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Alle my menne being in ye ende dead ye na- tives came over ye seas in their grate canoos and tooke me. Lheing like_ a madde manne. Godde mercifullie pre serving my life. I- escaped frome themm and at last am comme safe intoe mine owne sweet lande of Eng- lande once more. Toe find ye mouths of ye tresor cave, take a bearing alonge ye southe of ye three Goddes on ye Altar of Skulles on ye middel hille of ye ilande. Where ye line strykes ye knicke in ye walle with ye bigge pamme tree bee three hoals Climbe ye stones, enter ye center one. Yt is there. Lette him that wille seek and finde." CHAPTER IV. Wherein We Decide to Go Voyaging. “ E'l"S put the two pieces to- gother and take them to the light and see if we cannot decipher it." said 1. "Mistress Wilberforce.” I continued. “I have the sailor’s premonition that we are on the track of something that will greatly better your fortunes." And I read: When I had finished reading we both stopped and stared. There was much in it. of course. that we could not possibly understand. We could only comprehend it fully if we were lucky enough to stand beside the “Stone Gods" on the island itself. Still the general purport was sutficiently clear. Sir Philip Wilberforce had evidently concealed a very considerable treas- “Who can tell?" I answered. ”The island may have remained‘nnvisited since S'u‘ Philip’s day.” “But would treasure last so long?” “Stored in a cave gold and silver ,would last forever. Everything else would have rotted away probably.” “How could we get there?” she asked. “If xou had a ship.” said I. “well at all ”Think you." my Iittie mistress be- gan at last, her pale face flushing for the first time. her bosum n93 vmg quick- ly. “that the treasure may still be. there?” ~ ' ' me there If We could find it our for- tunes would be made. or hers. rather, I, )I' YE LONG. ‘5’ 1°30 W Other Half of the Map of the Island. swear I never thought or myself By CYRUS TOWNSEND BRADY a Being a True Account of Certain Strange and Wonderful Adven- tmes of Master Joun Hampdon, Seaman, and Minx-ens Lucy Wixbcrforce. Gendcwoman, l.) the Great South Seas. § When we broached the subject to Master Fit-min the next day at his .bouse, he would not hear of it. [lo examined Lhe purvinmrnt with intern-st. ‘ but pcmhpmmed the tale hcmuw. for~ sooth. it had no legal hacking and was couched in the plwuwolngy of tho 50:1 rather than in the dry verbiugu of Hm ' law. He pointed out that he Inn! on!) succeeded in saving this inst {BMW of ‘ my lady’s fortune bet-nose he lmd skill- : fully (‘onr‘ealed its exiswm-e from Sir . Geoffrey. He asked pertinently wlm' would nap-pen to her when all was - gone and she had found no treasure. tho very existence of which he 'zgt'fwted to di‘sbelieve. A very hard headed. prm-tivnl person was Master Fioklin. I had stern iclmm of duty. . too. and Master Hc-klln's good sense ever amwaWd to me. Yet when did were good sense ewr appeal ;to a woman against hm: wish? MY {lady had the‘gambling instinvt. tooâ€"l 'wonder she did not have it.strunger.. . since- ‘twas in. her. bloomâ€"and "she ‘ would rain challenge “mane. “I must go and get rmdy to go to Master Ficklin's in the tonn." slw said softly. “You know the house." I nodded. “Come to me there tumorrow and we will talk further about the pruj‘ commanded and founded and manneo you could reach the spot without diifi- culty.” “How muoh would it cost Well. I quivkly and roughly esti- mated in my mind the necessary out- lay. Surh a vessel as she would re- quire might be bought for perhaps £2,500 or £3JIUU Provisioning and out- fitting. together with the pay of the 0f- ficers and the crew. would require per- haps £1,500 or {WHO more. or a total between five and six thousand pounds And she had but two! I was about to tell her the prohibitive truth when the Solution of the problem suddenly came to me. In one way or another 1 had been a fortunate voyager. and I had saved up or earned by trading and one or two adventures in which 1 had taken part something over £4,000. which was safely lodged to- my credit in a London bank. 9" “If you were in my position. Mas- ter Hampdon. What would. you do?” “I am a man." I answered. “ac- customed to shift for myself. I might take a risk which 1 would not advise you to essay.” “1 must shift-for myself. too.” she said, her eyes sparkling. The God- dess Chance. which had ruined her father, was evidently jogging her el- bow. “lndeed, 1 shall take the chance." she persisted. ‘ Well. I was arguing against my wishes from a sense of duty. so I at last gave way. After all. the treasure might be there. If so. it was hers. and it would be a shame not to get it, The pulse of adventure leaped in my veins. “So be it." 1 said. “Will you help me to make my ar- rangements? You are accustomed to the sea , and"- “1 should think,” I said slowly. “that £2,000 would be ample to cover every thing." “Yes,” said 1. and then I added in duty bound. “But you Surely would not be so foolish. Mistress Wilberforce. as to risk your all in this wild goose chase?” “Not such life as Lcrave. _ It I cannot have enough for my desires I would be worse off had 1 nothing.” “I will do more than that." said 1. “With your gracious permission 1 will go with y.’ou “To the island?" “To the end of the world." I replied. Whereat she stared at me a moment. then looked away. “Ab.” she said. “exactly the sum that Master Fivklin said. was left of my mother's fortune.” “But you could easilv live on £2.00( for a long while." I urged. against my wish, for I was keen to go a treasure hunting with her for a shipmate. She extended her hand to me and I tried to kiss it like a gentleman. I made. no doubt. a blundering effort. but at least it was that of an honest man. The end or it was she made over her £1000 to me without requiring me to hu JVould rain 3.1!