Decatur Democrat, Volume 42, Number 50, Decatur, Adams County, 23 February 1899 — Page 6

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LtATT CuAftencE HenBEST revz. [Copyr ght, 1897, by J B. Dpp'ncott Co.] “I'd want at least six days in Manila to discharge, coal up and settle matters with Itamirez. The government may kick a little if they want the steamer for another trip, but I guess the old man car fix that; we’ll pay them a few thousand rather than have any hitch about it. Say IS days from now; how T would that do? Will you be able to manage it. and beat the padre for that length of time? - ’ “Y-e-s, that's fairly safe. No matter what he may discover, it will be impossible for him to headi you off in Manila this trip; and when we own the ship the passenger list will be as limited as the mail contract. Then, again, you':', have an entirely new crew, regularly shipped for cur own voyage. By the way. why did you speak of making Hong-Kong first?” "Because the Hong-Kong & Shanghai Hanking corporation will undoubtedly be able to handle the silver for us. They have a capital of ten millions, a reserve fund of four and a half, and Mexican dollars, coined even as far back as 1700, are the current medium of exchange in. China to-day. Anywhere else the discount on silver —especially old silver —would! be so heavy that we'd have to sell the stuff by weight; so we would get more for them on the Chinese coast than in any other locality.” “Guess you're right. I didn’t think of that. Now, hew about getting it on board without showing what the cargo really is?” “Well, let's see. Have you noticed whether any of the fishermen stay over night around Apra bay?" "Don't believe there's or.e. Even the Kanakas that Sebastiano brought down on the big proa walk over to town as soon as they've made fast for the night, and l those who belong in Agat sail away up to the neek of the peninsula, so they'll only have a mile to tramp.”

“That's what I thought. You've noticed the stone building and sheds belonging to the harbormaster, haven't you?—about 500 yards from the landing pier at Punta Piti?” “On the road to Agana? Yes, frequently.” “Well, have you also seen the big lot of copra, in bags, under another shed about half way between them and'the pier?” "I remember the bags, but I didn’t know what was in them; copra’s dried cocoanut meat, isn’t it. ready to have the oil tried out when it gets to civilization?” "That's right. There wasn't a full shipment of the stuff when we arrived, on the 4th, so I told De Garina that I'd take all he could get together next trip. It'll come dribbling along, two or three bags at a time, according to how the islanders happen to feel about working; and there isn’t a man in the western Pacific who would steal the stuff, or handle any more of it than he was actually obliged to —that is, among the native population. Where those bags are dumped, under that shed, there they stay until the steamer comes to ship them. 1 don't believe Sebastiano himself could induce a native to disturb theipt and the whites out here don't believe in manual labor at all.” “Oh! I begin to catch the idea. Pack t'ne treasure inside of them at night and let it lie in those innocent-looking copra bags until you come back, eh? By Jove, old chap, that beats my ghost-haunted fissure all hollow, tie’ll call that settled. I guess we’ve covered everything likely to come up before you get back. Xow, what day shall I look for you?” “This is Sunday, the 10th. I’ll get away from here by Tuesday morning at the latest—the 21st. Two weeks

