Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 164, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1919 — “JUST A GIRL!" [ARTICLE]

“JUST A GIRL!"

Synopsis— The man who tells thia story—call him the hero, for short— Is visiting- his friend, John Saunders' British official In Nassau. Bahama islands. Charles Webster, & loCai merchant, completes the trio of friends. 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 pock-marked stranger. The document disappears. Saunders, however, has a copy. The hero, determined to seek the buried treasure, charters a schooner. The pockmarked man is taken on as a passenger. On the voyage somebody empties the gasoline tank. The hero and the passenger clash, the passenger leaving a manifesto bearing the signature, “Henry P. Tobias'. Jr.” The hero lands on Dead Men’s Shores. There is a fight, which is followed by several funerals. The hero finds a cave containing the skeletons of two pirates and a massi ve^hest—empty save fo’r a few pieces of eight sca'ttered on the bottom. Tl)e 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 sail for Short Shrift island. As the Flamingo leaves the wharf a young fellow, “Jack Harkaway,” jumps aboard and is allowed to remain. Jack proves an Interesting and mysterious passenger. The adventurers hunt ducks on Andros island, with an eye out for Tobias.