Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 159, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1919 — “WAIT A MINUTE!" [ARTICLE]

“WAIT A MINUTE!"

Synopsis—The man who tell 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 1859. 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 auxi 1 lary schooner Maggie^,Darling. The pock-marked man is taken on as a passenger for Spanish Wells. Negro Tom catches and cures a. "sucking fish” as a mascot for the hero; It has the virtue of keeping off the ghost 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 a manifesto bearing the signature, "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 Dead 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. The cave contains the skeletons of two pirates and a massive chest—empty save for a few piece of eight scattered on the bottom. The hero returns to Nassau and by good luck learns the location of Short Shrift island. Webster buys the .yawl Flamingo, and he and the hero decide to search Short Shrift Island for the treasure.