from that would be May s—and5 —and four daysmore? You can look for the steamer off Orote Saturday morning. May 9. about sunrise. And be mighty careful you don’t let anyone suspect she's coming before the middle of July; not t ven Senorita Dorotea. By the way. what are you going to do about that young lady?” “For instance?” “Oh, shucks. Harry! don’t beat about the bush. If that girl continues to help vou as she has, and keeps her mouth shut, she's a trump. Are you going to sail away and leave her at the end of the world with merely a conventional promise to call if you ever happen to be in Spain when she's living there?” “No, I’m not, old one. M hen the Countess of Devon change owners, it is possible that Senorita Dorotea may have an interest in her. My mind has been pretty well occupied with this speculation of ours for the past two weeks, but —well— How's Gracia?” •'You’ll see for yourself when we go below for breakfast. She thinks a good deal of Senor Enriquito —tells me- all the time that I don't half appreciate his friendship for me; so you're welcome 1 be as brotherly or cousinly as you please with her. especially as she’s likely to sail with us on the Hong-Kong voyage.” “Really? Good! The girls ought to be very chummy together. But, I say, suppose anything should happen to me, or, through some unforeseen misfortune, I should lose the stuff? If you'd contracted to buy the ship, and support a wife in the bargain, you’d be in a good deal of a hole. After all. Dick, it’s a frightful big gamble. And I don't know that you're justified in taking chances.” “Oh. bosh! I'd like to know what chances I’ve taken, cr am likely to take, compared with yours. Ive got $20,000 in gold, right here on this table, to do with as I see fit; I could get married and skip with even that much, couldn't I? And I'm likely to sit up nights worrying about a partner who went under water for me in mid-ocean, bottled up in a civing suit, who tumbled off a submarine precipice and managed to get on top again, who's been prowling about with ghosts and skeletons, and who hit an island. 450 miles away, with a proa, as plumb as if he d had it fast to a cable; ain't I? Why, man, you've got more lives than a Kilkenny cat! I reckon I can stand the chances if you can.” “Well, we’ll do our level best and hope that everything'll come out all right. I'm not particularly interested in Yap, so I'll start back in an hour or two and get down to business.” "Not much you won’t. It was pretty good navigating to make the island as you did, running before the wind; but going back is another matter. You'd have to make a reach of 400 miles nor'-nor’-wes' before you could put about for Guajan, and you couldn't go 48 hours without sleep. Os course, you could get the sun and figure about where you were; but it might take a we< k. standing off and on: and we can't afford either the risk or the time. As it happens, there are two Pouynipete Spaniards aboard who want to reach Agana this voyage; but under the circumstances I'd run you up there regardless if cor.i '< r.fr.ces. 1 reckon that letters from Sebastir.no and De Garina will smooth over the irregularities of this trip, and when v.e own the Countess I can do as I please with her.” Here the conversation was drowned by- the whistle, as we signaled for a pilot off Tomil bay; and by six bells j we were anchored opposite Kul. inside | the reefs. The cura Juan was almost paralyzed when I shook hands with him. How my presence on the steamer was possible, when he had last seen me rr wing ashore at Apra. he simply could not understand; and when Diaz told him of my being picked up at sea. he crossed himself several times. That the natives sailed from one island to another, in the Carolines, he knew, but the trips were seldom long ones, and very rarely beyond sight of land. CHAPTER XIII. The next three days passed very pleasantly. The time had not yet arrived for explanations to either McPherson or Senorita Gracia; but we gave him 30 of the doubloons as an evidence of the progress we were making, and discussed various plans fcr the future wflh both, on the way back to Guajan. We were all very anxious that the padre—or, rather, his eminence the bishop—should have no opportunity to come aboard at Apra. So. as the two passengers had but little luggage, it was arranged that we should be dropped in the proa somewhere off Cocos island, the steamer then heading for Manila without further loss of time. This arrangement was carried out, and the people at Agana had no suspicion of the Countess’ visit until after we landed. The Pouynipetites, having been occupied with their own affairs, were not positive as to just when or how I had come aboard; so the impression got about that, having been blown out to sea, I had been picked up a long distance from land and conveyed to a safer neighborhood merely because the two strangers were going that way. Inquiring for Sebastian© that evening, the gobernador told me he was suffering from a severe attack of gastric fever, which seemed likely to keep him in bed for some time; so I paid him a visit of condolence; it was the least I could do. Then I took advantage of his indisposition to get the treasure above water while safe from interruption. First, I spent a couple of nights in removing the silver, already secured, from Tarofofo and stowing it away in the copra bags at Apra. Then I made regular trips every second day to the reef, returning with a long reach to the north-northwest which brought me into Apra bay about midnight, and working at the stowage until after three. This, with staying under water at the wreck, was pretty exhausting work, and but for the rest on the odd

