Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1888-04-12

tness years sne'fl be as clean forgotten as II
ehe had never had existence
"Look ye here, Mr.. Rodney cried he, in
passion, lets have no more Of this snivel.
ing nonsense about years You may be as
mad a. you please on that point, but it sha'nt
hang me. 1t needs moro than a few months
to make men forget craft that has carried
on such traffic as our hold represents. You'll
not find me venturing myself nor the schooner
into any Of your ports for men. No, no, my
friend. I am In no stupor now, you know:
ard I've slept the punch of also, dye sect
Whatl betray our treasure, and 10 hanged
for our generosityr
He made me an ironical bow, grinning
with wrath.
"Let's get the schooner aaoat first, said I.
"Ay, that's all very well" he cried; ''but
better stop here than dangle In chains No,
my friend; our plan must be a very different
one from your proposal. l suppose you want
your share Of the bootyin said he swapping
his fingers
II deserve it." said I, smiling, that right
soften his passion.
"And ~ you would convey tho most noted
pirate Of the age, with plunder In her to the
value OF thousands Of doubloons, to port in
which we should doubtless find ships Of war,
u
and the whole Of the machinery 1t Is our busi-
ness to give our stern toi Ma fol, Mr.. Rod.
ney! surely you are out In something more
than your reckoning Of timer
What do you proposer said I.
"HaP' he exclaimed, while his little eyes
twinkled with cunning, ''now you speak sem
sibly. What do proposei This, my friend.
We must navigate the schooner to an island
and bury the treasure; then head for the
shipping highways, and obtain help from any
friendly merchantmen We may fall in with
Home with us means the Tortugas. There
we shall find the company we need to recover
for us what we shall have hidden. We shall
come by our own then. But to sail with this
treasure on board-without crew TO defend
the vessel-by this hand! the first cruiser
that sighted us would make a clean sweep,
and then no for the hangman, Mr.. Rodneyr'
How much relished this scheme you will
Imagine; but to reason with him would have
been mere madness knitted my brows and
seemed to reflect, and then said: swell,
there is great deal Of plain, good sense in
what you say. / certainly see the wisdom of
your advice in recommending that we should
bury the treasure. Nor must we leave any
thing on board to convict the ship of her true
character
His greedy eyes sparkled with self-com-
placency. He tapped his forehead and cried:
Trust to thisl There is mind behind this
surface. Your plan for releasing the
schooner is great; mine for preserving the
treasure is great too. You are the sailor,
the strategist; by combining our genius we
shall pose IN invulnerable front to adver-
sty, and must end our days as princes. Your
hand, PAUL."
laughed and gave him my hand, which
he squeezed with many contortions Of face
and figure; but, though l laughed, don't
know that ever SO much dislked and dis
trusted and feared the old leering rogue as at
that moment.
"Come" cried I, jumping up, 'let's get
about our work" And with that pulled
open bag Of matches and fell to testing
them. They burned well. The fire ate into
them as smoothly as il they had been pre-.
pared the day before. They were all Of one
thickness. I cut them to equal lengths, and
fired them, and waited, watch in hand one
was burned out two minutes before the other,
and each length took about ten minutes to
consume. This was good enough to base my
calculations upon.
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