The Ordway new era., 1922-01-27
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him to bull the market Oh D'"Nn
Fridov' Ladies', | amt one thats IN
cIlped TO boast, but / Jest want 10
warn Won not TO be too astonished
when Fl IL. makes acquaintance with
BIZ Halliwelrs tombstone. which I'm
wilIln' to lay he does yet
"Well. good luck TO you,' said the
grin, Scot. "and let me likewise warn
MI hands not to be too astonlshed IL
a., 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-I say our, because some
how or other l found myself hoping
and fearing along with the rest,
though carefully concealing it-ran
under the point Mt its farther end.
The distance was about sixty feet
from mouth to mouth, and back or
this transverse passage great
yaulted 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 smoothness. At high water the
sea flooded the cavern to It's 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 the point from
the beach TO the cave. But this was
at the very bottom of the ebb. Most
lv 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 a darting fin and
the fash Of IIyId belly rs 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.
CocOnuts and bananas and oranges
from the trees in the clearing. had
hopes of vans and breadfruit also, but
If they grew on Leeward none of
us had 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 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 new'bo'n. 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-
tah TubbST
1t was significant that Mr.. Tubbs,
after occupying for day or two an
undistinguished middle place at the
board, had somehow slid into the
Ns'A 'H- - lN9A u Nll- lltdu VI lHt
Thanking him were the two ladies'.
Everybody else had sense of Sit
ting In outer darkness, particularly l.,
whom fate had placed opposite Cap
tam Magnus. Since landing on the
island, Captain Magnus had for
sworn the effeminacy of forks. Load
ed to the hilt, his knife would ap-
proach his Cavernous mouth and dis
appear in 1t. Yet when 1t emerged
Captain Magnus was alive. Where
did 1t gof This was question that
ngitated me daily.
The history of Captain Magnus was
obscure 1t was certain that he had
MS captains papers, though how he
mad mastered the science of navigation
sufiiclently TO obtain them was a prob
lem. Though he held British nayi-
gators license, he did not appear to
be an Englishman.
Inc captain, as Mr.. Vane had re-
marked, was Miss Brownies own find
Before the objections of Mr.. Shaw
evidently a Negative Influence from
the beglnning-had caused her In
abandon the scheme, Miss Browne had
piaihed TO charter a vessel in New
York and sail around the Horn to
the island While nursing this prof.
ect she had formed an extensive ac.
quaintance with persons freouentipy
'ie New York waterfront among
~hom was Captain Magnus. As /
heard her remark, he was tbe ono
'iau'icai character whom she found
sympathetic, by which 1 judge that
the others were skeptical and rude,
BENG sympathetic, Captain Mapnus
iouhd IL an easy matter to attach him.
self TO the expedltion-or perhans 4,
was Violet who annexed hin, -.