Show 06 BEING THE AUTHENTIC NARRATIVE OF TREASURE discovered IN THE BAHAM W FHE itar taos Q GIVEN TO THE PUBLIC le gall WAIT A MINUTE Eui 1 I th thal ream man we who tell this story call 0 he him ill ahe hero her for IC short c la 1111 lue hr friend john blunders se m tich british a official la awu bahama islands chadic cabarle astr webster a I local eal merchant completed the tha it trio a of f I 1 friends end core conversation lie to turning 0 upon on buthel treasure md produce coca a 1 written idt pur or porting to to ill tha d death th ind bed tate of ien henry F tb tobias a mile uc lal pirate made by him in 1853 awe arl tm it acm alves two spots 0 where two mil I 1 lions 1 led and k half of cores treasure ces were oce bobst b burled so by him and ad his him compin lona M the C of the three me fields to Is o overheard rd by ft pock pek marked it d iran rep tom the document aatu a Sa Mo uter bec howlier r ct has a OOM copy th the hero to avol determined it to seek it it the burled treasure irso cre charters re the auxiliary schooner been maggie a U darling it th the pock pack marked cooked man cram I 1 IB taken on KB as a maeo passenger for fee spanish hoofer wells it negro lare tom tern catches clo old and cures a 1 sucking chub as a mascot eire this eq for th the hero to it has bite the of keeping off a thet the shet ghost of the pirate who always ec pirate treasure e arp u 0 on in the voyage somebody bd empties the lowell I 1 tank clock med and the to hero starts hilt things ha and the r dagsen alu eer are ellith clish he 1 lands da the passenger who he leave a manifesto be beai us ing ih the signature hanry P tobias bot jr with ith a new crew v the he M maggie ile dar ling 11 9 sells salla old and 1 Is passed by another schooner the be susan B G th the a hero lm danils ad on V ad all men a shoes rho fhe ln ih proves move a mascot let I 1 indeed dI d and ad carries vill the he hero through a fig ight t which ih Is followed by several I 1 0 1 I 1 funerals he ha searches the tor fee burled t treasure all aej old tom sue falls into a pirates cave th the cave can contains ato B t the 6 skeletons of wo we md and a massly a chest 1 empty M savo f fr for r few piece of eight bah t et scattered on the bottom botto th the he hero returns in to te earlo nassau and ad by good it ir luck it 1 learns the I location teo of short hort island d web lic ster buys buy in the aint and ad he mi and d the here decide to I parch so short r J island me for the treasure CHAPTER II 11 continued Cont hood 6 there were seem tar far more in blacka him h than whit whites iton down bay street sire ot but here there were we to nothing but blacks black ow ev ery cry bid aide the roads roada ran in every if ingon and along them everywhere eve cy whom weib 16 fig uns ores of black b ack women shuffling effing with burdens on their hall head beads or groups of girls audaciously daf sly merry most oi 1 them th hourly bonny him here and there almost a be beauty a t y th there were churches and ad d dance balls b ll 11 and ad sal saloons salces ces oll all radiating di eting so to say a prosperous ous blackness at first the effect of the whole scene w was a little Mili sinister ater even a little frightening the strangeness of at af alan J jungle was here and one was a rim elaza w white it man in it all 11 acou alone among get grin ning lug savage age faces but for the figures figure about one being clothed tile illusion had been complete but tor far that bud and the kind hearted atti salutations It ti from comely at white turbaned turban cd nour tournade cammies nade aich which am boon sprang prong up about me and tile the groups of elfish children that laugh laughingly ugly blocked one a progress with Is quests not in any weird african dialect but 1 in excellent pic ellent english for a copper please this request was not above um the maidenly ill I 1 dignity of quite quit big and buxom bustam lease lasses one of these theme a really so eu berb young creature asked for fop I 1 a copper please but with a saucy coquet ry befitting her adolescence ill give you one it if you 11 tell me where the king lives sold baid I 1 ole king coffee she asked and then fell into a very agony of ties negro a laughter recovering she put her finger to her lips suggesting all silence and ad said come along ill show you and walking by my side tithe lithe as a young animal she had soon brought I 1 me to I a cabin him much like ilk tile the rest though perhaps a little poorer I 1 looking a king still I 1 there ther he be is in and ad she he shook book all over again with slip suppressed pressed giggles allover I 1 gave her a sixpence and told her to be a good girl then than I 1 advanced up a little air strip P of ard garden a to where I 1 had caught am a glimpse of a venerable white cabit haired ehred negro seated mated at the win dow ifor as if t exhibition with till a great i lip open book back in hlin bib hands bond this he ap feared to be reading with lt b great solem C olty city through enormous goggles buggies though I 1 thought I 1 caught a side aide glint of his eye as though he had bad taken a ill reconnoiter reconnoitering ing glarice glance it in my ill di a glance loce which apparently had bad but deepened his bia attention nud and increased the dignity of his him demeanor remembering