the oars haste to be gone the first mate of the sprang ashore exchanged a word with the one armed native then hurried toward the day grew suddenly dark as a obscured the face of the sun across the could see approaching the ominous line of the puff of wind captain says you ve got to get to hell here was the mate s greeting if there s any shell we ve got to run the risk of picking it up later on � so he says the s dropped to twenty the gust of wind struck the overhead and tore through the palms the house of n beyond flinging half a dozen ripe with heavy to the ground then came the rain out of the distance advancing with the roar of a gale of wind and causing the water of the to smoke in driven the sharp rattle of the first drops was on the leaves when sprang to his feet a thousand dollars cash down he said and two hundred dollars in trade i want a house � the other began in order to make himself heard you are a fool he flung out of the house and side by side with the mate fought his way down the beach toward the boat they could not see the boat the rain about them so that they could see only the beach under their feet and the little waves from the that snapped and bit at the sand a figure appeared through the it was the man with the one arm the house of did you get the pearl he in s ear is a tool i was the answering yell and the next moment they were lost to each other in the descending water half an hour later watching from the side of the saw the two boats hoisted in and the pointing her nose out to sea and near her just come in from the sea on the wings of the he saw another to and dropping a boat into the water he knew her it was the y owned by the half caste who served as his own and who was even then in the stern sheets of the boat chuckled he knew that owed for trade goods advanced the year before the had passed the hot sun was blazing down and the was once more a mirror but the air was like and the weight of it seemed to burden the lungs and make breathing difficult the house of have you heard the news asked has found a pearl never was there a pearl like it ever up in nor anywhere in the nor anywhere in all the world is a fool besides he owes you money remember that i told you first ha e you any tobacco and to the grass of went he was a man withal a fairly stupid one carelessly he glanced at the wonderful pearl � glanced for a moment only and carelessly he dropped it into his pocket you are lucky he said it is a nice pearl i will give you credit on the books i want a house began in consternation it must be six six your grandmother was the s retort you want to pay up your debts that s what you want you owed me twelve hundred dollars very well you owe them no longer the the house of amount is besides i will give you credit for two hundred if when i get to the pearl well i will give you credit for another hundred � that will make three hundred but mind only if the pearl well i may even lose money on it folded his arms in sorrow and sat with bowed head he had been robbed of his pearl in place of the house he had paid a debt there was nothing to show for the pearl you are a fool said you are a fool said his mother why did you let the pearl into his hand what was i to do protested i owed him the money he knew i had the pearl you heard him yourself ask to see it i had not told him he knew somebody else told him and i owed him the money is a fool she was twelve years old and did not know any better relieved his the house of feelings by sending her from a box on the ear while and burst into tears and continued to him after the manner of women watching on the beach saw a third that he knew heave to outside the entrance and drop a boat it was the well named for she was owned by the german jew the greatest pearl of them all and as was well known was the god of and thieves have you heard the news asked as a fat man with massive features stepped out upon the beach has found a pearl there was never a pearl like it in in all the in all the world is a fool he has sold it to for fourteen hundred � i listened outside and heard is likewise a fool you can buy it from him cheap remember that i told you first have you any tobacco u the house of where is in the house of captain drinking he has been there an hour and while and drank and over the pearl listened and heard the price of twenty five thousand agreed upon it was at this time that both the and the running in close to the shore began firing guns and the three men stepped outside in time to see the two go hastily about and head off shore dropping and flying on the run in the teeth of the that them far over on the water then the rain blotted them out they ll be back after it s over said we d better be getting out 