Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1922-01-06

~ iiiin ~ Jun Tue IUdTktL on q BRICK
Friday Ladies, I amt one that's in,
lie clined to boast, but I Jest want TO
he warn you not to be too astonished
< when II. FL. makes acquaintance with
IS BIZ Halliwel's tombstone, which I'm
= willin' to lay he 1oes yet"
e well, good luck to yor5" said the
e grim Scot, land Let me likewise warn
i all hands not to be too astonished IL
}, We find that the treasure is not In the
cave. But I'll admit II is as 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 l found myself hoping
and fearing along with the rest, |
though carefully concealing 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
vaulted 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, it 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 the point from
the beach to the cave. But this was
at the very bottom of the ebb. Most
~ the lower end of the cave was
flooded, and the explorers went back
and forth in the boat.
certain drawback to boating in
our island waters was the presence
Of hungry hordes of sharks. You
might forget them for a moment and =
lit happily trailing your fingers over
BOARD, and then huge moving shadow
you'd darken the water, and you saw ~,
he ripple cut by a darting fin and '"'
he flash of a livid belly as the mon
ter rolled over ready for his mouth qu
III.
what with the genius of Cookie and ~
ne fruitfulness of our island not to 'iic
peak of supplies from the Army and
avy stores, we lived like sybarftes Ju
here were fish from stream and sea- ="
'conuts and bananas and oranges "d'
ON the trees in the clearing. I had tiie
)pes of vans and breadfrut also. but III
they grew on Leeward none Of -
mad a speaking acquaintance with "i'
EN-. Cookie did wonders with the
gs that were shot and brought In
him, though I never could sit down III
To. |
ryed up on platter, which Is Just ""
lat little pigs look like. US
"Jes' yo' cas- yo' eye on dis we're in MISS
hcent," Cookie would request, as he n'nn
ICED the sucking before Mr. Tubbs. 'ut
endah as new'bo'n babe, he am. 10 d
lax he been tucked up to sleep by VIE
NANNY She, now bo,,, 20, ~. plims
heart to stick de knife In him Mis-. N
Tubbsp come
was significant that Mr.. Tubbs. DO
er occupying for a day or two an
distinguished middle place at the
rd, mad somehow slid into the rs
ver's post at the head of tho +sh1o Adele
hking him were the two ladies. IN
rybody else had a sense of sit
In outer darkness, particularly I,
IN tate had placed opposite Cap pecti
Magnus. Since landing ON the II Coz
no. Captain Magnus had for =
IN the effeminacy of forks. Load
20 the hilt, his knife would ap-
On MS cavernous mouth and dis
Ear In 1t. Yet when it emerged
AIN Magnus was, alive. Whero
1t go? This was a question that
tied me daily.
lie history of Captain Msgnus was
ure 1t was certain that he had
papers, though how he
the science of navigation
,iently to obtain them was a prob
Though he held British navi-
RS license, he did not appear to
n Englishman.
e captain, as Mr.. Vane had re-
led, was Miss Brownies own find.
re the objections of Mr.. Shaw
entity a Negative Influence from
Deginning-had caused her to
don the scheme, Miss Browne had II
ned 10 charter vessel in New
and sail around the Horn to
Island. While nursing this prof. II
she had formed an extensbe ac- u
ntance with persons frequenting
New York Waterfront, among
n was Captain Magnus. As II
d her remark, he was the one
zeal character whom she found Il
by which ] Judge that
others were skeptical d rude
< sympathetic, Captain Magnus
q II an easy matter 10 attach him. II
70 the expedltion-or perhaps II
Violet who annexed him, ! don't
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