The evening world. Newspaper, March 14, 1916, Page 15

SrNOPEIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTMs, the ty the ul Bes, tor als ty ° rae tidtore coin, tothe fim to Sarena ot wre CHAPTER IV. ‘Wontinosd.) The Sea Chest. HD neighborhood, to our ears, ecomed haunted by approaching footsteps; and what between the dead body of the captain on the parlor - floor and the thought of that detest- able blind beggar hovering near at hand and ready to return, there were moments when, as the saying goes, I Jumped in my skin for terror, Some- thing must speedily be resolved upon, @nd it occurred to us at last to go forth together and seek help in the Neighboring hamlet. No sooner sald than done. Bare-headed as we wer we ran out at once in the gathering evening and the frosty fog. et lay not many hundred , though out of view, on r side of the next cove; and what greatly encouraged me, it was in @n opposite direction from that whence the blind man bad made his appearance, and whither he had pre- mably returned. We w not many minutes on the road, thougs We sometimes stopped to lay hold of each other and harken, jut there Was no unusual sound—nothing but the low wash of the ripple and the croaking of the crows ip the wood. It was already candle-light when we reached the hamlet, and I shan't forget how much | was cheered to see the yellow shine in doors and win- dows; but that, as it proved, was the best of the help we were likely to get in that quarter, For—you would have thought men would have been ashamed of themse|ves—no soul would consent to return with us to the Ad- miral Benbow. The more we told of our troubles, the more—man, woman nd child—they clung to the shelter of their houses, The name of Captain Flint, though {t was strange to me, was well enough Known to some there, and carried # great weight of terror ome of the men who had been to field work on the far side of the Ad- miral Benbow remembered, besides, to have seen several strang on the road, ond, taking them to be smug- glers, to have bolted away; and one @t least lad seen a litte lugger in what we called Kitt's Hole. For that matter, any one who was @ comrade of the captain's was enough to fright- en them to death. And the short and the long of the matter was that, while we could get several who were Willing enough to ride to Doctor Livesey's, which jay in another direction, not one would help us to defend the inn. They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, @ great emboldener; and #0 When each had his say, my mother made them @ speech. She would not, she declared, lose money that be- longed to her fatherless boy. “If none the rest of you dare,” she sald, im and I dare. Back we will go, the way we came, and small thanks to you big, hulking, chicken-hearted mon We'll have that chest open, if we die for It, And I'll thank you for that bag, Mrs. Crossley, to bring back our lawful money in, Of courso I said [ would go with my mother; and of course thay all cried out at our foolhardiness; but even then not a man would go along with us, All they would do was to give me @ loaded pistol, lest we were attacked; and to promise to have horses ready saddled, in cage we were pursued on our return; while one lad was to ride forward to the doctor's tn search of armed Assistance: My heart was beating fiercely when we two set forth in the cold night pa upon this dangerous vent A full moon was beginning to mse and peered redly through the upper edges of the fox, and this used our ‘n for !t was plain, before we me forth again, that all would be brigiht as day, and our departure ex- posed to the eyes of a watchers, We alipped along the hedges, noise- less and swift, nor did we seo or hear anything to increase our ‘ors till, to our huge relief, the door of the Ad- miral Benbow had closed behind us, I slipped the bolt at once, and we stood and panted for a moment in the dark, alone in the house with the dead Captain's body. Then my mother got @ candle in the bar, and, holding each other's hands, we advanced into the parior, He lay a8 we had left him, on bis back, with hts eyes open, and one arm stretched out. “Draw down the blind, Jim," whis- pered my mother; "they might come and watch outside, And now,” said she, when I had done #0, “we have to get the key off that; and wh to touch it, I should like to