Show C 3 III I 1 1 I I 1 I 1 III HII III I 1 I 1 if III I 1 III I 1 I 1 III I 1 I 1 I 1 el by richard le gallienne Galli Gall ienn ensie e S being the authentic narrative of a treasure discovered in tho the baha bahama ama 0 F E H I 1 islands given to in the the public year 1903 now az arst lilt I 1 LOVE AND ADVENT ADVENTURE URt alt pivia M of eight immell tely the imagination beans tta maglo magic work thoughts fly to the he old pirate days of the west indies liya daye of the buce bucca buccaneers of righting adventure and treas ure pieces of eight spanish dollars bearing the figure 8 mean to tho the imagination great dark steel bound chests with their puzzle locks and erous riches of 0 gold and gems they mean pirate loot burled buried and lost to their pirate owners and still waiting through the tha years a lucky finder they mean too tropic climes where it Is always green and frost Is a thing unthinkable where fruit Is ready to the hand and clothing Is an ornament and the sun comes up like thunder and blue skies and crystal waters run the gamut of all that Is lovely in color richard le gallienne Is a lit arary craftsman poetry and prose come equally to his pen so 80 in addition to interest of plot we have in pieces of eight the charm of the written word love adventure mystery burled buried treasure amid scenes far from the ordinary what more can the reader ask in entertain ment book 1 CHAPTER I 1 1 introduces tho theo secretary of the treasury uryon of his britannic Maje gov at nassau new providence bahama islands during din inn tile tho summer ot of 1003 1 I was paying pacing what must have seemed like nil all visit to my old friend oliu Sat saunders inders who nt lit that time tilled filled with lilt dignity tile the high sound ing office of secretary of 0 tile tre treasury trean nry of ills hla maje government in III tile tho quaint little town lown ot of nils rall ili hi tho 1116 isla island od of new providence ono one of tho thoe 9 halcum islands island s that hint llo lie half lot lost to tile lie world to the lie south southeast eust of lie sen sea mid and forin it a esquie fume what neglected portion of tile tho WPM west indies time was waken they hod it sounding nume for thein themselves selves tit ati tile world when the lie now sleepy little harbor gave shelter sli elter to frebo freebooters oters und and tarry lurry pirates g tearing in thero under full still sail with their loot from tho spanish main nut but boso heroic days daya are and nassau la Is given tip lip to lo it sleepy trade rado in sponges sponged and tortoise shell shelf lilt abid peace Is no lie namo for the drowsy tenor of tile days daya tinder tho lie alilin trees awl tile tho hero tt a handful of clothed in n tile white linen suits of the iho tropics carry on oil tile the government after tile traditional manner of MR lih 1411 colonies front from time thile immemorial each of thern like my friend not with out nn lilt 13 english euille at thy the immor humor of the thing supporting the lie dignity of offices with lin impressive finnies lord chief justice attorney general gc speaker of lie house lord high admiral colu colonial nial secretary and RO lie forth my friend tho lio secretary secret tiry of tile trens treasury itry la is it it n it 11 possessing in till an till common degree that hint rara nil and elloit lit at of hunink Jes complin lan As we sit kit together in it tile hush of ills snuggery of nn nit evening surrounded surround cil hy by guns guna lish itliong ilig MICH linen and old prints there ore times thile 4 when wo we scarcely exchange 11 dozen wol words As ile he ilven dinner and bertline und yet no 0 have nil all tile tho time a keen itten nud and sat benso of it Is jolt bolm it sa saunders it riders girt gift companionship seena deemi quietly to if ouzo ooze out ut of him without the need of words and occasionally wo we have us third lit in those evening conclaves conclave 9 it big slow broad arond faced young werch atit of tile samo saine kidney in lie ho drops with 1 u nod and a smile and lakes ills klavu lit in tit alic smoke clouti cloud ot of our 1 without the effort of speech that hint good thing humanity though one must not forget tile ono one subject it 11 which now and 11 galli tile good Cl clincle indle If firlle webster achieves ach lovos leves eloquence n spile of himself cluett d ucla john Sn subject Is shark thing duel duck shooting and shork fislid 9 it Is enough here for oon nen ollI Mum Is a sufI lelent for lifelong friends friendship lilli and lit li exhaustible it was in ili this lids of jolin shiun ders snuggery ono one july evening tn in 1003 tile alio three of us its being duly met inet and ensconced lit in our ve ro arm that hat wo we got onto uke the subject of burled buried treasure it wits I 1 alo marled us U oft off hy by jolin ho about burled buried tr treasure ensure at this ills jolin john ills his funny little quiet burled tren surel lie he said bald well I 1 have attle itlo doubt tint file lie islands are full ot of it if ono one only h mety liow how to get nt fit tt it alvr I 1 allied eu 1 1 copyright by doubled 1001 why ali not these aln nc for nearly alir ll llerve ir cantu iles iks tin tilt ground of fill all tile of the sinju ln lorein waa ns licit here ivria li lik re rc tile alic iny ery norh themselves were