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Show THE SAUNA SUN, SAUNA, UTAH COULD NOT PUT ON HER SHOES o Weak Mrs. Daugherty Was In a little town of the middle Wes was a discouraged woman. For four monthsshehad been in such poor health that she could not stoop to put on her CHAPTER XI Continued 13 great-unclturned to the mate. Cast loose from the prize. Master Martin and make all sail. The course la soeasf by south." Aye, aye, sir." There was an Interval of silence after he had gone. The shouts of the pirates echoed from the deck, with the creaking of halyards and flapping of sails. The Royal James seemed to shake herself as she sidled free of the battered hull of the Suntlsslma Trinidad, and through the stern 'windows showed the bowsprit and focsle of the Spaniard, still smothered beneath a mess of canvas and broken spars and rigging. Slowly we drew past her. My e rose. will pardon me, I have much to see to on deck. Should you desire any refreshment do but ring that bell Murray "If you and state your wants to the steward. Robert, If you and Peter can so far submerge your Hanoverian sympathies I should appreciate such aid as you might render In the accounting of the treasure. Peter and I went with him, as much to escape the company of the Irishman as to satisfy our curiosity regarding the chests and boxes we had glimpsed In transit across the Santl.v slma Trinidads deck. Twus a marvelous concentration of wealth. The columns of figures I set down never condescended to detail 5,000 pieces of eight, they would run, or 10, (KM) doubloons, 12, 000 onzas. 20,000 Castellanos, 25,000 eights, and so on. There was upward of two hundred thousand Ingots pounds In bar sliver, sheathed by threes In thick canvas Jackets to facilitate their transport each mule carrying a ty mule-train- s load of three hundred pounds. There was a quantity, too,' of gold bullion, each Ingot of eighty pounds In Its own canvas Jacket. There were a chest of precious stones, the value of which we could only guess at, and three chests of plate. The total value, by the government estimates upon each package, chest or keg, was 1,503,905 In English money, exclusive of the jewels and the plate; and we did not conclude the accounting and bestowal of the treasure In Pen Gunn's wine-celluntil an hour past dusk, when Murray dismissed all bands with an extra ration of ruin. In the cabin we found Colonel O'Donnell asleep sprawled on the table with his head rested on his folded arms, a puddle of wine by his elbow. My uncles eyebrows twitched upward. Tills gentleman Is a chnmberluln to King James, Robert," he remarked, "a Knight of Maltn and of Santiago in Spain, a colonel of Spanish engineers Rnd lord of I know not how In Ireland If he had many his rights. And look at him 1" "Who brought hltn to this? I retorted. "Not I, my boy I To Intrigue lu not necessarily to license appetite. Well, well, 'tls douhtly fortunate I Induced him to fetch along the little maid. Consider her plight In a Spanish convent, If anything happened to her fifty-poun- d bog-mano- rs father." "Consider her plight In a pirate ship, if anything hnppened to him I Jeered. lie appealed to Deter, whimsically humorous. "Stap me, the boy wears upon my nerves Was ever a youth so callow In bis assurance of righteousness? Deters little eyes twinkled. He Is right, andt you nre right. You are a big rascal, hut dot, time maybe you was right." Dont be an Idiot, Deter," I rasped. Tls you are the Idiot," affirmed "Here are you and my great-unclDeter two honest men If any .ever were and myself, with less claim to virtue perhaps, hut ns ncute an Interest, if the truth he known. And all three of us to safeguard the lass. What mother might ask more?" And Flint, I amended. Hed protect her, I suppose." "Hell never have the chance, Robert," he answered gravely. "You and Deter have played ducks and drakes, between you, with my plans; hut John 1 lint Is not the man to overreach me. Cive him rope, lad and well present him his chance to hang. I was up early In the morning, but i.stress O'Donnell and my great-acl- e were before me. As I climbed the poop I saw them standing by the weather rail, Murray expressing Caference In every line of his straight face, Mure and handsome;-- ' the little muld eyeing aim with a coin-lea- l mixture of antipathy and respect. "Here Is my nephew, who will settle all your remaining doubts, Mistress Moira," proclaimed Murray; and with your leave Ill be about my morning Inspection." She watched his retreating back with a kind of fascination. Sure, I never met the like of him," she said at last He puts me In mind of the grand gentry the padre Brings to see me In Madrid and him prate! Rut Dm thinking yourself will he the same queer sort, Master Ormerno v'u that can tie generous 1 1 e. old-youn- g and gallant to a foolish maid and as cruel as the wildcat the Indians showed us In the hills up