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Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson Part 1 · Robert Louis Stevenson Classics Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Chapter one, at the Admiral Benbow, Squirelawney, Doctor Livesey, and
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  Speaker 1: the rest of these gentlemen, having asked me to write
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  Speaker 1: down the whole particulars about Treasure Island from the beginning
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  Speaker 1: to the end, keeping nothing back but the bearings of
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  Speaker 1: the island, and that only because there is still treasure
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  Speaker 1: not yet lifted. I take up my pen in the
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  Speaker 1: year of Grace seventeen HM, and go back to the
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  Speaker 1: time when my father kept the Admiral Benbow Inn, and
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  Speaker 1: the brown old seaman with the saber cut first took
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  Speaker 1: up his lodging under our roof. I remember him as
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  Speaker 1: if it were yesterday, as he came plodding to the
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  Speaker 1: inn door, his sea chest following behind him in a
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  Speaker 1: hand barrow, A tall, strong, heavy nut brown man, his
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  Speaker 1: tarry pigtail falling over the shoulders of his soiled blue coat,
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  Speaker 1: his hands ragged and scarred with dirty broken nails, and
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  Speaker 1: the saber cut across one cheek, a dirty, livid white.
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  Speaker 1: I remember him looking round the cove and whistling to
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  Speaker 1: himself as he did so, and then breaking out in
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  Speaker 1: that old sea song that he sang so often afterwards.
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  Speaker 1: Fifty men on a dead man's chest, Yo ho ho,
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  Speaker 1: and a bottle of rum in the high, old tottering
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  Speaker 1: voice that seemed to have been tuned and broken at
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  Speaker 1: the capstan bars. Then he rapped on the door with
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  Speaker 1: a bit of a stick like a hand spike that
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  Speaker 1: he carried, and when my father appeared, called roughly for
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  Speaker 1: a glass of rum. This when it was brought to him,
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  Speaker 1: he drank slowly like a connoisseur, lingering on the taste,
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  Speaker 1: and still looking about him at the cliffs and up
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  Speaker 1: at our signboard. This is a handy cove, says he
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  Speaker 1: at length, and a pleasant cityated grog shop. Much company, mate,
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  Speaker 1: my father told him, non, very little company. The more
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  Speaker 1: was the pity. Well, then, says he, this is the
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  Speaker 1: berth for me. Here, you matey, he cried to the
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  Speaker 1: man who trumbled the barrow, Bring up a longside and
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  Speaker 1: help up my chest. I'll stay here a bit, he continued.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a plain man. Rum and bacon and eggs is
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  Speaker 1: what I want. And that head up there to watch
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  Speaker 1: ships off? What you monk called me? You munk called
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  Speaker 1: me captain. Oh, I see what you're at there, And
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  Speaker 1: he threw down three or four gold pieces on the threshold.
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  Speaker 1: You can tell me when I've worked through that, said he,
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  Speaker 1: looking as fierce as a commander, and indeed bad as
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  Speaker 1: his clothes were, and coarsely as he spoke. He had
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  Speaker 1: none of the appearance of a man who sailed before
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  Speaker 1: the mast, but see seemed like a mate or a skipper,
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  Speaker 1: accustomed to be obeyed or to strike. The man who
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  Speaker 1: came with the barrow told us the male had set
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  Speaker 1: him down the morning before at the Royal George, that
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  Speaker 1: he had inquired what inns were along the coast, and
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  Speaker 1: hearing ours well spoken of, I suppose, and described as lonely,
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  Speaker 1: had chosen it from the others for his place of residence.
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  Speaker 1: And that was all we could learn of our guest.
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  Speaker 1: He was a very silent man by custom. All day
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  Speaker 1: he hung round the cove or upon the cliffs with
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  Speaker 1: a brass telescope. All evening he sat in the corner
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  Speaker 1: of the parlor next the fire, and drank rum and
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  Speaker 1: water very strong. Mostly he would not speak when spoken to,
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  Speaker 1: only look up sudden and fierce, and blow through his
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  Speaker 1: nose like a fog horn. And we and the people
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  Speaker 1: who came about our house soon learned to let him
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  Speaker 1: be every day when he came back from his stroll,
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  Speaker 1: he would ask if any sea ferry man had gone
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  Speaker 1: by along the road. At first we thought it was
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  Speaker 1: the want of company of his own kind that made
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  Speaker 1: him ask this question, but at last we began to
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  Speaker 1: see he was desirous to avoid them. When a seaman
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  Speaker 1: put up the admiral benbow, and now and then some
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  Speaker 1: did making by the coast road for Bristol. He would
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  Speaker 1: look in at him through the curtained door before he
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  Speaker 1: entered the parlor, and he was always sure to be
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  Speaker 1: as silent as a mouse when any such was present.
