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Beebe ees be Ro ie wit telle’ the gre an fndugtres We 10 Lie. Eiteory’ an vee and They ae once fit Out an ex: 1 the Treaeure, Rome, teied. vainly (9° @et hold <jatten & ship and) makes eg We Tank of getting in for ie helped by 'Ta ohn’ Silver, @ one wrt apne tate cvetiagre "Rite ant the treasure. We ploiting had aoe ue ae te bean es ot CHAPTER XI. (Continued,) What I Heard in the Apple Barrel. UU may fancy the terror I , wos in! < should have leaped out und run for It if 1 had found tho strength; but my limbs and heart alike misgave me, I heard Dick begin to rise, and then some one seemingly stopped him and the voice of Hands exclaimed: “Oh, stow that! Don't you get wucking of that bilge, John, Let's go of the rum. “Dick,” sald Silver, “I trust you. {ve a gauge on the keg, mind, There's the key; you fill a pannikin and bring it up.’ Terrified as I was, I could not help thinking to myself that this must ave been how Mr. Arrow got the one waters that destroyed him. Dick was gone but a little while, and during his absence Israel spoke straight on in the cook’s ear, Lt was Dut @ word or two that I could catch, and yet I guthered some important news; for, des other scraps that tended to the same purpose, this whole clause was audible: “Not an- other man of them'll jine.” Hence there were still fuithful men on board. ‘When Dick returned, one after an- other of the trio took a pannikin and drank—one “To luck;” another with a “Here's to old Flint," and Silver Rimeelf saying, in @ kind of song, “Here's to ourselves, and hold your eaeeey of prizes and plenty of 1 Just then @ sort of brightness fell upon me in the barrel, and, looking ‘up, I found the moon had risen and was mivering the mizzentop and ehin- tng whito on the luff of the feresail, Ad almost at the same time the voice ‘of the lookout shouted, "Land ho!” CHAPTER Xil. Council of War. - HERB was a great rush of feet across the denk. I could hear people tumbling up from the cabin and tho fok's'le, and, slipping in en tmstant outside my barrel, I dived behind the foresall, made a double toward the stern, and came out upon the open deck in time to join Hunter amd Doctor Livesey in the rush for the weather bow. There all hands were already con- wregaied. A belt of fog had lifted al- most simultaneously with the appear- ance of the moun, Away to the south- ‘west of us we suw two low hills, about couple of miles apart, and rising Dehind one of them a third and higher Dill, whose peak was still buried ta the fog. All three seemed sharp and conteal in figure. So much I saw almost in a dream, 1 had not yet recovered from im jd feat of a minute or two be- fore, Aad then I heard the voice of Captain Bmollett issuing orders. Tho Hispaniola was laid a couple of points mearer the wind, and now salled a gourse that would just clear the island on the east. “And now, men,” sald the captain, twhen all was sheeted bome, “has any Seat you ever seen that land “i ha said Bilver, “I've watered there with a trader 1 was @ook in,” ‘he anchotage is on the south, behind an islet, 1 fancy?” asked the captain, “Yes, sir, Skeleton Island they calls §t. It were a main place for pirates once, and a hand we had on board knowed all their names for it. ‘That BIN to the nor’ard they calls the Fore- mast Hill; thero are three bills tn a row running eouth'ard—fore, main, and mizzon, sir. But the main—that's the big ‘un, with the cloud on it~ they usually calis the Spy-glass, by reason of @ jookout they kept when they was tn the anchorage cleaning; for it’s there they cleaned their ehips, wir, asking your pardo: “y chart here,” sald Captain Smollett. “Seo if that's the place,” Long John’s eyes burned in his head as he took the chart, but, by the fresh look of the paper, I knew he was doomed to disappointment, Phie was not the map we found Billy Bones'’s chest, but an accurate copy, complete {n all things—names, and heights, and soundings~with the @ingle exception of the red crosses and the written notes, Sharp as must have been his annoyance, Silver bad the strength of mind to hide it “Yes, vir,” aaid he, “this ts the @pot, to be eure, and very prettily drawed out. Who might have done that, [ Wonder? The pirates were too ignorant, I reckon, Ay, here It is: ‘Capt. Kidd's anchorage’—Just the name my shipmate calied it, There's @ strong current runs along the @outh, and then away nor'ard up the coast, Right’ you was, sir,” to haul your wind and keep ather off the island, Téa ways, If