———————— a AR AL SA ERITH nie CHAPTER IV-—Continued. a De “We needn't go any farther,” sald the “king.” “It's the same all the way along to the mouth—all over- ww as you see, all the way, right out to the ‘white water’ as they call its which is four miles of shoal sand | thitt is seldom deeper than two fath- | ous, and which a por'easter is liable to! blow dry for a week on end. Naturally | i'd a bard place to find, and a hard! pidte to get off!l—and only two or| ttaree persons besides Sweeney-—all of | them our friends—know the way in. | wabins may know of it; but to know it is one thing, to find it is another! mdtter, 1 could hardly be sure of it] myself—if I were standing in the sea, with nothing but the palmetto-fringed coast line to go by. “Now you it? I brought you here, because words—" “Even yours, dear ‘king,’ ” I laughed. “—gould not explain what I suggest for us to do. You are interested in Tdbias. Tobias is interested in you. I am interested ln you both. And Ca. iypso and I have a treasure to guard.” "I have still a treasure to seek,” I sadd, half to myself. “Now, to be practical. We can as- sume that Tobias is on the watch. I don't mean that he’s around here just now, for before we left I spoke to Ssunson and Erebus and they will pass the word to four men blacker than themselves; therefore we can assume that this square mile or so is for the moment ‘to. ourselves.” But beyond our fence you muy rely that Tobias and his myrmidons—is that the word? he asked with a concession to his nat ural foolishness—"“are there. See boat lag to say goodby to the commands the parson and the Cp your sail and head for Nassau. Call a way, buy an extra box of cartridges, and ‘Dien et mon Droit’—it 3 will understand, explain in n cone from me, and that him to look out for our head straight for eight twilight, turn about we'll map Lome—anyw I aiong the coast till you cor iow down right water. As soon anchor: then wait very you can son-—-within a } ail the land Only make the capt for Samson, and yna § Jou down to your tomorrow morn postmaster: to haul on Sweeney on the is our password but, if he YOUr OW Suhre lie ‘ o'clock, or it out nerve On beginning of daw: {Oe fire gol will see CHAPTER V, Old Friends. Next morning 1 dil had toid mn to grum was curried planned it. I mad the settlement, as not forgetting to Droit” to Swes ney, Sune 1 take it. He took it g in a signal b about as much emotion ane the same necessary “Tell the boss” 1 © i humorous IX takes wrious \ he said-—of course | fie meant the “king”—“that we are! looking after him, Nothing'll slip | through here, if we can help it. Good | luck 1” 80 1 went down to the boat- Tom little HOSS i i to old | once more, and the rest of our had long hausted the attractions of their ashore and glad, as 1 “H'ist Up the John B, Sail." Down In my cabin I some mall that had ine at the post office. Amongst it was | a4 crisp, characteristic word from | Charlie Webster-~for whom the gun | will ever be mightier than the pen : | “Tobias on your island—wateh out. iow In a day or two.” I came out on deck snbout sunset, We were running along with ali our sudls drawing lke a dream. 1 looked back at the captain, proud and qulet aad happy there at the helm, and nod. ded a smile to him, which he returned with a flash of his teeth. He loved his boat; he asked nothing better than to watch her behaving just as she was doing. And the other boys seemed quiet and happy too, lying along the sides of the house, ready for the captain's order, but meanwhile content to look up at the great sails and down again at the sea. We were a ship and a ship's crew all at peace with one another, and contented with ourselves rushing and singing and spraying through the wa- ter. We were all friends-—sea and salls nad crew together. 1 couldn't help thinking that a mutiny would be hard fo arrange under such a combination Of influences, Tom was sitting forward plaiting a rope. P& all our experiences to- gether he vever lmplied that he was crew, who gince were looked over i been waiting for | i it i escaped just Will fol- | i | | anything more than the ship's cook, with the privilege of walting upon me in the cabin at my meals. Dut of course he knew that I had quite an- other valuation of him, and as our eyes met I beckoned to him to draw closer to me, “Tom,” I sald, treasure,” “You don't say so, sar, “Quite true, Tom,” 1 continued; “you shall sce my treasure tomorrow; meanwhile read Tom was so much to me that I wanted him to know all about the detalls of the en terprise we shared together, and in which he risked his life no less than I risked mine, Tom took out his spectacles from some recess of his trousers and ap plied - himself to Charlle Webster's note, as thouzh it had been the Eible, ite read slowly, indeed, as If