Piracy Again--

How Treasure Island Was Stocked with Bullion. Here is a sequel that takes the place of its predecessor. It is the tale of how the treasure got to Treasure Island. Not Stevenson, but Smith has written itmple story of an undermanned ship and a force gang. It was the daring plan of his great uncle, the cold, the cool, the calculating Murray, on land the inspired follower of King James, at sea the terrible pirate, Captain Rip-Rap. With young Ormerod is taken his redoubtable friend the Dutchman Peter Corlaer, a veritable Lionel Strongfort for bodily prowess. With them also goes the red-haired boy Darby to whom the taste of piracy is sweet. At sea, they join Murray's company in two ships. One of them, the Royal James, Murray's own ship, dominated by his cold cruelty, is as disciplined as a ship of the line. The other, the Wal- rus, under Captain Flint, contains the ruffianly crew of drunken, careless, filthy, fighting buccaneers, whom Stevenson made famous. There is Long John Silver, the one-legged, still as ingratiating, still as desperate as ever. There is Pew, the crafty blindman, who sees with his ears. There is Billy Bones, the mate. Southward the two vessels sail. Captain Murray is intent on capturing that year's Spanish treasure ship, sailing from Porto Bello, laden with a million and a half pounds of bullion. Flint and his rum-swigging crew are to receive a quarter of the prize; the crew of the Royal James is to receive a quarter; and a round half is to go to the cause of King James to restore the Stuarts and to make Master Ormerod "my Lord Duke of Jedburgh, Marquis of Cobbielaw, Earl and Baron Broomfield." Unfortunately, Master Ormerod has no stomach for piracy, cares nought for dukedoms and is thoroughly incensed at the idea of bringing aboard a pirate ship an innocent maid, the daughter of an Irish colonel who is a follower of King James and who helps to set the trap for the treasure ship. But Murray has his way. The Santissima Trinidad, laden to the waterline with bullion, falls victim to the pirates off Hispaniola. From its deck, Master Ormerod carries the fair maid Moira to the Royal James. Then trouble begins. Half of the treasure is buried on -the sandy dot of land in the Caribbees, dangerous to shippingo the worst blasphemer : "A fool agreement, if you broach it now ! A of a piece of idiocy !" Flint buries the treasure sland. As a piece of literature, it falls short of Stevenson's, art. But the tale never lags ; it is bloody enough for the best of us. The Author. A. D. Howden Smith, a special correspondent of the New York Evening. Post till 1921, has writ ten a number of other adventure stories LOSE_P]