Show BEING KING THE AUTHENTIC NARRATIVE OP OF TREASURE discovered IN THE BAHAM ISLAND S IN THE YEAR agos 40 NOVT bk OVEN TO THE PUBLIC ir W in A te I 1 6 kichard richard A i IT le GAII ii t 1 e AY aa cwb C A SHAPE OF witchcraft the man who tell tells thie this tory story call him the hero for or aholt 11 v his hi friend john aers air ofil official cial in vaesau Ia esau Ila hima lalande islands charles NN debater ebster a lo 10 il it merchant complete completes the trio of 0 friends saunders produce produces v itten document purporting to be the death bed statement of henry henas I 1 toblan as a successful pirate maje by him in it gives ano i erv two millions nill llona anil und a halt P r aure bere iere I 1 lur ur ed by and til lis c mp anions the conversation conver atlon 0 I 1 e ti 1 ree friend friends li a overheard by a po k marked stranger the document disappear disappears saunders however has ha a cova co ay the hero deter to seek the burled buried treasure charters a ech doner ahe pock marked man ie is taken on as a pas benj er on tha somebody ati empty s the unk tank the hero and slid the passenger er lash clash the pis t 1 eving tving a manifest bear ng the t in nature altire I 1 henry P I 1 tobia jr tl e hero landa lands on dead men fen a gi sl el there Is to a light which Is I 1 vlod sy i several funerals rha h finds a cave containing the sk IL t ie is of two pirates and a inae inas 9 ve s I 1 est empty eave save for a tew few pi pt of eight scattered on tie boil bott n 1 aie 0 o hero return returns to na nam tau au nd na by rood good luck learn learns the to it ton on of or short shrift inland ii V i ter bue bua the yawl ani tse he and the hero nail sail for snort gl si rift ifland island As the flamingo iti wt e es the wharf a loung joung fellow jack Ilar laway jamrs aboard ani Is at allowed loeI to remain jack pro van an interesting and oi 01 i p Inen str trio adventurer adventurers capture boblas jack jark pros pro ea to be a girl and disappears the hero sails to short shrift laland island sees an entrancing girl alth a spanish doubloon CHAPTER I 1 continued 9 my aly presence seemed at once to put her on oil her guard the music of 0 lit hir voice was suddenly hushed hns lil na us though the had hall hurriedly almost in terror thrown a robe of reticence about an on naturalness not to bo be dis l faed tio fare strangers As for the flore oreb leeper ceper ho lie nc us evidently a it fa millar acquaintance ile had known ber her he said after sho avas aa gone itice she wa was a little girl giri while he acle lay my eyes lind find acci mentally een tally fallen on the cpin still in his lund iliad with which she had just paid aim him why I 1 said this is a spanish doubloon fou bloon I 1 I 1 what it Is aid said tho english ama laconically nut but doesn doean t it strike yon you aa as strange thit he the should pay her bills with sh doubloons doub loons I 1 asked it did nt at first he ansu answered ered and thell tit if it annoyed with himself he lie V attempting to detrie o an nit expires ton that carried an ho lie evidently illint t wish mo me to attain he lie lidded of course sho she doesn doean t always 1117 in doubloons doub loons I 1 suppose Q ty 1 hae we a few old colam au in the fain fam cf nd ud use them aheu they iun tun out 0 G airs it mas uns aa as lame an explanation as ath tu could be and tind no one could doubt U bat Uha hakker hak ver his reason for so doing doln I 1 wag was lying liln nut but laven a vent t 3 iou ou trouble in despos firof of thedarl I 1 inquired gold Is binaya gold he be ansA answered ered 1 I rd 1 we dont see enough of it hero here to t particular aa as to whose head fiend 14 1 pomped upon it ol 01 alit dite bc be its 1 as us I 1 said sald it ack I 1 got many tf them and you can always dispose it them is curiosities all you sell me this tills one otie 7 1 1 I asked I 1 tee see no harm in bour our ha having haing ing it ho he td tild but id I 1 it just as a soon you blan t mention leation acre you got it certainly I 1 answered winder at bla secretiveness atiat 4 it U worth 1 lie named the sum of sixteen dul dot airs mrs end 8 cents having lal aid tim that amount I 1 bade him L vou od bight glad 0 to o be alone with alth roy my tiger eer glowing thought thoughts these I 1 took 1 I 1110 m in ito it I 1 11 it of f bornt born I 1 arh made bubly hite by the moon rustled cier er by giant palms and whispered to ly athe the living jewel of the sen sea I 1 b out my strange doub doubloon toon and P it in the moon brightly brigl itly as it shone it hardly hard ly d as its briget t as nit it would have tined a it shirt ahila back or pe pel 41 8 it truer to say that in an on ather cr newer er asp aspect ct it shone a huo huu ared bcd it it 14 1 more brightly bright lr tuo the adaven re to which it called rno mo was no longer shig eloile le and simple as before but aloi gl loisby 7 confused goal of cloudy Ir Ti irlender endor ho the burning core of 7 sud raying out and then los lost in brightness wen the eyes oi of 1 11 girl girt CHAPTER 11 under ader the influence influence 0 of the moon tim tin illy dabu r no now W began ean to drift majer ie ili asly I 1 7 as apparent pur ehst tw continued nut d to linger on an island latt c seem sc to have little aa hl to a stranger how little I 1 illee by the mystification of the