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138 he stayed thus for some twelve minut es we also knew he was returning to ra igs ship, and then there came the next signal to au him up again, which, being done, his great helmet with its fierce goggle eyes appeared above the water once more, he following. Ried on to him he bore two things, one a great beam of wood in which were stuck pieces of jagged rock, which looked for all the world hike the great teeth of some beast that had been fastened in’t and then broken off—they were indeed bits of the reef—the other a great piece of limestone as big as my head, all crusted and stuck over with little disks or plates which were, we found, rusty pieces of eight, : A sign! A sign!” says Phips, taking them from him; “now get your breath, Woods, and or us em a have found,” and this the man id, puffing and blowi i he could speak, ae ee ee Then he said, “Of the wreck, sir, I have se nought, but,surely I have found the track, ‘All the bottom of the sea is scored as though some great thing had passed over it, and everywhere there lie great lumps of limestone such as this and great beams such as that.” ‘ “Ha!” says Phips, and with that he takes the diver’s axe an splits open the lump, and there, wedged in all over it, were many more rusty. old pieces. “Ha! ‘she has left a silver track as she passed along. Go on.” “So I do think, sir,” says the diver, “and she cannot be afar off where I descended, unless she is all gone to pieces. And even then the bed of the sea must be full of all she had gotten inside her. But, sir, I think this is not so; I think she has been brought up short, for, close by. as I gather, is another reef.” “How far off? How far off?” suddenly called out the Captain, full of strange ‘excitement. “Not two cables off, I think, sir,” replies Woods, “since the bottom where I was begins to rise towards it, and therefore——” “And therefore,” exclaims Phips, “it is the reef itself! Marvellous strange it seemed to me that a great Spanish galleon should have shifted at the bottom of the sea—whoever heard of a ship that moved below the water?—yet all would have it so; even you, Woods, thought so yourself! But now I know all. She struck upon a spur of the reef and not the reef itself, and she has never moved. In which direction does the rise of bottom of which you speak begin?” The diver look’t round, tracing his course beneath, and then, pointing to the Boylers, or Bajo. said, “There, sir.” “Why, so *tis, of course,” says Phips. “And, as I say, her keel took the first, or outside spur of the reef as she passed along, and she never got nearer to the main one. She is there! She is there! Hearts up, my lads, we have found the treasure ship!” ee (Lo be continued ; commenced in No, 779.) SYNOPSIS.—CHAPTERS 1.—IX, # ive, written by Nicholas Crafer, for the perusal of any one orhts aeecaniets who might come into possession of it, was discovered im the cellars of an ancient Fleet Street bank, where new premises were ilt. : + about {0 be Oa Phips receives a commission from King Charles IT, to co out in command of the 4/gier Rose to search for the treasure lost in = Spanish plate ship, wrecked off the shores of Hispaniola, the original name of Hayti. poe fle he starts on the voyage an astrologer os Eee. mancer tells Phips that he will not find that which he seeks until he is thirty-seven years old. Phips, nevertheless, determines to at eee oe mence bis quest, and with Nicholas Crafer as first lieutenant te i 424 Rose sails to Hispaniola and anchors in Balsamo Bay, near a treet calle: the “ Boylers.” r 5 igs however, without anything being found, and ai Phisn Weckid, thst time, suppressed two mutinies, is ordered to return t England. ‘So, with a jeering tarewell from one of his divers (a huge . yaamer Juan), he sails home to fd that King Charles has been paid ded by James MI. The latter refuses to fit out another expedition, but Phips feeling confident of finding the treasure at the time predicted b 4 the astrologer, persuades Christopher Monk, the Duke of Meee: le, : finance bim in a second effort. So, with Lieutevant Crafer with him, pe sails again to Hispaniola. There, to enable thei to search in two lens at once,a tender is bought. 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