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. . [Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1837, by Jamas Exyerson, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.) i
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JAMES ELVERSON, §N.W. ¢ N '
o | VoL. VIII. Publisher, and Srnuce Sts PHILADELPHIA, FEBRUARY 12, 1887. TERMS:{ Pi Xpvaxce. No. 41. :
i j , for that service—as if we should set a} long. Richard is already i “ igni Sy -
Poe. r C » Shot a ig. yin my employ ‘What reason had you for resignin, >
: ' THE GOLD E N C RO S S. price on anything of the kind! as assistant engineer, but I want all the | your position on the Mermaid ” suns . _¢ :
; { A SEQUEL TO I think he is quite correct,’? Mr. Mait- salvors of the Mermaid to sail in her this “T shouldn’t have thought of doing so, to .
t t “ land said, approvingly; ‘‘more. especial- | season, either as officers or passengers.” | had it not been for your generosity in “
“4 An Involuntary Cruise ” ly since, thanks to his father, he is not The boys looked at each other for an | giving Walt and me so much money, thus
4 . q obliged to earn his own livelihood, while | instant in a troubled way, and then Di enabling wu: “ .
ys ck g us to carry out a plan of our .
c TT a FH - — -— spoke up, promptly: own, é
BY JAMES OTIS, OA oo cR oss SS “You are very kind, Mr.| ‘When we were stranded on the banks, :
: . A UEHOR OF “THROUGH THE INLAND PASSAGE,” — = 2, Maitland, and I am sorry | I went ashore to the little island which — ofF
- COTE TREASURE-SEEKERS,” XTO., > 7 that we can’t accept the of- | lay within about a mile of the yacht’s ‘
Ayeo - ) fer. As a matter of fact, I | bow. While there, I accidentally fell . §
: qi CHAPTER 1 \ am no longer in your em- | into a cave which had apparently been g
; 7 . | ploy, as I asked the chief | cut out of the solid rock by the hand of é
% THE CUTTER YACHT SEA FOAM. man. Inthecen- i
: i In the office of Maitland & Sons, on tre of it I found a
Wall Street, New York, looking as if they large wooden
would prefer to be almost anywhere else, cross,‘ covered
, sat three boys—Dick Jennings, Walter = with plates of
gold, and around “
Towson and ‘Teddy Carew. Less than a |}} NK \ ES
week previous they had brought past i \ . : . \ the sides were
Sandy Hook the steam yacht Mermaid, \
: -owned by Mr. Alexander Maitland, which
£ . had been stolen from her dock at the
ship-yard while Dick was acting as keep-
er and Walter was spending the night
. . with him. .
yoo4 By dint of hard work the steamer had
~ been floated from the Bahama Banks,
where she was left stranded, and, as the
thieves thought, wrecked.
When, after many difficulties, she was
brought into port, her owner had given
Dick and Walter a check representing
five hundred dollars, for services ren-
dered.
Those who had stolen the yacht—Rube
Jones, Denis Farley and Ira Kendall—
“had unintentionally been left behind, and
all who heard the story were unanimous
‘ in saying that it would serve the young
“scoundrels right if they were forced to re-
‘main on an uninhabited cay several
. "~ months.
On the morning of this particular day,
each of the boys first mentioned had re-
ceived a note from the gentleman, asking
them to call at his office at two o’clock,
and they were on time, wondering very
much as to what Mr. Maitland could want
of them.
- He was busy when they arrived; a
clerk ushered them into a private office
until his employer should be at leisure,
‘ and they were not kept waiting many
i moments.
| “Good-afternoon, boys,” he said, in a
& cheery tone, as he entered. “Tm glad
: . -you are punctual, for I don’t have many
j hours which I can truly call my own, and
i this is one of the few. I suppose you
thought our business was ended when I
paid you for bringing the Mermaid
back?” you are. Now, I
The gentleman paused as if awaiting a| have a proposition
reply, and as both the others looked at | to make, and Mr. Ca-
Dick asif they intended for him to be |rew has told me that
be spokesman, he said: . Teddy can accept it
“We concluded there was nothing | if he chooses. fam
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what looked to be
holes which had been
sealed with stones.
“T could not stop to
examine the place, .
for the boys were i :
F more to be done, sir. You gave a pretty having the yacht tho- about to attempt a
stiff sum for what we did, and we tried roughly overhauled, “ry 4 FEW MOMENTS THR TWO WERE PULLING SWIFTLY TOWARD THE WRECKED VESSEL.” TeCADP ture of the . 4
to make Teddy take his share, but he in- | and she will be rea- | ce : » . yacht, and Thad all I
sisted that, as we fished him out of the dy for sea in a few days without a scar | for my discharge yesterday, and received | wanted to do in getting out soon enough -. :
to show that she lay on the Bahamas so ter : . : to upset their plans. There was only :
water, his work only went toward paying