behind Dorto Cello. "It must seem so to you, I answered. "Rut the truth Is that I am as much the sport of Fate as yourself." "Do you tell me so? -- she- replied politely. "Do but let me tell you my story, I pleaded, "and you will think better of some things. So I began at the beginning and told her all from the moment Darby had run Into the counting-rooIn Ieurl street and how remote In time and place that seemed as we stared out upon the blue green rollers of the Caribbean and the tropic sun warmed toward Its noon Intensity ! She listened with mounting Interest, never Interrupting save for an occasional "Glory!" "Oh, blessed saints! "Holy Virgin, can such things be! Rut when I came to the escape from the Walrus she broke In upon me. And yu did that to he handy by If I had need of you Oh, sir, forget Ihc wicked suspicions I owned ! Tls a true friend you will he and the What Is he large gentleman, too. culled? Master Oorlaer? Alns, I am heavy In your debt, and always shall Me-Gra- 1 tie." She was wholly trustful with Deter and me from then on and spent most of her time with us. On the seventh morning after the action with the Santissima Trinidad we raised a slow, sandy Islet, densely choked with low trees and bush growth, bare of any, characteristic that Invited human habitation. Murray approached it with caution, a man In the chains dipping the lead continually, and we came to anchor under Its lee and a mile or more offshore. In the meantime Martin and a party of some fifty men had been passing or up treasure from the wine-cella- r lazaret ; the anchor cable ran out and Murray Issued an order to lower all (lie smnll boats. He took snuff, staring contemplaof the Dead tively at the Mans chest. "Here Is my plan, he pursued. I will have eight hundred thousand pounds set ashore In the boats my own share of one hundred thousand, chevalier, as well ns the seven hundred thousand pounds guaranteed to our friends. I will then Innd you four, with sufficient provisions, and hear away In the James to the sothard, returning In five days to plelr you up. In the intervening period you should he able to transport the treasure to a sufe spot and bury It. In that way, cbevuller, Its safety can be assured until we aye able to return for It with the James or some other craft dispatched by your friends." "Your plnn Is maybe the best In the answered ODonnell . circumstances, There was more talk back and forth, hut the end of It all was that O'Donnell accepted by great-uncle- s plan, and Moira was won over likewise by the argument thnt so long as the treasure was stolen It had best be assured Deter and I to a worthy purpose. agreed for a complex of reasons because of the little maid for one thing, and for another, because there was an excitement In the burial of treasure which neither of us had tasted before, and also, of course, because, when all was said and done, we were prisoners and we must. Rut Id never seek to deny that we had pleasure from the thrill that came to us late in the afternoon of that day as we stood on the narrow bench of the Islet beside a great stack of kegs and chests, axes, pickaxes and shovels, a barrel of water uiul boxes of food from Ren Gunn's larder, watching the bout that had landed ns- pull hack to the James. The first afternoon and evening we In a spent In selecting a hiding-placshallow valley protected from the terrible storms which sweep those seas. Colonel O'Donnell and Moira were detailed to do the digging, as neither was as capable as Deter and I of managing the weighty bulk of the casks and chests. And after that we worked unremittingly, except for a couple of hours at midday and u short snatch of sleep about dawn ; for the starlit nights, with their bracing were the most comfort aide times we had. Yet the topsls of the James were within sight before we bad disposed of the last spadeful of sand from the hiding place and .replanted Its area with the trees and bushes we had removed with every care to preserve their roots. be the consequence of the complaint sure to be dispatched to the port admiral at Kingston. The Jamaica frigto ates would carry a hunting-rai- l every cruiser on the West Indian station. We plckedup a smart soeaster and ran our westing down packet-fashiowith never a sail In sight for a week, until a morning when the sun came up at our backs like a burnished copper plaque and we saw the cone of the Spyglass lifting out of the haze ahead. A league or two farther on the whole Island shaped Itself beneath Its spine of hills, and a column of smoke from the Kp glass told us that Flints lookout had detected us. The wind had continued strong through. the night, but after dawn It turned puffy and 'twas nearly ruwn when we passed into Captain Kidds anchorage on the last of the flood. There was a great hustle aboard the Walrus, with boats plying to and from the shore, and as our anchor splashed, the