Arizona republican., 1899-03-06
CHAPTER XXXIIT.
rHE HALL oF A CHIEFTAIN.

There never was such an overturn in this world. Each of these six men was as though he had been struck. But with Silver the blow passed almost ip-- stantly. Every thought of his soul had been set full-stretch. like 8 racer, on that money; well, he was brought up in single second, dead; and he kept his head, found his temper, and changed his plan before the others had had time to realize the disappointment.
 "Jim,' he whispered take that, and stand by for trouble.'
 And he passed me double-barreled pistol.
 At the same time he began quietly moving northward, and in a few steps had put the hollow between us two and the other five. Then he looked at me and nodded, as much as to say: Here is a narrow corner,' as, indeed, I thought it was. His looks were now quite friendly; and I was so revolted at these constant changes that I could not forbear whispering: "So you've changed sides again"
 There was TO time left for him to answer in. The buccaneers, with oaths and cries, began to leap, one after an- other, into the pit, and to dig with their fingers, throwing the boards aside as they did so. Morgan found a piece of gold. He held it up with a perfect spout of oaths. It was two-guinea piece, and it went from hand to hand among them for a quarter of min ute
 1.-Two guineas!" roared Merry, shall ing it at Silver. That's your Z 100000, is it? You're the man for bargains, ain't you? You're him that never bun gled nothing, you wooden-headed lub ber!"
 Dig away, boys." said Silver, with the coolest insolence; you'll find some pig-nuts, and 1 shouldn't wonder
 ''Pig-nuts?" repeated Merry. in a scream. Mates. do you hear that? I tell you, now, that man there knew it all along. Look in the face of him, and you'll see it wrote there."
 "Ah, Merry remarked Silver, stand ing for cap'n again? You're pushing lad, to be sure"
 But this time everyone was entirely in Merry's favor. They began to scram- bIe out of the excavation, Carting fu- rious looks behind them One thing 1  they all got out upon the opposite side | from Silver.
 We'll, there we stood, two on one side, five on the other, the pit between us, and nobody screwed up high enough | to offer the first blow. Silver never he watched them very upright | on his crutch. and looked as cool as ever 1 saw him. He was brave, and no mis- take.
 At last, Merry seemed to think a speech might help matters.
 Mates" says he, there's two of | them alone there; ones the old cripple that brought us all here and blurdered us down to this; the others that cub that I mean to have the heart of. Now, mates-'
 He was raising his arm and his voice, and plainly meant to lead q charge. But just then-crack! crack! crack!- three musket shots flashed out of the thicket. Merry tunbled head foremost into the excavatioE; the man with the bandage spun round like q teetotum, and fell all his length upon his side, where he lay dead, but still twitching: and the other three turned and ran for it with all their might.
 Before you could wink Long John had fired three barrels of q pistol into the struggling Merry; and as the man rolled up his eyes at him in the last agony. George" said he, ''I reckon I settled you'
 At the same moment the doctor, Gray, and Ben Gum joined us, with smoking from among the nutmeg trees.
 "Forward!" cried the doctor, Double quick, my lads. We must head eIn off the boats."
 And we set off et great pace, some times rlunging through the bushes to the chest.
 I tell you. but Silver was anxious to keep up with us. The work that man went through, leaping on his crutch til the muscles of his chest were fit to burst, was work TO sound man ever and so thinks the doctor As it was, he was already 30 yards behind us and on the verge of strangling when