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square "We a division till we dis- imperceptibly into the jabbering \u25a0 throng*ol Continued From Cast Snndnr clewing down her big foresail. can't make fair so was to pose of 'em," said Mr. Carline. "There s oyster openers. '*I It too late hide, and it would have many "Well, say!" V no anyway. lay different sizes." it's hard lines, I disconsolately CHAPTER XXV. been of particular use. There you then, both grumbled Jack, they the shade all their oysters in sun, and the liteboat "We'll appoint trmmurer till as sat down in IHO'S for some oysters?" asked Mr. the of the others exclaimed. "It's bad enough to lose everything one hai following on the beach. "Yes; in the world, out of i Carline, on the morning n, but what'll Ido with em mean- and then be cheated chap- The junk sailed slowly across the lagoo while?" he answered ruefully; "for Ihaven t fortune, without being left to die on adea \u25a0W« the events narrated in the last and, instead of coming to anchor, grounded crt broke down com island!" and poor Jack : - i\u25a0 ggjgg] tcr. her flat bow on the beach. He had no opportunity to finish his remark pletely. , : \u25a0< :\u25a0\u25a0 They visiting the proa that morn- Out of her then tumbled, with loud out- for just then an shadow fell "Lookhere!" said Fred, with sudden energy had been tne about ominous across ing, before Mr. Carline had propounded cries and much anxious pantomime, the firelight,and they all looked up quickly, as a startling suggestion came to his mind two dozen villainous-looking, yellow-faced men, to placid gaze Bill, who, with sev- "Idon't know what you fellows will think o q Malay, but meet the of idea, ' rarious," Jack said, looking at the oth- who seemed neither Chinese nor eral of his followers, had stolen silently into the but the Chinamen couldn't helj "m£ though Ihad an unhappy mixture of both. Having made the cave. themselves very well if we stowed away 1011 01 er; "but somehow Ifeel as they whooping and yelling up outspread junk, <:O my her fust came Jack made a frantic dive for the board the and took our chances you all life, Fred." many Mongolian fiendß. speaking \u25a0\u25a0• known felt the same, the beach like so handkerchief, but, alas! he was too late. At some American vessel." .:\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0 --\u25a0; "Well said Fred, "Ihave The leader, an undoubted Chinaman, had a a signal half a dozen or more "Right you are," agreed Jack,..roused tntc you. How old are you, by had from their chief, 5 ever since Isaw ruety bayonet at his side, while the others athletic Malays sprang forward and quickly animation. "I,for one, am in for it." '*•.- :'"\u25a0 ugly knives in their belts. Aa they came pinioned the not roughly, but "And I,"assented Mr.Carline, catching a Severn," was the answer- for and sitting-- party— -" %S2u.t birthday, clambering up the bank their shrill cries simply as restraining their movements— while the idea. . . Jack wasn't quite sure- of his own, violent gesticulations were evidently nothing their commander, with the same placid gmile That evening fortune favored them, -fo while Fred was. "and IT .fancy, but the usual accompaniments of their talk on his yellowface, "scooped up" the bandanna —the crew of the junk brought jars of."saki' "So am I,"said the other among themselves. contents, liquor somehow, ook something alike. Your situation, and its knotted the four corners to- a sort of distilled from rice—on shore that we mine, and But as they took in the and saw gether with wonderful swiftness, nnd, presto! and held a grand carouse to celebrate thei: and eyes are the same color as pearl oysters ' - hair build— some hundreds of half-opened it was gone, as though by sleight of hand, good fortune. . . we're exactly the same lying spread out within reach, there was a up of his The three to'th' just Mr. Carline called, a little im- but whether his sleeve, in the folds Americans stole down But then him rush and scramble, not unlike that made by dirty gown down his throat, man would beach, with some baked fi>h, breadfruit ;am patiently, for them to hurry up and help penny thrown or no water, off, brought Freds speech the London stret urchins after a dare to say. to serve them until they should maki push the boat which in the mud. "Yours once," he cheerfully remarked, with— their appearance on deck, after the junk^-^J: few word3of gibberish and a little ex- out to '. individual, forward eye She was \u25a0 jloadec the very spot where Fred himself had paddled Carline. And in the twinklingof an a more than three-quarters week before. front of our three friends. coppqr-colored Malay was flying through the with the dried trepang, or sea cucumber round, the Lit. ji., "The—the mischief you do! exclaimed the air like a is, the side of agar-agar, dried and edible birds "Ease rowing!" was the order; but hardly towering football— that till — or seaweed, lips, beEore Fred ever-impetuous Jack, who was in a the cave brought him up with unpleasant sud- nests all much prized as articles of daintj had it left Mr. Carline's rage, and utterly unmindful of Mr. Carline s denness. food by the Chinese. '-' shouted: "Then, Bill, just have '.'