longboat put off from her side, Flints red coat like a flame In the stern sheets. "Glory I exclaimed Moira ODonnell, her blue eyes wide with delighted horror. Theres one Id not need to have pointed out to me to know him a pirate or the dreadful knaves that do he rowing the oars. Her father glowered down at the heap of treasure kegs, chests and packages which Murray had ordered sen-wind- red-haire- d e. -- awe-struc- sand-hillock- s e my word for that. I cannot say aa much for your own ship, although they Ah !" told me when they discovered themmore attentively selves to me, several days after our Murray regarded the boatload of pirates just rounding sailing, that they had acted alone," Alone or not, wheres my two up to our port quarter. I see that Captain Flint has with men? blustered Flint. "Good hands dont grow on trees. him John Sliver and the "Nd; aboard the Walrus they stab Irish boy he calls his luck. Humph ! You may be right, friend Deter. 'Rut one another to death, agreed my Come, come, yon have I should not be greatly concerned over great-unclof your charge." that. 'Twill do no harm If I reveal no proof in support "Well, two broke- free and two died, that It occurred fo me that in many And If the two who ways It might simplify our problem Insisted Flint. broke free were not the means " did Captain Flint resort to force. What proof huve you of it?" The Irishman counted the gunports Proof? In the Walrus side. Aye, proof, I said. Their bodies, JH.e seems to carry as heavy metwhat of them? al "Why, we never " "Rut on the sea, as on the land, tls great-uncl- e My shrugged his shoulthe brain which overmatches brute ders. enan chevalier. who are You, force, You see? You have been talking gineer, do not need to be reminded of this axiom. However, we are not loosely, I fear, my friend. Flints fingers twitched on his yet come to the Issue, and I am never hanger-hilt. one for engaging in a search for I tell ye, Murray,, theres a foul trouble. "We are In an Impasse, reflected smell about this whole business. Yon were all for giving me hostages twas ODonnell gloomily. no idea of mine. And then they no Not at all, rejoined my great-uncl"We have played our hand with entire sooner come aboard my ship than success so far In the game.' Tls now theyre away again. I like It not for us to sit back and await the plays Heres trickery or ye may gut me for of other participants. What they do a preacher." "Had I found your hostages on the Rut Capmust determine our next tain Flint is come aboard. This con- James before sailing or within a day versation Is without purpose, since after, you should have had them back "Rut fact must now displace conjecture." again," said Murray firmly. there Is no point to this argument; He eyed us all somewhat "graVely. I have but one word more to say," for hostages or no hostages, you see he added. Whatever happens, leave me returned with the treasure, as I me to do the talking. promised. Ye must ha had rare success," Yed do it whether we would or Mint admitted unwillingly. We ha no, grovvied ODonnell. Flint climbed over the bulwarks the gold o the Indies here! with a racket of oaths and swaggered lie looked up and happened to meet Martin dropped a the up to the poop. gaze of Moira O'Donwhip from a block on the mainyard, nell. A sneer curled his lips. and John Silver wns hauled up In Its "But ye carry passengers, I see, bight, his crutch hanging from his he Insinuated. Gold and women! neck. Darby and the rest scaled the 'Tls a fine, combination, Murray, but side ladder and mingled with the theres a rule In our Articles you were James crew. Their eyes popped from all for establishing. Number Four, their heads as they circled the heap eh? It sticks In my crop, for ye called of treasure. It once on me. Their chief was equally frank In reAnd that there may be less ocvealing the lust of greed the picture casion for broils amongst our comwarmed In him. Ills green eyes flick- pany, we do further decree that gamered hotly on either side of hts thin, ing may be prohibited at any time beaked nose, and his blue jowl was when in the captains judgment It beskin comes bluer than ever, the weather-wordangerous to our harmony, as over his cheekbones laced with a net- likewise, that at no time and under work of crimson veins that brightno circumstances may women be taken ened as his excitement Increased. and kept as spoil aboard our vessels Yet he forgot the treasure the In- nr any vessel upon which our comstant his gaze fell upon Deter and me. pany may chance to fare. "So your hostages returned to ye, What dye say to that? What of Murray? Gut me, twas a pretty trick Rule Four now? ye played us! Yed keep faith wl ' took snuff. My great-uncl- e Ye'd give me, ye would! Oh, yes! he with the slight"This lady," said, me two hostages, instead o one. is of my the est daughter emphasis, will. fulfill Youll your contrnct, you