| Show PIECES OF EIGHT BEING THE AUTHENTIC NARRATIVE OF A TREASURE discovered IN THE BAHAMA ISLANDS IN THE YEAR 1905 1903 NOW NOV FIRST OIVEN GIVEN TO THE PUBLIC by RICHARD LE GALLIENNE by faire A doneson J THE pockmarked POCK MARKED MAN the me man who I 1 tell this tory rea him the hero here for far all hort Is hla his irl friend d tell amah 1111 british han an i in N halml paw lalanda ch charello local I 1 in nic reliant 1 t completes altes tha me trio of 0 I 1 friend t A up upon dimisa parata mile tr caBure murder dera pa 0 a written d document dment ment purporting 1 to be tho the death mad bod ac t of 1 henry P town tobias a a sue cedrul 1 nor pirate made ad or by him am I 1 in IS 9 it I 1 ive two baota a where two mil llona and it ft a half of trea aura or w were burled by br him 1 and n d a hla cameal tA companions meal th the A conversation rai r ai or of tho the dwares friends IB overheard by k stranger iii fers I 1 deeply daa pitted 0 by a domall 1 I pox CHAPTER I 1 2 I 1 charter the maggie darling aa A luck would old have it the lo 10 loss our or rether the acial of minty hinry P tobias nar rathe at a vaa Is not or so 30 actions Berio iia ns its it nt at fl m t for it chanced that tha t job john Sm aider had had it id td but the theft remained none e the Is less ns nit at staci I 1 ions however he ever leni leming fing thit bill rv for 1 later ter solution jolla john saunders Sai inders charlie W webster e and I 1 spent the at next evening in R general and particular crit of the narrative nar rathe ratie itself th there cre were 0 abrat w N eral ob tons objections to be made mad A lie its but authenticity switch to start ich ibm tolling nt at the time ot of his depo atlon we nas a an old it imn bieno live five yc years rl om old omand and imd it was more aware than probe probable b a the that his has experiences as a a pirate would dite down fi oin his eriv an manhood loell vere am m to have attlen place piece erdl HIS late BS his a fortieth near ear the no rathe indeed ced their taking tailing pirce much eailler old and there them would thus be a space of at least fort ym years et ill alie burial of the treasure and hn stated deathbed d revelation it nd lw s naburn to ask why during all those rears A did he not is at return ret 1 nd ad retrieve tins the treasure tre for himself various elm u may ha bane e prevented him the inability metal illy from lack of means mail lack to make like the journey joe easy or I 1 what not hut I 1 all aunly one would mould need ad to ill imag hung ine ile circumstances of peculiar power that should be strong enough to keep 0 wit with I 1 so valuable a socrat to in his p possession alan so many y years from taking advantage of it for a long while too fall the names given give to the purported sure sites of the treasure caches P puzzled phil hil us modern maps g agne no an suh places as dead men s shoes bud and short shrift island based but bar at last 1 in a map up dating back to 1763 we ve came upon one of the two names so go far the vera veracity efty I 1 ell then tom came up with my break fast it at tell waa A supported dead men shoes shares proved to be the old name ia for rental certain city cay same twenty miles it long eg about day and a hall half a bon all arout nassau one me of the long string of meet coral islands now known as the rho eduma cays but of short shrift island isda wall we sought bought in win vain for a I trace ae all the mine game said bald 1 I the adaven ini ture em calls me the adventure adnum and that m million hit bad and a half bell dat dollars and ad those these dead men a shoes and I 1 intend to undertake it I 1 am not ant going to let your year middle aged skepticism damom mrs me con treasure A or no there them will be the excitement of the quest and ad all 11 the fail of the sea a 11 and wine come duck perhaps add charlie and some rome shark fishing tor for cor tain t I 1 bald lit john job th the rest next A thing ana a to lt wt cerad getting a boat beat and ad ft crew after talking looking over much likely and unlikely craft we finally anally decided on R two masted schooner banner of trim but ant belld lit but belld lid the moggie it aid I 1 darling 42 1 jept at A over ver all ind 13 be beam thing under twenty tons tona with an a auxiliary flisty g gasoline a engine of 24 horse power ond d an speed of to ten knots next the crew you sou will vill need a captain a cook I 1 an engineer and suld sold char lie ed and I 1 haw have the captain and the cook all ready for you that afternoon we rounded them all up all including the engineer and the deckhard deckhand dec deck hhand hand and we arranged to start blatt permitting with the morning tide tal ell set east at six BEX a 0 clock on july 13 1903 ship a stores were the next detail and these including pity fifty gallons of gasoline g ollar over and above the tanks and three barrels of water being dull duh got get aboard on no the evening of jull juh 12 all was tandy ready for the start an evening which was use onto naturally by spent in a patting parting conclave in john Sm inden N uary snuggery why one important thing youve forgotten 0 said bald charlie machetes and spades and pickaxes pick axes and I 1 it take ilk a few sticks of dynamite along with you yen too I 1 can let you hae bale the lot it well get the them board aboard