| Show 13 lilt III III it III III lilt lilt it MII by richard le gallienne P pa CE S being tho the authentic narrative of a Treas treasure discovered in the bahama OF E EIGHT I 1 G HT islands given to in the the public year 1003 now first III lilt ill 1111 bf by I 1 age a CHAPTER IV Continued 12 we rill nt go any farther aid sald the king its if uio the same a all it the way along to the mouth all over grown rown as a you set all the way ay right tight out to the white water a an they call it tt which 14 1 four miles of hoal shoal anil mand that Is seldom deeper than iwo two fath fail alas and which a nue nor anler enster is 1 liable to blow dry for a week on end naturally its a R haril place to find and a bard hard place to get oart off band and only two or three ins 9 briddes sweeney all oll of them our friends know I 1 e way in may know of it but to know tt it Is I 1 ono one thing to find tt it in Is another matter I 1 could hardly be eure sure of it myself it I 1 were standing anding it in fron from the sea with nothing out ut the long palmetto coat coast line to go ty by now you sea eo it III I 1 brought you here because word wo ril aspri oure ours dear kine I 1 laughed not exi lain what I 1 suggest for in us to ilo you anro late in III To blai tobias Is I 1 interested in you I 1 nm am interested in you both and cn ca lopno and I 1 have a frens jure lo 10 guam 11 1 I have bilu a treasure to beck seek I 1 ald enid flail to myself now to be wd iva can as e that tobias 14 on oil the watch I 1 ion olon t mean meen that hes he around armind here just now for before we left I 1 spoke to atno o 0 ll irelle Irel rel LV and they will pam flip lie icord morl to four aniki lilt blacker than therefore w can nuit ilila tol tiare ajillo or no so ie ito fur for the he torment it lve hut but I 1 our nee you may rely that ao 10 alita ru olp alx iny myrmidon roil dong Is that the nord 2 ho A ah uh n to his ills nat itral toot lah n ett u re there 4 he ment on 1 I yant you to go ton to your hoet tot tomorrow mom morn ing to any goodby li aho commandant the lie I 1 arson and tile postmaster to anul ap ill your mil sall anti liend head for Nast inu all la in on sweeney on oil the tile way bayun bayan amx of and say may 1131 diati eill rt mon droll it t Is 1 our password pasa pass noril sord he lie nill understand but if it ho he explain in our own nay ay alint you moine from me ine and anti that we rely upon him 0 to o look out for our interest then head for nassau but bout tight or er anywhere around aroi nil twill twilight At turn about arid head will well it out on ott the chart at home anywhere arlyn here up to eight miles along aloar the cont coast till lilt you come to a light low down right on the edge of tho ill 0 water As oon soon ua you uro ove it ilroy anchor then wall till lilt morning the very beginning of dawn down 1 nooel 00 as you can see land look out for sam tort eoD within ft it hundred yard yards of you all the land will look alike to you only anke the captain bend for damaon and juat just as you think you are going to run ashore will yoa you will teel CHAP CHAPTER Tn V old friend friends VW next morning I 1 all dt 1 as the king hai told no me to do the whole pro gram cram was wa carried out just as a he had planned it I 1 mado iny goodbye in the rett settlement lement as a P had arranged arran gid cot tot fowl ling to aj aleu et nion darolt to sweeney end and watching at chIng with soine humorous intent how he lie would take it lie took it quietly as a man mart ta in a alvist box takes R signal with bout about as much emotion and with just the same seriousness tell irell the th beatt he mald ot course be meant the king that we ue aro are looking after bw nothing 11 mollp alp through here if we can help bell it good luckl bo so I 1 went down 1 to the blatto old tom toni once mon more ait ad the real rest of eur car little crew who had hail long since ex misted hausted the attractions of their ittel life ashore and were glad as I 1 was to 11 let up UD the john it I 1 ball down in idy luy cabin cabla I 1 look d over some mall that had bad been for ado nt at the poet post office amongst it mas I 1 a erlan characteristic character letic word frum charlie Webster for whom the gun iiii til ever be might mightier ler than the pen tobia escaped jut just beard he to 1 sm n ler liland natch vatch out all fea ia tow low in a day or two twos I 1 came out on deck about sunset we were running along with all our talle sails drawing like it dream I 1 looted I tack ack at the captain apt aln proud aad quiet ned happy there at the helu and nol nod aed a smile to him which he returned ith a flash of his teeth he ile loed his boat be asked tio thing better than 10 lo watch ber her just as dhe he wit was doing and the other boy boys alet and anti happy too lying the aides of the house ready for the captains oriler der but mearim meanwhile blip content to look took up at the great illi and down again at the aea sea we were im R khlil and anti a hips ships crew trew all at peace with one tine another and contented with ours ourselves elvea rushing and and epro opril ying illas through the wn wa ler ter we were all friend friends er and ball and crew together I 1 t help thIn thinking klut that a would be hard to arrange under ruch such tit i ef influence turn tom was