that ne be we was hot abot met mere ly royal carol lilt but place cloux also aho I 1 made my a sal at billion at once care courtier like suit and annc I 1 boom Umon lous good day to yale acty majesty JC ty I 1 anad old god a good gold god lack after him me ants de lord la Is merciful he answered gravely Er avely god takes are of him bis chit dren be seated ear bar old and pie please ex cuse my not rising my rheumatism Is K move bore affliction to in me cre I 1 atio I 1 was not along lone in getting to the sub joel of my visit the old man listened to in me with great compo euri but with R marked acce fion moden of mys mysterious tm in A U A DUDOW it is 8 true sar he said when I 1 had 11 finished 1 I could find end it tor for you I 1 could find it tor for you sure sum enough ough and ad im ila I 1 ate t on only t y ninn 1 ID all de islands flond list dat ba could but I 1 haie e to go 90 will Y you and ad it a de biord ord a 9 will to keep me oi re he here tn it dis a chair slid rheumatics rheumatic do de rude rods b has I 1 tur turned ad in dese daae old patch hands ail mary many a time me and ave a faith in it de lord they dey would awn n agal again res re I 1 it find it tor for you sure enough all I 1 it d find it if any man could and tt it was 1 do de lord a will but lambbe abb I 1 can see it for vou van a idoft moving from ill dis D do you mean brother that the lord has gi given e you second bight dat am it I 1 glory I 1 to 0 hla him name hj hal ire I 1 le elj lujah hl he answered 1 I look it in n a glass ball so and if its de sp spirit rit helps help me I 1 ran see an cie clear as a a pie picture ture far under de ground far far illy away over er its de son sea it ade s de lord s truth bar blessed be his main name I 1 asked him whether he would look into his crystal for me with a burst beret of P as am unexpected PC as a it was vivid he earned cursed do dem boys that had stolen le let fr from him I ft priceless crystal which once are had bad belonged to his him old ro il d mother who before him hd hod had file same gift ot of the spirit but he added turning to a mile by his him side aide and lifting from it a Is laige M cut at glass as decanter of con considerable roame ity though at present void sold of con tents that he had found flood that 9 gazing 1 9 into the large glass ball of its stopper Plad produced mat almost m equally equall good gold results sells at it times first he asked me to he be kind enough to shut shot the he door clear we had to be yer very quiet he declared the spirit could old work out only in spizz deep silence atol and he be asked me to be kind enough to close my eyes eye then I 1 heard lit hia voice muttering tn in a 5 strange it once put tongue me a 8 queer dark gobbling kind ind of w words eds which may my have been ancle ancient pt af african tire spell words or sheer 1 r its flub gibberish erish such as magicians mcm it all I 1 i times timea and places lure have employed played to mystify their consultants I 1 looked at him through the men corner of my eve its as doubtless he had anticipated P led for he was wag glaring with an a air of inspired abstraction into I 1 the h a ball of the it decanter canter stopper so we sen sat went a its for I 1 suppose some ten minutes then than I 1 heard him give another deep sign sigh opening my eyes I 1 saw him slowly shaking his him head D de spirits cirit don coc t still co mm unstable uni table it dis afternoon he muttered tilting the decanter 6 slightly on on one side end and observing me ing it drearily do you think your you majesty I 1 asked with still as serious a f face a sa as I 1 could assume the spirits might work b better ater it if the decanter were berm to be A febbe sar r debbe spirits Is to cu rious thi things dey need inspiration a sometimes sometime just at ilk like on ourselves ives what kind hind of inspiration do you think gets the best results your ing maj esty esty well sar me I 1 C cant at nt say as dey day Is very particular but ise noticed dey day do I 1 I 1 this H he appeared d to be B reading with great solemnity seem powerful bachee to just plain good gold old jamaica turn ruin they shall hall iivo lt it I 1 said 1 I had bad noticed that there we was sa ie loon a few yards way away so an before many say more are minutes minute had bad passed I 1 had been the there and ad come a back again and the dic decanter luter stood ruddily filled ready for the resumption of our but before we me bege began I 1 of course accepted ill the I 1 seer s invitation initiation to join him bud and the spirits to in friendly libation i then I 1 having closed my eyb re been beave beam ana I 1 it we was with what shot 4 polity the thick pictures ures began to crowd up upon that in be ner vision with which the ile lord had bad en awed 1 ahli I 1 1 faithful folli follower vearl of course I 1 me was inclined raw now to take their the m whole hot thi thing it as ai a an imposture but presently pres ertly watching his face and ad ties the curious art seeing boeing Cpr expression cadra of his eyes and noting the exactitude tude of one me or two pictures I 1 began to feel that however lunce emor much he be might be 1 in tenting or a silencing elaborating it there was some sub substratum rea t ma of truth in what he was waa telling yh th the a first 1 picture that