.:.-'.\u25a0 " never closed, warning gestures. His second assailant was "dashed against the They found a clear space in the fore peak 'Come from the gate that's the goodness to tell that pack of dirty-faced, astonished Bill with sndi force that both went and, having ruthlessly taken such |mats |as Until you see bald head's nose! ragged-shirted gentlemen, to let those pearl spinning toward the entrance with a rapidity they could find on deck for their own;use, hoard' oysters They're ours." "And so, Mr. Carline, your 'secret alone! little of which they had never dreamed. — the three adventurers lay down to rest, and bed, all. _ "Ispeak Melican, he repeated, a irre- Seizing what he was pleased to call twig speedily forgot their troubles in sleep. was nothing but an oyster after a assured Mr.Carline, briefly, levantly. "Learn himin Melican ship. That which happened to be heavy stick of red- "Nothing eke," yours now." a as Fred told Jack about guessing at the mean- oyster once-rours wood, about four feet long and about the size lines, search, in this "How do you make that out?" growled of his from the the wrathful CHAPTER XXVIII. ing of the and'hia vain arm— fuel pile, 1 same spot, for hidden treasure the week be- his Mr. Carline turned to the assistance of hi* are we, anyway?" asked Jack, And Bill,in mute reply, winked one of companions, but at the first symptoms of hU drowsily, as he opened his eyes in all," almond-shaped eyes, and touched the handle startling resistance, "No great mystery about it,after Jack every Malay had run iiWinEREi the half darkness, on the morning looked the Bide. of his sabre bayonet. At which each of the for dear life, with exception of the observed, as he over solemnly, at the same time the" after the three castaways had con- The- water was very shoal for about ten others winked one thrown across the cave, who was silently junk's handles of their several knives. cealed themselves' in the fore- feet around, and, looking more closely, Fred touching the creeping toward the entrance. Him, Mr. peak. saw that the bottom was covered with large Fred said, afterward, that it was the most Carline hastened with an application of his which, in his haste before, he had impressive, not to say significant, pantomime foot in the rear, and they left masters of "Sh-h-h!" whispered Fred, warningly.j oysters, were "Don't you taken tor useless shells. he ever saw. the situation. remember? We're on board of contrived a sort of Yet there did not seem to be the slightest Jack looked at Mr. Carlino, who looked the junk, and they're pullingher the Mr. Carline had canvas any of them at across net, or bag, stretched over a rude iron frame- disposition on the part of one Fred, who dropped on the floor of the cave lagoon now. Listen and you'll hear the had pounded out of a piece to harm or in any way interfere with the in a paroxysm of laughter. sweeps." v"; work, which he liberty Americans, though was ..\u25a0'••\u25a0 of pump rod found in the lifeboat's lockers. of the three it "Ican't help it,"he gasped. "I'm sorry; It was too late to of backing :out, Using the sprit of the sail for a handle, strongly evident that possession being re- but, oh! to see those chaps Bill think garded points of the law, the un- skedaddle!. even if they had cherished any idea of the fastened the clumsy let to it and as nine taking the lead when Mr. Carline hustled sort. he effort, in "scoopingsucceeded^up washed crew looked upon oysters, or any these two fellows around lively! But, in truth, they had no other re- with considerable portable property they so Itwas to they about a half bushel of the bivalves inan hour. other little which too mneh!" source than take their chance ai had "A good deal of pork for a shilling, was might find lying around loose, as their just "But it's no laughing matter, after all," done. Jack's comment, as they pulled ashore. Id said Jack, doefully, when quiet was finallyre- They might have remained on the coral rather po without oysters than work so hard By and by four of them pushed the life stored. island for years, perhaps forever, miSir.i to get , ,„, boat off,and, after paddling round and peer- "Well," replied light-hearted Fred, with a being discovered ;for, as Ihave said, it was "Better the first