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The Evening World Daily Magazine, Friday. March A New “Treasure Island” Story THE SHIP OF C ORAL Of Southern Seas and Pirate Gold BOOCO0C 00000 B00000000000000000001* * 000 Wopmeight, 1011, by Dutfield & Co.) of one of the broken palms. He came theatre bill back in the pocke and the papers; then he made ¢ book, died and passed at asi hole momentary evening to expand on tho sky-line, but a vessel with all to feel sail set and steering, one would have vke to the changed, He had tearne: f the tropics, aid his nosteily to the br N a moment, nicht, wearing MOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHANTE: to it? kicked the sand aside and found ! Codiiiac and C . stokes on the bag of biscuit. Things were not, in the sand and buried it To de- the evening Into night pleasure in the orning liaht and thought, strat; o Se rch | ‘aia and then, so bad; but his mind was 80 atroy the past of Sageas utterly was hi satisfaction in the sense of U Then ‘agave OF thin Rao with rit arpceh fuftoe dazed and benumbed that he scarcely the wreatest act th pard could CHAPTER XVIII As he stood looking away his sheath knife, cutting dead brush- ‘places, ‘ida coral ti. felt satisfaction at the sight of the have performed for humanit sing : duh Be! “4 ward over the t sea he } wood and heaping It on the pathway; Re on mink jt ve food and the knowledge that for a that, to bury the sof it wae The Morning Sea. Volee of the spirit that had mostly the smoke a g Sea moke of a signal fire was his cueing fae time, at least, he Was saved from & commendable dee wrought the change in hin It waa only chance of attracting her attens javer tie Starvation, He stood chewing the He had a flint and steel and the the ve of Martinique calling to the ade para. 5 feat aid’ GAaihe aloUe Bins, aa an dohaces Te hile OWR tobabed. Woe. Waa all her Jewelry, was stands him—the voice of Mar tions: he Kerete Bower ty ihe ion ‘and itself ped wetting in the drench- ing above the sea, the wind ft &@ moment and for a moment for- put his hand in his trousers pocket night before, He filled bis had died away, the cormor. {0% the island, everything, was fore for his tinder box and steel. Hit it, he had not smoked gotten, nor the day before and the &nts had ceased crying, and the boom ““Phe tittle word came on the breeze aceo, now, had a doubly southing of the waves was the only sound be- to him. Was she, too, standing on 7 action on his mind, it chased away neath the atiliness of the stars, some be axing over CHAPTER XIX. ees i i fae eg Md, wonr, ment might gaze on findin a ay iy tchig te “sent IMR en for more than me ae, goad ‘that the cat and now the food <n ee , gone, _ He bullies Gasp he had taken made him feel drowsy, t later with hi he t . be £9 smite, ‘Landing ‘at SMafuniqee, Uawarl heavy with weariness, He came to 4 Merchant. from deat. He the blown-down palms, made what \ hoes Rare the stokehold and his recollections of : the sea toward him? Was the little recon iecange " shelter, Be ental from the sun arith the past, he f Kaye SaKesse his vil- Hae ig a ne Pita Word « butterfly of nought blown to Deliverance. sind so " iM re is, bat, jo" eside em lainies, it brow tt image of Me ore for supper, e had pl “ he him on the breeae that was blowing ’ Pine cy ‘ritvout Kim, "Watleg. and fell asleep. from away across all those m canned meat and the biscuits close to fom there? OR a moment he knelt help- $9°the aneh wo stare tier the deiarting vowel,” |W hen he awoke nome hours later, he saw again the early morn- ong of the treo bolom and to-morrow 4 WN0, can sity, but he heard It lean, with idle hang. He Sera ayes ts mind was cl a ” ml ‘ace ¢ ‘ort. 7 distinet s a and his) first ing market on the Place du Kort, (00 00 bie thee bolo fame focmanrom™ distinetly as he had b ft that eve knew quite well that thoegh a ' CHAPTER XV. thought was of Sagerse, He crossed over to the northern MN sensi doo beach. He wished to eee what he \ Disaster. could of the wreck, but even before he was half way across he could see that nothing remained of La Belle Arlesienne but a few spars washing Pierre Alphonse, M. Seguin, and all the gay crowd beneath the ‘blue sky protect. them from the aun, ‘Think. Morne Rouge and looking down at St, the vane! seemed atecring and the dark green tamarinds. ing of this, he ate his supper without Vieree. be had waited for her and she straight for the island, she He would find out ig vy) Alphonse appetite or knowing what he ate; hia as COTS CO Hh he h might pasa it a Jong distance awey; when he returned and buy him a boat $ 6 turned away from the sea, then 0 Te his owns ha Would set. Maries tind had passed into that dazed con- ho turned to It again atid AWepL HO jor ertengienel Could Rot but attrest