The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-06-25
The Treasure Diners
By Charles Frederick Holder-Copyrghted by Dodd Mead
& Co.. Publishers, New York.
CHAPTER x (Continued.)
The Box in the Sand.

the Sand.
According to the the dead sailor had left,
and which Captain Blake spread out on the table,
there a channel to the eastward which
in the the rushing tide currents which
had killed the coral; and thru it the Dolphin
hoated in perfectly smooth water coming to anchor
Off shelving sandy beach. The island was an l1nper-
feet atol-a coral island surrounded by reef with an
inner shallow lagoon cut here and there by blue wind
ing channels sides fringed with coral
groves the home fishes of great beauty of colorlng
and shape.
The island was about a mile in length, crescent
shaped and from one hundred feet to quarter of
mile wide. Cocoa palms it, and it's sole
pants appeared to be crabs and sea-birds the latter
rising in numbers the Dolphin approached.
AS soon as the voyagers had landed the search for
the hidden begun. The old chart was pro-
duced contour of the island found to compare
exactly The directions which the sailor
Lawson dictated read follows:
Directions finding the papers Box Island
neck of half mile southeast; on it
three palms running southeast K northwest; the
southery being two hundred feet from the water
marked Xxx 100 feet northwest is another marked
third is 100 feet northwest again and marked
xxx Walk due north 80 feet from this to a palm
marked or burned OxO. Twenty-Five feet due west of
will found three feet under the sand.
Peter Lawson,
His K mark"
Led by Ralph the party at started for the
of the island The sand soft that they
made Roadway; but they finally reached the point
white spit extending out to the south being
al once recognized.
There it u.s." cried Captain Sam. But where
the trees?"
Ralph. There must be others here"
NO" answered Captain Blake; 'if Lawson's lat-
tude and longitude right this is the place. 1t is
probable that in the twenty the trees have
blown cut down."
They walked down to the point to the
which of sand bearing few grasses
in which many birds apparently nesting.
~ 1.-TWO hundred feet from the water stood the first
PALM Ralph; but where?"
Here stump the remains of one" cried the
professor who had been chasing big purple land crab
into its den in mound of sand.
They hurried to his
uncovering trunk that had been taken off the
ground.
Here's another" said Captain Sam, kicking away
sand from another heap, land it's just hundred
away
"And the third is standing" said Ralph, running
over and touching lofty palm with his hand; "and
here is the mark pointing to xxx family distinguish
sultng the chart.
But again they puzzled there
there
This is thirty north" said Captain Sam,
held pocket in his hand, and had paced
off thirty feet.
Ralph upon his knees and threw up the sand
Joined him in the search; but either
had been torn by the roots, they had
a mistake, sign trace Of a tree could be
found Again they paced off thirty feet while the
lessor measured off thirty feet north from this by the
and began the excavation but tho the place
dug and trenched, the case did not appear
Permit me to look at that chart again. said the
professor ct have paced there" in
dicating lofty palm, "and it is just three hundred
feet"
Taking the chart he examined it carefully with his
magnifying glass. GAS I thought" exclaimed;
has out. It originally three
hundred instead of thirty feet"
after another the explorers examined the
chart admitted that cipher might have faded
out during twenty years the had lain in the
old Captain Sam paced off three hundred feet
due the tree, according to the corrected
chart began to dig twenty five feet due west.
in almost fast they threw it out,
light dust rising that flew away in the air; then
q stratum dark yellow, tho water had risen.