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  Speaker 1: For me, at least, there was no secret about the matter,
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  Speaker 1: for I was, in a way a sharer in his alarms.
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  Speaker 1: He had taken me aside one day and promised me
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  Speaker 1: a silver forpenny on the first of every month, if
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  Speaker 1: I would only keep my whever eye open for a
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  Speaker 1: seafery man with one leg and let him know the moment.
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  Speaker 1: He appeared often enough. When the first of the month
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  Speaker 1: came round and I applied to him for my wage,
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  Speaker 1: he would ow only blow through his nose at me
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  Speaker 1: and stare me down. But before the week was out
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  Speaker 1: he was sure to think better of it, bring me
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  Speaker 1: my fourpenny piece, and repeat his orders to look out
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  Speaker 1: for the sea fairy man with one leg. How that
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  Speaker 1: personage haunted my dreams, I need scarcely tell you. On
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  Speaker 1: stormy nights, when the wind shook the four corners of
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  Speaker 1: the house, and the surf roared along the cove and
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  Speaker 1: up the cliffs, I would see him in a thousand
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  Speaker 1: forms and with a thousand diabolical expressions. Now the leg
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  Speaker 1: would be cut off at the knee, now at the hip.
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  Speaker 1: Now he was a monstrous kind of a creature who
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  Speaker 1: never had but one leg, and that in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of his body. To see him leap and run and
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  Speaker 1: pursue me over the hedge and ditch was the worst
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  Speaker 1: of nightmares. And altogether I paid pretty dear for my
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  Speaker 1: monthly fourpenny piece in the shape of these uble fantasies.
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  Speaker 1: But though I was so terrified by the idea of
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  Speaker 1: the seafaring man with one leg, I was far less
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  Speaker 1: afraid of the Captain himself than anybody else who knew him.
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  Speaker 1: There were nights when he took a great deal more
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  Speaker 1: rum and water than his head would carry, And then
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  Speaker 1: he would sometimes sit and sing his wicked old wild
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  Speaker 1: sea songs, minding nobody. But sometimes he would call for
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  Speaker 1: glasses round and force all the trembling company to listen
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  Speaker 1: to his stories or bear a chorus to his singing.
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  Speaker 1: Often I have heard the house shaking with yo, ho ho,
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  Speaker 1: and a bottle of rum, all the neighbors joining in
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  Speaker 1: for dear life, with the fear of death upon them,
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  Speaker 1: and each singing louder than the other to avoid remark.
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  Speaker 1: For in these fits he was the most overriding companion
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  Speaker 1: ever known. He would slap his hand on the table
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  Speaker 1: for silence all around. He would fly up in a
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  Speaker 1: passion of anger at a question, or sometimes because none
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  Speaker 1: was put, and so he judged the company was not
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  Speaker 1: following his story. Nor would he allow anyone to leave
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  Speaker 1: the inn till he had drunk himself sleepy and reeled
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  Speaker 1: off to bed. His stories were what frightened people worst
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  Speaker 1: of all dreadful stories. They were about hanging and walking
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  Speaker 1: the plank, and storms at sea, and the dry ortugas,
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  Speaker 1: and wild deeds and places on the Spanish main. By
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  Speaker 1: his own account, he must have lived his life among
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  Speaker 1: some of the wickedest men that God ever allowed upon
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  Speaker 1: the sea, and the language in which he told these
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  Speaker 1: stories shocked our plain country people almost as much as
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  Speaker 1: the crimes that he described. My father was always saying
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  Speaker 1: the inn would be ruined, for people would soon cease
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  Speaker 1: coming there, to be tyrannized over and put down and
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  Speaker 1: sent shivering to their beds. But I really believe his
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  Speaker 1: presence did us good. People were frightened at the time,
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  Speaker 1: but on looking back, they rather liked it. It was
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  Speaker 1: a fine excitement in a quiet country life. And there
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  Speaker 1: was even a party of the younger men who pretended
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  Speaker 1: to admire him, calling him a true sea dog and
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  Speaker 1: a real old salt, and such like names, and saying
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  Speaker 1: there was the sort of man that made England terrible
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  Speaker 1: at sea. In one way, indeed, he bad fair to
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  Speaker 1: ruin us, for he kept on staying week after week,
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  Speaker 1: and at last month after month, so that all the
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  Speaker 1: money had been long exhausted, and still my father never
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  Speaker 1: plucked up the heart to insist on having more. If
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  Speaker 1: ever he mentioned it, the captain blew through his nose
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  Speaker 1: so loudly that you might say that he roared and
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  Speaker 1: stared my poor father out of the room. I have
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  Speaker 1: seen him wringing his hands after such a rebuff, and
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  Speaker 1: I am sure the annoyance and the terror he lived
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  Speaker 1: in must have greatly hated his early and unhappy death.
