Show by richard le ile GaHie Galli etin D IS li 11 11 fill I 1 I 1 III I 1 III I 1 I 1 I 1 ift being the authentic narrative of a G treasure discovered in th the c bah bahama ama islands girtho in the year 1903 1003 now first given to tho the public HE fill 01 copyright by doubleday rage ift Compa Coulp moy ajr Synopsis The man who tolls tells this story call him the he hero for short Is 19 visiting his friend jolln jolla flora british bindal in nassau bahama islands charles slur r a local merchant com completes pl etem the lie tro trio I 1 of friends saunders Ba produces a written document purporting purport lne to betho be tho deathbed death bed statement of henry r P tobias a successful tul ful pirate made by him in 1859 1 it gives two spots where two millions and a halt half of treasures were burled buried by him and his companions tho the conversation of tile the three thre friends Is overheard by a pok pock marked stranger tho the document disappears sounders saunders however lies has a copy the hero determined to seek the burled treasure charters a schooner tho the pock marked man Is taken on as a passenger on the voyage somebody empties the gasoline tank the hero and the passenger clash the passenger leaving a manifesto bearing the signature Big nature Il henry lenry P tobias jr JP I 1 the hero lands on dead mens alens shoos shoes there Is in a fight which Is followed by several funerals the hero finds a cave containing tile the skeletons kele tons of two pirates and a massive ive ches tempty save for a few faw pieces of eight scattered altered a on the bottom the hero returns to nass nas sau and by rood good luck learns tho the location of short shrift island webster buys the yawl flamingo arid and lie he and the ilia hero salt sail for short shrift island As tho the flamingo leaves eaves tile the wharf a young follow fellow jack jumps aboard and la Is allowed to remain jack proves an interesting and my mysterious sterl passenger tho the Rd adventurers capture tobias jack proves to be ba a girl and disappears the hero sails to Short shrift island sees an entrancing atri arl with a spanish doubloon follows an even moro more entrancing sight of the girl CHAPTER 11 II continued 1 10 1 dila 0 hal I 1 hal ila I 1 culled called a pleasant voice evidently belonging to a man of till nn unusually tall and lean figure who was approaching me through the palm trunks so you havo have discovered my hidden paradise m my y alcinous A garden 0 0 to say and ile ho quoted two well known lines of homer in tho thee original greek adding or ar it if you prefer it in popes translation which I 1 think dont you rein remains alus the best close to the gates a lies from storms defended and inclement akles en and so on alas I 1 for nn an old mans memory 1 it grows shorter find and shorter like his life ch never mind you are welcome sir tranger stranger mysteriously tossed up here like ulysses on our island coast I 1 gazed with natural wan wonderment dement at tills strange individual who thus in the heart of the wilderness had saluted me with a meticulously pure english accent and welcomed me in a quotation from idomer alomer la in the original greek who lit in the devils name was tills odd character who I 1 saw as I 1 looked closer tit nt him was as lie ho had hinted quite an old man though ills unusual erectness and sprightliness of manner lent him ailin nn an illusive air of you youth tit who on earth was waa he and how low did lio lie happen la ia tho the middle of this haunted wood CHAPTER ill III calypso of course a glance and the lie first sound of his volca voice had told me that I 1 find to do with a gentleman ono of those vagabond english gentlemen lit in exile who form a type peculiar I 1 thir think ild to the english race men that tire are it a curio curious combination of aristocrat and gypsy soldier schol scholar nr and philosopher men of good family who have drifted everywhere seen been and seen been through everything but in all their wanderings have never lost their sense and habit of form their boyish zest in living their humorous stoicism and a bove above till nil their lordly accent now that you ou have found us sir ulysses ulisses continued my eccentric host hos motioning me with an indescribably bably princely wave of tho the land hand to accompany litin him you must certainly give us tile tho pleasure of 5 your our company com pally to luncheon visitors ore as rare its as black swans on 00 tills ultima thule of ours though by the way tile tho black swan rwan cygnus at ratus Is nothing like na ha rare as tho the ancients believed I 1 have bavo shot them myself out in australia Austi alla still they are rare for the purpose of imagery though really not so rare as a human being one can talk intelligently to on tills this island falkl my friend indeed very evidently was a talker one of those fantastic monologists to whom an ence Is little morn more than a symbol I 1 saw that thue there was no need for mo me to do any of tho the talking ile he was more than glad to do it all plainly his bis encounter with me was mas to him like a ngin a thirsty land solitude lie continued Is perhaps tho the final need of the human soul after a while whon when wo we have run the gamut of all our ardors and our dreams solitude comes to seem the rno me excellent thing