days I couldn't have kept it up. To ( have slept all day at the gobernador f : house would have aroused, comment ■ very shortly, so I spent the time upon < the'water with Dorotea. napping in the bottom of the proa, while- she fished and kept watch, as soon as we were well awav from land. Sebastiano's illness was the thicKest streak of all my luck. I was beginning She fished and kept watch. to feel careless because of our interrupted good fortune, when, returning from the last trip but one. a shadowy proa followed me into the bay. 1 he. 1 , off toward the Agat read until two figures landed from her and walked into the copra shed; then I steered out to sea as fast as the wind would take me. Before rounding Punta Orote 1 thought of and discarded a dozen different plans. I had taken great pains to stow the treasure in the very center of the bags, so there was nothing but innocent copra for a thickness of several rows around and above it; and I knew if the strangers examined each bag as they went along they would scarcely reach the stuff before morning. It then occurred to me that Br er Miguel's ghost wasn t earning sail as guardian of the empty fissure Tarofofo, and might be employed to advantage nearer heme; so 1 sailed around after him as fast as possible. I had reached Apra a little early that night, so had time to return before daybreak; and, running ashore near the watering place, about three-quar-ters of a mile from the shed. 1 hurried toward it. holding my apparition before me. The intruders had evidently investigated until the) were tired out, and were sound asleep on top of the pile of bags. This was just the opportunity 1 wanted. Propping the figure up under the roof, about ten feet from them. 1 crawled out of sight on the opposite side and turned the ray from my lantern upon it. Then I dropped a piece of copra upon the stomach of the man nearest me. He was sleeping se> soundly that 1 had to try a heavier piece, which startled him with a grunt of surprise and pain. In about three second's his eye fell upon that faintly illuminated wax figure, and. with a howl of terror that made my own nerves jump, he ran for his boat as if he were trying to break a record. His companion wasn't more than five seconds after him. and the two fought like madmen in their attempt to shove off and get away. To make the* effect permanent, i grabbed my dummy, and, holding the lantern so that its rays would be reflected back upon it. glided swiftly after them. The horror of the thing had reduced their cries to inarticulate gasps, and they woriced like demons to g&t out where the wind would till their sail; so. as it was low tide. I wailed after them, holding Br’er Miguel high enough to give him the appearance of walking upon the water. 1 never knew wl.o the men were, but the story was all over town before noon: and for more than a week the entire native population was afraid to stir after dark. When I finally waded back to shore, it was getting gray behind Tiniquio. so 1 lost no time in stowing my friend under several layers of copra bags, where he was likely to be undisturbed, but where I could get him in short order if his services should be required again. Then, hurrying back to my proa, 1 dumped the cargo of specie overboard in four feet of water, where it could easily- be found whenever there should be an opportunity for secreting it.

This affair so thoroughly awakened me to the danger of delay that I removed all the remaining treasure from the wreek in one big load, next trip. Standing for the last time in the lazaretto of Nuestra Senora de Sevilla, four fathoms under the Pacific. I felt as though I were saying good-by to an old friend; for I shall probably never see her again. There was something wonderful in the way she had guarded those millions for me all the years since they first disappeared under water. and I speculated a little as to whether strict honesty wouldn't require my searching for heirs of the original owners. This didn't trouble me very long, however. The risks Halstead and 1 had undergone, and the way we had worked the problem out to a successful result, seemed to giveus a better claim upon the money than anyone else—even our fat and scheming friend Sebastiano. So the days slipped along through April into May, while I rested and learned what it was to have a beautiful woman's personality creep into the deepest corners of my heart. Then one morning there came a. cloud which threatened disaster to all our hopes: and but for Dorotea's position and ready wit this narrative would be merely one of fruitless adventure. A schooner came sailing into Apra,—one of the island schooners which trade in cocoanuts, beche-de-mer. and other products—in search of water, poultry, and any cargo there might happen to be in the place. Noticing the bags of copra under the shed, her captain offered the harbor master a higher rate than that which ch ained at. Manila, and was told that, as the gobernador would undoubtedly be glad to sell at such a price, he might send ashore for it whenever he pleased. We were just