father up again in business at Morne dition which comes from surfeit of 4 though looking for a sail, Neh attention, yet he was debarred Itouge; he would give money to all sensation; it had fed full of treasure ‘There was nothing to be seen from making it, Lets he Souls take Bu RUMEN Whee he tad cusped ib iit fn the uiroction of tne. BKleU) USS. ‘haunt the iiet ee cree tee ded; lis f St. en he had supped he lit @ pipe, 1» direetion 0 palin; happy. that good town where the but scarcely had he done so than peta} seven palina had been cast down by DUnt the islet seemed atill active and “nso good to him, Then n hin, the pipe fell from his the rash of the hurricane, just as the &¢ Work, filling hia pockets with to Montpellier, at as he lay there on &titkes of a stock fence might be cast Jewels, yet holding back from him 4! nd t ee fo with the sands, the stars shining upon hir Sat n by the rush - wild 6 se cent the means of eacape. ‘ they would travel first class and the sea sin toh ‘mari for the first time, the thought mail boat, Ho Would go down to sagyed, without a roof to al curred to Gaspard that. with the . 4@ rove to hie feet and stared about stokehold as passengers son and with the wealth of emperors at Palms Kone the islet would be leas him, trying to remember whem be times did, ah! the Bake on that his elbow, likely to. sviagt ee of a had last lit his pipe; then he came chip would have a good time when jy , eaves dng Baxsing ship. He looked at them @® pack alo: they reached) Mar He. would rs Passed and the great Moving Toei and then he approached the DUCK along the pathway to the'tisagh, go to the Riga tavern and call for a So mieht have thought the Unde of treasure and the glittering searching the «round, the.sand, caste chopin of wine and see Anisette ser “on the aand a corpse cast up °° were lying by ing his eyes hither and thither, the it. Ah, Yves, poor Yves, what a pity py the wea from sume wreck. Ther at of the sweat running from every pore, We Hany. Me SG Pike hand: and: ive it began to move and struggle and action seemed tae searched the whole width of the beaeh him a fist full of money—so he lay ry, Gut; one might have fancied jt ot seem to be for twenty vards from the fallen palm smoking, playing with colored shad- 4) id le or it# contents. trees toward the coral spur; the gulls own, nding phantom Kold, while “sei rcely had the deep unconscious- were calling and fishing as of old and the of the cormoran hea of the fret " Ho was thinking of Marte, unheard, came on the wind a the Hind thts. Geena thee Gane A ‘wild longing, such ae the prisoned ‘BelF voles seemed mocking him—ba, bay cedar bushes and the vol pard found himself surrounded by his Uitd may feel for the blue sky, filled who, burning for action, had yet to the waves answered them Pasninee through Hl. subordinating everything else to Walk up and down slowly as an old eternity making answer to time. ‘ota and mon were he thought of the being he loved, man, with head bent and ge a hae! Then came the thought, “All that Ie pn 4 er aince La Helle Arlesienne had before bh very well, but how are you to turn following him to rob him, Yves, Ba- niaue behind her this penitent im after the camer | rative. avleep, He was fully dressed. Horrt- your fortune into oli Konse and the chief engineer of the Wine ubd. newt ; peNoW the wind was coming in gusts, ble though the place was and dread- and poured the contents on the white his possession. Then, sitting down on | This had not o 1 to him be- here bid among them. in his bh the treasure fover had was n Dont aanieee or the i whipping the foam o the reef, ful with death, not all the horror In gand between his lees. the sand beside bis ‘treasure, he be- fore, and at first ned avaimplo Then the dream changed and he ooscured it, the storm had velled It, nickel tinder bomee thay Souk teu \, @nd the spray in the face of the world could have prevented Gas- ———= xan to sort the stones, arranging them matter, just a de! nhe remem Was standing in @ bar with Yvew the finding of the treasure had ors, « “amokers friend’ | ing ‘4, and before the wind the le bard from advancing toward the body , , in Hes according to their color words about Govern. Showing him the treasure, and, be- vined it aside, but I Was there, wheel armed with s DIP ot ait waves were racing shoreward, Of Sagesse, It drew him toward it CHAPTER XVII. wore Utioat. otiora Stas Mil CHINBInE apt to interfere in Mold. the rubies and diamonds had Yrowing, and patiently waiting. Spring Walsh Episind ie waar oe ‘As he locked, ar he listened, the against his will, as if by se mes- them some fragments of the s men who eprang Changed to pieces of glass and the on of hin I tiny wick which ent thee and @ ning when standing on the road to got the wind at