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way of (Jivin'. but I had heard a good
deal about It and I had seen divers at
work, and my whole soul was so jumpin'
ond shoutin' Inside of me at the very Idea
of goin’ down and searchin’ into the
secrets of-those two old ships that I told
the captain I was ready to undertake the
divin' business just the minute he could
get things in shape.
"Well, miss, early the next mornin'—
and I can tell you I didn't slce^ much
that night—everything was ready for me
to go down, and two of the crew, who had
done that sort of thing before, were de
tailed to attend to the air pumps and ail
the other business. The stockbroker, he
was like a bee on a window pane; he was
buzzir.'. and kickin', and bumpin' his
head tryin’ to find out what we expected
to do. But the captain wouldn’t tell him
anything; you may he sure 1 wouldn't;
and nobody else knew.
“As soon as we could get things
straightened out, I was lowered over the
side of the brig, and sunk out of sight
into the water. The captain and all the
crew, except tTle men who were tendin’
to me. then went to work to mend th»
hole, in the side of the brig. And the last
thing heard as I went under the water
was the stockbroker a-howiin' and yellin'
and rampagin' around the deck.
"As I told you before, miss, I had
never been down in a divin’ suit, but i
paid the greatest attention to everything
J knew, and I got down to the bottom
n.Ii right, havin’ a hard time to keep
from bein’ scratched to pieces by the
barnacles on the sterns of the big ships.
*'\ clumped about for a while on the
sanely bottom so as to get familiar with
the air-tubes, signal-cords and ail that,
and then I signaled to be hauled up a
bit, and after a good deal of trouble i
got on board the vessel which I was sure
was a Spanish galleon. As I stood on
her tipper deck lookin' around. I felt as
if I was in a world of wonders. There
was wyter everywhere, of course—in and
around and about everything, but 1 eoul.l
see so plainly, that I forgot that I was
not moving about in the open air.
"I can't tell you. miss, everything 1
saw on that great ship, for it would take
itoo long; but as soon as I could. I set lo
work to see if I could find the treasure
that I hoped was on board of her. Here
and there about the decks I saw swords
and pistols and old cannon, hut not a
sign of any of the brave fellows that
had fought the ship, for the fish had
eaten them up long .ago, bones and ail.
"While huntin’ about and bein’ careful
to keep my air lube from foulin’, T lookeu
into a cabin with the door open, aim you
will believe me, Miss, when I tell you
tlvit a cold chill ran down my back when
r saw somethin’ movin’ inside, just as
if it was a man settin’ up to see what
] wanted. It turned out to he a big
tish about half my size, and he did not
ask me. any questions, hut just swam
through the open door, almost brushm
me. and went his way.”
‘‘I wonder you weren’t frightened to
death!” said the Daughter of the House.
“It would be hard to kill me with
fright.” said John Gayther, “and i ll
prove that to you. Miss. As I moved on,
sLlll lookin’ for the treasure. I came to
the door of another cabin, and this wan
shut and bolted on the outside. I had
a hatchet with me. and with this i
knocked back the bolts and foTced olteiT
the door, and there I saw somethin’ to
make anybody jump. Sittin’ on a locker,
right in front of the door, was tile skel-
cif.on of a man. The room had been shut
up so tight that no fish big enough to
eat bones could get in. but the little
things that live in the water and can get
through any crack had eaten ail of that
man except his bones, his gold button::
that were lyin’ about on the floor, the
gold embroidery on his uniform that
was still bangin' on his skeleton, and the
iron fetters on his hands and feet. He
was most likely a prisoner of rank, who
was being taken back to Spain, and he
had been shut up there through all the
light.
"The first thought that came Into my
mind when I looked at him was that he
might lie Columbus, and that the Span
iards had made up the story about their
really gettin’ him back to Spain at the
time when he was to be brought home in
irons. But thinkin’ more about it, 1.
knew that this could not be true, and so
I shut the door so as to keep the poor
fellow from any intrusion so long as he
might happen to stay there.
"Then I went to work in real earnest
to find the treasure, and I tell you, miss,
J did find it.”
“What!” exclaimed the Daughter of
the House, “you really found the treas
ure on that Spanish galleon?”
"Indeed, I did!” replied John Gayther.
