Show IE IIII I I I II II I I II J By Richard Le e Gallienne a ienne I PIECES II II III II II II III II II II II II II II II II II I Being the Authentic Narrative of a aT T Treasure Discovered in the Bahama EIGHT OF Islands in the Year 1903 Now First Given to the Public o J D B Copyright by br Doubleday PAge Pago Page A Company CALYPSO 1 Synopsis The Synopsis The man who tells tens this story story story-caU call him tho the hero for short- short Is visiting his friend John Saunders Saunders ders British official In Nassau Bahama Islands Charles Webster a local merchant completes the trio of friends Saunders produces a n. written document purporting to tobe tobe tobe be the death-bed death statement of ot henry Henry Hen hen- ry P. P Tobias a a- pirate made mada by In 1859 1853 It gives two spots where two millions and a half halt of treasures were burled buried by him and his companions The conversation of ot the tho three friends Is overheard o heard by bya I a pock-marked pock stranger The document document document docu docu- ment disappears Saunders however however however how how- ever has a copy The hero determined determined determined deter deter- mined to seek seck the burled buried treasure charters a a schooner The pockmarked pockmarked pockmarked pock pock- marked man Is taken talen on as a pas pas- On the voyage somebody empties the gasoline tank tarde The Tho hero and the passenger clash the passenger passenger passenger pas pas- pas pas- leaving a n manifesto bearing the signature Henry P. P Tobias Jr The hero lands on Dead Mens Men's Shoes There Is a n. fight which Is followed by several funerals The hero finds a 0 cave cavo containing the tho skeletons of tw two pirates and u n. massive mas mas- sire sive chest empty chest empty save for a 0 few pieces of ot eight scattered on the bottom bot bot- tom The The- hero returns to Nassau Nassau Nassau Nas Nas- sau and by good luck learns the ideation of Short Shrift island Webster buys bus the yawl Flamingo and he and the hero sail for tor Short Shrift Island As the Flamingo leaves the wharf a young oung fellow Jack Harkaway Jumps aboard I and Is allowed to remain Jack proves an Interesting and mysterious ous passenger The adventurers ad I capture Tobias Jack Harkaway proves to be a girl and disappears The hero sails to to- Short Shrift Island is island Is- Is I land sees bees an entrancing birl feirl with witha 1 a Spanish doubloon Follows an even more entrancing sight of the girl I CHAPTER n continued II 10 10 Ha ha ha called a pleasant voice Tolee evidently belonging to a man of an unusually tall taU and lean figure who was approaching me through the palm trunks so you have discovered my hidden bidden paradise paradise paradise-my my Alcinous garden so t to sa say and he quoted two well well- known known lines of Homer In the original Greek adding or OT if you ou prefer it in Popes Pope's translation which I think think- dont don't you you remains remains the best Close to the gates a. a spacious garden lies From From storms defended and Inclement ment skies skies- and so on Alas I for an old mans man's memory emory I It grows shorter and shorter I like like his life eh Never mind you are welcome sir stranger mysteriously mysterious mysterious- ly Jy tossed up here like Ulysses on our Island coast coast I gazed gazed with natural wonderment at this strange Individual who thus in the heart of the wilderness had saluted me with a meticulously pure gush gJ ish h accent and welcomed me in ina inn ina a n quotation from Homer in the original Greek Who Vho In the devils devil's name was this odd character who I saw as I looked closer at him was wasas as he had I hinted quite an old man though his i unusual erectness and sprightliness of manner lent him an illusive air of youth Who on earth was he and he-and and vl Irow ow did he happen In the middle of this this haunted wood CHAPTER III I Calypso Of course a glance and the first sound of his voice hAd lu told me that I had Imd to do with a gentleman one gentleman one of those vagabond English gentlemen In exile who form a type peculiar I think to the English race men that are area a a curious curious' combination of aristocrat and Gypsy soldier scholar and philosopher philosopher pher men of good family who have haye drifted everywhere seen and seen through everything but in all their wanderings have never lost their sense and habit of form their boyish boish zest In living their humorous stoicism and above all aU their lordly accent Now that you YU have found us Sir Ulysses continued my eccentric host motioning me with an ar Indescribably indescribably Inde lade y princely wave of the hand to accompany him you him you must certainly give us the pleasure of your company to luncheon Visitors are as rare as black swans on this Ultima Thule of ours though ours though by the way the blackswan black blackswan blackswan swan cygnus is nothing like so rare as the ancients believed Ilave I bane lave shot them myself out In Australia Still they are rare enough for the pur- pur Rose nose of Imagery Imager though really not so sure rare as a a human being one can talk intelligently to on this island Talk M My friend indeed very evIdently evidently evidently evi evI- dently was a talker talker one one of ot those fantastic fantastic fantastic