The Irish standard., 1897-10-02

N6oAA AoA tASAA dSAdy.
Search him. some of you Sinking
lubbers, and the rest OF you aloft and
get the chest" he cried
could hear their feet rattlng up our
old stairs, SO that the house must have
shaken With it. Promptly afterward,
fresh sounds Of establishment arose:
the window Of the captains room was
thrown open with slam and jingle
Of broken glass; and a man leaned out
into the moonlight, head and shout
| ders, and addressed the blind beggar on
| the road below him.
pew" he cried, "they've been be-
fore us. Some ones turned the chest
| out allow and aluft."
"Is it there?" reared Pew.
"The moneys there"
The blind man cursed the money.
"Flint's fist, l mean," he cried.
"We don't see it here nohow," re-
| turned the man.
"Here. YOU below here, is it on Bill?"
cried the blind man again.
| At that another fellow, probably he
who had remained below TO search the
captains body, came to the door of
lue luH. Din Deeu Ofefnauleu
already" said he, "nothin' left"
Its these people of the limits
that boy. l wish I had put his eyes
out!" cried the blind man, Pew "They
were here no time ago-thcy had the
door bolted when l tried it. Scatter,
| laos, and find 'em."
| "Sure enough, they left their glm
here" said the fellow from the window.
! Scatter and find EN-! Eout the
house out!" reiterated Pew, striking
with his stick upon the road.
Then there followed a great to-do
through all our old inn, heavy feet
pounding to and fro, furniture all
thrown over, doors kicked in, until the
very rocks reechoed, and the men came
! out again, one after another, on the
road, and declared that we were no.
where to be found And just then the
same whistle that had alarmed my
mother and myself over the dead cap
tnin's money was once more clearly
audible through the night, but this
time twice repeated. I had thought it
to be the blind mans trumpet, so to
speak, summoning his crew to the as
sault; but 1 now found that it was
signal from the hillside toward the
hamlet, and, from its effect upon the
| buccaneers, n signal to warn them OF
approaching danger.
'There's Dirk again." said one.
''Twice! Wen have to bulge, Mates"
"Budge, you skulk!" cried Pew.
/ "Dirk was fool and a coward from the
first-you wouldn't mind him. They
must be close by; they can't be far; you
have your hands on it. Scatter and look
for them, dogs. Oh, SILVER my SOUL"
he cried, "if I had eyes!"
This appeal seemed to,produce some
effect, for two of the fellows began to
| look here and there among the lumber,
but half heartedly, thought, and with
half an eye to their own danger all the
time, while the rest stood irresolute on
the road.
"You have your hands on thousands.
you fools, and you hang leg! You'd
be rs rich as kings if you could find it.
and you know it's here, and you stand
there malingering. There wasn't one
of you dared face Bill, and did it-a
! blind mnnl And Tn to lose my chance
for you! I'm to be poor, crawling
beggar, spomging for rum, when I
might be rolling in coach! fyou had
the pluck Of a weevil in a biscuit, yon
would catch them still"
Hang it, Pew, we've got the doub-
loons!" grumblcd one.
| "They might have hid the blessed
| thing" said another. "Take the
Georges, Pew. and don't stand here
squalling."
Signalling was the word for it. pew's
anger rose SO high at these objections,
till at last, his passion completely talk
ing the upper hand, he struck at them
right and left in his blindness, and his
stick sounded heavily on more than
one.
These, in their turn, cursed back ut
the blind miscrcant, threatened him in
horrid terms, and tried in vain to catch
the stick and wrcst it from his grasp.
/ This quarrel was the saving of lis;
for while it was still raging, another
sound came from the top of the hill
on the side of the humlet--thc tramp
of horses galloping. Almost at the
same time u pistol shot, flash and re-
port, came from the hedge side. And
that was plainly the last signal OF
danger; for the buccaneers turned at
once and ran, separating in every d.
rcction, one seward along the cove,
one slant across the HILL and so on, so
that in half Il minute not sign of them
remained but Pew. Him they had de-
serted, whether in sheer panic or out
OF revenge for his i'll words and bIows,
| know not: but there he remained be-
hind, tapping up and down the road
in frenzy. and cropping and calling
for his comrades. Finally he took the
wrong turn and ran few steps past
me, toward the hamlet, crying:
] johnny, Black Dog, Dirk" and other
names, you won't leave old Pew,
matcs-not old Pew"
4 just then the noise of horses topped
the rise, and four or five riders carlc
/ in sight in the moonlight and swept
at full gallop down the slope.
At this Pew saw his error, turned
with scream and rar straight for the
ditch, into which he rolled. But he
was on his feet again in second, and
made another dash. now utterly be-
! wi]tlcretl right under thc ncarcs4 ~