stich Was your intention to enter aud careen, and there no better place for that in ¢ waters.” “Thank you, my man,” said Captain Smollet, “Ill ask you, later on, to Bive us a help, You may go." Captain Smollett, the squire, an Doctor Livesey were talking toxett @n the quarter-deck, and anxious as 1 was to tell them my story, T durst Not interrupt them openly. While I was still caging about in my thoughts to find some probate excuse, Doctor Livesey cailed me hin side, He Nad left his pipe below, and being a rlave to tobaceo, had meant that I hit; Dut as goon as T was and not he ov out Iminedta peak. Get the ca Heart, 1 tain vanire down to the cabio and then make some pretense to send for ma. TL have terrible news.” ‘The doctor changed countenance a Uttle, but next moment he was mas- ter of himself. “Thank you, Jim,” aid he, quite POOL LOOOO NE OD reasure Island Perhaps the Greatest Adventure Romance in All Fiction rt Louis Stevenson The Evening World Daily SEEN NNAN MESES ' “thi as if jas nil I wanted to had asked me a ques- loudly know, von. ‘On the top of that the three gentle- men went below, and not long after word was sont forward that Jim Hawkins wi nted in the cabin, I found them all three seated round the table, a bottle of Spanish wine and some raleins before them, and the doctor smoking away, with his wig on his lap, and that, I knew, was @ sign that he was “Now, Hawkins,’ “you have something to say. up.” I did as I was bid, and, short as T could make It, told the whole details of Silver's conversation. “First point,” began Mr, Bmollett. e must go on because we can’t turn back. If] give tho word to turn about they would rise at once. Second point, we have time before us—at least unt! this treasure’s found, Third point. there are faithful hands, Now, sir, {t's got to come to blows sooner or later, and what I propose is to take time by the forelock, as the saying Is, and come to blows some fine day when they least expect it. We can count, | take it, on your own home servants, Mr, Trelawney?” “As upon myself," @eclared the squire. equire, Speak “Three,” reckoned the captain: “ourselves. make seven, counting Hawkins bere. “Jim here,” eald the doctor, “can help us more than any one, The men ere not ehy with him and Jim is a noticing lad.” “Hawkins, I put prodigious faith in you,” added the squire, CHAPTER XII. My Shore Adventure. HE appearance of the fslond when T came on deok next Morning was altogether changed. Although =the breeze had now utterly failed we had made a great deal of way during the night and were now lying becaimed about half a mile to the southeast of the low eastern coast, We had a dreary morning's work before us, for there was no sign of any wind and the boats had co be got cut and manned and the ship warped three or four miles around the corner f the {sland and up the nurrow pas- sage to the haven behind Skeleton Island. Wo brought up just where the anchor was in the chart, about a third of a mile from either shore, the mains land on one side and Skeleton Island on the other, The bottom clean | sand. The plfinge of our anchor sent up clouds of birds wheeling and ery- | ing over the woods, but in less than| a minute they were all down again, and all was once more silent. tain, another order, the whole ship'll come about our ears by the run. You se sir, here it is, I get a cough anwe do I not? Well, if I speak back, pikes will be going in two shake: if I don't Silver will see there thing under t an¢ Now, we've only one m to the other man’s in a kind of appeal. “Mate,” he was saying, cvuse I thinks golddust of you : some- dust, and you may lay to that! If I the game's wu hadn't took to you Ike pitch, do you to rely on.” think I'd have been here a warning of ‘And who is that asked the you? All's up—you can't make nor juire. mend; it's to save your neck that I'm liver, sir,” peturned the captain; @-Speaking, and if one of the wild ‘uns “he's as anxious as you and 1 to knew it, where ‘ud I be, Tom—now ngs up. This is @ tit, he'd tell me, where ‘ud 1 b out of It if he had the | And then all of a sudden he was chance, and what | propose to do is Interrupted by a noise, I had found to give him the chance. Let's allow one of the honest hands—well, here, the men au afternoon ashore. If they ®t that game moment, came news of if “mother, Tar away out tn the marsh wa there arose, all of a sudden, a sound tke the ery of anger, then another on the back of it, and then one hor- rid, long-drawn scream, Tom had leaped at the sound, like ® horse at the spur; but Silver had not winked an eye. He stood where he was, resting Hghtly on his crutch, all go, why, we'll tight the ship. they none of them go, well, then, hold the cabin, and God defend th rig If a you mark my words, sir, Silver’ bring ‘em aboard again as mild as jambs,” It was so decided; loaded pletols were served out to all the sure men, Hunter, Joyce, and Iedruth were taken into our confidence, and re- Riitching his companion like a snuke celved the news with less surprigg ee eer atchin and a better spirit. tha we had out his hand. r, stre| ing looked for, and then the captain went on deck and addressed the crew. ‘My lads," said he, “we've had a hot day, and are all tired and out of gymnast. sorts, A turn ashore ‘Il hurt nob “Hand m the boats are still in the Water: YOU pain toe cae eee ona silver.” can take the gigs, and as many as science that can make vou feared of please can go ashore for the after- me, But, in heaven's name, tell mo noon. I'll fire a gun half an hour be- what was that?” . fora sundown.” returned Silver, amillng In a few minutes the party was away, but warier than ever, his eye a made up. Six fellows were to stay mere pin-point in his big face, but on board, and the remaining thirteen, gleaming Uke a crumb. of ginss including Sliver, began to embark. hot? Oh, T reckon that'll be Alan.” Then {t was that there came tnto And at this poor Tom flashed out my head the first of the mad notions lika a hero, that contributed so much to suye our Alan!” he orted. “Then rest his Hyves, If six men were left by silver, soul for a true seaman! And as for {t was plain our party could not take you, John Silver, long you've been a and fight the stip: and since only mate of mine, but you're mate of Bix were left, {t was equally plains mine no more. If T dio like a dog that the eabin party had no present I'll die in my dooty, You've killed need of my assistance. Tt occurred Alan, have you? Kill me too, if ou to me at once to go ashore. In a can, But IT defies you." fifty I had slipped over the side and And with that this brava fellow curled up in the fore-sheets of tho turned his back directly on the cook nearest boat, and almost at the sane and set off walking for tha beach moment she shoved off But he was not destined to go far s raced for the beach, but With @ cry John seiaed the branch n, having some start, of a tree, nped the eruteh out of the Imehter and his armpit, and sent that wneouth or manned, shot far ahead of missile hurtling through the air, It ‘and the bow had struck strack poor Tom, point foremost, and side trees, and Thad with &tunning violence, right between “Hands off!" crled Silver, leaping back @ yard, as it seemed to ne, with the speed and security of a tralned the be and_ be! the bet her consor caught a branch and swung myself the shoulders in the middla of his out, and plunged into the neorest back His hands flew up, he gave thicket, while Silver and the rest were 4 a rt of & ny and fall URN ate stlil h ed ri ehind, Viether he was injure “ m panerey veto be0/a9 Uitie, nonq could ever tell, Lake . rye enough, to judge from the lia CHAPTER XIV, back was broken on the spot. But he o Fi " had n time ¢ him to recover, The First Blow . Silver, agile as a monkey, even wi WAS @0 pleased at having out leg or crutch, was on ‘ @ op of ven tho slip to Li ohn him next moment, and had twice ee 1p to Long John pitied hia knife up.to the hilt in that vit L began to enJoy MY defenseless body, From my place of f and look around me ambush | could hear him pant loud as he struck the blows, nuty I began to extricate my- interest on the *yerent 1 Proeny voit and crawl back again, with what » Speed aad silence T could manage, to with some nge land that £ was In, rl & volee, sther voice answered; and th ¥ . ion of tha wood fe fitst vol hile i recugnizer the more open portion of the w teers! ones more took up the And here a fresh alarm brought tory ran on fora long while me to a standstill with a thy « In a stream, only now aad again in ' rrupted by the other wing) on all-fours, To made y but siowly toward them, t1 t, ralsing my head to an apertur among the leaves, | could see clee Gown Into a litte dell b the marsh at with es, where I nd unother of the « ice in conversation, The sun beat full upon them hod thr ground, and his g CUAPTER XV, The Man on the Island. SHROM the aide of the hi which was he stony a spout Aislodged and and bounding through the n hie hat beside him on the Seem My eyes turned inatinatively