Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1922-02-23

him TO bull the market on a Blacl
Friday Ladies, l amt n that's In
cIIned TO boast. but i Jest want q
warn o. not to be too asfonishe<
when III. II. makes acquaintance with
Bill Halliwell's tombstone. which Tn
wiIiin' TO lay he does yet"
We'll. good luck TO you" said tn
grim Scot, "and let me likewise warn
all hands not to be too ~astenlshed II
we find that the treasure Is not In the
cave. But I'll admit II is as good q
place as any for beginning the search. .
The ave 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 fits farther end.
The distance was abour sixty feet
from mouth 10 mouth. and back of
this transverse passage a great
vaulted chamber stretched far under
the land. The walls of the chamber
rose sheer to a height of fifteen feet
or more. when a broad ledge broke
their Smoothness. At high water the
sea flooded the cavern to its farthest
extremity and beat upon the wallis.
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
ly the lower end OF the cave Mas
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
happily trailing your fingers over
and then a huge moving shadow
would darken the water. and you saw
the ripple cut by a darling fin and
the flash of a liyld belly as the mon
ster rolled over, ready for his mouth
full.
-VW1hut with the genius IF 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,
,%oconuts and bananas and oranges
rom the trees in the clearing. | had
lopes of yams and breAdfrult also. but
+ they grew on Lceward none OF
hem. Cookie did wonders with the
pigs that were shot and brought in
% him, though l never could sit down
With appetite to a massacred infant
served up on a platter. which is just
What little pigs look like.
'Jes' yo' cas- yo, eye on dis yere In
lahcent," Cookie would request, as he
the sucking before MIR. Tubbs.
Tendah as a newton babe. he am.
lax he been tucked up TO sleep by
IFS nanny. Sho' now, how yo' got
lie heart to stick de knife In him. Mis-
ah Tubbs? ?"
1t was significant that Mr.. Tubbs,
ifter occupying for a day or two an
distinguished middle place at the
ioard, had somehow slid into the
aryer's post at the head of the table.
'anking him we're the two ladies.
Everybody else had a sense OF sit
In outer darkness, particularly I,
Thom fate had placed opposite Cap
ain Mngnus. Since landing or the
sland, Captain Magnus had for !
worn the effeminacy of forks. Load ,
d TO the hilt, his knife would APP f,
roach his c%avernous mouth and dis
ppear In 1t. Yet when 1t emerged .
aptaIn Magnus was alive. Where :
Id 1t go7 This was a question that ,
me daily. 4
The history Of Captain Magnus was
1t was certain that he had
Is captains papers, though how he
ad mastered the science of navigation
efficiently to obtain them was a prob
IN. Though he held a British navl-
ator's license, he did not appear to
; an Engiishman.
The captain, as Mr.. Vane had re-
6arked. was Miss Brownies own find.
the objections Of Mfr. Shaw .
a Negative influence from
lie beglnning-had caused her 10 :
the scheme, Miss Browne had :
Ianned to charter q vessel In New
ork and sail around the Horn to
le island. While nursing this prof.
t she had formed an extensive ac-
iaintance with persons frequenting e
lie New York waterfront, among
HON was Captain Magnus. As =
card her remark, he vas the one n
character whom she found /
ympathetic, by which / Judge that r
le others were skepticaI and rude. n
cling sympathetic. Captain Magnus n
,und 1t an easy matter to attach him 4
IL 10 the expedition-or perhaps it n
Violet who annexed him, | don't n