Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-08-11
CHAPTER ".
r.. SEA CHEST.

1 10, Z no time, of course, In telling
my>z1other all that knew, and perhaps
should have told her long before. and
we saw ourselves at once in a difficult
and dangerous position. Some of the
mans money-if he had anyways GER
tainly due to us; but il was not likely
that our captains shipmates, above all
the two specimens seen by me, Black
Dog and the blind beggar, would be
inclined 10 give up their booty in pay
ment of the dead mans debts. The
captains order 10 mount at once and
ride for DIR. Livesey would have left my
mother alone and unprotected, which
was not TO be thought of. Indeed, il
seemed impossible for either of us TO
remain much longer in the house; the
fan Of Goals in the kitchen CRATE, the
very ticking of the clock. filled us with
alarms.
The neighborhood, to our ears,
seemed haunted by approaching foot
steps, and what between the dead body
tthe captain on the parlor floor, and
The thought Of that detestable blind
beggar lowering near at hand aud
ready TO return, there were moments
when. as the saying goes, jumped in
my skin for terror. Something must
speedily be resolved upon; and il &C.
CURED to MS at last TO go forth to-
gether and seek help in the neighbor-
ing hamlet. No sooner said than done.
Bare-hesded as we were, we ran out
at once in the gathering evening and
the frosty fog.
The hamlet lay not many hundred
yards away, though out of view, ON the
other side Of the next cove; and, what
greatly encouraged me, il was in an
opposite direction from that whence
the blind man had made his appear
snce, and whittier he had presumably
returned We were not many minutes
on the road. though we sometimes
stopped to lay hold Of each other and
hearken. But there was no unusual
sound-nothing but the low wash of
the ripple and the crosking of the
crows in the wood.
II was already candle-light when we
reached the hamlet, and l shall never
forget how much was cheered TO see
the yellow shine in doors and windows;
but that. as it proved, was the best
Of the help we were likely TO get in
that quarter. For-you would have
thought men would have been ashamed
of themselves-no soul would consent
10 return with us 20 the Admiral Ben
bow. The more we told of our trou-
blek, the more-man, woman and child
they chung to the shelter of their
houses. The name of Capt. Flint,
though II was strange to me, was well
enough known TO some there. and car
ried q great weight of terror. Some
Of the men who had been to field-work
on the far side of the Admiral Ben
bow remembered, besides, to have seen
several strangers on the road, and, taxi
ing them to be smuggiers, to have bolt
ed away; and one at least had seen
Q little lugger in what we called Kits
Hole. For that matter, anyone who
was a comraae of the captains was
enough to brighten them to death. And
the short and the long of the matter
wss. that while we could get several
who were willing enough to ride to
o.. Livesey's, which lay in another di-
psction. not one would help us to de-
Ind the inn.
They say cowardice e infectious; but
then argument IL. on the other hand,
great emboldener; and 20 when each
sad HE say, my mother made them o
peseh She would not. she declared,