as and the boys redou

enemies. That was because their bodies had passed beyond the reach of vengeance. For within a couple of hours after his comrades had maroon

isten t

of the fiercest and most sudden that I have ever known in all my voyaging on the Main. It caught him unaware, and before ever he could furl sail the ship careened and went down less than a mile from shore. Never a man escaped, thou

ertainly a good ha

so much treasure should have been swallowed up by the sea. He rejoiced in the fate of the crew but would have liked to save the ship, for from what he says it seems to ha

the squadron off the Isle of Oruba, and the gold louis from the Cité de Marseilles that cost us so dear in blood and the treasure that came from the sacking of Port au Prince-doubloons and pieces of eight that it might take a man a day to reckon. Yet no

him to be marooned on that desolate island, while just beyon

of the treasure, if he were ever rescued. But as time passed on, he seemed to have abandoned hope, and it was evident

the room was so silent that the boys could almost hear the

first to brea

inally been rescued, but only when his mind was almost gone. But he still had sense enough to guard jealously these papers, which he bequeathed to his son with injunctions to go an

ld pirate lived and sinned and cursed and suffered and died on an island somewhere about latitude 14, longitude 81 in the Caribbean Sea. He saw the sinking

people that know anything about it are

amirez," put in P

He hasn't the papers and he's probably forgotten most of what he did read. He's just a w

now all I know.

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umped to

aking a mistake. You're all wool and a yard wide-fellows after my own heart