The star and Newark advertiser., 1908-05-23


we'll in his mind the location of this
stake and hurried through the park
coming out at First avenue. He did
not know the location. He was in
quest of something which would assist
him In unearthing the treasure at once.
Seeing a stable back of a residence he
prowled around this until he found a.
small window in the side which yielded
to his opening efforts. He crawled in
a few minutes later and came upon a
stack of garden tools. From these he
selected a spade and in another place
he found an ak, which he also took
Markay soon found the cedar peg
and started to step off what he believed
would be sixty-two feet, as mentioned
in the will AS he did so he observed
that there were notches on the handle
of the spade he carried and, when be-
hind clump of bushes, he struck a
match to see what they were. To his
joy he found that someone had cut
notches along the handle to make a
foot rule, there being indicated "one
foot" 1.-TWO feet" and three feet"
The physician returned to the cedar
peg and started to remeasure the dis
tance with this improvsed rule, keep
ing directly in the northwest direction
indicated by the arrow which had
been cut in the cedar peg. SiXty-two
| feet brought him to the very foot of
| the east retaining bank of the Morris
| Canal, at the western extremity of the
| park. Then he measured the distance
over again to make sure. This time
| he was reassured by finding at the end
| of the siXty-two feet another cedar
| peg into the side of which had been
| cut the initials of Multi millionaire Ry-
erson. This was certainly the place.
The physician. although suffering
greatly from his wounded shoulder. dug
4 down rapidly, scattering the earth
about him. 1t was his intention to get
down to the chest before daylight.
Markay had dug a hole waist deep,
and his spade for the first time had
struck something hard, when he was
startled by the appearance of mans
form over the bank of earth his ex-
l cavation had made.
so you were going ahead without
me?" said GeoRge Manning. Thought
I YOU would leave me out of 1t, eh?"
Markay recovered quickly and denied
that he had tried to cheat his con-
federate. Il wanted you to watch for
the police Anyway I struck on this
accidentally and I was going to share
with you"
We'll, I guess you will share with
i me-and I'll stay right here until the
matter is settled
Pm nearly played out" said Markay.
Suppose you dig little?"
Manning leaped down into the hole
and dug away, uncovering the old chest.
It was of iron. heavily bound about
two feet long, a foot and a half wide
and foot deep.
The two men lifted the chest from it's
| hole, and as it rolled over on the bank
they could hear the jingle of jewels
within. Manning took the ak and set
about breaking open the old relic. His
heavy blows on it could be heard to the
other side of the park.
you'll have to work quickly" said
Markay; "this racket will point us out
to anyone who happens to be around"
And it did. "Matty" Whiting was at
tracted by the heavy blows coming
through the still night, and he walked
out Bloomfield avenue until he came
near the canal. There, through the
trees. he could see two men hammering
at something. Whiting lost no time.
Running swiftly and silently back. he
got Curtis and sent him to round up
the police quickly. Whiting returned to
the canal side of the park and continued
to watch the two men at work on the
| iron chest the dim outlines of which
he could barely make out in the dark
ness.
When Miss Beatrice Ryerson had
! pointed out the loose hagstone to Mars
! ton she felt as though a great load
had been lifted from her mind. At
| least she would not be troubled by these
unlueky jewels. They had brought
mental woe and torture to all who had
possessed them, from poor Empress
Charlotte on down.
| There was tradition that the collec-
tion originally contained two artificial
stones of a peculiar and grewsome his
tory. They were supposed to be the
real eyes of an illustrious high priest
of the Aztecs, who had fallen in the
estimation of the chief of the old Mexi-
can nation. The chief had the high
priests eyes cut out and an ancient
Aztec alchemist had transformed the
eyes into glittering gems of the most
bewildering colors. Old man Ryerson
occasionally wore one of these ieweled
eyes. sometimes as a scarf pin and
again as a fob. He always expressed
an uneanny fear of this stone eye, but
he said there was some mysterious and
potent charm about it which attracted
him to it. The other jewel-eye was in
the centre of the crown which Empress
Charlotte wore, and which she believed
| cast a spell over her. When she went
insane she rave1 about the awful in
fuence of this gem
Instead Of driving idly about with
/ his fair prisoner Marston sought the
church steeple by which the second
measurement in the quest for the jewels
was 10 be made. just beyond the
park, in Bloomfield avenue, he came
upon the Bloomfield Avenue Reformed
Church, which had a high steeple
There were no other churches in the
vicinity, and surely this must be the
one. Driving back TO the loose flag
stone he set his compass on a line with
the Reformed Church steeple and then
moved in a northerly direction until his
compass showed that if the church
were the centre of a circle he had NOV
ed y degrees and 46 minutes north.
The problem was then to get exactly
36S feet and 9 inches from the church
steeple on this line. He was now more
than 1000 feet
Marston drove the wagon over to
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