Show PIECES OF EIGHT MI BEING INO THE AUTHENTIC NARRATIVE OF A TREASURE discovered IN T THE HE BAHA BAHAMA M ISLANDS IN THE YE YEAR A R 19 1905 0 3 NOW N OW FIRST F IVEN GIVEN TO THE PUBLIC by RICHARD LE GALLIENNE Col coleda edt br 1 floidene 1 re pr comis comi S CHAPTER VJ continued d Is 13 and then I 1 came upon orion a photograph IS over the is writing citing desk a tall S spanish looking young wool of this it re bee I beauty it tham needed shil but one 1 to 1 I that here hem wag C ca 1 I mother and as WM was natural I 1 stood ad a long a time a nor the coun cou cenance that waa aso like the face which froin an my first tight of it had the lovell loveliest set in the world orld this aae as a flower the that it had bad been the mother of 1 a flower war it I 1 w was as a face more man prim I 1 tive live in it if beauty a it little till less 1180 touched with race curn the than the one I 1 loved but the same fe fearless arleis ric natural nobility was in it and the e figure had the same wild grace of poss pose the same lithe till strength of 0 carriage two or three davs clava went by but as an yet there them was waa no news ot of either charlie we webster be I 1 er or tobias noth nothing I 1 ng fur lit alier tad had bee been heard of the latter in the settlement and a careful patrol patent ling ot of the neighborhood revealed no elphia of hil hin him bla a away wo was a bona fide performance or he be vas n lying low in come a oth other r part of auld r the island which of call course would not act be a difficult I 1 thing lit a 9 for fee him to do as most at of it was an wilderness and as also there w were to one or two tire cave bovea on an the he deserted northern northern side aide where b bo e could old easily bide him t time has between bedim betim the that t coast and us bance however ir lay some a ten ell miles 1111 of ll 11 scrub rab old and adalgo mangrove swamps 1 and 4 J it w was manifestly ord featly out of the question to patrol them too them there a was nothing to do but watch and ad wait it at last there them came a 6 message from uster charlie webster no another other of his caesarian n notes tell sort delays few days longere longer any n nevus b that seemed t to decide the king chhat what do YO you e miti eav ulysses he said bald it if we wa larg begin 1 I digging I 1 tomorrow 0 o an there them are too IMI of f w with still as man tran euna four ra volon and plenty of machetes auchet not t counting ties ca calypso Caly pio who 1 la so an excellent shot be herself if I 1 greed agreed that T nothing would please me am better so oo an early b me the fill 01 ol 1 lowing 19 morning cut g found UH with it the n hole bole garrison garriso ei excepting epting samson whom it had bad b been an thought to lo leave at home as a bod bodyguard guard for calypso lined up at the old ruined mined m mansion with picks and shovels and an machetes etes ready to cona commence mence operations we e had worked tor file a week before we made site a cle clearance armace of the ground floor then at last we mine came carion a solidly ly butt built I 1 at stone me st staircase almons tsin winding ding d downward fiarn ard art after clearing way away the it debris line with which it was choked to a depth of none borne twenty our or thirty steps we came to a tout stout wooden door done stud mind ded with nails 1 I he dungeon at t last said mid the tang it 9 the latelle kitchens s I 1 list bet said old I 1 n after some battering tile the door gomy gave way with a crash all a moldering breath et as of the grove grave met our am nostrils no strlla and 14 SO wit it WM was the Plea cleatis wine cellar a cloud ot of bats bate flew fice to in our faces face and set the ree negroes game A huge bug em ca vernona mm blac blackness kne was before us afi th the a ling aig called tor for laza lanterns As we raised these them above our me heads head and peered into the dar darkness knoss we both save gave a tough yo jm ho haf ho and A bottle or of ruin min sang gang the king par for all 11 along the he wells walls stood or lay prone prime on an trestle leek a silent compary company of hog hogshead M festoon ed with cobwebs like huge black it was the Plea toof win cellar 1 I v 4 a such wom waa our discovery for that day be bat there to Is another matter which I 1 in must in bione tione the fact that some morn how bow th the rova new of our excava excavation tima L deemed ad to have got down to the set at thorent it II in a ev curious arlous fact a a its ire king observed that it if a man should start to DK dig for gold in ID the center of sell sahara with ith so no possible mean a of with hla him fellows fellow on the tha third day there them would not net tell fall to be none someone on e to drop in ha a and nd remark a on the fine fineness of the weather so it we waa with ua w A AR moment thing act once is in twelvemonth lver math did a jou human being wd w wander d to into a that wilder where when the king bad made hta him home there them was wag nothing to bring them there and ad as I 1 have made clear the way was not easy yet tet we had hardly begun work when hen one and another idle singer level bevelled levelled led in from the sell scared and tend stood grinning lit hla curiosity at our labors toward evea evenmoe loic of the third day we coo raine upon it a passage