tonight it t a a pity sou an have to give it ay away that its it aa a treasure hunt h 0 rit said john I 1 hat but then the you can cant t I 1 cap th tb crew er from knowing and they re a queer er lot on the subject of treasure haw have wine some of the ruland lem supers tl units tlona I 1 hope as a iou ou wont won t have any with m i ill them had any an experience in 1 handling biggers nig 1 gers I aked kd charlie sot net alic 11 least that weed makes me wish I 1 were coming with ith you they are am rum beg beggars garts aw fill ill coast cowards it and just like a pack of children you know about sailing mailing anyhow there that 3 a good tiling ing you ath can captain your own oan boat boa if need be that a nil all to the good particularly it you strike tiny any dinv weather but let me a give you one me word of advice still be kind of course with there but keep war distance em all the same and be careful beat about losing your temper tamper you ton get more mom out ot of them ill bv coax can I 1 tug ing laird hard as it Is nt at times time and by the dav how donld old you a like to take old sailor with till houi yon siloe sailor was a great g eat labrador retriever tri ever r who mile at that moment turned up his big head bead with a devoted sigh from behind his bis waster master a chair rather I 1 said so sailor was A thereupon enrolled as an it a further adf than to the crew crem old tom the cook we was first on hand next morning I 1 took to him at once A simple kindly old darky of if uncle TO toms gahm cabin type with faith nil all over lit him id and a a 1 11 tain 01 sad ad wisdom wind in I 1 his old face you II if find all tom a great cook I 1 mid bald charlie patting the rise old man on the shoulder my many a trip mea taken tell together after duck we tonal tom that a right sun bull that there 3 right said the old man a his eves a sw twinkling with pleasure then them came the captain capt jobs W williams fluma a younger i man with w an al in tell igent self respecting manner somewhat noncommittal businesslike evidently not ant particularly anxious as an to whether h he a pie pleased a ard or not but looking competent and ad civil enough N nt neit t came the engineer a you young n 9 hulking bronze branze it giant I 1 ant a splendid splendida ghys phys I 1 leal cad specimen but lather hooli heavy and sullen and not a 01 er at intelligent to look at the deckhand dockhand deck dock hand proved to be a slackly rather silly illy effeminate III fellow low suggesting in sting idiocy but doubtless wio wit and good enough tor for the purpose p p As while they were boa getting ge tt 1 ng up u P the anchor of the maggie darling I 1 awant went down into my cabin 11 to arrange arr image various odds and ends and presently came the captain touching to ell in g his hat he iberea Ih be erea a party try he bid bald outside ou talde taide litre wool wants to know if you 11 take him passenger to spanish 1111 ells we re not at taking p passengers iga I 1 I 1 an but I 1 will look him over me A m man n was standing up 1 in n rowboat leaning against the ship ships side tie rat d do me a great fewer at sir he is began to say bay in a soft nott ingratiating voice I 1 looked at him wit with a start of yet ar n immon I 1 he wo was my pock pockmarked marked who h had made ads such ell an bobit ant inar I 1 on me at job john so binin I 1 hera office 11 ho was rather that 1 more I 50 a thol tle manly only I 1 looking ing than he had bad benica C aled at line first view and I 1 saw haw that though ho he was tt a halfbreed the white blood predominated 1 I dont want to Ini intrude trude he slid eald but I 1 ime hae urgent need of getting to spanish wells and there a no a boat go ing that way may for a week le I 1 a just joel oilseed missed the mall mail A 1 I did dido t think thick of taking any seem gers I 1 eaid aid 1 I know he sold bald 1 1 I I know knew it ha a great grant tavor favor I 1 ask it HO he poke with HI a certain cultivation ot of manner but I 1 am willing of course claims to pay an thing ou au think well 11 for my food and mi 1111 passage 1 I 1 mal waived mald d that sair suggestion gration aside and stood email irresolutely looking at him alta till ao very hospitable in ii evea I 1 ilare bay but really my test taste for him was as on an to oring arv mum and ad charlie websters wistre lass came to my mind his bis flan face S lu A in s I 1 the poor devillo devil 1 it net certainly lely was then at last I 1 said enzely not let over or geci graciously T very at ry well get aboard you an br help lp work mark the boat mid ad alth that I 1 turned away to my cabin CHAPTER IV in which tom catches in an enchanted fish and discourse Dif coune of it the dangers of treat treasure a hunting the morning arm g w was blittle a overcast but a brisk north northeast e at wl wind nd soon set the clouds m moving v ing a it went want humming in elmida our nor sails i 1 and ad the sun nun coming out it in its glory over the cris cristallini talline waters water made mad a fine fleeting flashing world valid of it full fall of exhilaration and the very breath of moth and ad adventure liture wry very uplifting to the ha buirt rt nelson nassau looked very pretty in the in 5 sunlight ca llight with its III pink bud anil white lot houses bouses nestling nal among p palm trees and the