Show PIECES OF EIGHT EIG HT BEINO BEING THE AUTHENTIC NARRATIVE OF A TREASURE discovered IN THE BAHAMA ISLANDS IN THE YEAR 1905 NOW NOVI FIRST oiven CIVEN TO THE PUBLIC by RICHARD LE GALLIENNE by A A G skill T toy o tt the y man who I 1 tells this atory thorla cal him I 1 ta iho be nono hero for or short 1 t I 1 a at hla his ilima friend imal john job baun a do deab earl ari facial I 1 in N a bahama mma wa islands m charlie charlea mar vv webster vir ft hir I 1 local I 1 emir Usla merchant meat almot cartel completes in the trio ire of I 1 friends I 1 ada sou soun saunders n produces produce I 1 amt written document comment purporting to he be ch the death bed bad tat ement of if hot henry y P TI tobias uc mr pirate C made as by him 1 in isas it gi gives I two cee so is whore here two millions mil llona and ad a half of revesie war were burled by at him rod anil me hla I 1 ta the I 1 con of if the be three fri friends frido do 1 overheard ver hord by ft to pock k marked stranger the dc document to at ber however has ha a copy the he hero deter lersch reined to seek 1 tha burled buried td trea euro chart era a cc hooner the ak man is on aa a paa ebeor gg 0 on the I 1 somebody empties v the giBO llna tank coms the hero her and a the muse limo the pam paa benger mar leaving B a mani mool reato fild heart bearing th tho I 1 1 I or R RT henry T P tobias jr I 1 the hero hem leads lands on 11 DI dead men B I 1 shora chores I 1 there le la a n cat which I 1 Is followed b by several mal to funerals funa 1 rals I the tha hero Us finda a na a cave containing palmr tho of ireca two and ft a roas mas also cheat empty B aade 1 for bar I a few pieces of right eight scattered a on the b bottom atam the her hero returns to no nag rail bud and by good luck bacr learna the ton izrail location of short sh shrift ift island 1 be buya in tho yawl flamingo clome and ad he and a the hero bom aall at tor for short I 1 art shrift erfft I 1 bland based A aa the namom I 1 1 lea OB the wharf ft y young g rell fellow or a J jack H harkaway lumpa ons aboard rd and a 1 la allowed to nil jack pre proves an interesting it thair and it 1 I a millo pa aHenger rater the doe mm m m im hunt at ducks dor on andr andrca whom island with ith afta eye 1 out for tobias tn CHAPTER IV V continued af besides beside I 1 be had d my wonderful ayoung young friend to whom heI I 1 grew daily more at cached I 1 found immelt feeling drawn to him as I 1 mn can lin imagine egine a young ta in ther is drawn to a votes son bon I 1 and sometimes I 1 seemed to a see tn in his eyes the au suggestion gabat of a confidence he be was a te on the edge of ranking making cona con me a whim me elbal at pondering expression as though wondering whether he be dare to tell me or not or ln hat Is 14 it jack I 1 asked him for I 1 once net when early in our acquaintance we had bad asked him what we were to call ath him he had it im answered cred with fill a touch laugh oh 1 call 1 1 me a jck jack jk jack harkaway that la Is my name who when I 1 go on ch T tell me im our at ad adaven binl tl lure names I 1 do don t want your prosaic e everyday fryday names I 1 well wall I 1 had re plied entering into the lad fail s humor my friend hei here is sir brands branch drake drak and I 1 well im sir henry morgan what Is it jack I 1 I 1 repeated but bat h he all shook k liis his head C no he be re replied if 1 I like you ever I 1 BO an much and I 1 wish I 1 could but 1 I must austn t somebody class secret again I 1 ventured you yes and he added this it time it a mine I 1 too I 1 R but home um day pei per komas hips who knows he broke brick off in boyish contusion confusion all right door dear jack I 1 I 1 said old putting patting his him shoulder take your own min fit time were fr friends code any anyway or th that at we are arx responded the led lad with a line glow glov I 1 must I 1 he be too to hard on cou ch charlie I 1 a f tor or charlie had me another other object in n his him trip besides beside duck dark A As a certain train poet pact initially brutally puts it lie he had anticipated also 1 the hunting of man in ad III tion though it Is a rushed against the law of if those thome brit britannic antic islands island he had promised me a flamingo or IT two too for live purposes purpose universe however fla find it told tobias alike like it kept apt out of gunshot and as an the week grew p toward t rd it its end charlie bag begin to grow grew a 8 tilt little restive u it looks he be murmured one evening as we had indicted completed our mu four fear zt wool ot of amat duck and ad were musing ever our afterdeck after duck cluck cilium it looks as if I 1 am nut not going to haze have any use a for far t this in H he had bad taken take a ap pp piper ire from his him pock park et r it if Us WM a barrant n I 1 which he had bad provided himself empowering him to arrest the said eaid henry P tobias or tile the person passing parsing under fast cn name e on two counts u t iret thit of se am diehm practices walh amt intent t to spread tram treason among g his majesty s subjects object and second t bat of willful murder on the hash hi eh sena bens Char lh put the warrant back into at hta him pocket packet and ad ged gazed disgusted across or the creek where the loveliest effect of yum young moons was rising aling behind a grul frieze or of