The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1885-07-18

matches and q candle, which he lit, PRO
ceeding cautiously ON his back, and restrain
ing hisnself with his elbows from too rapid
descent, he found himself surrounded not by
sand, but by solid rock, and, peoring down
ward, saw that he was looking down into O
large subterranean cave.
Just beneath him was a flight Of steps cut
in the solid rock. Descending these carefully,
for they were slippery rs ice, he reached tho
bottom, and found it mndo of sea-gravel and
loose shells, forming, indeed, decline like
the seashore itself, TO tho edge of which, fill
ing about half tho cavern, the waters of the
sea crept with long, monotonous moan.
Approaching the waters edge, lie saw facing
him the solid back of tho cliff, but just at the
base there was an opening, sort of slit, nj
most touching the waves at all times, quite
touching them when the swell rose, and
through this opening crept beams of day
Light, turning the waves to o clear, malacnlte
green
The mystery was now clear enough. The
cave communicated directly with the SEQ,
but in such way as to make an entrance
for any large object impossible from that d
rection.
Turning his back upon the water, and hold
ing up the candle, he examined the interior.
Tho damp black rocks rose on every side, and
from the roof hung spongy and hideous
weeds, like those fungi to be seen in sunless
vaults of wine, but piled against the inner
wall was a hoard Of treasures to make n
smuggler's mouth water or tim a wrecker's
brain.
Puncheons Of m. rits bales
of wool, planlls Of H. Pine, oars,
broken nests. coils Of a..gles Of run
ming rigging, flags Of ali nations, and articles
of such material as is used on shipboard,
swinging tables, brass swinging lamps, mast
head lanterns and hammocks; enough and TO
spare, IN short, to fit out u small fleet Of YES
sells. Lost in amazement, Brinliley examined
this extraordinary hoard, the accumulation
| doubtless ofmany years. All at once his eye
fell upon large canvas bag, rotten with
age, and gaping open 1t was as full as it
could hold with pieces of gold, bearing the
superscription of the mint Of Spain.
o William Jonesl William Jonesl And all
this was yours, at least by right of plumber,
upon the Queens seaway; all this which,
turned into cash, would have made a man
rich beyond the dreams of nvarice, was the
possession of one who lived like a miserly beg
gar, grudgod himself and his flesh and blood
the common necessaries of life, and had never
been known, from boyhood upward, to give o
starving fellow creature so much as a crust OF
b,,o,d or To drpu n nanny into the nOor-box
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