The Raymer enterprise., 1919-09-18
CHAPTER u.

Tho Narrative Of Henry p. Tobias,
sx-Plrate, a. Dictated on His Death.
bed, In the Year Of Our Lord 1859.
The good John had scarcely made
his lelsurely, distinguished appearance
at his desk on the morrow when too
entered by one door and Charlie Web
ster by the other.
"Now for the document" we both
exclaimed In q breath.
Here 1t Is" he said, taking up a
rather grimy-looking roll Of foolscap
from In front of him, which. as he
pointed out, was evidently the work
Of a person Of very little education,
and began to read as follows:
County Of Travas, State Of Texas,
December 1859.
Feeling my end II near, make the fol.
lowing statement Of my own free will and
without solicitation. In full exercise OF all
my faculties. and feel that am doing my
duty by 30 doing.
was born in the city Of Liverpool, Eng
land Ton the 6th day Of December l7Sly.
Ny father was seaman and when was
young I followed the same occupation.
And It happened, that when, on passage
from Spain to the West indies, our ship
was attacked by free-traders. as they
called themselves. but they were pirates.
We all did our best. but were over
powered. and the whole crew, excep,
three. were killed. was one OF the three
they did not kill. They carried u on
board their ship and kept ~ until next
day when they asked us to Join them.
They tried to get u to Join them willing
". but We would not, whom they became
enraged and loaded three cannon ana
iashed each one Of us before the mouth
Of each cannon and told u to take our
choice to Join them. as they would touch
the guns and that damn quick. II ID USE
less to say we accepted everything before
death. 20 We came one of the pirates
crew. Both Of my companions were killed
In less time than six months. but I was
with them for more than two years, In
which time We collected vast quantity
Of money from different ships we captured
and We buried Q great amount In two
different lots. I helped to bury It with
my own hands. The location OF which II
y my purpose to point out, 90 that It can
be found without trouble In the Bahama
Islands. After had been with them for
more than two years. We were attacked
By large warship and our commander
told 10 to hght for our lives. a. Il would
b death II We were taken. But the guns
Of our ship were too small for the war
ship. - our ship soon began to sink.
when the man-of-war ran alongside OF our
vessels and tried to board us, but we were
sinking too fast, 20 she had to haul OF
again. whom our vessel sank with every
thing on board, and escaped by swim
ming under the stern Of the ship. a. ours
sank. without being seen, and holding on
70 the ship until dark. when swan to q
portion Of the wrecked vessel floating not
TAR away. And on that I noAtsd. The
nexe morning the ship was not seen. l
was picked up By . passing vessel the
next day - . shipwrecked seaman.
Ana lot me- say here. I know that no
ono escaped alive from our vessel except
myself and those that were taken by ne
man-of-war. And those were all executed
~ piratss-so I know that no other man
knows Of this treasure except myself and
II must Be- and II where We buried II bntil
today and unless you get II through this
statement II will remain there always and
DO no one any good.
Therefore. It 10 your duty to trace II up
and get Il for your own benefit, a. well as
others. 10 delay not, but act a. soon 90
possible.
will now describe the places, iocations.
marks. etc. ETC., 90 plainly that II can b.
found, without any trouble.
The hrst ID q sum Of one million and
half dollars 81. 500. .0oo)-
At this point John paused. We an
took a long breath. and Charlie Web
ster gave a soft whistle and smacked
his lips.
"A million and half dollars. What
ho"
Then ], happening to cast my eye
through the open door. caught sight
Of q face gazing through the ironwork
Of the outer office with a fixed and
gllttering expression. face anything
but prepossess;ng. the face Of a halt.
breed. deeply pockmarked, with q
coarse hook nose and evil-looking eyes,
unnaturally close together. It was
evident from bis expression that be
had not missed a word Of the reading.
There ID someone In the outer Of.
nee" ! said, and John rose and went
out