Show 13 by richard le gallienne S I 1 af N 10 1 d W being the authentic narrative of a treasure discovered in the bahama baha M a A islands in the year 1903 now first vento Gi given givenco to the public mill 1 1111 lilt ill fill fill III I 1 pj by doubleday pg A company TO THE synopsis tho wan man who tolls tells this llila story call him the lite horo hero for short Is visiting hla his friend john saunders sli official in nassau bahama islands charlie webster a local merchant mere hunt completes the iho trio of friends tr lenda conversation turning upon burled buried trea treasure aure saunders Sound cra produces a written document purporting to be ba the deathbed death bed statement of 0 henry P tollag a su successful c pirate made by him film in 1869 5 it gives two spots where two millions find and a half of treasure tre asuro were burled by him if n find hla his companions the conversation on of 0 the three friends Is overheard by a pock marked stranger the document disappears saunders Baun clors however liaa has a copy py the hero to seek the burled buried treasure charters the auxiliary schooner maggle maggie darling 11 ng the pock marked man la Is taken on ns as a passenger for spanish wells negro tom catches find and cures 1 ii l sucking fish as IL A mascot for or ti the 0 hero it has t the lie virtue of keeping off the ghost of the pirate who always guards pirate treasure on oil the voyage somebody empties the gasoline tank and the hero starts things lie he ant and the passenger clash ile ho lands the passenger who leaves a manifesto hearing bearing ilia alie signature henry 11 tobias jr with a now new crew the Al siggle darling sails and Is passed by another schooner the susan D the hero lands on dead mens shoes CHAPTER VI continued 4 1 I cant afford to live lve you that theodore id llo ilia for tint dat lie ho declared tako take tills this handkerchief instead but nican while my iny eyes were opening take tills this instead theodore I 1 suggested id ile dlo for dot dat lie ho repeated touching tile the tie I 1 ills ilia voice and touch made mo me sick and afraid just ns as in fit a lunatic asylum make one afraid look out I 1 mur inured toni tit nt my elbow and just then 1 I noticed hiding lit in some bushes of soven year tipple trees two faces I 1 had good reason to know I 1 lind had barely time to pull out tile the commandants revolver from my pocket I 1 know it was to bo be either cither tho ilia pockmarked pock marked genius or the ilia engl noer but eliut for the moment I 1 was not to lio be suro sure which ono one I 1 had lilt lift vor for ns as my gun went oft something heavy ramo came down on oil my head and for the time I 1 was shut oft itt from whatever elso was going on 0 0 4 which did J lilt toni tom were acro my first words as I 1 came back to the glory ot of tho the world but fit I 1 say any them for a long time and front from what toni tom told me ilia it was n wonder I 1 ever said them at all there lie ho Is mar bar sald said toni tom pointing to a long dark figure stretched out near by tin im afraid lies not the sunn imin you were looking for poor fellow I 1 I 1 said mild it wits george the engineer im sorry but I 1 saw the muzzles of their guns sticking out ot of tho the bush there it was ana they or me inc that no lie and if it been for that hint fishs fichs skin you bo be here now it save mo lite from a pretty good ono one on tho the liend hend toni tom did it no sar but that was just lt it lf it it been for that knock on oil tho head pulling you down just that minute flint pock pockmarked marked fellow would have got you aft A it was lie ho grazed your check find got ono one of 0 ills hla own men killed by c tho ho very fellow that hit you there lie Is over there and ana chos that other toni tom I 1 asked pointing painting to another dark figure a few fen yards awny away the ilia sar 11 the rho captain oil oh im sorry tor for that god knows im sorry for that yes stir ear lie ho was avas one of tho the fittest gentl gentlemen emett I 1 ever knowel was waa cup cap maln tomlinson a brave bravo man and it good navigator and hed a powerful fancy to you tor for when you got that crack on tho the hend head lie ho picked up tip your gun and began blazing away with words worda I 1 should never have expected from a religious mail tito the others except our special friend P lets call him tobias from now on win tom 11 I 1 interposed well him sar ear kept ills nerve but the others ran for the bonn boats as it tho the devil was after them hut but the captains gun was quicker and only four of them gut got to the susan II 11 the other two felt fell on their ances as if something lind had tripped up lip in a couple of feet or of water but just then tobias hit the he captain in tho the heart ahl nh it if only lie he lind had ono of those aklus ajit lie ho always lillig laughed hed on OIT such things as cu there was only rno mo and tobias then and the dog for tile iho engineer boy had gone on ills knees to tile sit sunn pan 11 follows fellows nt lit tho ilia first crack and begged them to who tako tint him away with them bliem there was no one left but rind the log dog and me life and I 1 was sure my lily end ans not fur far off for I 1 was never much of a shot eliot af aa lod god is my witness sar ear I 1 wp abig 1 endy