Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1910-07-23
CHAPTER Mi.

We were NOT YET Sumclenlly gOOu Shll-
ers to drop TO sleep in the stuffy hunks
below when ii was not our turn on watch.
Rodney tried it. but soon came up on
deck. announcing that he never had felt
more wide awake in his life AMI believed
he could last through the night without
wink. So we three busted ourselves
making the Ship snug. and Rodney in
addition in vainly trying TO interrogats
Duponceau.
There was no doubt but that in the
direction of the beach we were practically
impregnable. Invaders would first have
to climb the rocks and then splash
through the water. or, If they came by the
causeway, pass the narrow defle at the
base Of the cliff. In either case we would
have ample chance TO defend ourselves,
and even II they succeeded In reaching
the Ships side we would have the advan-
tage of being six feet above them. I
pulled in the rope ladder that still hung
over the side and slowed 1t away In
cupboard in the cabin. When we had
done everything precaution could suggest
we three gathered on the forward deck
and sat with out backs 20 the sea, facing
the shore.
The night was clear and cool; there
was little sound beyond the regular throb-
bling OF the waves on the beach and the
occasional distant call of bittsrn from
the marshes up-river. As | liztened to
the talk of the other two, | realized that
Rodney was slipping under that same in
describable fascination Of Duponceau's as
readily az ! had done.
But ] say" put in Islip at last, do
-
way over here without any luggage. that
you let those chaps land you just as you
were, without anything elsef"
Without anything else save a little
box Of paper" Duponceau smiled-"and
each paper worth many thousand times
its weight IN gold"
why" said Islip. what kind Of Sc
curities were those?"
See how ] trust you" returned the
other. I'VE hid che box I'm the ground
back In the woods, between two roots Of
hemlock, one pointing south by the
compass, the other west The hemlock
Ia Ten PAGES west Of Scared FIR that was
stripped Of its sea branches by lightning"
Il know the tree" said i.
Rodney rubbed bis hands joyfully. "Ye
gods and LITTLE fishes. thin4 OF IL Ever
since j was a boy I've wanted 70 have
my hand la buried treasure. We used
70 hide Tin cane la the back yard, just
10 dig them up again. And now 70 think
that I've come across a real Treasure
What would those other boys say
Heres one " them nov" put in. II
used 20 DO ths very same rning myself |"
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can b0th lAke u lightly ~ laid, 'bs
Gauss you DO NOT know. Many men. aye,
many soYsfnmsnts, woulo slFs almost
anyohing TO- . chance AZ thaf boa out
there
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