leading out of one ole of the cellars it had such a prom isling a ng appearance that hot we a kept nt at work later or than usual and the sun an had set and night was waa rapidly fal lingas we turned homeward A As we man came h ifa eight of the house boost w were ere struck by the peculiar hush bush lood about it and there were wen on no lights I 1 in tile the windows vind lovs no lights the king kine and I 1 mot ex claimed together div involuntarily u hurry butry ing our ear steps with a foreboding of we knew not what 1 in our or hearts heart As we tor e cro sed ased theol the lawn wit the house twined loomed up dark nl and still till and ad tile the it door opening onto the loggia logelin mft was a sq square r of black n ness ss in a gloom of shadows shadow hardly 11 less me Pre profound found not a sound not a ile of life C we ve both cried out as we calf nahed hed ackois er the to loggia ale calypso 0 where here are you but a there be r a was wai no an a sort aver and then 1 I be being ahead of the king stumbled over something dark ting across the do doorway y e good 00 oo heaven what Is this I 1 sed 11 cried d and heading bending dw down I 1 saw that ll it was as sam samson the ehg truck struck a match Y tea I 1 it was S samson poor fellow with a dagger firmly planted limited 1 in his him bee heart near by something white caught my eye attached atto ched to the I 1 lintel I 1 antel of the d door way may it waa vas a plate of paper held there them with a sailors sailor s knife I 1 tore it off in a feebly frenzy und and the king striking rather another match we read ad it together it hem bore but a few feo words writ weir ten tan all in ID capital letters with a course coarse penni WILL RETURN TUB THE LATY LADY IN EXCHANGE FOR THE TREASURE slid and it was mined 13 P FT T CHAPTER vil VII in which I 1 LOSS lose my way the audacity of the fell fellow fellows owls 1 ex claimed the king who he was a the first to recover 1 but calypso I 1 cried to the klug king old laid his him hand bond on as my shoulder should reassuringly dont be afraid for her bar he said gold 1 1 I I know my tl daughter uchur but I 1 I 1 love herlo her I 1 I 1 cried thus them blurting out in my anguish what I 1 had designed desi gued to reveal tn in some tranquil choren hour r 1 I have vo loved her for twenty years seen said the king exasperatingly calm jack harkaway cau take earn care of himself I 1 was not even astonished at the it time but something it in must be done I 1 du momet ion cre cried 1 I will wil 1 go t to the min commander maraler at once cam and rouse hie settlement iam me a lantern I 1 called it to one me of I 1 the who ho by this had bad come up to us and ad were ere standing around la in a terrified group I 1 waited only for it I 1 to be lit and then without a word dashed wildly into the forest Elod nt you better betler take hike someone with your I 1 beird the king call art after me but be I 1 was too distraught to reply plunging headforemost head foremost through the tangled dark darkness darkes es my twain brain boll boil ing a like a cauldren cauldron caul dron a with eager auger and ad a guld thousand he ad team ral sad my mf heart mug fitting too with ith wild lid unreasoning remorse after all it was nay my doing to think I 1 to think I 1 to think th lik I 1 I 1 cried aloud leaving the it rest set erpa ken I 1 meant at that it had all 11 come came or of my insensate pat pursuit an of that filthy treasure ZI when all the time the only trems tire lire I 1 coveted was vas calleo herself poor old IM ignorant fint tom had been right I 1 after all nothing good came of enterprises there them was a come upon i them fit from the begir acting anil and 1 ahva as 7 thought 1 of tobias table my body shook hook so plot 1 I could lit hardly keep a on walk ing and next minute my any haired of b him in so nerved reed in me a up that I 1 ran on an through tb he beckh like k a madmun ad my 1 clothes cloa clutched at by the devilish vines and to torn at very every yard I 1 fled past the scene of our lolava excava ticks looking more am haunted than ever tn in the flashing dashing 91 gleam of the lantern W with I 1 in a an as anth th 1 I binm left it tb them behind a the accursed em cause u so of all this evil but I 1 cannot hem have gone 98 by them many yard fords when hen suddenly I 1 felt tile the ground giving way beneath me with is violent jerk my arms went want up in a wild ef fort to nave myself and ad then in a panic mote of fright flight I 1 felt myself all t i doza downward a as one might fall down t the b t shaft butt of mine vainly I 1 clutched at rocky walls all wa as I 1 pd aped down in the forth ma aellig elling darkness I 1 seemed to be falling failing forever and nd for a moment my bead band cleared and I 1 bad time to tf III think I 1 of the man craib that was waa camias at t the end it of my fall a crash dishka I 1 cold 4 to myself must least mena den death tw it came with sudden i pain a aft tightening round ad my ha heart art at 1 though hough b black 11 it cap kopea were on being lashook tightly lightly about a at it q g out net in breath in then suit entire 11 blackness arms angal engulfed led me and I 1 anew no more how long ion g I 1 I 1 lav there in the darkness darit I 1 cannot t tell all I 1 remember member 1 Is suddenly opening my eyes ayea on