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2 rm,-3GOLDE
N DAYS s-oi
April 22, 1882.
“ You are acquainted with Mr. Berkeley,
I suppose ?"
“ Oh, yes," said Chap, “I know him
very well. He's a tip-top fellow."
“ He is of a free and generous disposi-
tion, isn't he it” asked the man.
“ Yes, indeed I” replied Chap; “our
folks say too much so.”
“ He must possess a handsome pro-
pertiy,“ said the other.
“ expect he's as rich as h1a1.es,” re-
plied Chap. “At any rate, he buys every-
hing he wants.”
“And yet I suppose he'd like to make
more money,” said the man.
“Oh, yes," said (‘h- p; “ I know he’s
all the time trying to make more money
with improved stock and lots of other
things which a good many people laugh
ll And I can tell you this-if he knew
there was treasure belonging to him in
that old wreck, he’d just spend any
Ln
amount of money to get it on
“Now, then, Mr. lVebster," said the
iuan, rising, “ we know each other. Do
not reveal what I have told you, and, .
when the proper moment arrives, count
me. In the meantime, I have one
thing to ask of on. As soon as Mr.
Berkeley arrives, let me know of it.
Here is a postal card with my name and
address on it. All you have to do is to
write on the other side the words, ‘ He
gas conie,’and then mail it. Will you
0 this?”
“Then we understand each other per-
fectly?“ said the man with the black-
straw hat, extending his hand.
hn“(11’erl'ectly," said Chap, giving the
n avi-rorous shake. '
“ Then agood-by, for the present!" said
the other.
,Aucl he walked rapidly away.
CHAPTER XI.
‘xruiur is BROUGHT TO A HAL1‘.
Ch p’s bosom was now filled with a
tremendous secret. Phil and the other
fellows might laugh as much as they
pleased when he talked about the trea-
Iure on the sunken vesse
. Now, h lcnewsoinetliing about it, and
could afford to let them sneer. The
I n with the black-straw hat would pro-
mllv depart from Booiitown as soon as
inaking no objection this time, for the
horse llllll been brouglit hack in excel-
lent condition from the trip to 'l‘ruin-
bull's.
But although the day was a pleasant
one, an orsc went well, Phil did
not enjoy his ride. He (lid not at all
fancy the idea of his uncle’s coming
home and Iinrliiig his old servant dis
cliargeil.
lint, on the other hand, the teacliings
of(;oill'rey llvrkelcy had made Phil feel
tiat his uncle won think vcryill of
him if he allowed himself to he set at de-
, Fiaiicc and troa ed with contempt hya
‘SI‘I‘V1IlIT. who owed him olicrlicnce and
l respect. The thing had to be done, but
l Phil hated to (lo it.
Mr. “'ell‘ord was surprised and angry
when he heard Phil's errand
“Three hundred dolla " he ex-
cluinicil. “C0l‘iiIll]ly there i not that
much owing to the housck r! A
3 rliscliargo hcr! lVhy, you must lieci '
How can you think of doing such things
in vour uncle's alsscm-,(-,?”
Phil then explained, at full, his pro-
vocations. Mr. “'cll'or(l listened, sternly.
'“I ilon‘t know what you HIVO been
doing," he said, “to make her act in
that way. I have always heard of her
as a very faitlifiil servant, not only to
your uncle, Lint to your graiidt'atlicr."
A thought passed through Mr. “'91-
ford‘s mind, but as he looked at Phil's
clear eye and honest counteniuice he re-
'rained froin expr 'nL '
c
-i
dred dollars to pay ii s rvant seemed an
absurdity, but what else could the boy
want with the money ?
“'l‘hore is no use talking any more
about it,” said Mr. XVell'oi-d. “I can i
l'ui-nish you with no. lltli sum as that. I l
have now in my hands very little money
belonging to your uncle. lly his direi:- ,
tions, I paid ii few days ago quite a large
sum on his act-oniit, and I certainly ex- ,
pectcd to have seen him before this l
time in rcr,::ii'd to that and other niattcrs. i
As it is, I not only have not three llllll- ]
dred dollnrs bolon,-.;ing to him, but his
balance here is very small, s .rcel3
enough, I iniagine, to keep you and ,
yson llull going for a couple of weeks i
lcn er. I have no doubt, however, but
that your uncle will he back liclhrc that
-time expires. I advise you now to go
home, and get along with tho lioiisc-,
possible, and then he (Chap) would be
the only person in that part of the cou ii-
try who had any positive knowledge on
the su bject of the wreck. l
would have been glad to tell Phil
all that he had heard, but his promise to
the man-wliicli. perhaps, he had made
without proper consideration-prcvented
this. l
e found Phil asleep when he went l
keeper as well as you can. you are 1
pleasant to her, perliaps she will lie‘
pleasant to you. And don‘t trv to do
any great tlomls in your uncle's alisciioe.
