hip owners saw that he had honor, and that they could trust him.
He was advanced in the service, and he learned how to command a ship.

"He returned and married the widow, and went forth again to try to reap
the harvest of the sea for her, carrying with him his dreams.--He was an
honest man.

"William Phipps, the sailor, heard more and more in regard to the sunken
treasure ship, and he went to England and applied to the king for ships
and men to go in search of this mine of gold in the sea.

"Gold was then the royal want, and King James's heart was made right
glad to hear the bold adventurer's story. The king put at his command
ships and men, and young William Phipps--now Commander Phipps--went to
the white reef in the blue Bahama Sea and searched the long sea wall for
treasures faithfully, but in vain. He was compelled to return to England
as empty-handed as when he went out.

"He heard of the great admiral, the Duke of Albemarle, and was
introduced to him by William Penn. The duke heard his story, and
furnished him with the means to continue the search for the golden ship
in the coral reef.

"Ideals change into realities and will is way. Commander William
bethought him of a new plan of gaining the needed intelligence. Might
not some very old person know the place where the ship was wrecked? The
thought was light. He found an old Indian on a near island who
remembered the wreck, and who said he could pilot him to the very spot
where the ship had gone down.

"Captain William's heart was light again. With the Indian on board he
drifted to the rippling waters over the reef.

"Below was a coral world in a sea as clear as the sky. Out of it
flying-fish leaped, and through it dolphins swam in pairs, and over it
sargasso drifted like cloud shadows.

"Captain William looked down. Was it over these placid waters that the
storm had made wreckage many years ago? Was it here that the exultant
Spanish sailors had felt the shock that turned joy into terror, and sent
the ship reeling down, with the spoils of Indian caciques, or of
Incarial temples, or of Andean treasures?

"The old Indian pointed to a sunken, ribbed wall in the clear sea. The
hearts of the sailors thrilled as they stood there under the fiery
noonday sky.

"Down went the divers--down!

"Up came one presently with the news--'The wreck is there; we have found
it!'

"'Search!' cried Captain William, with a glad wife and a gable house in
Boston town before