Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-04-22

salt very eager to restore his old eompan-
ions and shipmaies to life. / was search
ing for an answer 10 his strange inquiry,
"Why?" when he proceeded: First OF
sll, my friend Trentanove was stone blind,
and Barrcs nearly blind. Unless you could
return them their sight with their life
they would curse You for disturbing them.
Bette. the blackuess Of death than the
blacsness Of life"
"Thsre Is the body of the captain"
said I.
He grinned.
"Let them Sleep said he. iDo you
know that they are cutthroats, who would
reward your kindness with the ponisrd
that You might not tell tales against them,
or claim share of the treasure in this yes
sci? OF all desperate villains never met
the like Of BsrrOs. He loved blood even
better than money. He'd quench his thirst
before an engagement with gunpowder
man-tut! he Is very well-leave him to
his repose"
In the glow of the FIRE he looked uncom-
monty saTdonic and wild, with his long
bsard, bald head, flowing hair, shaggy
brows, aud little cunning eyes, which
seemed in their smallness to share in his
grin, and yet did not; and though to be
sure he was some one TO talk to and to
make plans with for our escape, yet / felt
that if he were to fall into q stupor again
it would not be my hands that should cha!e
him into being.
"You knew those men in life" said I.
tfTE a L. - H. n
the Portuguese, by al means let the mile
frJzsn.n
But, my friend" said he, calling me
mon ami, which translate, that's not 1t
either. Do you know the value OF the
booty in this schooner"
answered, ''No;;' how was i to know
il? I had met with nothing but wearing
apparel and some pieces OF money and a
few watches in the forscastle. He knit his
brows with fierce, suspicious CLEAN In
his eyes.
"But you have searched the vesselG"
he cried.
81 have searched, as you call it-that is,
I have cralled through the hold as far as
the powder room"
And farther aft?"
mo, not father aft. ("
His continuance cleared
'You scared me-" said he, fetching 9
deep breath. II was afraid that some one
had been beforehand with Us, But it is
not conceivable. Mo- we shall look for il
presently, and we shall find it."
Find what, Mr.. Tassar6?p said I.
be held up the fingers Of his right baud:
lone, two, three, four, fiye-flve chests OF
plate and money; one, two, three-three
cases Of virgin silver in ingots; one chest
of gold iDgots; one case of jswelry. In all
he paused to enter into o calculation,
moving his lips briskly rs he whispered to
himself-"betwsen ninety and one hun
dred thousand pounds Of your English
money"
/ stifed the amazement his words ex-
cited, ond said, coldly, "You must have
met with soue rich ships"
eve did WELL" he answered. ''My
memory is goOd"-he counted airesh on
his fiDgers-''ten cases in sll. Fortune is
a strange wencS, Mr.. Rodney. Who would
think of finding her lodged on an iceberg?
Now bring those others up to life, and you
make US five. What would follow, think
you2 what but this?"
he raised his beard and stroked his
throat with the sharp of his hand. Then,
swallowing great draught of brandy, he
rose and stopped to listen.
SIT is blowing hard" said he; 'the
harder the better. want TO see this island
knocked into bergs. Every sea is as good
"a a pieksx! Hard! there are those crack
ling noises I used 10 hear before fell into
stupor. Where do you Sleep"
told him.
''My birth is the third" said he. 81
wish to smoke, and will fetch my pipe"
He took the lantern and went aft, set
ing as if he had left that berth an hour
ago, and understood in the face of this
ready recurrence of his memory how i'm
possible it would be ever to make him be-
lieve he bsd been practically lifsless since
the year 1853. When he returned be had
on hairy cap, with large covers for the
ears, and big flap behind that fell to he
low bis collar, and was almost as long a.
his hair. He produced pipe of the Dutch
pattern, with bowl carved into deaths
head and great enough to hold cake Of
tobacco. The skull might have been a
child's for siza, and though it was dyed
with tobacco Juice, and the top blackened
with live Goals which had been held to it,
it was so finely carved that it looked very
CHASTITY and terribly real in his hand as he
sat putting it,