fan fan- monologists to whom an audience audience audi audi- ence once is little more than a fl symbol I saw that these thee the e was no need for meto meto me meio to io do any of the talking lIe He was more than glad to dt do It all alt Plainly his encounter encounter en en- counter with me was to him like a spring in a thirsty land Solitude he continued is perhaps perhaps per per- haps the final need of af the human soul After Alter a while when hen we have ve run the gamut of all aU our ardors and our dreams soU solitude tude comes to seem t theone the theone e eon on one excellent thing the summum bonum I murmured that he certainly seemed to have come corne to the right place for It Very true Indeed he assented with frith a courtly inclination of his head n Re though I had said something pro pro- found ver very true indeed and yet I wasn't It the great Bacon who said Whoever Is delighted with solitude Is either a n beast or a god god and and and this particular solitude I confess sometimes sometimes sometimes some some- times seems to me a little too much like that tho t enforced solitude tude of ot the Pantie marshes of which Ovid wailed walled and whimpered In the deaf cars ears of oC Augustus ugustus I could not help noticing at last as he talked on with fantastic magnificence magnificence magnificence cence the odd contrast between his speech and und the almost equally fantastic fantastic fantas fantas- tic poverty of his clothing The suit he wore though still sun preserving a certain elegance of cut was so worn and patched and stained that a negro would hardly have accepted It as a gift and his almost almast painful emaciation emaciation tion gave him generally the appearance appearance appear appear- appearance ance of an animated framework of s sI iw r I i I IF ri 1 Jl A z r v t tHal ti tl l i Hal Ha Called a Pleasant Voice rags and bones startlingly embodying the voice and the manners of a prince Yet the shabby tie about his neck was bound by a ring in which was set a turquoise of great size and beauty Presently as as we loitered on through the palms we came upon two negroes chopping away way with their machetes machet s. s trimming up the debris of broken and decaying palm fans The They were both sturdy looking ferocious-looking fellows but butone butone butone one of them was a veritable giant Behold by bodyguard 1 said saId my magnificent friend with the usual possessive possessive pos pos- wave of his bis hand my my Janissaries so to say The negroes stopped working touched their great straw hats and flashed their splendid teeth In a delighted delighted de de- de- de lighted smile Evidently they were used to their masters master's ways of talking and were devoted to him This chap here Is Erebus said saW my host and the appropriateness of the name was apparent for he was certainly the blackest negro I had ever seen as superbly black as some women women women wom wom- en are superbly white And this Is S Samson Lets Let's have a alook a a. look at your OUr muscles Samson Samson theres there's theres theresa a good boy And with grins of pleasure Samson Samson Samson Sam Sam- son proudly stripped off his thin calico jacket dud and nd exposed a torso of terrifyIng terrifying terrify terrify- ing power but beautiful In its play of muscles as that of a god Lea Leaving ving Samson and Erebus to continue continue continue con con- their savage play with their machetes we walked on through the palms which here gave a particularly appearance to the scene from the fact of their being bowed out from their roots and sweeping upward upward up up- ward In great curves One involuntarily Involuntarily rily looked for a man-eating man tiger at any moment standing striped and splendid in one of the openings Then suddenly to the right there came a flash a of level green suggesting lawns and the outlines outlines outlines-of of a house partly covered with brilliant purple flowers flowers flowers-a a marvelous splash of color Bougainvillea Bougainvillea spec- spec of of course you know it Was there ever eyer such a n purple Not Solomon Solomon Solomon Solo Solo- mon In all aU his glory et ct cetera cetera And here we are arc at the house of King Alcinous a Alcinous-a a humble version of It In in- in deed It was a large rambling stucco house somewhat decayed looking and evidently built on the ruins of an older building We came upon It at a broad looking Italian loggia supported by stone pillars bowed in with vines vines vines- very cool and pleasant with pleasant with mossy slabs for Its floor here and there tropical ferns terns set out In tubs some wicker chairs standing about and a table at one side on which two little barelegged negro negra girls were vere busy setting set set- ting out yellow ellow fruit and other appurtenances appurtenances ap ap- ap- ap of luncheon on a dazzling white cloth Has your mistress returned yet my children 1 asked the the master No sar said the older girl with a giggle twisting and grimacing with embarrassment My daughter explained my host has gone to the town on an errand She will be he back at any moment Meanwhile I shall shan Introduce you to a cooling drink of my own manufacture with a basis of that coconut milk which I need not ask you IOU whether you appreciate recalling the pleasant circumstance of