Show GOLDEN PHANTOMS fascinating er Tales of ofer r L wi Lost Mines xo c PIRATE TREASURE pIECES ot of eighth eIght I Two million dollars worth 1 l lAnd And their finder was a b by boy y a barefoot comber beach-comber who was scooping a hole hoJe In the sandl sand annd IThe I IThe The da day was wu clear but cold The early spring sun shone In a tur tut sky Elky but hut the wind across the water was vas chilly The boy shiv shiv- shivered shivered shivered ered He Be had some driftwood that he had gathered along the beach and a j piece ece of or goat oat neat meat from one of ot the wild goats that on the Island Santa Margarita where the tho boy also lived He De was hungry Well he be would dig a lit little tle tie pit make a fire Ore In It and roast the meat He lIe was ased d to that The wind sang s about him as liS he hebe be began nn to scoop out ont the sand It may have been telling him what lay below but bot If It did he not understand lIe He worked spa apa And then and then and then his fingers erl touched something Perhaps It was wasa wa waa a burled log and If It he dug It out and dried It there would be more fuel tuel He lie began bEnn to try to uncover the thin thing No It was not wood but Iron Part of or the old ship perhaps but at any rate he would dig It out oot and see eee what It was A box boil I What could he In It It Cu- Cu Curiosity Cu Curiosity now be began an to sting him Into activity He lie managed ed to clear the top lop and part of or the sides Now maybe he could lift It out ont Hut But he might as well have hove trIed to pull up the lie center of or the lie earth The Iron chest would not budge It was too baiM Here he wanted to see It all nil by himself and gaze on whatever It might c contain alone And If It It proved to be empty there would be no one near to lau laugh h at him But nut It was no use he must go and get help His Hia elder brother came prepared to show his muscle but the Iron chest seemed rooted routed to the ground rou lI Ills father came and the the three tried their best to move the stub stub- stubborn stubborn stubborn born weight His Ills uncle came and I the neighbors and at last nine men stood about the chest trying to draw It out O of or the hole In the beach At last It mo moved moved-It moved It ed-It It slowly and reluctantly began bean to I leave e a-e the place where It bad had lain so long Jong Rusty and dirty Suddenly a gr great at cry frightened the birds birds-a birds a cry uttered by ten throats at once as the lid fell tell back and the contents of ot the mysterIous chest caught the light Gold I r Gold Gold- Golden Golden en coin doubloons pieces of or eight eight- eight pirate gold old I Pirates Certainly I 1 I Cocos island lay to the south and e everyone knew that pirates had burled buried treasure there Why expeditions were ale al always ways sailing to Cocos and people dug and sweated and cursed and aDd found nothing And this was why they they had searched the wrong is- is island Is Island land 1 I If It the story could be ended there It would be romantic enough But now V comes the second chapter which changes everything about spoils the romance but adds an el- el element el element ement of or mystery Under Mexican laws the govern govern- government government I ment Is entitled to 25 5 per cent centor or of treasure found on Its land Who should know v better then than the governor of ot Lower c what treasure was found and by whom But he tells a story entirely and to the effect thaI last December lumber and construe construction construction tion steel were found round on Santa Mar Mar- Margarita Mar Mar-garita garita Not treasure In a chest chest but bot the material for tor building formed the astonishing find And just liS as storIes gain and grow by repetition elsewhere In la the world world- so 80 this thia one was changed by oral transmutation steel became an Iron che chest cheat lumber was transformed Into golden coins and of ot course no pirates treasure treas treas- treasure treasure ure should ever be worth less than thana a million or so sol I ISo So much for the chest of or gold nut But a mystery remains who brought the building materials to Santa Margarita And why wily That Thatis ThatIs Js is the question which so BO far we wedo wedo wedo do not know the answer BLASTED HOPES |