The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1871-09-28

II l. Wnefe you nave been told De
e fore.n
/ It then occurred to me, that, as We
u were passing to the westward of one
t Of the numerous islands in the gulf
some one had designated a prominent
:, saying, There is just such a spot as
J, might suppose would be selected by
T pirates to bury their treasure; and he
r expatiAted upon its merits for that
= purpose, much to the amusement of
e his listeners; and singularly enough,
j upon recalling the name Of that island,
lt was the same as she had spoken.
l do not mention thename of the island,
, because, having since that time ac-
r quired the treasure, / do not desire
4 that any questions upon the subject
I should arise, either between myself or
, the United States, with the Mexican
= Government. l do not know what
, the law is about carrying off buried
= treasure, but / am aware that so long
p as it is not known where it was taken
: from, it would be difficult to make out
any claim founded upon its taking
But with the old woman, / did not
mean to take No for an snswer, if I
could help it, and repeated my gues-
ton, ''HOw can the spot be distin-
, guished?"
"YOu hare the mark. It is on the
western extremity. Hush, Valvarde
listens; step softly, he will hear. 1
come again, and tell you more.D
And she disappeared, seeming 10
vanish into the moons ray, which
then shone horizontally into the
loom.
1 heard a voice, soft, but stern,
"Where is Annina ?" and, looking
up, saw a native Mexican, tall and
straight, but with an appearance of
inexpressible sadness and sOftness.
"WhO is Animal" asked.
'She who spoke but now; her voice
is yet in mine ears. "
"WhO are yOu?"
II was Nalverde; who / am now,
know not"
"Were you her child's father ~
"NO; but / swOre To guard his life
with my own. / was a traitor, and lie
slew me, because / loved Annina, who
scOrned me-One who had in my
veins the sdngre dzW OF the MOnteZu-
mas"
"Can not you find Annina? She
was here but a moment ago"
"LOst, lost, lost eternally. On -
Island there lies considerable treas
ure. It was buried by the people who
are called buccaneers. Two of their
number guard it, and hold the key
which will direct Annina is also
there, but / may not 60"
And he, too, disappeared i'm the
moonlight; and in the wall of the
wind, which was just rising, faneied !
I could distinguish the tones, 'lOst, |
lost, lost" And then / saw nor heard |
nothing of my old friend for a month, !
and was just beginning to wonder |
whether hadn't dreamed it all, when |
10 d! rs l sat alone again, watching the /
moon go down, aud trying to discover
something in the straight, white |
beams, who should / see but the Sc |
nora herself; and really, she seemed I
to have grown quite handsome.
She would not speak for some time, |
but drew from her bosom, and held /
up, apparently for my inspection, a i
series of uncOuth hieroglyphical draw |
ings, about twenty in number. /
could not make out at the time what |
they were, and asked her, 'tNVhat the /
deuce are you showing me those things /
fOr?p !
Her answer was immediate: "That's 4
the way the old fool amuses himself 1
while he has to wait. By and by, they |
will find all these things, and say /
we have got some antiquitiesp Ha |
what fools there are in the world ~
"Where will they be found ?"
"On the island, when they find the /
treasure"
"Who makes them ?"
4" "Ffnesse. like the idea of having
my history put in a book; therefore |
you must do it for me. Then, per-
haps, some one will come and take 1
the treasure, and may depart to my
little Pedro"
was determined, this time, if pos
sible, to get some information about
the ingOts, which seemed to grow
upon me, before Valverde, or some
other heather, drove her off again;
and asked, quite sharply, "Will you
tell me more of the marks where the
treasure is buried?"
"I don't know how"
"Can not you describe the spot, and
what surrounds it ?"
81 can not; when try,it goes away
from me. l could show you if you
were there, but when l leave the
island, it goes from my memory"
"In what vessels is the treasure bur-
ied?"
sTt is i'm Mexican OUds,"
"HOw many are there"
"Seven."
"Is it gold or silver ?''
''Both, also jewels-ha, ha! want
ed some Jewels myself, but he would
not give them to me. He said, 'Anni-
ma, thine eyes are brighter than the
Jewels; wherefore desire them ? Hai
he feared should take them and de-
part, that might not see more blood.
'Last night saw the island as it
was many years agO-mOre years than
1 can count; ha! it was grand. saw
the beautiful palace, and all the splen-
dor, which is there now no more. l
saw the gardens, and the beautiful
women who walked I'm them, and the
men-far beyond any men they make
now, so tall, you would think it could
not be, and so handsome, Santa Ma
ria more handsome than you could
imagine. Don't you think they were
gods? / dO-yes, 1 think the gods
used to live here; and now, sometimes, +
when the moon shines brightly, and
the sea is calm, and the stars look
uOWl 81 anu llO Sillbo dlC
to be seen, far, far away over the wide
ocean, and my little PedrO's voice is
at rest, and he calls no more for his
mother, then I see little ripple get
upon the waves, and, by and by,
white wings-thOusands and tens of
thousands-and they rise from the sea,
and hear the sound of the wings
fiuttering; and then they come upon
81, 81
arises from the ground, and the flow
ers spring under my feet, and the per-
fume floats around me, and it is like
the heaven of the blest. But 1t will
not remain. Soon the black clouds
come in the beautiful, fair sky, and
the voices of the wind call softly at
first, but the angels do not listen, and
by and by they grow harsh, and it is
as if the Gends came and swept away
all the beauty; and far above all the
voices of the wind and the storm, my |
little Pedro calls for his mOther-his
mother, who had not the courage to
slay his murderer"
din speaking of the island, do you /
mean LObOs Island ~
"Yes."
"NOt - Island ?r
mo, that is where the treasure Is. 4
/ never see the angels there; the fiends /
live there, and hold theiIrevels; there |
is where you might see the blood. III
| could give you some of the flowers |
which spring when the angels go to /
their fairy palace, you could do many |
things; they would give you much !
power and great riches; but they with |
er when try to carry them away,
and turn to dust in my hands"
"Did you try to bring me some of
them 2" 4
ayes, but the fiends sent the winds,
and scattered the dust abroad, for Il
would have brought that to you, so.
that you should be taught to believe
my tale. go now; but you will write |
my story, will you not ?5
promised to do so, and she vanish |
ed imperceptibly, "ddOisp seeming to |
linger like the tones of a bell, until /
she disappeared.
The next day it rained, and anus
ed myself writing off this history, but !
without an idea Of how 1t was to be
finished. If the weather had been
clear should have gone ont abOut nv