lot raw," advised. Mr. ing down into the water for an hour or two, pro:lij?ion« yawn. "Imove that we turn in not then laid down on any chart, and. was try they oyster bed. Then there regular Carline, as Fred was proposing to bake a discovered"hullabaloo,"the for to-niehl and talk matters over in the far out of the track of ships ofsteam- few; and Jack said that if that was the way was another as Jack termed it. morning." era. he proposed eating them, he might have them They improvised scoops and drags from All that day and the night following they material which they procured on board of stayed in their hiding place, but on the next But Mr.Carline only laughed, and, breaking their vessel, and, without as much as "by CHAPTER XXVII. morning it was decided that they were far••- your gentlemen," lifeboat, in •\u25a0\u25a0 off the "lip"of a large one, opened it with his leave, used the enough from land to venture on deck. •\u25a0. *" a "sampan," small boat S Mr. Carline had prophesied, they stout knife blade. conjunction with or slept undisturbed, and Jack had his "Ishould think by the row overhead, and Jack," he said, holding out the of their own, for the purpose of ravaging the the way the old tub is pitching it, "See here. - • • -\u25a0" A" vigilfor nothing. into that half shell withits contents. oyster bed. it was blowing a bit," Jack said, as they might Fred cry By night they had the whole beach cov- fjjjjj^ After their morning meal, the a by Well Jack exclaim and out VsmSOSU went steadied themselves moment the stout in delight, forslightly attached to the surface ered withi oysters, to Jack's loud and out- three down to look after their bamboo stanchions. "Well, go on, Mr. Car-1 wrath, as well and Mr.Car- boat, oldest," of the shell was a lustrous pearl, nearly as spoken as Fred's Mr. Carline taking the "twig" line; you're the he continued. ,--'•• large as a pea, and two smaller ones, of less line's more quiet indignation. with them, as a matter of precaution. So that gentleman, pushing aside a sort of purity, lay embedded in the "folds" of the But to all their expostulations Billwas plac- The boat was all right, and had been care- scuttle, squeezed himself through, followed by oyster itself. idly indifferent. fully out, his two companions, whose, hearts, it <7 once; him ours now," was the only washed but all her—little movable must be "Well, Mr. Carline," Jack said, "you are Yours articles had been taken away such as mast, confessed, beat pretty rapidly, as they came a But. after all, they're your find, answer that he made to whatever might be — the lteht, which trump! his wrath, called him sails, oars, boat compass and the like and out into for the moment al- not ours." said, even when Jack, in most blinded them. \u25a0-\u25a0\u25a0•, "It'sshare and share alike among us three, —Iam sorry to say— a gimlet-eyed old gTaven her bow painter was made fast inboard in A yell of terror from two or three the only image. the junk. of was the short reply. 'There's this one "Well, Bornese sailors was followed by a terrific ba- spot, of a dozen feet or bo square, as near as There was no help for it, however, and this is cool!" exclaimed Jack. bel of tongues from the rest of the crew aft' Icould findout when Iwas here before, where while, with an immense amount of whoop- "Blessed if they're not going to cabbage the about ten of whom were hanging oysters," continued, squabbling, dingy boat nowI" on to the there are any he "and ing and the crew were di- mind, clumsy tiller, for it was blowing hard from sometimes I'veopened a hundred without find- viding up the open oysters and laying the "Never old chap," said Fred, who the southwest, with a rapidly-darkening aky ing a sign of a pearl; so the chances are that newly taken ones in readiness for the mor- saw by the expression on Jack's face that he and increasing sea. wi> may make very much after all." sun, die three unfortunates strolled was on the verge, of an explosion, "we've Captain Bill stumbling along not row's the left, anyway, came toward Some days they examined hundreds of oys- down to the beach to look at the strange craft got proa and the best thing them, hanging to the railj somewhat •shorn ters without finding a pearl. Another day which had, as Jack remarked, brought that we can do is to begin and get ready to of his dignity,having lost his fatigue them off in her. She's in the cove, just cap, and they would secure half a dozen of different such illluck. -.— start rock, little taken off his sabre bayonet for convenience sizes, "seed" 'junk a ...junk of wood, observed round the and is about ready for \u25a0 or stillmore of the little pearls "She is a sea sake. •.-.