National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1870-10-14
BY MRS. NJ. V. VICTOR,
PART l. TREASURE TROYE.


The FINDING or THE TREASURE
On fresh summer morning before breakfast-hour at
the country-house where he visiting, a young man
put out in small rowboat the bosom New York
Bay Just then ripping and dmpng the rosy touch OF
dawn
Oliver Grey was artist by profession tine-looking
personal---very. five perhaps-wth dark restless eyes
broad forehead and swarthy skin At this moment his
mood of fierce discomfort Being an artist he
poorbeing poor he could not have what he wanted
What he desired most arth the heart and hand
OF Camilla CatherSood sister of his friend George Cath
erwood at whose fathers house he was staying having
been invited to spend portion of the summer at THE
Poplars, to take his and sketch the beautiful seem
cry of the bay He had accepted this hospitaity-even
while he felt himself Inundated by it-not so much to
escape his garrett to bask in the dangerous oy of
mlla presence. This morning he came out to sketch
but he only dreamed of her half wild at thoughts
OF his own poverty
Urged by this disconnected mood he fell to rowing
vigorously for relief finding himself close in TO the
high shores of a certain island, and to familiar
spot to which George and himself frequently came
/ In the face # the rocky hi, N than , a. ..
'-'i0 was gu 'oeN"- cave
very small cave, which the fishermen and other com
mon people ANONYMOUSLY dubbed hole. 1t may have
been larger but this time it was filled nearly to
the mouth with deep sand. In high-water it was
covered entirely by the But low tide a small
boat could push its way in; and afforded cool
She'e rom the summer sun, the two friends often cast
anchor there for an hour while they their un-
/ cheoh' or sketched the opposite hills.
Inc tide then at its EXTREMIST ebb left the farther end
OF me sand-ca'ein quite bare and dry 1t the first
time that the visitor had ever found it He think
ing oil running his boat aground, and getting out, al
though there seemed to be nothing interesting than
cIam-Fheis Strewn about when, suddenly, something
parkled IN the level rays His eyes were drawn TO
the elimmerinR point. What was it2 He looked again
more earnestly 1t was the end of brass bound wooden
chest prorudng from the sand. The giterng of a
brass nai had drawn his attention to the object.
! The color rushed into Oliver Grey's moody face. He
thought OF Captain Kid of shpwrecked merchantmen.
and the Arabian Nights all in flash of his vivid i'm
aginatlon.
lheh ne laughed at himself pushing his nutshell of a
SKIN close to tins buried chest and leapng lightly
AT least VIII see what it is. The dirty garments of
some poor sailors kit suppose
with his oar he went to work to dig away the sand 1t
/
'orehead' but he had brought to light enough Of the
quaint ioreign-iookng box to show that it
mon sAh'r ehest'
was ' STRIPS Oh some costly oriental woods, in dark
anu e''' very pu anu hea'S banded together so a n
w almost covered win us prass-faSenIngs In half an
- ' '''' "'''' iu' Inc ooA proved to
We a'oh' iou' ieet long ny Two WIDE and two deep
Az rs. ne despared OF opening the chest without fur
LOT tne nara WOOD was well preserved
anu te clasps scarcely ruSted II had evidently been
pueu IN ury 'and-not exposed to the action of water
VI even moisture 10 any great extent with the blade
- -, e a" "'' 'alrIeu WIN MN Tor
., N'ii' VI" Jus "'''e eAped'tioh7' ne succeed
s,i ~" 'i''i'''' J." pushing nach 'he simple old
'aSnoneu LOCK- "hich SpranR out OF ITS place with a
'''.N' men, iof u moment oiver hestated
as 9oo" as ne oou'u command himself he cautiously
"u, e"teilg ra'seu ,le hu'
" 'in' uiu 'o ",'u
=" IN winch 'ooAeu a. II u might have been
P' 'ore ses'eru"S' ;" perfect was Ms preservation
Ja'ni",u u""n INTO 'n'S mpromplu coffin so much too
s"o'' 'or !" " was 'hh' oil noble and handsome man,
% many years ouer than himself whose Jet-black hair
ne" me dress was that OF 1900, or before,
"heh rloh gentlemen yet dnged m velvet aud thread
', III Tue 'o'ehe"u was ueep wound ~ of Ratchet,
anu 'u''e were o,oou over the garment Who
coulu ue murdered stranger be-
~" "ni'e ne askeu hlmSef the question-while he
EaHe WIN ups apart ana concentrated looks Of interest
rle ,ra,., b,,a to,,,a,a, inmate " '"e cne't
81 ,aI a., II. , VI, '"0r' 'le FEATURES
sum, 'e'' "l' y'"o" ia'e ruiheS the slken vesments
liro.r,on,s disso,,.,, a. 4, -, ''" away me
'a'neh's dissolved "s they had been but dream of
,,f a., H.. -, -, ' "'''" Ea'Peu the
cage OF the po' 'hook WIN nervous surprise this slight
'"Po' "u,"s wv ao''o" o' the atmosphere, completed
.he rum me corpse ana ITS clothing dropped to the
bottom oil 'he ehe7t ltue more than handful of dry
uus.'
ollVer Grey eazed blanky at the blankncss.
shulh@-A HANDFUL OF LONESOME AsHEs
Never IN MS me had anything occurred which him