI m E friends Sald said ald the lad Ind And though it thrilled me with fear tear to see e et t him he went vent up close tl se and passed his hand caressingly up and ana down the I snakes snake back humming at the some same sometime sameI eI I time his low continuous song Annai Anna i and I shuddered to look at him but 1 was wag perfectly calm and the huge arched his ruddy I I back like a petted cat by the fireside I moving his head quickly to 10 and fro Ire I 1 before our guides face j He Obeah I Obeah said Yellow w wJack Jack and with a farewell caress care he hei came caine on with us once more through i t j the scrubby undergrowth We were I soon forcing our way wy with cutlass and andI I knife through the tangle toward the northern nor hern horn Here at some former time time tile whole face of the cliff h ir 11 J 1 I fallen down in a vast tumbled confusion sion alan thousands ol ot h ge blocks beli beh g I plied piled indiscriminately over each other I li and these theo tb seen from the thO sea sen were full 1 of black holes overgrown with tasseled rg CUll arul prickly p ar thi taunt haunt III ii iii I i j t tc c I I so ao the sailor men said of wild animals I and deadly snakes I Into this tangle tanie Yellow Jack Tack led us I Iby by a path which bad had obviously been trodden more than once before as con confidently confidently confidently as aa a man will walk up to his hia own front door I IDo I Do not fear he said I 1 will show you how bow to escape from them thana Chris i Clans So greatly heartened by his hrs promise premise wo we followed Anna as usual leading the way and the guide putting put tins the creepers aside from before the girls face by holding them in the hook at atthe atthe atthe I the end of his right arm 1 till she 0 had passed I had to The huge of rock heaped above in fantastic masses was wai a very ery rabbit warren below through whore tunnels threaded his hla way gliding under this Uris block and clamber clamberIng clambering Ing leg ver the next net We followed down downa a long gloomy passage and over oyer a miniature mountain pars pa s Then duck ducking log ing in low again till un we emerged safely safety on the loveliest little sheltered bay ba a very v ry harbor in miniature completely shel h l from nfl all U 1 sea on the land side from from the buc buccaneers buccaneers village illa Anna clapped her hands at the eight sight and cried out with pleasure at the lovely sand Band and shells hells on the shore The shells were not broken to lO pieces as aB on the beach in front of the vII lages lagos by the force o of the waves but every tiny Un form perfect to its last whorl Some were marked like staircases with steps of alternate yel yet yellow low and red Anna bent and gathered handfuls and finally lapfuls of these murmuring all the while with a kind of tenderness Ah Aim that I had you home with me at the MUn house how happy hay I should be bel belAnd I And this was all sole complaint I heart hearl her make all the time she was wason wason wason on the e island In one corner of this fairy paradise and sheltered from he I wash of any seas by the great j I S I ing nose of the North Horn a ships jolly boat rode at anchor close to a little natural nature pier as aa taut and trim as 25 if the crew had Just left her herI I ran to her ber and found that she was wan both and having oars oara commodiously packed under a protecting awning a spar for hoisting a sail sall and all the necessary nece ary conveniences for making a voyage of or some BOrne length A chain of stout links of Iron connected her stem with the anchor at the bottom of the little harbor We must set sail at f once before the ship comes back I cried eagerly Where did you get the boat and why have you not escaped long ago For the marvel manel of possessing such a treasure and yet vet remaining in a pesi tion of slavery troubled me But Yellow Jack Tack held up his hand handless h nd less arm and said reproachfully w with without without ith out answering my first question This is la the reason sir also w hom nhom would trust except ex pt his hia weale weaks old mother And whither would he go 10 when there there and there pointing south north and east are slaves laV s slaves only slaves glaves Then he lie guided us to a small hut built of driftwood and thatched with broad palmetto leaves which stood un unseen unseen unseen seen in a charming recess of the rocks reeks house he explained with a proud moud and satisfied look AK Au here upon uon blocks of wood rudely shaped as stools we sat and ate bananas and strange fruits which our guide had brought with him while almost at our feet the wavelets hissed crisply along the beach of bright shells and golden sand The stood silent before us usa usa usa a long lon time before he spoke You friends he said You not like the others Suppose shows you ou how to escape you OU I never neer sell him into slavery Never let cruel white man wan whip his mother be because cause she Is Ie a witch I could not tell him that still sUll in my myown myown myown own country countr poor old women like his mother were condemned for witchcraft anti and M that not so long ago one had been burned with all aU circumstances of civil and ecclesiastical pomp upon the bor borough borough borough ough moor of On the contrary Anna promised that It if wo we were delivered and restored to our own country countr he be should be rewarded and cared for and his hla mother also al o oHe He turned on her a look of doglike gratitude and taking the girls hand he set it tt on his hia head your our slave he said Then In fragmentary but easily un understood sentences he told t ld us that if we did lid endeavor to escape we must go northward i th U a chain of islands connected us with the larger settle settlements settlements settlements ments of Porto Facto Rico and Jamaica where we would find governments and ships in which to return to our native land laneL But he warned us that the voy voyage voyage oy age would prove a long and dangerous one Moreover the e jolly joUy boat bot would go goso goso goso so stow slow that If I the chanced chance to return about but the time of I our escape epe we should be instantly captured cap captured captured Still here hee was w a hope hop a a possibility and ad according to my say y fashion I began instantly to build upon it It In five fe min minutes minutes mm utes I had us all br k in imagination at New Now my m Uncle John dethroned the prince come to his hia own O And A the princess But Yellow Jack Tack broke in remorse remorselessly lessly upon the beauty of my vision lesl Tonight or tomorrow at the latest will return We must the th wi mut wait wai till tl they lay her ashore to careen can her We need many ma things for the voyage We n must find casks for water c and bring them hither r we w must take dried died How tongues tones can we get these te interrupted Anna An unless on we steal stel We cannot buy them them Yellow Yelo Jack looked at lies her ba in aston aslon astonishment It Is no sin to steal from the thief ho he I said i n They sn cut oft off hand han sd take his hs boat beat bot to help him to get t back bak his hia flesh and ad bones Will Wi he ever eer get that back He held hed up the stump of his arm ann as he spoke poke smiling strangely as he did so and ad neither of ofus ofu ofus a us u made any further objection so easily satisfied is morality sometimes I 1 asked alted how he knew that the tile ship would return speedily My Iy moth mother er or told me she saw sw It i sailing saing hither It fought and ad took a ship Many Man peo people p pIe I killed kle Two ships come with wih much muc perhaps plunder tonight tomorrow I said to myself that tt if this proved pre to tobe tob tobe be true his mother would be a witch wic b Indeed and in my own ow country might Inde be in Ia even a greater greter danger daer than th In any ay pirate pirat isle I thought of or Mr r John Joh Bell ll We went back bac not by the te way we had come but through the silent woods like the guardian guadian demon of or orthe the place humming his curious song snakes their heir and the deadly deal waving waving heads at us from tire boughs Bright colored birds birs flashed across acrs us Strange flowers gleamed glea d maid amid aid the th dull dul green gen genof of the foliage Far off of we could hear a abound sound bound like a bell bel struck in some seine church tower a solemn sole note reverberant and ad sonorous then silence yet more mor com corn complete complete plate and again after ater a space the solemn toll tol agn as if in the deeps deep of ot the unknown wood the dead were burying the dead t Then out ut of this silence from thA forest edges whar thA blab nih 1 stood up like a black rampart wall there would come a sudden terrible screw scream sra or |