Arizona republican., 1899-02-11

in all my fancies nothing occurred to me so strange and tragic as our actual adventures.
 So the weeks passed on, till one fine day there came letter addressed to Dr.
 Livesey. with this addition: 'To be opened in the case of his absence by Tom Redruth, or young Hawkins" Obeving this order we found, CT rather I found-for the gamekeepcr was q poor hand at reading anything but print-the following important news:
 "Old Anchor Inn, Bristol. March 1, IT..
 Dear L4ivesey: As 1 do rot E-.ow Wheth- CT YOU are Q the Hall or :t!I in London. I send this ia double to both places.
 ..The ship is bought and fitted. She lies tat anchor, ready fer sea. You never inn agined q sweeter schooner-a child might ! sail her-two hundred tons; Lame, His ! p2niOla.'
 T got her through my old friend, Bland ly. who has proved himself throughout the most surprising trump. The afnirable fellow literally slaTed in my interest, and so may say, did every one in Bristol, as | soon as they got wind of the port we sailed ] for-treasure, mean"
 "Redruth,' said I, interrupting the letter, Dr. Livesey will not like that. l The squire has been talking after all"
 Well, who's got better right?" growled the gamekecper. "A pretty rum go if squire ain't to talk for Dr. Liyesey. I should think
 At that I gave up all attempts at com- mentary. and read straight on:
 "Blandly himself found the TIispaniola,a and by the most admirable management got her for the merest trihe. There is class of men in Bristol monstrously prcju- diced against BIandly They go the length of declaring that this honest creature ,Tr Ia =7rr 1,a 'Hispaniola' belonged to him and that he sold it me absurdIy high-the most trans parent caIun3nies. None of them dare, however, to deny the merits of the ship.
 50 far there was not a hitch. The work people to be sure-riggers and what not were most annoyingly slow; but time cured that. It was the crew that troubled me.
 T wished a round score of men-in case of natives. buccaneers, CT the odious French-and I had the worry of the deuce itself to find so much as half dozen, till the most remarkable stroke of fortune brought me the very man that required
 T was standing on the dock when, by the merest accident, I fell in talk with him. I found he was an old sailor, kept q public house, knew all the scafaring men in Bris- tol, had lost his health ashore, and want ed q good berth as cook to get to sea again. He had hobbled down there that morning, he said, 10 set . smell Of the salt.
 T was monstrously touched-so would you have been-&nd. cut Of pure pity, en- gagged him on the spot to be ships cook. Long John SilveF.~ he is called, and has lost q leg; but that regarGetas recommends tion, since he l1st 1t IT hisveountry's serV- ice under the immortal Hawke. He has no pension, Livesey. Imagine tfe~a aboIdn- able age we live in! <
 Well, sir. I thought had only found cook, but it vas q crew 1 had discovered. Between Silver and myself we get to- gether in a few days a company of the toughest old salts inagiraBe-not pretty to looI. at but fellows, by their faces, Of the
 q fiTt711Tr Tro1o a q 90 fight q frg1te.
 ''Lorg Jct.n even set rid Of two out of the si2; seven I had already engaged. He showed me i1 Q moment that they were just the sort of fresh-water swabs we had to fear in an adventure of importance.
 ''I am in the most magnificent health and spirits. eating like . bull, sleeping like q tree, yet shall not enjoy moment till hear my old tarpaUlins tranping round the capstar. Seaward he! Hang the treasure! It's the glory Of the sea that has turned my head. So now. L-ivesey, come post: do not lose an hour, if you respect me.
 Let young Hawkins go at once to see his mother, with Ecdruth for q guard and then both come full speed to Bristol.
 JOHN TRELA WHEY.
 ''P. S.-I did net tell you that Blandiy. who by the way, is 10 send cuasort after us if VIC dent turn up by the end of Au- gust, had found an admirable fellow for sailing-mas ter-a stiff man, which regret, but. in all other respects. a treasure Long John Silver unearrhcd q very competent man for q mate. man named Arrow. I have a boatswain who pipes, LivCsey; so things shall go r2n-o'-W2r fashion on board the good ship 'itispaniola.'
 T forgot 10 tell you that Silver is man of substaEce: know Of my own knowledge that he has a bankers account which has never been cVerdraVn. He leaves his wife to manage the inn and as she is woman { Of color, pairOf old bachelors like you and nay be excused for guessing that 1t is the wife, quite as much as the health that sends him back to rowing. J. T.
 P r. S.-liawhfns may stay one night With his mother. J. T."
 You can fancy the excitement into which that letter put me. was half beside myself with glec; and if ever 1 despised a man, it was old Tom Red- ruth, who could do nothing but grumble and lament. Any of the under game keepers would gladly have changed places with him; but such was not the squire's pleasure, and the squire's pleas ure was like law among them all. No body but old Redruth would have dared so much as even to grumble.
 The next morning he and I set out on foot for tte Admiral Benbow, and there l found my mother in good health and spirits. The captain, who T had so long been a cause of so much discomfort, was gone where the wicked cease from troubling. The squire had had everything repaired, and the pub lie rooms and the sign repainted, and had added some furniture-above all beautiful armchair for mother in the , bar lie had found her boy as an ap- prentice also, so that she should not want help while 1 was gone.
 It was on seeing that boy that un- darctCO1 for tbo first time my Sit17n- ton. l had thought up to that moment of the adventures before me, not at all of the home that I was leaving; and now, at sight of this clumsy stranger. who was to stay here in my place beside : my mother, l had my first attack of tears I am afraid I led that boy a