| Show L f fMath Math BeIng an Account of the Finding of the Lost Treasure ot the Hallowell Family Copyrighted lS9 by S S McClure Co BY p Y BLACK SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS CHAP-TERS Tustin Hall well quarrels with his uncle and leaves Boston together with his chum Ozlel Haskett The two e5Cilpe on the shIp of Dixey Lynch who likes Jus I tIn but trIes twIce to kill Ozlel Because of the peculiar snakes mark on his fore II 11d thc sailors fear Justin The ship jng snakes mark no longer awes the natives na-tives Donnereau and the blacks plan to J111kl Jutln the new high prIest The od mm now thoroughly enraged shows himself to the IltoJe and the snakes mark Ftanc1s out clearly on hIs forehead A little follows between the pIrates and rltlns lurin goes over to the side or t1 > Hal1owells and the former Con511Ira turs light against one another Ozlel rescues res-cues JusHII from Donnereau and another tropical storm and earthquake saves the young men from the pIrates Dixey Lynch makes a compromise antI Gabriel johns him They find the supposed treasure treas-ure and fight became It Is or little glue J nIel lInd the two noys and theyy start IJcle for the schooner CHAPTER XIV Thpn said TnsUn his face lighting 111 with joy our troubles are Indeed over 1 reared We should have dimeulty In persuading the men all the schooner to sail without theIr owner and with o it that treasure which they must crow he came to seek 7 Ozlels eyes gleamed grimly r had my mInd made up to that said he Even now there may be mutineers on boar the shIp Will can grate trouble Then SIr Roger we must e en seek your help The three of us and I an old man cc ld do little against a shIps crew iaid Sir Hoger gravely I I were a thing of horror to go bad to these ungodly savages said Ozel his great frame shuddering al tIle memory mem-ory or the abominations e hd wit I teased hand as well a grievous thing ti sek aId from them against white rCfJ however gone astray but if we le pat well receIved whYdear JUStin your venture is not ret over Not over cried Justin sadly iur Roger must prevail said Ozlel Cisvciy and it was a thing of wonder won-der to flute how the plain farmer lad had developed w firmminded manhood In the last few weeks SIr Roger must prevail upon some of the blacks behind us to help us overpower the crew 11 even san with us kny e inc to bf away from the island is-land wl11 speed crud Tustin But r Roper arswered not for a time They uere resting In camp for I the night and one more days march I they hoped would bring them to the beach TIle forest was all about them and the moon shone faintly through the vUtg EverythIng was very still site fur the far call of some night hunting beast The wild convulsIon over the earthquake past the Island seemed to sleep as peacefully lS a child sleeps titer the delirium of violent J fever ecrAnyl1llnb Anything to bet away Tustin rc 1Jeatc Yet get away to what asked sud dellb Sir Roger and by the lIght of the campfire tin eyes sought those of hIs boy gently What Is there for YOU In Boston he town whIch chased your you-r i out as a wizard If noWJe had the treasure Justin shivered It wrought jut mischIef said lle And for me a ruined old man what shall I go to In England There Is nothing but aJl old dismantled dis-mantled house And w 110 would believe be-lieve such a wanderer as I had returned I turned at last They would laugh but wIth money I Tustin hung his head mournfully 1 would give anything to seemy I fathers place restored saId he but I the gold Is at the bottom of the lake buried beneath tons If earth Let It lay cried honest Oziel My farm at least have I and a fireside and If Sir Roger here will condescend and you Justin and Mistress A hot flush burned Ills cheek and he stopped Friend Basket said the old knight you have the heart of a true man I thank you butIndeed tWeTI hard not to see the old Halowell woods again hear the bells chime a homecoming see old frIends once again dance in the old hall With that he was silent and weariness weari-ness made the others sleep When they awoke Sir Roger was gone and a scrap of paper lay on Justins breast J Go on to the schooner s9ld the note I hope if the Lord wills to meet you again I Tustin wns fre hzied when he read nn u u this Hi has gone cried he For all I the rears that I han dreamed or seeing see-ing him for all the perils we have passed to find himthis is the end Oziel Ozie1 His memory has departed againhi9 mInd has gone again He has forgotten he has