I had been Sanscrit, and then folded it and handed it 1 to me without word, But there was quite a young smile in his old eves, “ “The wonderful ud presently. “I guess, Jini soon be sable to nsk him wh meant by that expression.” Soon the long, ahead of us. 1 had reckoned about right. But the captain nounced that we were In shot “How m boy threw out “Sixteen and a he “Go i 3 “Do you wu captain, “l bave found my this note.” it as “ sls ek a works he si loomed it Ot i dark shore ' it v rs Pant any feet: the lead. if,” he nhent nt to go aground ¥' asked the the wheel, 1 ha glimmer, like ng on the water, “Drop the an r," I calle aok illest £1, Bik LE nn 0, # § 4 - HLI1IPP LEIS yd 4 i vy i t iH ii 5 “Drop the Anchor!” | Cried, groves here and there stepping down in thelr fantastic way Into the water. And yet we were but a hundred yards from the shore, Certainly “Black- beard"—if the haunt had really been his—had known his business; for an enemy could have sought him all day along this coast and found no elue to his hiding place. But presently, as my eyes kept on seeking, a figure rose, tall and black, near the water's edge, a little to our left, and shot up a long arm by way of signal. It was Samson: and evidently the mouth of the creek was right there in front of us—under our very noses, so to say--und yet it was impossible to make It out. However, at this signal, I stirred up the still sleeping crew. and vresently we had the anchors up, and the engine started at the slowest possible speed, The tide wns beginning to run In, 50 we needed very little way on us. I pointed out Samson to the captain, and, following the “king's” instruc. tions, told him to steer straight for the negro. Samson stood there and culled : “All right, sar, Keep right You'll see your way in a minute.’ And, sure when we barely fifty feet away from the shore, aad there seemed nothing for it but to run dead aground, low down threugh the floating mangrove branches caught sight of & nurrow gleam start ing Inland, apd In another moment or two our decks were swept with foliag ag the Flamingo rustied in, like a bird to cover, through an opening in the bushes barely tw her beam ; and there ing yer} ting through the brush, was a on, enough, were Wr ive before us, lane of water whic) immediately begun to broaden betwe palmetto-fringed banks, and déntly deep enough for a much woe vessel, “Plenty Samson sar.” hallooe bank, grinning “Ke ep a and he started side, of from welcome, ante waier, the rr huge going Senne ine, trotting along the creek wont trotting along banks, cautiously feelin our way after him, for some a4 quarter and then, ing round the opened out bank Samson twisting we of a mile; a 3 ¥ ar sudde a OTIS, the CHAPTE? An Old Enemy. a til 0 bros shin fhe same vulture-like exposed » evil eye ha waiting in the ; and it eye that had fallen her golden doubloon Sweeney's counter, It was clear that such coins on the lsland in somebody's pos Then, when he had watch Calypso on her way home-and with out any doubt been the tutor our meeting at the edge of the wood though: we had been unable to eateh sight of him--there would Course be a suspicion in his mind that my quest might at least be approaching success, and that his ancestral mil Hons might be almost in my hands, That there might be some other treasure on the island with which nei- ther he nor his grandfather had any concern would not occur to him, nor would it be likely to trouble him If it did. My presence was enough to prove that the treasure was his—for was it not his treasure that I was after? Logic irrefutable! How was he to know that all the treasure so far discovered was that modest hourd —unearthed, as I heard, In the gar: den—the present whereabouts of which was known only to Calypso. The “king” had Interrupted himself at this point of argument. “By the way, Calypso, where 1a It?" he asked unexpectedly, to the sudden confusion of both of us, “Isn't it time you revealed your mysterious Alad- din's cave?” At the word “cave” the submerged roge In Calypso's cheeks almost came to the surface of their beautiful olive. “Cave!” she countered manfully, “who sald It was a cave?” “It was merely a figure of speech, which—if T may say #50, my doar might apply with equal fitness, say to a silk stocking.” And Calypso laughed through an- other tide of rose-color, “No, dad, not that, either. Never woods was oO there were ed session. He af of LL mind where it 18. It I ussure you” But are you = Wouldn't it be safer, after all, here in the How you be certain that no one but yourself will acciden tully discover it?” “I am absolutely certain that one will” with an phasis on the last three words sent a thrill through for 1 that it was meant for me, “Of dad,” she added, “if you in shall bave it. But seriously I it 1s