know?" and she gave a kind of sob as she said the word I went down on my knees at once, On the floor close to his hand there was @ little round of paper, blackened on one side. 1 could not doubt that this was the black sr and, taking it up, 1 found written on the other side, In a very good, cl short message: night.” He had till ten, mother,” said I; and, just as I said it, our old clock began striking. ‘This sudden noise startled us shockingly; but the news waa good, for It was only six “How, Jim," she sald, “that key!" I felt'in his pockets, one after an- other. A few sinall coins, a thimble, and some thread and big needles, a plece of pigtail tobacco, bitten away ar hand, this ‘You have ull 10 to- at the end, his gully with the crooked handle, pocket compass, and @ tnderbox, were all that they coi tained, and [ began to despatr. Perhaps It's round his neck,” eug- gested my mother, Overcoming a strong repugnance, I tore open his shirt at the neck, and there, sure enough, hanging to a bit of tarry string, which | cut with his own gully, we found the key, At thtis triumph we were filled with Wope, and hurried upstairs, without flelay, to the little room where he had slept ao long, and where his box had stood since the day of his ar- rival, It was like any other seaman's chest on the outside; the taital "B" burned on the top of it with a hot om, and the comers somewhat Perhaps the Greatest Adventure Romance in All Fiction (a ane and broken es by long, ugh usage, “Give me the key,” eald my mother and though the lock was very stiff, ehe had turned it and thrown back the id in a twinkling. A strong smell of tobacco and tar arose from the interior, but nothing was to be seen on the top except a suit of very good clothes, carefully brushed and folded. They had never been worn, my mother said, Under that the miscellany began—a quad. | rant, a tin callikin, several sticks of tebacco, two braces of very hand- some pistols, @ piece of bar allver, an old Spanish watch, and some other trinkets of little value and mostly of foreign make, a pair of compasses mounted with brass, and five or six curious West Indian shells. it has often set mo thinking since that he should have carried about thése shells with him in his wandering, gullty, haunted life In the meantime we found nothing of any value but the silver and the trinkets, and neither of these were in our way. Underneath there was an old boat-cloak, whitened with sea-salt on many @ harbor-bar. My mother pulled it up with impatience, and there lay before ts, the last things in the chest, a bundle tied up in ofl- cloth, and looking like papers, and a canvas bag that gave forth, at a touch, the jingle of gold. “Ll show these rogues that I'm an honest woman,” sald my mother, “I'll have my dues and not a farthing over ‘old Mrs, Crossley’g bag.” And she began to count o the amount of the captain's score from the sallor’e bag into the one that I was holding. It was a long, difoult business, for | the coins were of aj] countries and s\zes—doubloons, and louis-d'ors, and guineas, and pieces of eight, and I know not what besides, all shaken to- wether at random. The guineas, too. were about the scarcest, and tt was with these only that my mother knew how to make her count. When we were about halfway through, I suddenly put my hand upon her arm, for I had heard tn the silent, frosty air, a sound that brought my heart into my mouth—the tap- tapping of the blind man’s etick upon the frozen road. It drew nearer ani nearer, while we sat holding our breath, Then {t atruck sharp on the inn door, and then we could hear th handle betng turned, and the bolt rat- tling as the wretched being tried to enter: and then there was a long tline of silence both wi At last the tapping recommenced, and to our indescribable Joy and gratitude died slowly away again until it ceased to be heard. Mother,” eaid I, “take the whole and let's be going,” for I was sure the bolted ddor must have seemed sus- iclous, and would bring the whole ornet's nest about our ears, though how thankful I was that I had bolted it, none could tell who had never met | that terrible blind man. But my mother, frightened as she was, would not consent to take a fraction more than was due to he and was obstinately unwilling to 06 content with less. It was not yet seven, she said, by @ long way; she knew her rights and sho would ‘hays them; and she was atill arguing with me, when a little low whistle sourdat good way off upon the hill. That was enough, and inore than enough, for both of us. “rll take what I ha Jumping to her feet. “And I'll take this to square the count,” sald I, picking up the oflskin packet. Next moment we were both grop- ing downstalrk, leaving the candle by the empty chest; and the next we hod opened the door and were in full ra- treat. We had not started a moment too soon, ‘The fog Was rapidly ui persing; already the moon shone quit clear on the high ground on eithe slide, and {t waa only in the exac hottom of the dell and round the tav- ern door that a thin veil still hung unbroken to conosal the first steps of our escape. Far less than halfway to the hamlet, very little beyond the bottom of the hill, we must come forth into the moonlight, Nor was this all, for the sound of several foots‘eps running came already to our ears, and as we looked back in their direc- tion, @ light, tossing to and fro, aud still’ rapidly advancing, showed’ that one of the new-comers carried a laa- tern, My dear," she aid, sald my mother, aud- denly, “take the money and run on, T am'going to faint,” This y rtainly the end for both of us, I thought, How T cursed the cowardice of the neighbors! how I blamed my poor mother for her hon- esty and her greed; for her past fool hardiness and present weakness! We were just at the little bridge, by good fortune, and I helped her, tottering as ehe was, to the edge of the bank, here, sure enough, she gave a sigh and fell on my shoulder, I do not know how I found the strength to do it at all, and I am afratd it roughly done, but I managed to drag her down the bank and a little way under the arch, Farther I could not move her, for the bridge was too low to let me do more than crawl below it, So there we had to stay mother almost entirely exposed, both of us within ear-shot of the Inn, CHAPTER V, The Last of the Blind Man. 1 Y curtosity, in @ sense, was | stronger than my fenr; for 1 could not remain where I was, but crept back to the bank again, whence, shel- tering my head behind a bush of broom, I might command the road before our door, 1 was scarcely in position ere my enemies began to arrive, seven or eight of them, run- ning hard, their feet beating out of time along the road, and the man with the lantern some paces In front, Three men ran together, hand in hand, and I made out, even through the mist, that the middle man of this trio was the blind beggar, The next moment his voice showed me that I was righ ‘Down with the door!” he erted “Ay, ay, sir!” answered two or three, and A rush was made upon the Admiral Benbow, the lantern bearer following; and then I ¢ auld Bee them pause and heur speeches passed in a lower key, as if they were surprised to find the door open, But the pausa was brief, for the blind men again issued his commands. His voice sounded louder and higher, as if he wen MAGNTeGe WL FH hin and without, | Can You IT'S TusT SIX By MY DIAMOND STUDDED WATCH | | | | | | | | Beat It? MY GOLD WATCH SAYS SIX-TWE NTY( ITS SIX FORTY- FIVE By THE MAHOGANY CLOCK IN THE HALL IT'S JUST ONE MINUTE PAST SEVEN BY THE TIN CLOCK INTHE KITCHEN “In, In, in!" he shouted, and cursed them for their delay, Four or five of them obeyed at once, two remaining on the road with the formidable beggar. There was a paifse, then a cry of surprise, id then a voice shouting from the house: “Bill's dead!” But the blind man swore at them again for their delay. arch him, some of you shirking lubbers, and the rest of you aloft and get the ohest,” he erted. I could hear their feet rattling up our old stairs, so that the house must have shook with it. Promptly after- ward fregh sounds of astonishment arose; the window of the Captain's room was thrown open with a slam and @ jingle of broken glass, and a man leaned out into the moonlight, head and shoulders, and addressed the biind beggar on the road below him, Pew!" he cried, “they've been be- fore us, Some one’s turned the chest out alow and aloft. it there?" roared Pew. “The money's there.” The blind man cursed the money. “¥lint's fist, I mean,” he cried. “We don't see it here, nohow,” re- turned the man. “Here, you below here, ts it on Bil?" erted the bind man again. At that