f f good tow to whom for once of course I 1 not conf lilo lile let I 1 had 11 inigue purpose or at tenet least I 1 had a 0 feeling aln hat that if it I 1 waited in m sell pitting would develop in the direction of my illy hopes doubloon still fill suggested thit th it it 11 wai mai the key to a 0 door of tas tat el cinn tinting ting mastery to which witch chance might nt at anny moment dirtat me and 0 not admit it apart from ly illy burled I 1 tried truis ure to the tile possible discore disc orv of which ill thu doubloon doul loon beamed to point I 1 I 1 aue lis po pos sted with it growing dire for anothy ilnia of theio haunting pig they biedul lt itol their association with the mys gold they were nere magnetic enough to draw tiny man mail with een the rudiments rull ments of imagination along the path of the unknown all the I 1 laths lillis out of the little settlement w t re ro piths into flit hi unknown n aid day illy tit ter it d ly I 1 collim followed ed one or another ot tin flit in tit out into the flit wilderness i Ild erness taking a tun t un with me as an ostensible ciufo for ally ee lind bringing lack back with nio me bags of the bild wild which were nere plentiful on the I 1 dnn I 1 one da I 1 had tall thus wandered ion dered unus unity fir afield and nt at nightfall found 1 illicit still sederal miles from home on a icv kv path overhanging the sea son there ins n sign of ImbI tation nit ani where it nias a wild place preen tl oer its amago brauti stole stale the glanmor of tile moon rising over the a I 1 sit down on n ledee of the 11 and watched ched the moon ellit grow in intensity as the tile darkness of the moods deepened I 1 me it vas ius a night full of witchcraft a night on which tha stars stan the moon and the sen sea together seemed hinting at eom soule wonderful thing about to happen as it if the alry night were matching my thou ta with a chal chat lenge whit was mas this tills bright wonder aonder bud suddenly denly present on one of the tile boulders fur for down doin beneath mea me a tall shape of witchcraft whiteness stand ing full in the moon like ille a statue in luminous marble of some unie goddess of antiquity my eyes and my heart together tco tod I 1 rao me it 1 waa I as fihe she and as she site hung poised over the edgo edge of the water vater in the tile nt at of one about to dive a turn of her licad head gave me that longed for glimpse of those living eyes filled with moonlight she stood another moment still as the dl it in her loveil ness and the next bhe had dired dived dl ill erectly into the path of the moon I 1 paw faw her eyes moon filled again as site came to the surface and anti bezan to ecim not as ona might have expect cl ed out from front the tile land but directly in ward the tile unseen base of the chilt the moon path did lead to a golden door in the rocks I 1 said to myself and she was mas about to enter it it was nits a secret door known only to herself and then for tho the first time that lili lit I 1 thought of that doubloon perhaps it if I 1 had not of it I 1 not bae hae done dore what hat then I 1 did there will doubtless be thoo allu will nill censure me if so I 1 am afraid they RH at all event events it was uns tin flit blought of that doubloon that abed swaged lio wit of my rny hesitation in tuk lii alio llio lie moon path in the track of that bright apparition 1 I looked for a way don down n to the tile edge of the sea it I 1 was as eai easl to find I 1 ut after much berous fe rilous scrambling I 1 nt at length found myself on the boulder bou liler aich which had iso lately been the pc distal of that and in another moment I 1 had dived into the tile moon path and was toward the mys golden door before me the rocks opened in a deep narrow cr easse 1 u long rift evidently lashing slashing back into the cliff be ecith he road on which I 1 had been treading I 1 could see the moonlit water vanishing into a eort sort of gleaming inns lone between tho tile vast overhanging walls valls presently I 1 felt my illy feet rest lightly on firm and still diep it in the water I 1 walked on another yard or tiva to be brought to 4 sudden stop there she site was coming coating toward me breast high la in that watery tunnel I 1 the moon continuing ita its serene ascension lit her nith a sudden beam bearn 0 01 1 shape of bloom and glory I 1 for a it moment we both stood looking kin rt each other as it transfixed then she s he gave a frightened cr and put her hands up to her bosom as she site did su sto a stream of something bright liko 1110 gold paces fell from tier mouth and two like streams from her opened mills h anje then as a quick as light abe had darted past roe rue ant and dived into the he moon path beyond she in roust have flave ewain swam under the water a long way to for r when I 1 saw her darit dark head bead rl a again la in the glimmering nth it was as nt at a 0 distance of mry mu rank I 1 had no thought of following ber her but blood stood in a creato anions among the we tery gleams and echoes lor me had come that hour of wonder for me out of th thai lit topic see into whose daale depe uj WY eyel hv blit so of often ten gone one adrean adream had risen the creature of miracle 0 01 1 shape of 0 moonlit marble 1 I 0 01 1 holl nees of this night of moon and stars and sea I 1 lest esl I 1 was mas in