-\u25a0-. -•.' often seen. Fred, with a laugh, as they examined her now." you whatee so yours— ours," "How come— you want, Meli- And they grew to be so taken up with the clumsy build and model. "Boat now grinned Captain can man?" he said, in a voice which would' "all-absorbing desire for gain," that, for the "There's an eye- painted on each side \u25a0of Bill,as he came up. have sounded imperious ifit had time, forgot to stem," Jack, up "It's only a waste of words. on, not -been Fred think of his lost brother the said as he looked at the fellow," Fred, . Come decidedly tremulous. Jack, and Jack failed to.remember hia vow curiously shaped bow, without bowsprit or old said drawing the angry Jack, a» the best exponent of "pigeon Ertflll of finding his friends or relatives, and even rigging. Jack forcibly away, aa he seemed meditating lish." made the reply. ~Z<*\ staid, unemotional Mr. Carline ate, drank "They all have that, from a junk of twelve a sudden onslaught on the Malays all by him- "We hide away down below,", pointing and slept in a sort of pearly dream of wealth. down," said Mr. Carline. self. direction wftit hundred tons "'lf their his finger in the of the' hold. "Savey "A month or two longer," said Jack, wear- no have eye, how can see?' says Cap'n John They made way to the little cove old Timbertoes?" ..>.•;"-'. ily,as they unloaded their boat in the scorch- Chinaman; and it's a curious fact that some where the proa lay, without further words, |'We putee you shore, .bimeby,'. he ing sun, one morning, "and we'll think galliots have the same," and, reaching there, the proa was gone! finally about Dutch \u25a0 getting away from here." junk built along "Yonder!" groaned Jack, pointing try all," The crew of the had fires And, away seaward. "You'd better it—that's coolly re^ "I tell you, boys," began Mr. Carline, im- the beach, about which they were squatted skimming from the island like a plied Mr. Carline, coming to the front and pressively, when Jack, who had happened to groups, boiling their messes of rice, mak- swallow was the swift craft upon which nervously fingering his thick stick,' seaward, in of escape had so which he look yelled, in a voice that might ing tea, and smoking curious little pipes of red their hopes much de- had brought on board, and which Fred after- half pended. \u0084.,,,„ designated have been heard across the island: Carline, ward as "the club of Hercules" "Asail! a sail! And close in, at that!" They nodded in a friendly manner to the "Well, boys," Baid Mr. "it looks "Ifyou don't want that aftersail to blow into" enough. Not pistol shot they passed, with a pretty dark, but remember, it's never fiddleetrings you - Sure a from as so dark d better ,v sail,distant Americans charming t show way have itin." ' the opening in the reef was a and a curi- unconsciousness ofanything like guile on their that the Lord can the out." "Cap'n say wind too much for small ous-looking one it was. \u25a0 part. "Say, Bill," said Jack, 'Vpose we workee More wind come, translated Jack, 'sail own cave, they passage Nagoski. You takee us, as Bill• Making tJieir way to the built a to Bill, eh?" gazed about him in 'considerable perplexity CHAPTER XXVI. fire, ate their frugal supper of bread fruit "No, no!" replied 'in some alarm; "Itlooks to me, said Mr. Carline, fish, good; you stayee here; by by ship"no murky horizon, a» he IRED or Jack could make nothing of and baked and then held a consultation off; Melican gazed around the "as though the strange sail, though the latter of ways and means.; come, takee you but no go injunk." we were going to catch something very first," "Then you mean to leave us here, do you?" typhoon. \u25a0 .-.,-.much - said Jack. take .\u25a0. ..-.-\u25a0:<. F-" said itreminded him of what a sea "Means "Let's ac- "you like a m count of stock." said Mr. Carline, angrily, pig-eyed "Yes," said Fred, with a..significant glance. the small gourd' astern; too, rrrW™J a junk,"said Mr.Carline, Bringing forth shell that heatihen!" objected. "especially^ when it takes both "It's ap- held their treasures, its contents were emptied "No takee you; no! no!"* Bill, edg- watches to steer with the wind this way."^' \u25a0\u25a0\u25a0*\u25a0' prehensively; "and Idon't see what old red handkerchief, ing gradually away. :..; "For goodness sake," anyhow." into Mr. Carline's laid strong fingers exclaimed Mr/'Car- they want inhere, on the floor of the cave and the pearls counted For Mr.Carline's were clutch- line, "go aft there, you boys, and 'show 'em junk approached by light fire. ing the handle of his stick in a very suggestive For the had the island the of their council There were Continued on l-''oll»«vlngr Pave unnoticed by them all, and was even now just sixty-six of them, large and small. ', manner, and the alarmed commander melted