last. She showed as if sketched about in the lagoon water, where ship against the great black wall of wood and ship of coral lay locked that the coming storm had buiit together in ruin, ‘across the world, Heavens, what a But things were washing ashore on z ‘ the full tide—black things to make Bight was that wail! It seemed built one shudder, forms with limbs out- by plumb Hine and square, titanic, im- epread, looking like enormous jet- measurable. black starfish, forms locked together ‘And from behind it came that i" a deadly embrace as though they rs. 2 had gone to their death fighting. found, growing momently more defi- Then as Gaspard stepped from the nite, as though all the hosts of dark- bushes he saw with a thrill of horror ‘neas were murmuring together, wild that the sands were in motion, Thou- te break through some hidden door Sands por Lasky oF little eral ; e q o the feast; he and burat upon the world. trod on them as he walked, and Against this prodigious menace La amidst them, like moving rocks, giant Belle Arlesienne was moving, steer- Crabs from the eastern beach were ing north-northeast on the starboard peated ee captains of this army tack, Sagease had taken in sail, but ye Would have fled the hateful place in the face of what was coming, not had he not noticed a form that the enough, to a suilor’s eye. But noone sea had cast up almost free of the knew better than Sagesse that all to waves: southward of him the sea was full of It was the by death, in the ft rocks and — The m @hoals; to make was im- lay on with his foot involuntary; he did thinking of the bt Nor was he ly of Sagesae, f wisdom and resource ide, huddled up as if Jonging bh ered nis who W tings cases of treasur t wall seemed gradually to bend meric influence. Treasure. from which they had been broken. from nowhere with fictitious claims, Test to sea shells and rubbish—he had thing H i y - . en broke not even t re oF the 9 was turning from the m the top and over it came the — The right hand of the Captain lying 2OKEN bits of gold like the . There were even rubies, all of the Sagesse was a clever man with thirty Ree We Ne Teena ee oy datas, Swabs: te ugh for 4 moment despair when his foot struck might veil as a cloud vells @ what seemed a pebble half cov ora mist a mountain by sand. It ‘was the “smoket's Ho turned away from the treasure friend.” It had fallen last night and walked toward the bushes, then from his pocket and the wind ho began to cross the islet, taking blown the sand over It. He selsed the path that Sagesse's sailors had and with it in his hand, came runs made for the boat wKh hi was ning back to the heap of brushwood. rushing wind, and with the wind the across bis chest had upon one of the -blood co! «least of years of experience behind him. fest note. of thunder, profound, fu fingers something that littered in the twigs from which jewelled {ue Pikeon-Plood color, tN TR Ake UR eo thw lnweller, With’ those bottle of wine, brought him tn arm tn fereal and dreamy, less‘like thunder sun ke a star. It was a diamond, fruit had been torn, spinels, ger nail, the three li an hier Maen eotniaa oe feared at than the muffle of muffled drums, enormous and lovely, with light, set peridots, star sapphires, mense stones as big as the top of an whole secret; to go to a pawn BhOP HA docks of MM. Nes, Joining Whe At this moment the setting sun, an old fashioned ring, It would have giteshaped emeralds, cinnamon OTdinary man's thumb above @ line with the smallest of those gema would Aniy with the t sere lege Nghe pale like an appalled spectator, ed the crown of an emperor: it , drawn feross the base of t bring on his head inquiries that might Tei vutiful apirit of unresacnabies glanced through the clouds, lit the Would have held Gaspard fascinated Stones, & black pearl shaped like @ js only in rubies of the true c prove fatal. 4 dl ai mone bie sea, La Belle Ariesienne and the had not mess who presides over the affairs of things would be to admit at once the nother object held him pear, diamonds, an enormous tur- of this great size that the splendor of — Here was a question to perplex a profoundly engaged in_ thought, He th vall of sto o breathless. From the muffle: 1 ‘ i is , ‘i a Dreamland did not hint to him of the BM * He frat turned his eyes to the stip. wancing all ot a nm, Xt waa no breathless. J rom the matAGe Bron duoise de la viellle roche sun-stricken, Precious stones finds ith ultiinate ex- atoker’s mind. His atrong hands co ula absurdity of the situation, his obtusa, Rotced quite ttle things, as, for In- She was lurger, nearer, yet seeming: preasion, There is nothing in the in- to protect his treasure janthe form of a breaking wave, and head of a snake. Two bright red Colored, flushing, the treasure of SI- Khimate worl’ to, annroach them in See ee ree tt to protect & uselens cated reaspaiiig Jace ras Ona the wave became veiled with mist, paral ayes Taahe in the bs Ene mon Serpente lay before Gaspard, magnificence and beauty thing? vine problem oF. Rey ataaee and La Belle Arlesienne blotted out thing seemed furious at being dis- other treasure there doubt! ‘There were seventeen emeralds, ten z > ont ay 7 ue, where a view of behind the roaring rain tithe; a moment. more and one Ot! masure there doubtless bad | Tre Tenail and inconsiderable, and ,,j4¢ had read the romance of Monte miliion's worth of gem@ and @ct 98 ine “northern horison could be ob- jlo Mune bimeelf on his knees by dhe Dainnting the thunder, the wind, Would have expected It. to wriggle been In coin and gold, but this was Seven simply priceless, all ave the Cristo, few French aiilors have vols stoker on a tranaatiantic steamer at tained, he rained hia head and heap of brushwood and pressing the the howling of the storm, the voice of from tts concealment and atrfke, but the cream of it, skimmed by Sagesse, largest, which was starred and le lag Spatehen perorne ieee tianen iherenee che aim; scanned the sea Une, Nothing — poet a oe ape pg streck the rain tore the air as it: washe spard feared it less even than he «elected no doubt during that calm flawed. 5 5 le id hia Dothing Ah! ate What was that? : waht on ni at, had feared the f ty ‘ " Ben Hed by him here, lost and alone under the muffler he wore reund his 4 wick, the wick smo iy \ overtho sea and then over the islet, had feared the fer de tanoe of the ening which the sailor's eye had seen He arranged these below the rows h"the qexolate islet of whore exiat- neck-—but It refused to be hidden; and ,A ny Make of feldapar seemed wy ne blew at it, Ii epee myles wavelike and solid almost as a wave. & knelt down: beside of rubles, Then » diamonds, Pred ese aeaod SB clinging to the sky horizon in N. N, t, broke into flame. It Tt cast Gaspard down like a great Suges: heedless of the crabs now the approaching hurricane. ence the great Dumas had never then, all at once, he was back agaia W. In the wonderful half-wheel of “&* @ very small flame, not nearly : m of which there forty-eight, not 3 + Md ‘i Hand und head him half drowned. Surrounding him, removed the muf- Loot trom the towns of Spanish counting the diamond. in. the ‘ring reamed. ety. He had ea aoee Ine, Gaver, AuNting I crystal blue this microscopic flaw %* Me as that given by & large steed »abis it would fer from his neck and then removed g,,, ‘1 nlaced ‘ew. Burt tt gave him little . hs summed over by a WX Match, ‘Then he approached the he traceable te caw tatore, raising the shake, It wag of xolld gold, flex» South ‘America, from ships plundered Where he had placed it Dy the Jews ved histlife ink more xordid prison While Malays from the P. & 0. bouts, TEM ee eee eet Toided’ nia TINY point of light to She of the dane himeclf’ on. his elbow, he returned tble, one of those antique bracelets and scuttled, from women and from yi) had the gold of their settings than that which held Edmund Dantes ried with sheath knives + fully to consciousness, made to wind round and cling to @ altars, all lay here in confusion of clinging to them, the six largest were for fourteen years. ‘That black cell The great fury of the hurricane had Woman's arm. ‘The flat portion of the colors, Some of these stones abao- the size of hazel nuts and of perfect of the Chateau d'If had been ilum|- Passed; it was still blowing hard and heed was formed by a quadrille of |. 01. shouted of sacrilewe; hi q water. In market of the world nated by the mind of Faria; the pr Strong, but the worst wax over and fat sapphires, the eyes were pigeon u Be; huge and viige six diamonds would have found Mtelligence of the Abbe had the mocn was lighting the d blood rubles, Leaving the extract. aplendid, never could they have been retched thirty thousand poutids and given the future count not only his through the rushing clouds. He rose dinary beauty of the workmanship worn as jewelry, except by emperors have given a huge profit to the buyer, treasure but the genius eh thi te his feet, but felon hix knees again side, the stones alone were worth & ut half the size of worldly knowledge which enabled him e for or by jewelled saints in the twillt and Seven were immediately. He had eaten nothing ttle fortune el nuts, but one of these was blue to disp {t and turn it to ac stance, that the salt crystals were pr from the leaves of the bese dan an he santa bre pie bushes. might pass it by some three miles. ted reasoning Seewity was engaged she rms and stood gazing at thin apeck, 'Wi8* of the brushwood. He, was see” his lips parted in a half amile, his Kneeling with his back to the wind here uttacked It for nis