another fellow, probab) him who had remained below t search the Captain's body, came to the door of the Inn, “Bill's been over- hauled a'ready," sald he “nothin’ left.” “It's these people of the inn—it's that boy. I wisi I had put his eyes out!" cried the blind man, Pew. “They were here no time ago—they had the door bolted when I tried it Scatter, lads, and find ‘em.” “Bure enough, they left their «lim here," said the fellow from the win- on, “Scatter and find ‘em! Rout the house out!” reiterated Pew, striking with his atick upon the road. ‘Then there followed a great to-do through our old inn, heavy feet poundng to and fro,’ furniture all thrown over, doors kicked tn, until the very rocks re-echoed, and the men came out again, one after an- other, on the road, and declared that we were nowhere to be found. And just then the same whistle that had armed my mother and myself over the dead captain's money was once more clearly audible through the night, but this time twice repeated, T had thought It to be the blind man's trumpet, so to speak, summoning the ew to the’aamult; but [ now found that it was a signa! from the hillside toward the hamlet, and from tts ef- fect upon the buccaneers, a aignal to warn thém of approaching danger. “There's Dirk again,” sald one, “Twi We'll have to budge, mates. “Hndge, you skulk!" erted Paw. “Dirk was a fool and a coward from the first—you wouldn't mind him. ‘They must be close by; thay can't be far; you have your hands on ft, Scatter and look for them, dogs. Oh, shiver my soul,” he erted, T had eye ‘This appeal seemed to produce some effect, for two of the fellows began to look hera and thera among the lum- ber, but half-heartedly, I thought, and with*half an to thelr own dan the time, while the reat olute on the road. your hands on thou- nd you hang a le You'd be ag rich as kings tf you could find tt, and vou know {ta here, and v r ‘ vlingering. ‘Thera wasn't one of you dare face Bill, and ian te 3 did bee blind mans \ ‘ h (The S “The Evening World Daily Magazine, Tuesday, March SHE Mng 00 ‘York Brenivg World.) By Maurice Ketten \ IT S ONLY SIX- FIFTEEN JBY THE MARBLE CLock IN THE PARLOR. THE ONYX CLOCK IN THE LIBRARY SAYS NINE. O, IT's NoT GOING CENTRAL SAYS (T'S JUST ONE CAN You BoA | | THE TIN CLOCK I$ RIGHT! lose my chance for you! I'm to be @ poor, crawling beggar, sponging for rum, when I might be rolling in @ coach! If you had the pluck of a weevil in a biscuit you would catch we've them still.” got the * grumbled one. “Hang it, Pew, doubloons “They might have hid the blessed thing,” said another, “Take the Georges, Pew, and don’t stand here equalling.” Squalling was the word for tt; Pew's anger rose so hight at these objections, till at last, his passion completely taking the upper hand, he struck at them right and left in his Diindness, and his stick soundet heavily on more than one. They, in their turn, cursed back a the blind miscreant, threatened hin in horrid terms, and tried in vain to teh the stick and wrest it from his grasp. This quarrel was the saving of us for while it was etill raging, anot! e@ound came from the top of the hil on the side of the hamlet—the tramp of horses galloping. Almost at the same time a pistol-shot flash, and report came from the hedge-side, And there was plainly the last signal of danger, for the buccaneers turned at once and ran, separating in every direction, one seaward along the cove, one alant across the hill, and 80 so that in half n minute not a sign of them remained but Pew, fim they had deserted, whether in sheer panto or out of revenge for his 1] words and blows, I know not; but there he remained behind, tapping up and down the road in @ frenzy, and groping and calling for his com- radew, Finally he took the wrong pure. ond Tan a few steps past mo, toward the hamlet, sr"4., “Johnny, Black Dog, irk.” end other names, “you won't leave old Pew, mates—not old Pew?” Just then the noise of horses topped the rise, and four or five riders came in sight In the moonlight, and swept at full gallop down the slope, At this Pew saw his error, turned with a scream, and ran etraight for the ditch, into which he rolled. But he was on his feet again tn a second, and made another dash, now utterly bewtldered, right under the nearest of the coming horses. The rider tried to save him, but tn vain, Down