, 1923-05-23

well, what are you laughin' att"
.Nothin'. May 1 ask what terms2"
I'VE go shares"
have you give him the locationf"
81 have"
1ou've give him the location and
let him slip his cable-him and Sci.
lers?"
what odds2 It'll take a month q
bust her open n hunt for the stuff.
III be after him tomorrow"
Cleary crossed his arms and stood
win the half-cigar stuck In the cor.
ner of his mouth and pointing sky.
ward, his eyes fixed on the deck and
his left eye half closed.
WELL" he said at last, you've made
your bargain, there's no gettin' round
that. I'm not wishin' to poke my most
IN YOU business, nor to ask what your
share is to be, but I'm partners with
Cark, and he's let me down-cayn't
you give me a lead?"
(which way?" -.
Give me a lead to the location. II
won't make a cent difference to you"
Flows that?"
Clear enough, l don't want none of
your share. Cark's the man | want to
tap having a right to, being partners"
Satan seemed to urn this matter
over in his mind for a moment.
You'll have 1t tomorrow" he said
I'm pickin' up my anchor tomorrow
mornin'. You've only to follow me
I've made my bargain with Clark, and
there's nothin' in the contrac' about
givin' the location away to third par.
ties. l can't help you followin' me-"
Il AXE you" said Cleary.
The sur was nearly touching the
horizon when he dropped into his boat
n rowed off.
Look here!" said Radcliffe. "Are
you in earnest with that chap? Going
to take him down to Lone Reef?"
yep"
But how about %Carquinez? We had
got to wait for him here till he gets
back from Havana with the dynamite"
Yes" said Satan, wed got to wait
here one week, or maybe ten days al
lowin' for w~eather-where was you
born?'
"How?"
"Cark's tried to sell me a pup, that's
how! He's gone to no Havana; he's
crackin' on for the wreck with every
stitch he can carry. Reckons to bust
her open and scoop the Doodle while
we're layin' here rubbin' our noses and
waitin' for him Now, you may think
me a suspicious cuss. I'm not but o
Teller has to run by compass in this
world or go off his course. and my
compass in this turnout is Cark. l say
he's gone down to Lone reef and given
me the left leg We the business, and
my compass is the fac that he can't
run straight. Not If he tried to, he
couldn't run straight MOI could Sci.
lers nor Cleary. If them fellers were
straight, I'd match them and give them
a fair deal. AS 1t is, they're like a lot
of blind bally-hoolies playin' blind
mans buff, runnin' round and round,
with me in the middle. tryin' to ki-
doodle me and bein' kidoodled them.
selves, but, I haven't done with them
yeti"
/; had seemed to Radcliffe, on board
the Juan, that Carquinez was the
spider of the web of this business. II
seemed TO him now that the spider
was Satan.
He began to wonder was there any
wreck at all, was the treasure story q
myth. He could not resist the ques'
ton.
THAT chart you showed u.s." said he,
sis there anything really in it,"
Satan tool him at once.
THE charts all right" said he, "for
them that can read 1t. If you mean is
1t genuine, | reckon 1t is-for them
that can read it. Wen see some day
If I'm right or wrong but. honest
truth. I'm not botherin' much about It
II you ask me. I'm botherin' more
about the kid than huntln' for money
"You mean?"
Jude. Suppose l was to get a bash
on the head from n of them cusses
or drop TO the smallpox. same as ]
pretended to Sellers. what'd become OF
the KIDD"
The sound of the kid" frying fish
for supper came mixed with the ques'
tlon.
az know" said Radcliffe, that's q
| problem that must often occur 10 you
/ should think"
you've seen the sort of crowd Ha'
vana's made Of" went on Satan. Its
hard to tell which is the worse, the
Yanks or the Spaniards, and there's