a son Nay dear Tustin said Oziel more calmly though greatly disturbed The writing looks not to me like that Tis not the wont of a witless man lo leave word of guIdance behInd him He Is I the elder so best had WI > obey and find 1 the schooner Tustin protested wildly He would not note from the spot he < would go back alone to the lake he would search through the woods alone for his father Ozlel kept still and at last the mind oC I the stronger of the two friends pre Called and Justin yielded and they proceeded on the uncertain road to the beach Justin silent utterly disheartened disheart-ened ahd spiritless but Oziel walkIng steadily forward with n keen ee to the landmarks he had noted on the inland in-land march so that at length toward evening they clIme to the sea The schooner stood far out muchJ further than when they had left her I and It was only after a great deal of loud hailing and Ig11allng that a boat put off from the vessels side and rowed In toward the beach In the sheets sat the master steering and beyond the surf he 1 bade his boatman cease rowing and bailed tic lads What evil has fallen upon the Isle sang Je with the nasal twang of his country Wbae is my masterthe worthy elder Master Gabriel luITin The sea has heed and learl wore we cast upon the shore The land was rent What evil has befallen my owner The hand of providence has smitten the Island because of Its abominations shouted Ozlet Master Gabriel 1U1rln is dead and Dixey Lynch and all save us two Come ashore or take us aboard and we will explain to thee The master of the schooner did not answer but spoke to his men and they answered eagerly looking round and pointing at Justin who SAt on the beach silent and heartbroken At lat the honest but cautious marIner hailed Mash Haskct he shouted come aboard if you trill Boston men are anon my crew and they know thee for a Godfeurlng lad hut we wlll have none of Master HalIoell The devils marl Is on his brow and what witch I craft has been 011 this Island tie likely he was a meddler In It Alas marl you I well III words have oft been spoken of Master 1urrln but I know naught sac that he paid me fair wage and treated me and my men well on our ventures Dixey Lynch is another mat ter He was known as bloodstained and Master Tustin came aboard my good ship with hIm It Indeed old GabrIel be dead In take you aboard and sail for New York or Boston but Master Hallowell may stay formc with the devils on the island he has called I to him with his eVlleye To that the worthy superstitious I master stuck and naught Ozlel could say would mote hIm I Ihlnk you I would desert my friend crIed the faithfll fellow but I the master would not yield save so far as to walt for a day or two to see It there were no chance of hIs owner being alive Justin saId nothing in the argument but Ozlel was furious The boat rowed back to the schooner and the friends were left to live as they mIght on the unfriendly beach For two days and nights they alted and the schooner waited no more intercourse In-tercourse taking place between them The friends had some food left and the nights were warm so they suffered but little though loudly did Ozlel lament the Impossiblllty of knocking sense Into the mariners head with his own great hammering fist On the thIrd evening the boat approached once more and told Oziel that he had one more chance to save himself as the schooner men had made up their minds old Murrin was really dead and the ship would sail next morning but Tustin these witch believers would not have fIt any prIce Oziel implored them to wait trusting SIr Roger would come Tustin was absolutely listless He cared neither way The sailors were obdurate and again the frIends were left alone That nIght was somewhat chilly and the friends besIdes were full of care < b c f pr r t Y y 1 J i r rr I 1 I H I Ir S J i G f iii Where the moon sails in southern sky i I r tJ Where the south wind blows soHy 0 It 1 e Theres the red gold where the dead men le LTt1 j VJbere an bold lads rue sailing 1 I n anchors off Lone island and provisions for a long ope Ozltl discovers the plots o till ta ors who try again to kill him la 1 succeed only II having hm behind Ozkl flakes hb way to 1cw York Clty wtcro he chances upon lullIn Jmtlns ureic The two lit out a stout ship md ov rtak Lynch and his crew A sea 1ut follows and the pirates arc over c m Lynch alaI Donnereau are taken IrsmtrO 071 and Justin attempt to EcYO the mystery about the fnilkls marl lfntiut mates a loml3ct