went Pew with a ery th rang high into the night, and the four hoofs trampled and spurned bir and pased by, He fell on his side, then gently collapsed upon his face, and moved no more, I leaped to my feet and hailed the riders. They were pulling up, at auy rate, horrified at the accident, and L soon KAW What they were, One, tuil- # out behind the rest, was a lad that had gone from the hamlet to Dr. Livesey’s; the rest were revenue of- ficers, Whom he had met by the way, and with whom he had had the intelli- Kence to return at once, Some news of the lugger in Kitt's Hole had found {us way to Supervisor Dance, and sent him forth that night in our di- reclion, and to that circumstance my mother and I owed our preservation trom death. Pew was dead, stone dead, As for my mother, when we had carried hor up to the hamlet, a little cold water and salts very soon brought her back again, and she was none the worse for her terror, thousth phe still con- tinued to deplore the balance of the money, In ‘the meantime, the supervisor rode on, as fast as he « 1, to Kite's men had to'dismount wn the dingle, 1 and groped and sometimes supporting hosses, and 40 aontinual teas’ ot ame bushera; #o It was no great mattor for surprise that when we got down to the Hole the lugger was alre under way, though still close in, He hailed her, A voice replied, telling him to keep out of the moonlight, or he would get some Iead in pit, and at the same time a bullet whistled close by his arm. Soon after, the lugger doubled the point and dis- appeared, Mr, Dance stood there, as he sald, “like @ fish out of water,” and all’ he could do was to dispatch @ man to B——— to warn the cutter. “And that,” said be, “is just about as good as nothing. They've got off clean, and there's an end. Only,” he added, Pew “I'm glad I trod on Master corns,” for by this time he had bow, and you canaot imagine @ house in such @ state of the very clock had been rown down by these fellows tn thelr furious Bunt after my mother und myself; and though nothing hut actually been taken away except tno captain's money-bag and a little wil ver from the till, I could seo at vnce that we were ruined. Mr. Dance could make nothing of the scene. “They got the money, you nay? Well, then, Hawkins, what in fortune were they after?) More money, I Fup Oy air; not money,” replied I “In fact, eir, I believe I have the thing in my breast pocket; and, to tell you the truth, I ehould like to get it put in eafety.” é “To be mure, boy; quite right, sald he. “I'll take it, if ike. tor Live- — 1 began. erect right,” he interrrupted, very cheartly, “perfectly right—-« gontioman and a te. And, now I come ¢o think of It, I might ‘as well ride round there mynelf and repo’ to him or uire. Master Pew'a dead, when all done; not that I regret i, but he's dead, you 909, people will make {t out again ean officer of his majesty’s revenue, if make ft out they oan Now, IN) tefl you, Hawkins, if you ike, I'l take you along,” CHAPTER VI. The Captain’s Papers. @ rode hard all the way, till we drew up before Dr. Live ) sey’s door, The house was } all dark in front, The doc tor was dining with Squire Trelawney, So we rode on to the Hall. Tho servant led ue down a matted passage, and showed us at the end into a great Mbrary, all lined with bookeases, and busts upon top of them, where the squire and Dr. Live sey sat, pipe tn hand, on either side of the bright fire 1 had never seen the aqium so near at hand. He wae a tall man, over six feet high, and broad tn proportion, an he had @ bluff, rough-and-ready face, all roughened and reddened and lined in his long travels, His eyebrows wer very black, and moved reall # gave him @ look of some ter not bad, you would say, but quick a ch. ‘.. mipervisor stood up straight nd told his story a len nd you should have seen two gentlemen leaned f kel at each other and f to sir In their surpri ‘Aim Dano’ ald she sure “you are a very noble fellow. And as for riding down that black, atro- y clous miscreant, I regard tt as an act of virtue, like stamping on a cockroach, lad Hawkins ts a trump, 1 pere Hawking, will you ring that bell? Mr, Dance must have some ale.’ “And so, Jim," said the doctor, “you have the thing that they were after, have you?” sir, “Here tt is, sir" said L and gave him the ollskin packet The doctor looked it all over, as tf hia fingers were Itching to open It; but Instead of doing that he put it wiletly in the pocket of his coat, “Squire,” ald ho, “when Dance has had his ale he must, of course, be off on his majesty’s service; but 1 mean to keep Jin Hawking here to sleep at iy house, and, with your permission, 1 propose we asliould have up the cold pig and let him sup." “As you will, Livesey,” sald the squire; “Hawkins has earned betier than cold pie.” Su & Dig pigeon ple waa brought In d put on @ side tadle, and I made ity supper, jor | was as hungry os @ hawk, while Mr, Dance was further complimented, and at last dis- | betwen the 14, 1916 ] ‘ iy WHAT WOULD YOU Fi Fd ee iy The pext ten or twolve pages were filled with @ ourious series of entrivca. ‘Phere was a date on one ond of the |Mne and at the other a sum of | money, aa In common account books; | bub-thstowd: of explanatory writing, [only a varying number of crosses wo. On the lay of June, 1}, for instance, a sum uf seventy | pounds had pialnly become due to some one, and there was nothing but #ix crosses to explain the cause, Ln ja fow cases, to bo eure, the uae of }a place would be added, as “Otte Car "or @ mero entry of lath. | tude and longitude, as "62 deg. 17 | moat 20 soc, 19 deg, 2 amin. 40 sec.” The record lasted over nearly | twenty years, the amount of the wate entries growing larger as Une Went on, and at the end a grand total had been made out, after five or six wrong additions, and these words appended, “ones, his pile.” 1 can't make head op tall of this,” said Doctor Livesey. thing ts a® clear noon- ." orled the squire, “Thia ia the k-hearted hound's account book, ‘These crosses atand for the names of blips or towns that they eunk or plundered, The sums are the sooun- drel’'s share, and where he feared an umbiguity, YOU #ee he added some- thing alearer, ‘Ofte Caracas,’ now; (you ese here was some unhappy nel boarded off that coast. God p the poor souls that manned her oral long ao." “ight!” gaid the doctor, “Bee what it is to be a traveller, Right! | And the @mounts inorease, you see |as he rose in rank. | There was little else in the volume | but a fow bearings of places noted in the blank leaves toward the end, and a table for reducing French, English, and Spanish moneys to a common 0. Thrifty mani” orted the doctor. “He wasn't the one to be cheated. “And now,” @ald the squire, the other.” The paper had been emied in aev- eral pluces with @ thimble by way of | weal; the very thimble, perhaps, that 1 had found in the captain's pocket, |'rhe doctor opened the seals with great caro, and there fell out the map of an island, with latitude and | longitude, soundings, names of hills and bays and inlets, and every par- ticular that would be needed to bring @ alitp to & nafs anchorage upon ite shores. It was about nine miles long and five across, shaped, you might say, Uke a fat dragon standing w) and tad two fing land-locked har- bors, and a hill tn the centre part marked “The Spygiass.” Thero were sevoral additions of « later date; but, above all, three red crosses of red “for ink--two on the north part of the island, one tn the southwest, and, he- side this last, in the same red ink, and in a amall, neat hand, very dif. ferent from the captain's tottery eharac ns, these words “Bulk of treasure here.” Over on the back the same hand had written this further {nformation: “Tell tree, Bpy-glase shoulder, dear- ing a point to the N, of N,N. EB. skeleton Island BE. 8. B. and by P. en feat. rhe bar ailver da in the north cache ; vou can find it by the trend of the cast hummock, ten fathoms south of the black orag with the face on it. “The arma are easy found, in the sandhill, N. point of north inlet cape, bearing EB. and @ quarter N. Gh OG hd That was all, but brief as it was, and, to me, inoomprehenaibie, tt filed quire and Dr. Livesey with do- t eht. “Livesey,” maid the squire, “you will give up this wretched practice at ones. To-morrow I start for Bristol. In three weeks’ time—three weeks! — two weeks—ten daya—we'll have the best ship, #ir, and the choicest crew Hawking shall come as tn England tinned. spony Hy Gi ete cabin boy. You'll make a famous dot Row, squire,” said the Canin boy, Hawkins. You, Livesey, are “And now, vesey.” auld the Ship's doctor; I am Admiral. We'll e ioeet inten Peete oh Lee suid the