I see you are not: nd to Ii ng your
horse round to the front ' tinw,“ he
said, with a 5.-;rini smile, as Phil opened
the door.
If Mr. ‘Vi.-ll'ord had been a lviy, there
would have been a tight, then and there;
it. Three liiiii- :
two most excellent things. You mustn't
talk, my dcztr sister, about matters you
don'tuin i.
'l‘hCn Chap kissed his sister, and liiir-
ricd on to join Phil, who had started for
l0IllC-
‘, The revious day, while Phil was
away, Chap hall been (lowu to the river,
and had made as careful an examina-
tion as was possible, under the circum-
i stances, of the position of the portion of
:the wreck which he could see-which,
l at that time. happened to be very little-
and l'roni this he endeavored to get an
idea of the probable position or that
part of the vessel which he couldn't see
at all.
llc pretty tlinroiiglily satisded
himsclfin regard to the matter; and, on
Monday inorning, as he sat with Phil on
the porch, after breakfast, he laid before
his frienil a plan he had mentally
worked out for the recovery of the
ll"(‘:lSllI'C‘.
“You see, Phil,” he said, “ there's u
use fooling any more. The gold is
‘there, and we nu ht to gt it. From
what you told me Mr. Weltord said, I
should think a little cash would be
pretty handy thing j ust now: though, of
course, the great bulk of it should be
kept in bank vaults and places of that
kind, until he comes back."
Phil listened with a dull sort of inter-
les lle had hecu wondering if (Jhap
l had entirely given up the endeavor to
bring Susan to terms. The time he had
I allowed him hzid elapsed; but his livcly
, friend “'5. o migrosseil with the wreck-
,ii v ,lllSlll that he appeared to have,
1: itten all about his proposed domes-
l.l(‘.1ll])l(illI5IC
' . . rry to see this, and intend-
ed to say M')lIll‘llllllg on the siibjerct, for ‘
he felt, with a Jrond deal ol' wounded?
pride, that it was now impossible for
him to carryoiit his declared determi-
nation to (list-,liiu'gc Susan.
lie was about to eliange the subject
froni wrecks tn lioiisekecpcrs, when a
slowly driving up the
.5 iaded road toward the house.
The boys immediately recogiiizerl the
vehicle as one of the old raltlc-trap con-
cerns belonging to the livery stable in
the town.
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CIIA PT Iilt xii.
I-.‘.lIII.Ia‘ 'I'()L'll.0N.
The carriage which was approaching
did not come slowly because the driver,
a iiegro boy, was in iurry, i'or tl is
individual continually belaliorcd
horse with 11 short whip, eii(le;ivoi'ing
icsides, by a vigorous clicking and j
of the reins, to make him go faster 1
but the horse had evidently made up his ‘
into the house, and, as his friend asked , but he was an elderly, respectable gcn- mind that in regard to this sort oi thing l
him no
Cliiip did not consider it necessary to say l
anything about It; and Phil went to lied
without knowin that the man with tho I
blaiiks-traw hat had been there at all. :
iap lay awake for some time, think-
ing about hisexcitinginterview, and try- ‘
iiig to make up his mind as to the extent
word. Ilc nicrcly bowed, mounted his
liorse and rode away, the most rucfnl
boy in all that county.
The next day was Sundav. and Phil
and (‘hap walked over to he Webster
l':Irm, and went to church with the finn-
ily. The bovs returned there to dinner, l
uestion in regard to his walk, i tleman, and Phil answered him not a aline must be drawn soincwhere, and l
he drew it at ii slow trot, as being the
fastest, pace tll1lLl3llI0lIlll he expected of
his oh boncsnnr stilfniiiscles.
“Who in the world can he noiniiig
here ?” elricil Phill, juinping up from his
seat. “ t can‘t we unv el”
lint the moment the boys got ii good
and meaning of his pronnso to the man; ; but Phil, insisted ,that Chap should go look at the carria,-.;c, they perceived that ‘
and he finally concluded that, while he ,
could not tell Philip, nor any one else, 1
about the three brothers and the Borke- ‘
ley claim to the sunken treasure, he hail l
proniised nothing that would prevent ‘
iis going to work as soon its possible to ,
look for the submerged gold. i
home with him in the altcrnoon, and
continue his visit, for he declared that
Ilyson Ilall was too doleful a place for
him to live in alone. i
Ilclen, (fin is sister, somewhat young-
er, and a deal better looking than
he, privately told her brother that she
:-
Mr. (iodfrey llcrkclcv. It was a young
person, apparciitly a ioy.