the tha I anum 11 I 1 murmured that lie ho certainly sc seemed t to 0 have come to the right place for it very true ln Inri ded tied ho he assented W till a courtly inclination of his lead head p though I 1 had bad said something pro found very true linked indeed tind yet it tile grent great uncoil bacon who said whoever Is with soll tudo Is 19 either cither a beast or ft a god and this particular solitude I 1 confess so some times seems to me 1110 ft a little too much like that enforced solitude soll ludo of oatho alio pantie inars marshes hes of which ovid walled and whimpered in the deaf cars cais ol of augustas I 1 could ebule not help noticing at last ns as lie ho talked on oil with ath fail cence tile odd contrast between his speech and the alinosi equally fanta fantastic 4 poverty of ills clothing the suit lie ho wore though still preserving it certain elegance of cut was so worn and patched and stained that a negro would hardly have accepted it as it a gift and ills his almost painful emaciation gave him generally the kippear ance of an animated framework of Z I 1 I 1 F 1 N P if 11 ia hat hal hall hal called a PI pleasant basant voice rags and bones startlingly cin embodying bodyl 1 I g the voice and tho the manners of a prince yet the shabby tie about lla neck was bound iy ay y a ring in which was set a tui tuio colac olse of grout great size and beauty presently na as we loitered on through the palms wo we camo came upon two negroes chopping chapping away with their machetes trimming u un 1 the debris of broken and decaying pa falls they wore were both sturdy ferocious looking follows fellows but one of them was a verl veritable tablet giant behold by body bodyguard guardi 1 said my magnificent friend with the usual possessive wave of lila ills liand land my SwIt my janissaries so to say the stopped working touched their great straw hats and lashed flashed their splendid teeth in a do lighted smile evidently they were used to their masters wayra of talking find and wore were devoted to him Is erebus 11 sald said my host and the appropriateness of the alio name was apparent for lie was certainly the blackest negro I 1 had over ever seen as superbly black as some women aro are superbly white and this Is samson lets leta havo have a look at your muscles samson theres it u good boyl boy ill and with grins of pleasure samson proudly stripped oil his thin elilu calaco jacket and exposed a torso of terrifying power but beautiful in its play of muscles as that of a god leaving samson on find and erebus to continue their savage play wath their machetes wo walked on through tile palms lial lils which here gave a particularly Y jungle like appearance to the scene scano front from tile tho fact of being bowed out from their roots nua and sweeping upward in great curves one involuntarily looked for a man eating cating tiger tit at tiny any moment standing striped and in one of the openings then suddenly to tile the right there camo came a flash of at level green suggesting lawns and tile tho outlines of a house partly covered with brilliant purple flowers a marvelous splash of color bougainvillea I 1 of course you know it was there ever such it purple not nat solomon in all ills his glory et ct cetera anil and here we aro are at the house of king alcinious a humble version of it indeed it was a largo large rambling stucco house somewhat decayed looking and evidently built on the ruins of an older building we came upon it at a broad italian looking loggia supported by stone pillars bowed in with vines very cool and pleasant with mossy slabs blabs for its floor fl 0 or hero land and there tropical ferns se set t out in tubs some wicker chairs standing about and a table at one side bide on which two little barc barelegged legged negra girls were busy setting out yellow fruit and other appurtenances of luncheon on a n dazzling white cloth ilan has your mistress returned yet my children naked asked tho the master no sar said the older girl with a 11 twisting and grimacing with embarrassment my aly daughter explained my bost lias has gone to the town on oil till nn errand she will ho be back tit nt tiny moment meanwhile Alean while I 1 shall introduce Intro duco you yott to a cooling drink of my own manufacture with etli a basis of that cocoli coconut tit milk I 1 need not ask you appreciate recalling tho the pleasant circumstance of our first acquaintance M motioning ilia 1110 to a seat and pushing tow toward I 1 ird ino 1110 it box of cigarettes lie ho went indoors leaving ino illo to tako take 11 jn tile tho stretch teli of beautiful garden in front of nic me tho the trees of which seemed It literally to bo be hung with gold for hey clity were mainly of orange find ranged round a spacious beautifully kept lawn with tho the regularity of sumptuous decoration in the middle of the lawn a little rocky fountain threw up a jet of silver fulling falling with a tinkling murmur into it a broad circular basin from froin which emerged tile tho broad leaves tind and splendid pink 1 blossoms I 1 0 j of nn an egyptian lotus tahil y it was no farfetched far fetched allu illusion slon of lily iny classical friend to speak of the tha garden of alcinous particularly connected its as it was in lily iny mind with the white bench beach of it desert isle and that marble