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tl f-A^ 1* it *4- $ -5^ *+r* *v 1 4 & s. x* •t v.« if** •t 3HW W* .** Wo u, BEING THE AUTHENTIC NARRATIVE OF TREASURE DISCOVERED IN THE BAHAM, ISLANDS IN THE YEAR 190a—W GIVEN TO THE PUBUC Then Calypso came In to Join my audience, having, meanwhile, taken the opportunity of twining a scarlet hibiscus among her luxuriant dark curls. I should certainly have told the story better without her, yet I was glad—how glad!—to have her seat ed there, an attentive presence In a simple gown, white as the sea foam— from which, there was no further doubt in my mind, she had magically, sprung. I gave them the whole story, much as I had told it in John Saunders* snuggery—John P. Tobias, Jr. dear old Tom and his sucking fish, his ghosts, sharks, skeletons, and all and when I had finished, I found that the interest of my story was once more chiefly centered in my pock-marked friend of "the wonderful works of flod." "I should'like to meet your pock marked friend," said King Alclnous, '"and Thave a notion that, with you as bait, I shall not long be denied the pleasure." "I am Inclined to think that I have seen him already," said Calypso, using her honey-golden voice for the base purpose of mentioning him. "Impossible!" I cried "he is long since safe In Nassau jail. "Oh, not lately," she answered to our interrogative surprise, and giving a swift embarrassed look at her fa ther, which I at once connected with the secret of the doubloons. "Seriously, Calypso?" asked her fa ther, with a certain stem affection, as thinking of her safety. "On one of your errands to town?" And then, turning to me, he said: "Sir Ulysses, you have spoken well, and your speech has been that free, open-hearted speech that wins its way alike among the Hyperboreans that dwell in frozen twilight near the northern star, and those dwarfed and swarthy intelligences that blacken in the fierce sunlight of that fearful axle we call the equator. Therefore, I will make return to you of speech no less frmik and true..." He took a puff at his cigar, and then continued: "I, should not risk this confession, but that It Is easy to see that you be long to ttie race of Eternal Children, to which, you may have realized, my daughter and I also belong. This ad venture of yours after burled treasure has not seriously been for the dou bloons arid pieces of eight, the million dollars, and the million and a half dol lars themselves, but for the fun of going after them, sailing the unknown seas, coral islands, and all that sort of blessed moonshine. Well, Calypso and I are Just like that, and I am going to tell you something exciting—we too have our buried treasure, it is noth lhg like so magnificent in amount as yours, er your Henry P. Tobias'—and where it is at this particular moment I know as little as yourself. In fact It Is Calypso's secret.. ." I looked across at Calypso, but her eyefa were far beyond capture, In un plummetedseas. "I will show you presently where I found It, among the' rocks near by— now a haunt of wild bees. "Can you ever forget that passage In the Georglcs? It makes the honey taste sweeter to me every-time I taste It. We must have some of it for din ner, by the way, Calypsp." I could not help laughing, and so, for a moment, breaking up the story. The dear fellow! Was there any busi ness of human importance from Which lie could not be diverted by a quotation from Homer or Virgil or Shakespeare? But he was soon In the saddle again. "Well," he resumed, "one day, some seven years ago, in a little cave below tbie orange trees, grubbing about as I am fond of doing, I came upon a beau tiful old box of beaten copper, sunk deep among the roots of a fig tree. It was strong, but it seemed too dainty for a plrate-^some great lady's jewel box more likely—Calypso shall show It to uspresently. On opening it—what do you think? It spilled over with golden doubloons—among which were submerged some fine jewels, such as this tie ting you see me wearing. Ac tually, it was no great treasure, at a monetary calculation—certainly no for tune—but from our romantic point of view, as belonging to the race of Eter nal Children. It was El Dorado, Alad din's lamp, the-mines' of .Peru, the U'n .k.*^Tf I. copw&rer ocmumy/HGrx CHAPTER III—Continued —11— "By the way, dear king," raid, as suming a casual manner, "do yon bap pen to have a sonf "No J" he answered, "Calypso la my only child." "Very stranger I said, "we met a -whimsical lad in our travels whom I "would have sworn was her brother." "That's odd!" said the "king" lmper turbably, "but no! I have no son and he seemed to say It with a certain sadness. whole sunken Spanish Main, glimmer ing fifty fathoms deep In mother-of pearl and the moon. It was the very Secret Rose of Romance and, also, mark you, it was some money—oh, perhaps, all told, it might be some five thousand guineas, or—what would you say ?