trens, exes fixed. Had you been close to ih as to protect the fame, but for all on He awoke gasping aud atill you would have noticed that he there across his shoulder view amen er coly breath alo f continue his experiences ta’ Dreany Sipe or ize, yet he knew (lone to his body, he relit the wick. lind awikine finally, just aa thy that it represented the topsatis of a | The wetting the box had received bs ship hull dewn on the horizon, tt during the hurfieane muat have during the past twenty-four hours, — ‘Then Gaspard knew that the cap. Incense-laden ald of some cathedral, ie alone was a little fortune; of count POA et ee ee ee eee eee eee trea Wis just so that he had frat glimpaed damaged its spirit; vesterda when he and the drug was still weakenin, n had indeed found the treasure of Gaspard knew little of precious thirty tiv sining three were ing to ie him. ‘The mor " And the wea had lost ta waves bt Helle Arlesionne from the open had Mt his pipe with tt he done hit; but in the moment of rising he Rimon Ber nite, and seeing ahlps stones, but 4 child or a savage would colore the remainder thought of the matter th und had fallen back nto quistude be ao with great Bats ulty, but the fla had ‘seen @ sight surpassing in ter- wreck before hin, had sorted out the jaye guess erotica g- Pure white his perplexity increase and long lapses of awell- the gulls Then it jocreased in alge, After Was even more feeble to-day; it went nad seen the fury of the hurricane, most valuable things in a wild at- have Kuessed the worth of this amag- Pe turquoise had no compin- of a audden seemed to him peopled wore mek. CT Nal keepime him in suspense for what OUf again wt the critical moment, and , os, ¢ os tempt. te e 1 vn ink collection of gems, For a mo- 0 sain, i and now amid the bushes, on hands tempt to save them with his own jon; he placed it alone on the sand with robbers, antagonists, men WhO Not the cormoranta and frigate seemed suddenly hia brain #8aln, a and knees, motionless and pp wretched life, With the sweat break- ment after he bad turned them out beneath the diamonds; and then, un- would take from him by fraud or birds of the northern beach, but the was able to say of the vision upon haps, f the drama before him, he t¢ ing out on his forehead at the possi- of the handkerchief his breath came “er it, he began to arrange the s4p- jaw the thing which was at once his fishing gulls, the familiar spirita of his return, “lt us bigger ® that had dried upon it, was hard to Bello Arlesienne was coming bilities before him, he flung the ser- aes Ce Tarek, (Aa to was dole iia mnacow At ' lot wis d ithe famitian apirita a re COLT ee ee Hist Nes aed Ubon tt eae a Test of pent of gold on the ground before 1M H4Aps like the breath ph dream and bix possession the Island, whose volves had once t hen, as he watehed It iner praites ig be Due & Blgae f paper 1 again; the brushwood, per- nm the effect of the sea salt , now uplifted on th vith cole eat milabAt yassed over him; it was th dow 2 od Gaspari ; ‘ jl all doubt passed veane bee " eee ote vanishing in a hollow, searching he body. It fell on the alin etre Ewe ae eu eae ron. frigate bird, fying heavily, TB cures of the Imaginative mind rifled Gaspard. They had returned a daa e ae pape re Ha there was not a yerap ¢ the totaal dismasted ail but for the stump of swarming crabs, He picked it up and (rough he were afraid of shattering KONE with its st and making me on taal ance: caused a ghost to terrify him now,” Nothing could te wind Was blowing now steady from Then he remembered Sageane’* pock~ the foremast, from which a ri x of flung it round his own neck, Then he @an¥as was wildly flying. 1a Belle noticed th ' Le Teak aa sCame the thought: south, ‘The same wind on which it UIty tha c ras bleedin : Irifting h th it, the haunt him perhaps, the FAME; she would pass the faland etbeok, which be had buried in tie was drifting brought with ia he an illusion westward, perhaps quite close, for sand. He was rising to hunt for it r on the islet now filled the Tify him now ox idea of « robber = > They nine orld with living people and e¢ Arlesiepne was being driven to the | bad ninped by one of the ie curied his fini his lips drew Clamoring of the cormorants. Ho rose, Wer It was exte the effect of it was all deep water there. When he remembered also the, lant s fe Vern which Were now crawling up ‘ gers, his lips drew aed exes person an enemy. He pictured Mm ‘ lagoon by the merciless whip of (th Dae back from his teeth, then he laug anced around and with dised eves thi inative mind, 1 to the moment of Hote that he had taken frem= the } Pb 0 eth, hed. , a Bare aver Reen, ) ik mind, up he momen avind. hed putians awir oF aunive A fe ma They are mine. looked over the sea, sweeping the who a iat at ett