with Lynch and D nt rau A landing Is made 011 the t ens II island MUlrl1 and his men gatrI ltll Lynch and the blacks Jus t1 anti Ozld eseape Into the wrrounding the1 t allli conic upon a party of natives cttcutig the make dance Justin recog n zee the aid high prlest as his father Tt o Lill priest seeing I1 sun in danger I front the wrath of Donnereau rushes li 110tlfl t i t t2 t Jus and ignorant 1 of the past lie h n ln danger m the snakes mark I ws disappearing The natives accepting sign receive JustIn hI hs successor I h uss Justin and meets the Jlriesl v ho t Its of Ills being cast on the island The torm separates father and Ion Ont On-t m + following Ilay Ozlel mete the prIest mill 1 rns of his danger because the fad I Tustin for thought of his father probably prob-ably witless again but Jzlel only cUdgeling hIs brain how to get Justin ocr the accursed isle and safe back to Mistress lmIms side Between desire de-sIre to warm themselves and lack of are whither their steps tended they wandered far along the shore This nIght was almost moonless rushIng clouds obscuring the sky and a haunting haunt-ing wind walling most dolefully In the tall palm groves of the shores It was late when Oziel halted and raised his hand warningly Listen said he What was that The wind the wind cried Justin fretfully It has been singing the old song in my cars all nIght Theres the red sold where the dead men lie Where all bold lads are sailing I The dead men the dead men All of us lu11111 and Lynch and you and I and my poor father shall all lie together I to-gether dead on this goldcursed island asy father my poor father So suddenly sud-denly recovered so quickly lost again PIty for thee Ozlel to follow my ill fated venture old friend old frIend He threw himself sobbing on the sand but Oziel paid no heed to him He was listening with all his mind on eager stretch That was not the wind lt rpse and fell like the wInd wailed like the wind sometimes sounded shrilly shril-ly as the wind but wind It vas not It was sound of human voices raIsed in songthe same song as that the lads had heard when escaping from Lynch and Donnereau they saw the unholy dance of the snaleworshiIJC1S Ozlel I left Justin 011 the sand and ran cautiously cau-tiously forward He had not gone far before the clouds parted and at last the moon shone out Ozlel hid in the I l groves and watched find his heart leaped as he watched Weirdly chanting he saw on the waters wa-ters edge a band of the relapsed Africans Afri-cans who as they sang their song were passing continually from a strange shape in the water to the land where a line of canoes was drawn up The savages as they passed to the canoes ca-noes bore burdens some of which it took three or four of them to carry and deposit In the frail boats Hound the wreck for now Ozlel could see that It was an ancient wreck many more of the blacks labored busily The tide was far out and the rotten timbers of the old ship were out of the waterFront water-Front these timbers and from the sand about the Africans were digging hastily the boxes the others bore and hIgh on the ruined vessel stood an awesome awe-some flgure directing them It teas Sir Rogerpriestly as of yore his neck entwIned wIth a writhing snake the jeweled wand raised In his hand lad again or not Ozlel could see that the old knIght had recovered full control of his ghastly worshIpers These labored la-bored submissively and their song was mournful and sad Ozlel could not hold himself Ho Sir Roger he yelled Have you then deserted thy son At the call the work stopped and many of the Africans cried out angllly But Sir Roger raised hIs wand and shouted in a loud voice and at once the unhappy wretches were silent Then Sir Roger cried Ozlel is It well with you and my son Is the schooner secured Justin Is with me cried Ozlel As for the schooner I I must talk with you At that the old Imlsht seemed lo leave the work in charge of one he could trust and came along the beach Rapidly Ozlel rejoiced to see In the knights calm demeanor that he was i In his right mind explained the situation Very shortly father and son were again In each others arms and at once SIr Roger took prompt energetic seamanlike seaman-like command Come said he there Is no time lo be lost no time to explain He led them to the canoes and they t e found the work finished SIr Roger ruling rul-Ing them again wIthout permit or cavIl bade the snake worshiiers stand asIde from the lads and placed them in a large canoe With himself