—twenty-jive odd thousand dol lars Calypso knows better than I, and she, as I said, alone knows where It is now hid, and hoW much of it now re mains." He paused to relight his cigar, while Calypso and I— Well, he began again: "Now my daughter and I," and he paused to look at her fondly, "though of the race of Eternal Children, are not without some of the innocent wis dom which Holy Writ countenances as the self-protection of the Innocent— Calypso, I may say, Is particularly en dowed with tnis quality, needing it as she does especially for the guardian ship for her foolish talkative old fa ther, who, by the way, is almost at the end of his tale. So, when this old chest flashed its bewildering dazzle upon us, we, being poor folk, were not more dazzled than afraid. For—like the poor man in the fable—such good for tune was all too likely to be our un doing, should it come to the ears of the -great, or the indigent criminal. The 'great' in our thought was, I am ashamed to say, the sacred British treasury, by an ancient law of which, forty per cent of all 'treasurie-trove' belongs to his majesty the king. The 'Indigent criminal' was represented by —well, our colored (and not so very much colored) neighbors. Of course .we ought to have sent the whole treas ure to your friend, John Saunders of his Britannic majesty's government at Nassau, but— Well, de didn't Some day, perhaps, you will put in a word for us with him, as. you drink his old port, ln'-the snuggery. Meanwhile, we had an idea, Calypso and I—" He paused—for Calypso had invol untarily made a gesture, as though pleadlng'to be spared the whole reve lation—and then With a smile, contin ued "We determined to hide away our little hoard where it would be safe from our neighbors, and dispose of it according to our needs with a certain tradesman in the, town whom we thought we could trust—a tradesman, wh«y, by the way, quite naturally levies a little tax upon us for his security. No blame to him! I have lived far too long to be hard on human nature." "John Sweeney?" I asked, looking over at Calypso with eyes that dared at last to smile. "The very same, my.Lord Ulysses," answered my friend. And so I came to understand that Mr. Sweeney's reluctance in selling me that doubloon was not so sinister as it I Came Upon a Beautiful Old Baft of Beaten Copper. had, at the moment, appeared that it had in fact come of a loyalty which was already for me the most precious of loyalties. "Then," said I, "as a fitting conclu sion to the confidence you have re posed In me, my Lord Alclnous, if Miss Calypso would have the kindness to let us have a sight of that chest of beaten copper of which you spoke, I would like to restore this, that was once a part of its contents, wherever the rest of them" (and I confess that I paused a moment) "may be in hiding." And I took from my pocket the sa cred doubloon that I had bought from John Sweeney—may Heaven have mercy •upon his soul!—for sixteen dol Isrs and seventy-five cents, on that Im mortal evening. •,'' CHAPTER IV. *, In Which the "Kins" Dreams a Dream —and Tells Us About It. The afternoon, under the spell of its various magic, had been passing all too swiftly, and at length I grew reluctant ly aware that it was time for me to go. King Alclnous raised his hand with a gesture that could not well be denied. That led me—his invitation being ac cepted without further parley—to mention the idea I had conceived as I came along, of exploring those curious old ruined buildings. "Tomorrow," he announced, "tomor row we shall begin—there is not a mo ment to lose. We will send Samson with a message to your captain—there Is no need for you to go yourself time is too precious—and in a week, who knows but that Monte Crlsto shall seem like a pauper and a penny gaff in comparison with the fantasies of our fearful wealth. So, for that evening, all was laugh ingly decided. In a week's time, it was agreed, we should have difficulty in recognizing each other. We should be so disguised In cloth of gold, and so blinding to look upon with rings and ropes of pearls. When we met at breakfast next morning, "glad to see one another again as few people are at breakfast, It was evident that, as far as the "king" was concerned, our dream had lost nothing In