Pl Copyright by Doubleday, Page & Company eww CHAPTER VI!lI—Continued. nn] they did not begin But alas! way was sheer. IHow the lowest rung? The sheer for me to cut ste done farther back. Again the luck was with rock ps in, as I had I looked about me. me, In one | 1 pieces of fallen rock. ribly heavy, but despair strength, and after an work, I had managed roll of them to the foot of the ladder, and —with an effort of which I would not have myself had been able to build them one on top of another inst the So, myself to grasp the lowest rung with my Then, lantern round my neck with my tie, I prepared to mount. The climb not difficult, had managed get my first rung the ladder, always the chance rungs might have time, in whie lent {oO believed C apable ag: wall. able hands. neck. once 1 on the but there was that rusted h case, of course, it would | have given way in my grasp, and I should have been precipitated back- ward to certain death However, the ma them had an honest work, and they proved as firm as the day they were placed there, and up I went, till-1I forty feet ab the and, as I neared the foot, instead of ing to trap door, as 1 had tured, I found that the an end at the edge of § arrow ledge, running li was 10 feet of one loose with below, n who had mortis done piece of on must ove floor, then a | Was in a Sort of Low, Narrow Gal- lery, Some Forty Feet Long. which the arching rock made a erypt- like ceiling. At my first glance, I saw that there was another door at the far end similar to the one I had entered by; and on the left side of the gallery, built of rough stones from the low ceiling to the floor, was a series of compartments, each with locked wood- en door, They were strong and grim looking, and might have been taken for prison cells, or family vaults, or possibly wine bins. The massive locks were red with rust, and there was plainly no possibility of opening them, On the other side of the gallery there was a litter of old chains, and some boards, probably left over from the doors, Yes, and there were two old flintlock guns, and several cut Insses, all eaten away with rust, also a rough seaman’s chest open and fall. ing to pleces, At the sight of that, a wild thought flashed through my brain. What if— Good God! | What If this ™ Jobn Teach's trepsury--behind ! Jo | 1 those grim doors, I threw myself with | all my force against one and then the | other. For the moment I forgot that my paramount business was to es-] cape.’ myself against the solid rock, And, at that moment, I noticed that the place | My lan- In a moment two I should be in the pitch dark, and I had discovered thut the door at gallery was as solid as tern was going out. or the | 1 end of the the others. i I was to be trapped, after all; and | I pictured myself slowly dying there) of hunger—the pangs of which I was | already beginning to and years hence, finding me there, moldering skeleton— would break open those doors, ft gle and moralize the irony of condem feel— al who | uncover one, some one ing aming hoards, my end; rvation, ORE with the treas- | other Old I had so long sought on the of those unyielding doors, Tom's words suddenly flaghed », and I could feel my hair litera eginning to rise. **There never was a ried treasure vet didn't claim its victim." Great God !—and I was to ¢ the ghost, and keep guard this rrible tomb till the next dead man alon g to relieve me of my seniry de over ily that in intically I'turned up the wick of at the thought--but as plainly going ch box; I had ! And on that shattered boards, too. a fire and wood, it was out. 1 till a then che 8 left, fell ere wore those ents I coul < he 3 of wd las then eye 80 io ie Wo And ke the fi f the Yes, it olng throu it night as moonlit door of Calyj nd saw that nearly broke to ret Calypso! where was sh wment? Pray God that wa ieed safe, ns her father had said. I had to will her from my mind, keep from going mad. And my poor torch had gone out} having, however, given me light! enough to see that the door which 1 had just burnt through let out onto a narrow platform on the side of a rock | that went slanting down into a chasm | of blackness, through whic in a; great shell, boomed that marmuring of the sea. It had a perilous ugly look, and it was plain that it would be fool to attempt it at the moment without a light; and my fire was | dying down, I was beginnh to feel light-headed and worn out, part ly from lack of food, no doubt. As there was no food to be had, 1 recalied the old French proverb, “He | eats who sleeps”—or something t that effect—and I determined to hus band my strength once more with aj brief rest. However, as I turned to throw some more wood on my fire preparing to indulge myself with a little campfire cheerfulness as I dozed | off —my eyes fell once more on that grim line of locked doors; and my curiosity, and an idea, made me wake ful again. I had burned down one door—why not another? Why not, in- deed? 80 I raked over my fire to the fam: ily vault nearest to me, and presently had it roaring and licking against the stout door. It was, appurently, not so solid as the gallery door had been. At all events, it kindled more easily, and it was not long before I had the satis faction of battering that down too. As 1 did so, I caught sight of some- thing in the interior that made me laugh aloud and behave generally like | a madman, Of course, I didn't believe my eyes—but they persisted in de claring, nevertheless, that there in front of me was a great lron-bound the vigion whic] setnber, h, as Yesides, onken chest, to not, of bones begin with. It might course, contain anything but but it might—! The thing was too absurd. I must have fallen asleep must be already dreaming! I was laboring with all my strength open it with of those rusty It wus a tough but my strength was as the strength of ten for the old treasure-hunting lust w me, and I had forgotten hing else in the world