Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1895-05-23
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must nrst, Ol course, test the nti.t, -.
your story Tell me where the box Is
hid, and shall get leave Of absence
and go back TO India in the monthly
relief-boat to inquire into the affair
Not so fast, said I, growing colder
as he got hot i must have the con-
sent Of my three comrades ! tell you
that ii Is four or none with u.s.
Nonsense he broke In. What
have three black fellows TO do with our
agreement?
"'Black or blue said |, they are In
with me, and we all go together
We'll, the matter ended by second
meeting, at which Mahomet Singh, Abb
dullah Khan and Dost Akbar were all
present We talked the matter over
again, and at last we came to an ar
rangement. We were to provide both
the officers with charts OF the part OF
the Agra fort and mark the place In
the wall where the treasure was hid.
Mai Sholto was to 60 to India to test
our story II he found the box he was
to leave IL there, to send out small
yacht provisioned for a voyage, which
was TO lie off Rutland island, and to
which we were to make our way, and
finally to return to his duties. Capt.
Morstan was then to apply for leave OF
absence, TO meet us at Agra, and there
We were to have n final division Of the
treasure, he taking the majors share
az well as his own All this we sealed
by the most solemn oaths that the
mind could think or the lips utter I
sat up all night with paper and ink.
and by morning | had the two charts
all ready, signed with the sign Of four
that is, of Abdullah, Akbar, Mahomct
and myself.
swell, gentlemen, | weary You with
my long story, and | know that my
friend Mr.. Jones Is impatient to get
me safely slowed in chokcy. I'll make
IT as short as can. The villain,
sholto, went off to India, hut he never
came back again Capt. NlorStan
showed me his name among Il list OF
passengers in one of the mail boats
very shortly afterwards His uncle
had died, leaving him fortune, and he
had left the army, yet he could stoop
to treat five men as he had treated us.
Morstan went over to Agra shortly
afterwards, and found, as we expected,
that the treasure was indcedgon The
scoundrel had stolen it all, without
carrying ont one Of the conditions on
which we had sold him the secret
From that day lived only for ven
geance. thought of 1t by day and |
nursed 1t by night. 1t became an over
powcring, absorbing passion with me.
cared nothing for the law--nothing
for the gallows. To escape, to track
down Sholto, to have nv hand upon his
throat-that was my one thought. Even
the Agra treasure had come to be "a
smaller thing in my mind than the
Staying of Sholto.
"Well, have set my mind on many
things in this life, and never one which
| did not carry out. But 1t was weary
years before my time came. have
told you that | had picked up some
thing of medicine. One day when Dr..
Somerton was down with fever lit
tie Andaman islander was picked up
by convict gang in the woods. lie
was sick to death, and had gone to
lonely place to die. took him in
hand, though he was as venomous as a
snake, and after couple of months
got him all right and able to walk. lie
took Il kind Of fancy to me then, and
would hardly 60 back to his woods,
but was always hanging about my hut
] Learned little of his lingo from him,
and this made him all the fonder of me.
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