Show pa f MING THE AUTHENTIC NARRATIVE OF TREASURE discovered IN THE BAHAM RANDS IN ln FHE THE YEAR taw tac N 4 OVEN CAVEN TO THE PUBLIC richard te CHAPTER III HI continued 11 by the way dear king I 1 sold said as iru ming a casual manner do you liap ven fen to havo have a n son not lie ho answered calypso Is 10 my only aly child very ligel I 1 said we met n i nd lad in n our travels whom eliom I 1 would K have sworn wag waa tier her brother odd I 1 I 1 said the king imper tur uri bably bly but not no I 1 I 1 have no lie son bihl and he seemed to say it with a certain as doess BS then calypso came caino in to join my lud iud lenco lence lin lieving ving taken she lle opportunity of twining n scarlet among tier her luxuriant dark nirla I 1 should certa certainly luly have told tile story atory better without ler her yet I 1 wits was glad how glad I 1 to havo have her ber sent bent od d there in an attentive presence in a cown waite alto as 09 the sea fica donni fonni croul which there was no further doubt in ray my mind silo glio hall bail magically sprung 1 11 gave them tile the whole holo story much as 3 I 1 had told it in jolin john saunders Ba snuggery buggery nug gery john P tobias jr dour dear old aid tom goiri and nal its ills sucking sticking fisli ids his ghosts boata skeletons and nil all and when ahro I 1 had finished I 1 found that tile th terest of iny illy story was once more chiefly centered ili ih my pock marked arlend fl land of the wonderful works of cod 11 1 I mould like to meet your pock marked friend said icing alcinous and I 1 have it notion that with you as i bialt I 1 shall not long be denied the tha gleasure 1 1 I 1 am inclined to think that I 1 have awn him al rendy said calypso using ler honor honey golden alco for the bose base of u mentioning him impossible 1 I 1 cried lie be la Is long ance safo safe ili ii nassau jail oh ob not lately she elio answered to bior r interrogative surprise and giving it a avritt embarrassed look nt at tier father ow which I 1 tit nt once connected with the secret of tho the doubloons doub loons seriously calypso asked her ia dier with a certain stern affection as 08 of her safety on ono one of jeur errands to town bovyn and then turning to me lie ho said sir ulysses you have spoken booken well and your speech has been that free openhearted open hearted speech that wins its way among tile tho dwell in frozen twilight near the no northern ribern star and those dwarfed and amirtha that blacken in the florce sunlight of that fearful tailo nalo we atIl the equator therefore I 1 will make return to you of speech no less flunk and true 11 lie ile took a pun puff nt life his cigar and then continued t 1 11 should not risk tills this confession tut but that it Is easy to see that you boking beking to tho the race of eternal children to which you may have realized my daughter and I 1 also belong tills adventure of yours after burled buried treasure Us not seriously been tor for tile tho dou moong and pieces of eight tl tho 1 0 14 million 0 1 1 dollars dolln rs anil and tho the million and a half 11 dollars 0 1 themselves but tor for the fun of going after them theiu salling milling the unknown seas sea islands and all that sort ot of macd moonshine moons lilno well calypso and I 1 are arc just like ilko that and I 1 nm am going to zi afta ifta you something ox exciting elting wo vve too uve our burled treasure it Is nothing p like so BO nt lit in ili amount no joara or your henry P boblas Tob liis and it Is nt tills this particular moment I a know as little as yourself in fact it Ss fa calypsos secret I 1 looked across at calypso but her eyes were acro fur for beyond capture in un seas dens 1 I will show you presently where I 1 found it among tho the rocks near by nor a haunt of wild bees can you ever forget tant passage in me georgics it makes the honey uste asto sweeter to TOO me every time alnio I 1 taste it wo IV e must mast have some bome of tt it for dinner by the way calypso 7 I 1 could not help laughing and BO 10 swe aw at moment breaking up tho the story the dear follow was thero there any busl ness of human importance from which ke he could not be diverted by a quotation from or virgil or shakespeare ent but ho he wils was soon in tho the saddle again well lie he I resumed one day some keren yeara ogo ego in a little cavo below the orange trees grubbing about na its I 1 am fond of dodig I 1 came upon a beau OWA old box of beaten copper conk dap among tho the roots of a aig tree it VM strong hut but it seemed too dainty for a bome great ladys jewel bax moro more likely calypso shall show it to co vs presently on ollen opening log it what do da you jcu think it pilled over with golden doubloons doub dou loons blOODS among which were aged some fine jewels such ns as alls tic atif ring you see me wearing scaring actually it was no great treasure at a ry certainly no for tune but from oue our romantic polut point of cf view as belonging to 0 o ao 00 t e race nice of eternal children etwas it waa kl dorado alad dins ining tile tho mines of ile peru Us the 61 whole sunken spanish slain main flimin glimmering e r fifty fat fathoms lionis deep in of pearl and anil the alio moon it was waa tile very secret rose of Iloni tince clad also mark you it was vaa saine home money moncy oll oh