Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-07-05

buZzard that rose at our approach /
happily our coverings had proved fair
ly effectiye-'Tve been thinking that |
the only one Of the three that really |
matters is the captain, and we can
find sufficient soil for him in one Of
those big holes"
How about the otherS?"
SWELL to tell the truth. was think
ing that sharks are good enough for
them"
"They deserve no better, Tom, and
think we may as well get rid Of them
first"
So It was done as we said, and car
rying them by the feet and shoulders
to the edge Of the blUff-George, and
silly Theodore. and the nameless giant
who had knocked me down 50 oppOr.
tunely-we skillfully flung them in,
and they glided off with scarce a
splash
Then we turned to the poor captain
and carried him as gently as we could
over the rough ground to the biggest
Of the banana holes, as the natives
call them, and there we were able 10
dig him a fairly respectable grave.
Tom and Sailor and were now. to
the best Of our belief, alone on the
island, and lmesomer spot 1t would
be hard to imagine, or one touched at
certain hours with a falrer beauty
beauty wraithllke and, like a sea
shell, haunted with the marvel of the
sea.
First we went over our stores. and,
thanks to those poor dead mouths that
dld not need to be reckoned with any
more, we had plenty of everything to
ast us for at least a MONTH not TO
speak Of fishing, at which Tom was an
expert.
When, however, we turned TO our
Plans for the treasure hunting we
soon came to dead stop. The indl.
cations given by Tobias seemed. in the
race Of such terrain, naive to A de.
gree Possibly the land had changed
since his day. Some little. of course
1t must have done. Tom and | went
over Tobias directions again and
there was the compass carved on tbe
rock and the cross. There was some. |
thlng dehnite-something which n II
was ever there at all, was there stIll- |
lor In mat climate the weather leaves |
thlngs unperished almost as in Epvnt |
sitting on the highest bluff we could |
nhn, Tom and | looked around
Illat compass is somewhere amonr
lnese internal rocks-lf 1t ever was
curved there at all-that's one tbino
certain Tom; but look at the rocks -
over twenty miles Of rocks north
ana south, and from two TO Sly From,
',',,,., ous' 70 west A more hopeless lob tbe
llllid OF man could not conceive Tom
snook his head, and scratched HE
graying wool. ''' Ills
! go most by the ghost so.p.
,.,,, sald' "All these men had never hoaO on
MI Aillea If the ghost hadn't been s0mo, %
tressn,n yessu near ar, Mark me, If we find the
treasure ''i.s. It'll be by the ghostn ''
That's all very we'll" 7 louobod
.,. Out now are we going to pet eI, ,Sn
,noS ,P' :, 10 snow his handl He's got
'ucn en-, blOodthlrsty ways with him. sO'
~ They l,l.,; always have, sar," said r Tom
~ ~ uouot with some ancestral sbndSo, 1S,
I, 'ar '1SaOo 5 worship in his blood. aYes
'p'' 4, .s, taey always cry out for blood Its %
" , M, ,neyVe got to live on. They drIrs ~
,,n, nAe ,.! you and me drink coffee s''OS On
light" " ieaf Them In the
70 rIgb, t, tOn l remarked, you NAV
? ths i,sl. as but of one thing I'm gg certain. ny
@ Ihe ghosts going to get INV N ,sn.aln a,,
ha'n't be you" s'' "ny one, 1t
We've both got ono Ooo,
oDon,f 'terin tell Tom was beginning,
lcking fish," ''Out that old
nd IiPo PoI you o.t keep it safe. for all that
% awap i9F a thousand pounds" 'OSe
ahmed ol5 atI l1 right but let's forget tba
'd We @.oIa.s oId ghosts for the present. rt '"'
ally no ou nleu a % try a plan that was
~ p'an at all (; that Is to say. ' to to