Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-08


should have been away from here more than
a week ago.
lacked looked up inquringly. Mr.. Carline
turned m M rather red, fdgeted little, and remark
H. ,lE' suppose am the author of that little
p2eH' walked to the WALL followed by Jack,
Ve while Fred again fell into state of helpless
bewllderment.
i, Advancing to THE wall Jack spelled out the
INES, winch L have before quoted
washed off from deck in typhoon.
Inc Vessels name was Caspar Kloon;
"A Danish brig to Frisco bound
drowned;
But | unto grating clung.
IN on this island ] was flung;
II, II mere never come again,
Whoe er may come and here remain:
give him this, my secret hoard
W., Mhieh not far off Isl hid and stored;
But none shall find the store, unless
The secret of these lines they guess;
Iome Imee from the gate that's never closed,
Until you see old bald-heads nose"
Well.. Jack exclaimed, as he read the
words with rather puzzled look, 81 never
nnet neE b"t boef0Te fos M mr. "a MGarle that you were
you were driving at when you wrote it, espe-
cialIy, the last two lines"
mat S the case with good many pieces OF
poetry Mr.. Carline lar answered, with impress
better it's considered to be- And now" he
continued, after little pause, 81 want to
walk around bit alone, and get my wits to-
ggether; Tor between talking SO much more than
m IN the habit of doing, and-and-the curl
Gus things that's happened in the last twenty
tour hours, I'm completely out of my reck-
onlng, so to speak" and he walked out, leaving
+ the two boys so wonderfully brought together
by themselves
There can't be any mistake about it, Mr..
Carine muttered to himself, as he paced up
and down the firm beach. ''Why, they're as
much alike as the two peas in pod; and now,
what best to do about it--and the other
thing. he added, looking. thoughtfuly off to-
ward the entrance to the lagoon.
We'll" he said aloud, after half-bour of
pacing to. and fro in deep reflection, "l'm a
little curious to see how Nature will assert
herself, so I'll hold my tongue for time in
my first guess is right, it'll be share and share
alike
With which mysterious remark he re-enter-
ed the cave, where Fred and Jack were in
eager conversation, though it was evident that
as vet neither of them had the slightest idea of
their close relationship to each other.
| Nor had either of them mentioned any par
ticulars of his early life further than that Fred
had spoken of being born and brought up in
Seaville, while Jack had only mentioned New
York as his own place of abode, without say
ing anything about the facts of his unknown
parentage though dozen times he had it
on his tongues end to tell the strange story
to this young fellow-towards whom he began
/
you never told me how you happened to
! be wrecked, or left or whatever it was, on
this island, Mr.. Carlne," said Jack, as that
parsonage entered, with a curious expression
of relief on his weatherbeaten features.
It's all there, in a nutshell" Mr. Carline
replied, with conscious pride, as he pointed to
the writing on the wall,'' for, in his secret
heart, he was quite vain of this, his first and
last attempt at versifcation.
But, how long were you here?" urged Jack:
.'and how did you get away, and what does
it mean about the secret hoard, and old bald
us all about it"
"Well,' said the captain, F'the story is about
like this, if you can't understand poetry:
81 was second mate on the Danish brig
Kaspar Kloon, bound froms New Zealand to
Frisco. We were lying to, in a typhoon. l
is saying a good deal. We'd been driven a
long way out of the regular track, and must
have been drifting down on to the island very
fast 1t was, pitch dark, blowing great guns,
and we not knowing of an island within five
hundred milee. When, the wind chopped
that washed me over the rail, with the gang
way grating, it wasn't ten minutes before the
current had carried me through the opening
in the reef, was swimming across the lagoon
IN smooth water. I found the cave two DAYS
after, and for three months | stayed here liv-
ing mostly on fruit and raw oysters
| "0ysters!' exclaimed Fred. 81 wish I'd
known there were any here. Whereabouts did
you find them?"
"Oh, I'll show you by and by" said Mr.. Car
line. with curious smile. and continued
FINALLY l was taken off by some Marquesan
natives, who were passing the island in a big
canoe; but it was all | could do to get them
! to come near. They said that the place was
taboo or haunted or something of the kind,
and that it had never been explored or laid
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