Connecticut western news., 1892-01-21

Teat. ollI was qulChIy sls, ...>, schooner escaped through the eastern outlet. The storm of the previous night ,till ragged wild and fierce. The sea was
 ashed to fury. The waves ran high, . striking the vessel with resistless force, ,tEov-ic~ h-- o1 3 arnk2G Te-P. TTith 3-''9 '9y:.'.''>s -'>''.si-, ;rai3 prayer 70 ,.tS i Sod Tg.4>,>5 s-,,!.> tssly A,-2 outraged, leT wretched crew were launched into eter- nity. All were thought to have per | shed.
 Twenty years passed, new genera | sion grew up, and the story of Manning and his exploits was well nigh forgotten. 1 Then, as now, trading vessels from Nova Scotia frequented the coast to supply the ] scattered settlements with the necessa- | ries of life, receiving in return furs and fish.
 In the year 1880 the captain of one of these vessels happened to be in an inn in Halifax talking over his summer voy- ages, while smoking pipe with friend. They observed that an old man, sitting at table near them slipping his whisky and water slowly. appeared highly inter- ested in their conversation.
 
 old man followed him into the street and eagerly questioned him about the Labra- Tor coast. Before they parted he made the captain promise to take him to the Bay of the Dead the following spring. Captain Black had harbored there once during a great storm. In tue spring, when the warm rays of the sun had loosed the icy barriers of the coast, Cap tain Black, mindful of his promise, sought the mysterious old man, but found him dying of fever. Amid the rawlings of delirium the astonished and horror stricken captain was told tale of murder, bloodshed and robbery on the high seas, and of the hidden treasure of the Bay of the Dead.
 Manning flor the dying man was none other than the notorious ex-pirate), with blasphemous curses foretold death and destruction to any one who should at tempt to secure the i'll gotten wealth. In a paroxysm of fear and despair he died unrepentant, uuabsolved. The captain was too bold a man to be deter red from seeking the treasure by dying mans curse, so he immediately Set sail for the Bay of the Dead.
 The weather being foggy and the coast dangerous, he approached with the ut most caution. Within few hundred yards of the coveted goal, the burying ground, a strange faintness came over him, his limbs refused to bear him. Eager to secure the treasure, which had from long breeding become his sole ob- ject in life, he with a great effort drag ged himself to the bow of the vessel. At that moment the oninous words, Death, death, deathr' sounded in his startled ears.
 A mortal fear overspread him, and he had barely sufficient strength to order the crew to put about. The sailors. wondering at the strange conduct of their captain. obeyed just in time to pre- vent striking a sunken reef. Among the crew of Captain Blacks vessel on this occasion was a lad of some thirteen years cr age. Ricketts by name. The captain had made rather d pet of this boy, and during the long voyage had related to him the story of Manning. Thirty years passed, and no further attempt was made to wrest the wealth from it's ghostly keeper. In the year 1860 Rick
 
 the United States, was a haunted man. r. In dreams and i'll his waking hours the apparition of Manning followed him, urging him to go to the Bay of the Dead and secure the treasure. Old inhabitants of the coast say that in that year QS60l a strange vessel flying the American flag sailed into the harbor of the Bay of the Dead. Tine captain, whose name was Ricketts, hired fishing boat, and while ostensibly engaged in fishing operations spent great pat of his time in explor- ing the shore and digging. After a month spent in this mysterious way he departed, returning, however, the fol- lowing summer.
 Again he was watched, and from the burial ground at the Bay of the Dead was seen to unearth large wooden box pr cask, which he carried off with him. Again, so late as 1880, a strange Amer ican vessel paid mysterious visits to the bay. Their object was and is a subject | of endless conjecture among the fisher | folk.
 There are now many graves at the Bay of the Dead, and the good people of the coast, with their great respect for the dead, disturb them not to search for hid den treasures.
 It cannot be asserted positively that the treasure of Manning has been torn from its hiding place and the spirit of the murdered negro released from his
 long and faithful vigil. But it is a sure and certain fact that a dweller under the cliffs of the bay has of late. without ap-
 parent effort, become very wealthy, and
 rumor hints of treasure trove. Such is
 the story of Manning as related by a na-
 tive of that bleak and desolate coast, and
 though the mellowing hand of time has
 thrown halo of romance over the pic
 turesque Bay of the Dead and the deeds
 done there, the main facts are we'll es.
 tablished.-Maud Ogilby in Boston
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