"What is yoh plan?"

"With a few men of your own choosing you will take the San Matteo trail
and meet them as they come back. It should be no great thing to take
them."

"Ah reckon not. And what am ah to do with them?"

"Take them on the Marjorie."

"And then?"

"That is for you to decide," replied the lawyer. "Whatever you like. All
that is desired is that they do not come back. You understand?"

"Perfectly. Yoh can be shuah they won't trouble anyone any mo'."

"Oh, they don't trouble me any," responded the lawyer. "This is a
government matter. He is shipping guns and ammunition into Cuba. We
represent the Cuban revolutionists."

"Ah see," the captain laughed. "Yoh represent the government." He was
about to say more but thought better of it, but his thought was--the
government is looking for that sugar plantation.

"If you do this and make no blunder, the Marjorie may be yours."

"So," mused the captain. "The plantation is bigger than I thought."

"She is fully provisioned," went on the lawyer, "and the old armament is
all aboard, stowed away in the hold. You can pick up a crew I suppose?"

"Ah reckon ah can, if any of the old boys are around. Ah'll take a look
down around the Barbary coast."

"Then you understand the first thing you have to do?"

"Ah reckon ah do."

"Now, do you know Professor Featheringstone--?"

"Never mind the rest," the captain broke in. "Yoh mean a mining sharp
that was down in the South Seas?"

"That's the man. Broome says that he has a chart of a treasure island
which lies down that way, and he is going down to locate it."

"Broome is?"

"No, the professor. Broome has been trying to get hold of the chart, but
hasn't been able. Now, the professor is going out to search for the
treasure in the Storm King. He has a lot of boys, the Frontier Boys,
they call them."

"Ah have heard of them," said the captain, thoughtfully.

"Perhaps," suggested the lawyer, "after you have captured the senor, you
might follow the Storm King and get the chart."

"Ah see," returned the captain, "but," shaking his head, "that will be
difficult."

"Not so difficult when you know the arrangements made. There will be on
board the Storm King a friend of yours. He is to secure, if he can, the
chart. All the particulars of the arrangement you will find in this
letter. Read it carefully and follow out every detail."

"Anything more?"

"Yes. Here is the contract. You will read carefully and si