little better pirates tills room we e ore ne slitting hitting in III was the den of one of tilt biggest alk ayt rogues of flient nit all john tin till her tho boyl anor mien was ah here fort nt at the past end yonder onder bull dlug it ji lil ralos und little elso lut but tit nt file loverni nent house till ill file hu how A grent 1 ant old llinus III shiker gave tile poor ioor filow fellow you can ridd read nil all about it in ili ills his 1 1 sait was a tile the mi delvous for till nil the oats ut of tho sell hero here they caino lit in avith their loot their and bleeps ars of eight i Klit iliad johns eyela twill bied of tile the 1 fell od itle its iii though they old port cifre they squandered of it no douht doubt but they squander it nil fill some of klicin were hilares hi laves too mil and these tl leit looking in mind for some place of sli fety would naturally think of the baili bu bi ili ah the 1 I lie biggers keep their little bicio there to this oils lay it Is IH folin of stocking put lit in charlie webster precisely well us SIR I 1 wall ga illig thoo old fellows would mould bury their lit in somo some cave or ollier and then KO go off and get their ghosts perl nii came buck back kut but their woney li 14 still hero here lots loll of it you ou bet your I 1 life I 1 fe I 1 do they ever ninko make any finds I 1 asked nothing big I 1 know of A JUK jug full of old coins now and then I 1 found ono it year or two ngo ago in ili iny illy gill dell liere burled bulled down don al long tile roots or of alint old alg IK tree then put in ili charlie Ouirl le there wits that lint stranger st city lies iles suppo seil to havo rot got away gitil quite it 11 alie 11 1701 we about ailin sidd 1 I well weil there used alicd to tn le be till nil old eccentric character in ili the towi ton I 1 ile here rea by tilt nume nuino or of androtti An drotts jolin john wit M III remember lalni jolin john nodded ile iio used 0 to o go around lilt ill thel time etli n lilg big and muttering to we elised to till ilk liliu liale crazy gone so brooding over ahls very ery subject of burled treasure botter better look 1001 out young oung man 1 tit nt mo ine ile ho umed tn ili bo ba grubbing about lit in tile ho bush well several KOIS ago tharp came a visitor from now new york yolk and lin ho got thick gitil tile old A A I 1 73 42 zia T those a old fellows would bury their hearda 11 I 1 fellow thoy used to so go abo gibout lit it n lot together antl were often on ly I 1 on it soo called fis fishing lillig traps for itys dis on end actually it Is they were after something on oil north city atall elects cu ants some bonio lift erward tile new yorker disappeared ns lie arul toino collie ailts lilts not been livigi d broyn lint but alace theil jioji alipy have found it a sort or cr brick vault over om there alic ro leilh shiell lins beell I 1 anu seen neva it insaf ins self lf A tort sort of wellei omni limn ir there ts its supposed qed tile new KOM found or millar the story for what alint tta its orth As charlie chin allu angshed jolln john slap slapped peti ills ili 1 knee it e e tho very cry thing for you I 1 lie he said sald why have I 1 never thought ot of it b bo fo doicy re do you menn mean jolin john wo we both asked wily down ht tile dulco ivo rot got tile very cry thins thing A pity I 1 haven vincnt 1 wt pat it here you must como come in and see it tomorrow W wint on earth 19 it why do you keep us guess why its ita nn nil old that caule into rny my harl a n short ehno ago Mi krile you ren oli old luuy dilly alck wrecker Wreck ee wicks ahe the callad laiful P ay page iff Cow company pany 1 I 1 I 1 do A wonderful old hut but tile document for bilte I 1 tile the document first tile mory mill keep 11 well they were mere pulling down wicks own house just lately lind out of at tilt the rafters there felt fell it roll of if pal per now ini ill col coming lillig to it a roll of paper purporting to bo be tile lie account or of the burying of it certain tr ensure telling the lie place where it lit IK burled bulled and giving filling directions for finding it charlie mille I lind I 1 log together mid john contin continued tied with tantalizing zIng dellbe deliberation ratIon its a purporting 0 to o IM he mado hy by wine some fellow on oil tied bed sonic some fellow dying out in begat it pirate anxious nn t to 0 ianke in tike ills his peace in aeo lit tile the end alad to ga alvo e ills hla friends flit lids lia ilie belie 11 t of ills knowl knowledge edgell oil oh 1 I 1 I 1 i sh allt sleep it wink tonight I 1 1 11 ll I dont take much stock in it said john rin inclined to think I 1 its t s it diony someone eoll trying to lo fool tile old rellow fellow but loys its bedtime come collie down to the office in ili the morning tind ond well look it II over so our ine meeting eting broke up for the time being and inking iny illy candle I 1 went upstairs to ot of calp anve 8 0 overflowing with goldal pees a abid I 1 I 1 I 1 john jet I 1 n tinker aleice and 0 oer v e artile me a cutlass between ills his teeth and li id a revolver lit in ench each land CHAPTER 11 II the narrative of henry P tobias ex elrate as dictated on hla his deathbed in the year of our lord 1859 the good jolin john lind scarcely ninde made ills ids leisurely distinguished appearance at ills ids on the morrow when I 