Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-08-17

behind his head Look here, Kettle.
II you want to shoot me pull out your
gun and get IL over. Then you and
Sullivan can run the cargo where you
please and share it how you like. But
that's the onl way you'll make me con-
sent TO your taking what's beyond your
due. Shelf trusted me- aud by jove,
I'm going to act fairly by Shelf IL he
were a ten times bigger thief than
know him TO be already. Now, then,
jump quick-lets have II over"
They were In the chartroom. Captain
Kettle puckered his head for minutes
| thought and then getting up. shut and
locked the starboard door He took that
KEY and the key also Of The other door
| which gave upon the head OF the com
pa nionway and handed them both to
Capbel.
Now. sir said he, you lock me
and the dunkeyman In here and 20 and
90 as you Ike. But | advise you to
! take your d---d gold somewhere out of
, this ship, because as sure as it's there
when ] next come out Of this room so
sure do J go and loOt IT, That's my
bunk there bang above the place
Wnere IT'S stow ed ana I've sat on top
Of those soverelEas Ike hen every
watch below I've had this yoyaye and
! heard EN- chinkle and wondered what
they'd hatch out into. You perhaps
unGerstend what / ncan?"
C2mbcl nodded.
Then take the ciuch from me. sir
and cart your boxes away 10 hen "a
quick as YOU can. Poor mn llko mo
shouldn't have big tcmut. tions It
Isn't healthy-for their neighb, rs. No
by God. Here, set out Of this. MIR.
Cambcl, or | shan be doing you 4. yio-
/ lence yet and mind you lock the door
DonEeyman, you hound, there's Vbisev
IN that bottom locker Take the cleai,.
glass yourself and give me the dirty
one"
Cambel read the little mans mind 70
a comma aud bowed gravely without
, speaking. Then he did as he was bid
: den with the door ana the key and went
below and began the herculean task
OF bringing UP the iron bound specie
boxes one By one out of the cabin
where they had ridden from the Me-
sey dock. lie placed them in the mort
quarter boat which he had io,ysrrfi
from It's daVits flush with the brjdpo
deck rail, and when she was loaded he
put the boat into the river He royvad
her TAR up stream, fast lights and
Dayous, tn he found a narrow canal
leading of the main river throuob
mangrove Clumps. and held on mn
lhat I'll the boat reached a great r,,und
vat oi black water. walled au round
with solemn cypress trees and rooted
20 darkness by their fringing branches
CA4" ny one the DONeS were raised on
the gunWale and launched with a sul-
len plunge, and il seemed an age he
fore the foul smelling bubbles came mn
10 iell that they had sounded bottom.
Ana then away back for another load.
And then for third. The !nkv cover
ing closed over all, and not so much as
a splinter from one OF the boxes floated
ON the surface.
Small rear Of any one raidlng that
cache, tambel thought. and two days
later with clear mind, he was ca
bling Right" 10 Theodore Shelf from
the Western Union Telegraph com
panys Office IN the hotel hall at Point
Sebastian.
Now, modern science enables us Ia
cry message by wire round half The
earth at breakfast time and have an
answer returned to us before the gong
sounds for luncheon. and il was in
anticipation Of a quick exchange Of
news like this that Cambel had come
10 the nearest outpost of civilization
He had hidden his 100000 of gold.
released the two men in the chart
room. with instructions that when they
felt inclined or sufficiently recovered
for work they should with the negroes
help set about transforming the steam
ers appearance, and afterward had
made his way. partly overland by an
Indians path he knew OF. partly in
dugout through lagoon and bayou, to
Point Sebastian.
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