The evening world. Newspaper, December 25, 1903, Page 8

A Story of Treasure, Love and Vengeance. Al. T. Quiller-Couch. is that 5» DEAD MAN’ S ROCK «F A NEW $500 PRIZE STORY THE GIRL IN GREEN Begins in Evening World of Monday, Jan 4. $200 ERE fs the fitth of The Brening World's Xmas-week prize puszles. | There will be a puzale every day— | ‘Where SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS. only question deing, place?’ He regarded me for a moment with pitying contempt, then stretched out his hamd and took up my grandfather's key. Ezekiel Trenoweth, while searching for treagur= buried by Nis father, {3 murdered Man's Rock on the Cornish coast, Colliver and John Railton, who are ci then Pir Dead she search of ¢ half. 100 PRIZES IN ALL, ) “written very “L read here," he said, | r cleurly and distinctly, certain words on] six in all—a cut-out, a folding of a Iaby- the shaft of this key. You must know| rinth pusgle, and among The Evening 3 Prizes of Slo each - - $30 tecaniner lamer hovse un attempt 18 made! these words; but I will repeat them to| World readers who are most successful 3 “ Ss mi s 1s pe hee engaged toa girl whom he} You to refresh your memory: “I'hy|in solving these puztles 100 prizes, lo r 4 3 [ " w 30 writes sat cing ante Neaeteay house Is set upon the sands and thy/ amounting in all to $200, will be distrib- | pA ve. celeb 4 actress, Clarissa Lam-| hopes dy a dead man.’ uted. aii 5 1 a1 oe 2 BS - - s2 | O je to star In it. At the fi 1 asked, for—fool that I was| Puzzlers must not send in thelr solu- ‘“ A Ay formance Jasper recognies Clurisna. a tions in instalments, but must wait-until || <3 . 1 - - 43]) sare vyet [ did not understand. “Mr, Jasper Trenoweth, did you ever hear tell of such a place as Dead Man's ‘the series is completed, which will be next Saturday, and then mail all six solutions together. Answers will be ro- ceived up to 6 P. M. of Monday, Dec. 28, 100 Prizes S200 kellie, ‘olliver on A river, cI en tack bi Ao aH ating Hm aie eo The truth, the whole horrible cer- tainty of it, struck me as one great wave and rushed over my bent head with the whirl and roar of many water: “Dead Man's Rock!” t ‘ou shall hear it out,” sald Colliver. ‘Look here!’ and he pulled a greasy book from his pocket. “Here ts a naus tical abmanac, What day ts It? Deo, 2%, or, rather, some time in the morning of Dec, @4, Christmas Eve. On the even- ing of Dec, 2% ft ts full moon, end dead low water at Falmouth about 1180 P, M. Fate—do you believe in fate, Mr, Trenoweth?--could not have chosen the time better, In something under twen- ty hours one of us will have his hands upon the treasure. Which will it be, eh? Which will it be?” Well I knew which it would be, and the knowledge was bitter as gall. Mr. Trenoweth, he went on, “your grandfather was @ pirate. By the hel: of my father he won the Great Ruby of Ceylon and much other treasure. ‘Then he murdered my father—murdered him before the very eyes of my mother. My mother brought me up to a life of ven- geance against Amos Trenoweth and his heirs. You alone live. You shall die to-night, and to-morrow the Great Ruby shall be mine. After all these failures 1 triumph and my murdered father is avenged.” { (Copyrighted 1803 by George Munro's Sons.) . By Permission of George Munro's sons.) CHAPTER y. ' In Deadly Peril. { HEN I came to my senses I was 4 W lying bound in the filthy Uttle cabin of the schooner. At a table fm front of me sat Simon Colliver, toy- fog with @ long-bladed knife. Behind me was @ thin partition. On the other @ide of it I heard a faint rustling @ound as of a woman's dress. Colliver evidently did not notice the sound, It Qeourred to me at the time that Mrs. ee Pee const eee hiding there, for what reason I could ve ; not then opened my eyes Colliver piel Up something from the table and hed tt before my eyes. It was my half of the \ @old clasp. that he had evidently taken from the tin box, together with the half he had years before stolen from tny Mather, I read the lettering on the two ined halves. It