the night watches. On the contrary, its wings had grown to an amazing span and iridescence. Calypso, it transpired, had certain household matters—of which the "klhg" of course was ever divinely ob livious—that would take her on on errand into the town. Those disposed of, we two eternal children were at liberty to be as foolish as we pleased. The "king" bowed his uncrowned head, as kings, from time Immemorial have bowed their diadems before the 'quiet command of the domesticities and It was arranged that I should be Calypso's escort on her errand. So we set forth in the freshness of the morning, and the woods that had been so black and bewildering at my coming opened before us in easy paths, and all that tropical squalor that had been foul with sweat and in serts seemed strangely vernal to me, so that I could hardly believe that I had trodden that way before. And for our companion all the way along—or, at least for my other companion—was the Wonder of the World, the beauti ful strangeness of living, and that mar vel of a man's days upon the earth which lies in not knowing what a day shall bring forth, if only we have a little patience with Time—Time, with those gold keys at his girdle, ready, at any turn of the ways, to unlock the hidden treasure that Is to be the mean ing of our lives. How should I try to express what it was to walk by her side, knowing, all that we both knew?—rknowlng, or gid dily believing that I knew, how her heart,, with every breath she took, vi brated like a living flower, with waves of color, changing from moment' to moment like a happy, trembling dawn. To know—yet not to say! Yes 1 we were both at that divine moment 'Which hangs like a dewdrop in the morning win—ah! all too ready to fall. Oh I' L«ep it poised, In that miraculous bal ance, 'twixt time and eternity—for this crystal made of light and dew is the meaning of the life of and woman upon the earth. As we came to the borders of the wood near, the edge of the little town we called a counsel of two. As the out come of it we concluded that, having In mind the "king's" ambitious plans for our cloth-of-gold future, and for other obvious reasons, it was better that she wfent into the town alone— I to await her in the shadow of the mahogany tree. As she turned to leave me she drew up "from her bosom a little bag that hung by a silver chain, and opening it drew out, with a laugh—a golden doubloon! I sprang toward her hut she was too quick for me, and laughingly van ished through an opening In the trees. I was not to kiss her that day. Calypso was so long coming back that I began to grow anxious—was, in deed, on the point of going down into the town in search of her, when she suddenly appeared, rather out of breath and evidently a little excited— as though, ijLfact, she ^ad been run ning away from something. She caught me by the arm with a laugh. •'Do you want to see your friend Tobias?" she said. "Tobias? impossible!" •'Come here," and she led me a yard or two back the way she had come, and then looked through the trees. "Gone she said, "but he was there a minute or two ago—or at least some one that la his photograph—and of course he's there yet, hidden In the brush, and probably got his eyes on us all the time. Did you see that seven-year apple tree move?" "His favorite tree," I laughed. "Hardly strong enough to hang him on, though." And I realized that she was Kln^ Alclnous* daughter. 'We. crouched lower for a moment or two but the seven-year apple tree dld'nt move again, and we agreed that there was no use in waiting for Tobias to- show his hand. "But what made you think it was Tobias?" I asked, "and how did it all happen?" "I could hardly fall to recognize him from your flattering jdescriptlon," she answered, "and indeed it all happened rather like another experience of mine. I had gone into Sweeney's store—you remember ?—and was just paying my bllL" mmtm V- 4. SIOUX COUNTY PIONEER "In the usual coinage?" I venture She gave me a long, whimsicu smile—once more her father's daugb ter. "That, I'm afraid, was the trouble," she answered "for as I laid my money down on the counter I suddenly no ticed that there was a person at the back of the store," "A person?" I interrupted. "Yes! Suppose we say 'a pock marked person was It you?" "What a memory you have for de tails," I parried "and then?" "Weill I took my change and man aged to whisper a word to Sweeney— a good friend, remember—and came out. I took a short cut back, but the 'person' that had stood In the Mick of the store seemed to know the way almost better than I—so well that he got