Show PIECE BEING THE AUTHENTIC NARRATIVE OP OF TREASURE discovered IN THE BAHAM ISLANDS INTHE IN T HE YEAR NE GIVEN TO THE PUBLIC 6 bichard te le gall k 11 11 I 1 e C C WAIT A MINUTE MINU TEl synopsis tito roan a n w who ito tell this story call hini him ahe ahn e hero h et 0 for short Is visiting him friend jolin john saunders british off official lelal in nassau Ilah atria islands charles webster a local inert in erchant hunt completes tile the trio ot of friends fr lenila conversation turning upon burled buried treasure saunders Ba produces a written document purporting ni to ito he the deathbed death bed statement of henry 11 tobias a sue uc pirate made by him in 1869 it give two spots where two millions aid and 11 a halt half of treasure were burled by him film and his the conversation of the throe three friends Is overheard by a pock mucked anark 0 1 ei r i the document digap disappears e ar sounders d e ra however has a copy the hero determined to seek the buried bulled treasure tre anure charters the auxiliary schooner hooner st maggie N baggi 0 darling the pock marked man mail Is taken on an ai a passenger for spanish wells negro tom catches cat clies and chiea a sucking sticking flail its as a mascot for the hero it has the ho virtue of 0 keeping olt off tile the ghost of tile the pirate who mho aldaya guards pirate treasure on t tho he voyage somebody sonie body empties the gasoline tank and the hero starts things lie ile and tile the ger clash lie ile lands tile the passenger who leaves beuve ft a manifesto hearing ade tit signature henry P jr with will a new crew the magelo 1 par ling mails falls and Is passed by anoche schooner tile the susan 11 tile the hero lands on read mens shoes the sucking lish proves proven a mascot indeed rind and carries the lie hero through tl a fight which la in followed by sev bev eral funerals ile he searches tor for burled buried treasure nure anil old tom falls in into to a pirates cie cave the cave contains the skeletons of two pirates pirate and a massive clies tempty lily save for a few piece of eight B scattered e a r of on the bottom the liero hero returns Turn Sto to nassau and by good luck learns r the location of short shrift island W web ei ster buys tile the yawl Pla flamingo mingo n all a and it he and the hero decide to 0 search are short elior shrift aft island for the treasure CHAPTER II 11 continued 6 there were fur far more blacks black than whites down on oil liny day street but liero here there were nothing but blacks on oil every ry side the roads ran in every direction and lid along them everywhere were fig urca of black women shuffling with till burdens on oil their heads heiah or groups of 0 girls audaciously merry most of them bonny here and there liero almost a bent beauty ity there were churches churchea and dunce dance halls and saloons all radiating so bo to say it prosperous blackness at first the effect of the alie whole scene was vas a little sinister even a little frIg fright hP ning the strangeness of at af ilynn jungle was ai liero and one wits a alte milli man lit in it till all alone among grinning faces hut but for the figures about one being clot clothed lied the illusion hall had been complete but bill for if that lot and the if kindhearted kind hearted salutations from col comely liely white turbaned moralities which soon sprang up tip tile inc find and tile groups of elfish children that laughingly blocked ones progress with requests not in anny african dialect lint but in excellent e ze ellent english Engli sli for a copper please this request i was waa not above tile the maidenly dignity of quite big and buxom lasses liis ses ono onn of these a really superb young creature asked for a cop coper please nse but with 11 saucy policy coquetry befitting tier bior adolescence ill give yon one it if tell me where tile king lives said 1 I ole king coffee Col Tco site linked and then fell into it very bigony of laughter Ite covering she put her linger to her lips suggesting silence and sald come niong ill show you and by my lily side n young an slie file lind had soon boon brought tile to to a cabill much like the in rest perhaps perli aps n little poorer looking ashli I 1 there lie he Is I 1 it mid till site she shook all over again with suppressed pup pressed giggles I 1 gave her a sixpence anti told old tier her to bt be IT u good girl then I 1 advanced up tip a strip of garden to where oliero I 1 lind bolig lit a 11 of it venerable lift linfred ired negro dented nt lit the lie window us its it 11 for 1 or exhibition gitil a great open look book tn in ills his hands tills this lie he appeared to liu ila rending reading with great solero idly gli gor hough I 1 li ought I 1 caught cali gilt a alde glant ot of his fits eye its though lie ho had taken a holst reconnoiter reconnoitering ing glanco in my direction a glance which land lint but deepened his attention and increased the dignity of his demeanor remembering that lie was not merely royal but klbus also I 1 rondo my any salutation ita a at oneo courtier like unit good day to your majesty I 1 bald gods good god cod looks after hta his servant B lf de lord Is iverel fill lie answered gravely gra ely aud takes r nio are ot of ills calill irtis Ir bo seated sar unit gleaso 1 so 7 1 x aime vime ns my lily