jet intense blackness and valm vaguely a weden wondering R eliere h aw I 1 was my head seemed entire ly y detached from my body of which so mas tar or I 1 was unconscious but print pica early the thal of it returned and ad 1 involuntarily I 1 tried to move to flad find with a sort art of indifferent mild surprise that it we was impossible so there them I 1 lay oddly content in the dark the pungent pot po t smell all 0 of the earth mv only sensation and my head uselessly clear the remembrance of what clot had happened began to grow grain in force and ke keenness and d of R sudden the thought of calypso smote mote me afke it a sword I 1 spurred to desperate effort I 1 stood load up on 11 tile the instant and leaned issued against a rocky wall li miracle fincle of ml miracles ra c I 1 as I 1 could stand I 1 was waa not dead after nil 11 I 1 v ana not at indeed go a far as I 1 tell fould old tell are seriously h hurt art badly ot of cou cour sebut no bones broken its it seemed incredible but it we was so the ranil tion made me foell feel lk weak again go and it I 1 set sat it down with re bick propped peopled up against the rock lack and ad waited cited for far more are strength dra mint slowly my thoughts far fumbled rable around it tho the situation then as by fore force of abit my hind went to my pocket bod be praised I 1 I 1 had matches tell and ad I 1 cried cled w with I 1 th thankful thankfulness n out t or of verv we weakness n elul but I 1 still sat on 01 in 11 the do dark rk for a while I 1 felt or ery tired to d after about it for a long atle time 1 I I 1 took it out my Y pro precious me matchbox it bloat w which bich unconsciously I 1 had bad been hug bug slag king nib ith my be hand ad and struck a light ind looking stout about me in a d dazed fashion the match burnt do down to my fingers and I 1 I 1 threw it anty ablay as am I 1 the it flame stung me I 1 had seen been something of my surroundings surrounding enough to lait my tired limit b brain sin for far a minute or two me I 1 w was at the bottom of a sort of ere crevasse a a narrow cleft in the rocks which con come tinned on I 1 in a slanting initial downward doward dow ard chasm chance into the he clrk 0 it on aaa a natural corridor with a floor of white b cad sand the sand I 1 had ad accounted for or my coming off without tiny any broken broke bones az after tor another minute or two 7 struck strack another match an and lot lo 10 another miracle e there w was my lantern lying beside me the glosa glass of it was b broken but that was uns no DO matter As I 1 lit the wick my hopes loa diame leapt up with the flame at the worst I 1 had light I 1 swung us my pan lantern is aloft seeking M be a possibilities of a climb bu but I 1 very every where when it we was sheer beer without a ledge or protuberance of any kind to take advantage of and it was utterly devoid deold of vege vegetation tatlo not at I a sign go of ad a friendly shrub herb or root at to I 1 old hold by I 1 had sense sence enough to J know now that I 1 we was too thred to think profitably profitable old and drowsiness coming over or me told me that an hour or too a sleep jeep would give me the strength I 1 needed to renew with sith a will and more chances of sue cess sm my efforts to escape light was to too precious to waste so I 1 blew out my lantern and curling up on the sand almost instantly fell asleep but before I 1 lapsed into un on constia consciousness I 1 had bad clutched hold held of mos one sustaining rig ush t in the dark nese ness the assurance e of calypso 8 safe ty so confidently announced by her bar father dont be afraid for her I 1 know my daughter aholt whatever r hap pentad to lo me a she would wool d come out all right As her brove brave rh shape apa duetter before befar my trind mind e eye down there under alie earth I 1 could old have a no doubt of that my instinct instiller bad bar been right 1 in fhlug way ay to my drowsiness for far I 1 woke ap evik ap from my sleep a new man how long I 1 ind had hem been there of couise a I 1 had bad cm no me means of knowing but I 1 fancy I 1 must have slept a good while for far I 1 felt so BO refreshed and ad full of determination to tackle anckle my escape in good earnest I 1 had bad hardly delft relit my lantern when its ray anya revealed something which it seemed ad impossible for anyone with eyes however weary to hare over may looked in the right blind band corner of the U little lie tavern eavern five or six feet above my head was waa a dark hole like the en ir a to a tunnel or more prop eriv speaking a mod good sized barrom for or it was wan rell more than a dmd I 1 in n dl ameter it teemed named to be dg more mom than a mere mem cuilty in the rock for when I 1 go flashed tass my joy ion up to it I 1 could see ee no end ad to climb up to it at first best deemed sit difficult but providentially I 1 had a stout clasp carp knife in my pocket and with th athla I 1 cut 8 step or two in the amna rock nick and so an managed it lying flat on my I 1 I 1 looked la in it we was as aa I 1 bad thought a norres narrow natural tunnel making through the reek roc kaaa often happens in those them curt curl ona man fantastic cormal coral formations forma tiona for or all the world indeed a aa it it had bad been base made 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