Evening star., 1941-02-09

longitude one, the minutes another the seconds
third And part of the island shown each map with of
the three bearings each Wonder why he much
trouble?"
According the story" Joan explained "old Donisio
Comeiro heartily detesed all three of his They wild
those three and Donisio became very sancmonous
after he had had his fling Also they had always sided with
mother, who lovely, we-bred Castilan lady
by giving each of them map their inheritance he felt
he could trouble and proved he knew his
all we'll Juan hanged for the murder of his brother
Philip Carlos spent his life looking for the maps which Juan
and Philip apparently had hidden carefully and died from
wounds received in drunken brawl pretty of
ancestors we have!'
They knew what they wanted and went after it chuCked
Trotter.
Bootack Island Doniso Colmero had named it, but Dave
Carter the souchng lantern awed Georgia native from whom
they rented boat, called it ''Clo'sepm Island"
Dies shaped like clio sepn" he explained Two spits
off the ohen end with deep bay in between Shucks
though you-uns is lookn for place camp out theys
plenty o better spots"
They told him they interested the fishing than
in the terrain of the island.
They found the island be just what Dave Carter had said
it was-low and wndswept, with nhosptable shores The
only beach at the end Of the bay where there brief
stretch of sand AS far they could from hasy survey
there absolutely evidence of human habtaton upon
the island, past or present.
1t shortly before when they landed but Emil
Toer had the fever As for oan she excited that
her hands shaking she made sandwiches As they ate
the food taseess in their mouths Tote went the dec
tions again.
The ancient brown writing Spanish of course Joan
could stumble through after fashion, for she had studied
the language in college, but Trotter importing largely from
South American countries much with it.
Putting the instructions all together it goes like this From
the foot of formed by break the rocks line
great stone - hn-m-n He paused fownmg difficult
phrase great stone thrust up like the bow of ship sinking
stern first From triangle cut into the highest point of Booack
Island line from the sharpes point South by East white
streak upon ledge easily visible Go where the lines Cross
thirty due north by the compass needle Dig there
the chest of three thousand douboons is one
fathom down "
They spread out to look for the shaped like cross
1t Joan who found it, after hours excited scrambng
the ichencovered lodges There mistaking it,
it nearly perfect conventional formed by ceavages
in the living rock.
Her cry brought the running Trotter wipng the
sweat from his forehead and Brent laughing like school
boy.
They could not at first find the which like the bow
of sinking ship for scrub had sprung up hide but
Brent located it at last and hatheed his way through
they could stretch white cord between the points indicated
I've already located the triangle into the highest point
Brent said The old boy must have hammered out that mark
himself; the marks of the chisel are still visible"
They raced to the spot AS Brent had said the toomas
plain the deeply mcised arrowhead and sighting along
it revealed the white streak the maps had mentioned
You two go for the picks and shoves, suggested JOAN
I the line Oh hurry! Hurry" There was need to
haste The back with the tools by the time Joan
had completed her task and Emil Trotter compass hand
paced off the distance His face streaming his hands
cenched and unclenched with nervousness.