not rising my lily a Is 18 it 11 soro to tue me I 1 was nut not long lit in getting to tile lio but arct of lily visit thoi the old milli listened to me ine with lilt great composure lint bill with wl tit it ii marked necess lon of mysterious liu an por lunce lit in ills milliner its arile sar lio sold han I 1 laud shed 1 I could find it for you ou 1 I could flud it for you sure enough and im tie ile only mail limn la in till nil tie do dut dat could dut but I 1 should have hao to 0 o go wid ld you and its tie do lords Lord sm will to tn keep mo me here bere in ili tits chair wid mid do rods has turned in ili dese old bonds utility it 11 tane and I 1 liuo have nitta lit in do lord dry dey would turn u gain yes id find it for you ou sure enough id ind find ll IL it if tiny nian could und it was wall do 10 lords ai but mcgibo I 1 call see it for you ridout moving froin chair no do you ion mean br brot othir lier that tile lord tina has given you second sl glit dot aim it I 1 glory alory to lits ills botne iiii ine flat it liv answered 1 I look lu ili fl ball 0 su o and if 1 do spirit helps tile ine I 1 enn ann soo see clear us its a picture far under tie dc ground for fur fair away 0 over ver de its do de lords truth asar f tir 1 bo be ids his I 1 asked him whether lie would look into ills his crystal for tile 1110 with n burst of profanity us ns unexpected ns na it will was ald vivid lie cut sed dealt boys that hat had stolen from blin it 11 priceless crystal which once had belonged to ills hla old royal another who before him had tid flat file same mune gift of tile tho spirit iut lit ho added turning tig to it table by ills hla side and ami lifting arout it a large cut glass decanter of considerable capacity though at present void of contents that lie ho ind found that gazing into tile tho large glass bullof its ita stopper produced almost equally good results tit at times first lie ho asked tile me to bo be kind enough to shut tile the door we had to be very quiet he declared the spirit could work only in deep silence and lie he asked me ine to be kind enough to close my lily eyes then I 1 heard ills voice muttering in a strange tOng tongue tic it queer dark gobbling kind of words which may have been ancient african spoil spell words or sheer gibberish such us Is magicians lu all times and places have lave employed to 0 o mystify their consultants I 1 looked lit at idin through the corner comer ot of my illy edeas pye us doubtless lie he and anticipated for lie was glaring with on an air of inspired abstraction into tile the ball of the dee miter stopper so we sat silent for I 1 suppose some ten tell minutes then I 1 heard him give another deep rugh opening lily eyes I 1 saw raw jitni slowly slinking tits ills liend head ide de spirits dont don t seem Us dis nomi lie ho muttered tilting the alie decanter slightly on oil one side and ang ob serving ben ing it drearily do you ou think your majesty 11 I 1 asked with its as serious a face ns as I 1 could assume as sinne tile spirits might work better it if tile olvea liter were to bo be tilled filled 1 lebbe sur knebbe spirits Is in curious filings lings ti 1 dek do need inspiration sometimes Ps just like ourselves what kind of inspiration to do you ou think gets tio the best results your jour idaj esty vall well si sar I 1 cant say as af ley Is very particular but ilse csc noticed de dey do do meent beleiu powerful cached to just plot plain good glod old jamaica ruin they shall have anc it I 1 said I 1 had noticed that there was vas it 11 so loon a few fe yards ards away so before many more minutes lind had passed fillad I 1 hail been bean thero and como collie back again and alio tit decanter stood ruddily filled really ready for the ilia resumption of our sen tice hut but before we bogon began I 1 of courso course accepted the seers invitation to join litin him and the spirits lit in ft a friendly then I 1 having lint ing dosed my illy eieg we began gall and it was with lilt what rapidity the coining pictures began to crowd upon that inner vision with which the lie lord had endowed ills his faithful followers follow follo werl or t of courso I 1 wits wa inclined now flow to take the whole thing as an nn an amusing typos turo lure but presently watching Wal his face and thia curious celing ce ecel eing ns expression of ills eyes and noting the exactitude of one or two pictures I 1 brgan began to feel eel tint that lip however wever much lie he might inight bo inventing or elaborating throe was sonic some substratum tin of truth in what ahat lie he was bollt tol telling lt nic inc tito first vie pictures tures that dime cattle to hill ailin vero mere merely We picture tures noton isit inel clear onex ones of it websters bont beat tile nr it webster and or nt tile the illen tit lit old doe clog but in ili nil all tills this ile might have been beell visualizing from actual knowl knowlin edne Ig yet file tie lie tillis lulls were vcr curiously exact presently ills his gaze becoming more fixed 1 I see MO you vou rinch anchored ored under it little settlement you tire rowing ashore dere uro are little pathways running up ili fil liong tit du coral rock and it few while houses svein sveio tit 11 ili bo it forest big arpen gioi like e drevs aci s und illick brilli evera cipro 1111 clin kril