foie Redruth, Joyee and Hunter Be same brain time, We'll have favorable winds and a ished Doctor Livesey, “You have Wick passage, and not the least dim. heard of this Flint, I suppose?” culty In findng the spot, and money Woll, I've neard of him ayself, in tO eat—to roll In to lay duck and England, Mi the dootor, “Isut the drake with ever after. Pagiandit ai me oeaea i “Trelawney,” anid the docter, “Tl “Money!” cried the squire, “Have 9 with you; and I'll go ball for It, you heard the story? What were these villains after but money? What do they care for but money? For what would they risk thelr rascal carcasses but money?” “That we shall soon plied the doctor, “But you are so confoundedly hot-headed and ex- clamatory that I cannot get a word jo, What I want w know Is (this: Supposing that I have here in iy pocketa some clew to where Filnt buried his treasure, will that treas- ure amount to much?" “Amount, sir!" cried tha squire. "It Il amount to this ia": rave the clew you talk about, I fit out a eahip Histol dock, and t you and Hawking here along, ant ii have t re if | Bearch a yoar Very well," #ald the doctor, "Now, then, if Jim ts agreeable, we'll open the ‘packet, and he laid it befdre him on the table, The Lundle was sewn together, and the doctor had to get out his instru. ment case and cut the stitches with know," 5 his medical eclesors. Lt contained wo thing#—@ buck and @ sealed paper, First of all we'll try the book,” ed the doctor. squice and I were both peering nis shoulder a# he opened tt, for Doctor Livesey had kindly mo toned me to come around from th te table, where I had been eating, ra the sport of the mearoh, On te pag ere were only sone aps of writing, such as a man vith @ pen tn his’ hand might mai fr ideas OF practice, One wae th fame os the ta mark, "BL Hones tila fancy n there was "Mr. W. Bones, ni No more rum,” "Off Palm Ke b Dr, Livesox. us Lo paawod on so will Jim, and be a credit to the undertaking. There's enly one man I'm afraid of.” “And who ts that? orted the equire. “Name the dog, sir! “You,” replied the doctor, “for you cannot hold your tongue, We are not the only man who know of this paper. ‘These fellown who attacked the inn to-night-—hold, desperate bindes, for mure—and the rest who stayed aboard that lugger, and more, I dare say, not far off, are, one and all ,through thick and thin, hound that they'll get that money. We must none of us go alone till we gat to sea. Jim and I hall atick together tn the meanwhile; y take Joyee and Hunter when you ride to Hristol, and, from Orst to Inst, not one of us must breathe a word of what we've found." “Livesey,” returned the squire, “you nro alwaya in the right of it. ['l’be as silent as the grave,” CHAPTER VII. I Go to Bristol. T was tonger than the aquire Imagined ere we were ready for the sea, and none of ovr firat plana—not even Doctor Liveaey’s, of keeping me be- side him—could be carried out as we intended, Bo the weeks passed on, t!! Jay there came a letter addressed & Dr, Livesey, with thig addi ay ned in the case of his absence one fine nm Redruth or Young Hawkins. Obeying tis order, we found, or rather I yund-—for the «any ber & poor hand at reading anything print—the following’ Lnportant Anchor Inn, M Bristol, ‘Dear TAviesey As I do not Suuble 4 bok Wacom GLORIOUSLY BEAUTIFUL GIRL in the Springtime Forest and She But What She Said Ie Best Told tw Next Week's Complete Novel in THE EVENING WORLD , THE SPRING LADY BY MARY 6RECHT PULVER not quite like the other stories you've rend, it hae a charm and originality that will appeal to you. PLEASE DON’T MISS IT! 5 RAR NRIR ATR EIR EIR IIT HI DO IF YOU META F ? ‘ ’ a4 s And “The ship is v0: Bhe lies a al You neve v4 BweOser souvul si sail DOR | tWo busdred wus, vane, base * paniola. “_ got her through uty old friead, Biaudly, who has proved + bluseit tupor tie most sur- prisug’ Wunp. The adutirave fellow iiteraiy slaved in my tater est, anu so, 1 may say, did every vas ia Lrlalol, us Bou ae tuey got Wind of the port we sailed fom treasure, 1 mean “ivedruth,” sud 1, interrupting thi lotier, “Doctor Livesey will not like tuut, ‘The squire hus becn talaing? after all.” 1 read on: 5 “Biandly himself found the Hispanivia, and by the most ad- © anageMent wot her sor eat tile, of Aauives, buccaneers, juus French—and 4 bed ry of the deuce itasif