Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-04-03
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 in French: arris natural;" then proceelinc in English: "Pray," said he, showing bis fangs. ssdo not you know that the Boca daI Dragon is a pirate? Do you want to ba hanged. that you propose to carry her to a port to ship men?'
 q have no fear of that" said I; ssafter all these wears she'll be as clean forgotten as if she had never had existence"
 aLook ye here, Mir. Rodney" cried he in a passion. sslets have no more of this sniyel. ing nonsense about years. You may be as mad-as you please on that point, but it sha,n't hang me- It needs more than few months to make men forget craft that has car riefl 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: |: and I've slept the punch off also, dye scel Whatl betray our treasure, and be hanged for our generosity"
 He made me an ironical bow, grinning with wrath
 "Lets get the schooner aaoat first, {" said I.
 sAy, that's all very well, ," he cried; 'sbut better stop here than dangle in chains. No, my friend: our plan must be a very different one from your proposal. I suppose you want your share of the booty2' said he, snapping his fingers.
 q deserve it" said I, smiling, that might soften his passion
 "And yet you would convey the most noted pirate of tho age, with plunder in her to the value of thousands of doubloons, to a port in which we should doubtless find ships of war, garrison, magistrates, governors, prisons, and the whole of the machinery it is our busi- ness to give our stern to! Ma foi, MT. Rod ney! surely you are out in something more than your reckoning of time"
 "What do you proposea said l.
 "Ha!" he exclaimed, while his little eyes twinkled with cunning, s'now you speak sem sibly. What do propose? 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 a crew to defend the vessel-by this handl the first cruiser that sighted us would make clean sweep, and then ho for the hangman, MT. RodneyI'
 How much relished this scheme you will imagine; but to reason with him would have been mere madness. I knitted my brows and seemed to reflect, and then said: "Well, there is great deal of plain, good sense in what you say. I 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 Crust to this! 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, I the strategist; by combining our genius we shall oppose an invulnerable front to adver- sity, and must end our days as princes. Your hand, Paul!'
 l laughed and gave him my hand, which he squeezed with many contortions of face and figure; but, though laughed, I don't know that 1 ever so much disliked 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 I pulled open bag of matches and fell to testing them. They burned well. The fire ate into them as smoothly as if 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