ui lilt SO KO k anti dork cont set see iiii ln wall it dough M darc re seems to n bc 1 old till nil mink lit in und los ins alko old kuttim cant son see delta for do d brush lrus li and walt wait lord love you tur stir but ime I 1 to 0 o sec nee it blk big light clain ing up frough li tie brush from fur under lie do ground just like you set old rotten wood shining tn tit do it dark dap deep down I 1 t tell 11 you to do lord pave tile 1110 eyes to to see into do 10 bowels of lie de tirui ita q illy d boyels of it do earth tor flor sury sure idl all lit ht lilt p tind shining do 10 lord lt it nin nill to de gold for certain nh flit hidden away unit nd dero under de dc ground 1 cant ant 1 you 1011 see noe it desir clearer I 1 upil involuntarily kit get sinto idea dpn of ON lq pluro place its ita in the old milli gilded with it renewed intensity no lip lie sold presently anti his fits dia 11 appointed one to lilt in tile thu best evidence yet of 0 lits ills 1 I only see sec at little gf jen n mist inist deep deep lown down nn ill ler der lie de ground 1 now it Is IH failing uway its rone golie I 1 con only see tie do woods and till do da ruins this brought brou glit ills visions to nn nil paid end tito tho spirits obstinately refused to t anke uny any more pictures though the lie old mini milli continued to rayo gaze on oil in tile the decanter stopper for fully five minutes CHAPTER ill 11 1 in which we take ship once more tito discovery which through it my 1 friend tile dealer lit in curloss elca 1 I lind had made inide or bellowed bel loved myself to hurt nindo made of lio lie st I 1 lotion or oc henry 11 1 boblas second pod of tr tren ensure surp fitted exactly ditl charlie wishes for mg anif trip rip stock as ag tie he effected nn acted to tako in it nt at the short 1 shrift ift island lay a few miles to lo tile northwest ot of andros island now andros ts Is if n grent of oc wild due duck not to speak of that lint more august bird the flamingo attraction number ono one for the rood cli arlle then though it Is some bome hundred and fifty antics long sonic fifty miles mile broad at its broadest it has nover never yet it Is said been entirely explored its center Is still a I 1 mystery TIT alio declare it Is ha haunted tinted or nt at nil fill events inhabited by sonio some strange poo peo plo no ono one lina has yet approached close to pee yai can live their lio houses uSes they say from a dist fince but as you approach them they disappear here idere therefore llie seemed fin an excellent place for tobias to take cover lit hi Cli arIles duck shooting preserves endless marl takes lakes Is landed with annn grovo grove copses loy lay on oil the lie fringo of tills this mysterious region so andros was plainly marked out for our llon flon sailor find watched ills his toaster get ting ila hia gains ready for sonio sonic days cud and doubtless memories stirred lit in him of scotch moors they lind had cliot over older together ile iio raised lila ills liend to tile night wind and sniffed ns as though lie ho already scented tile wild duck on andros island ile iio was ans impatient like the rest of us its because though it wits on nn hour leour past baill sailing 11 9 time wo land had still to collect two of ile crew tho the two loiterers loiter ers turned up tip at lust lost and nil all preliminaries being at length disposed of we threw oft off tile mooring ropes and presently there was heard that hat most to aln anyone me who loves seafaring tile tho rip pling of tile ropes through gli the blocks as our mainsail began to rise up tip high against tile nation moon was beginning to look out over the lingo litigen block of li colonial hotel the lie sea wall of which ran along ns its for far us as our mooring A fow few tights lights in its HH windows window here and hero broke tile ho blank darkness of at its facade through tho h avenues of royal I 1 nm am alius LX ex because of lint flint pros antly happened and which stayed tile tho lit in its rippling ascent A tall figure was running along the ho sen sea wall from the direction of tile lio ito tel calling out ouan 1 I little breathlessly lit in a n rich young voice its as it ran walt it a there you fel fellows I 1 0 w s I 1 walt a minute I 1 wo we were already moving pan illel with tho me wall land nd nt lit least twelve feet away front from it by the time the lg iiri that ut of a 11 tall boy cowboy halted bild picturesquely outlined in tile liula light stopped just attend of us lie raised something 1 that looked like it a bag in ills his right hand culling calling out catch as tie ho did so BO and it moment after before a word could ile bo spoken ile ha took a flying leap anti and landed amongst us plump in the ho cockpit end and was vals clutching first ono one of ila and then the tho theother other to keep ills his balance f did ld lr it by covol ile be evel exclaimed a aimed in a beautiful english air accent cent and then started laughing its as only absurd date dovil youn estera cau can wel lie ho said un soon hoon its as he boulo KII get ills brent hr eiith li but I 1 had find to do it heaven knows what tile the old man will say puy I 1 youre lillig of it i long jump I 1 void ml ChI chiville tille oil I 1 1 I liari havo flone dune my illy twenty two laid till 1111 englith on oil it broad run |