Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1893-05-13

$50 You want to buy The Black Peari2
To buy Il! You .foolm shrieked Old
China when the Mexican had finished
his story. what do, you know about
it?' Issiiils,s;i
III know what was said when the COM
andante was found dead, and that che
police were afraid to search for it Five
hundred pesos 90 its use tonight-tt!hH,ats
Is all i ask =, .5l.s;si fe;sg5....5s3s ID
1.-The police are fools, and yon are q .
fool. I'll know nothing about the Black,
Pearl. ".5..,ts. ;i>t4J ;sgts, ij.z-4s02 ,9Sl
Come, China : "A, thousand pesos Tor
its use. and the knowledge VITO use IT.
"a thousand pesos muttered. the oia.
woman: ''.Have you the money WIN,
your -. !.,i:se.a., ..,.I H.
for only this one night ..lslsa
China waddlod into anadjoining Eoom,I
whence after, much delay she, brought
forth q package carefully wrapped ana
sealed. "Youlnust notlundo THIS sanor' !
she said. ''or you, too. will snfferf you
see the pearl.
=. = .1} A..iiifs
The laughter and song in the adobe
cssits stopped, at a lnookl'on the ooter
door. and Ned aMarrcn's pretty Acapul-1i
can answered the summons. a neat
parcel was handed her blythe messenger,
which she eagerly unfolaed. with: the,
compliments Of -" 1t said. but she
knew tho handwriting 5s5ni f,;s.9l 7i.,.-t.s
.How funny at, thishourE she thought,i
but her Swapping black eyes danced with
alee as she undid the parcel and found II
to contain an immense black pearl set
in beaten yellow mesll Of quaint work i
manship. At her exclamation OF delight,
the others grouped about, and the object
/ OF their adnliring Chances was LAID upon
the table for inspection. ..i....l =
An instructive shudder passed through
Sanford as Muriella laid 1t under the
candle light. It seemed to emit a pecu-
liar light; and queer; pricking sensat
ton went through his veins as be viewed
the iewel-the largest of its kind ne, had
ever seen. As he looked a feeling OF ex-
hilaration came over him, such as he
had not felt during the evening. ~, 81. q,
That last drink OF tequila was too
much, The thonght.-but the others, too
were beginning to cvince signs OF hveh-
ness.even greater than all the hilartty OF
the night had brought forth. A faint
blue haze seemed to cover every object
in thesrooAl.. The figures Of the girls at
intervals looked far away and then Near
by. while feeling Of utter recklessness
pcrvaded hisywhole being. All the phan-
tasms>or the; opium yeister could not be
more weiid than those which came into
Sanaerd,s >brsia, rs His gaze was 7riveted
on the jewel lying among the candles
EgrouseA around it 'ea the table, ln+hesr
di1a-lixht 4. seeMedcta grow, andrsfoW,
emitting .tdc:f1o,rtsrnt sio,v that, but for
,, the spirit Of recklessness winch possessed
him, would have filed his soul with
dread se--As -:
1.-The fandnngo.- cried one OF the girls,
wiears wild ,bsrst Of hUghtey.s "Ees Us
daneso1lce 1.... ;ur feel as though my
featywerc on ..i.." and when the guitar
sounded the notes Of the dance the dano-
ers seemed: 10 enter into it with fendish
delight and boisterious enthusiasm. Back
and forth they crossed. swayinegr hke;wil-
! lows in the wind, with hands nhipsahd
heads we'll back. their fcetapatteri1g:
starn ping, to the twtlnging of theegnifaf.
/ Faster and faster their noYeInentsibe.
l camel asntheGmnsit seenied5te hlE every
fbercwith It's wild action. TS1s.s ~ So
-
Five bodies were found finathe adobe
casita next morning. butwith-no marks
Of violence or other signs to- show the
cause Of death .--z-=-.--.
The gossips OF that. quaint Mexican
seaport tell a weirdSt;le of u black pearl
takon from the gulf, that acts upon be-
holders as does the, loco weed upon oil
who taste that evil plant and they tell
too. of mad dance of death years age
when.two foreigners and three beauties
Of the place fell exhausted about the
jewel, whose delnoniacal fire kept then
treading: the. fnndango TIL every: energy
was gone and life went from them
John Craig in San Francisco Argonaut