1 too entered by one door and charlie webster by the other 11 N now ow for the document we both lit in it n breath bront li here it is lie sold bidd taking up it rather grimy looking roll loll of fools cui eup froia tn lit front of ailin which as it lir L pointed ted out was vaa evidently thoi thet work woric of a person of very little education and to rend read us as follows fol lowa county or travas travail state stale ot of texas december IW reeling feeling my end in a near I 1 make divka uio lot law lowing ng statement of 0 my own treo free will atia and without solicitation in full exercise 0 of all ali iny illy faculties and fool fed that I 1 am doing my duty by so no doing I 1 was born lit in the hie city ot of liverpool engi iceland england I 1 d on the le ath day ot of december 1784 my father w ans as a seaman and lien I 1 was young I 1 followed tile tho gains onu and it happened that when lien on a cassago fro from dispain to tile west weal indies our ship was vaa attacked by free traders us as they culled called themselves but they were eie pirates wo all did our best but were era over powered ind and the whole crew except three apra ere killed I 1 was one of 0 the ehtee they did not hill they carried us on board their ship and kept us until next day when they asked us to join them they tried to set get us ua to join thein willing ly but wo nye would not whan they became enrit BeJ and loaded three cainnon anat ana lashed each one ot 0 lis n before the mouth of each cannon and told u us to take our choice to loin join them OB as they would douell the kwa guns and that dunin danin quick it II Is 13 useless ageless to say my we 0 o accepted everything every tiling heron death so 80 we me came caina ono one of thu the pirates crew coth both ot of my companions were killed in less time OHM bis alv mont lis hut but I 1 nas MI with then them for or more than two to years lit in which time wo we collected it vat vast quantity of money from roni different ships wo we captured and wo we buried a great ercal in ili two different lota iota I 1 helped to bury it with my own lianda the location of 0 whdeh alch it la is my illy purpose to point out EO that lint it can be ba fund without trouble in tile the hihara wands lalanda after I 1 had been with them for or more moie than two years wn wa were itt lacked by a largo large and our commander told us to tn fight for our oin lives as it would be ba death it we were token taken bilut tile the guns of 0 our ship were wera too small tur for the worship warship so our ship so boon 0 n began to sink abon the man of war ran alongside alon eildo of our vessels und and tried to board us but wo ve were too fast po alvelind she alie lind to bauloff ha licul ott again when our vessel bank with mith everything evcic on board anil and I 1 escaped by sulm tiling under tinder the stern ur the iho st keilp lili as ours sank wit without eliout being stan and holding on toi to abo a a I 1 il until dark cheik I 1 swain sim to a ot of the wrecked cael not lot for far awny away and on that I 1 floated tho the next morning tho the ship was not peen been I 1 was picked up tip by a a cael vessel the next day as an a shipwrecked seaman and ana nt hit me say here I 1 1 know that no lie one no e a alive iva from our vessel e incept and th those ose alint were taken by the I 1 mun un of war var anil and those there were all na as so I 1 know that no other man knows ot of this treas siira tra except and it must be nud Is 14 chero v ere wo we bulled it until today and unless you yell set got it through hi 1 1 it t lement it ill remain there always and 1 do 10 no one any rood good therefore Thoro toro jt it Is your duty to trace it up ond and rot ret it for your own benent benefit as well ito H so BO delay not but net let as soon oon as a possible po sIbIo awill now dem describe the ho places marka maln etc etc go BO plainly that it can b bo found without any trouble the alist Is ft a sum of one ona million and A n half bulf dollars at this point John paused vo ive nil took look ft A antig arenth and charlie well weir mer itier gave ft a soft whistle and ills 1111 9 A in tillon and it a half balf doi s I iol hol ol thim 1 I to lo cwt cat my eyl gli the oren door caught sight of it face razing gazing through lirou gli the ironwork Iroil work of 0 tho lie outer officio with n fixed and glittering expression it 11 fact face nothing anything prepossessing but tile atice of a n halt breed deeply pock pockmarked marked a coerne look arlt look ng eyes unnaturally close together I 1 it t was ans evident front from ill his expression that lie ho had not missed it word of the rending there Is in III the me c iter of fleo I 1 said and john rose and went out i good morning sir saunder Sn under paid nn soft und and cringing i olce gund good rooming morning said john toine milli lint grumpily what lint Is 18 it you ou want antl it was some dethill of account which being dispatched tile the man ott off with whit aident reluctance casting u i long inquisitive look ut lit us seated at t tile desk find john taking inking up III tile pt once more re resumed sullied A suin aum ot of ono one million and one ona halt dollars burled liui lne at it uy aay known us as dead mens alens shoes near nassau in 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