‘Vhen the C:Il'l'l‘ c reacliccl the front
‘ of the house, Phil went down the stops
tl '
.tu rt
’l‘lns
l(
icrson was alread-v working at ‘
. . . l
the individual on the back seat was not ,
l
l
l
l
This was the thing he hail intended to tlionglit that Phil must lind the ni:niage- the crooked ll1IIl4ll0 of the ‘carrizigc-door,
do all aloiig, before he knew that there
existed a man with a blao -straw hat.
01' course, the recovered property could ,
not be divided, and things could not lie ‘
definitely settled before Mr. Berkeley , “Tho doincstic liorizon over there is twoor tliroe
came back; hut there was nothi to
prevent Phil mid himselfi"rom making a
beginning in the good work.
If they could only get out a few boxes
of silver coin, that would help wonder- l
fully in carrying out the rest of the en- ,
terprise. He went to slen , so to speak, l
with his mind full of exploding cart-3
ridges and tlying mud. .
The next dav, Phil rode into town to
mentor’ affairs at Ilyson Hall a d rcadfiil
worry, for she never saw him look so
blue and inoping.
“ You're right, my girl,"said (‘hap.
pretty clniuly. and tli rc‘s what the pa-
pers would call a c s impending: but
I'm Phil's prime minister, and it's my
opinion that the government party will
be friiind tirmly estahlislicil when the
cri. s over.“
“ Now, (‘hzip," said Ilclnn, taking her
brotliur by the hunt], “(IIin’t you go and
lead Phil into any wild tantrums."
cxialainicll tfhap, ini-
and, llllVlll;.’,‘ :it last succeeded in turning
it, he quickly got out. l
o wasa well-rlrcsscrl young fellow, l
scarcely as tal
as Phil. but apparently ‘
'o:irs nlvler.
lle had dark I
and a pair of very small
hair and 0
l
V Y
moustaclies, which, though not notice-l
able at a distance, wero quite distinetj
when one .‘il.O()<lI1Elll'llll(l looked him full
in the face. ’l‘his voung person stepped .
pp vfnickly to Phil, and held out his
llllll .
“ Is this my Cousin Phileop?" he ask-
ed, with a smile. l
“ I am Philip llerkelcv," said our i
awhile with us; for if he In
cousin. “ Let me gaze upon zis sharm-
ing liouse-zcselovely plains!" And he
looked over the lawn and the ]ilL‘-1illl'(‘,-
lield with a gl“ti-Eiiiiig eye, and then
stopped backward to gaze upon t h 4:
house. “ Ah, ze bells! ze bells!" he
cried. ' re are ze hells-zosc low-
ly bells which did tinklc-table all 20
time, ‘Come to dinner! Dinner rmilly!
Ilurry wasa boy when I lH‘Ill'll
zose lovely bells, and I did zink zey din-
gled in Shinese. But it wa all 7.0
to me. Where are zeynow? llatzi-y
blown away?”
“ I never saw them at all,“ said Phil.
“My uncle took them down licforc I
came here. He did not like them."
The face of Monsieur limile assunicd
a shocked expression.
“Not like zosc bells." he exclaimed-
“ zose angel hells! , iore !”
And taking hold of one handle of the
trunk, he and Pliileari-ind it upthc stops.
Chap, who had be I gaziiig in silent
wonderment at the ' '
trodiieed to him. En
hands with the tall bill‘, lint apparently
took little interest in him, and Sll,L(‘,:CStU(l
to Phil, as they passed into the hall, that
as they now had hold of the trunk they
might as well carry it up into the room
he I‘ to occupy.
Phil‘s mind was not prepared for such
prompt action, but he w ( nick
thinker, and of apolitc and hospitable
nature.
He asked to be excused aniomcnt, and
ran out into the poi-cli and very soon ar-
raiigerlwitli Chap that he sliunld come
into Phil's room and let the visitor have
the one he occupied.
No furtlier preparations l70ll‘lf.’,‘IlO(‘(‘,‘l
sary, the newcomer was put into pi)
session of Chap’s bed-chainlicr, while
the big valise and small amoiint of cloth-
ing belonging to Master Webster were
carried into Phills room.
Monsi'ciir,Emile desired to make some
change in his toilet, and Phil lelt him to
liiinself. He found Chap in the hall,
e to know all about this newly-
ivcd cousin.
,“All I know about him,” said Phil,
“is that my aunt married a l7i'eiicliiiiiiii,
named 'l‘ouron, but I alwavs thought
she never had any (‘illlldl‘l3Il.".
“And .' ic had had any,“ said (‘Ii-i
“ they wouldn't have been I’ one
‘”I‘hat‘s very true,” sair Phil; Hut
least, not so French as this ft-llow. Thcv
would always liiive lived in Aincrii-ii.
