The Washington herald., 1912-04-21


Both the boys looked on spellbound
while Sanibo's eyes rolled in their sock.
cts like two white china bowls. With
a blow from the Ak, the colonel severed
the wire fastening and turning the box
over a shower of gold. copper. and sil-
yer coins fell upon the ground, while
with them rolled a little tube Of tin
similar to that in which sezfaring mer
are accustomed to stow their papers.
"Hal hal" laughed the great Virgin
ian, good naturedly. Not five hundred
dollars in all I'll wager. and an old sea
mans chart Why this wasn't worth the
trouble after all.
But Jack was lingering with the tin
box, and by pressing a little clasp now
had opened it, disclosing a piece Of yell
low parchment rolled closely in mar
row coil.
swell, vel" he remarked, as he un-
loosed it. This looks as If the fellow
were poet who owned these duds. Lis
ten while | read you what has been
written,
"'whenpe ,NorfOlke Bars on star
Dig on the iefte by sorrowe's Pine
Twenty fete from Green Sage growthe,
With Breast Bone Mob on North North
One hundred pace. a broke Spades crest.
Runkle. Chief Mate Sparhawke
His Marke.'"
"He had a circle around a broken
showing it to Tommy and Washington,
"and this is evidently the directions TO
some place, or other, where there is
something buried"
Washington. meanwhile, was studying
the parchment with a careful look, and
after scratching his head in an absent
minded way, remarked:
well, ! take this to be the direction
to sope sort of a place underground
near Norfolk, England There is, OF
course, a Norfolk in our onw country,
but / hardly suspect that this paper
would refer to It, as | have been in
the neighborhood OF. this thriving town
on several occasions, and / never heard
either of Sorrowe's Pine, or the Breast
Bone Mob. Ii is apparent that this treas
ure here was either taken from that
place, or else that there is more treasure
or cutlasses there, where this came
from. Or it may be different portion
of material altogether which has been
slowed away by some seaman who was
either captured by the people who placed
this cask in this God-forSaken spot, or
else put it here himself Personally. ]
believe that what that good-for-nothing
Logan told US was the truth and that
these are things which some rowing In
dianS, many years ago, captured from
the white men on the coast. and not
knowing either the use of money-as
they trade with wampum-or the method
of fighting with guns and .cutlasses, they
put the stuff in here, well marked BY
the stone so that they could find il al
any time that they so wished. II is
only too apparent that they had no use
for any of these instruments of war
or they would hardly have left them here
to rust By the way Tommy, you went
farther into the cave; did you see any
thing else?"
"Only a lot of bones, apparently left
by a panther or bear who had chosen
this for his home" -.
Il walked in quite a distance. while
you were fooling with the barrel" said
Jack, and | saw that the cave stopped
and that there was nothing IN 1t but
the remains which some animal had
left"
We'll, WELL" said Washington, '1et
us throw these things back into the
barrel, roll it into the cave to fool
some other fellow, and put the money
in our saddle bags" So saying, he be-
gan to pile up the old guns and cut
lasses and place them back in their
original hold, while the boys and Sambo
assisted. 1t was not long before the
caSk had been again rolled into the
mouth of the opening and left near the
entrance, so that it could be seen by
merely parting the bushes with ones
hands.
"And now let US be on our way,
continued. For we had
better be returning to Greenway before
Lord Fairfax believes that we have
been taken by the Wappitomicas." And
so saving, he started back to the camp
Of the night before, his pockets bulging
with the heavy doubloons and other
pieces of money found in the cave
"Hark! What was that?" whispered
Tommy, after they had reached the
camp, and as a low noise came from
up the valley. Did you hear it, Mr..
Certainly Do you not know the
voice of timber wolf when you hear
one? 1t is deeper than that of the
fox by great deal. and more resonant" !"
Again faint, trembling cry came
from the far end of the valley. II was
by one from the other side.
and there was then Silence. Jack did
not dare speak his suspicious. but, as
he listened to the mournful howl of
the wolf, he admitted to himself, that
he had grave and serious fears. Here
hey were, one man, a negro, and two
boys. alone and without any one to aid
hem; many. many miles IN the depths
Of the wilderness. Should they be at
lacked by a superior force it would go
II with them. in spite of the well-known
1rowess of Col Washington with the
rife; and so, when he heard the wolf
howl echoing through the glen, his
heart for moment stopped beating
and chill of fear ran down his spine.
too, seemed to feel some
1anger, for he began to hurry with his
hacking and cautioned Sambo to be
quick. because they must be soon upon
he march. II thus was not long before
hey began to defile from the rocky
gorge, the pack-horse In the rear led by
he negro boy, and Tommy behind them
Ill busily engaged IN cleaning his rife
IS they picked a cautious way around
me rocks and boulders Suddenly Jack
saw Col Washington rein in his horse
and lift one hand UP in the air. Sill
,nceF' he whispered to him, as he passed
his bride to his outstretched hand. Let
lie get down and scan this trail, it looks