The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1922-09-22

VIC oWOic, duu YET there is no Oatl IN
vented would induce me to swallow
such expressions, if | did not REGARD
you with sincere affection. 1t is i'm
possible you should doubt me there
have given proofs. Dutton had t.
take, because he knew the pass, ant
Grady because Dutton would not move
without him; but what call was there
to carry you along? You are a per
petual danger to me with your cursed
Irish tongue. By rights you should
now be in irons in the cruiser. And
you quarrel with me like a baby for
some trinkets."
l considered this one of the most
unhandsome speeches ever made.
and indeed to this day | can scarce
reconcile it to my notion of a gentle
man that was my friend. | retorted
upon him with his Scotch accent, of
which he had not so much as some.
but enough to be very barbarous and
disgusting, as toldshim plainly; and
the affair would have gone to a great
length but for an alarming intervene
ton.
we had got some way off upon the
sand The place where we had silent
with the packets lying undone and
the money scattered openly, was now
between us and the pines; and it /
was out OF these the stranger must
have come. There he was at least. a
great hulking fellow of the country
with broad-ax on his shoulder. look
ing open-mouthed, now at the treas
IRE which was just at his feet and
low at our disputation in which we
lad gone far enough to have weapons
II our hands. We had no sooner oh.
'erved MIN than he found his legs
Ind made OF again among the pines. .
This was no scene to put our minds I
Z rest; couple of armed men in
ea-clothes found quarreling over a ,
reasure, not many miles from where {
pirate had been captured-here was 2
nougb to bring the whole country i
bout our ears. The quarrel was not Q
ven made up; it was blotted from i
Ut minds; and we got our packets to- h
ether in the twinkling of an eve and n
lade off, running with the best will "
/ the world
But the trouble was, we did NOT
now in what direction, and must h
return upon our steps. a
allantrae had indeed collected what ;,
could from Dutton; but it's hard ;,
travel upon hearsay; and the estu &c
y, which spreads out into a vast ir- :.
gular harbor, turned us of upon =,
'ery side with a new stretch of
ater
we were near beside ourselves and -,
ready quite spent with running =,
len coming to the top of a dune, we &c
W we were again cut off by another n
mlncatl0n OF the bay. This was 49,
eek, however, very different from
ose that had arrested us before; be- nj
3 set In rocks, and so precipitously b a
ep that small vessel was able to ~,
alongside, made fast with a haw- 81,
T; and her crew had laid plank on
the shore. Here they had lighted a n,
and were sitting at their meal n,
for the vessel herself she was one 81.
those they build in the Bermudas 70
The love of gold and the great ha- fai
d that everybody has to pirates
re motives of the most influential. CHI;
1 would certainly raise the coun- ha'
III our pursuit. Besides, it was bal
v plain we were on some sort of Ger
aggling peninsula like the fingers des
hand; and the wrist, or passage Ere
the mainland. which we should rel
re taken at the first, was by this bro
e not improbably secured lite
'hese considerations put us on eve
der counsel For as long as we WEI
ed, looking every moment to hear VOL
nds of the chase, we lay among for
lie bushes on the top OF the dune: G
having by this means secured a hon
e breath and recomposed our ap- and
rance, we strolled down at last. gre
great affectation of careless we
,, to the party by the fire. we
was a trader and his negroes, be- thai
ring to Albany in the province of ban
7 York, and now on the way home on
a the Indies with cargo; his join
e | cannot recall We were to
zed to learn he had put in here cam
terror OF the Sarah; for we gain