to Und ao wuch a» bait a dowen, wd the Wost reuarkable stroke of fortune brougut me the very man that 1 required. “L Was suauding on the doak, when, by the merost accident, 1 fell in talk with him. 1 found be was an old sailor, kept a pubsic house, knew all tu afaring ioe in Bristol, had his heasth lost ashore, and Wanted a good berth as cook to get to sea again, Me had hobbied down there that morning, he sald, to get a smels of the sat. 1 was monstrously touchea— @ would you Lave been—and, gut of pure pily, | engaged bim on she wpot ty be ship's cook. Long Jobn Suver, he is called, and has lest @ leg; but that 1 regarded as @ Tecommendition, since be lost st ja big country’s service, under the immortal Hawke, He has no pea- ston, Livesey. linagine the abom- inable age wo live in “Well, sir, 1 thought I had omly found @ cook, but it was a crew [ had discovered. Letween Silver and myself we got together ip a fow days a company of the tough- est old salts inaginadle—not pretty to look at, but fellows, by their faces, of the most Indomita- ble spirit. | declare ) « could fight & frigate, “Long John even ~ot rid of two out of the six or seven | had al- ready engaged. te showed me tn & Moment that they were just the wort of freshi-waterawabs we bad to fewr in an adventure of tan- portance, “Let young Hawkins go at ouce to see his mother, with Redruth for a guard, and then both came full speed to Kristol ‘JOUN TRELAWNEY, “P. S.—I did not tell you that Blandley, who, by the way, Is to send @ consort after us if we don't turn up by the end of August, had found an admirable fellow for sulling master—a stiff map, which [ regret, but, In all her respect sure. Lang John Silver unearthed a very cam petent man for a mate, & man named Arrow, I have a boatswain who pipes, Livesey; #o things shall go man-o'-war fashion on board the good ship Hispaniola “I forgot to tell you that Silver fa @ man of substance; I know of my own knowledge that he Bas @ banker's account, which Bas never been overdrawn. Ho leave his wife to manage the tun; and as she is a woman of color, @ pair of old bachelors ike you and 1 may be excused for gucawing that it is the wife, quite as much as the health, that sends him back to roving, Jt. “Pp. BP. &.—Hawkine may stay one might with his mother, J.P." ‘The night passed, and the nex day, after dinner, Redruth and } were afoot again and'on the road, | ald goodby to mother and the cove whe I had lived since [ was born, and the dear old Admiral Henbow—since he was fepainted, no looger quite Bo dear, One of my last thoughts was of the captain, who hud so often atrode along the beach with his cocked hat, his sabre-cut cheek, and hia old brass televcops, Next mo- ment we had turued the corner and my hoine waa out of sight, ‘The mail picked us up about dusk at the Roya! George on the heath, i was wedged In between Redruth anda stout old gentleman, and in spite of the swift motion and the cold atght air I must have dozed a great dea} from the very firsl, and then mlept lke a log up bill and down dale, through stage after stage; for when I was awakened at last {t was by a punch tn the rtbs, and I opened my eyes to find that we 6 standing still before a large building in a city street, and that the day had alteady broken a long time, ’ “Where @ I asked. “Bristol,” sald Tom. “Get down.” Mr. Trelawney had taken up his residence at aa inn far down tite docks, end the work upor the sc Phither we had now ta walk, and our way, to my great de- wer” lieht, lay along the quays and be: le the great multitude of ships of all sizes and rigs and nations, In one, jlors were singing at their work; in another, there were men aloft, high over my head, hanging to threads that seemed no th! r than a spider's, Though J had lived by the shore al my fe, I seemed never to have deel ir the sea til then. The smel) of tar and salt Was something new - Wh 1 was etill in this ‘henttyt dreain we came auddenty tn front of p large inn and met Squire all dressed out Trelawney, like a sea ottiear, in siout blue ele coming out of the door with a smile on his face aod p capital imitation of a sail Ke Here you are!” he cried; “amd the doctor came last night from Landon, ravol-the ship's company com- pleta."* Oh, air," ented L “when de we sath?” "says he, ‘We sail to~wmor« __ — Go Be Continued. Ly oe |