ran ns follows DEEP. MEETING Poy (Onn - Hors, WATER. | spent" I shouted, “you can kill me 1f agiiver read it through twice very| you like, but I will count your crime prttil ang each time as he ceased, | With my last breath. Take my life a: ee AQ to see how I took 4 loes not seem to mai @ense, does it?” he asked, xe walla moment and let me parcel {t out into @entences. I should not like to miss any of its meaning. Listen again,” He divided the writing up thu “Start at full moon. End South Point 27 feet N.N 22 feet W. of Ring. Nort 4 alae. 4 feet € inches deep at point of meet- tng. Low water 11-2 hours, “You still eeem puzzled, Mr. Treno- weth, Very well, I will even go on to you took my friend Tom Loveday’s life— Tom, whom you knifed in the dark, mis- taking him for me. Take it as you took Claire's, if ever man''— “Claire—Claire dead!” He staggered back @ step, and almost at the same moment. I again thought I caught a sound on the other side of the partition at my back. es, dead, She killed herself to-night Do you think I care for your knife now? Why, I was going to kill myself, to drown myself at the very moment when I heard your voice and came on board. under the turkey and nowhere shall any of the articles or dishes touch the outlines ge w THE # EVENING # WORLDS # HOME » MAGAZINE # and Pirates’ Gold we Buried in the Sea. IN PRIZES FOR. PUZZLE WORKERS CHRISTMAS PUZZLE No. V.—Let us see how nicely you can stuff the Xmas turkey. at the theatre—stabbed herself. On, God!] to cut out the dinner set, consisting of 43 separate p’eces and place them inside the turkey so that all shall be NEXT WEEK—A NEW YE/\R’S NOVELTY—PIN-LIGHT PICTURES—$200 IN PRIZES. a FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 28, 1903, © The Ruby Merry Christmas of Cevion At the Old Jokes’ Home, — By Prof. Josh M. A. Long. LEW DOCKSTADER WINS! LEW DOCKSTADER WINS! |Famous Minstrel Awarded Prize of Set of 16 Useful Metal Household Articles! ‘ (or femily Ping > y $200 and the prize-winners will be namod probably in ‘The Evening World of re 7 ¢ ae BE) Wednesday 30. Mvery member of the family—father, ment in doing these puzzles. ‘There besides. the chance of winning a cA hee sf aad {" rt piesa (teas ning. omen rT 00 ~t Yee eee w0es “i Puzzle itor, vening World, 2. ¢ Bo: New York Clg . ween “TT a ae or mare rvtageine anion nh (7 Don't ‘saad one puazle at a time. V y T- CT ! i TT a { | ry : till Saturday and send in all six at ¢ Good luck to y of the biggest prizes. 3 nd may you win one Beautiful Set of Metal Presents Awarded Mr. Dockstader ' tron of Old Jokes’ Home Since Its Inceptio: A An Constant EW DOCKSTADER has been award- Long feelingly said, “the set oom- L ed the wet of sixteen eautiful] Prives a never failing flshhook, gatment And useful household articles >¥ Jasteners, toothpicks. tack sudstitutes, ; | Unanimous vote of the Board of Trus- | ©me Y suszionl imetroments, «and tees of the Old Jokes’ Home. Prof. | have besides too many purposes to mem- | Josh M. 4. Long, Chauncey M. Depew, | lon. Taey are indispensible in evaey Marshal P. Wilder, George W. Day,]!0me: to come acmes them Is Thomas Q. Seabrooke and Old Dr. Lem- | !#ck: school teachers are stuck on them, _ onosky. The awanl was made tn con- besiles cry after them. My wife is opn-~ stantly asking me for pin money. She y will not need any more, as I will pre- went the whole set to her, with the ex- ception of one, which I shall always stick wo. 4 The voting now sta To take ont. sequence of Mr. Dockstader landing on ail the New York newspapers with the oldest story ever admitted to the Home of holding up a thie? who had ved him ngd taking, in mistake for his own, a comtly watch from the foot- i pad. The watch, about which this story first fondiy oluctered, was made | 7° Put tn by fubal Cain in the good old antl- Do delivian days, When this story was Not Forget! published telegrams flashed in from all parts of the country notifying us that adi other contestants had retired from the fleld. ‘THE OLD JOK®Ks' HOM! : BE CLOSED SATU. BDAY, ON