The Complete Juvenilia of H. P. Lovecraft by H. P. Lovecraft

Author:H. P. Lovecraft [Lovecraft, H. P.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-04-11T17:48:55+00:00

The Little Glass Bottle

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Written: circa 1898 - 1899

First Published in The Shuttered Room and Other Pieces.

Compiled by August Derleth. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1959, Pages 45–46

“Heave to, there’s something floating to the leeward,” the speaker was a short stockily built man whose name was William Jones. He was the captain of a small cat boat in which he and a party of men were sailing at the time the story opens.

“Aye aye, Sir,” answered John Towers, and the boat was brought to a stand still. Captain Jones reached out his hand for the object, which he now discerned to be a glass bottle.

“Nothing but a rum flask that the men on a passing boat threw over,” he said, but from an impulse of curiosity he reached out for it. It was a rum flask and he was about to throw it away when he noticed a piece of paper in it. He pulled it out and on it read the following:

Jan 1 1864

I am John Jones who writes this letter. My ship is fast sinking with a treasure on board. I am where it is marked * on the enclosed chart.

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