Already the two officers had bathed in the sheltered creek1, revelling2 in the warm water in spite of the fact that not so very long before they had been in dire3 peril4 in the self-same element. They recognized that there is a vast difference between "being in the ditch" involuntarily and taking a swim simply for the health-giving pleasure it affords.
And now, feeling fresh and in the best of spirits, they were about to prepare the morning meal.
"Right-o," agreed Peter, and proceeded to uncover a quantity of tinder-like wood from beneath an inverted5 bucket, where it had been placed to shelter it from the heavy dew. "I'm not very keen on the two pieces of wood method. I prefer drilling—like this."
He produced a strip of bamboo about two feet in length, with both ends rounded off. Arranging the tinder in a hollow piece of wood, he inserted one end of the bamboo, bending the latter by the pressure of his chest, which he protected by means of a hollow shell. Then, rapidly twirling the bow-shaped bamboo much after the fashion of a centre-brace, he persevered6 with the operation. Presently, thanks to the friction7, a faint smoke arose from the heap of tinder. Gently blowing, he still continued to revolve8 the bamboo until the soft, dry wood burst into a tiny flame.
"That's the trick!" he exclaimed triumphantly9. "It takes a lot of doing, I admit; but with a little practice one soon learns the knack10 of it. Now for breakfast: cold boiled fowl11, taro12 bread and eggs roasted in hot ashes—how will that do?"
"Scrumptious!" declared Burgoyne. "You must be rated chef of this establishment, old son."
Mostyn shook his head.
"It's all very fine when you do it for fun," he said. "When it's a matter of routine it's deadly monotonous13. I vote we take turns."
"I might poison the lot of us," objected Alwyn.
"I'll risk that as far as I'm concerned," declared Peter cheerfully. "Now, then, let's search for eggs. There are dozens under the bushes. This island's like Covent Garden or Leadenhall Market. It's a wonder to me how these birds get here. Few of them seem to be able to fly."
With keen appetites, the four castaways sat down to breakfast. Deftly14 Peter extricated15 the eggs from the warm embers and distributed them amongst the hungry crew. Then in the height of his culinary triumph came the anti-climax. Every egg was addled16.
"We're not running a parliamentary election, Mr. Mostyn," declared Hilda, when the high-flavoured relics17 of by-gone days were consigned18 to the sea.
"Aren't we, though?" rejoined Peter. "Burgoyne was proposing the election of a chef. I'm disqualified straight away, so that's all right."
"I believe you knew they were duds," said Alwyn.
"'Pon my word, no," replied Mostyn emphatically.
"Another time you might try the water-test," suggested Hilda. "If they float in fresh water, then they are either stale or bad. New laid ones ought to sink."
"Thanks," said Mostyn. "I'll try and bear that in mind. Now, Miss Vivian, cold fowl? Sorry there's no bread sauce, and I've mislaid the salt."
"We'll try and obtain salt by evaporation," suggested Burgoyne. "How about that bully19 beef with the fowl? It won't keep, and it's a bit salt, too."
Breakfast over, Alwyn proposed a thorough exploration of the island—a task interrupted on the previous day when Mostyn was found. Burgoyne had great ideas about keeping all hands busy. Provided they had plenty to do to occupy their minds, they would be happy enough. He had a horror of "slacking", contending that it was the first step towards discontent and misery20; and the possibility of each of the castaways being at loggerheads with everyone else was to be sternly discouraged.
Accordingly the four set out on their tour of investigation21. The men went barefooted. Their footgear was worn out, but, as Alwyn remarked, they might just as well get accustomed to do without as wait. Hilda's shoes were badly worn. She had left the secret base wearing canvas deck-shoes already rather dilapidated. At Mostyn's suggestion they tore strips of canvas, which the girl bound round her shoes. This, she found, wore remarkably22 well, but Mostyn promised to find an early opportunity of making her a pair of leather sandals, for which he intended using the leather from the oars23.
Burgoyne took with him his revolver. He had carefully dried it after its immersion24. The cartridges25, being well greased and guaranteed damp-proof, should be serviceable, but his reserve of ammunition26 was too small to justify27 a trial.