our first acquaint acquaInt- ance Motioning me to a n seat scat and pushing toward me a box of ot cigarettes he ho went Indoors leaving me to take In the stretch of beautiful garden In front of me the trees of which seemed literally literal literal- ly to be hung with gold gold for for they were mainly of orange and grapefruit ranged round a n. spacious beautifully kept lawn with the regularity of sumptuous decoration In the middle of the lawn a little rocky fountain threw up a Jet of silver stiver falling faIlIng with witha I a tinkling murmur Into a broad circular circular circular cir cir- cir cir- cular basin from which emerged the broad leaves and splendid pink blossoms blossoms blossoms blos blos- of an Egyptian lotus Certainly it was no fetched far-fetched allusion of my classical friend to speak of the garden garden garden gar gar- den of Alcinous particularly connected connect connect- ed d as It was in my mind with the white beach of a desert Isle and that marble statue In the moonlight As I sat dreaming bathed in the green golden-green light of the orange trees and lulled by the tinkling of the tho fountain fountain fountain foun foun- tain m my host returned with our drinks his learned disquisition on which I I will spare parc the reader highly interestIng interesting interesting interest interest- ing and characteristic though it was Suffice It that it was a drink whatever whatever whatever what what- ever Its and Ingredients and there was certainly somewhere a powerful stick in It that It-that that seemed to have been drawn from some cool grotto of the virgin earth so thrillingly cold and Invigorating it was While we were slowly sipping it and smoking our cigarettes in an unwonted ed pause of my friends friend's fanciful verbosity verbosity ver ver- I almost jumped in my chair at atthe atthe atthe the sound of a voice indoors It was Instantly followed by a light and rapid tread and the sound of a womans woman's dress Then a tall taU beautiful young woman emerged on the loggia Ah HAll there you ou are cried my host as we both rose and then turning to me this Is s my daughter daughter Calypso Her real name I assure you you none none of my nonsense nonsense nonsense-doesn't doesn't she look It Allow Allow Allow Al Al- low me my dear to Introduce introduce Mr Ulysses for I for we had not yet exchanged exchanged exchanged ex ex- changed each ach others other's names I am a wretched actor and I am bound to say that she proved herself no better For she gave a decided start as she turned those glowing eyes oA me and the lovely olive of her cheeks glowed as with submerged rose color Our embarrassment did not escape escape escape es es- es- es cape the father Why you know each other already already already al al- al- al ready he exclaimed with natural surprise Not exactly I I was grateful forthe for forthe the sudden nerve with which I was able to hasten to the relief of her lovely lovely lovely love love- ly distress but distress but possibly Miss Ca Miss Ca Calypso recalls as naturally as I do our momentary me meeting In Sweeneys Sweeney's store one evening I had no expectation expectation expectation tion of course that we sh should YUld meet again under such pleasant circumstances circumstances circumstances circum circum- stances as this She gave me a grateful look as she took m my hand and with It or it-or or was it only my eager imagination Imagination-a a a shy littie little lit lit- tie tle pressure again as of gratitude I had tried to get into my voice my assurance that of course I remembered remembered remembered no other ather more recent meeting meeting- though naturally as she had given glyen that little st start rt in the doorway there had flashed Hashed on me again the picture of her standing moonlit In another resounding doorway and of the wild start she had given then as the golden pieces streamed from her lovely surprised surprised surprised sur sur- mouth and her lifted hands And her eyes eyes I I could have sworn sworn- were the living HYing eyes of Jack Harkaway Harkaway Harkaway Harka Harka- way Had she a brother I 1 wondered Yet my mind was too dazzled and confused confused confused con con- fused with her nearness to pursue the speculation As we sat down to luncheon waited upon by the little black chil children dren waited dren waited on too surprisingly well despite the contortions of their primitive embarrassment embarrassment my my host once more resumed his character of the classic king welcoming g the storm- storm tossed stranger to his Ills board Far wanderer he said raising his glass to me eat of what our board affords welcome without question of name and nation But If when the food and wine have done their genial office and the weariness of your journeying journeying journeying jour jour- has fallen from fram you ou you should feel stirred to tell us somewhat of yourself and your wanderings what manner of men call you kinsman In what fair laIr land is your home and the place of your our loved ones be sure that we shall count the tale good hearing and for our part make exchange in like fashion of ourselves and the passage passage passage pass pass- age of our da days s 's In this lonel lonely Isle We all laughed as us he ended himself ended himself with a whinny of laughter For odd oddus as us such |