, „ c■. i i fl nd saw >■ ■ ’ coming in from > * ■ schooner's men loadingr sum | bags into a jolly-boat •• y[ v ! ?or DorXa lain her hand upon j PIV arm and exclaimed: ... ’ ‘‘Madre de Dios, querido, what is It. que tiene t•? T) are “\'o tengonada: but lock. - . taking way the copra in that er! The treasure! n “-'hev in the bags’. 1 er dreamed they would be disturbed unttl HawA, fnr thCTV Oh, £00(1 LGrCI . ’nn-the whole thing away ? ‘ "Steer inside Apapa and land at the pier. I will stop it e ere qu.t ’ t ■ "But how? What can you say that . will not arouse suspicion that t something more valuable in th g- • "I cannot tell until I ask of the bar , bor master why he does P.^ ! then I will think of something. Doe. el Capitan Halstead know? I "Os course he does, and expects to . take them, next trip. .■Then he would surely give more than other men for them'. “Yes. res. So will I. Only keep them , where thev are until he comes. 1 have . it! Say that I spoke to you of a new i chemical discovery which Halstead, told me about-one which increases the value of copra, ami which mai.e him think of buying this lot on specu-1 tat ion. The treasure will need ehem- j icals to get the corrosion off, anywav.” "Ai. that will do. But you must not so alarmed appear. Enriquito. Do you light one of your eigarros. Smoke as ' if it did make no difference to you. |

It IT 1111 l mime u..... ..... _ . j Leave the rest to me. Now —vivo—take the frown from your forehead. ( cme. there is el official—Senor Legaspe! Senor Legaspe, why do les hombres remove the copra? “El capitano gives two dollars more i than the Manila rate, senorita. l| knew el gobernador would accept such j an offer, so I have given him perrnis-1 sion to load.” “You have made a mistake, senor; | the gobernador will be greatly dis-: pleased. The price of popra has risen | very much, and the stranger capitano i thinks we have not heard of it. Stop them instantly. I should regret to, see you in trouble. Senor Legaspe." “A thousand apologies, senorita; it i shall be as you say. I knew nothing of j the rise ir. values, and I but thought el gobernador would be pleased to sell. Hola, hombres! The copra is not for sale. Take those bags out of your boat and bring them back.” The sailors looked at one another and then grumblingly began to do as they were told. The schooner’s captain must have been watching through his glass, for inside of five minutes he dropped another boat into the water and came ashore as fast as his men could row. Hailing the harbor-master in bad Spanish when he was within earshot,he asked what ’he devil was the ■ « the stuff out of the jolly-boat. Legaspe was smarting a little under the sharp trick he thought the cap’air. had played upon him. and was very short in his reply that "the gobernador would not sell, and that was all there