ahead of me. He was walking qui etly this way and so slowly that I had at last to overtake him. He said noth ing, just watched me as If interested In the way I was going—but, I'm ashamed to say, he rather frightened me! And here I am." "Well, then," I said, "let's hurry home and talk It over with the 'king.'" The "king," as I had realized, was a practical "romantic" and at once took the matter seriously, leaving— She Drew Up From Her Bosom a Little Bag That Hung by a Silver Chain, and, Opening It, Drew Out, With a Laugh—a Golden Doubloon. as might have surprised some of those who had only heard him talk —his con versational fantasies on tho theme to come later. Calypso, however, had '.he first word. "I always told you, dad," she said— and the word "dad" on the lips of that statuesque girl—who always seemed ready to take that Inspired frame work of rags and bones and talking music Into her protecting arms— seemed quite the quaintest of para doxes—"I always told you, dad, wtoat would heppen, with your fairy tales of the doubloons." "Quite true, my dear," he answered, "but isn't a fairy tale worth paying for?—worth a little trouble? And re member, if you will allow me, two things about fairy tales: there must always be some evil fairy in them, some dragon or such like and there is always—a happy ending. Now the dragon enters at last—in the form of Tobias and we should be happy on that very account. It shows that the race of dragons Is not, as I feared, ex tinct, And as for the happy ending, we will arrange it, after lunch—for which, by the way, you are somewhat late." After lunch the "king" resumed, but in a brief and entirely practical vein: "We are about to be besieged," he said. "The woods, probably, are al ready thick with spies.' For the mo ment we must suspend operations on our Golconda"—his name fqr the ru ins that we were to excavate—"and, as our present purposn—yours no less than ours, friend Ulysses—Is to confuse Tobias, my suggestion Is this: that you walk with me a mile or two to the nor'ard. There is an entertaining mangrove swamp I should like to show .you, and also you can give me your opinion of an Idea of mine that you will understand all the better when I have taken you over the ground." So we walked beyond the pines, down onto a long, interminable flat land of marl marshes and inan grove treefe—so like that in which Charlie Webster had shot the snake and the wild duck—that only Charlie could have seen any difference, "Now," said the "klng£ "do'you see a sort of river there, overgrown with mangroves and palmettos?" "Yes," I answered, -"almost— though it's so choked up It's almost Impossible to say." "Well," said the "king," "that's the Idea you haven't forgotten those old ruins we are going to explore.. You remember how choked up they are. Well, this was the covered waterway, the secret creek, by which the pi rates—John Teach, or whoever It was perhaps John P. Tobias himself— used to lanl their loot It's so over* grown nowadays that no one can find the entrance but myself and a friend or two do you understand?" We walked a little farther, and then at length came to the bank of the creek the "king" had indicated, nils we followed for half a mile or so, till we heard the murmur of the sea. *4 CEO BE CONTINUED.) K. -J 1 If NEWS OF THE STATE A RE8UME OF IMPORTANT HAP PENINQ8 OP THE WEEK. Miss Marie Toohey, a young woman of Sioux Falls, has been selected to christen the merchant steamer Sioux Falls, which will be launched at Du Inth soon. No trace has yet been found of un known yeggmen, who entered the post office at Elkton, blew the safe and ea caped with $200 in stamps and money. It is believed they were provided with a high powered automobile. Perpetration of the old One Hundred and Forty-seventh field artillery regi ment in South Dakota, as a part of this state'B share in the new national guard, which the war department is or ganizing, is forecast in dispatcheB re ceived from Adjt. Qen. Morris, at Red field. All former records for thq total amount of wool marketed in Belle Fourche were broken' during the wool marketing season which has closed. Approximately 2,000,000 pounds of wool were handled by buyers during the present season. One warehouse alone handled 1,760,000 pounds. The wool was sold at an average price of from 57 cents to 58 cents per pound. The commissioners of Bonhomme county will be petitioned to make an appropriation for the erection of a sol dier's memorial In honor of the Bon homme county young men who lost their lives in the world war and those who served their country during that