Colonel ODonnell, a genTheres no need for it. to be sure, but friend here, tleman who represents In our venture yell do anything to prove good faith the group of my friends who made it to me! And take both or none, says for me to Intercept the possible fooled or none! Roth Well, ye you. treasure ship. me that time, Murray, but ye never ODonnell, whose face "had been will again, by thunder not If my growing redder and redder throughout names John Flint ! heard him out In this conversation, plucked his daughMy great-unclsilence, waiting until he had stepped ter by the elbow and led her away. "Colonel O'Donnell and his daughoff the and stood facing ter are my guests, my great-uncl- e us. I am not responsible for your los- continued. "They have played essening the hostages, he replied then In tial parts In our capture of the treashts Iciest toues. "Stap me. Flint, I ure. I must Insist, Flint, that you warned you your ship was In a dis- accord them a courtesy similar to that graceful condition. With all hands which I should extend to friends of drunk, did you think to keep fast two yours In a like situation." men of strength and intelligence? "Theyre no friends o mine, growled "Drunk or sober, we were promised Flint. "This is mere o your cursed Well, Im sick them, assented Flint, a trifle less bel- political blethering. "And sure, ye could ha o It, Murray, and I care not who ligerently. turned em back to us not that that knows It. First, ye carry us north to will do me any good for the two men America, just to crimp two men, with they killed, they or whoever helped not two hundred pounds In booty to show for the voyage. Next, ye shut em to break from the Walrus. asme up here for the better part oFsix the from James Royal Nobody You have mouths for my men to rot with fever sisted them," said Murray. and drink and my ship to foul her bottom On .both these counts you have your own negligence to blame," put lu my great-uncle- . nnd last, Flint fumed on with out heeding him, ye bring to the gods. Is frowned on by the missionaries and the Christians among the Kendeyvoo a man and a woman who natives. Hence It is . seldom per- are not of our company, and who, for formed, even In Raiatea, the place of all ye know, may go hence, and loose its origin. a king's ship on us some day when we are careened and helpless. Not you. returned Murray sarcasUses for Gyroscope "You'll not careen, Flint. When first Invented, the gyroscope, tically. then called rotascope, was used as a That would mean work for your crew. scientific toy to Illur'.rae the dy Rut you concern yourself needlessly. namics of rotating bodies, the compo- Colonel O'Donnell has reasons for sition of rotations, etc. A delicately keeping his share In our enterprise mounted form of the above apparatus, under cover. He is more safely to invented by M. Foucault, Is used to be trusted in the circumstances than render visible the rotation of the many another." "I care not who he is or what you earth on account of the tendency of the rotating wheel to preserve a con- may have on him," cried Flint, work stant plane of rotation. Independently Ing himself Into a fury. "Ye ha Inof the earths motion. This same troduced tour strangers Into our midst without the let or permission of others principle Is made use of In an Instrument Invented by Dr. II. Auschutz-Kampfe- , of our company." "I do not recognize the right oi' any designed to replace the marI shall or shall iners compass or to serve ns a check other to tell me what great-uncl- e my not haughreplied do, uses Other Its of the accuracy. upon as it is, this company Is gyroscope are as a steering apparatus, tily. "Such and as a balancing device lu certain the creation of my efforts, and I venflying machines, and In a proposed ture the assertion, Captain Flint, that it will not long survive my leadership. type of monorailvvny. The four strangers of whom you complain have been essential factors in One Explanation enabling me to win the treasure beOur troubles come often from this: fore you whten now awaits your conWe do not live according to the light venience for division, according to tha of reason, but after the fashion of terms which I originally stipulated. (TO BK CONTINUE our neighbor!. Exchange. matter what you allow him. lie wants all. k own shoes. Unable to do her work, unable to go out of doors or enjoy a friendly chat with her neighbors, life seemed dark Indeed to Mrs. Daugherty. Then one day, a booklet was left at her front door. Idly 6he turned tha pages. Soon she was reading with quickened Interest The little booklet was filled with letters from women in conditions similar to hers who had found better health by taking Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound. I began taking the Vegetable Compound," Mrs. Daugherty writes, and after I took the third bottle, I found relief. I am on my eleventh bottle and I dont have