Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1922-02-10
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nave DttE ufiADit 10 Unu any StOilt
marked b. H. on the ground above It,
but l 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
caves-if the various cracks and fs-
Bures / have seen are indeed properly
TO be called caveS-would be stin
work for three men. Yes everything
indicates the cavern under the point.
The only question IS, isn't It indicated
too clearly Would a smooth old
scoundrel such as this Captain Samp-
son must have been have hidden his
treasure In the very place certain to
be ransacked II the secret ever got
sout7 Unless II was deeply buried,
which 1t could have been only at GER
tain stages of the tide. even old Heintz
would have been apt to run across 1t
in the course of his deSuItory re-
Searches for the riches of the buc-
Heintz did not .mislead me. Besides,
at Panama, he was making arrange
sments to go with some other Germans
on a small business venture to Samoa,
which he would not have been likely
ITO do If he had Just unearthed q vast
fortune In buried treasure Still,
shall explore the cave thoroughly,
though with little hope
"Oh, Helen. If 1 could watch these
tropic stars with you tonight
January g. / think 1 am through
with the cave under the point-the
Cavern Of the Two Arches, 1 have
named it. l peered into every crevice
in the walls. and sounded the sands
with a drill. I suppose would have
made a more thorough job of it IL 1
had not Seen convinced from the first
that the chest was not there. Shall
I ever forget the feeling that stirred
me when first / turned the pages of
my grandfather's diary and saw there,
in his faded writing. the story of the
mate of the Bonny Lass, who died In
Havana In my grandfather's arms?
Ny 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 poor drunken sailor, taking
his fling ashore In the bright. treach-
erous plague-ridden city, found in
him a friend, as did the mate of the
Bonny Lass In his dying hour. Oh.
II my good grandfather had but made
sure from the mans own lips exact
1y where the treasure lay 1t 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
ramble. Il was going to say, that
my grandfnther,s diary of the exist |
ence Of the treasure. i have been driv- |
en- by an impulse more overmaster- |
ing than anything i have ever expert |
enced in my life. 1t was. i believe, |
what old-fashioned pious folk would |
call leading. All my life had been
lrresolute. the sport of circumstances, |
trifng with this and that. unable to
set my face steadfastly toward any
goal. Yet never, since / have trodden
this path. have 1 looked TO right or
left. l hove defied both human opin-
lon and the obstacles which an I'M
fate hes thrown In By way.
All alone. I, saiior hitherto OF pleas
lre-craft among the bays and islands
II the New England coast, put forth
N my little sloop for a voyage OF
hree hundred miles os the ioneliesf
wastes OF the Pacific. All alone, did
say? No. there was Benjy The faith
ui. His head IS at my knee as
rrile. He knows. ! think. that his
masters mood is sad tonight oh.
felen. N you ever see these lines will
90 ressize how have longsd Tor you ,
how IL sometimes seems that ms soul !
must tear Itself loose from my body !
nd speed % you across half word2 I
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