Mostyn carried a coil of rope that had once been the boat's halliard. Beyond remarking that it might be useful, he gave no reason for this apparently28 unnecessary encumbrance29.
Jasper Minalto took his improvised30 fish-spear, which quickly proved to be of use in clearing a path through the brush-wood.
Following a narrow glade31 which had been recently traversed by a number of hoofed32 animals whose tracks were fairly well defined, the quartette walked in single file, Burgoyne leading, followed by Peter; then Hilda and Minalto bringing up the rear.
Their first objective was the hillock Burgoyne had previously33 noticed from farther along shore. It stood well above the palm tops, rising abruptly34 on three sides and shelving gradually towards the east. A few coco-palms grew on the southern side, but elsewhere it was covered with comparatively short grass.
Arriving at the summit, the explorers found that the island was but a mile or so broad but nearly twice that distance in length, the land on the north side forming a long tapering35 neck averaging but a hundred yards in width, with the whole of the neck thickly wooded. It was on this strip of land that Burgoyne, Hilda, and Minalto had come ashore36.
The reef entirely37 surrounded the island, although there were numerous gaps affording a communication between the open sea and the lagoon38. It was on the edge of one of these channels that the life-boat struck. Had she been a couple of yards more to the south'ard she might have driven ashore on the island with very little damage, or none at all had she been swept into the small harbour where Mostyn was fortunate enough to land.
As the tide was almost at its ebb39 all the outlying reefs were exposed, disclosing a veritable death-trap for any vessel40 unfortunate enough to become entangled41 in the intricate shoals. At high-water the reefs surrounding the smaller island that Burgoyne had previously noticed were awash, only the mere42 hummock43 crowned by three palm trees being visible.
"There's one disadvantage that this island has and which Porfirio's island hasn't," observed Burgoyne. "In calm weather a boat can land here almost anywhere. Properly we ought to maintain a look-out station on this hill, especially if the pirates do attempt to find us."
"Do you think they will?" asked Hilda.
"They may try," replied Alwyn. "That's almost a foregone conclusion. But they'll think we've tried to make Honolulu, which is the nearest known civilized44 town in this part of the Pacific. If so, they're right off their course."
"Why didn't we?" inquired the girl.
"Head wind and adverse45 current almost the whole distance," said Burgoyne laconically46.
"I'm not questioning your seamanship, Mr. Burgoyne," Hilda hastened to add, imagining by the Third Officer's somewhat brusque reply that he thought she had cast aspersions upon his sound judgment47.
"I never had the slightest idea that you did, Miss Vivian," rejoined Alwyn earnestly. "I ought to have explained. Briefly48, in a sailing craft the shortest distance between two ports is not always the quickest passage. One must take prevailing49 winds and currents into consideration But to get to the look-out question. I think we ought to make a point of having someone up here four times a day, just to make sure that no suspicious craft is bearing down on the island. And there's another question: will Porfirio make use of that seaplane of his to try and spot us?"
"That'll be awkward," remarked Peter "unless we can collar the blighter when she's sitting."
"Not much use that," said Alwyn. "None of us could fly the thing even if we did capture it. No, I don't want to see that seaplane again except through the sight of an anti-aircraft gun. Now, suppose we push on."
"Aren't we going to give the island a name, Mr. Burgoyne?" inquired Hilda. "It's the usual thing, I believe."
"Right-o," agreed Alwyn. "I propose we leave the selection of a name to you."
"Then why not 'Swan Island'," said the girl. "From here the outline looks awfully50 like a swan with an exaggerated neck."
"So it does," agreed Peter. "Done it in one, Miss Vivian."
"An' thet rock out along," said Minalto. "Ut ought to have a name. They three trees make un look like an ole man-o-war. How'd 'Man-o-war Rock' suit?"
"The very ticket," agreed Burgoyne. "So that's that."
Descending51 the hill, the four castaways proceeded in the direction of the west side of Swan Island. Here the coco-palms were thinner in point of number, but the scrub was if anything denser52 than on the eastern side.