t, smooth, blonde 1m that direction, and 1 saw a figure ey steep a wrave fell rattling ad face Such Is Life ~" Senge te eee Magazine. Thursday, M arch ote er tela ce, | trunk of @ pine. I forced myself to walk forward The fikure came timidly out into the open, It was a man. “Who are you?" I asked. “Ben Gunn,” he answered, and his voice sounded hoarse and awkward, like @ rusty lock. “I'm poor Ben Gunn, Tam; and I haven't spoke with a Christian these three years.” T could now see that he was a white help—-him being in @ clove Mitch, as you remark?” I told him the squire was the most Uberal of men, ‘Now, U'll tell you what," he went “So much TN tell you, and 1 1 were in Plint'a ship when ed the treasure; he and wix nlong—six strong seamen, — They was ashore nigh én & week, and us standing off and on in the old Wal- rus, One fing day up went. the man like myself, and that his features signal, and here come Fiint by him pleasing. His ski r- self in @ little bout, and hia head ever {t was exposed, was burned by done up in a blue searf, ‘The # the aun; even his lips were black, and Was ee ‘ing up, and mortal white his fair eyes looked quite startling in Jookeu about the cutwater, thens, when I thought may be a Sun- day would be about doo, It weren't quite a chapel, but it seemed more solemn Hke; aud then, says you, Ben Gunn was shorthanded—no chapling, nor so much as @ Biblo aad a flu, you says." . he kept talking as [ ran, noither expecting nor receiving any answer, The cannon-shot was after @ considerable interval, by @ volley of small arma, Another pause, and then, not a quarter of a mile in froat of me, 1 beheld the Union Jack flutter in the But, we above a wood, he bu bd a there he was, you mind, and the #ix sini OL We Ore P teeta ered CWars ¥80 all “dena dead “and buried. “How CHAPTER XVI. f mith had he done it, not a man aboard us yy sng eek el poe years agone,” he could make out It was battic, mur Narrative Continued by the continued, “and lived on goata since der, and sudden death—leastways, Doctor. then, and’ berries and oysters, Wher- Di against six. Billy Bones was gver’a mania, says T, aman can do the mate; Long John, he wae quar T was about half-past 1— for himself, But, mate, my heart ts termaster; and they asked, him three bells in the a sere for Christian diet. You mightn't Where the trensure was, ‘Ah, says phrase—that the two boats he, ‘you can go ashore, if you like, happen to have & pleco of cheese abou’ sind atay,, he gays; ‘but as for the Went ashore from the His Tong night T've dreamed of cheese {)'iP., She'll beat up for more, by Leni Waiting was a strain, and !t wag decided that Hunter and | should go toasted, mostly--and woke up again, Now, Well, £ was in another slip tures vrs back, and we sighted thie island and here I were. you call yourself, mate OU What d Ie Y told hic ya? anid 1, ‘here's Fit | ashore with the jolly-boat, in quest “Jim) Sim," she, quite picase), |! 8 land and find it." Tho cap'n was of information. apparently. “Well, now, Jim, I've displeased at that; but my measmates I had not gone @ hundred yards lived that rough as you'd bo ashamed Were all oC a mind and landed. Twelve atier we landed when I came on the that rough as you'd be ashamed viv they looked for It, and every {te ee ene Mai, day they had the worse words for me, #tookade. mother—to look at me?" he asked morning all hands went This was how it was. A spring of “Why, mo, not In particular,” 1 sound. “Aa for you, Henjamin Gunn,’ cloar water arose at the top of cd. + ‘hei wuaket,” they jij MME L Sy paid he, hut 1 had Maye 'ANG A SDAGR and plokans, Tou jlo Gnd inoloeles she epring, they remarkable pious. And T was a civil, “an stay here and find Flint’s money 284 clapped a stout log house, fit to Nae oe ie oti tattic of my for yourself,’ they says. hoid two acore people on a pinch, and catechism that fast as you couldn't tell one word from another, And here's what it come to, Jim, and tt “Well, Jim, three years have I been ) and not a bite of Chr from that day to this. loop-holed for musketry on every gl tian Oar side. All around tile they bad cleared at now, 100K a wide space, and then the thing was begun. with chuck-farthen ‘on the you here--look at me, Do I look like 0. Wi8 Bbact A blessed gravestones! ‘Thata what i: @ man before the maat? No, maya you. cinviared bY & baling six feet high begun with, but it went furthr'n that, Nor [ weren't, neither, I says.” to uull deen witmsue Hing jones And with that he winked and Tea eo and so my mother