Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-08-20

the house? How can you be certain
that no one but yourself viii acciden.
tally discover itY
81 am absolutely certain that Nc
one will she answered. with an en-.
phnsis on the last three words which
Sent thrill through me, for | knew
hat If WAS meant for me. "Df course,
dad" She added "if YOU inSist-you
shall have il. But seriously | think
it Is safer where ii is, and If | were
10 fetch it, how can be sure that no
one'-shc paused, with meaning
which !, of course understood ITO
bias. for instance, would see me &C..
ing--and follow me-"
"'ro be sure---to be sure" said the
"kng." "What do you think, Friend
ulysSesT'
Il think II more than likely that
she might be followed" l answered,
land quite agree with Miss Calypso
| certainly wouldn't advise her to visit
her treasure just now-wlth the woods
probably full Of eyes. In fact"
added, smiling frankly at her, u
could scarcely answer for myself even
for | confess that she has filled me
with an overpowerlng curiosity"
$50 be 1t then" said the king"
land now to consider what our friend
here graphically speaks of as those
eyes in the woods
The liking" then made determined
descen, into the practical. The woods,
most probably, were full of eyes. In
plain prose, we were almost certainly
being watched. Unless-unlesS in.
deed, my bogus departure for Nassau
had fooled Tobias as we had hoped.
But. even so, with that lure Of Ca
lypso's doubloon ever before him, 1t
was too probable that he would not
leave the neghb0rhood without some
further investigation-''an investiga
ton" the king explained (which
| might well take the form Of mid
night raid; murdered In our beds. and
| so forth
That being so, being In fact almost
ccrtuinty--the king" spoke as
though he would be much disap-
pointed man otherwise-we must look
to our garrison. After all, besides our
selves, we had but Samson and Ere
bus and their dark brethren Of doubt
full courage, while Tobias probably
/ had command Of round dozen Of
doughty despernd0cs. On the whole
perhaps, it might be best to avail
ourselves of the crew of the Flamn-
go--"undcr cover of the dark" he re-
peated with a smile.
While we had been talking Samson
| had long since been on his way with
the word to sweeney to look out for
Webster. and as he had been admOn-
/ ished to hurry back it was scarcely
noon when he returned, bringing in
exchange n verbal message from
Sweeney.
"rhc pockmarked party ran the
message as delivered by Samson, had
left the harhor in his stoop that morn
ing. Yes. sar."
'IIa ha" laughed he "king," turn
Ing to me. $50 two can play at that
game. says Henry =. Tobias, Jr. But
if we haven't fooled him let's make
sure that he hasn't fooled US. Wen
bring MP Your Grow all the samc--what
de- You thnk?'
Under cover of the dark" | as
scented.
The kings instructions TO me were
that | was not to show my nose out
as n prisoner with the entire freedom
of his study--a large, airy room on
the second floor, we'll furnished with
all manner of books, old prints,
strange fishes in glass eases, rods,
guns, pipe racks, curlosities of every
kind from various parts of the world.
And then l came upon a photograph
hanging over the writing desk--a tall,
SpuniSh-looking young woman of re-
markable beauty. II needed but one
glance to realize that here was Ca
lypso's mother, and as was natural l
stood long time scanning the coun
tenance that was so like the face
which, from my first sight of it, had
seemed the loyelieSt in the world. This
was flower that had been the mother
of flower. 1t WAS face more primi-
tive in its beauty, a little less touched
with race than the one | loved, but
the same fearless natural nobility
was in 1t, and the figure had the same
wild grace Of pose, the same 1.-the
strength of carriage.
Two or three days went by. but as
vet there was no news of either Char
lie Webster or Tobias. Nothing fur
Their had been heard of the latter in
the settlement, and careful patrol
ling of the nolghbOrhood revealed no
signs of him. Either his sailing away
was bona tide performance or he
was lying low in some other part of
the island-Whch of course would not
be a difficult thing for him to do, as
most of it was wildorness--and as.
also, there We're one or two cOves on
the deserted northern side where he
could easily bide his time Between
that coast and us. however, lay some
ten miles Of scrub and mangrove