41 Lure O Gold 1904

"
Searching for
the Treasure
somewhere aboard this ship,
and I want you men,"
he
said,
addressing the hands who had been helping, "to
keep a sharp lookout for it."
My boy,"
he said,
to you this morning.
Then he turned to me.
"
I was rather hasty in what I said
I think now that you
have told
the truth in all except what concerns Mr. Fishley.
You were mistaken there.
think, to
It would be a good plan, I
arrest those steerage fellows whom you sus
pected."
There was a soft scuttering away down the deck,
and I cried out to the first officer:
"There
they go now! They have been lurking
about here in the dark and have just run away."
"Well, they can t get off the ship very said
well,"
Mr. Nason, "unless they jump overboard. We can
secure them any time we want them, and I think that
will be soon."
He picked up
his lantern and passed forward to the
dunnage pile, which he looked at for a moment thought
fully. Then he turned to the hands.
"I
think while you re down here, boys, you may as
well carry some of this dunnage
into the fire-room.
They may need it before morning. They re scraping
the bottoms of the coal bunkers, so Mr. Derrick says.
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