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"I have those papers still; and before I die I will give them to you, Master Trevose. They may be useful to you; and if you can translate the cipher, why, there are millions there for you, unless, indeed, Jose Leirya removes them before you can get there.
A number of men were then detailed to run aft with the tail end of the whip as soon as the noose should have been fitted round each man's neck. Mr Cavendish decided that he would hang the captain first, so that every survivor of his crew might witness the death of their leader. All being now in readiness, four seamen walked up to Jose Leirya and, stooping, cut the bonds that secured his feet.
If it is to Leirya we are going it will be nearer thirty miles than twenty, and even you, seasoned vessel as you are, will find it a long walk after being up all night, and having had pretty hard work to-day." "I cannot hold wid the general there," O'Grady said, gravely; "he has been kapeing us all at it from daybreak till night, ivery day since we landed, and marching the men's feet off.
"I suppose, Ryan," Major Harrison said, "if you had been in Sir Arthur's place you would have preferred remaining at Leirya until Junot could have gathered all his forces, and obtained a reinforcement of some fifty thousand or so from Spain, then you would have issued a general order saying, that as the enemy had now a hundred thousand troops ready, the army would advance and smite them."
I believe most strongly, Harry, that we have in our possession the key to the hiding-place of all the treasure of Jose Leirya and he must have accumulated millions of dollars' worth in his time if we can but come upon the translation of it. What do you think of it, Harry?"
The two lads could not see that any useful purpose would be served by retaining these memoranda; they therefore tore them up small, and consigned them to the deep. For this reason the history of the doings and exploits of the pirate Jose Leirya has never been written, and never will be.
"Well, lad," remarked his friend, "it has just come to me, somehow, as old Cary mentioned about the treasure of that scoundrel, Jose Leirya, being buried somewhere about here, that possibly that cipher of ours which we brought from the Gloria del Mundo may refer to that very treasure. You see, Cary says that Leirya hasn't been heard of for some time.
But you will have to ascertain the precise locality of the treasure for yourself by translating the cipher; for I do not know it, nor does any other living man, except Jose Leirya himself.
Well, sirs, not to harrow you further by those fearful methods of making us work, we at last got into Cadiz, and escaped the English ship; but more than half of the remaining slaves died from their exertions. "Our diminished crew was replenished by a lot of men from the prisons of Spain, and among them was a man named Jose Leirya.
Pulling himself together with an effort, he said: "You have been very kind to me, young man, and I am going to recompense you by giving you the papers that I stole from Jose Leirya's cabin, also the cipher, which, when translated, will put the owner of it into the possession of that scoundrel's enormous treasure always provided, of course, that Leirya has not already returned ere this and secured it himself.
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