ACCOUNT OF PAY DAY! ‘atch Out Mr Our Great It further taken {nto considern- Come Monday tlon that Mr, Dockstader Bas put In cs and taken out more old jokes than any LETTERS! GSTTORS! ® other member the 8. P, CH, xo Two from Hix Morrison, without further debate he was awarded | por sown ML AL Lone? s the prize and unanimously elected 4] Where was Moses when the light A Member of the Board uf Trustees. out? Mr. Doekajgsler feelingly thanked the| yn the dark the honor done him and then} Jnaze (to pickporket)—Why aid follow: extemporaneoun | pick thie man's pocket? from his pocket and read 8%) Srisoner—I thought the change do me good. of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Humor: AMhough totally unprepared for the honor you have done me and not ac- customed to public speaking, I desire to thank you for this magnificent @t of beautiful and usefil household arsi- cles, At such a gift who would not be astonished, Al in a set abd ail per@t in all the thousands of cesily and rare gifts given this season there are none us rare as these. Even the giving of euch a gift Is one of the rarest things MORRISON, | % Wan strevt” Please Releane, Prot. Jonh M.A. Long: 12 Missiastpp! wears a New Jersey what will Del-aware? I don’t kno’ A-las-ka. MAURICE 8. SRO t OMicer Jerry Sullivan, Prot, Jowhy MA, Lone up the follow! diymmoney tol night thet my PRote—How mean of him to those lines. 3. A. SULLIV, Care The puzzle to-day is of the turkey. explain further, ‘The person who on. sraved this clasp meant to teil us that something—let us say treasure, for sake Of argument—could be found by any one who drew twe lines from some place unknown; one 2 feet in fength in direction N. N. W. from the Gouth Point of that place; the other 28 feet due West of @ certain ring on the North Side of that place. So far, I trust, I make my meaning clear. That which we have agreed to call the treasure lies buried et a depth of 4 feet 6 Inohes on the spot where these two Mnes intersect. Tcame to kill you. Make the most of it: show me no mercy, for as there is a God tn heaven, I would have shown you cone What was that sound again on the the other side of the partition? What- ever it was, Colliver had not heard tt, for he was musing darkly and looking fixedly at me. “No, I will show you no mere: answered quietly show no mercy to your race, and you are the last of it. waited. I saw that he carried some- thing on his shoulder; doubtless the spade and pick-ax. A moment more and be turned to see that no one was following. Aw he did so the moon shone fal in bis face and I saw the features of my enemy. About forty feet from the breakers now crisply splashing on the sand, Dead Man's Rock euddenly ended on tho southern side in @ thin black ridge that, broke off with a drop of some ten feet. ‘This ridge was, of course, covered at flash of fire, a thousand lights darted out, and then—then came utter black- nese—a vague sensation of being caught up and carried, of plunging down— Go" waited. | Again I could hear him searching for the mark—an' old fron ring, once =| for mooring boats—and cursing because he could not find ft. After a minute or two, however, he came into sight again, | drawing his ne now straight out from the olfff, due west. Apparently hiv measurements were! H* successful, for the tape led him once more to the hole he had marked in the sand. He paused for a moment or two, @rew out the clasp, which shot out eudden gleam . . ‘When I again came to myself I was lying in a@ little boat in midstream. Above me crouched Mrs. Luttrell. "I heard all you said,” she whispered. “He struck you senseless and hurled you overboard. I wa@ in this boat in the shadow of the schooner and T Dog, this ja enough! I have listened hand, and Hed tt carefully But the person—you or I, for the sake|to your tale. But when you talk of| pulled you aboard. If you are strong|iugh water, and upon it my father's] gnmabiy matioied, he sare bac leone of argument—who seeks this treasure] Claire—Clatre, whom you killed to-night] enough let us hurry ashore. You must | snip had doubtless struck before she| rock a wap Zool. Claes Must stast at full moon. Why? Ob-]—tnen, dog, I spit upon you. Ki me,|be off for Dead Man's Rook at once !f/reeled back and settled in deep water.