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  Speaker 1: All the time he lived with us, the captain made
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  Speaker 1: no change whatever in his dress, but to buy some
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  Speaker 1: stockings from a hawker. One of the cocks of his
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  Speaker 1: hat having fallen down, he let it hang from that
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  Speaker 1: day forth, though it was a great annoyance when it blew.
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  Speaker 1: I remember the appearance of his coat, which he patched
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  Speaker 1: himself upstairs in his room, and which before the end
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  Speaker 1: was nothing but patches. He never wrote or received a letter,
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  Speaker 1: and he never spoke with any but the neighbors, and
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  Speaker 1: with these for the most part, only when drunk on
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  Speaker 1: rum the great sea chest none of us had ever
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  Speaker 1: seen open. He was only once crossed, and that was
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  Speaker 1: toward the end, when my father was far gone in
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  Speaker 1: a decline that took him off. Doctor Livesey came late
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  Speaker 1: one afternoon to see the patient, took a bit of
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  Speaker 1: dinner from my mother, and went into the parlor to
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  Speaker 1: smoke a pipe until his horse should come from the hamlet,
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  Speaker 1: for we had no stabling at the old benbo. I
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  Speaker 1: followed him in, and I remember observing the contrast the
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  Speaker 1: neat bright doctor, with his powder as white as snow,
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  Speaker 1: and his bright black eyes and pleasant manners made with
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  Speaker 1: the Coltish country folk, and above all that filthy, heavy
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  Speaker 1: bleared scarecrow of a pirate of ours, sitting far gone
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  Speaker 1: in rum with his arms on the table. Suddenly he,
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  Speaker 1: the Captain, that is, began to pipe his eternal song,
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  Speaker 1: fifteen men on a dead man's chest, Yo ho, and
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  Speaker 1: a bottle of rum drink, and the devil have done
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  Speaker 1: further rest yoo, and a bottle love rum. At first
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  Speaker 1: I had supposed the dead man's chest to be that
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  Speaker 1: identical big box of his upstairs in the front room,
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  Speaker 1: and the thought had been mingled in my nightmares with
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  Speaker 1: that of the one legged seafaring man. But by this
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  Speaker 1: time we had all long ceased to pay any particular
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  Speaker 1: notice to the song. It was new that night to
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  Speaker 1: nobody but Doctor Livesey, and on him I observe it
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  Speaker 1: did not produce an agreeable effect, for he looked up
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  Speaker 1: for a moment quite angrily, before he went on with
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  Speaker 1: his talk to Old Taylor the gardener on a new
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  Speaker 1: cure for roematics. In the meantime, the Captain gradually brightened
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  Speaker 1: up at his own music, and at last flapped his
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  Speaker 1: hand upon the table before him, in a way we
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  Speaker 1: all knew to mean silence. The voices stopped at once,
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  Speaker 1: all but Doctor Livesey's. He went on as before, speaking
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  Speaker 1: clear and kind, and drawing briskly at his pipe. Between
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  Speaker 1: every word or two, the captain glared at him for
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  Speaker 1: a while, flapped his hand again, glared still harder, and
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  Speaker 1: at last broke out with a villainous oath. Silence there
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  Speaker 1: between decks, you were addressing me, sar, said the doctor.