that trouble any more, and feel like a different woman. I recommend the Vegetable Compound to everyone I 6ee who has trouble like mine, and you can use these facts as a testimonial. I am willing to answer about any letters from women asking the Vegetable Compound. Mas. Ed. Daughebty, 1308 Orchard Ave., Muscatine, Iowa. Are you on the Sunlit Road to Better Health? (HAFINGand RASHES promptly relieved and healed by a few applications of Plague of Jellyfish All Is not roses and sweet-scentescenery in the neighborhood of the The French Iihlera. fishing just outvillage of side Nice, soon will be uninhabitable unless some means is found of destroying the millions of jellyfish which have appeared in the bay. Huge piles of dead fish are nightly thrown up on the beach and the authorities recently were unnble to clean them away before they began to rot. Attempts to burn the fish had been unsuccessful. d Your shoes leel easy ALLOTS Matter What You Show Him. He Wants All. fetched on deck that morning, and then stared off at Flints gaudy figure. "And tls to scoundrels like yon yell be trusting the lives of all pf us, Anhe snarled. drew Murray! "Ry times, man, I think theres a green madness In your brain. Why, the view of that gold and silver below would be sufficient to tempt better men than they to commit murder. took snuff. My great-uncl- e "Your diagnosis Is correct, chevalier, he retorted. "They would cheerfully commit murder for a coveted knife or a sixpence with a hole in It. My design In revealing to them the entire extent of the treasure we carry is to Impress them at once w'ith my good faith and benumb their acquisitive faculties by the sight of greater wealth than they ever dreamed of obtaining nt one time." A snort from Deter diverted attention to the Dutchman. "If Flint has der feel for It It dont Outsiders who have passed through the fire say they felt no sensation of heat except on the face, although, when standing outside, the radiation made pit difficult t( approach. CHAPTER XII Those trying to solve the mystery have pulled out a large stone from the Suspicions pit while the ceremony was In progFrom the Dead Mans Chest the ress and thrown It Into a pall of water. Royal Janies headed northwest Into The water would go up In steam. Some the Atlantic. Murray knew that the also have tried crawling to the edge of Snntissimn Trinidad must have sent the pit nnd touching one of the white the tidings of his feat the length and stones with the finger. They were reRy now the warded with ugly burns. breadth of the Antilles. Scientists who have seen the fireSpanish squadrons would have put to sea from San Juan de Dorto Rico, walking have propounded a number of Santo Domingo and the Havana, and theories, but practical tests always the Caribbean would be aswarm with failed to establish such explanations. The ceremony, harking back to garda costas; but more to be feared than all the Spaniards' efforts would heathen times and the worship of old te you use FOOT-EAS- sample and ALLENS a Foot-Fa- se FOOT-EAS- Walking Doll, addrem Le Roy. N. Y. Record Check Preserved The largest check ever written, the 0(X), 000 draft Issued by Dillon, Read & Co., for the Dodge Bros, business, is now included in a valuable collection of money owned by Farran Zerbe, which recently was on display at the Chase National bank in New $1-1(- Mr. Zerbe began collecting York. money he could not spend when he wns ten years old, and today what started as a hobby has developed into a successful, business. e poop-ladd- Rite of Fire Walking Still Deep Mystery Despite Investigations of competent observers, the famous Tahiti firewalking ceremony still remains a secret of a small compar of natives in the Island of Raiatea, Tahiti. The ceremony was given on this Island recently for the first time In many years and outsiders were not excluded from witnessing any stage of the preparation of ttie fire pit. When the proper time comes and the celebrants pass through the fire, any bystander asking permission may go through beside them without if FOOT-EAS- E Stops the pain of Corns and Bunions and you can walk all day In ease and comfort. Nothing gives )such relief to hot, tired, aching, inflamed or swollen feet, blisters or calluses. A little ALIEN'S E sprinkled In each shoe In the morning will makeyou forgetabout tight shoes. It takes the friction from the shoe. Al- ways use It for Dancing and to Break in New Shoes. For Free n "If Flint Has Der Feel for It It Don't ' WANT ORCHARD OR ALFALFA RANCH from owner. Send details. Box 772, San Jse. Adv. Calif. Stretching It Dick But why are you going to that poky old place for your vacation? Jack Well, I have only a week, and I want it to seem like a month. -- Cuticura Comforts 'Babys Skin When red, rough and itching, by hot baths of Cuticura Soap and touches of Cuticura Ointment. 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