“It was in boxes stowed away in a big
room in the stern. I smashed the door
and there were the boxes. I went to
work at one of them with my hatchet,
and I had just forced up one corner of
the lid and had seen that it was tilled
with big gold pieces, when I felt a pull
on my signal rope, and knew that they
wanted me to come up. So I put my
fingers Into the crack and got out a few
of the coins; I could not taka a whole
box; it would have been too heavy. Then
I went out of that room and signaled
that I was ready to go up. It was time,
I can tell you, miss, for I was gettin'
mighty nervous and excited and I needed
rest and somethin' to eat.
“When I was safe on the deck of the
brig I found everybody gathered there
waitin’ to hear what I had to tell. They
had stopped work for dinner, and that is
the reason I had been signaled.
“But I didn’t say anything to anybody.
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ATLANTA CONS TITUTION.
As soon as my liolmot was unscrewed
and I was out of my divin’ suit, I went
below witli the captain, and although the
stock broker followed up closely and
nearly pushed himself into the cabin,
we shut the door on him and kept him
out. Then I told the captain everything,
and I showed him the three gold coins,
which I had kept all the time tightly
clenched in my right hand. X can tell
you the eyes of both of us were wide
open when we looked at those coins.
Two of them were dated sixteen hundred
and something, and one of them fifteen
hundred. They were big fellows, worth
about $10 apiece. The captain took them
and locked them up.
“ ‘Now,’ said he, 'do you think you will
be able to go down again today? If you
want to see what’s in the other ship
you’ve got to be lively about it, for I
think we can get the brig pumped out in
twenty-four hours, and if a breeze should
spring up we don’t want to be caught
here. Tf tlie other ship's a treasure-
ship.’ he went on to say, 'you know it
would he a good deal better for our
company, and so it might be well to find
out.'
“I didn’t need spurrin’ to make me
go down again .for T was all on fire to
know what was on board the other ship
which T was sure was English, havin’ had
a good opportunity of lookin' at It when
X was down there.
“So, as soon as I had taken a rest and
had had my dinner, I went on deck to
get ready for another divin* expedition.
There was the stock broker, watchin’
me like a snake watchin’ a bird. He
didn’t stand around and ask any more
questions; he just kept his venomous eye
on me, as if lie would like to kill mo
because I knew more than lie did. But
I didn't concern myself about him, and'
down X went, and this time I got my
self aboard the English vessel just as
soon as I could.
‘'it wasn’t as interestin’ as the old
Spanish vessel, but still I saw enough to
fill up a book if I had time to tell it.
There were more signs of fightln’ than
it here had 'bueii on flhe other shipsi
Muskets and swords were scattered
about everywhere, and, although she was
plainly a merchant vessel, she had a lot
of the small cannon used in those
days.
“I looked about a great deal and it
struck me that she had been a merchant
man trading with the “West Indies, but
glad enough to tight a Spanish treasure
ship if she happened to come across one.
It was more than likely that her crew
had been a regular set of half-buccaneers,
willin’ to trade If there was trade, and
light if there was any fightin’ on hand.
Anyway, the two vesesls had had a tough
time of it. and each of them had met her
match. I could see the grapplin’-ironu
which had fastened them together. They
had blown so many holes in each other’s
sides that they had gone to the bottom
as peaceable as a pair of twins lioldin’
each other toy the hand.
"X worked hard on that English ship,
and I went everywhere I dared to go,
but I couldn’t find any signs that she
had carried treasure. I hadn’t the least
doubt that she was on an outward voy
age. and that the Spaniard was home
ward bound.
(To Be Concluded.J
Fascinating Evoluiion of the
World*s Architecture
CONTINUED FROM SECOND PAGE.
terrace upon terrace to a height greater
in one instance, at least, than the Wash
ington monument, the pyramids of Egypt
and the quaint round towers of Ireland
were all elevations for religious purposes.
The muezzin’s tower of the Mohamme
dans is the same thing modified a little
for practical purposes by the addition of
an external gallery from which the de
vout one calls out his prayers.
Rapidly the speaker sketched the prog
ress of architecture through Egypt into
Greece and later to Rome, choosing his
examples of the Roman architecture from
the colonics rather than from the heart
of the Roman empire. The Moorish in
fluence was then noted, the elements of
the architecture lreing the tent and the
horse’s hoof, which is the favorite form
lor the arch.
ARCH A ROMAN IDEA.
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few minutes’ consideration, it being
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cut away afterward into the semblance
of an arch. An example or two of sim
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their strains in a very different way.
The story was carried into Spain with
its wealth of florid architecture and some
modern examples were given of notable
examples of public buildings.
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was a Pagan festival sacred to one of
the earlier forms of Diana among a
people long antedating the Greeks.
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