The St. Johns herald., 1922-03-16
tcHAPTER V-contInusd.)

Mfr. TubDs then produced a legal looking document which 1 took to be the original agreement of the members of the expedition. Beneath their sig natures he had inscribed a sort Of cOdIcil, by which I relinquished all claim on any treasure recovered by the party. signed the clause in bold and defiant hand, under the at- tentlve eyes of the company. A sort of sigh went round, as though some thing of vast moment had been con- cluded. And indeed 1t had, for now The way was clear for Violet's map.
 COvertly l watched the faces around me. Mfr. Tubbs' eyes had grown bright; he licked his dry lips. Ills nose, tip-tiIted and slightly bulbous, took on a more than usually roseate hue. Captain Magnus, who was of a restless and jerky habit at the best of times, was like a leashed animal scenting blood. Beneath his open shirt you saw the quick rise and fall If his hairy chest. His lips, drawn back wOlfishly, displayed yellow, fang like teeth. Under the raw crude greed of the man you seemed to glimpse something indescribably vulpine and ferociOus.
 The face of Dugald Shaw was con- trolled, but there was a slight rigidity in its quiet. A pulse beat rapidly in his cheek. All worldly good, all hope fudonondnnno hnnO for him on the contents of the small flat package, wrapped in oil-silk, which Miss Browne was at this moment with drawing from her pocket.
 Only Cuthbert Vane, seated next to me, maintained without effort his se- renity. For him the whole affair be- lOnged in the category known as sport ing, where a gentleman played his stake and accepted with equanimity the issue.
 The dead sailors legacy consisted nf a single sheet of time-stained pa per. Two-thirds of the sheet was cov- cred by a rOughly-drawn sketch in faded ink, giving the outline of the island shores as we had seen them from the Rufus Smith. Here was the cove, with the name 1t bears in the Ad- miralty charts-Lantern bay-written in, and q dotted line indicating the channel
 To all appearance the map was merely to give Hopperdown his direc- tlOns for entering the cove. There was absolutely no mark upon 1t to show where the treasure had been buried
 Now for the writing on the sheet below the map. It was in another hand than that which had written lantern bay across the face of the cove, and which, though labored, was precise and clear. This other was an uneven, wavering scrawl:
 "He sed 1t is in a Cave with 2 l mouths near by the grave of Bill Hal- liwell wich was cut down for he new to much. He sed you can bring boat l 10 the cave at the half Tide but be- | ware the turn for the pull Is strong. He sed to find the Grave again look | for the stone at the head marked B. | H. and a Cross Bones. In the ChIst 1 Is gold DublOOns, a vast lot, also a i silver Cross wich le sed leve for the i Grave for he sed Bill walks and that's | unlucky."
 That was all. A fairly clear direc- tion for any friend who had attended the obsequies of Bill and knew where 10 look for the stone marked B. Fl. | and a crOSs-bOnes, but to perfect | strangers 1t was vague.
 A blank look crept into the Intent | faces about the table.
 'It-it don't happen to say in more deetan jest precisely whsre that cave