“! 10W upon gand which would hive been embimnâ€" sing indeed for me. for my head would .ha’ve been my own capital which I was going to'emloark In the enterprlse ln secret. I had sou-d up that money with ' no one knows. what: foolish dreams. l reamed those dreams would come to naught. I had no one dependâ€" ent upon me.- Brother or sister I never enjoyed. and father and mother were both dead. What need had I for money? Let her have it whose need I was great and whose desire was great- er. I might have bargained for a share of the treasure did we find any. but i scorned to do it. I would give all and expect nOtbi'ng for it. At any rate. not being in any hurry. although I was frantic-ally urged by my lady. Whu round scarcely possess her soul in patiew'e before she began her treasure hunting. 1 quked about a guod deal in olgder to get just what I wanted. Finally fmm a merchant of Plymouth 1 purvhased a stout little ship of three hundred and tilty tuns burden walled the Rose of Dexon, which had been engaged in the West Indian and the American colonial trade. It was my first design to have gone as master of her myself. and my lady would fain have had it so, but after reflectiOn I decided it were better to have a much older man than i to com- mand so long as she went as a pas- senger. and so 1 engaged a worthy seaman. one Samuel Matthews. old enough to be my father. with whom I had often sailed; in fact, the man under whom i made my first cruise. I did engage myself as mate. however, and I even tried in vain to induce Master Ficklin and his sister to go with us. It seemed proper in venturing among islands filled according to common re- port with savage peoples to provide for fighting. Therefore. after consulting with Captain Matthews. whom I fully acquainted with the entire project in all its details.‘ l shipped a crew of thirty men and I provided in the equip- ment plenty of muskets. pistols and cutlasses, with the necessary powder and ball. and in addition a small brass cannon which I mounted on the fore- castle. Nor did our cargo lack means for friendly trading and barter should such be found,practicahle. Naturally the unusualness or these preparations attracted attention, and Captain Matthews and I were over- whelmed with applications from ad- venturous men who desired to- make the voyage. surmising that it was after treasure of some sort. I left the work of engaging the crew to Captain Matthews. He had as boat- swain a seaman named Pimball, in whom he placed great confidence. He was a villainous looking man with a white scar running from his left eye across his cheek. caused by a cut he had ‘received in some fight. and the line of white showing against the bronzed. weather beaten cheek he sported did not improve his appear- ance. But that he was a prime sea- man was evident. Captain Matthews seemed to have great confidence in him. To anticipate. when we boarded the ship I liked the crew not much better than the boatswain. .1 will say this for them, however. that a smarter, quicker set of seamen never hauled on brace or laid on yardarm.' It was not their skill or strength or courage that I did not like. but they were not the kind of men I would havesought for a ship of my'own. and the presence of my lady and her maid. a worthy woman. a long time servant at the castle. who had elected to follow her fortunes. made me timid. yet I was not unusually ap- prehensive. 1 had a sublime confi- dence in my own ability to deal with any man or any group of men. I did nut stint the outfitting of the Ship. and when I finished. having left nothing out that either my own or Captain Matthews' experienl'e or im- agination would suggest. there was left of our joint funds enough to pay the wages of the ()llil't’l's and of the men (but and hack and no more that is. allmxing, a year for the round my. age. The lines of the Rose of Deum were unusually good She had a repu- tation for being: a speedy boat. and that was more time than enough. it 'as my purpose to go around the world with her rather than retrare our course about Cape Horn after we reaehed the island if \\e exer rem hed it. so we staked everything “e had on the future. if my lady had had the least knowledge ol‘ the value of ships *‘v‘ she would have seen how HE tle was; her £2,000 had gone. but 8110. as as gl‘lileless as any other wunmu' nu that; subjevt. and Maslm' Firklin was nut much better. I liml to them Lm‘h WIN: a good gnu-e um! with :m wmy L‘UD- noimwe. It was fur IH‘I' sulw. 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