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CHAPTER VI!lI—Continued.
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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.”
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