told me, and pre dicked the whole, she did, the pious pir ud too open to st The people in the iter the be hed me hard. log bouse had th woman, I've thought it all out tn this Just you mention them words to j ivery w ji a bere lonely island and I'm back on your squire, Jinf,"” be went on. GP cheltertandtauan tans Ce ihe piety. You can’t catch mo tasting be weren't, neither--that's the wo ; ridges. Ail they wanted was a good watch and food; for, short of a cx pete @urpriee, they might have held (ao place against a regiment A death cry came ringing over the rum so much, but Just a thimbleful Three years he were the man of this for luck, of cours, the first chance I isiind, light and dark, fair and rain, have, I'm bound [ll be good, and I an! sometimes be would, sce the way to. And, Jim’=looking 'hink upon @ prayer (ways you ail around him and lowering bis voice sometimes he would, maybe, think o r i fi renee Dies Ane one is old raother, #0. bo we shes wive and. We pus back to the His» 1 now felt sure that the poor fel- (You'll say); but the most part of fobnd them al) k 2 Ww low had gone crazy In his woiitude, Gunn's thine (thie te what you 49) naturales The” equlte was mitlng Now, Jim, you tell true; that “the inost part of his time was Jown, A® White ax a sheet, thinking ain't Flint'’s ship? he asked ap with another matter ‘harm he had led us to, the good At this I had a happy inspiration, you'll sive him a@ nip, like T do. and one of tho six forecuatic I began to belleve that I had found = "Well," L sald, "IT don't understand hands was little bettar er an ally and anawered him at once, one word that you've t vy 4 & man,” sad Captain “Ite not Fiint’s ship and Flint is Bu 8 neither here Bu , Modding toward him, “new 4, but U'll tell you true you ask how am 1 to get on board > this work, Me came nigh-hand there are some of Flint’ hands "wid he, “that's tho hitch for fainting, doctor, when he heard the ard; worse luck for the rest of us Well, there's my boat that T ory, Another touch of the rudder and Not @ man--with ono—leg?” he | wth my two hands, I keep het that man would join. us." ved white rock, If the worst “T told my plan to the captain, and silver? © to tle worst, we might try that perween us we eettied on the detatis “Ah, (hat were wrk, HAL" he broke Out of its accomplishment his namo,” ; Ua that? We put old Redruth in the gallery “Ho's the cook and the ringleader, jor just then, although the sun had hetween the cabin and the forecaatle, too. (tH at ur or two to run, all the with three or four loaded muskets He was still holding me by the wris hoes he teland awoke and bel- and a mattress for protection, Hunter and at that he gave it quite 4 1 to the thunder of a cannon, br t the boat round under the If you wan sent by Long pewun to fight! 1 ered. stern port, and Joyee and T act to ho sald, "I'm ax good as pork 4 work loading her with powder, tna, Hal But where was you, do you Aang [ began to run toward the an- muskets, bags of Dincults, keen of chor t \ forgotten; po ask oO amy 1 Phd made my mind up in a mo Vie cova ut my aide, the marooned Habla medicine ehere ews ment, and by way of ansver tld ian in bia goataking trotted easily in th me the aquire and the and the predicament in which we %4 dy. captain stayed on deck, and the latter i Send Sueealyn Na hpard’ we wi eft,” saya he: “keep to your halled the coxswatn, who was the the keenest interest, and when ft had lef hand, mate Jt Under tho treos pal man aboard, done he patted me on th ead, with y There's where | killed m Mr. Hands," he watd, “here are "You're a good tad, Jin we won Th don't come down two of us witha brace of platola oa na youre all nn olove 6 now y're ali mantheaded on If vay 0 ' ant ve MWe you SURE Hus them mount for the fear of Bens of nny de trust In Hen Gunt-=Ben Gunn ho jamin Gunn, AHL and there's the Phoy Were 0 man to do it, Would you think it eetens cemetery he must have and after little consuttation one and likely, now, that your squiro would me “You see the mounds? f all tumbled down the fore companton, prove a l.beral-minded ono in case of come here and prayed, nows and thinking, no doubt to take uy on the followed, © cot omens | ai WHAT WOULD YOU 4 vi i ps rear, But when they saw [Redruth waiting for them in the sparred sal lery, they went about ship at onc anda head popped out again deck. , dog!” ered the captain And the head popped back again, and wo heard no more for the tine of thone six very faint hoarted seamen Hy this time, they came, wo had the