time. The exact form of the memorial has not been determined upon, but that it will be erected in Tyndall, which is the county seat, is assured. The residents of Uarretson have petitioned the county commissioners to construct a modern road from the corporate limits of the town to the Minnesota line, there connecting with state roads in Minnesota.' An exten slve road improvement program has been arranged in Minnehaha county and the petitioners ask that an addi tion of the two miles east .from Gar retson to be added to the original The supreme court has sustained the validity of the suffrage amendment to the constitution adopted at the last general election and incidentally all other amendments adopted at the elec tion. This ruling was in the Hutchin son county sheriff case where Karl Schmidt was elected as sheriff, but had never completed his citizenship The decision acts as an ouster so' far as Schmidt acting as sheriff is con cerned. Federal agents state that special m%n are to placed in the field with autos and every effort made to en force the game laws. It has been re ported from certain sections of this state that birds have already beer slaughtered. The open season for prai rie chickens begins September 16 and continues until the close of October 15. The duck season opens on the samt day and remains open until Decern ber 1. A number of state departments are finding it hard tj secure and hold em ployees under the salary restrictions placed by the legislature. Pay is so much higher In many lines of private employment that the private employer gets the men. One of the latest is the head of the engineering department at the state agricultural college stepping out to take the position of county high way engineeer as a better paying Job In fact counties generally are paying more than the state highway depart ment can pay for like work. The forthcoming report of the state Are marshal will show -figures of fire losses for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918, and June 30, 1919, with the comparative summary. For the first fiscal year there were fifteen elevator fires with a loss of $190,258.39, and 579 miscellaneous fires with a loss of $1, 403,250.46. For the second year there were five elevator fires with a loss of $47,050, and 447 miscellaneous fires with a loss of $747,165.81. ThlB re duction of practically 60 per cent in ftro loss is attributed to a large extent to the fire prevention campaign which Is carried on every day by the depart ment. The Blxby and Faith districts, north east of the Black Hills, are scenes of the latest oil excitement In westeifi South Dakota. An. expert from the Edgemont oil fields, who has just vis ited the oil prospects In the vicinity of Bixby expresses the belief that the dome which has attracted attention is a good one .and that the prospect for oil is excellent. At Faith, which is only a short distance from the new field, there Is a great deal of excite ment and ample money has been sub scribed to exploit the supposed oil fields and definitely determine whether or not oil cac be found in paying quantities. Portable rigs, with a capac ity of drilling 3,000 feet into the bow els of the earth, if neoessary, will be taken to the scenes of the new oil excitement for the purpose of develop ing the fields by the drilling of wells. A bronze tablet has been selected as a memorial for the Garretson soldier boys. It will bear the names of all of the men from there who were in the service, and its cost, slightly over $400, will be borne by public subscription. The tablet will be 16 inches wide and 36 inches long. The police department of Sioux Falls has put into effect the curfew ordinance, which prohibits boys and girls 16 years old and under from ap pearing on the streets after 9 o'clock at night unless accompanied by par ents or guardians. if*** a- ~lac—ssfc Meade County post, No. 33, Ameri can legion, has been organised at Sturgls. Good wheat yields have been report ed by most of the farmers in the neighborhood of Planklnton. Approximately thirty-five blocks of paving will be laid in Huron this year, city officials estimate. Wednesday, September 10, has been fixed as the time for the annual picnla and celebration of the old settlers' as sociation of Lincoln county, to be held in Canton. It has been decided by the directors of. the Lake County Fair association to bold a county fair at Madison this ur, and September 2, 3,4 and 5 have been fixed as the dates. Deciding to At make the Turner county farm bureau a permanent factor in the development of the agricultural re