The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-09-07

the discovery or card sharp IN the
smoking room. Take real ship, &C
a. supercargo, to the South secs
take the side streets Of the ocean. and
learn what Il can do with hurri
canes, typhoons, blistering Gains, and
mems souls. There will be adven
ture enough then. II you are . weak
ling. either you are made strong. o.
you die.
An honest ship, but run down aa
the heel, rode at anchor In the sound
fourth-rater of the hooker breed :
that Is, her principal line OF business
was hauling barges up and down the
coast. When she could not pick up
enough barges to make II pay. why,
she'd go galavanting down to Cuba
for bales of tobacco or over to the
onion. Today she was an onion
ship; which precludes any idea OF
adventure. She was about 1000 tons,
and her engines we're sternward and
not amidship. She carried two masts
and half dozen hoist booms, and
the only visible sign Of anything new
on her was her bowsprit. This was
new doubtless because she had poked
her nose too far into her last slip.
, Her crew was orderly and tract
able. There were shore drunks, tc
be sure, because they we're sailors;
but they were a peaceful lot withal
/ At this moment they were at work
They moved about briskly, for they
were ON the point Of sailing for the
Bahamas-perhaps for more onions
Presently the windlass creaked and
shrilled, and the blobby links, much
In need of tar paint. red as fish gills
clattered down into the bow. Some
times they painted the chain as i
came over; but paint was costly, and
this was done only when the anchor
threatened to stay on the bottom.
i There was a. sailor among THU
crew, and he went by the name o
Steve Blossom; and he was one o
his kind. A grimy dime novel pro
truded rakishly from his hip pocket
and his right cheek was swollen o.
with the toothache. due, probably, 4
q generous "chaw' OF Seaman's De
light. He was real tobacco chewer
for he rarely spat. He was az peace
4 full as q backwater bay in summer
lnon- and passive, b,
stood his watch In fair weather AM
foul.
/ No one gave the anchor any mor'
attention after II came to rest tn
Igreat city over the way was fairy
like In its haziness and transparity
II was the poetry Of angles, Of shaft
and spars OF stone; and Stove Bios
som, having q moment to himself
LEANED against the rail- and stirred re
\ gretfully. He had been generousl,
tdrunk the night before. and Il was
u pheasant recollection. Chance led hi
glance to trail down the cutwateI
HIS neck stretched from his cola
like a turtles from It's shell.
4 well, I'll be hornswoggled!" h
I murmnred. shifting his cut from sta
boardsto port -
/ Caught on the nuke Of the ancho
was the stransest looking box he ha
lever laid eyes on, There was leAthe
and steel bands and diamond-shape
Ivory and mother Of pearl and
hung jauntily on the point Of tn
lrusty huke. Anybody would b
lhornswoggled to glimpse such . drol
LEST OF fate. On the nuke Of the oil
mudhook, by hair, you might say
1 In all the wild sea yarns he had eve
read or heard there was pothing e
match this. .
i Treasure! 49,
And Steve was destined never :,
be passive again. His hrst impulse
was to call his companions; his sec
ond impulse was to say nothing Of
all, and walt for an opportunity e
get the box to hts bunk without be
ing detected. Treasure! Diamond
and rubies and pearls and old Span
ish gold; all hanging to the fiuke o.
the anchor
"Hofnswoggled!" in kind OF awe
some whisper this time. "An' wc q
lheadin' for tn Bahamasi" For un
der his feet he could hear the rhythm
OF. the engines. "What1l dot II
leave II, some one else'n see H." HI
scratched his chin perplexedly. and
the cud went back to starboard. =
got IT," M 49,
He took OF his coat and carefully
dropped II down over the mysterioui
box. IL was growing darker and
darker all the time. and shortly neith
er coat nor anchor would be visible
without close scrutiny. Treasure;
greed, cupidity. crime. Steve saw
lonly the treasure and not Its camp
followers. What did they call them
l--doubloons and pieces-of-eightY
He ate HIS supper with hls mess
mates. and he ate heartily az usual
Ire would have taken something NOR,
vital than mere treasure to disturb
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