for the At last, with a great as though its heart having to give up its crushed I fell hough I had been str for It wa jut no! to one cut Insses, job, as every- time ETOH, were breaking at at last on my knees ns uck by lightning, 3 literally brimmin with and gold pleces d eight; English guineas and manuscript “all good money.” while I knelt over it, blinded, lost: then I «1 my and let the pour and through then buthing id and 8 r,as 1 had r 8 doing. Then suddenly Irish jig tion of In f 1 n 0 wooden geeret Open, FF over silver doubloons an and French louis d'or had sald of coins, too 48 Tobia’ For a and plunge hands into It; pour them in gv pleces literally ead of miser I broke out never having had thing as 1 rey sudden fortun the into any before, at no doing such a I behaved doing bere act have 1d of whom reas I was a gibi to be no ight! But, in I suddenly ft of on. For time, at madman sleep fo iil tid ering ly, there was the not brought me up he deorwan only was it, indeed CHAPTER VIII, In Which | Understand the Feeling a Ghost. 3 {in a root . so much like that in which 1 had seen Calypso 8 wr I drear started to run eed, that my Another a moment, the sam th eo nking were over would emerge and face the instead of a br nd for me to le door ut doorway, no widespread at last to through which gazes through y. “en sae] shining freedom iuto, alas! arms of ap long narrow open fi mere slit I could gare a prison window at the a The entrance had been wide and free, e5 of rock had faller from above and blocked it up, leaving only a long crack through which the tides passed to and fro, I was still in my trap; 31 onae but a mi goeomed that 1 could see freedom so close, her very volee ealling to me, singing the morn. ing song of the sea. But in the caverns I heard another mocking song, and I felt a cold breath on my cheek, far death stood by my side a-grin, “The treasure!” he whispered, “1 need you to guard that. The treasure you have risked all to win-the treas ure for which you have lost——your treasnre! You cannot escape. Go back and count your gold. ‘It is all good money!” Hal! ha! ‘it is all good money i* The Hiusion seemed go real to me that I cried aloud “I will not die! 1 will not die!"-—ecried it so loud, that anyone In a passing boat might have heard me, and shuddered, wondering what poor ghost it was walling among the rocks. But the fright had done me good, it If only I could wriggle past that con traction in the middle, I should be safe. And If I stuck fast midway! But | width with the less the narrowing seemed To be so slightly perceptible, it eye, to be, be enaugh to make ion h life and thoue hmited Ole, might be eo: » between JOUL to i] choice of was =o my alternative be culled a «! hand, I could w through the which I hh at “With sneered a I my and tunng id passed, and tr) the other end. half a doz voice that sounded 1) “Precisely” and the hors it 1 da nga nny there wa but than one CVs gain en matches” o bias’ ror of was more than ny. No this aperture, not for hardly wi of those deep stood for windows in last chance, un & | man, It was my to take it lik I stood and taking deep to ftuke arn for a moment nerving breaths exnbeterd hut fey ft 1 extended and began to ed ng them § re formarin gerie dus tion Then the tl visgh of the tide rom ie 8 Wl my 1 it would soon be up to my Knees- It was up to my knoes—i ing past them ] it making that hollow in the caves behind me that had seemed so kind to me that very morning, the song it had made to Calypso . . . that faroff night under the moon. (TO BE « CONUINU ED) Rooster Ate 486 Kernels. A storekeeper at Montgomery City has sprung a new one in the guessing game. He took a big rooster and, af. ter letting him fast for a day, put him in his show window with a large pan of corn, the kernels of which had been counted, He offered a prize to the persons guessing nearest the number of grains the rooster would eat in 20 minutes. The rooster had a ravenous appetite and for five minutes it looked as if there would not be a single kernel left. But by the time the 20 minutes had elapsed he had curled up in a corner, He had succeeded In putting away 480 grains, A woman Wh THE 488 got the prige~~K» W was gong old Mrs this aloofnes and charming gra and frowned. wins Brodie's fault he + part of his new hud bee over Knew clous w her ar ilch had And so exactly the he id gone soon after eturn a kitten w rden nei; nto his ga a » dreams,” » At first 8 ehbor visual iat Jack » * 11 Le concerning Youn 126 tl skeptical had proven hin piquant - His first «1 the 1 to be face consis morning ansions 1 At .y 41 Martha, n fo ma 'rowhridee } and sent her across ke Inquiry. BH ing brought 1 “He says he but that there is nothing 1 can do. “What nonsense I” the girl cried Im- patiently, “for him to lie there alane. 1 will have to go over myself.” Jack opened his appealing eyes as she turned on his sitting room light and stood reflected in the doorway. The girl's charming face softened, at sight of his bolstered bandaged Htmb, “You are hurt,” she murmared, "Oh! Jack, ix there anything that I can do?” The dejected lover sat up joyously. “Just about everything.” he said and held out his arms, “The suffering is really here” he added pleadingly, and touched his heart. After moments of happy bewllder- ment, the girl lifted her head from his shoulder, “Your poor foot—" she beggn, whet Jack interrupted her with a Kiss, “Oh! the foot's all right” he ex. plained calmly. “Just used a little stratagem, that's all.” Wopyright, 1918, Western Newspapar Union) is a ack in- uffering, HELE " “Ar on ¢ woman format! 3 « f on is | SRM, rm ——————— GET READY FOR “Fi Keep Your Liver Active, Your System Purified and Free From “Col ds by Taking Calotabs, the Nausealess Calomel Tablets, that are De. lightful, 8afe and Bure. Forget Cuticura Talcum tat » ir toll 31 6) ii req sites, baby , Ten. 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