Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1921-09-15
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Friday. Ladies', amt one that's in
clined to- boast, but Jest want to
warn you not to be too astOnlshed
when II. II. makes Acquaintance with
Bill Halliwell's tombstone, which TIN
within to lay he does yet" %,
Well, good luck to YOU said the
/ grim Scot, ..and let me likewise warn
all hands not to be too astonished II
1--WE find that the treasure Is not in the
cave. But I'll admit 1t is as good a
place as any, for beginning the search
The cave which was now the center
OF our hopes Il say our, because some
lhOw or other found myself hoping
and fearing along with the rest,
though carefully concealing tran
under the point at Its further end
The distance was about sixty feet
from mouth to mouth, and back Of
this transverse passage great
vaulted chamber stretched far under
the land: The walls of the chamber
rose sheer to height Of fifteen feet
or more, when a broad ledge broke,
their sm0Othness. At high water the
sea flooded the cavern to its farthest
extremity and beat upon the walls.
Now and again, 1t was to prove, even
the water-worn pavement between the
two archways was left bare, and one
could walk dry-shod along the, rocks
under the high land of tile point from
the beach to the cave But this was
at the very bottom of the ebb. Most
l5lya the lower end of the cave was
flooded. and the explorers, went back
and forth in the boat.
IA certain drawback to boating in
our island waters was the presence
|SOf hungry hordes of sharks. You
might forget them for moment and
sit happily trailing your. fingers over
board, and then a huge moving shadow
would darken the water, and you saw
the ripple cut by a darting fin and
the flash Of livid belly as the mon
.ster rolled over, ready for his mouth
full.
What with the genius Of Cookie and,
the fruitfulness Of our island, not to
speak Of supplies from the Army and
Navy stores, we lived like sybarites.
There were fish from stream and sea,
coc0auts and bananas and oranges
from the trees in the clearing. had
hopes Of yams and breadfruit also, but
LIE they grew on. Leeward none OF
us had a speaking acquaintance with
them. Cookie did wonders with the
pigs that were shot and brought in.
to him, though never could sit down
with appetite to a massacred infant
served up on a platter, which Is just
what little pigs look like.
"Jes' yo' cas- yo' eye on dis yere in,
nahcent," Cookie would request, as he
placed the sucking before Mr. Tubbs.
Tendah as a newton babe, he am.
Jes' lax he been tucked up to sleep by
his nanny. Sho' now, how yo' got
de heart to stick de knife in him, Mis-
tab Tubbs ~ d 5,f :
H. It was significant that Mr.. Tubbs,
after occupying for day or two an
sundistinguished middle place at the
board, had somehow slid into the
carver's post at the head Of the. table.
Thanking him were the two ladies'.
Everybody else had a, sense Of sit
ting inlaouter darkness, particularly i.
whom fate had placed opposite Cap
tain Magnus. Since landing on the
island, Captain AIagnus had for
sworn the effeminacy Of forks Load
ed to the llilt, his knife would ap.
proacll his cavernous mouth and dis
lappear In II. Yet when it emerged
Captain Magnus was alive. Where
did it go? This was "a question that
/; agitated me daily. 4 A sii: u
&. The history Of Captain Magnus was
obscure. It was certain that he had
bis captains papers, though how he
I mad mastered the science Of navigation
sufticiently to obtain them was, a prob
lem. Though he held a. British nayi-
gator's license, he did not appear to
be an Englishman.
\ The captain, as Mr.. Nane had re-
marked, was Miss Brownies own find.
Before the objections, Of Mr.. Shaw
evidently q Negative influence from
the beginning llad caused her to
aband on the scheme, Miss Browne had
planned to charter a vessel in New
York and sail around the Is Horn to
the island. While nursing this prof.
Get she had formed an extensive ac-,
qnasntance with persons frequenting
the New York water-f front. among
whom was Captain AIagnns. AS. III
heard her remark, he was the one
nautical character whom she found
I3sympathetic, by which Il Judge that
1.-the others were skeptical ana rude.
Being sympathetic, Captain iagnns
found II an easy matter to attach him.
self 20 the expedition perhaps IL
was Violet who annexed him, \ don't
know which. N