jolly-b loaded as much as we dared, Joye and 1 got out through the atern port, and we made for shore again as fast as ofrs could take us. This second trip fairly aroused the watchers along shore, “Lillibullero’ was dropped again, and just before We lost sight of them behind the little point one of them whipped ashore and disappeared. [had half a mind to change my plan and destroy their boats, but I feared that Bilver an the others might be close at hand, and all might very well be lost b trying for too much. We had soon touched the land in the same place as before end ret to provision the blook-houre. All three made the first journey, heavily laden, and tomsed our stores over the pall ade. Then, leaving Joyce to guard them—one man, to be ure, but with half a doten muskets~Hynter and L returned to the jolly-bont and loaded curselves once more. So we proceed- ed, without pausing to take breath, til the whole cargo was bestowed, when the two servants took up their porition In the block-house, and with all my power, sculled back to the | Hispa | By this time the tide was beginning to ebb, and the ship was swinging |round ‘to her anchor, Votces we ‘heard faintly hatloing in the direce tion of the two igs; and though this [reassured us for Joyce and Hunter, |who were well to the enstward, it warned our purty to be off, | Redruth retreated from his place in | allery and dropped into the boat, we then brought round to the counter, to be handler for Capt, Jett, “Now, men, | me?" | There was no answer from the fore- castle, “ft's to you, Abraham Gray you I'm speakin: Still no reply. “Gray,” resumed Smollet, a louder, “fam leaving this ship, and 1 order you to follow your captain, 1 know You are a good man at bot tom, and £ dare may not one of the lot Of you's aw bad as he makes out, I have my wateh here in my hand; T give you thirty seoonds to join me tumbling things in as at said he, “do you hear It's to little here was a sudden acuffie, blows, 1 ou ham Gray with a knit side of and came running to the sound cheek tain, like a dog to the whistle, Vm with you, sir’? sald hi And tho next moment he and the captain vl we had dropped aboard of had shoved off and given The w away We were clear out of the ship, but not yet ash in our stockade. CHAPTER XVII. The Doctor's Narrative Jollyboat’s Last Trip. HIS last trip was quite dif- ferent from any of the others. In the first place, the little gallipot of a boat that we were in was gravely overloaded, Suddenly the captain spoke up. The gun!" said he. We had entirely forgotten the long nine; and there, to our horror, were the five rogues busy about her, get- ting off her Jacket, as they called the stout tarpaulin cover under which she sailed, Not only that, but it flawed Into my mind at t samo moment that the round shot and the powder for the gun had been left be id, and a ke with an axe iid put it all into the possession of the evil ones aboard. ‘Who's the best shot?” captain asked the Mr. Trelawney, out and away,” said I Mr. Trelawney, will you pleasa 5 ne_oft one of th sir? Handa, if pownibl ald the captain, ey had the gun, by this time, siewed around upon th el, and Hands, who was at the muzzle, with the rammer, was, in con the moat exposed weve ad no luck; for just as Trelawney fred, down he stooped, the bail whistling over him, and It Was one of the other four who fell The ery he gave was echoed, noton by his companions on board, but by a great nu 4 from the whore, a t direction 1 saw the trooping out from t ind tumbling into their places in the boats, “if T durst.” kad the captain, “I'd stop and pick off another man.” Ready!” ered the squire “Hold!” eried the eaptain, quick as an 0 And hie and Redruth bac Jwitha great heave that sent her 6 nm bodily under water. ® report nat the sama inet f time, This was ae st that Jin heard, the sound f aquire’a shot not having ached him. When the ball passed, not one of um precisely ow, Dut b fancy It must have been over our hoada, and that the w fit may bave contributed to our disaster, At any rate the boat sunk by the ate quite gently, in th feet of wa caving the iptain 1 f, facing each other, on jer three took complers lead ere and came up again, d nehed a bubbling 8) far there waa no great imem, N . 