Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1900-01-13
THE TREASURE FISHING.
By OUTOLIFFB HYNB.
copyright, 1890, by Cutcliffe Hyne. ]


been in II from the very first, and in
deed I've strong notion the whole plot
TO steal the treasure was in the begin.
Ting theirs and theirs alone. can't be
,ure, but I've an idea that Miss Brad.
bury came into the business soon after
we sailed from Liverpool, and, il one
may hazard guess, it was because
Willie Cameron, the diver with the
black hair, fell in love with her and let
ont the secret. However, | didn't ar.
rive at any Of this till later, and, if it
hadn' been lugged into the business by
the veriest outside chance, it's my lie.
lief the three of them would have
walked off with all the gold and the
salvage company would never have
seen 80 much as the bare color of it.
There was distinct understanding
between me and Captain Boyd when
signed on as third of the Cleaner
that l was only doing it as Il personal
obligation to himself Tho herths of
second and chief engineer had been
filled. They wanted man who would
not mind bearing hand il anything
went wrong with the diving tackle,
md they couldn't have picked better
than myself | was thoroughly well
grounded in the shops before ever j
thought CT the sea. and, though | say
it, few better filters and all round me.
Chanics have ever stood on the foot
plates of steamboats, engine room. If
ii WASH for the board of trade and their
rotten examinations, I'd have been
chief long ago, and with chiefs ticket
III my pocket you may be sure I'd have
got the master hand over the whisky.
ut any rate at sea, and in sight Of any
one that mattCred ashore.
OF course it was II condesCension for
man like me 10 be third on bit of
steamboat like the Cleaner but | was
drawing IS month, which was the
same as the second engineer got, and I'll
not deny was in Il manner forced into
taking the first berth that offered I'd
been paid off from my last ship in Liv.
erpoOl, and I'd met friends who knew
BallindroChater, where my father had
been Free kirk minister, and we'd got
a little noisy and found trouble The
fat English brute Of magistrate did
give us the option, but it took all the
money | had left TO pay myself ont.
i might even admit, too, that the
business of the Cleaner had some ut.
traction for me She was off treasure
fishing to the Canaries; she was char.
tered by little company that called it.
self the ;. ;. Corinth Salvage assucis.
ton, and the work for her engineers
promised to be light. We should steam
down channel, through the bay and
down to tho spot among the islands
where the Corinth had been sunk, and
there we should swing anchor while the
boats went eff with the divers to do
their work. We should keep banked
fires in case an onshore breeze came and
we had to steam ont, but as q general
thing there would be no watches for us |
engineers and full pay going all the
time.
'lt'll I've the sOftest job you've tnm-
bied into for many long day, Mr.. Nc.
Todd, said the old man when he offer. !
ed me the berth. I'VE shall be quite a
family ship. There's big large cabin.
and we shall all mesa together-mates.
engineers, divers and passengers-with :
Your chief at enc end Of the table anc
me at the other.
"Passengers?" said / II thought
this was a salvage job. "
They are coming just for a cruise
a Mr.. Kent and his wife and her sister
A Miss Bradbury. OF course the Cleaner
hasn't got passenger certificate, so
they will have TO sign articles like the
rest CT us to get to windward of the
board of trade. The ladies will lie stew.
lrdesses and Mr. Kent can take his
choice between being doctor and fourth
mate"
"Are they interested in this salvage
bnsinessg"
"Not a hit" said Captain Boyd.
'They re people of means, and Miss
Bradbury writes novels. They pay for
heir grub and rooms like they would
IN n regular packet. They're just com.
nS to see the diving and get blow Of
ea air, and | shouldn't wonder but
what the Young lady writes book
bout it when she gets home So keep
our hair .combed straight, Mr.. Nc.
'odd. It's pretty big affair, anyway.
The Corinth took down e270, 900 worth
4 gold with her when she foundered.
The was Cape boat, you know, coming
ZONE"
Her propeller shaft broke, didn't it,
omewhcre in the after end Of tho tun
Iel?'
"That's the idea, Mac. There was a
reeze ON at the time, and | suppose I
he was racing badly. And 1t ripped
he stern plating to smithereens when {
went. OF course, the sliding door to
he shaft tunnel jammed when it was
'anted, and so she just had to swamp.
here was no help for it They'd half '
n hour to get clear in. and the boats i
lved about tWO-tlirds of her neonla