where It ig, and If is perfectly safe, ure, my dear? house? can no she answered, im which knew 1 me, course, You Revealed jaddin’s Cave™ nn I be raid: so forth.” That bei certainty~-the ugh he would be inted man otherwise—y ar garrison, After all, had but eir dark brethren of while Tobias prob of a round desperadoes, On the whole it might be best to of the erew of the go-"under cover of the dark” peated with a sinile, While we had been talking had long since been on his way with the word to Sweeney to look out for Webster, and as he had been adinon ished to hurry back it was scarcely noon when he returned, bringing in exchange a verbal message from Sweenby. “The pockmarked party,” ran the message as delivered by Samson, “had left the harbor in his sloop that morn ing.’ Yes, sar!” “Ha! ha!” laoghed he “king” turn ing to me. “So two can play at that game, says Henry P. Tobias, Jr. But if we haven't fooled him let's make sure that he hasn't fooled us. We'll bring up your crew all the same—whnt do you think?” “Under cover of the dark,” I as sented, The “king's” Instructions to me were that T was not to show my nose out side the house, T must regard myself a8 un prisoner with the entire freedom of his study-—a large, airy rodm on the second floor, well furnished with all manner of books, old prints, sirnnge Oshes In glass cas rods guns, pipe racks, curiosities of every kind from wvarioms parts of the world (TO BE CONTINUED) a a 4d mu ' e must look beat He we Samson and Jory nil 41 courage, command dozen doughty perhaps, ourecives Samson a — — ————.—— In toilet mothers nu gelves of the gredients they preparations our gran igs for then and homely in ide many harmless had at thene old recipes have been and have proven their worth forming the work they are for. the nd in thu shops one has the satisfaction of know ing just what is in them, For the com dexion and for the hair these made preparations probably have tonic and healing qualities effective the manufactured articles, At Jeast they will the purpose for women who feel money spent for toilet preparations is an extravagance for them, Here is and reliable formula for treatment of a dry skin, When the skin is dry and harsh it should be washed only once a day in warm water, using a pure, bland soap, and rinsed In cold water. This is done in the morning. During the day use a disappearing cream, rubbing it in and then wiping it off with a piece of old linen. At night rub in the cream but do not rub it off but allow it to re malo all night. The disappearing cream is made 88 follows: White wax, 1 ounce; sper macet], 1 ounce ; almond oil, 4 ounces ; rose water, 4 ounces. Use as described abowe., Can be put up by any druggist or at home, remembering that the more a cream is beaten the smoother it will be. An Astringent Cream, A well-recommended astringent cream is made from four ounces of motion tallow, one and a quarter ounces of glveerin, onehnif a dram of tincture of benzoin, a quarter of a dram of spirits of camphor, one-eighth of a dram of powdered alum, ono-guar- ter of a dram of Russian Isingloss and one-half an ounce of rose water. The rosa water Is warmed ‘a » hand oe 3 per intended Hre pr i in lotions 1 creams bought ns fipnswer that Liam A fine wn with » mode mt and at pleces rdun tend ane ef in hot water and the isin dissolved In It. The mutton which has previously been gentle heat and added te { the giycerin, is then blended with the wiiter, and the other ingredients tare added while the mixture being eaten. This makes a cream which is | netringent, tightening the skin, without ilowing it to become flabby To Soften the Hands. Before retiring tnke a large pair of and mutton tallow in side, nlso all over the hands. Wear the gloves all night and wash the hands with olive oll and white Castile soap in | the morning ; after cleansing the hands { with soap rub them well with ontmenl wet, Jb Bora is i tallow, tried out at i rose ix | gloves spread while still Wool Embroidery. Wool embroidery continues to ap pear with insistent frequency on sum- mer gowns, for both morning snd af. ternoon wear, Linen, slik and organdie are em broidered in “riotous” colors, as a hat trimming; wool flowers, fruits and geometrical figures continue in high favor. Two shades of yellow pumpkin and lemon are lovely against background of blue, while a thread of black and another of white give perfect tone values to the various shades which are used in embroideries, Seen in Fifth Avenue. An unusual dross rectntly scen on Fifth avenue was of white satin with overdrapery of navy georgette falling from shoulders to hem. The georgette was bordered by wide band of white beadwork, and a collar reaching nl most to the walstline was similarly headed
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