sources of the county, the county farm bureau has been reorganized. the reeout session of the com missioners of Meade county It was de cided to build a bridge across the Bells Fourche river at what is known as the Pratt crossing. Bids are to be called for at once. The state board of roadroad commis sioners will hold a hearing in Sioux Falls on September 0 on a petition asking that the two telephone systems be consolidated and conducted in fu ture as one system. The Meade County Fair association is doing its utmost to make the com ing county fair far surpass any ever given. The fair will be held on the Meade County Fair grounds near Stur gis on September 24, 25 and 26. The Black Hills Sioux Trail associa tion members were guests of the Win ner Commercial club recently at a banquet in the clubrooms after an all day session of the two organizational The visitors fere welcomed by Mayor Davis, of Winner. Good roads was the topic discussed. With the harvesting of Beadle coun ty's crop about over, the yield of wheat is estimated by farmers to avorage from 7 to 15 bushels to the acre. The normal wheat crop In the state Is about 12 bushels to the acre. This yield of wheat is much larger than was anticipated earlier In the year. Oata are yielding about 40 bushels to the acre. Probably the only mining camp in the United States where old fashioned placer mining, in the old fashioned way, with a string of horses and riffles, is being carried on is In the Black Hills. Dredging and hydraulic work is being done In California and some oth er mining sections of the county, but only in the Black Hills is placer min ing being done. The extension division of the South Dakota State college will offer this fall, correspondence courses in agri culture and home economics for rural teachers. These courses will lead to college credit and will be under the supervision of H. E. Dawes, now su perintendent of short courses. The subject matter of the short courses will be supplied by members of the State college faculty. At a meeting of the county commis sioners of McCook county, the pro posed county highway system was des ignated. The work on the county sys tem will commence as soon as ar rangements for the actual construc tion can be made. It Is reported that the state highway commission has des ignated the Washington highway from Salem east toward Sioux Falls as one of the state trunk highways. A former Iowa farmer, who moved to a farm near White Lake last spring, has .shown his neighbors something about oats. He has finished baveiV lng a special tract of oats, which he planted with what he calls "Iowa 108," a seed he brought with him from Iowa. The tract gave him the tremendous yield of 86 bushels an acre. An ad Joining field, planted with the ordinary oats UBed in that locality, netted him only forty bushels to the acre. The Indians on Cheyenne river res ervation will hold several agricultural' fairs this fall, one at the agency and: likely one in the northwest part of the reservation, and one in the southwest ern portion. These annual fairs are 'well attended and the showing made at them are an Indication of the prog ress of the Sioux along agricultural lines. While the live stock industry appeals to the Indian to a larger ex tent than does grain raising, yet a number of the more progressive among* then are developing into good farmers. The open weather of last winter Is having its effect in many communities in the state. In many of the smaller towns the ice man Is announcing that his supply Is gone, and the only way) that these communities can get ice i» to have It shipped In. which means a: heavy loss in shrinkage as well aa exprebs charges, with the result that In seme small towns the price is live cents a pound, and in others, it Is not obtainable at any price. Some of the* larger towns are getting down to low stock, and are announcing that thay will only supply stores and business houses which are dependent upon ice for carrying on the business, and the family supply is gone. The contract for the construction of Auror county's new stock pavilion at Planklnton has been let and the build ing will be pushed to completion as soon as possible. The structure is to be much more elaborate than was first planned, the cost complete being now estimated at nearly $15,000. State's Attorney Wagner has placed a ban on the selling by druggists of Sioux Falls of several varieties of hair tonic and other patent medicines on the ground that they contained a pro hibited amount of alcohol and are la violation of the state prohibition law. -V, -'t, t-r ,""i