Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 157, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1919 — “READING THE FUTURE." [ARTICLE]

“READING THE FUTURE."

Synopsis—The man who tells this story—call him the hero, for short—is visiting his friend. John Saunders. British official in Nassau, Bahama Islands. Charles Webster, a local merchant, completes the trio of friends. Conversation turning upon burled treasure, Saunders produces a written document purporting to be the death-bed statement of Henry P. Tobias, a successful pirate, made by him in 1869. It gives two spots where two millions and a half of treasure were buried by him and his companions. The conversation of the three friends is overheard by a pockmarked stranger. The document disappears. Saunders, however, has a copy. The hero, determined to seek the buried treasure, charters the auxiliary’ schooner Maggie Darling. The pock-marked . man Is taken on as a passenger for Spanish Wells. Negro Tom catches knd cures a “sucking fish" as a mascot for the hero; it has the virtue of keeping off the ghost of the pirate, who always guards pirate treasure. .On the voyage somebody empties the gasoline tank and the hero starts things. He and the passenger clash. He lands the passenger. Who leaves n manifesto bearing the stghaiure. 'Henry P. Tobias, Jr” With a new crew, the Maggie Darling sails and is passed by another schooner, the Susan B. The hero lands on Dtead Men’s Shoes. The “sucking fish" proves a mascot indeed and carries the hero through a fight, which is followed by several funerals. He searches for buried treasure and Old Tom falls into a pirates’ cave.