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Updated: June 10, 2025
I am afraid of our race for representative. Dr. Knapp has become a candidate; and I fear the few votes he will get will be taken from us. Also some one has been tampering with old squire Wyckoff, and induced him to send in his name to be announced as a candidate. Francis refused to announce him without seeing him, and now I suppose there is to be a fuss about it.
With the bright moonlight they'd see us a mile away. Wouldn't Lopez have a fit if he saw us?" Luckily Lopez and Wyckoff were too much occupied with their own affairs to investigate the neighborhood for possible spectators. They immediately put the men shoveling sand at a great pace. "I hope they don't dig it up all at once," declared Tom. "Look at the way they go at it," he cried.
Leaving the foreman to superintend the matter of replacing the plank where Wyckoff had bored the hole in his dastardly effort to sink the Fortuna and her crew, the boys took a boat from the Fortuna and rowed up to the leaning oak. From thence it was easy enough with Rowdy's aid to trail the route to the site of the cabin in the clearing.
"What are you expecting to do with us?" inquired Arnold, who was longing to get at the throat of his jailor. "Well, Wyckoff hasn't decided yet," replied Lopez. "He has found out that it's a mighty uncomfortable job keeping prisoners and feeding them. He couldn't keep this other boy on the schooner for it was too public. When you came chasing into port, he got scared. I was uncomfortable, too.
"If Wyckoff tries any of his dirty tricks around here, we'll fill him so full of holes he'll leak straw." "You don't know him," shuddered the boy. "He's a desperate man. He shot a nigger once just because the fellow disputed Wyckoff about a match. He's a bad, bad man. I know him." "And still he had the nerve to tell us on Petit Bois that his hands were clean," scornfully declared Jack.
Good old dog." It was even as Frank had said. Rowdy had overtaken the fleeing villain and brought him to earth. Now he was walking about the prostrate form, occasionally stepping in and taking a nip at an arm or a leg. Wyckoff, thoroughly cowed, was begging and whining at a great rate. At the approach of the boys he begged piteously. "Let him get up, Rowdy!" commanded Jack.
"Youall want that Spanish Treasure Chest, but you won't get it," savagely vociferated Lopez. "That chest belongs to us." "Well then," cried Harry with some heat, "why don't you go on and get it instead of annoying a party of boys who are here for a pleasant outing. You make me tired. You act foolish." "Don't you insult me," almost screamed Lopez. "I'll let Wyckoff settle with you for this.
I have another idea," Jack put in, "but it's so foolish that we better forget it. Anyhow, I believe the fellow tried to say that the box was buried just at the high water mark." "All right, let it go at that," returned Harry. "If the box is there and the trees are there, that's all we want. We can get it." "If Wyckoff and his gang don't get there first."
"I saw several of those big flat bottomed oyster boats a ways back as I came to your vessel some time ago. I believe with a little persuasion I could get one." "Will it take us all?" inquired Harry anxiously. "I believe it will and more, too, if necessary." "Then let's get it and be away. I'm getting nervous about the delay. I can understand why Wyckoff gets excited at strangers."
I had made up my mind to try to drag it to the water and row to the mainland if no one came soon, but your arrival drove all thoughts of it from me. It is back here just a short distance." "Wyckoff was telling me that boats were sometimes washed ashore on these islands. That reminded me of it. I wonder if it wouldn't be a good idea to ask Mr. Wyckoff to drag the boat to the water for us.
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