Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-11-12


Friday Ladies', amt one that's in,
clined to boast. but l Jest want 10
warn you not to be too astonished
when III. III. makes acquaintance with
BID Halliwells tombstone. which I'm
willin' to lay he does yet"
"Well, good luck TO YOU" said the
| grim Scot, land let me likewise warn
all hands not TO be too astOnished II
we find that the treasure is not In the
cave. But I'll admit II Is ms good
place as any for beginning the search"
| The cave which was now the center
of our hopes-I say our. because some
how or other found myself hoping
and fearing along with the rest,
though carefully conceallng tran
under the point at Its farther end.
| The distance was about sixty feet
from mouth to mouth, and back OF
| this transverse passage great
saulted chamber stretched far under
the land. The walls of the chamber
rose sheer to height Of fifteen feet
or more, when broad ledge broke
their smoothness. At high water the
sea flooded the cavern to Its farthest
extremity and beat upon the walls.
Now and again, Il was to prove, even
the water-worn pavement between the
two archways was left bare and one
could Wink dry-shod along the rocks
under the high land of the point from
the beach to the cave. But this JEas
at the very bottom Of the ebb. Most
ly the lower end Of The cave was
flooded, and the explorers went back
and forth In the boat.
A certain drawback to boating In
our island waters was the presence
Of hungry hordes Of sharks. You
might forget them for a 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 darling fin and
the fash OF lvId belly as the mon
ster rolled over, ready for his MOUTH
full
What with the genius OF Cookie and
the fruitfu!ness 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,
coeonuts and bananas and oranges
from the trees in the clearing. ! had
hopes of vans and breadfrut also, but
II they grew on LeeWard none OF
us had speaking acquaintance with
them Cookie did wonders with tue
pigs that were shot and brought In
to him, though never corfd sit down
with appetite to q 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, AZ 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 Tubbsr'
II was significant that Mr.. Tubbs,l
after occupying for day or two an
undistingushed middle place Mt the
board, had somehow slid into the
carver's post ut the head Of the table.
Thanking him were the two ladies'.
Everybody else had sense OF sit
ting I'm outer darkness, particularly !,
whom fate had placed opposite Cap
tain Magnus. Since landing on the
island, Captain Magnus had for
sworn the effeminscy Of forks, Load
ed to the hit, his knife would APP
preach his eayerpeps mouth and dis,
appear In II. Yet when 1t emerged
Captain Magnus was alive. Whsre
did 1t gof This was question that
agltated me daily.
The history Of Captain Magnus was
obscure. 1t was certain that he had
his captains papers, though how he
had mastered the science Of navigation
sufficiently to obtain them was prob
lem. Though he held British navi-
gators license, he did not appear to
be an Englislman,
The captain, as Mr.. Vane had re-
marked, was Miss Brownies own find.
DSlUIt the uUJtStlVhS Vi niAs phuW
evidently Negative Influence from
the beginning caused her TO
abandon the scheme, Miss Browne had
planned 10 charter n vessel III New
York and sail around the Horn TO
the island. While nursing this prof.
ect she had formed an extens@e ac-
quaintance with persons frequentlng
the New York Waterfront, among
whom was Captain Magnus. AS
heard her remark, he was tie one
nautical character whom she found
sympathetic by which | Judge that
the others were skeptical a.d rude.
Being sympathetic Captain Magnus
found ii an easy matter to attach him.
self to the expedltion--or perhaps 1t
was Violet who annexed him, ! don't
know which
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