the homeless both 0 ile brush there was a never such much a place in ahe the e ivor world he asserted to inde hide in ft or get lost lear le in ar or to starve in I 1 have often cited thought that it would make the most effective prison in the world the young 1 moon 11 1 rose and 1 rose I while ile charlie sat bar 1 in 0 the it dusk of our shanty hanty fc like a meditative in mountain win my baying n noting liing the ga glowing end of bis big cigar ig ors 1 fly bi lating at the cir curf cum ference are of if him hb fm face I 1 it get him all 11 the same he said old aprons ily emal coming out ut of a sort of trane trance a I 1 in which ag I 1 as I 1 understood understand la in ter for id his I 1 mind had hem been making a geoa barvey my of 1 our going up and down every creek crack and corner career on no a red radius in of fifty miles aides so we ive our fic lins cots but 1 I had 4 eardely ea or reely begun la 16 undress when a foolish acci for which I 1 var happened bapp eneil aa acci ides amt lat might have libil it bartmas con scale less and which a aa a matter of fact did hum have though not atthe at the amment neglecting everything a man do to his gun when he Is finished with rith it t for tile day I 1 had bad left two cartridges in it left in the a trigger on the hair brink of eternity and other enormities tor for which charlie presently and quite right iv abashed me with profanity in short my big tot toe tripped over ocer tile the beat beast as it stood cara carelessly lessly modest the u wall 11 of my cabin life bud and as aa it fell I 1 re mid the outlets contents in the fleshy part pact of my shoulder the explosion brought the whole hole crew cren out of their shanta in a state rate of gesticulating aiila ting nature and ns as chat charlie Is ir growling r aling like a bear was helping to tiring bring first aid suddenly our y young 9 friend jock jck wh whose rier romantic myth youth preferred sleeping outside I 1 in a hem ham mock mark slung ailing between too palm trea treis put him side aside el 1 I know better how to do this than vou vm sir francis he be said laughing let a hove have a look at y your medicine the C client last and id give a me the lint hot U quick I 1 so jack took charge and acted with such confidence and skill finall miriall fi riall b binding ad g up my wound which aich was but a slight one that charlie told stood by damba dumbfounded ded bud and with a curious soft belt look aid in his face which I 1 t under stand I 1 till III later at r then jack looked up for far a moment it and it 1 Cl charlies 11 demig look an and d it seemed in 0 o me I 1 that he charge changed I 1 color till and looked frightened sir fran francis Is jealous Jea loua I 1 he said enid but I 1 ve finkl finished ed now I 1 guess yo you 11 a sleep loop if all right of after far tile that it dose does I 1 gave you good night and he slip p bcd away B jack had bad proved himself a practiced lon surgeon ron and as he predicted I 1 slept well so well and so far into next mett as 10 jack looked up for a moment and caught Char charlies liels wondering wandering look morning that charlie at last had to M al I 1 on en me what do you think were his bis first words what I 1 asked at sitting t ug up on and nin wincing cing 1 from my wounded would ti it der our young friend has B k pad in the night I 1 gone off a on that little nig ing gme ger sloop loop that dropped in here yester yeater do day afternoon am I 1 guess as you don it mean it ro no do doubt bt of it I 1 wonder whether you on ve had the same rome thought as I 1 had you know I 1 nya always said there wis nis a mystery about that bo be 7 did you no no ties the way ray he bound lour our sh shoulder aid der lust last night I what ot of it 11 did you ever me sea a man bind a aland wound 11 dihe a that what ii but do eu mean co 1 I mean aima simply I 1 y that the mastery beat about our luck jack hathaway harkaway was a jut just this jack Har hawly was vas a no boy at all but just a girt girl a brick ol of a dare dill girl Is CHAPTER V better ahn than duck charlie webster websters di discovery covery it if dis cover covery it was of jack Harka Elar balla ways Y ever true sex seemed so BO far plausible in that it accounted not only for far much t that he t had seemed relater mysterious imea about he him und and his bis but a w a this the edid idid I 1 did not at mention at to cl rah it a counted tor for certain dim feelings falling of my own ocia of which before ahad I 1 had bei bem 1 scarcely I 1 conscious too le but we were am not long left to con ahme on our r speculations being presently interrupted by the arrival of exciting news evist in the form facts of a note from fa the scrap apin ion rather bera Sem note simply con armed ids his that it was nas to ta him bias w who he had booklet rum min at hearing Behrl nes a P it 0 and ad that he was probably some mance were vrue I 1 in the network ed ark of creeks creek and me marl lagoons go 1 in our neighborhood charlie thought tile newa over tell you what hot we 11 II do he said old presently tm tin going to leave you herod her here end od ire I 1 m going to charter the sponger out cut there tur turner or a bound and has two mon outlets outlet this bud and G booie a river ten miles down the shore share now if tobina tables to la inside here he can only ret get