Show feces CES OF EIGHT el G H BEING THE AUTHENTIC NARRATIVE OF A TREASURE discovered IN THE BAHAMA ISLANDS IN THE YEAR 1905 NOW FIRST GIVEN TO THE PUBLIC by RICHARD LE GALLIENNE copyright by doubleday rage paga A company JUST A synopsis tho the man who tells this story call ca I 1 him the hero here for ig visiting ills his friend john baun ders british official in nassau islands charles lV liebster ebster a local merchant completes comp letea the trio of friends saunders Bo produces n R written document purporting to bo be tile tho deathbed death bed statement ot of henry 11 tobias a successful pirate made by him in 1859 it gives two spots whore where two millions and a a halt half of treasure were burled by him and his companions the conversation ot of the tha three friends la is overheard by a pock marked stranger the docu ment disappears ha Baun ilora however has hag a copy tho hero determined to seek the burled buried treasure charters a schooner hooner ac the pock m marked aked man to Is taken on as a passenger on the voyage somebody empties tho the gasoline tank the hero and the passenger clash the passenger leaving a manifesto hearing bearing th the e sIgn signature aturo Il henry lenry P tobias jr the hero lands on dead mena there la is a light fight which Is followed by several funerals fune rala the horo hero inda finds a cavo cave containing the skeletons of two pirates and a massive ches tempty save nave for a low few pieces of eight scat scattered on tho the bottom tile the hero returns to nassau and by good g 1 I luck learns the I 1 location t ra ot r short 00 shrift island lou Wib ter stor buys yn tho yawl flamingo and he and the liero hero sail for short island As the elaml flamingo I 1 go leaves eaves the wharf a young fello fellow w jack jumps aboard and Is allowed to remain jack proves nn an interesting and my mysterious sterl 0 P TI alio adventurers hunt ducks on andros island wa with an eye out tor for tobias CHAPTER IV continued Ile sIdes I 1 livid liina my wonderful young oung friend to whom I 1 grow tally lolly more anoro at inched I 1 found myself feeling drawn to 0 o jilin bilm as I 1 can Int imagine agine it 11 young rather father ja Is drawn to a young sent bont and it I 1 seemed to seo sea lit in ills eyes tin the suggestion of a lio lie was on all tho edge of making illo inc illon n whimsical pondering expression as though wondering whether lie ho dare to tell mo me or not what la Is it jack I 1 asked him for once when early in our acquaintance we lind asked jilin what wo we wore to call film lio lie livid had answered with 8 laugh In itoh oli call roa me jack away aw a Y that li Is my nning anino whon when I 1 go on adventures toll tall nio mo your edven turo names I 1 dont want your prosaic everyday every day names well I 1 had replied entering into tho the lads humor my friend hero here la 19 sir francis drake and 1 I well lin sit sir henry morgan what Is it jack I 1 repented repeated I 1 but lio lie shook ills his hond bond no I 1 lie ho replied 1 I like you over ever so eo much and I 1 wish I 1 could but I 1 somebody alses secret again I 1 ventured yost and ho he added this time its mine too but some day perhaps who knows ile iio broke on off in boyish confusion all right dear jack I 1 said putting patting hla his shoulder take your own time anyway that we are responded respond vil tile tho tail lad with a fine glow I 1 bo be too hard on charlie for charlie had another object in his trip besides duck As aa a certain poet bru brutally fally puts it lio ito had antici anticipate pat edill so tile tho hunting of man in addition though it Is against tho the law ina of those DrI tannIe islands lio lie lind had promised roo rio n flain flamingo lago or two for decora alvo purposes however flain ingoe s and tobias gliko kept out of gunshot and na as the week grow grew toward its ita end charlie Cliar llo began to grow a little restive 1 I it looks lio lie murmured one evening as wo we had completed our fourteenth meal of roast duck and wore were musing over our after duck cigars it looks its as if I 1 atu am not going to havo tiny any uso use for this iio he had taken a paper from froin lil hla pock spock et it was a warrant with chho hild had provided himself empowering him blin to arrest tho the said bald henry 11 tobias or tho the person passing under that nattle name on two counts s first that of so slit lous practices with intent to spread treason among ills maje subjects and second that of willful murder on tho the high seas charlie put tile tho warrant back into hla his pocket and gazed disgustedly across tile the creek choro tho the loveliest of young moons was wag rising behind a friezo of oc the homeless barbaric brush there was never such a place in the world lie ho asserted to bilde in or get lost in or to starve in I 1 have often thought that it would ninko tile tho most effective prison in tho the world tho the young moon roso rose find and rose while charlie sat eat in tho the dusk of our shanty chanty like a meditative mountain baying raying noth nohl ng tile the glowing end of lite hia cigar occasionally hinting nt at tho the circumference cumfer cum ference enco of hla his face ill get him all tile some same ho he eald bald p presently resent ly coming out of a port of trance in which ns as I 1 understood