perhaps til fill told it might bo be live thousand guineas or what would you say twenty five odd thousand dollars calypso knows better than 1 I and site blie ns as I 1 said alone knows where tt it if 19 now hid bild and how much of it now re timing maltia lie iio paused to relight ills cigar while calypso and I 1 well lie began again now my illy daughter and I 1 and lie ho paused to look at tier her fondly though of the race nice of eternal children tire nio not without some of tile the innocent wisdom which holy writ c countenances 0 unten ances as tile self protection of tho the innocent calypso I 1 may say Is particularly en cn with tails quality needing it as slie site does especially for COP the guardianship for her ter foolish talkative old father abo by the avoy ny Is almost at tho the end of ills his tale into so lian alien tills this old chest flushed flashed its bowl bewildering dorl ng dazzle upon us its wo e being poor fol folk k were not moro more dazzled than norald for like tile tho poor pom man in the fable such good fortune wits ag all too likely to be our undoing should it come to the cars of tile great or tho the indigent erli criminal ninal tilt great in our thought was as I 1 am ashamed to say tho the sacred encored british treasury ron hury by on an ancient law of which forty per cent of oil nil treasure trove belongs to ills his majesty the king tile tho indigent criminal wits represented by well ell our colored anil and not so very much colored neighbors of course wo we ought to havo love sent tile whole treasure to your friend john saunders blunders Ba of lila ills britannic maje go eminent ut lit but well do Ild nt somo some day perhaps you ou wilt will put in a word for us with him ns its you drink its his old port in tho the snuggery meanwhile we had an idea calypso and IP I 1 P ito iio paused for calypso had involuntarily unta rily made a gesture i ns is though pleading to bo be spared the reve littlon and then with a smile continued wo we determined to little away aft ay our little hoard heard where it would bo be safe from our neighbors and dispose of it according to our needs with alth a certain tradesman in the town whom we ne thought we could trust a tradesman who ft ho bytho by tho way quite naturally levies a little tax upon us its for his bis security 0 o blame to bilm I 1 X have lived far too long ong to becard be hard on human nature john sweeney Swe ency I 1 asked looking over iver at calypso with eyes that dared it at last to smile tho the very same my lord ulysses answered ui my friend and so I 1 came to understand that mr ir Sween sweeneys cys reluctance in selling we me that doubloon wits was not so sinister as it 9 all 01 W fi z I 1 T li I 1 came upon a beautiful old box of beaten copper had at tile tho moment appeared that it had in tact fact como come of it a loyalty which was already for mo me the most precious of loyalties then eald cold 1 I as a fitting Cn clu slon to tho the confidence you have ro re posed in me my lily lord lora it miss calypso would have tho the kindness to td lot let Us ua havo have a sight of 0 that chest of beaten copper of which you spoke I 1 would like to restore this that was once a part of its ita contents wherever rover tho the rest reat of them and I 1 confess that I 1 paused a moment may bo be in hiding 11 and I 1 took from my pocket the sacred doubloon that I 1 had bought from john sweeney Si way may heaven have meroy mercy upon bla bis soul 1 I for sixteen dol lars and sorority etro cents on that la im mortal evening i ta CHAPTER IV in which the king dreams dreama aDre adrein irn and tolls Us ui about it the afternoon under the spell open of its its various magic lad had been passing nil all too swiftly and ail nt at length I 1 grew reluctantly lya waro that it was waa time for TOO me to go kins alcinous raised ills his hand with a gesture that could not well bo denied that led jed me nie his lils invitation imitation being accepted without further parley to mention tile tho idea I 1 had conceived as aa I 1 came caine along of exploring those cu curious i old ruined buildings I 1 tomorrow lie he announced row wo we shall begin there la is not it a moment to lose wo we will send samson with a ines sage to your captain there la Is no need for you to go yourself time Is too preciou s and in a week who knows know a but that monte cristo shall seem like a pauper and a penny gaft gaff in comparison with tho the fantasies tant aslea pt our fearful wealth i so fw for that evening fill all was waa laughingly decided in a weeks time it was agreed wo we should difficulty in ili recognizing each other wo we should be so disguised in cloth of gold and so blinding to look upon with rings and ropes of pearls when wo we met at breakfast pest next morning glad to see eco one another again as ai few people are 1110 tit nt breakfast it was evident that ns as far as the king was concerned our dream had lost nothing in ili the night watches on tho the contrary its lt N wings v I 1 ng a hit had it grown to an amazing span and iridescence calypso it transpired had bad certain household matters of which tile the king icing of course was ever divinely oblivious that would tako take her on nn an errand into the town those dispersed of wo we two eternal children were nt at liberty