statue in tho the moonlight As I 1 pat dreaming bathed in ill tile goldon golden groen green light of tile orange trees and lulled by tile the tinkling of nf the tha fohir boull tain lily iny host returned with bourdi our drinks inks ills his learned disquisition on which I 1 will hunro tho the render reader highly interesting and characteristic though it ivits it that flint it was it drink w what lint over ever its ingredients and there was somewhere a powerful stick in it that seemed to have been drawn from some cool gi grotto otto of tile tho virgin earth carlli sop so thrillingly cold auld find and invigorating it was while wo we were slowly sipping it and smoking our cigarettes in III till nn unwonted pause of my lily friends fanciful verbosity I 1 almost jumped in ill my lily chair tit nt the sound of n voice indoors it was instantly followed byn light and rapid trend tread and tho the sound of a homans womans voi nans dress then n tall beautiful young boman emerged on the loggia ali ah I 1 there you are arol ill cried ruy ray lost host no as wo we both TOKO roso find and then turning to mo me tills this Is my lily daughter calypso iler her adal namo I 1 assure you none of my nonsense d she look it allow roe me my lily dear to introduce mr ulysses I 1 for wo we had not yet exchanged anth others rt liers names I 1 am a wretched actor and I 1 nm am bound to say that silo sho proved herself lier self no better for title bhe gave a decided start its as she turned those glowing eyes op on me and tile the lovely olive of her cheeks checks glowed as with submerged rose 1 color our embarrassment did ti not ot escape the father why you know each other nl al rendyl lie ho exclaimed naith natura surprise not exact exactly lyl I 1 was grateful for tile the sudden nerve with which I 1 was nalo to hasten to the relief relict of her lovely distress but possibly miss calypso recalls its as naturally as I 1 do our momentary meeting in Sween sweeneys cys bibro one evening I 1 had no expectation of course that wo we should meet again under such pleasant stances as tills sho she gave mo inn n grateful look ns as she took my linstid and with it or was it only my eager imagination 7 ii ashy littie pressure again as of gratitude I 1 had tried to got get into my voice my assurance that of course I 1 remembered no other ather moro more recent meeting though naturally as silo ilia had given that flint little start in tile tho doorway there find flashed on oil mo me again tile the picture of her standing moonlit lit in another rc doorway and of tile tho wild start ill she had given then its as the golden pieces streamed from her lovely surprised mouth and her lifted hands handa and her eyes I 1 could have sworn were the living eyes cyca of jack Ift irka way inyl I 1 had silo a bruther brother J wo wondered yet MY mind was too confused with her nearness to pursue the speculation As aa we sat hat down to luncheon waited upon by the lie little bar barelegged legged black children waited on oil too surprisingly well despite the contortions of their primitive embarrassment my host once moro resumed ills character of the classic king welcoming the storm storia tossed stranger 10 0 lis his board par far wanderer hostila hos ho said tild raising ills his glass to me eat of what our bourd board affords welcome without question of name and nation jin tion hut if when tile lie food and wine have done their genial office and tile the weariness of your journeying lias fallen from you you should feel stirred to tell us somewhat of yourself and your wanderings what ina of men call you kinsman in what fair land is your home and tile place of your loved ones lo be sure oure that wel wa shall ishall count tile the tale good hearing and for our part make ex exchange claing e in liko like fashion of ourselves and the p passage ass of our days in tills this lonely isle we nil all laughed OB as he ended himself with ft whinny of laughter for odd na as such discourse may sound ja in tile the reading it was uttered so whimsically all Y and la ia so spirited and humorous a i style hint flint I 1 assure you it was ana very captivating you should have been nn an actor my loul lord alcan alcinous us I 1 said laughing I 1 seemed already curiously nt at home seated hero tit nt that lint table bablo with tills this fini fantastic stranger and flint bring out of fairyland fal ryland tow ard whom I 1 daic dare donly turn my lily eyes now and ilga in ly by stealth the follow fellow had such ft a way my with him and ills talk made feel that lio lie had known you ou ull all your life ali ah I 1 I 1 hae bavo had lily ants 1 I havo hao hat had my lily drezmal dren mal lo lie 10 answered ills yes gazing with it a momentary wistful ness liess across tile dorango trici trees then wo talked tit nt random na as friendly y stra strangers tigers talk over though vo IM were glad enough that lio lie should to do till the wonderful iridescent talk such a as 8 a man hero here all there in ten tell gifted drifted with perhaps perlin Ier haps pi tho the most attractive of oc all hu bu giff lins nt fit ins 1119 ali and every now and again lily eyes on oil tho ilia paradoxical squalor of ills clothing would remind ine 1110 of tile tho enigma of this courtly vagabond ag 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