and strengthening it against gichtine the sail, had been flied with PApers of Bagease and which was in A moment he auw her belt ce with See ee ed He banged his right hand, horlzun,. There was no sian of smoke Gil imaginary fears save the fear of the thought of Marie, the eraying for MM pocke in, dressed as well-te-do citizens, chants and xe forth, all sworn ene inles to him and eager for his tre or sail and he sat down again to ¢ tinue the jewelled pattern on the sand the moonlight on the erest With fury, he sy fein van then a cloud drew Kicked the brutes hither prushed them, He material ot The man who her had brought him here to look out » find the ketbook might tak dreads burghirs hag no time to dream for a sail Woaffer the first Joyona @ long time, for the sand had blown of Kliowts. leup of the heart, Mi was for the Smoothly over the place where he hud tnd thither, Wy, on the sand beside him; lupped his Knees with both | of a vast wav ‘ g@ skirt of shadow over her and when stamped on the ee tee ihe etching out Hong oh He eta fhe moon broke through again she might as wel Atamped on water, the a Hee eee ie counted the sapphires; two doz "re He had ones been ina Mw veurts “ inediately on waking he turned moment forgotten It was ax thonch Minted ity the banknote was to: fle was gone, deep in the pocket of the advancing from an overtowing diam: reese ieust valuable atone of the @f and four there were, varying from Called an a witness tnt Get wate ed his hand upon the treax- the sail apace on the sky had by hand and would burn bravely. It did. lagoon, over whieh the thirty-foot [e | tlcking ane Ne hordes ye ut tt was lovely and it lay in/his cornfuwer blue to the blue of night, aster cage. Tle saw thal Rose’ hes sat up f . doorway through Which the world had — AS it took light, and as its flame waves were rushing shoreward ORR be palm like # little lake of lie Varying in sige fron size of N Llbing aot Wore question. GPixbt morning rushed in upon hear took the brushwood, a burat of dis- ; He flung himself on his knees again pi oothness, turned it bea to the sine of a broad bean. Me Delo them: ang y Ihe turned and ran back to the cordant erties came from the fai CHAPTER XVI. healde the body, welzed the hand With touched it with his tongue as irranged them beneath the turquoise, 'ne him enetiies, he was still in pos southern beach, picked up the treas f the gulls away to the south. he ring, drew the jewel off and put Qa eh caste ita beauty ae well as great amethyst he placed beneath Well, where did you ret these this incredible and fantastic te bundle and forced it into. his They were fighting over some The Passing of Sagesse. {tin his pocket. He scarcely noticed gon iid gee it the sapphires, and under the ates things?) Come, now, they are hot his mind, clear now and atrens pocket, picked up the Jewelled anake fie deuble ae marie saat cane that a crab was clinging te Th aaa Rik call 4h things were thyst the spinela and peridots, of yours; you de not f these thinY by sleep, Could grasp the tr and placed tt re Nip neck under cust shoreward, yet ag the blue e was bul BE must have falle pas ust he knelt, for when hy were a half handful. The in xtokeh doblack peark, the only tle sweated at th Sagesse had spob te true proportions: the stull waa bis jy thought by oll rueht, he wast heir by thi of taking the right of labor and suffering too th shirt he eollar the flannel shirt eearoely concealed ity it would never smoke curled upwards and as the Mast tive hund: fra note burnt avd's fingers, one might have ack to Which the with pear sh and hia pearl amidst all these treasures, he x his, and ax the thourht came he sprang to bie feet a nethyst iy his left hand re . the gained consciousness he q knotted handkershief; it chink jared Taal stufftoe America; he knew nothing of fortune that Bageswe had taken from , fancied that the ie ni 1 Is eyes he looked bliced lay dete (doa venwel with sueh aM ry vey were shouting in had no memory of having a bag of marbles, “and: from a Wight Dane aly a0K his eyes he looked eee white pearl, the ring and the America Martinique was the only the hand of Chance Le ae we EE vicaled, kos Ware deriaion i. Jain down, Yet he was lying on his of broken gold fell ow Hy are Dt esc one was snake were Ati Tying apart by them- place he could take it to, the only ble could igo to Me Seat Witt A award hunte, ae though "There gone the frst a brooch, He rt of further: the hand. Watching him; no one was there to i hound. at clear conscience and tsk imide amidst the bushes, the day WA stay to investigat wanted to he stones arranged pp vm to fragments on elves; besides the ship we lready abreast of the ane ino smoke smoke--amoke, remeny finiaie In the disposal of these thins ; t a thrust fe dispute bis