fras eting forward a rope for ill oar our exper experienced fene to tr be he naver implied that he aks anything more than the ships cook with the privilege lete of walling waiting upon ine me in the cabin at my meals but of course be he knew oat I 1 had quite another valuation of him and as our eye eyes tact met I 1 beckoned to him to draw clow clotier to me tom I 1 mid said 1 I have found my treasure treasured you dont eay any so oar I 1 quite true TOOT torn I 1 continued you shall see se e my treasure tomorrow meanwhile read this note TO tom was so much to rae me that I 1 wanted him to know all 11 II about the details of the enterprise ter prise we shared together and in which he risked hie his life no less than I 1 risked mine ton tom took out his hi spectacles from some recess of his trousers er and applied himself to charlie Web websters cre note as i through it bad been tho the bable ho lie read it as lowly slowly indeed as n it if it find ken 1 sans 81 alt and then folded it and handed it back to roe me without a murd hut but there is its quite a 7 stalle in hie his old eyes 11 the wonderful work works of god 11 an said and d presently 1 I guess ear sar we halt boon soon bo be able to nek ask hlin him nhat n fiat bo he meant bant by that expression soon goon tile long dark chore shore loomed ahead of us I 1 had reckoned it out about right hut but V t 0 captain an trounced that we ue were in hoal shoal water how flow many I 1 asked end and a boy bay threw out the lilt lead I 1 sixteen and anti A it half he said go ahead I 1 called out I 1 do vo you nant to go aground asked the tile capA captain III vor anaver I 1 pushed aim ulm aside and anti uok took tl it a wheel I 1 hd caught tho tile smallest glI nimer 1110 11 o a night light fouling lo e a i the lie water drop the anchor in chor I 1 called the light inshore was clear and anti near at hanf about one hundred undred li yards awl an th ahre tie as he the biff big murmur and atilt commotion of tho long breakers over the dancing shoals th tile tide wool running out tory very fast and find tho the milto mail and coming ever bearer to our eyl w I 1 in the moonlight and Satu sons light there was wa keeping white find aith ith the thought of 0 my tro treasure ciure and the king no near by it wae was hard to the temptation to ditingo in and follow ny my ashore but I 1 managed t control the boyish impulse and presently wo we were all snug and anti some of us snoring below decks rocked in the long swells of the shoal water that gleamed nill llly like an animated moonstone under tho the atara state old sailor curled up at my feet just like old times wiles I 1 woke juit as its dawn was waking po ve very ry still annj windless for the threats ning noret ster had changed its mind end the tile world vas ne no quiet as though then there a human being it in it As 11 ue to light grew I 1 scanna the lo 10 ace whether I 1 could detect the entz nce we of the hidden creek but though I 1 wept swept it up und and down again and anti again it continued to justify the king boast there nas ims no eign sign of an opening anywhere nothing but a straight allm of brush with mandrop I 1 P 4 p th tha anchor anliot I 1 cried cid groves here and there stepping down in tf fantastic an way into the water and nt we were bot but it 1 yards from the shore hor certainty certainly black beard be ardIt af the haunt had hail realty been his hl had known his hl business fur for an enemy could hare have bought him all day along this coast abd and foiled found no clue to his hiding hitting place but presently as roy my cyca kept on seeking eking ekl ng R egure rose tall and block near the baiers edge a little tn to oar our left ert iad shot t rt a long firm I 1 by way of vilt signal nal it was kawun anil ua evidently eTi dently the mouth of the amk wa vat va t right there in front of U us under our tier very notes noses so to my say and yet it WM was to mcke make it out blower at ott tola this signal T up tb ott rican ww crew aad mart dreater i had I 1 the anchors up and the engine star started text at the slowest possible the tide was we beginning to run la ia ao so wrt ua needed very little way on a us I 1 pointed out Sams iii to tho the cap captala and following tho the kl oge In instruct Ini truc strut lions told him to eter steer straight tw far the negro samson stood there noil arill called AH all right ear oar keep right on 03 you it 11 see your way in a minute and eire mitre enough when we were barely fifty feet away from the hore short and there seemed nothing for it but to run fend aground low down don th roush lie the floating mangrove branches ve re v e caught wight might of a narrow gleam starla tax a inland and in another moment or two our deks deek nere sere swept with alth foliage as the klam flamingo Ingo rustled in like it ald to cover through an opening in the bushes barely twice her beara and hire before us snaking through tile brush was a lane of voter unter which bei in to broadbin between palmetto fringed banks and wae was eri erl dently deep enough for a much larger essel I 1 plenty lenty I of 0 water sar hallooed samson from fromi tho the ban grinning a hugo huge welcome keep aftin ini lilt anu ho be started trotting along ikic creek side samson went ment trotting along the twisting hanks we cautiously reeling