about it.’ "Who says he won't?” shouted the captain. "I've had. my glass on the shore for half an hour, and no one has spoken to you but this yellow-faced chap and the girl yonder. He ain't the I gobernador, I'll take my oath: and as I fcr the g'rl. I don't allow no damned I native women to interfere in my business." It took all the self-control I had to keep from knocking the man down His cool appropriation of our millions was a serious enough offense, without the gratuitous insult to the girl 1 intended to marry. I stepped in front of the fellow and looked him over. Then I said: “This lady. sir. is Senorita de Garma. only daughter of his excellency. Col. De Garma. gobernadcr of the Ladrones. I supposed from your colors that you were a German, but I'm ashamed to see that you came from my own country. lon will doubtless see fit to apologize to the lady at once.” The man's cold, fishy eyes met mine for a second or two before he spoke; he seemed to be sizing me up. Finally I he drawled out: “Waal. perhaps I war a leetie hasty. 1 I dunno who you mought be, stranger. I but yer kin tell thurleddy I didn't mean j no offense; wimmin's a good deal alike out here'n thur islands, an' I didn't, jedge her right, that's all. But about that than coppera; I want a cargo of it. an' I m willin' ter pay er fa'r price. T‘il givethe gobernador four dollars more'n thur Manila rate, an’ he kin pocket thur difference; but I don't cal'late ter leave 1 Apra without it.” 1 m afraid you’ll have io. I happen i to know the stuff is worth a good deal i more than the price you name; and, rather than let you have it, I'll buy it myself on speculation.” "Oh. ye will! What's ter pun ent my layin down my money here on thur sand an' tellin’ my men ter put it ■ board? I reckon you an' that dago ain’t goin’ ter stop me.” “That's where you make another mistake. Senor Legaspe sent for the gobernador an hour ago. and he'll be here with the officers of his staff very shortly. In the meantime, if you or your men lay a finger on those bags, I’ll i shoot you without a second's warning.' j (I was playing for millions, and I meant ' what I said.) "More than that, as you have grossly insulted the senorita. I’ll kill you if you stay another five minI utes on shore.” I thought the man would have a fit i I of apoplexy: even his vast store of deepj sea profanity failed him for the mo- I ' ment. His crew were Germans, but enough of them understood English to keep the run of what was goingon. and I I could see thet were rather enjoying , the situation; evidently the skipper was j a thorough brute at sea. He was j speechless with rage; but. as I had the

T—"of him. there was I ;i uv...it"e- _ j,| s schooner and to do but pull Off to stai . ( , ir „ out >ail . nrou when the carromata jolted 1 I "’" the colonel and his two heuUP " s Dorotea saw that Legaspe i tenants. i’o • _ ing f O r allowing i her father ,I,'n and shrewdly put an entire-| hv'XffXt light upon thereby say- :• in English, for my benefit. : ' Ennque mnM thank for protecting me at the ™ k of his life. I’nbruto capitano did n t from la goleta and did order his I n o take awav the copra, telling i ' n s', nor lepaspe that he would pay 1 Lv Hat he could not have it. he inme. Then the Senor Enrique ,-,'h ~i ve him five minutes to go away d him, though the bruto i - P . ivt seven men from his go.eta. I Well, that settled the stranger, and the biggest man on the is* , tTnX The gobernador's right arm went over mv shoulder, and his left I!lid er mv right, in a twinkling; then, after three pats on the small of my I back and a moment or two of ecstatic Mlenee he reversed the arms, left over ! mv right shoulder, etc., three more . i pats more silence, kisses on both my ' P heeks . then an endless string of extravagant protestations concerning his life-long obligation to me. I had seen the thing done many times before among people of the Latin races, but being kissed bv a man was, to say the least, a novelty. Even Legaspe ex- ! pressed himself in exaggerated terms | I concerning the way in which I had called the captain's hand: and. as no ' mention was made of his supposed mistake, he was our very humble serv-

ant. Lest other dangers of a similar nature should threaten it. however, Dorotea. mentioned to her father Halstead*s assumed intention of buying , the copra at a high figure, on speculation. and suggested the advisability of | placing a guard over it at night. The . colonel's cupiiiitv was aroused, and the | n;:ard was set; but. owing to Br’er Miguel's ghostly influence, the most he could make his men do was to patrol the shore each night in a proa. As it was likely to be a three-mouths' ji b. 11.1 si'liii' I’S didn't relish this; but they had to obey orders. , It was the 6th of May when we came ! so near losing the copra. On the third ' morning after Halstead was to appear, if everything had gone right with him: and as the time approached I became strangely apprehensive —so much so that I found it difficult to maintain an air of careless ease. In fact, had it not been for Dorotea. I might have betrayed my real interest in Guajan a | dozen times. But with each day that passed it became more evident that I had no rival in her heart. Sometimes she would speak with dread of Halstead's return, and breathlessly ask me to promise that I would -urely visit them in Granada the following spring. Still. July was yet so far away that my departure seemed only a dim pos- I sibility to her —a something which she must not even think about. I wondered a little what she would say when she knew, and how the colonel was going to feel. ’.TO Bn CONTINt-ED.]

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