came a to him were eve merely pictures picture though astonish angly clear ones of webster a boat the flamingo of webster himself awl and of the men bud and the old dog sailor but in ID all this lie ile might line hae been visualizing from actual knowledge yet the details were curiously I ay iy exact act presently liis I 1 gaze e beig becoming more third fixed 1 I see y yoa 11 anchored cloned under adit little ir a settlement it cde L you are mig row ing ashore does dere are little pathways running up among 9 do de coral carol rock rack dud and a few white while houses boilers see seems to in be a forest lit bar tress trees not mit like nassau trees sed and ill thick I 1 ck brush everywhere re at all cho choked it ed up so 0 o thick and it dirk can t see a nut at n walt wait a cal minute luti lough dough dere seems arm to be old it houses be all 11 unit sunk in and loa ing like old bulna can t see dem for de brush and W wit wait it lord love you aar hot but ise I 1 se afraid I 1 seem to see a big light co corn ing up trough ile de brush brash froom from far under buds its de ground juit like you see old rot ten tail wood shining in ID tic its dark dees deep deep d down did dlan I 1 I 1 tell you its de lord 9 gave re me eves a to see into its de b bobela am of ile de earth it a its de bowels bowel of it de earth it for 1 sure all 11 lit up and shining 9 praise do de lord it ma am its de 9 gold lit f tor or certain sit ill lit hidden d de sell away and shining ill dere un no der d de ground 1 fun am t you nee ale it closer clearest clear clence erT ir I 1 exclaimed sel bled involuntarily get acme lit idea of the place its dinv inv in the old roan man gazed with a renewed it intent ltv no he said presently and ad his him in dla appointed a it tone tole seemed to in me the be best at a cadence fi lence vet of his truth 1 I only set sea a little golden mist deep deep down dome un a d der er its de goan ground d now dow it Is failing fading a away it a g gone one I 1 can only see me its de words woods ind and do de 1 bulna I again 0 this brought his clel visions to an end it the spirits obstinately refused to re make it anny my re more are pictures picture though the at old man continued to gaze on in the id man decanter decuin at stopper opper tor for tully fully five min utes nice CHAPTER ill III Is in which we take ship once more mom the taa discovery ill very which ahr through gh my fr friend lend the dealer in ID marine curiosities fie I 1 had made or believed myself I 1 to have made ad of the situation of henry rivy P tobias table second poll pod of treasure treason fitted exactly with charlie webs webster to to a wi wishes hes for our mur trip email it stock ast as he affected to take ir in it at the moment a at short shrill shrift island lay a few miles ile to the ills northwest of andros island now andres 1 la a great haunt of wild duck dark not to speak of that more mom august bird the rho fila flamingo chigo attraction number one for the good charlie then than in though ama it Is some hundred ond and fifty miles long and some fifty miles milea broad at its broa broadest dast it has never yet it la Is said bald been entirely explored ita in amt center Is still a mystery the n natives active declare it I 1 Is haunted or at all 11 events inhabited by some same strong strange as people on no one has yet approached doie close enough to see bee you yen min can see their houses they say fr from a distance but hansom as you approach them they doi disappear appear here therefore seemed an esc excellent ellent place pines for fit tobias tables to take mite conr co er 1 in charlies duck shooting preserves preserve end ad less marl court lakes Is landed with man grove gromm c copses p cis lay on the fringe of this mysen mysterious dog region so 90 andrca was tills plainly marled marked out for our destination it sailor had watched his bis in master get ting ties his go anna ready for far borne days day and doubtless memories stirred in him of scotch moors moon they had shot over artell together her he 1 raised ill his head hall to 11 a tile the night light wind ind and sniffed impatiently as though he already scented the wild duck dark on an and andros as island he was impatient like the rest of us because though it 11 was 11 au 11 hour bear past sailing ailing time we had still to collect two of the crew the two loiterers loiter ers turned up at last and all preliminaries being at bast length disposed of we threw off the mooring mple and presently there was heard that most exhilarating of sounds to anyone who loves love seafaring ing the rippling ot of the as cap ropes through the blocks block as our mainsail cegan began to rise up high as against hat the moon which was beginning to look out cut over the huge block of the colo colonial a hotel hote the aea wall of which ran a along ong as far as our mooring A few gilts in its windows here and the there e broke the blank d durk kleem nesa of its in fee facade de glimmering through the avenues of royal yet palms I 1 me am thua then ex as elicit because of something that presently happened and which stayed the mains 11 lo in its rippling ascent A tell tall figure gum wa Ds running calling the sea am wall man from tze the these direction thin of the ho tel let calling out a little breathlessly |