feeling our way uny after him blu for something illse a quarter of a mile and then ing round a sudden bend the creel u opined out into a sort of basin on oin the left bank stood two large pal palmetto metio shanties samson samon indicated tt nt there was our anchorage und and cheri alie ra as 0 wo o were almost alongside of thin the lial looi of a well uell known wico hailed balled us it wae was the king klo and as I 1 answered lits ills welcome tl a tu morning orning bang sang for nn nit for there too was uns calypso at hta his eldo tho tile water ran 0 dep diep nt at tl a creek 9 side that u wo 0 were i ere able to r the lia fiamingo mIngo right up against lie bonk bank and when I 1 had jumped ashore aiho re ra and greeted my friends and the k a ine had executed a brief fantasia on the r klust advant acca 9 of having a hidden creek la in the tile family b baj folded his plane plans or rattler that r w n of them that was wais n w cessare at moment aiom ca C PTER vt an old enemy charlie websters laconic note v was pis naturally our chief topic over break fast tobias escaped Just heard he lie Is 19 on your island watch out wll follow la ia a day or two tiie the all kibe read tt it out when I 1 handed him llie note across the table tour your friend write rites like a true nun man ct ef action bo he added like caesar and also the electric telegraph we mutt send word to to be on tho the lookout for him I 1 will send sam son on the redoubtable with a messa go ge to hlin him this morning meanwhile we will emoke smoke and think then for the next hour tho kaka thought aloud while calypso anil I 1 rat sat and oc uso nally ing in a of comment or suggestion it uns as evident wo we 01 agreed 1 thit calypso bad lad been alm it liaci had been boblas alid none other w nose evil eye hod had betit her ler so bre breath alli le lea A back bak to me waiting in the shadow nt of the woods i and it was tho the saine evil eye that had fallen ei on her ter golden colden doubloon exposed on sweeneys neye counter it was cliar that ther were such slach coins colas on be ito island I lj ii i fi rog session 1 then when he lie had witt catchi wat cheil calypso on her way home and without any doubt been the spectator of our meeting nt at the ede edge ot of the bwl though we had been unable to catch night sight of him film there would of course bo be a suspicion in his mind t ent lay hutst might at least be approaching success suc cesa and that his ancestral millions might be almost in ia my ban ie Is that there might be b some obber tc asuro on the island etith which uel net ther he lie nor his tits grandfather had any concern would not occur to lim mor would it he be likely to trouble mm hat IC I 1 it U did my presence ws was enough 10 lo prove proto that the treasure was bis heslor was it not tits hl treasure that I 1 as after logic irrefutable how flow wn was he to know that a 01 the trva treasure sure so far was that modest hoard unearthed as a I 1 heard in the car benthe present hert of which was known only to calypso the ting had find interrupted at thlu lont of argument dy by the way Caly loo otare N 1 it lit he ask asked at to the sudden confusion of both of us it time 0 oa on revealed reven led your mysterious dana caver at the word care the submerged sub rose in cheeks al almost came to the surface of their beautiful ollive coel Cn vel the she countered count MAU mazilly IllY art wild wald it wait wa A cave caver it wa merely a figure of c which it I 1 ana say ay so my dear might oppa wit wita equito faa to a IUs silk kiss ft awl ito art marr IMP or epst miar 1 no aa b tw B that alit nt mind where it la Is it is 1 perfectly I 1 assure you hut but are you sure my dearl dear it be safer after all here in the tile house how flow can ou be certain that no one but will accidentally glocover dlo cover it 1 I am absolutely certani tali tall that no one will ehe she fir answered with an em on the last ehno words whir whirl sent a thrill through me tar for I 1 knew that it was meant for me of course dad the she added if you insist you ishall have it wit lt seriously I 1 think it Is I 1 safer where here it Is 1 and it if I 1 were ere bet po lent it ame me you revealed your mysterious Mytte rlou cave to fetch it liow how can I 1 lie be sure that no one eho sho paused with a meaning hach 1 I of course understood to ilo ilia for In would eee see roe me go leg ig and bolow me to be eure sure to be sure aid said the king Illi what hat do ou think driend ulysses 1 1 I think it more than likely that she sho might be followed I 1 answered and I 1 quite agree with miss calypso I 1 certainly advise her to visit her tren treat ure ture just now wit the woods probably full of eyes in fact I 1 added smiling frankly at her tier 1 I could scarcely answer for myself even for I 1 confess that she has ha filled roe me w with ith nn an overpowering so bo be it then aid said the king and now to consider what our friend hero here graphically peak of as those eyes in tho the woods the I 1 king then made rande it determined descent into the practical the woods roost most probably were ere full of 0 eyes in plain prose we were ere almost certainly being watched unless ulices in to deed my tny bogus departure for nassau bad halt fooled tobias as we ire 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