to tile and thoro there was n moment t hen I 1 thought that hat the 66 1 imo fline idail f fit but tolus iid tuil enly denly i uy to the top tol rut 0 the iho blurt find anil culled called out to tile lie susun susan B that hint was atit running ir up lip her sails at ills word they put out it 11 boat for him tint and while lie he waited tie lie came down the hill toworu me ine find the dog that stood growling over you find for sure I 1 thought it was the end anil but lie he sald bald tell that flint fellow there that im not going to kill a defenseless roan man lie ile might have killed hilled roe me once but iw its hound to bo be ono one at 0 us some day or other but despise mo inc rill nil lio lie likes lin not L uch luch carrion as ht bo thinks tile nio find if lie he only likes to keep out or oc my illy wily ill ain willing to keep out of ha ills tell tint when lie wakes up lip that lint long us lio gives hii going after what belongs to me for it was my illy lie he Is safe but tile mill uto nto lie ls ills his foot or hand on what la Is mine ita either ills life or mine and then lien lio lie turned away and was ans rowed to the susan II 11 and they soon stilled bulled natly 1 with tile black ling fang nt at ilia peak I 1 suppose tom said 1 I well that waa it 11 flue speech sli cech quite a flight of oratory ini im sure im obliged to him for the life still worth warth having lit in spite of this ungodly aching lit in my deail lint but how about tho poor cap therel where does nil all ills his eloquence come lit in there lie ile cant call it self defense they WN were 0 waiting ready to murder us ns as you saw vin the captain and tho the law between thein tire arc nil flint Is necessary to cook the gabso dobso of our friend henry I 1 L I 1 tobias jr without any help front from 1110 though tile captain died for me file I 1 should prefer they filloN allowed red mo me to gisiko it a person personal lit matter its tile beginning of ilia price said toni tom the beginning of tho price its tile dond hand continued tom 1 I told you remember that wherever treasure Is theres a ghost ghast of n dead wan ninn keeping guard and waiting till it nother dead dand man mail comes along to take up nil sentry duty so to bay tile the ghost li getting busy and it m makes ake c s in mo 0 think E that coming coining pretty near to the treasure or wo we have hall had nil tills this happen li appen mark me tile the treasures trea suros near by or tho the ghost be so 11 and then looking around where th altmin tile engli toor or find silly theodore lily icy I 1 said tho the farst thing weve got to do Is to bury these fellows but where I 1 added elded anro tire tho the other two that fell lit in the water watery oh said toni tom a couple of sharks got hem just before boford you woke up CHAPTER vil VII in which tom and I 1 attend several funerals when toni tom and icalee I 1 came to look over the ground with a view to finding a burial place for the hc dead I 1 realized with grim emphasis emalin Is the ho truth of charello Cliar llo basters wasters Wa remarks remark s in those snuggery nights that seemed so remote and fur far away on tho the nature of tho noil soil which would have to bo be gono gone over lit in quest of my treasure tr ensure no wonder lie ho had spoken of dynamite why tom I 1 said there fil n wheelbarrow load of real soil sell in vt 0 square mile ille we callant dig it a grava for in flog dog in n stuff like this and ns as I 1 spoke tile pewter like rock under my iny feet clanged bud and echoed with a metallic sound come along tom I 1 cant stand any note more of this his well have to leavo leave our funerals till tomorrow find get aboard for the night for tho maggie darling wits still hunting liero serenely as though men rind their violence lind had no existence on oa tile tho pl planet allet wed better cover them thein up lip against the turkey buzzards said toni tom two ot of those unsavory birds rising in tile lie air its as wo we returned to the shore wo we did this as well ns as wo were able with avith rocks frocks and tho ilia wreckage of at an old bont boat strown strewn on the iho bench beach I 1 dont think two inon illen were ever so glad of tho the morning driving before it tile the haunted night after breakfast our first thought was naturally to tile tho pad and disagreeable business before us its 1 I tell you what ivo ive been ifil likIng bar said bald toni tom ns its wo we rowed ashore and I 1 managed to pull down a n turkey buzzard that roso rose nt it our approach happily our coverings had bad proved fairly effect ive been thinking that lite hie only ono one of tho ilia three that really matters Is tile tho captain and wo we can find sufficient clent soil for him in one of those big holes ilow how about the others well to tell tho lie truth I 1 was avas thinking that sharks are good enough for them they deserve no bettor better toni tom and I 1 think wo we may na 88 well got get rid 1 of life thoin first so it was dono done na as we said and carrying them by tho the toot and shoulders shoulder to tho ilia edge cago ofilio of tho blurt bluff george nod silly theodore find and tho aliu nameless giant elilio had kno knocked cheil me ine flown down so 80 we wc skillfully lung filing them in and hey they glided gilded off with scarce a I 