lator later a ills his mind had been making n geographical survey of our neighborhood going up and down every creek and corner on a n radius of fifty miles so we sought our tivo cots but I 1 had scarcely begun tt it undress when ft a foolish occident accident fur which I 1 ivas responsible happened nn an acci de dent tont might have bavo had verlous con sequenced and which na as a matter of fact did havo though not at the moment neglecting everything a ninn man should do to its his gun when lie ho Is 18 finished finI OLed with it for the day I 1 had left two cartridges cartridge in it left the trigger on tho the liala brink of eternity and other enormities for which charlie presently and quite rightly abashed rno mo with profanity lit 11 my iny big too tripped over the beast na as it stood carelessly against the wall vail of my cablik and na as it fell I 1 re evitea tho the contents in the fleshy part of my shoulder the explosion brought brou glit tho the whole aholo crow crew out of their shanty lit in a state of gesticulating nature and is as charlie Char llo growling like a hear bear was helping to bring first farst aid suddenly our young friend jack choso whoso romantic youth preferred sleeping outside in a hammock slung between two palm trees put him film aside 1 I linow better how to do tills this than you ou sir francis lie ho said laughing lets havo have a look at your medicine chest and give mo me thu the lint quick so jack took charge and acted with such ond and skill finally binding up my wound which was but it a slight ont one that charlie stood by dumbfounded and with a curious soft look in ills his faco face which I 1 understand till litter later then jack looked up for a moment and caught charlies wondering look and it seemed to me that lio changed olor color and looked frightened sir francis Is jett jealous ious lie said bald lint but ive io finished now I 1 guess sleep nil right light after that boso doso do I 1 gave gao you good night and lio lie slipped away jack had proved himself ft a practiced surgeon and ns as lio ho predicted I 1 slept well so well and so far into next 4 11 ll 14 jack looked up for a moment and caught caugh t charlies wondering look morning that charlie nt at last had bad to waken me what do you think w ero hla his fir first at words w wh why 31 what I 1 naked asked sitting up and wincing from my wounded shoulder bur our young friend lias has skipped in tile tho night I 1 aono one ort oft on that little sloop that dropped in hero here yesterday afternoon I 1 guess you dont nican mean li it no doubt of it I 1 wonder whether youve had tile tho same thought as I 1 had you ym know I 1 always said bald there was a mystery about that boy did you no tica the wilk way lie he bound your shoulder last night what of it wack did you over ever son a man bind a wound like that what do you mean 1 I mean simply that the mystery about our jack harkaway was just this i jack harkaway was no boy nt at nil but just a girl a brick of 0 a dare devil girl P CHAPTER V better than duck charlie websters disco discovery it if ills bavery it was of jack truo true sex seemed so far plausible in that it accounted not only for much that had seemed mysterious about jilin him and his manner but also though this I 1 lid did not mention to Clit charlie irlie it no counted tor for certain dim feelings of ny my own of which before I 1 had been scarcely conscious dut but wo we were not long left to continuo our speculations being presently present Y interrupted by tho the arrival of exciting newy in the form of a noto note from father Sern plon father Scra Sern noto note simply con ills his conjecture uro that it was tobias who ila had bought rum at tip brings foint and that ho he was probably somewhere in tile network of crooks and illora ingdon s in III our neighborhood charlie the lie news over ill tell you ou what aliat well do lie ho said presently im going to icaco you hero and im going to charter tho the sponger out there turners sound hiis has two outlets this and goose river ten miles down tho the shore now if tobias Is inside here lie can only got bel out either cither down hero here or down river I 1 nm am going down in III tile tho sponger to tile mouth of goose river to keep watch there and you must stay sany whore you ou vire and keep watch hero here between tv chii tho the two of us a week will starve lafin out so it was settled and presently Clin rile went along with two of ills his best guns and sailor in tho the rowboat row bont und and I 1 saw lint no more for a week at the end of the week tho the wind was blowing strong from tho the west and tile tides ran high about noon wo caught sight bight of triumphant flails balls making up tip tho the river it was charlie back again oot dot alini was all lio lie said as ho he rowed ashore sailor was with lafin in tile tho rowboat but I 1 noticed that ho be was limping going on three legs yost yosl said charlie its lucky for tobias lie ho only got sailors foot or by the living god I 1 id d have stood roy trial for manslaughter or whatever they call it soon bo be nil all right old man mail lie he said taking sailors wounded paw in ills his hand soon bo be nil all right sailor wagged his bis tall vigorously to show shiow that a gunshot guns liot through ono one of ills his legs was a