Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1902-06-19

The doctor sent back Gray for one of
the pickaxes, deserted in their flight,
by the mutineers: and then, as we pro-
ceeded leisurely downhill to where the
boats We're lying, related in few words
what had taken place. 1t was story
that profoundly interested Silver, and
Ben Gum, the half-idiot maroon, was
the hero from beginning TO end.
Ben, in his long, lonely wanderings
about the island, had found the skele-
ton--it was he that had ritled it: he
had found the treasure. he had dug
1t up Qt was the half of his pickaN
that lay broken in the eXcavatioM; he
had carried it on his back in many
weary journeys from the foot of the tau
pine to a cave he had on the two-point-
ed hill at the northeast angle of the is
land, and there it had laid stored in
safety since two months before the ar
rival of the "Hispaniola. =
When the doctor had wormed his Sc
cret from him on the afternoon of the
attack; and when, next morning, he
saw the anchorage deserted, he had
gone to Silver, given him the chart,
which was now useless given him the
stores, for Ben Gums cave WAS We'll
supplied with goats meat salted by
himself-given anything and every
thing to get Il chance of moving IN
pointed HILL there to be clear of ma
laria and keep a guard upon the money
"As for Won. Jim" he said. sit went
against NV heart. but did what L
thought hest for those who had stood
by their duty; and if you We're not one
of these, whose fault was it?a
That morning finding that ] was to
be involved in the horlid disappoint-
ment he had prepared for the mu-
tinaers. he had run an the way TO the
cantain had tal,en sal,j,.n To gi,,,d the
cantain ND tal.en ,:,.ay ana tba ma
room and started MAXINE NE diasou,l
across The island ia ne AZ hand he
side tba nine soon however No saw
that oIr na,tv mad me st.,,t or hin,.
and Ren t;,n,n hafna Gneat NJ, FOO, haa
been natcl,na In f,cn+ - 40 Nj, host
alone Then If ma oc,.,,,ro5 ~ i,i,,, tn
work ,,,,on me s,,ne,st itians Of bis Ia,,.
NOR shinm.t,s and NJ. Vas 50 fa,. sue
rassfmi ,hat 60, ,,,h ~, a9,1,r,. ia
cnma mr., aud n.sra a'l,a' ~, .,,h,,,,l..a
hern, H. ,,.,,,,, ~ ~, ,,.e,',,.a 49,,
ars
"a, cold e.i,,,a, .at VIC fart,,,,,+a
CO.. ~. 49, ~ t1,..,. H 49,, ~,
and never siven # :, tbni,s,t ao,.,n ,,' ;,
..Nnt a ,bn,,,ht ra,lie,1 ~, ',s1,,,
cbaa,.;1,
Ava nv tbi. TIM No 10, ,,.,.,,.,, NO
pips 1,ho doc+o,. viii, t,5a ,,;,.l,f.,x "a
p,olislad ono of ~, 49,, 49,, an
got ahoa,d Az, ot,,a,. "a w.,
,o,nd nv tho So, fo,' Norti, In,,,t
Thi. n.,s :, ,,,n ,f e;t,,,t az ,l;rI,,,i,,.
silver thonph he We al,,,nst l.;l,aa
alraadv WIN fati",,a ,,,os go ~, ,,, 49,,
lilss the rest of nc ana 10 800. s,'1a,,
sl,imn,ina su,ift1v ovn,. a s,,,nnth So,
soon we nassed ont Of III. st,,aits ,,,a
doubled the southea st corner of tho
i.Iand ro,,,,d ,,,,io,, 60, 49, 80, 49,.
had towe edn the ". .isna pu1 ago We
Al we nassed the two nointed hill wa
could see tho hlacls no,th NJ 1ean
Gunn's cave. anda figure standing nv IT
leaning on a musket II was inc snuire:
and we waved a handserchief and ,.oye
him three cheers. In which the voice of
Silver Joined as heartily as any.
Three miles further. lust inside the
mouth or North Inlet. what should we
meet but the .Hispaniola cruising
by herself. The lest flood had lifted
her; and had there been much wind.
or a strong tide current as in the
southern anchorage, we should never
have found her more, or found her
stranded beyond help. AS it was there
was little, amiss, beyond the wreck of
the mainsail. Another anchor was got