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  Speaker 1: And when the Ruffian had told him with another oath
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  Speaker 1: that this was so, replied, I have only one thing
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  Speaker 1: to say to you, sir, that if you keep on
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  Speaker 1: drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a
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  Speaker 1: very dirty scoundrel. The old fellow's fury was awful. He
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  Speaker 1: sprang to his feet, drew and opened a sailor's clasp knife, and,
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  Speaker 1: balancing it open on the palm of his hand, threatened
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  Speaker 1: to pin the doctor to the wall. The doctor never
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  Speaker 1: so much as moved. He spoke to him as before,
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  Speaker 1: over his shoulder, and in the same tone of voice,
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  Speaker 1: rather high so that all the room might hear, but
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  Speaker 1: perfectly calm and steady, if you do not put that
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  Speaker 1: knife this instant into your pocket, I promise upon my honor,
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  Speaker 1: you shall hang at the next assizes. Then followed a
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  Speaker 1: battle of looks between them, but the Captain soon knuckled under,
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  Speaker 1: put up his weapon, and resumed his seat, grumbling like
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  Speaker 1: a beaten dog. And now, Sir, continued the doctor, since
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  Speaker 1: I now know there's such a fellow in my district,
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  Speaker 1: you may count I'll have an eye upon you day
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  Speaker 1: and night. I'm not a doctor, only, I'm a magistrate.
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  Speaker 1: And if I catch a breath of complaint against you,
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  Speaker 1: if it's only for a piece of incivility like to nights,
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  Speaker 1: I'll take effectual means to have you hunted down and
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  Speaker 1: routed out of this let that suffice. Soon after, doctor
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  Speaker 1: Livesey's horse came to the door, and he rode away.
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  Speaker 1: But the Captain held his peace that evening and for
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  Speaker 1: many evenings to come. And of chapter one, Chapter two,
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  Speaker 1: black Dog appears and disappears. It was not very long
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  Speaker 1: after this that there occurred the first of the mysterious
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  Speaker 1: events that rid us at last of the Captain, though
• 14:14
  Speaker 1: not as you will see of his affairs. It was
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  Speaker 1: a bitter cold winter with long, hard frosts and heavy gales,
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  Speaker 1: and it was plain from the first that my poor
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  Speaker 1: father was little likely to see the spring. He sank daily,
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  Speaker 1: and my mother and I had all the inn upon
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  Speaker 1: our hands, and were kept busy enough without paying much
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  Speaker 1: regard to our unpleasant guest. It was one January morning,
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  Speaker 1: very early, a pinching frosty morning, the cove all gray
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  Speaker 1: with hoar frost, the ripple lapping softly on the stones,
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  Speaker 1: the sun still low and only touching the hilltops and
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  Speaker 1: shining far to seaward. The Captain had risen earlier than
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  Speaker 1: you usual, and sat out down the beach, his cutlass
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  Speaker 1: swinging under the broad skirts of the old blue coat,
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  Speaker 1: his brass telescope under his arm, his hat tilted back
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  Speaker 1: upon his head. I remember his breath hanging like smoke
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  Speaker 1: in his wake as he strode off, and the last
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  Speaker 1: sound I heard of him as he turned the big
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  Speaker 1: rock was a loud snort of indignation, as though his
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  Speaker 1: mind was still running upon doctor livesey Well. Mother was
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  Speaker 1: upstairs with father, and I was laying the breakfast table
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  Speaker 1: against the Captain's return, when the parlor door opened and
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  Speaker 1: a man stepped in on whom I had never set
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  Speaker 1: my eyes before. He was a pale, tallowy creature, wanting
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  Speaker 1: two fingers of the left hand, and though he wore
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  Speaker 1: a cutlass, he did not look much like a fighter.
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  Speaker 1: I had always my eyes open for seafaring men with
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  Speaker 1: one leg or two, and I remember this one puzzled me.
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  Speaker 1: He was not sailory, and yet he had a smack
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  Speaker 1: of the sea about him too. I asked him what
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  Speaker 1: was for his service, and he said he would take rum.
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  Speaker 1: But as I was going out of the room to
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  Speaker 1: fetch it, he sat down upon a table and motioned
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  Speaker 1: to me to draw near. I paused where I was
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  Speaker 1: with my napkin in my hand. Come here, Sanny said
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  Speaker 1: he Come nearer.
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  Speaker 2: Here.
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  Speaker 1: I took a step nearer. Is this tire table for
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  Speaker 1: my mate Bill, he asked, with a kind of leer.
