Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, May 28, 1912, Page 6

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You'll like the looks of our Lread when you see it. a0 still better when you try it. The Modern Bakery Barhite Brothers Live Where You Will Like Your Neighbors We are exercising great care to sell our ROSEDALE 1lots only to the best class of people. Thus we give you desirable neighbors in addition to ROSEDALE'S other attratcions. Wide streets, shade trees, fertils sall, building restrictions. Inside the city, one block cast from Lake Mor- ton, SMITH & STEITZ ad G. C. ROGAN Deen-Bryant Building Whatever you want in rea lestate we have it. [ quaintay 1 there w | touthsone = i the louch bas pand if oue i { main w the in betier health and therefore OX- not And thg very You'll like its taste Captain s Pish b oear vicd a0 bas atining all the daiuie i an enthu-iist wb | which be had pot 1o summer T B wloso b owias adiy s e’ s There v sit sguare of frosted zin: and wrapped i napian w w1 boarded postime atong the summer i One enters skift and, e of the lay, ~ W otide, s o ore i cirele of Little ¢ui i I tale s ebbed it s Comile tramp arcund 1o | Haven with another crabbing grounds fo the i nest seryp Captain tide weather sud the et of reached the Hole choane tide flowe Doenon swiftly th Little 1 Captain Breais drtlt among t! trip K to the the i wonld bag heavi wriggling lone eaptive v claw to the m As noon tain Bar and at last w poled the sk b e e wild pluin bushies the high bank From under the hank fttde ritls of fce cold water trom hidden spring il here we washed onr hands and veturned to the kit for lunch Captain Barnabas wanted to - broil ereatures or W oeling pilein Cap w hizher overlmsing from \ Sline atn t in this story, so I shall hi to stick to the truth and tell you we were not cast ashore, but | we rowed to the island right and prop-! keg of wa- | ter and a bag of bisenit d some lll'l" | of <!t horse stowed in the bow. We also took some picks and shovels and erinashi ‘l new the little island like a It was not far from the west rica and had been Cend 1o the other by sechers, all after the 1and jewles, 1 X 1 the history s 2 of the treasu or s by the 1l the ptain Kidd all the differ ombed that is nd withonut snecess 1 the Indis tit one voy light fr o owalng to pick up a carzo of | o v went ashore in the din | i mdnnte we stepped on that | v besel amd heard the s f the And smely t v knew right a | to find that treasure the very at o that hi hd patis wihine in e Dl o sns P the it past there ©tedor romange imrentonalile old salt spinster whe * e with room and my own plans for fur st e, and the delieions 1 ad hronght was only one of o pathor el < 1 el prepared for the gen i N pecting captain pshore’ = 1 prompted him. | we went and i among the palins drer we had Lad some supg <tted off ot a pun for the place where | Pl calenlated the treasure was | Lol Of conrse every man wh or went o that dsland had a dilferent theory as to where it was hid, nt we toours wias o aosure for Lonis Franck, a Finn who was one of onr erew, had an ancestor who had ae iy Wl with this Moody old i rate away back bhefore the Pevalut ary war days, Pranck conld recite lezend that had heen handed down by | his ancestor so glibly t he conld te'l it the same every time, and so er awhile we got to believe it was ! Iv o, and that was how it happened we decided to stop there, “Of course Franck was the leader and euide, for he said his ancestor had said that the chest was buried ten feet deep under a rock ten feet square. “We found the largest rock on the fsland, and it was only three feet six hy six feet two, and it looked thin, and Franck said he thonght it had heen worn off by the wind and weather dur- fng all that time. It was snow white coral rock teo, “The rock was set in a little grove of palm trees, and 1 suppose once it lidd restod on the sandy shore, but as the ishand grew larger and sand was ninm nshore HOSS, | washed up to form a new beach trees wrew npoaround the stone until it real- Iv was abont in the middle of the is tand when we fonnd it. “We worked away picking and pry- H | g at the loose sand around the rock | tended beginning o “A gigantie figure that gave vent te a enarling yoll.” some crabs on a hastily constructed driftwood fire, but 1 vetoed the sug gestion, tempting as it was 1 presented one of his lovad elub sandwiches, and his gray eyes twin kled appreciatively, “It's better 'n brotled crabs.” e mur mured from the midst of a huge bite of crisp toast, lettuce leaf, mayon paise, chicken breast and ter “You never tasted anythir deliclous even on that treasu of yours,” 1 declared meaningy “Ho, ho!" roared the ¢ ping his knee vigorously. * was something back of that wich, Miss Telham! Now, I was goinz 1o tell you that story today anyway, < you might have kept all bhome.