The St. Johns herald., 1922-04-20
CcHAPTER Ix-cOntinued.)

December 28. Of course the cave under the point is the logical place. l have been unable to find any stone marked B. H. on the ground above 1t, but I fear that a search after BITS tombstone would be hopeless. Under circumstances such as those of the mates story, 1t seems to me that all the probabilities point to their con cealing the chest in the cave with an opening on the bay. To get the boat. laden with the heavy chest, through the surf to any of the other cREes-lf the various cracks and fs- Eures have seen are indeed properly to. be called caves-wOuld be stiff work for three men. Yes, everything indicates the cavern under the point. The only question is, isn't 1t indicated too cieaFly7 Would a smooth old son must have been have hidden his treasure In the very place certain to be ransacked If the secret ever got Out1 Unless 1t was deeply buried. which 1t could have been only at cer- tain stages of the tide, even old Heintz would have been apt to run across it fin the course of hls desultory re- searches for the riches of the buc- cancers. And 1 am certain placid old HeintZ did not misiead me. Besides, at Panama. he was making arrange ments to go with Gome other Germans on small business venture to Samoa. which he would not have been likely to do If he had just Cnearthed a vast fortune ln buried treasure. Still, l shall explore the cave thoroughly. though with little hope.
 "Oh. Helen, If 1 could watch these trOpIc stars with you tonight!
 January G. 1 think 1 am through with the cave under the point-the Cavern of the Two Arches, have named It. I peered into every crevice tn the walls, and sounded the sands with a drill. suppose would have made a more thorough job of 1t if l had not been convinced from the first that the chest was not there. Shall l ever forget the feeling that stirred me when first I turned the pages of my grandfather's diary and saw there, fin his faded writing. the story of the mate of the Bonny Lass, who died in Havana In my grandfather's arms? My grandfather had gone as supercar- go in his own ship, and while he did a good stroke of business in Havana trust his shrewd Yankee instincts for that-he managed to combine the service of God with that of MammOn. Many a poor drunken sailor, taking hls fling ashore in the bright, treach- erous pIague-ridden city. found In him a friend, as did the mate of the BOnRy Lass in his dying hour. Oh, If my good grandfather had but made sure from the mans own lips exact Iy where the treasure IayI It is enough to make one fancy that the unknown Bill. who paid for too much knowledge with his life, has his own fashion of guarding the hoard. But ] rambie. was going to say, that from the moment wheI, learned from my grandfather's diary of the exist ence of the treasure. have been driv- en by an impulse more Overmaster- ing than anything 1 have ever experI- eneed In my life It was, believe, what oId-fashlOned pious folk would call a leading. All my life had been Irres0lute, the sport of circumstances, triflng with this and that, unable to set my face steadfastly toward any goal. Yet never, since I have trodden this path, have 1 looked to right or left. I have defied both human opln- lon and the obstacles which an un- friendly fate has thrown in my way. All alone, I, a sailor hitherto of pleas ure-craft among the bays and islands of the New England coast, put forth in my little slOOp for a voyage of three hundred miles on the loneliest wastes of the Pacific. All alone did 1 say? No, there was Benjy the faith fu. Ills head Is at my knee as I write. He knows, 1 think, that his masters mood Is sad tonight. Oh, Helen. if you ever see these lines will you realize how I have lOnged for you --how 1t sometimes seems that my soul must tear itself loose from my body and speed to you across half a world
 February 1. Since my last record my time has been we'll filled. In the Island Queen 1 have been surveying she coasts of my domain, sailing as close In as 1 dared. and taking note
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