The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-09-03

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bones. The transportation of his hoard
and Encouragement of it in the new
quarters was another work that or Gu
pied no small time.
He kept q careful diagram of all the
places of deposit, and rude tally book
with the contents of each. The amount
grew apace; he had freight for many
mules, and, still attaching no definite
ideas of value to it, he was always
vaguely troubled by the speculation as
to how he should get it out Of the coun-
try; that he felt was likely to be an even
more difficult undertaking than the
other.
To really go to New York and enlist
some American capitalists who should
make it q sort Of international enter
prise; to contide III Gen. dc. rrado; to
pretend to engage in the business of
dealing in stock between this part of the
country and the coast, and, in his vari-
Gus trips, convey away the treasure de-
pending upon an arrangement with
some irregular vessel afterward to trans
port it over seas-all these projects
passed through his mind and their at
tendant obstacles followed close behind
them. He could not reconcile himself
to bringing in outside assistance at this
late stage; yet he was two hundred
miles from the coast by the nearest line,
and the country abounded in unscru-
pulous characters, not to say positive
brigands.
"But I will not cross the bridge till l
reach it," he said to himself; "there is
time enough and to spare, heaven knows,
and some way will surely be presented.
Meantime, he determined at last to
prepare statement for Amy containing
such a full explanation of his identity,
his depressed views of life, and the real
nature Of his mission in coming here, as
would set all that she ought to know or
might naturally be supposed to be inter
ested in knowing clearly before her. If
he failed she would at least comprehend
what he had tried to do, and-though if
hefailed life contained nothing but black
ness, and he looked forward in no phari-
saical way to winning her on his good
intentions alone-there would be a GER
tain mournful satisfaction in that. He
wanted her to have this before he saw
her again, that she might have had time
to be thinking it over. He included in
the confession no more of his love for
herself than might be inferred; all that
would come later.
The whole was disguised as before,
purporting to be only an account, by one
Ignacio Gomez, of what had happened
in the ancient land of Cibola.
There were two things in the valley
that greatly affected the imagination of
Walter. The one, which, as it came to
nothing, may first be briefly dismissed,
was the question, what had become of
all the deposit of the golden spring in
time gone by? Pressing almost unwar-
rantably close to the boiling stream in
defiance of the fierce heat, he found an
ancient inscription on one of a number
of great stones that seemed to have been
tumbled into it, as it were, above it's very
source. Perhaps these stones had come
there not by accident but design. The
stream rose in its greatest strength from
Immediately beneath them, being bent
down by them like stout sapling, and
thus forced over to impinge violently on
the rock whence the Yellow Snake leaped
forth. They certainly changed its course.
What if the accumulation of treasure did
not lie deep in the bowels Of the earth,
but only in the bed of this stream, which
had been turned over it by those who