™ “Then you shall tell It a'l the letter | for the sandwiches,” 1 retirel, un daunted by his laughter, pe it's | a story where you v 15t ashore ! without even a lag its-they | sound so dry and t ‘m sure bread fruit a arte much more deliclons “They're delich the captain amiahiy o another sandw tired of eatin island, and el ey island slap there ri'ws to are * agreed himself on get oA desert despis- stale Now, | 0 if 1t is washe water, not when you're and trying to get erowbars under it so t it up when we smelled wood *‘What's that? asked Franck. “*“The remains of our campfire, 1 told him, bet afterward 1 found out ! wrong. “It soon grew dark, for we had been late in landing and we had not In- 1tions until morn- ing, but the thirst for adventure was strong within us and even while the shadows lengthened a full moon arose from the sea and we decided to con- tinue the work by its light, “We had just pried off the stone and sent it crashing iuto the undergrowth when there arose from our midst, ap- parently from the disturbed soll under the stone, s gigantic figure that gave vent to a suarling yell as he leaped into the mooulit space and faced us. “Miss Telham,” said the captain im- pressively, emphasizing his words with successive taps of a horny forefinger agaiust his other paim, “Miss Telham, belleve me, ma'am, when I tell you that that there figure was nothing more or less than the ghost of the bloody pirate who had buried the treasure!” “Captain Barnabas!” I protested. He nodded *“That's what Louls Franck, the Finn, said. He said the critter Jooked just like the description his ancestor had handed down of the pirate who had buried the treasure. He whispered it to us, for I'll confess, ma'am, we huddled together all at once under the shock of seeing him and hearing his yell 1 don't know which was the worst. He was a crazy looking thing, sure enmough, as he pranced around there, waving a rag- ged looking knife and shouting all sorts of gibberish that nobody under- stood. “I told Franck it sounded to me like Finnish, but he said it was Italian, said it was pure French. From what 1 heard afterward I guess it was Irish Well, as I was saying, the pirate was crazy enough in iooks—he wore knee breeches and a loose white shirt and a red sash around his waist with all kinds of weapons stuck in it, and nis hair was long and dark. d over hi forehend was bonund a red handker chiof knotted behind. We could see all this becanse the tropical moon made it lik ¥ there on the white beach. “*How do you v it's a ghost?” 1 whishered to Louis Franck, who shiv ered heside me. “He said the critter eame from un der the stone, and | couldn’t deny it becanse it looked that way to me, and now as he capered around out there a sudden terror 1 upon the whole four of us at once, and as we turned and ran he dashed into the thicket aft | A away we went pell mell for where we had left the hont. we ran 1 eonld feel my hair bris | 0f all the attentions - { it cold here?" and Tony Laconti said it was German, | and the mate, who was a Britisher, | “Thank you for tel ered a guest, on my head, and cold <hiv n | or the presents you ca, nomy spne AllL wanted was to it and push off for the poall y chaps and of sailors’ superstitions hadl bee ng things mizht have turied out dillerent. “We piled into the v ind pushed off, lexving all our stores behind. As reach the is more appreciated thar We we rice candy now and t),. . Our Candies Tast. Goog and Are in Goog Taste This is about all 1j;. needed for the young 1c);, member this.. After g such things are apprec,...; She i you think more of her, ¢ ;.. still she likes to be told ax to be shown even better, X she can't tell you this but 1.y}, more than before, orce with a box of our c; how much it means. Wi —— Norris, Atlanta, Candies Quick Delivery Red Cross Pharmacy PHONE 89 “Where would you be, captain, if you had all that money?" we pulled toward the Indus—1 was second mate on her then—we turned around and saw the ghostly pirate cing at the water's edge. The knife hed in the moonlight, and then all at once he disuppeared, and there remain- ed nothing save a ball of weird blue light that floated through the air in our wake, ‘Captain Sackville declared it was a corpse light, and as our boat was hoist- ed to the davits he had all sails bent, anchors up, and away we went clip- ping along before a fresh nor'wester and at last, to our relief, leaving the blue light behind with the island far astern,” The captain replaced the luncheon basket in the stern of the skiff, shifted the oars fnto the rowlocks and deftly shot out into Little Quince harbor. The blades of the oars ritlled the placid sur- face in which the tall grasses were mirrored, and from a tall pine tree a red winged blackbird ealled. “Well " I asked fmpatiently you go back after the treasure The eaptain shook his head solemnly, although I am positive his eyes twin kled amusement. He leaned forward, and the skiff shot into the ehannel that led nto Quinee Maven harhor “Miss Telham, when we arrived in New York months afterward we read in the papers that at last Little island bad given up her treasure to a bold Irishman from Hackensack, N. J. It told how this man, Sweeney, had pried up a flat stone and, together with his companions, had dug ten feet deep, mind you, Miss Telham, and found a chest of gold and Jewels. 1f this Swee. ney had not found us there and scared us away with his pretence of being a ghost of the pirate and afterward burn- ing a blue signal light—why, I wouldn't be rowing you home across the bay this afternoon®™ “Where would you be, captain,” I asked curiously, *“1f you had all that money ?” Captaln Barnabas cocked an eye at the fleccy clouds, twisted his sunburn- ed neck uncomfortably and finally spat reflectively over the side. 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