file masts of I 1 its sponging sel schooners immers ners and soon we tie were abreast of at the picturesque low law lying fort fort montague that major bruce nearh two tuo hundred years year ago 9 had such each a time building as a protection against go 1 t pirates entering from the east end of the harbor it looked like ilka a verl table piece of the past and set the imagination dreaming of those old d biti ot of spanish galleons gal leons and the black flag and brought my tb thoughts eagerly ingerly 11 rare and you and I 1 I 1 back 1 to the object of my trip those dom doub doubloons mons loons and pieces of eight that lay in glittering heaps same somewhere out in ill choie ismael island wildernesses wilder nesses then tom mine came up with in my break fast the old fellow stood by to a serve I 1 me as I 1 ate with a pathetic touch of the old slavery days to in his deferential halt half fatherly manner dropping a quaint media every now new and again as mile when drawing m my y attention lit I 1 to t the the clowell le sun bursting bunting through g h the clouds h he said the poor pilot man a blanket iss is cora lag 19 out at sell bah phrases I 1 in which there earned a whole lot let of pathos to me presently when bell breakfast was as oer else and I 1 stood looking over eve the side into the rise incredibly clear vt water 1 in which aich it seem seeing hardly possible that a boat can go on floating coming suspended as she conado out s seems se ver over gleaming gulfs gulf of liquid space down dean through which at every moment it seems she must daily fall adment scenus As to tom a and I 1 gazed down lost in th those a rainbow deeps I 1 heard a voice ary at my elbow how saying lying with peculiarly sickening Kig ic unction the wonderful works of if god it was my in unwelcome acome passenger who had edged up to where when we tend stood I 1 looked at him with the ara question an v very I 1 Y clear in my eyes OB a to what hot kind of f disagreeable animal he me was precisely I 1 said and moved away I 1 had been trying to feel more man kind ly toward him wondering whether 1 I could old summon I 1 up the blo to offer him a cigar chair but the w wonderful fall war works of god finished me an hall hello I 1 captain plot 1 I J said old presently pointing painting to A some sails coming up rap nip idly bill find us re what this I 1 thought wed got get the fastest boat in the harbor its it S the susan B si sponger mater said the asphall en p tain the captain prof we was a man of few fell words word th the susan B we ana a rakish ih I looking imp craft with a black hall and she he certainly could sall 11 N no doubt it was pure pule imagination but I 1 did fancy coney that I 1 no our or pos signal to them I 1 tn a peculiar way I 1 confess that ills his presence was be sm kinning ing to a get on my nerves and I 1 as aaa r ready ly to go get ad eds at or r no nothing tinli en I 1 i ate t or of in mind it 0 inch I 1 presently ly took ont 0 on n leoree r as the engineer wit who it did not at bell belie 1 his 1 hulking dpn und ad who he me aas foi ever letting the engine top stop and tak ing big to forever role to no get I 1 it I 1 gong gg nain one could cd almutt a aeve anoia inlaid lo 10 lid it in on purpose my language we was mors more forcible than 0 classical 1 a I 1 h and a piratical 1 I fi flavor A I 1 in n fact an and my 1 11 fiend of the wonder fill works of 11 1 goal ad looked limited 11 with will IN a deprecating air it its effect on an george was nil except to further deepen his hie sulks anil and this Bil lIdid 1 did notice live after a vad while that my remarks to george seemed to have set up tip a certain sympathetic acquaintance between him nad ad my p passenger the slackly il deckhard deckhand deck chand hand being apparently patently ly taken in as aa an humble third chev ant or aid together A lie and ad th my Y read it to the them on or occasion from m a piece ic of pim printed P piper that 11 fluttered 1 in tie the wind wild pe the be captain was occupied with hla big be helm ba and ad the thought he be seem to feel the necessity ot of sharing a quiet poised probably stupid on man tor far whom I 1 could not deny the maps respect t we must always give to content however simple he A a air bailor id and I 1 do dont kno know w N what hat better to say bay a of f a man an so tor for acompando companionship hip I 1 was wait thrown illicit back upon up to tom I 1 felt to too that he wax was my only friend on board and a balms feeling had come over me that v athin the next few hours I 1 might need a friend are we going too fast tor far fishing turn tom I 1 asked not too fast for a oil bald tom so BO we put wet out lines imas and watched the stretched string and ad listened to the sea after a while to tom s use line grew taut and we hauled in afave a five foot per bar decouta look said old tom as he pointed to a little writhing eel like shape about 1 nine I inches long attached to the it belly ly of at the ba remal ea A sucking fish Is 1 said bald tom T tints V s good luck and he proceeded to turn over the poor c creature colors and rut cut train from his back immediately below till his head lasa ft a flat inch med and a bill halt of sl 1 in 1 lined c d and stamped like ilk a rubber r abber sole 0 lt l 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