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THE GALLEON
after the manner of conspira-
tors who guard deep secrets.
Passing Tubby's house, they se-
cured a spade, a pick, and; the
tobacco bbx that had been hid-
den in the hedge.
The route followed by the
boys led them to a deserted
outskirts of town. It was form-
erly occupied by a solitary old
man, Hurley by name, who used
to gather cigar butts in the
gutters, but who was reputed
among the younger generation
to have been an avaricious mis-
er. His enormous wealth in
gold coins was supposed to have
been hidden somewhere about
the place when he dfed. Among
the youth of Grandview, "when
I fin old Hurley's gold" was
equivalent to "when my ship
comes in."
When they arrived at their
destination, Tubby looked at his
watch.
"It's ten till four," he said
"we'll wait till four on the dot."
An hour later the two con-
spirators started for home.
They were dragging the pick
and shovel, but the tobacco box
was not with them. They part-
ed at Tubby's gate.
"Whew!" said the latter, wip-
ing the sweat from his face, "at
was some job, but it'll be worth
it."
"Oh, boy, I'll say so!"
"Well, see ya tomorrow, re-
member to work everything
just like we said."
"Yeah, so long."
On the morrow Tubby's star
was again riding high in the
heavens of Celia's favor. The
whole class noticed the atten-
tion they paid each other and
whispered about it none too dis-
creetly. Pinkey was miserable
the entire day; he had just
learned that Tubby was to ac-
company Celia to the party.Once when the teacher had left
the room, Celia turned to him
and asked:
"Goin' to the party tomorrow,
Pinkey ?"
"Yeh, I guess so," he answer-
ed, somewhat embarassed.
"You guess so? Don't you
know?"
"Well yes, I reckon-at least
I intend to", he stammered,
feeling even more uncomfort-
able.
"Oh, you must come, Pinkey,"
concluded Celia in a tone of
voice that Pinkey thought a lit-
tle too patronizing, "you would-
n't want to miss all that fun."
And she turned again to Tubby,
who had been signalling franti-
cally from his side.
Tubby followed close at
Celia's heels when they left the
school room. He had more rea-
sons than one for wishing to ac-
company her home that after-
noon. Bub Mitchell caught up
with Pinkey, who did not espec-
ially feel the need of masculine
companionship, was tolerant
,nevertheless. Together they
walked along, Bub making oc-
casional observations of no par-
ticular interest. Pinkey made re-
ply in grunts and monosyllables.
They were passing along a
sandy path now and suddenly
Bub's foot struck a little mound
of sand that rose above the
level. A folded piece of paper
became uncovered and fluttered
out on the breeze. Bub, as if to
satisfy a vagrant curiosity,
picked it up. Pinkey had paid
no attention to him until he dis-
covered that Bub had come to a
halt several paces behind him,
and was pouring over a sheet of
brown paper.
"'Smatter, Bub?"
"Commere quick," Bub hand-
ed him the paper, "read that,
will ya?"19
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