White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1857-07-09

| (oh! rare and happy accidentD and fire wa
blazing upon the hearth was heated with ex
ercise and sat near tie table. You, however
had drawn a chair clsse to the chimney. Jus
as placed the parchment in your hand, and a
you were in the act o. inspecting ii, Wolf, the
NeEfoVpdland, entered, and leaped upon you
shoulders With your ls!t hand you caresseC
him and Kept MIN Oh, vile your right, holding
the parchment, was permitted to fall listlessly
between your knees, and in close proximity t.
the fire. At one moment I thought the blaze
had caught it. and was about to caution you, bui
before could SPEAK, you had Withdrawn it, anC
were engaged in its examination. When con
sidered all these particulars, doubted not for
moment that heat had been the agent in bring
ing TO light, upon the parchment, the skull which
saw designed upon it. You are well aware thai
chemical preparations exist, and have existed
! time out Of mind, by means of which it is posi-
BILE to write, upon eitherpaper or vOllum, so thai
the characters shall become visible only wher
subjected to the action of fire.
al now scrutaized the death head with care
Its outer edges-the edges of the draEing near.
est the edge of the vellum--were far more dis
tinet than the Others. = 1t was clear that the ac
ton of the ealoric had been imperfect or une,
quail. Immediately kindled FIRE, and subiec
ted every portion ofthe parchment to a glowing
heat At first, the only effect was the strength.
ening Of the faint lines in the skull; but, upou
persevering in the experiment, there became
visible, at the corner of the Slip diagonally CD.
posite to the spot IN which the death s-head was
delineated, the figure of what at first supposed
to be goat. A closer scrutiny, however, salts.
he'd me that it vas intended for kid"
Ha! ha!" said /, " to be sure have no right
to laugh at yOu--a million and half of money
is too serious matter for mirth-but you are
not about to establish third link in your chain
you will not find any especial connection be-
tween your pirates and goat-pirates you know,
have nothing to do with goats; they appcrta;n
to the farming interests
But have just said that the figure was not
that of goat"
swell, kid then-pretty much the same
thing"
pretty much, but not altogether" said Le-
grand. You may have heard OF one Captain
Kidd. at oneo IooSej upon th,-fgure of the
animal as kind of punaing or hieroglyphical
signature. I say signature, because its position
upon the vellum suggested this idea. The
death's-head, at the corner diagonally opposite,
had, in the same manner, the air of a stamp, or
seal, But vas sOrely put out by the absence
of all else-of the body of my imagined instru-
ment-Of the text for my context"
al presume you expected to find letter be.
tween the stamp and the signature"
Something of that kind. The fact is, felt
irresistibly impressed with a prosentiment of
some vast good fortune impending, can scarce
iy say why. Perhaps, after all, it was rather a
desire than an actual belief;-but do you know
that Jupiter's silly words about the bug being of
solid gold, had remarkable effect upon my fan
cy? And then the series of accidents and coin
cidences-these were so gerry extraordinary
Do you observe how mere an accident it was
that these events shonld have occurred upon the
sole day Of all the year in which it has been, or
may be, sufficiently cool for fire, and that with.
out the fire, or without the Intervention of the
dog at the precise moment in which he ar feared,
| should never have become aware of the
death's-head, and 50 never the possessor Of the
treasurer
But proeeed-I am all Impotence"
swell: you have heard, of course, the many
stories current-the thousand vague rumors
aHoat about money buried, somewhere upon the
Atlantic coast, by Kidd and his associates
These rumors must have had some foundation
in fact. And that the ruAors have existed so
long and SO continuously, could have resulted,
it appeared to me, only from the circumstance
of the buried treasure still remaining entombed.
Had Kidd concealed his plumber for a time, and
afterwards reclaimed ii, the rumors would scarce.
ly have reached Us in their present unvarying
form. You will observe that the stories told
are all about mouey-seekers, not money-fnders.
Had the pirate recovered his money, there the
affair would have dropped. It seemed to me
that some accident-say the loss of memoran.
dunn indicating its lOcality--had deprived him
OF the means Of recovering it, and that this &c.
Oident had become known to his followers, who
otherwise might never have heard that treasure
had been concealed at all, and who, busying
themselves in vain, because unguided attempts,
to regain IL, had given first birth, and then uni.
versal cusFency, to the reports which are now 50
common. Have you ever heard Of any impor.
tant treasure having been unearthed BY the dig.
gers Of money along the eoAst7''
"Never."
"But that Kidd's denominations were i'm
mense is well known. took IL for granted,
therefore, that the earth still held them; and
you viii scarcely be surprised when I tell You
that felt hope, nearly amounting to certainty,
that the parchment so strangely found, involved
lost ree.rd Of the place Of depOsit-'
But how did you proceedi''
al held the velIIm again TO the Ere, after in
creasing the heat; but nothing appeared. nov
thought il possible that the coating of dirt might
have something to DO with the failure; 50 care
fully rinsed the parchmen, by pouring warm va.
ter over it, and. having done this. placed It in
tin pan, with the skull downuaFds, and put the
pan upon furnace of lighted charcoal. In a
few minutes, the pan having become thoroughly
heated, removed the slip, and, 70 my inexpres-
sible joy, found it spotted, in several places,
with what appeared to be figures arranged in
lines. Again Iplaced it in the pan, and suffered
il to remain another minute. Upon taking Il Oh,
the Whole vas just as you eeii now"