Suddenly there was a commotion53 in the undergrowth, and three or four fat porkers dashed frantically54 across the path.
"Pork for supper!" shouted Peter. In his excitement he hurled55 the coil of rope at the animals, without doing the slightest good.
But before the last pig had disappeared in the brushwood Jasper hurled his spear with tremendous force. The aim was good, and the nail-shod tip struck the luckless animal just behind the fore-quarters.
Squealing56 horribly; the pig rolled over on its side but before Jasper or anyone else could secure the prize it recovered its feet and dived under the thick scrub.
Reckless of the consequences and loth to lose the brute57, Minalto crawled under the spiky58 bushes, while Burgoyne and Mostyn made their way round the patch of scrub in order to try to cut off the wounded animal's retreat. Hilda, holding her hands to her ears to shut out the piteous squeals59, remained on the path.
The two officers were baulked in their attempt, for on the remote side of the belt of scrub the ground rose steeply to a height of about twenty feet, running right and left in an almost unbroken wall of soft rock.
"The brute can't climb that," declared Alwyn. "You stop here, Peter, old son. I'll work round to the other side and we've got him cold. How goes it, Jasper?" he shouted to the intensely excited and exasperated60 Minalto, whose efforts to follow the pig were considerably61 hampered62 by hundreds of aggressive thorns.
"'E be gone down to girt big hole, sir," replied Minalto breathlessly. "Don't 'ee take on. Us'll get 'un."
"A hole, did you say?" inquired Burgoyne. "Go slow then."
"Ay, ay, sir," replied Jasper; then after a pause he added: "Could you be comin' here, sir? If so, would 'ee bring my spear?"
Alwyn agreed to the suggestion rather hesitatingly. In default of suitable spare clothing, he was reluctant to sacrifice his already ragged63 garments to the attentions of the spiky thorns. Recovering the weapon that had wounded the pig, he crawled under the thicket64 until he rejoined Jasper.
Sounding with the pole, Minalto found that the floor of the hole or cave was level, but the extreme reach of the spear failed to find the extremity65 of the hollow. The while the squeals of the porker were growing fainter and fainter, showing that it was on the point of death.
"What's doing, old son?" inquired Mostyn from afar.
"Come and see, my festive," replied Burgoyne. "No more of your 'wait and see' business. Bring your rope with you."
Undergoing more than his fair share of laceration, Peter crawled under the brushwood. The three men crouched66 in the dim light that filtered through the thicket, and silently contemplated67 the mouth of the cave.
Minalto looked upon it as a place where fresh pork was to be obtained and that soon; Peter, in the light of romance, tried to conjure68 up visions of the long-gone buccaneers; Alwyn, in view of possibilities, regarded it and its approach as a hiding-place should Black Strogoff and his satellites succeed in finding the castaways.
"May as well see the thing through," observed Burgoyne. "It's no use hanging on to the slack."
"Certainly, sir," agreed Minalto, and proceeded to secure the rope round his waist by means of a bowline. "Du you pay out, sir, 'n case there's a big drop."
Prodding69 the ground with the haft of his spear, Jasper cautiously entered the cave. For the first eight or ten paces the sides of the tunnel-like entrance were fairly regular and less than a yard apart. Then he found that the cave expanded both in height and width, until it was impossible even with the spear to reach from one wall to the other. Standing70 upright, Minalto found that he could just touch the roof with his extended hand.
Guided by the faint squeals, Jasper followed the right-hand wall until his knees came in contact with what he thought to be a large ledge71 of rock. Groping with his hands, he discovered that the obstruction72 was a large box with a hinged lid.
Instantly all thoughts of the pig vanished from the man's mind, and again the long-dormant strain derived73 from his wrecking74 and smuggling75 ancestors reasserted itself.
"Ho! ho!" he shouted in stentorian76 tones. "We'm in luck, sir. Treasure an' all!"
He fumbled77 with the lid, then, struck by the thought that a lot of the glamour78 of the discovery of hidden specie and bullion79 would be lost unless he viewed his find in the glare of a torch, he retraced80 his footsteps and rejoined Alwyn and Peter.