| “Touched. walting. with Eee, you would circumvent him. He bas al- ready started. Kill him! On, kill tim! I reached the beach and Dead Mens Rock a few minutes before low tide. The sand was undisturbed. Colliver had not arrived, But even as I looked, I urrying: ‘This wos the “south point” mentioned on the clesp. Fixing his compass care- fully, he drew out the tape and slowly ‘began to measure toward the northwest. “Bnd South Point, 27 feet," I remem- bered that the clasp said. He measured the two lines met, he threw a hasty Glance around and began to dig rmpitiy. He faced the sea now and had hip back turned to me, so that I could straighten myself un and watch at greater ease. He dug rapidly. and the pit, as his egade | threw out heap after neap of soft mand. |, Tew qiick! It ‘treasure really | tbe Heclowed wiously because the spring tides occur with @ full moon, consequently the low ebb. We must expect, then, to find our trenaure buried in a spot which is only uncovered at dead low water; and to this conclusion I am also helped by and I hope the treasure may curse you as it has cursed me. Kill me; use your knife, for I will shout"— With a dreadful nari he was on me and smote me across the face. Then as I continued to call and ehout, struck the last sentence, which says: ‘Low|me one fearful blow behind the ear, I]could see his distant figure hi Ht out eo the end and then, digzing with far "were, 2 wothd soon ‘be diac water 11-2 hours.’ -It is, then, I sub-] remember that the dim lamp shot out a/along in the anoonlight. Kalfe in hand/ his heel a small hole in the sand, began Pe rong Theor’ hls spade atrike mit, Mz, Trenoweth, in some auch place] streak of blood-red flame, the oabin was|I climbed on a ledge of Dead Man's|to walk back toward the rock, ¢his|/Aselust something hard. | Sates Rot yet, dug. had wald POINTED PARAGRAPHS. ‘Tt takes a smart man to write an un- fanportant letter. Wise men are wrong more éroquentiy than fools are right. ‘Trasta are like bables—they grab everything tn sight. that we must look for our treasure; the Rock, crouched in the shadow andjtime to the north «ide. And still [ four feet six inc! lighted for one brief ingtant with a THE BEST WAY TO POP THE QUESTION Addrees Letters in This Contest to “Margaret Hubbard Ayer, Evening World, N. Y¥. City” $10 FOr THE BEST LETTER) You blushed tast night when I urged (there. Remember, girls, men love to) “John, Gear, you know this is leap from a Woman on the Least Em-|‘h® aitestion and put me off with some | seak, not to be sought after. Therefore | year, don't yout’ want to pretty byt pitiful excuse. For once,| wait until the when he “Yen, Jennie. ‘What of tt?” _ barrasaing Way for a Girl to Pop| darting, let me dictate and say Wednes. “pop,” then canta focrd aay eee” “Oh, ‘ing. Thougint you might take| When ignorance 1s bliss it is golly to - the Question During Leap Year |day. Won't you, my precious pet?” Waiting can do go hanm on either side, |the hint.” w. J.D. discover that you are a fool. — H, BRILL, Jersey City, N. J. F. B, New Roohelie, N, Y. New Brighton, N.Y. A gentieman who calls another gentie- - ~-Se . B,? . Don't Snap Hefere He Pops. “ man a liar ws no gentleman. #10 FOR THE BEST LETTER Very Sure of His Ground. Splicing the Cable. te to win a wife with fattery Dea: Migs Ayer: Dear Miss Ayer from a Man Giving Directions How HE leaet Dear Mies Ayer: Mant! , mbarrassing way ir Mies Ayer: than it is to maintain her on it. to Pop the Question Most Con- girl to ne) the etal ts rape THINK the veet way (or a man to D's: Rearasweus vial M aaany @ enn whe woeldn' wall! ldeivote vincingly pop ft at all. I¢ she does she| | BOP the question is to s tabard “Yes,” he said. “It’s cut." thas found a $ bill that was lost by the dear, when are we going to get mar- alae Gan bate: must be prepared