to he bo as foolish as we pleased the king icing bowed tile his uncrowned licad as kings from time immemorial have bowed their diadem before the quiet corn commend matia of tile tho domesticities domestici ties anti and it was arranged that I 1 should be calypsos Calip sos escort on an her errand so we set forth in the freshness of tile lie morning find and tho the woods that hall had been so black and bewildering nt nii coining opened before us la in easy paths nud and nil that tropical aqua squa squalor or that lind had been foul with sweat and insects seemed strangely vernal to rho me so that I 1 could hardly belleve believe that I 1 lind had trodden that way before and for our companion all tho the way along bor or tit nt least for my other companion was the wonder of tho the world the beautiful strangeness of living anti that marvel of a mans days upon the earth which it alea in not knowing what a n day shall bring forth it if only wo have a little patience pat tence with time time with choso tho io gold keys at ills his girdle ready at any turn of tho the ways to unlock tho the hidden treasure that Is to bo be the meaning of our lives irow how should I 1 try to express what it was to walk by her side knowing all that we both knew knowing or gid eld dlly ally bell believing eying that I 1 knew how bow her heart with every breath she took vibrated like a living flower with waves wave s of color changing from moment to moment like a happy trembling clown to know yet i et not to say I 1 yes I 1 wo acro both at that divine moment which hangs clangs like a dewdrop in ili tho the morning sun ahl ah I 1 all too ready to fall ohl oh I 1 keep it poised in that miraculous balance twist time lime had and eternity for this crystal made of light and dew la Is the meaning of tho the life of man ani and woman upon the earth an ais wo we canio came to the he borders of the wood near the edge of tile tho little town wo we called a counsel of two As cheout the out conio come of it we concluded that having in mind the kings ambitious plans for our cloth ot of gold god future and for other obvious reasons it was better that she eho went into tho the town alone I 1 to await tier her in the shadow of the mahogany lual logany tree As site she turned to leave me silo sho drew up tit front tier her bosom a little bins that hung by a silver chain and opening ii t dreim drev out with a laugh a golden goiden doubloon I 1 I 1 sprang toward her but silo sho wits was too quick for pe me and laughingly tan vanished through an opening g in tho the trees 1 was not to kiss tier her that day calypso was so long coining back that I 1 began to grow anxious was indeed on tho the point of going down into the town in search of her when aishe suddenly appeared rather out ot o 0 breath and evidently a little excited ns as though in fact she had been running away from something she caught me ma by the arni arm with a laugh do you wont want to see your friend tobias To binal she said tobias impossible 1 como come here and she led aw a yard or two back tho the way silo sho had corne come and then looked through the trees gone bonol I 1 sho she said but lie he was there it minute or two 1 lit at least some e one that id 14 ills his photograph and of course hes there yet hidden in the brush and probably got ills his eyes on uti us all th tho time did you see isee that seven year tipple apple tree move ills ilia favorite tree I 1 laughed IA hardly strong enough to hang him film on though thou gli and I 1 realized that she was king icing alcinous daughter yo we crouched lower for it a moment or on two but tho the seven year apple tree move afulu and wo agreed that thero was wag no use ilse in walting for tobias 0 to o show ills his hand but what mado you yell think tv it was wis tobias tobiasz 1 I 1 naked asked aad an how bow did didat it all happen 1 1 I could hardly fall to recognize him from froni your battering nattering natt ering 1 she itie answered and indeed it nil all happened happe nei rather like ta a other experience of 01 bulno inc I 1 had gone into sweeneys gweene c jve eney ys 8 14 store t 1 r e you remember adawn and wats jast paying uy bill y la in tho the usual coln coli aeo tago I 1 ventured silo sho ea gave 1 lap me a long whims cail a ole once more her fathers futher ls daughter that im afraid was waa the trouble sho she answered for na as I 1 laid my money down on the counter I 1 suddenly noticed that there wits a person nt at the back of the store A person I 1 interrupted yes I 1 suppose wo we say bay in n pock marked person was it you what a memory you have for do tolls tails I 1 parried wid end then well I 1 I 1 took my change and managed to whisper a word to sweeney t a good friend remember and came out I 1 took a n short cut back but the person that had stood in the back of the store seemed to know tho the way almost better than I 1 so well that ho he got ahead of me inc ile iio was walking quietly this way and so slowly that I 1 had lit at last to overtake him he said nothing just watched mo me asif us if interested in the way I 1 was going but IVI im ashamed to say he ha rather frightened mel me I 1 and here I 1 nm am well then I 1 sold said lets ets hurry home and talk it t over with tho the king 1 11 the king no as I 1 hall had realized was a |