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  Speaker 1: I told him I did not know his mate Bill,
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  Speaker 1: and this was for a person who stayed at our house,
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  Speaker 1: whom we called the Captain. Well said he. My mate
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  Speaker 1: Bill would be called the Captain like as not. He
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  Speaker 1: has a cut on one cheek and a mighty pleasant
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  Speaker 1: way with him, particularly in drink. As my mate Bill,
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  Speaker 1: we'll put it for argument like that. Your captain has
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  Speaker 1: a cut on one cheek, and we'll put it if
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  Speaker 1: you like that. That cheek's the right one. Ah, well,
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  Speaker 1: I told you. Now, is my mate Bill in this
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  Speaker 1: here house. I told him he was out walking? Which way, sonny?
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  Speaker 1: Which way is he gone? And when I pointed out
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  Speaker 1: the rock and told him how the captain was likely
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  Speaker 1: to return and how soon, and answered a few other questions,
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  Speaker 1: ah said he this will be as good as drink
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  Speaker 1: to my mate Bill. The expression of his face as
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  Speaker 1: he said these words was not at all pleasant, And
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  Speaker 1: I had my own reasons for thinking that the stranger
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  Speaker 1: was mistaken, even supposing he meant what he said. But
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  Speaker 1: it was no affair of mine, I thought, And besides,
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  Speaker 1: it was difficult to know what to do. The stranger
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  Speaker 1: kept hanging about just inside the in door, peering round
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  Speaker 1: the corner like a cat waiting for a mouse. Once
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  Speaker 1: I stepped out myself into the road, but he immediately
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  Speaker 1: called me back, and as I did not obey quick
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  Speaker 1: enough for his fancy, a most horrible change came over
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  Speaker 1: his tallowy face, and he ordered me in with an
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  Speaker 1: oath that made me jump. As soon as I was
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  Speaker 1: back again, he returned to his former manner, half fawning,
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  Speaker 1: half sneering, patted me on the shoulder and told me
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  Speaker 1: I was a good boy, and he had taken quite
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  Speaker 1: a fancy to me. I have a son of my own, said,
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  Speaker 1: he as like to you as two blocks, and he's
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  Speaker 1: all the pride of my heart. But the great thing
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  Speaker 1: for boys is discipline, sonny, discipline. Now, if you had
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  Speaker 1: sailed along of Bill, you wouldn't have stood there to
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  Speaker 1: be spoke to twice, not you. That was never Bill's way,
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  Speaker 1: nor the way of sitchers sailed with him. And here,
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  Speaker 1: sure enough is my mate Bill with a spyglass under
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  Speaker 1: his arm, bless his old art. To be sure, you
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  Speaker 1: and me just go back into the parlor, sonny, and
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  Speaker 1: get behind the door, and we'll give bit a little surprise.
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  Speaker 1: Blesses he, I say again, so saying, the stranger backed
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  Speaker 1: along with me into the parlor and put me behind
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  Speaker 1: him into the corner, so that we were both hidden
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  Speaker 1: by the open door. I was very uneasy and alarmed,
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  Speaker 1: as you may fancy, but it rather added to my
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  Speaker 1: fears to observe that the stranger was certainly frightened himself.