1 wa fy ed ate f f could. leaving behind as the sane NMED NE MEET OPEN NEL DI GLORIOUSLY BEAUTIFUL GIRL In the Springtime Forest and She SAID But What She Said Is Best Told in Next Week's Complete Novel in THE EVENING WORLD THE SPRING LADY BY MARY BRECHT PULVER ot quite like the other stories you've read. charm ang originality that will appeal to you. PLEASE DON’T MISS IT! CARR AMARAMA TR RATATAT RR MATRA RNR DO IF YOU MET A ? And Jotly-boat and a goo powder and provisions. nalf of all ous CHAPTER XVII. The Doctor's Narrative—End of the First Day's Fighting. EK made our best speed across the strip of wood that now divided ua from the stock- ade, and at every step we took the voices of the bue- caneers rang nearer. Forty paces farther wa came to the edge of the wood and saw the stockade In front of us, We struck the Inclosuro about the middie of the south aide, and, almost at tho sa tine, seven mutineers—Job Anderson, the boatewain at the head—appea-ed n full ery at the southwestern cor ‘hoy paused, aw if taken absck, and before they recovered, not only the squire and I, but Huater and Joyce from the block-houre, had time to fro. ‘The four shots came in rather & scattering volley, but they did the business; one of the enemy aetuall foll, and the rest, Without. hesitation, turned and plunged into the trees After reloading we walked down the outside of the palisade to #ee to t fallen enemy. He was stone dead shot through the hourt, We began to refoloe over our good success, when just at that moment @ pistol crack in the bush, a bali Whistled close past my ear and Tom Redruth stumbled and fell hix length on the ground, Bota the squire and 1 returned tho shot, but as we had Nothing to aim at, it ts probable we only wasted powde Non We re nd turned our poor ‘Tom, ‘Tho captain and Gray were already examining him, and f saw with hat ye that ail was over. “Tom,” said the squire, "a forgive me, won't you?" “Would that be respectful from me to you, squire answer, = “Howsoever, amen!" After a little while of silence sald @ prayer, “It's the custom, str,” he added, apologetically, And not jong after, without another word, he passed away, In the meantime the captain, whom I tad observed to be wonderfully swollen about the chest and pockets, had turned out a great many varigue stores—tho Lintish colors, a Bible, a Coll of stoutish rope, pen, ink, the log-book, and pounds of tobacco, He had found @ longish fir-tree lying felled and cleared in the inclosure, and, with the help of Hunter, he had t it up gt the corner of the lo; ouNe where the trunks crossed and made an angie. Then, climbing on the roof, he had with his own Fe id bent and run up the colors. don’t you take on, sir,” he said, Shaking the squire'’s hand. “All's well with Tom; no fear for a hand that's been shot down in his duty to captain and owner, It mayn't be good divinity, but it's a fact.” attention to y you like, eo be Just then, with a roar and a whistle, | Rae ie passed high above the of of the log house an heyeee un In the wood, slabs tee “O-ho!” said the Captain. “Blase away! You've little enough powde: Already, my Inds.” i at the mecond trial the alm was better and the ball descended inside the stockade, scattering a cloud of sand, but doing no further damaga ptain,” sald the squire, “the house is quite invisible from the shtp. It must be the flag they are aimt Sirens it not be wiser to take fe n “Strike my colors!” cried the cap- tain. “No, afr, not 1" is he captain sat down to hie log, and here the beginning of he ent ‘Alexander Smotletr, master; David Livesey, ship's doctor; Ab raham Gray, carpenters mate; John Trelawney, owner; John Hunter and Richard Joyce, own er's servants, landsmen—being that is left faithful of the shi company—with stores for ten days at short rations, came wahore this day and flew British colors on the log-house in Treas- ure Island, Thomas Redruth, owner's servant, landsman, shot by the mutin «; James Haw. king, eabin-be And at the same time I was won. ing over poor Jim Hawkins'’s A hail on the land aide. “Somebody hailing us," said Mun. ter, who Waa on guard “Doetor! equire! captain! fall Hunter, la that you?" cama the ales A Tran to the door in time ta seo Jim Hawkins, sate sound, ¢ climbing over the st de, | CHAPTER XIX. Narrative Resumed by Jim Hawkins—The Stockade. S$ 800n as Ben Gunn » colors he came to a halt, stopped me by the arm and mat down. Now,” said t your friends, sure eno says I, “and now nu t “You won't anx former?” } ‘Precious sight Lis own vusly sone of says you of his own; that’s t between nda t i 1 0, J Aud win to Silver, you 1 Hen Gu Wild wouldr And pire ne it Jia what 1 Wilders in the The TL oskirt i woods uw 1 had te or ¥ ward shih Wit on warm welcome the tuithful party a (To Be Continnead > | : | | |