And, besides, he is too old to be my
aunt's son. I remember when she was
married. I was ii little chap, but I heard
it talked about."
“Then it’s all plain enough," said
it v -.
, Xour I<iench uncle was mar-
ried twic. and this is one ol'tlic original
children.”
H J You are right, no (loiilit,“ said Phil ;
ut that don t make him much or‘ a
cousin, does it?"
“ He seems to be quite at home for all
that,” said (.‘ha . Y
“I have often lieard," said Phil, “that
my &lHllt'lIIl(l her linshand spent ii good
deal 0l'tlIllc here while my grandhitlicr
‘W5’ “l'V9y and I suppose this bov was
with tliom.” '
“’I‘hat's it. I guess," said Chap; “ hut
Idon‘t reinember him. I didn‘t come
here much in those days.” And, after ii
pause, he continued : “ Now that vou've
got your cousin licrc, I don't suppose
you want mo. Tliings look as if he was
gmllg to iniike a good deal ol'a stay."
“how, look here, (‘.li:ip,” said Phil.
9x'U'nl‘-“El “ don't want any of vour
nonsei . ,. st you hang on whet ' you
are. It's as likely as not I‘]] need " on
more than ever. I don't “’(i]l(l(>,r [his
l‘l'l"Il(‘ilI lcllow wanted to roinc and stay
been here
liciore he must knowthat it tip-top
place in the sniiiincr. If hi-,‘d come
when uncle was here, it would have
been all right. But why (H'i‘l',i‘llllllg‘
Slltilllll, turn up just now I can't ini-
aginc.
“ Don't worry about me,"
“I’ll haugon.'l said Chap-
“T:IiitrIiiIis!" ,
see Mr. “r'clford again. He (lid not pat tl “I'll likoto know why peo- ‘ friend, taking the hand of his visitor,
know what means Cliap was going to‘ ple al ' vs think about t:intrnIns and and looking very min-,h bowihlercd.
At this moment Siisnii appeared at the
ivikcn to Phil since
try in order to bring Susan to ten but , such tlnngs Wlll‘ll they talk to inc. I've “ Zen you are my cousin, for I am he tliroatciicd to disnii--1 hor' li t
he had no faith whatever in his 1 ml‘?! got nothing to Iln with tantrum. “'hy, ‘ lixiiilc 'l‘oiiron. You know Ill(‘, now?“ 1 she saw lit to lircak q,l,.-'g'i1(.,,'C,.' U "mv
success, and determined that he inustl llolon, I'm lielpingldiiltor i3 uutoini Phil did not know him l'roni Adinn, l ‘I this w,u,,g ”,;;,; oindr t 1
make arraiigeincnts to pay the hniisc- ‘ of ti most important pim of work but he was. vod an nmliari ssinvnton 1 licrr-‘!"slioiiskcd. g E 0 Say
keeper llerivazessliul vli-w=li:II',-.50 her. in that =urvIin:Iy ever llllllUI‘l<)Uk in this this pullit Iiyniu Pl‘ turning to l.II0l “lNXlp[mHohu’Il gm. ;,,,,,,,,,,,1,, ., an
was she continued to rebel llglllllst his
authority. l
He had looked over his uncle’s hooks, ,'
and had found that two years’ wages “ NMV. lllrltzll." -“lIl'l ‘7l"r‘l’v “I” “‘“'l‘l
were really due to Susan. She had pro- , tell you all about tlicr-so allairs-wlilcli I
bahly wished Mr. IE:-rkclcy to act as her i7:in't do, of 4-nnirso, without Phil‘:-i por-
banker, and keep her money for her. niissinii-yoii'<l soutlintl know what I'm
Phil rode to town on Jouncer, Joel about, and that I'm trying to do ut leust
l mrriago and liolping the boy pull out a
l sinall trunk, ,whlr'l,i wlas stowed uwiiy in ;
tho I'rontol' t to V1! i' n nil‘ .0, , .l ,, - , , , . , .
The driver was p: ml, and drove nwav, (!l)2il“"(‘illIll‘.0 ”.u1?li “-"d m?‘
and Phil then took hold ofono haiidle Iiul'o?o tlIl.:l.lI(lIl‘1(“r4xLls:. ;-‘S 1“) 1‘ '".,‘‘‘l'
of the trunk lo assist his visitor in cnrrV- [ boys," ' I L’ 1 ' l 9‘ up “ H I
ing it up tho sin is, ‘
“Ono moment," said his new-found
swcrod Phil. “ He brought a trunk ”
“ Yo '
V15 , thcn,"said the lioiisckccpcr,
,“l u not goiiig to pay you oil‘ and 7.
(liscluirgc you, Susaii,” said Phil, color-