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  Speaker 1: He cleared the hilt of his cutlass and loosened the
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  Speaker 1: blade in the sheath. And all the time we were
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  Speaker 1: waiting there, he kept swallowing, as if he felt what
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  Speaker 1: we used to call a lump in the throat. At last,
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  Speaker 1: in Strode, the captain slammed the door behind him, without
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: looking to the right, ord left, and marched straight across
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  Speaker 1: the room to where his breakfast waited him. Bill, said
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  Speaker 1: the stranger, in a voice that I thought he had
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  Speaker 1: tried to make bald and big. The captain spun round
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  Speaker 1: on his heel and fronted us. All the brown had
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  Speaker 1: gone out of his face, and even his nose was blue,
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  Speaker 1: and he had the look of a man who sees
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  Speaker 1: a ghost, or the evil one, or something worse, if
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: anything can be. And upon my word, I felt sorry
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  Speaker 1: to see him all in a moment turn so old
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  Speaker 1: and sick. Come Bill, you know me, You know an
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: old shipmate, Bill, surely, said the stranger. The captain made
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: a sort of gasp, black Dog said he, and who
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: else returned the other, getting more at his ease. Black Dog,
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: as ever, was comfort to seize our shipmate Billy at
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: the Admiral benbow inn. Oh Bill, Bill, we have seen
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: a sight of times us too, since I lost them
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: two talons, holding up his mutilated hand. Now look here,
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: said the captain. You've rum me down here, I am well,
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: then speak up. What is it that's you? Bill returned
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: black Dog. You're in the right of it, Billy. I'll
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: have a glass of rum from this dear child here,
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: as I've took such a lik into, and we'll sit
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: down if you please, and talk square like old shipmates.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: When I returned with the rum, they were already seated
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: on either side of the captain's breakfast table, black Dog
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: next to the door and sitting sideways so as to
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: have one eye on his shipmate and one as I
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: thought on his retreat. He bade me go and leave
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: the door wide open. None of your key holes for me, Sanny,
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: he said, And I left them together and retired into
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: the bar. A long time. Though I certainly did my
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: best to listen, I could hear nothing but low gabbling,
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: And at last the voices began to grow higher, and
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: I could pick up a word or two, mostly oaths
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: from the captain. No no, no, no, and an end
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: of it, he cried, once and again. If it comes
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: to swing in swing, oh say I then all of
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: a sudden there was a tremendous explosion of oaths and
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: other noises. The chair and table went over in a lump.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: A clash of steel followed, and then a cry of pain.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: And the next instant I saw black Dog in full
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: flight and the captain hotly pursuing, both with drawn cutlasses,
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: and the former streaming blood from the left shoulder. Just
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: at the door, the captain aimed at the fugitive one
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: last tremendous cut, which would certainly have split him to
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: the chin had it not been intercepted by our big
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: sign board of Admiral Benbow. You may see the notch
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: on the lower side of the frame to this day.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: That blow was the last of the battle. Once out
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: upon the road, black Dog, in spite of his wound,
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: showed a wonderful clean pair of heels and disappeared over
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: the edge of the hill in half a minute. The Captain,
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: for his part, stood staring at the sign board like
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: a bewildered man. Then he passed his hand over his
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: eyes several times, and at last turned back into the house.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: Jim says, he rum and as he spoke he reeled
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: a little and caught himself with one hand against the wall.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: Are you hurt? Cried I rum, he repeated, I must
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: get away from here, Rum Rum. I ran to fetch it,
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: but I was quite unsteadied by all that had fallen out,
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: and I broke one glass and fowled the tap. And
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: while I was still getting in my own way, I
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: heard a loud fall in the parlor, and running in
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: beheld the Captain lying full length upon the floor. At
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: the same instant, my mother, alarmed by the cries and fighting,
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: came running downstairs to help me. Between us we raised
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: his head. He was breathing very loud and hard, but
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: his eyes were closed and his face was a horrible color. Dear,
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: deary me, cried my mother, What a disgrace upon the house,
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: and your poor father's sick. In the meantime, we had
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: no idea what to do to help the captain, nor
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: any other thought but that he had got his death
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: hurt in the scuffle with the stranger. I got the
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: rum to be sure, and try to put it down
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: his throat, but his teeth were tightly shut and his
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: jaws as strong as iron. It was a happy relief
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: to us when the door opened and doctor Livesey came
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: in on his visit to my father. Oh doctor, we cried, what.
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: Shall we do?
