The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1895-12-21

a'Humr said he. "A 1fth sharsI'
That Is not very tempting
1T would come TO fifty thousand
apiece said l.
"sBut how can we gain your free
dom? You know very we'll that you
ask an impossibility.'
Nothing of the Sort i answered.
i have thought II all out to the last de-
tail Tho only.. bar 70 our escape is
thatwc can get no boat 1T Tor The voy-
age. and no provisions TO last us for so
long time. There are plenty Of
little yachts ard yawls at Calcutta
or Madras which would serve our turn
well. DO you bring one over. We
shall engage 10 get aboard her by
night, and II you will drop us on any
part OF the Indian coast you win have
done your pnrt of the bargain
''If there were only one, he said.
"sNone or ALL answered. We
have sworn IL. The four of US must al
ways act together
"'You see, Morstan,' said he, Small
Is a man Of his word. lie does not
finch from his friends l think we
may very well trust him
Its dirty business the other an
swercd Yet, as you say, the money
somely.'
"Well, Small. said the major, we
must, suppose, try and meet you. We
must first, of course, test the truth OF
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 70 inquire into the affair
"'Not so fast, said /, growing colder
as he got hot i must have the con-
sent of my three comrades tell you
that It is four or none with U.S.
"Nonsensev he broke In. What
have three black fellows to do with our
agreementT
"'BlaclS or blue said /, they are in
with me. and we oil go together N
'Well, the matter ended by second
meeting, Mt which Mahomet Singh. Alb
dullah Khan and Dost Akbar were all
present. We talked the matter over
again, and Mt last we came 20 an ar
rangement. We were 10 provide both
the officers with charts of the part of
the Agra fort and mark the place ia
the wall where the treasure was hid.
Maj. Sholto was TO go To India 60 test
our story. II he found the box he was
TO leave IL there, 20 send out small
yacht provisioned for voyage, which
was Co lie Off Rutland island, and %
which we were to make our way, and
finally TO return 20 his duties. Capt.
Morstan was then TO apply for leave of
absence, TO meet us'at Agra, and there
we were 60 have final division of the
treasure, he taking the majors share
as well us his own. All this we sealed
by the most solemn oaths that tho
mind could think or the lips utter.
sat up ali 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.
"Well, gentlemen, weary you with
my long story, and l know that my
friend Mr.. Jones is impatient TO get
me safely slowed in cholxey. I'll make
IL as short as l can. The william.
Sholto went of TO India, but he never
showed mo his name among list OF
passengersin 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
20 treat five men as he had treated us.
Morstan went over TO Agra shortly
afterwards, and found. as we expected,
that the treasure was indeed gone. The
scoundrel had stolen IL all, without
carrying out one Of thc conditions on
which we had soldehm the secret.
From that day I lived only for ven
geance. / thought OF IL by day and
nnrsed II by night II became nm over
towering, absorbing passion with me.
/ cared nothing for the law-nothing
for tho gallows. TO escape, 90 track
down Sholto. to have my hand upon his
throat-thntwa my one thought. Even
the Agra treasure had come To be a
smaller thing in my mind thnni the
Staying OF Sholto.
"Well, have set my mind on many
things in this life, and never one which
/ did not carry out. But IL was weary
years before my time came. have
told you that ! had picked up some
thing OF medicine. One day when DIR.
Somerton was down with fever lit
tie Andaman islander was picked up
Il n