Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-10-07

"I presume you expected to find a
letter between the stamp and the sig
nature"
Something of the kind. The fact is,
| felt irresistibly impressed with pre-
sentiment of some vast good-iortune
impending. | can scarcely say Why.
Perhaps. after all, it was rather a de-
sire than an actual bclief;-but do you
know that Jupiter's silly words, about
the bug being of solid gold, had re-
markable effect upon my fancy? And
then the series of accidents and coinci-
dences,-these were so very eXtraor-
dinary. Do YOU observe how mere an
accident it was that these events
should have occurred upon the sole
day of all the year in which it has
been, or may he, sufficiently cool Tor
fire, and that without the fire, or with
out the intervention of the dog at the
precise moment in which he appeared.
| should never have become aware OF
! the deaths s-head, and So never the
possessor of the treasurer
But procced,-I am all impatlence.
well; YOU have heard, of course,
the many stories current-the thou
sand vague rumors atloat about money
buried. somewhere upon the Atlalltlc
coast, 10y Kidd and his associates
| These rumors must have had some
foundation in fact. And that the ru-
mors have existed 50 long and S" con-
tinuuusly could have resulted, 1t APP
peared to me, only from the clrcum-
stance of the buried treasure still re-
naming entomhcd. Had Kidd con-
ccalcd his plumber for time, ana al
trrwards reclaimed it, the rumors
would scarcely have reached us III
their present unvarying form. You
will observe that the stories told are
all about money seekers, not ah"ul
money finders. Had the pirate rcc"E-
cred his money, there the affair would
have dropped. 1t seemed to me tiial
some accidcnt-say the loss ol a men,
oramdum indicating its locallty-had
deprived him of the means of r"coN-
cring il, and that this accident had be-
come kunwn to his followers. who 9TH
crwisr might never have heard that
treasure had been concealed at ALL and
who. busving themselves in VAIN, he
cause unguidcd. attempts I" regain, H.
had rivru first birth, and then mircr-
sal currency. tn the reports WhI'h are
now So common. Have ynu ever heard
of any important treasure beng uh-
rarthrd along the coast?
"NcVcr."
"Iut that Kidd's Accommodations were
immense. is well known. | took 1t lor
granted. therefore. that tn" earth still
held them; and you will scarcely he
SURPRISED when | tell YOU that | lett
a hope. nearly amounting t" certainty
that the parchment 81 strangely l"ulld
involved a lost record of the place OF
dcposit."
But how did you proceed?
Il held the vcllum again to the tlr"'
after increasing the heat; but nothing
aprcarcd. | now thought ii p"sslhl"
that the coating of dirt might nave
something to do with the failure: S"
carefully rinsrd the parchment hE
nmlring warm water over il, and. nav
| ing done this. | placed it in Il tin pan.
with the skull downwardS. and put the
pan upon furnace of lighted rhar-
coal. In Il few minutes. the pan nav
| ing become thoroughly heated re-
moved the slip. and t" my in"Npr"sSl-
hlc joy. found it spotted, IN SeN'ra'
places. with what appeared L" De l'E-
urrs arranged in lines. Again | pla'"u
il in the pan. and suffered it I" remain
an,nhcr minute. Upon taking IL on
the whole was just as You see II now
Here Legrand. having r"h"at"d TN"
parchment. submitted it To my lhSp'c-
ton. The following characters W"r"
rudply traced, in a red tint. between