love ione yet I 1 hope and think that the reader will not resent this unexpected incursion into the realms of 0 sentiment when hell lie fie consid era that my sudden attack was not like most such sudden attacks an interruption ter in hie lie robuster robust cr course of e events N ants but instead curiously in the direct line title of my ray purpose because the I 1 he eves ees of an unknown bad had thus enthralled me tile I 1 was mas not tin to lose lote eight of th ih it durpos pur pos on the contrary they had suddenly shone out on ho lie biath pathway a along which i aich I 1 lind had been ix en blandi blindly groping hut but for tl it 1 I ac cLent ellent of being in the dirty little more nt at so p r moment li lairing that strangely fat familiar aillar voice olce and catching sight ut that mysterious iou dou doublot blom as veil nell as those mysterious ave I 1 should havo lino set bull sail that very 11 night ight and given glen up jolin john 11 tobias teet nd rid treasure in inal final dis disgust As it ma was I 1 was as now warmly on the tile trad of mine t reu iMire whither lit t tier his 11 or not with fill tuo bright eyes lyes further to point the inny nener surely purely did a mans love line arid lils his purpose make so practical a combination M lieu lien I 1 reached my lodging at last in lit the barly moraine morning following that it glit of v wonders onders my eyes an ani I 1 heart henrt title not si u dazed lazed with that vision islon in the cne that I 1 did not eidly recall one important detail of the strange licourt lic 1 ictus those sti streams catus of gold that liu ila I 1 slid lenly bourt d out of the mouth and of he tile lovely apparition without Alit hout doubting the tile evidence of f inv sens senses I 1 aa was forced to believe that by the oddest ph ce of luck I 1 had stumbled upon the hiding hitting place of that hoard hourd of doubloons doub loons on oil chich my fair unknown drew from time lo 10 time ns as elii slit would out of a bank hut lint who ibo was mas sho and aud whore was her tier home had seamed no sign of habitation near the tile wild place where here I 1 had halt coi cot e ii on an tier though of coure il solitary house might nelly have line esen escaped tied ni notice hidden among all that foliage particularly at tit nightfall to be sure I 1 had but to inquire of tle storekeeper to learn nil all I 1 wanted tinted i lint but I 1 wai as averse from betraying my interest to him or to anyone in the for after nil all it was ins my own oti affair and anti hers fiers so go I 1 determined to pursue my policy at watching and Ni waiting alting letting telling a day or two elapse before I 1 ngath wint out wandering with my gun I 1 left the craggy bluff facing the sea and plunged into the woods I 1 ind no idea how dark it was mas going to but coming out of the sun I 1 was mas at once bewildered by the deep and complicated gloom of massed branches overhead and nd the denser deaser darkness of shrubs and vines so intricately interwoven as almost to make a solid will z M z it 71 01 i she hd dived directly into the path of the moon bloon about one then the atmosphere was so close and airless lint dint a fear of suffocation fo focati vu kom billed at anee with the other fear of being swallowed up in all this savage green life without hope of finding ones way oat again into the sun I 1 fought my way may in but p very fi iv yarda when both these feare fears clutched ebed bold of me with nith 1 I 1 sudden horror and the perspiration poured froia from me I 1 could no longer distinguish between the way I 1 had bad come and any day other part of the wood I 1 indeed here there was no way sy anywhere I 1 I 1 must have battled the veritable tri table inferno of vegetation for ft rt least an hour though it seemed a lifetime clouds of particularly unpleasant midges filled ray my cee not to peak speak of mosquitoes and a peculiar kind ft of persistent perel stent stinging sting lne fly was adding to my miseries when villen at last lasts begrimed and dripping with I 1 tumbled stumbled out with a fifty of on 00 1 comparatively fresh air and something like a broad avenue running north and south through the wood it was as inda densely overgrown and anti had evidently not breu breh used cormany for ninny years still it wn was comparatively passable and one could at s ic st eee see the sky and take long breaths once more still there was so no eign sign of a house here presently hoever bow ever as I 1 along I 1 noticed looming dartly through th matted forest on my left loft that suggested wait walls cor I 1 MW saw aint it was ibe the joesi rain ruin of a aman stone cottage ro oness and indescribable au allowed up in the pitiless semb and then near by I 1 descried dc another such ruin and still another all as it wen were sunk la in the tile terrible gloom of the vegetation as a sometimes 4 ai at low tide one can discern the walls of a ruined tillage village at the bottom of the seu sea evidently I 1 had cogeer os a lone abandoned settlement and presently on some slightly fil higher glier ground round to the left I 1 thought I 1 could make out tho the halt submerged walls t of a much more ambitious edifice looking closer I 1 noted with a thrill of surprise the beginning of a e y narrow 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