The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1898-08-27
PART vi.
CHAPTER xXXII.

CHAPTER AAAll.
THE TREASURE HUNT-THE VOICE
AMONG THE TREES.
Partly from the damping influence
of this alarm, partly to rest Silver and
the sick folk. the whole party sat down
as soon as they had gained the brow Of
the ascent.
The plateau being somewhat tilted
toward the west, this spot on which
we had paused commanded wide pros
pect on either hand. Before us, over
the tree-tops. we beheld the Cape OF the
Woods fringed with surf; behind, we
not only looked down upon the anchor
age and Skeleton island, but saw-clear
across the spit and the eastern low
lands-a great field of open sea upon
the east. Sheer above us rose the Spy
glass, here dotted with single pines, there
black with preclpices. There Yves no
sound but that of the distant breakers,
mounting from all round, and the chirp
OF countless insects in the brush. Not
a man, not sail upon the sea; the very
largcness Of the view increased the
sense Of solitude.
Silver, as he sat, took certain bear
ings with his compass.
"There are three tall trees" said
he, "about In the right line from Skele-
ton island. 'Spy-glass shoulder take
Il, means that lower pint there. It's
child's play to find the stuff now. I've
half mind TO dine first"
"I don't feel sharp" growled Morgan.
'Thinkin' o. Flint think 1t were-'as
done me-"
"Ah, well, my son, you praise your
stars he's Dead" said Silver.
"He was an ugly devil" cried third
pirate, with a shudder; "that blue In the
face, tool"
THAT was how the rum took him."
added Merry. "Bluel well, reckon he
was blue. That's true word"
Ever since they had found the skele-
ton and got upon this train of thought
they had spoken lower and lower, and
they had almost got TO whispering by
now, SO that the sound of their talk
hardly interrupted the silence of the
wood. All of n sudden, out of the mid
die of the trees In front of US, thin,
high, trembling voice struck up the
well-known air and words:
Fifteen men on the dead mans chest
Yo-ho-ho. and 9 bottle OF ruml'
never have seen men more dreadful
ly affected than the pirates. The color
went from their six faces like enchant-
ment; some leaped TO their feet, some
clawed hold of others; Morgan groveled
on the ground.
IA MArTV
The song had stopped as suddenly as
4 began--broken of, you would have
said, in the middle Of note, as though
some one had laid his hand upon the
singers mouth. Coming so far through
the clear, sunny atmosphere among the
green tree-tops, thought II had sound
ed airily and sweetly, and the effect on
my companions was the stranger.
"Come," said Silver, struggling with
his ashen lips TO get the word out, tha'
won't do. Stand by TO go about. This
"a a rum start, and / can't name the
voice, but it's some one skylarking-
some one that's flesh and blood anu
you may lay TO that"
His courage had come back as he
spoke, and some Of the color TO his face
along with IL. Already the others had
begun 20 lend an ear TO this encourage
ment. and were coming little 10 them
selves. when the same voice broke Out
sgain-not this time singing. but In q
yaint. distant hail, that echoed ye'
fainter among the clefts OF the spy
glass.
"Darby M'Graw," IL wailed--for tina
IN the word that best describes tn'
sound - DARBY MGrawl Darb,
MGrawi" again and again and again
and then rising little higher, and VIII
an oath that leave out: Fetch at th'
rum, Darbyl"
The buccaneers remained rooted u
The ground, their eyes starting iron
their heads. Long after the voice has
died away they still stared In silence
dreadfully, before then.
THAT fixes It'll" gasped one. Lett
TO-"
They was his last Words moane.
Morgan; "his last words above-board'
Dick had his Bible out and was pray
ing yolubly. He had been well brough
up. had Dick. before he came to eel
and fell among bad companions.
Still, Silver WIS unconquered. Icoui'
hear his teeth rattle In his head; but n
had not yet surrendered.
"Nobody In this here island eve
heard of Darby" he muttered; mot on
bui % that's here" And then, making