"Girt sea-chest!" he announced excitedly. "Lifted 'en lid, I did."
"And the pig?" asked the matter-of-fact Burgoyne.
"Drat that pig!" exclaimed Minalto explosively. "The chest, sir. Ef us had a light, like... sort o' torch, now say?"
"How about it, Peter?" asked Alwyn, turning to the Wireless81 Officer.
"We'll manage that," replied Mostyn confidently. "Let's get out of the thicket. Suppose we ought to beat a clear path through this stuff?"
Burgoyne shook his head.
"No," he decided82; "we won't disturb it more than necessary. The less we do the better. If we're careful we ought to be able to take a lighted torch into the cave without setting fire to the brushwood outside."
Returning to the open, they explained the delay to Hilda, whose eagerness to explore the cave was only quelled83 by the knowledge that the dying pig was somewhere in that gloomy vault84. She would have endured the thorny85 passage without complaint; but there were limits, and the expiring porker was beyond them.
Hurrying back to the camp, Mostyn returned with his fire-making gear, and proceeded to work. Meanwhile Burgoyne and Minalto had wrenched86 off some resinous87 branches to serve as torches.
"All ready!" announced Peter.
With a torch burning faintly, Minalto forced his way under the scrub, Burgoyne and Mostyn following in his tracks. At the mouth of the cave they coaxed88 the flames into greater activity, and from it lighted two more torches.
Jasper advanced boldly. He had been there before. His companions followed cautiously, until the glare of the reddish flames revealed the treasure-chest.
It was in fairly good condition, having been painted white with a black lid. There were rope beckets at each end, rove through two large half-round wooden chocks.
The lid creaked on its hinges as Jasper threw it back. Then he gave a howl of disappointment. All the chest contained was a rusty89 cutlass, a clay pipe with a broken stem, and a number of brown paper bundles containing candles all stuck together by the heat.
"So much for your treasure, Jasper!" said Burgoyne with a laugh. "Never mind; we found something useful, the candles especially."
"P'raps 'en buried et," suggested Minalto hopefully, casting anxious glances at the walls and floor of the cave.
Burgoyne made no remark. He was deeply interested in the construction of the cave. It was partly natural and partly artificial. Human hands had enlarged the entrance and "faired off" the walls. In length it was about forty feet, and twenty in breadth, with a hewn pillar in the centre to give greater support to the roof. Except for the chest there were no other relics of the previous occupier. In one corner lay the pig, by this time quite dead.
"No use stopping here," decided Alwyn. "Bend that rope round the pig, Minalto, and we'll haul the brute out. Yes, bring the cutlass, Peter, and a couple of packets of candles. The others can stop, in case we want them here."
"Want them here?" repeated Mostyn.
"Rather," replied his chum. "This cave will make an ideal retreat if we have to hide. I hope we shan't, but we must look things fairly in the face. That's why I didn't want the brushwood cleared away. Had it not been for the pig we should not have found the cave, and so most likely no one else will."
"Someone did at one time," remarked Peter.
"Yes, but how long ago we don't know, unless that cutlass gives us a clue. I'll have a look at it when we get into the open. You see, the person or persons who enlarged this place threw the excavated90 material on a mound91 just outside. That shows they hadn't any idea of concealing92 the cave. Since then this scrub has sprung up and hidden it. Now then, Jasper, all ready? Heave away!"
At the mouth of the cave they extinguished their torches, leaving them leaning against the wall in case they might be required again. Then, carrying and hauling their various trophies93, the three men rejoined Hilda in the open.
"Now, where's that cutlass?" inquired Alwyn, after relating the story of how their high expectations had been thwarted94. "H'm, thought so. Our predecessors95 on Swan Island weren't so very ancient after all. This is a cutlass-bayonet, Peter, issued to the Navy in the late '70's and '80's. That ring in the guard is where the muzzle96 went, but I see the spring socket97 is rusted98 away. Nice job for you, Peter. You can clean the thing up. It'll do to carve the Christmas dinner if we're here long enough."
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