out mit either down here or it down I 1 sm gore goose river I 1 am going d down own in the RP sponger eager te to the mouth of goose if river to te keep watch natch there and you must stay la Y where be you yen are old and keep watch at apra he no be tween the two tire of us a week seek E will starve t r e him ont so it was ettlel ett ill led and ad presently charlie went along with two ot of his him best guns ns and sailor in 1 the rowboat and I 1 saw him no an moie for or a week t at the led end of the week the wind led wo was blowing strong stripe from the west at bud and amat the he title tides ran ile big high it about b out noon a ne caught might eight ot of triumphant sails if mak it leg ing up the river it has as charlie back again got him wa was all 11 he be said aid aa he rowed romed ro wed millare ashore sailor was OUR with him in the rowboat lint hut I 1 noticed that hat he was wall limping limpin g going on three legs yes teal said aid ch chirlie lie it its lucky for far tell tobias he be adir got sol sailor 9 toot feet or 11 bv the living god rd fd have stood my trial for man manslaughter g t or what whatever er 1 he they call 11 it it 11 soon n be all right old i man ax he said taking sellers sailor a wound would of ed PC paw 1 in hla him bond band soon be oil all right sailor agg nagged oil his he to catl U vigor bously at to allow that a go gunshot no I 1 at thy through ugh one ot of his leg legs was we a mere nothing h me yes yeal I 1 said charlie as we sat mat at lunch in an th the sim bahnck it under the tamarind tree free wee a got girl in him safe th there ere unit under decks all if right chained up like a buoy it if he 1 can I get away ba be lieve fole J in e th the devil wont 0 t yon yen tell in me about its it I 1 asked not much to tell too easy all alto gt gether amr I 1 waited cited a couple of 0 days at the mouth month ot of goose river then than I 1 go got tired and left the sponger with fill the captain and d two or three me men while I 1 went want up th the river with a marde couple in 0 g guns and 8 sailor let and it a man to pole palm the skiff idali just for some same duck shooting you know we lay low for two days on no the ta h marshes dureth and ad the then sell sailor got sniffing the wind me one con morning arg a ns it if there was something around he didn dian I 1 t 1 care I much for Us he gr grew ens more and ad m more exe excited led and at last as we as neared a certain min ma mangrove gave copse to which a all the the time he had been base pointing painting he barked two or th three as times and I 1 let min him go poor a old if fell fellow As an he ha told fold the story sell sailor who beeme seemed it to understand every word rub me bed him bia head bend against his bis masters costers hand he went want into the mangroves man groves just me as he bed d go after duck but bed bad hardly gone in ID when there them were two me shots but and ad he came out limping making for far me but by this I 1 wine was cl clohe e up to the overn mangroves man groves C myself yil and ad in another in minute I 1 was vas I inside and ad UI there was tobias hia gun at his shoulder he had bad a pot at me but here before r he could try another I 1 knocked him bm down daw n with it h re my I 1 fire bud and ft ell v veve eve got get lum him all II 11 right and now you can go after your tra treasure matire as an soon as y you like take him over to nassau lines and ad you a can tool ac around for the next month or BO of eon course n well need you at I 1 the it trial but thit w wont come off tor or I a couple not of a months mouras meanwhile I 1 vou co can let me know ehm you are am 1 in case as I 1 should need to get hold held of 0 iou an all right old man I 1 isaid said but I 1 wl sh ou on were care coming along with we me 1 I ive ve got all tile the treasure sure I 1 want brint laughed height charlie bond me word card where you are as soon as you yen get a chance and good gold 1 luck I ck I 1 to Y you u old chap and your doubt doub doubloons loons and it pill pieces of eight then he walked down to his him rowboat an anil noon n 1 lip I wa us aboard the ir sponger her sails ran me up and ad they ipg Is were era oft off da down stream poor imm tobias 1 I led somewhere between ite do decka bee va you 1 an fn 11 1 1 ab leate ol 1 book III II 11 CHAPTER 1 I 1 in which W wo gather father shells and other luat matter with charlie gone and d di it shoot leg ing not baini bem mia ana of my f b scions there them on waa nothing not liing to detain delete m is 1 in an drum so we car boon under it n way y out net or of the is it or and ad heading north ip p tile the hetem shore fare of tile the big inon conous amoz island 14 e bad sam afif fifty ty miles to make b before fare ive e reached its northern extremity bad and nil all the wai a set ket dont dom had bad more diore than two of water star dud and the coat vas vaa the bame baine tn in terminable faced his I 1 line if of if comodi lat end and thatch poling palm with occasional clumps of at pine trees and here hem rod and there the mouth of ii a creek leading into duck he lentA swamps at last we came to a little foam fringed CRY cay where hare it was a conceivable that the shyest shiest and rarest chell bell ld choose to make its house 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