mero mere nothing yost yosl said bald charlie as wo we sat nt at lunch in tho the shack under the tania tama tree weve got him safe thero there under decks till all right chained up like a buoy if lie he can get away ril ill bo be cievo in the devil wont you tell TOO me about abou tit it 1 I asked not much to tell too easy altogether I 1 waited a complo of days at tile tho mouth of goose river then I 1 got tired and left tho the sponger with tho the captain and two or three men while I 1 went up tho the river with a couple of guns and sailor and a man to pole tile the skiff just tor for some duck shooting you know wo we lay low for two days on tho the marshes and then sailor got sniff sniffing ine 4 us I 1 it if there was something around lie he caro care much for ile ho grew moro more and more excited rind and at last as wo we neared it i certain mangrove copse to which oil all tile time ho he had been pointing he barked two or three times anti and I 1 lot let him go poor old follow fellow I 1 As aa ho he told the story sailor ballor who seemed to understand every word rubbed ills his head against ills his masters hand band i lie ile went into the mangroves man rinn groves just jus t as hed go after duck but hed bardl hardly y gone la in when there were two shots and he camo came out limping making for rne mo hut but by this I 1 was close up to the mangroves man groves myself arid in another minute I 1 was inside and there was waa tobias lils his gun at ills shoulder lie ile had a pot at mo me but before lie ho could try another I 1 knocked him down with my tire and well iveno got him all right and now you can go after your sour treasure suro ns as soon as you like ill take him over to nassau and you con can foot fool tile the next month or so of course well need you nt at tho the brinl but that wont come COMB oft off for a couple of months you call I 1 let e t I 1 no me inlow where you fire are lit in case I 1 should need to get hold of you all right old man I 1 mid abut but I 1 wish you wore coming coining along with me ive got nil all tho the treasure suro I 1 want laughed charlie Char llo send scud me lao word wora where you are na as soon boon ns as you get a chance and good luck to you old chop and your doubloons doub loons and pieces of eight I 1 then ito ho walked down to ills his rowboat and soon ito li was wag aboard the sponger liter her sails balls ran up anti and they were off down stream poor tobias manacled mana cled somewhere between leeks decks see you in Nas nassau saul I 1 I 1 shouted right O I 1 book III CHAPTER 1 I in which wo we gather shell shells and arid other matters with charlie gone and luck duck shoot ing not being one ona or oc my passions there was nothIng to detain me ino in andros so we were soon under wity way out olit of the river and heading north up tip tile tho western shore of the big monotonous 8 island wo we had some fifty miles to make maize before we reached its northern ext extremity tind and all tho the wity way wp ave seldom had more than two fathoms of water and the coast was ans tile the same in terminable line ot of mangroves man groves and thatch palms with occasional clumps of pine phie trees and here and there tile the mouth of a creek crecli leading into duk duik haunted swamps at last wo we came to a little foam fringed coy cay was vins conceivable that tho the shyest shiest and ami rarest shell to make its home hoine a tiny aristocrat driven out of the broad tid ild eways by tile the coarser ambitions till and tho ruder strength of grent mollusks moll that fd grow fat nt aud house lit iri crucio convolutions of uncouthly striving hum born it was impossible to imagine a cay better answering to my conchologists description of short shrift island its situation tind and general character too bore out the surmise on landing also we vo found that it answered in two important particulars to tobias narrative we ave found as aa lio lie had declared that there was rood good water there for passing ships also wo we found lit in ad flitton to the usual scrub that cab bage wood trees grew there very plentifully ti particularly na as lie he said on tho the highest part of tile tho island so having talked it all over oer with tom I 1 decided that here 0 we o would stay for a time and try our luck but first having heard from tho the sponging captain that he was en route for nassau I 1 gave him a letter to charlie webster telling him of our whereabouts in case lie ho should have bavo sudden need of mo me with regard to the reader may recall tant tobias narrative in reference refe renco to his second pod of one million dollars had run on the lilg highest hest point of tills this short shrift island la Is a largo wood stump and twenty feet south of that stump la Is the treasure burled buriell five feet deep and can lo be found without difficulty but which was tho highest point thero there were several hillocks that might claim to bo be that all about equal in height Ilo however wever as the high points of tho the island were only seven in all it was no difficult matter to try thern them all out one liv by one n vim wo wn lind had plenty of time ond and plenty of hands fiands for the work for of course it would havo have been idle to attempt any concealment of 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