1 then we ire turned to tile the poor captain ind carried him ns as gently ns as wo ire could over the tough rough ground to tile the biggest ol 01 oc the banana hole tia its tile natives I 1 enli vicin and there wo ire were able to I 1 dig him it fairly respectable grave torn and sailor and I 1 were now to tile the best ot of our belief alone on the island and it 11 lolie spot it would bo be hard to imagine or one touched ut tit certain hours houra with a fairer beauty n beauty wraithlike and like a melt shelf haunted with tho the marvel of the yon sell first we went over our stores store and anili thanks to those poor dead mouths flint did not need to bo be reckoned with any noro more wo we had plenty or of everything ever tiling to last ast its for at least a month not to speak of at which tom ironi was nu an expert when however wo we turned to our plans for tho Ir tri asaro asuro limiting bunting wo ire soon can canio 0 to a load dead atop tito tho indications riven given by tobias seemed lit in the face of such a terrain falvo to a degree possibly tho the land had biad changed since ills day somo little of course it must havo have done tom and I 1 went over tobias directions again and thero there was the compass carved on tile ho rock and the cross there was tiling thing definite something winch if it was ever thero there at till all wits was there still for in it hint flint climate the weather leaves things arnost as lit in 11 kept agypt sitting silting on the ilia lilg highest hest blurt wo we enild fand tom and I 1 looked around that compass la Is somewhere adiong among these internal infernal rocks if it over evl r was carved there fit at all 01 one tiling thing certain toni but look at the rocks I 1 over twenty miles of rocks north and south and from two to six from east to west A more hopeless job the 1 I they glided off with scarce a splash mind of mau man could not conceive tom shook ills his head and scratched his gr graying wool 1 I go roost most by the ghost sar lie ho said all these trien had never been killed if tile ghost been same somewhere near mark me if wo we find tho the treasure bo be by tho the ghost all very well I 1 laughed but how tow aro ard wo going to get tho ghost to show ills his land hand iles hos got such auch bloodthirsty ways with him they always have sar ear sold tom no doubt with some ancestral r shudder of voodoo worship in ills his blood yes ear they always cry out tor for blood its nil fill got to live on they drink it illi like o you and mo me drink coffee or runt ruin its terrible to hear them la in tho the night well tom I 1 remarked you may inny bo be right but of one one fhlug pro im certain it if the ghosts going to get any one tt it ehi int bo be you weve both got ono one good chanco chance against them tom was beginning dont tell mo me again about that old sucking bucking fish mind you keep it safe for all that said tom gravely 1 I lose dinino tor for a thousand rounds pounds well all right but lets forgot forget the lie damned d old ghosts for tho the present wo we decided to try a plan that was avas willy really no plan at nil all that Is to to sech beck more or less at random till 11 wo consumed nil all our stores except just enough to take us home meanwhile wo we would each of us every day cut a n sort of radiating swathe working sin BID glo gil handed from the cave entrance ca tronco we nye would prospect ns as much of tho the country its eg possible blo in a sort of fan fail both of us its keeping our eyes open for a compass carved on a rock lit in 1 way wi nye might hope to cover no inconsiderable considerable of lie country lit in the alio three weeks and moreover tile tho country most likely to give sonio some results us as being that hat lying lu lit ft a semicircle from froin the hie little harbor where the ships chips would have lain inin it wit wilsn 11 t much of a plan perhaps tint but tt it the most possible among the 1110 harder work than we had undertaken no men have over ver set lite heir ir luinda to it would have broken the buck of f tho most tible able bodied and when wo we reached the boat tit it sunset we had biad scarce left ifft to eat cut our supper and roll into our bunks A machete js Is it 11 heavy weapon that needs no little skill in fix handling with econ economy oiny of fence farce and toni tom who find been brought biou glit up tip to it dna lit in spite ot of ills years a letter practitioner than 1 I I 1 have already hinted at the lind kind ot of devils underbrush we lind had to cut our way through but no words can do jus jug flea to the intelligent stubbornness with which those weird growths opposed its it really seemed as aa though they were mere inspired by a diabolic will farce pitting itself against our will vegetable incarnation lun of evil strength I 1 i and faly and cunning day after day tom and I 1 returned hoine dead beat with hardly a tired word to exchange with each other wo we lind had now been at it for about ft fortnight and I 1 loved tile the old chap more every ciery day for tho the grit and courage with which lie ho supported our ter labors find and kept up ills alg spirits once or twice wo ire had ninde made funded discoveries which wo we called off on the other to we see and once or twice we hod had tried some blasting on rocks that |