Arizona republican., 1899-02-28
Treasure
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BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
(Continued From Yesterday

came back again, my pulse quieted
 down 10 a 1Hore natural time, and
 was once more in possession Of myself.
 It was my first thought to pluck forth the dirk; but either it stuck too
 hard or my nerve failed me, and I de-
 sisted with violent shudder. Oddly
 enough that very shudder did the busi-
 ness. The knife, in fact, had come the nearest in the world to missing me altogether; it held me by a mere pinch
 of skin, and this the shudder tore away.
 The blood ran down the faster, to be
 sure; but I was my own master again and only tackled to the mast by my coat and shirt.
 These last I broke through with a
 sudden jerk and then regained the deck
 by the starboard shrouds. For noth-
 ing in the world would I have again ven
 tured, shaken as 1 was, upon the over
 hanging port shrouds, from which Is
 rael had so lately fallen.
 I went below and did what I could
 for my wound; it pained me great
 deal and still bIed freely; but it was neither deep nor dangerous, nor did is greatly gall me when used my arm. Then I looked around me, and as the ship was now, in a sense, my own, I began to think of clearing it from it's last passenger-thc dead man, O'Brien.
 He had T:itchcd, as 1 have said against the bulwarks, where he lay like some horrible, ungainly sort of puppet; life size, indeed, but how different from life's color or life's comeliness! In that position I could easily have my way with him, and as the habit of tragical adventures had worn off almost all my terror for the dead, I took him by the waist as if he had been q sack of bran and, with one good heave, tumbled him overheard. He went in with a sounding plunge, the red cap came off and re- mained floating on the surface, and as soon as the splash subsided I could sec him and Israel lying side by side, both waverirg with the trenulous movement of the water. O'Brien, though still quite a young man, was very bald. There he lay, with that bald head across the knees of the man who had killed him and the quick fishes steering to and fro over both.
 l was now alone upon the ship; the tide had just turned. The sun was within so few degrees of setting that already the shadow of the pines upon the western shore began 10 reach right across the anchorage and fall in pat terms on the deck. The evening breeze had sprung up, and though it was we'll warded off by the hill with the two peaks upon the east, the cordage had be- gun to sing little softly to itself and the idle sails to rattle to and fro.
 I began to see a danger to the ship. The jibs I speedily doused and brought tumbling to the deck; but the mainsai1 was a harder matter. Of course, when the schooner canted over the boom had swung out-board and the cap of it and a foot or two of sail hung even under water. l thought this made it still more yet the strain was so heavy that I half feared to neddle. At last I got my knife and cut the halyardy. The peak dropped instantly, q great belly of loose canvas Heated broad upon the water, and since, pull as l liked, could not budge the dowEhaul, that was the extent of what I could accom- i plish. Fer the rest, the 'Hispaniola' | must trust to luck, like myself.
 By this time the whole anchorage had fallen into shadow-the last rays, I re- mem Der, falling through glade of the 1 wood and shining, bright as jewels, on | the fowery mantle of the wreck. It | began to be chill, the tide was rapidly | feeting seaward, the schooner settling | more and more on her beam-ends.
 I scrambled forward and looked over. It seemed shallow enough and, holding the cut hawscr in both hands for q last let myself drop softly over board. The water scarcely reached my waist, the sand was firm and covered with ripple marks, and I waded ashore n great spirits, leaving the ''Hispani- ola" on her side, with her Eainsail trail- ing wide upon the surface Of the bay. About the same time the sun went fair " down and the breeze N-histled low ill he dusk among the tossing pines.
 At least, and at last, l was off the sea, TOT had 1 returned thence empty handed. There lay the schooner, clear 1t last from buccaneers and ready for ,ur own men to board and get to sea again. I had nothing nearer my fancy han to get home to the stockade and 1oast of my achievements. Possibly I night be blar1ed bit for my truantry. ,ut the rccapture Of the ''Hispaniola" NdS cllHcnIGS dl-SNtl, HId | 1OPCtt hat even Capt. Smollett would con ,ess I had not lost my time.
 So thinking, and in famous spirits. l began to set my faoe homeward for the and my companions. Ire nembcrcd that the most eGsterly of the 'ivers which drain into Capt. kidd's anchorage ran from the t1vo-peaked hill lpon my left, and l bent my course n that direction that I might pass the trcam while it was small. The wood vas pretty open, and, keeping along he lower spurs, l soon turned the cor fer of that hill, ard not long after vaded to the mid-calf across the water : curse.
 This brought me near to where I en- Ben Gum, the maroon, and 1
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