The Forrest City times., 1888-03-17
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fY,s eaurnre had come oacs ss ne sreae,l and some of the co.or of hie face along wisn 1t. Already the others had begun to lend sn ear to his encouragement and were coming little to themselves, when the same voice broke out again-fot this time singing oos in a faint distant hall. that echoed yss fainter among the clefts of the spy-glsss.
 Darby MGraw," 1t wailed-for that V the word that best describes the sound Darby MGrawl Darby MGrawr again and again and again; and then rising lisslc higher. and with an oath that l leave outt Fetch aft the rum, DarbyP'
 The buccaneers remained rooted to the cfound. their eyes starting from their heads Long after the voice had died away they still stared in silence, dfeadtully, before them.
 That fixes tr' gasped one. Let's go"
 .They was his last words" moaned Nor gan. "his last words. sbove-board"
 Dick had his Bible out, and was praying volubly. He had been well brought up, had Dick, before he came to sea and fell among bad companions.
 Sill. Silver was unconquered. 1 could hear his teeth rattle in kis head; but he had not yet surrendered.
 Nobody in this here island ever heard of Darby" he muttered; mot one but us that's here" And then making a great effort, "ShIpmates,1 he cried, "im here to get that stuff, and I'll not be beat by man nor devil. 1 never was feared of Flint in hs life. and. by the powers. I'll face him dead. There's seven hundred thousand pound nou a quarter of a mile from here. When did ever gentleman O fortune show his stern to that much dollars, for boosy old seaman with blue mug--and him dead, to0g'
 But there was flo sign Of reawskening courage in his followers; rather, inoeed, ot growing terror at the irreverence of his words.
 "Belay there. JohnP' said Merry. Don't you cross a sperrit,"
 And the rest were all too terrified 0 reply, They would have run away severally had they dared, but feat kept them together, and kept theE, close ty Jchn, as fl his daring helped tliem. He. on his part, had pretty well fought his weakness down.
 'Sperrit? We'll, maybe" he said. But there's one thing not clear to me. There was an echo. Now. no man ever seen Q sperrit with shadow; well, then. what's he doing with an echo to him, l should like to knowP That aint In natur, sirelyY'
 This argument seemed weak enough to mo, But you can never tell what will effect the superstitous, and, to my wonder, George Merry was greatly relieved.
 Well. that's so,v he said. You've head upon your shoulders, John, and nc mistake. Bout ship, matesl This hero creys Is on wrong tack. do believe. And
 fba nj vntr | grant YOU, but not just so clear-away like It. after all. It was liSer somebody sise's voice now-lt was liker--"
 By the powers, Ben GunnY' rosred SD vel
 "Ay. and so it were" cried Morgan, sprineiug on his kDees. "Ben Gum t were.'
 Ut don't make much odds, do it nowr asked Dick. Ben Gunn's not here in body any more'n Flint"
 But the older hands greeted this remarh with scorn Why nobody minds Ben aunn," cried Merry; 'dead or alive, no- body minds him "
 1t was extraordinary how their spirits had returned, and how the natural color had rer yiyed in their faces. Soon they were chat ting together, with intervals of listeningl and not long after, hearing no further sound, they shouldered the tools and set forth again. Merry walking first with Silver'i compass to keep them on the right une with Skeleton Island. He had said the truth, dead or alive, nobody minded Ber Gum.
 Dick alone held his Bible, and looked around him as he went, with fearful gian- ces; hut he found no sympathy, and Shvsr even joked him on his precautions.
 "I told you" said he-'I told you, you had spilled your Bible. fit amt no ecca to swear by, what do you suppose sperTit would give for itP Not thatP and he snapped his big fingers, hsltfng moment on his crutch.
 But Dick was not to be comforted; In, deed, 1t was soon plain to me that the iad was falling sick; hastened by heat ex- haustion, and the shock of his alarm, the fever. predicted by Doctor Liyesey, was evidently growing swiftly higher. 1t was fine open walking here, upon the summit; our way lay little down-hill, for, as have said, the plateau tilted toward the west The pines. great and small grew wide apart and even between the clumps
 
 baked in the hot sunshine. Striking, ss ws did, pretty near northwest across the island, we drew, on the one hand. ever nearer under the shoulders of the Spy-glass, and on tho other, looked ever wider over the western bay where 1 had once tossed and trembled in the corace
 The first of the tall trees was reached, and by the bearing, proved the wrong one SC Al. .ri. fkxy% hundred feet in the air above a clump of un- | derwood; giant of a vegetable, with red | column as big as a cottage, and wide shad' ow around in which company could have maneuvered. It was conspicuous far to sea both on the east and west and might have been entered as . sailing mark upon the | chart
 But 1t was not it's size that now impressed my companions; 1t was tEe knowledge that seven hundred thousand pounds in gold lay somewhere buried below it's spreading sbad. ow The thought of the money, as they drew nearer, swallowed up their previous teuors. Their eyes burned in their headsi their feet grew speedier and lighter; their whole soul was bound up in that fortune, that whole lifetime of extravaganza and pleasure, that lay waiting there for each of them.
 Silver hobbled. grunting, on his crutchi his nostris stood out and quivered; he cursed like mailman when Il flies settled on his hot and shiny countenance; he plncked furiously at the line that beld me to him, and, from time to time, turned his eyes upon me with deadly look. Certain ly he took no pains to hide his thoughts; | and certainly read them like print In the immediate nesness of the gold, all else had been forgotten; his promise and the doctor warning were both things of the past, and could not doubt that he had hoped to seize | upon the treasure; find and board the Ills paniOla under cover of night cut every hon | est throat about that island, and sail away as he had at first intended, laden with crimes and riches.
 1 Shaken as was with these alarms, it was hard for me 10 keep mp with the rapid pace ..r kk. h ,tssrs N,4xaf taI