to fall fram the lefty K. @ D. “What do they do with cables that acer ried?” 7 edesta 3 ed out of nuying his wit 85 FOR THE BEST LETTERP Ratt! Of modesty upon which her Wi He Take the inte |*"'gcut com he answered. Teal ookest oa cmkantuk ager tale } from Man or Woman on the Most} member that those who dance must | Dear Mins Ayer: Bhe gave a side glance, and—"Let’s| us her crowning glory. s Delicate Way of Refusing an Offer|pay the fiddler, and that, should he Y idea for the least embar1 We, eins. Those who gong sale ated money to of Marriage accept her, the foundation for an un- wav to “pop the question” would Mune ante oats THOMAS (exea 11), manors (or Rotel cine te egret a: ‘ orn anoeee happy union may be laid then and! be as in the following: N, ¥. [information Chicago News. i AHDRISTMAS once again! wonderful a © feast of peace and love that draws e e e ° . hee Christ d d What They Are Th About. fr S aemone of a ees mange ristmas Wids an a e re INKIN ou thlehem and the saintly pair be- = ee {t hea omde of Christmas ithe ‘aplendid glorification of the faclly, the cpewning festival of the year. ‘The Christmas spirit is the real home rit. Abounding joy within the home jt reaches out to embrace the stranger and the outcast, and show iiim, even if but cor one brief day, the joys ef home Ute, never to be forgotten when once experienced. Iéfe is as we meke it. There is no need of being lonely and cheeriess. Reach out for friends and. ivy will stretch welcom- It may not be @iven to all of you (even with the leap year privilege) to find a husband and a home of your own. But each can form Definite, IGGEHST the following as an easy way to name the day after trying sped coetiomecgedings. . “My own darling wife that is to be: fmplore of you to nam day’ THE SOCK 1 IAD WHITE AND BLUE. I'VE. BEEN ) MAKE SANZA, SHORT, WILLIE'S x8 Thcks Wi He RED. FOR bets HE'S TALL OLD ALL DUR PATRIONG MIRE IT THAT SUCH A RECORD SHOULD NOW. THe THAT SANTA CLAUS ‘A CUT US BEAD, 7 ALOT OF PRESENTS FETCH ‘PA APTER ALL. : as be tured it in his a a alla a OST 1 ever qyme across, AS Prof. Josh M. i ae hot yet be more than three TR eet dept € iver bent down am drew something out, (ven examined ft IN REGARD TO THE OLD JOKES’ HOME QUESTION = ently. As tained forward to look, he half turned, and | saw. be- 1 VOTE Pet a cross mark in the qpnce-cppef [Avedon tis hands—a human atcull? sity “Put In" 4 aelieve tm putting)” nowe ibtkess some victim ees many that went down, in the ship; or To Put In l } the old jokes in the Old ‘Jokes’ Hote, haps the aeull of John, Rallton, gunk make a cfots wmTk in the space agiinst ve the treamure to mutt “ - convictions are for had taken the lives of ‘other wer Te Take Out eee OMe Soe @nd lost In the end his own. Lt was a a more humane poltey. J grisly thought, but apparently troubled Colliver Meye,’ for with a jerk of Nis arms he sent it bowling down the sant toward the be prea ery: A 1 hound ‘or ower it was swallow more by" the ineatiate sen eaiep ones ¥ With this he fell to digging anew, and 1 to watching. For a full twenty minutes he labored, fing tand to right und lott, and every. ac TO Tm BSE J and then stoppli for moment to Measure his prog! this time, bas ag Judged, he must have dug below the Uepth pointed out upon the clasp, for or twice he drew it ‘ inehis work to consult itn, end Peuned Week He was just resuming, aft i aa i. after one of STRATE aAELL t _CORSICAN BROTHER: Bramien ‘2S. Nt ee { “ALABAMA,” ike RRSERY ED BEATS grated He bent low to ex- amine it, and then began te abovel out the sund with inconceivable rapidity. he treasure was found (To Be Concluded.) Mon. We MONTE CRISTO." SE ES ACADEMY , Mth St_& or USEC. 3th 1 St & Irving PL, The Greatest Rural Ply Tver Written, Way Down ‘ Prices $1, Mats. To-day&Sat.2. By.0.15 Last Times—Last Mat Te-Morrow. GRAND fatean New Year’ _Week—Rogers Brea. tu Lewase. ie on PASTOR'S 230% a wars Peta Pate —_ eR ‘Sa. WEST END ‘pins To-Nieht & sii [OrTOW 134 nt aan AGED MARKSWomaN, ra. 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