possession; the wind blew In lines there were a fy ; Inland and there Wax hot & moment Sel there amidst the bushes, broad, the sun shining, the shy with hief held treasure. Ho thrist it dispute bis possension: the wind Mew of aiid, bits of aettings, Which he dike Wrought up th Mo Seguin Wp and walked alone the ie he stripped off his coat aad SOW tO excape Us with Serpente’ out a cloud, though still swept by the re Proket Me a nere the wind, the aun shone, the re«arded Ab! That was the solution. M. PY TABIA TLR ULE a shirt. Kor a moment he thought of teasure’ Tt ts ours! Mit ou rushing wind. Nocket. of the coat, in the other burned blue 1 flashed ‘Then he sat and contemplated the Seguin would help him | He had’ a as bla wer tue treamure Jie Wt round iia 'walat, butt wan Near? It ia oun ours ours’ Our ? remembered all that had passed i Kets nothing of val Ie au In all the island world there glittering of his treasure, the worldly knowledge necessat an ae ty arm had t Sut CORBY TO, long enough to serve as a belt Voives will follow you wherever It He remem) f ee eee tare anen the ehirt; Was no sikn or sound of life save the White, Move the tur, | For cmoment he was satisfied With of its own to the beach, other than Pee ne ieee ation who woes, bringing weariness, desoletian ofthe difficulty, and he gems, and t actly, behind it st + louv ing clearly and distinctly and the mir acle of that blue sky above him, after hded ite odeweth OA AS Aa oF it Absurdity, of course, yet tne volees oft FOUR ae had desigied the thing int we todo made an aries nothing mM from his doubt, ex M oxeguin’s imnKe ‘ P a or ot the ames this wa Wiping the sweat Mekering wings of the cormorants on qnoise, th hor me De ee ndit to rise the northern beach and occasionally thyst, the black of the pearl he | d howling chaos of the a fo that the , feasted his eyes on them all ‘Then, but te hid 1 chung to perfection, and he re gulls were rt of the fa “EO El a elt! ie th if ful H , ‘ H ain lancliness no longer had terrors for turning on hia back, shutting his fore his mind's eyes and to question me 0 sunied hin shirt and coat eo bank sa of that place, with the blind. night, filled his heart with thankful- be nee ' hin, the sight of a ship at this me sand casting his right hand back i ‘ You reo reliable man Hii id i" ‘* ne n note that he had taken from the ae and me Sesoletingy, es ness untold, it _ » ment would have fluni him inte eon erome ther, laurhed he , ge een 4 erie f wketbook of Sagease, the white 8 personality —after all, was it © pushed the ¥ over ARG ‘geanete pected In St Plerre; but thin treas: buteh f white currants, shells ; A urdity or poetry on the part of Bree ONE With see sult, his Lie <r Sues | nee vi had ne dit. tent weeping at the thought that it opened tt, It contained only pap SULAIMAN Bledel BEL SN Me” Want, Hund! Af al ren) Rael noover with hie left hand, white Prentice: to hig Berpente’s flat still \; sblinded by the light, sik n ; ie Heute incanlocking the Angers from might be months before a ship sighted all wet with wea water anil a nate on Biv ny one hilt ahaten tu a vat n J hid raeht examined again the bulge Clwed Upon hie trea ure, to, Deas ae shment, The island, un- 7 e ' the island at ok hint oO bee ie Bank of France ranes, Want some one turn it inte money, nade by the jewels container th POs Os i 18 VO out in astonishmen: a the treasure thes contained. It was the ished toni hint off to begin the Bank Of Hrance £61 00) tae et eee ae A good profit. + Kit OC MEG a aA hal ned In the gulls. No man can say who has der the sun, and surrounded by the qo pear 1 Jovely milkewhite pearl, his ig s journ a bas KS Mart nigu lie pl ney he Hote on . Fi i LI cen, Tou Tit hand pooh 1 net heard the spirit of ttc een spear of fy ‘i o e gen y glit- large ne * ns eee Why and ane, woul’ id he sight a plece am on ” even ‘ x rer? ile mu d mn It was net y ble and yy he ¢ c Morid ‘ . racing amethyst of tho sen, lay glite large vine ng expeclatiy, aailat this moment, have cursed it, wind from blowing it away. ‘The aun letting them rob ay ' ' . pie and on the quaya of Wlorida. by the Ta fering white as frost. It WAM Sra Milt Ne eee ee superstition or not, who | With the knowledge of possession would dry tt ‘Then te tried ty this for me? Could Ptrast yo WHA Un. He. jooked the Gerdbbean ceo has aor enamine from the spray of the might before, oan say? Had come the fear of dispenss Amine the pupersi they ademed gf no the menial inbee ot a t rereet! a i to make sure rope'a topsalls break. the horjzon, “The palm trees were ne longer there, Gy was ita pe 1 bel ty He had not forgotten Marie, he use ort ances ti nil Bomecanien ibe tasnian Oe nae ae es meas ie yas think, and Jeading into peor reallty the hall of thing to be seen but the Stain 2 A pearl