Resuming their unholy song the savages took their paddles cleverly steered through the surf and the whole fleet sped rap Ily toward the schooner On the trip Sir Roger brielly explained to hIs now joyful joy-ful sbn and to Hasket what he had done When my memory went he said all recollection of the Moguls treasure was lost The few In a chest picked up by the savages and made Into my staff conveyed nothing to my pOor mind Other chests there were which the blacks bore from the upper cabins chests of clothes and worthless things I kept them In the cave thinking that some day they would aid me to answer the quesUQn which was driving which did drIve me mad Who am I What was 1 Donnereau crafty traitor to his own kind hearIng of Lynch the pirates pi-rates guest must have jumped to the concluslort that these old chests contained con-taIned the treasure But when spy dear Justins voice recalled to me all the past 1 remembered that down In the hold of the ship was the real freight When I left you alone in the camp It was because I feared to risk your lives with mIne again with the angered savages sav-ages But I found them forlorn at the blows which had fallen on them I dressed myself with the holy snake round my neckfear It not Justin child Us harmlessandthey were glad to accept my authority again although poor souls I told them that I must Tho sl i leave them That is why they trail Justin Lynch and old Gabriel found 1 I theIr fate seeking the wrong boxes In these canoes are the real ones Shall old Hallowell hall not be ours agaIn For my son the gold is mine and honestly gained Justin laughed and sobbed Ah father he saId long have 1 sought thee and now thy will is my wlll Swiftly silently and skllfuUy Sir Roger led his little fleet onward and It was curious to note how readily there came back to him the old habit of command com-mand when as oUlfer of the Grand Mogul he had led many an attack upon ships Inimical to his prince Now in avery a-very short time he had the schooner surrounded The watch was careless having lain there so long without sight of sailor enemy from the shore Before Be-fore he could sound the alarm through the black of the night the canoes were alongsIde and the deck was swarming with savages armp1 with spears and knives Sir Roger Hldthem however I in control and when the worthy master tumbled up in pale amaze to find his schooner v rftle by l devils as he I t 19ht them Sir Roger soothed him 1 thie time for the little crew had no tJ rri tf chktce with the force the old knight brought Willy nllly the master yielded and obeyed orders convInced of Gabriel lurrins death but still sullenly and with lout protests what he wOllld do when once in Niti York Sir Vogel kept aboard a sulhclent number of blacks to overawe the crewblacks who were devoted to him and whom as some lIttle reparation for his unintentional unin-tentional sin he hoped to convert to I Christianity QuIckly sail was up and the Island was left behind the men In the canoes following as far as they dared walling their weIrd and mournful mourn-ful lament for the departure of their snakemarked priest New York gained Sir Roger found there old and powerful friends and the master of the schooner was fain to content con-tent himself wIth a handsome present Nothhhg could draw Justin back to Boston Bos-ton although there he would Ilave found lL sad and remorseful greeting for the unhappy witch hanging craze was already past So Marian was sent for while the HaUowells busied themselves them-selves In fitting a shin for their own country Fond were the greetings between the cousins and eager was Justin that Ozlel should go to England as a brother with him but Ozlel was sadly firm in hIs refusal though as he heard the talk of departure his jIg heart nigh broke in his breast until one day Marian came to him alone to give still heartier thanks for his faith and courage cour-age In defense of the boy Justin They were a long time alone and they went straight hand in hand to Sir Roger and knelt before hIm I have been too long a Puritan to desire other than to dwell with Purl I tans said Mistress Marian Also 1 I feel that I must stay behind to pay Jiistins debt and miii owna debt all we HalloweUs owe Sir Roger for unswerving un-swerving fidelity in time of trouble And so her hand In Ozlels her head on his broad shoulder while hIs eyes beamed with tenderness and courage she waved farewell to the vessel that bare away to home the two Hallowells I with the Snakes Mark THE END I |