of Not fore his d were letters with the ink all bh y ma. tt < VENUE (POINt inctne Cradine bins oF teeaad tie Tae There was no! ry Martinique, t st wond by the sen water, There were insur th ne ' 4 t r ' ot i 7 bushes “hensath the V that by seme extraordinar ' irebeecaah FD ce aphire ays the vision of the morning of the lagoons telling the faye, of the winter white bushes b e ST eae Te Tint {hours with) bis treasure he wis ance certificates, an old theatre bill pring sapphiron, all that Col ae ihe ‘i velit tharo sho was, palpable tothe old bucestesrs. burning aun, Bodies were washing gion unknowingly in hia struggles? be alone, to feel it live under his hand, of a play performed years ako at it plea i mM ownves, Oh tot the sight and defi © longer a smudge (To Be Continued.) 7 Ane with te omake plans as to safe disposal, to New York theatre, and ib one po punare on the bennh close fe ee nie tre Ne Ay at th Hotbox as dream for awhile the wonderful a photograph with, on the back the bergen that he knew eter ao Hii scarcely glanced at then the joer eran, taking th f through the dreancef wealth here, where there was ph shen's: mite Janon Muted it, © lation hefore him held him motion- ye ty aeepente's sailors had cut Nothing to disturb him but the gulls | Nadan, Photographer 1 ' | 1 them when 1 yess and the knowledge that every- for the boat, ‘The Jewelled snake and the waves : He , wares diy he i bouke ‘hing was blown away, provisions, round his throat glittered and Mashed ut Hes, Why Rhould he grieve about Wt wis th bh toxrantiiaf «wi wat thet tn fe p the bt, smeresning! never wart 1 more extraordinary now do peasant worms tke on she Ww Gaapand, & ¥ me enmsed to the southern beach, picture than s man, half ragged, Stop him fro} the face and cap ¢ "oh work! wa Pee Fresh fron the Haone, sittin A sea tale ( the au: relay the palms, snapped off and jis clothes stained with sea salt, his Was clear befo Veen the man’s mother? As like Ii, tree smoking and watt . thor of EVEN 2ashed into the sand; a litte mound hair blowing on the wind, the jewelled from the island, the | And he had priged it evident We fe ' LU: MALLS. ' he Was 4 man who DAYS") with a mya- just Sy the sea edge drew him to- serpent arowid his neck, running and stones lying there da a glitter he would not hive Para We } ¥ ea ot Ot a Bk tery that the eleverest Ward lt; it Was the case of provisions. shouting as he ran to the desolation Would give him his passage to Martin ¢ In his purkst-hook Sea, ont ‘ walk : 1 and apinit of this t i mee lery that the re Hurled aiong by the wind, it had around him, and with Fortune june from the ends of th kopt the re bill? Of w and down wiate beach he WOA peu; the crushed ui tic sense, the By Mary Roberts Rinehart reader cannot solve dituck a Jump of, coral and been “At the place Where the palm trees — He looked around at the far horizon romance or villainy was it the remi- tethered by his treasure, for he dared imagination that had heen subdued to | SS] until the final chape {sanded over; it had been shaken 4l- lay prone on the sand he stopped, sat not @ sail niscence, of What woman betrayed or ‘ar from t magnetic bundle parrooms and girls of the typ of WILL BEGIN IN ter. “The After- SNE X TS Fowee ts sa it 's most to plecos and a'few blows with down, took the serpent of gold from | As he was standing thus with his man defrauded did he keep it as a his heel burst the staves apart. It around his throat and placed it on hand in his left-hand pocket contain. memento to be read by Gaspard her was packed with tins of American the sand beside him, and beside it ing the pocketbook of Sagesse which where, to the crying of th preserved meat, such as are euperiad the parcel, he had not yet examined be felt some- rants, the past of man see le the palm b it was absurd Anisette, would have respon: to feel uneasy, he knew that, ther@ goarcely at i to this hilarity of blue was no person here to steal tt; all the waves and morning likht~ bor it was same, It held him close to it different now. He had changed and ‘Then from his pocket he took the thing beside the pocketbook, A round, game futile and killed with derision? — Now the sun, which had been stead- the world had changed; the change andkerchief and the ring. hard disc. It was the coin he had A play of shadows — tricking fly sinking, touched the weatern edge was perhaps more subtle than pro- Uy to the West Indies. tin open with bis knife and knotted hi he He placed the ring by the pearl and picked out of the tr mure pit. Ria shadows. of the sea and spilled his glory upon found, altering rather the point of then he unknotted the hi e only coin in Ho put the photograph and the the water, the blue and windy day view than the viewer, yet he had \dkerchief as he was, this was es