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: Where is he wounded? Wounded a fiddlestick's end, said the doctor.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: No more wounded than your eye. The man has had
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: a stroke, as I warned him. Now, missus Hawkins, just
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: you run up stairs to your husband and tell him,
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: if possible, nothing about it. For my part, I must
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: do my best to save this fellow's trebly worthless life.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: And Jim, you get me a basin. When I got
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: back with the basin, the doctor had already ripped up
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: the captain's sleeve and exposed his great sinewy arm. It
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: was tattooed in several places. Here's luck, a fair wind,
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: and Billy Bones his fancy were very neatly and clearly executed.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: On the forearm, and up near the shoulder there was
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: a sketch of the gallows and a man hanging from it.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: Done as I thought, with great spirit prophetic, said the doctor,
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: touching this picture with his finger. And now, master Billy Bones,
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: if that be your name, we'll have a look at
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: the color of your blood. Jim, he said, are you
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: afraid of blood? No, sir, said I well, then, said he,
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: you hold the basin, And with that he took his
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: lancet and opened a vein. A great deal of blood
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: was taken before the captain opened his eyes and looked
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: mistily about him. First he recognized the doctor with an
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: unmistakable frown. Then his glance fell upon me, and he
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: looked relieved. But suddenly his color changed, and he tried
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: to raise himself, crying, where's black dog. There's no black
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: dog here, said the doctor, except what you have on
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: your own back. You have been drinking rum. You have
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: had a stroke precisely as I told you, and I
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: have just very much against my own will, dragged you
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: head foremost out of the grave. Now, mister Bones, that's
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: not my name, he interrupted, much I care, returned the doctor.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: It's the name of a buccaneer of my acquaintance, and
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: I'll call you by it for the sake of shortness.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: But what I have to say to you is this.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: One glass of rum won't kill you. But if you
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: take one, you'll take another and another, and I'll stake
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: my wig. If you don't break off short you'll die.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: Do you understand that? Die and go to your own
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: place like the man in the Bible. Come now, make
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: an effort. I'll help you to your bed. For once
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: between us, with much trouble, we managed to hoist him
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: upstairs and laid him on his bed, where his head
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: fell back on the pillow, as if he was almost fainting.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: Now mind you, said the doctor. I clear my conscience.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: The name of Rum for you is death. And with
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: that he went off to see my father, taking me
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: with him by the arm. This is nothing, he said,
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: as soon as he had closed the door. I have
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: drawn blood enough to keep him quiet a while. He
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: should lie for a week where he is. That is
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: the best thing for him and you. But another stroke
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: would settle him. End of Chapter two, Chapter three, The
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: Black Spot. About noon I stopped at the Captain's door
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: with some cooling drinks and medicines. He was lying very
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: much as we had left him, only a little higher,
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: and he seemed both weak and excited. Jim, he said,
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: you're the only one here that's worth anything. And you
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: know I've always been good to you, never a month,
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: but I've given you a silver fourpenny for yourself. And
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: now you see, mate, I'm pretty low and deserted by all,
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: and Jim, you'll bring me one noggin of rum, now,
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: won't you? Matey the doctor, I began, but he broke in,
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: cursing the doctor in a feeble voice. But heartily, doctors
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: is all swabs, he said. And that doctor there, why
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: what does he know about seafaring men. I've been in
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: places hot as pitch, and mates dropping round with yellow jack,
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: and the blessed land are heaving like the sea with earthquakes?
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: What do the doctor know of lands like that? And
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: I've lived on rum. I can tell you It's been
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: meat and drink and man and wife to me. And
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: if I'm not to have my rum now I'm a
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: poor old hulk on a lee shore, my blood'll be
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: on you. Jim Man that doctor swab And he ran
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: on again for a while with curses. Look, Jim, how
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: my fingers fidgies, he continued, in the pleading tone. I
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: can't keep him still not I. I haven't had a drop
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: this blessed day. That doctor's a fool. I tell you,
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: if I don't have a drain a rum, Jim, I'll
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: have the horrors. I seen some on em already. I
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: seen old flint in the corner there behind you, plain
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: as print. I've seen him, and if I get the horrors,
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: I'm a man that has lived rath and I'll raise caine.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: Your doctor isself said one glass wouldn't hurt me. I'll
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: give you a golden guinea for a nogin Jim. He
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: was growing more and more excited, and this alarmed me,
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: for my father, who was very low that day, needed quiet. Besides,
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: I was reassured by the doctor's words now quoted to me,
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: and rather offended by the offer of a bribe. I
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: want none of your money, said I. But what you
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: owe my father, I'll get you one glass and no more.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: When I brought it to him, he seized it reedily
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: and drank it out. Ah Ay, said he. That's some better,
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: sure enough. And now, Matie, did that doctor say how
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: long I was to lie here in this old berth?
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: A week at least, said I thunder. He cried, a week.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: I can't do that. They'd have the black spot on
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: me by then. The lobbers is going to get the
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: wind of me. This blessed moment. Lobbers as couldn't keep
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: what they got, and what to nail? What is another's
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: is that seemingly behavior. Now I want to know. But
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: I'm a saving soul. I never wasted good money of mine,
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: nor lost it neither, And I'll trick em again. I'm
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: not afraid on them. I'll shake out another reef Matie
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: and dandle them again. As he was thus speaking, he
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: had risen from bed with great difficulty, holding to my
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: shoulder with a grip that almost made me cry out,
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: and moving his legs like so much dead weight. His words,
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: spirited as they were in meaning, contrasted sadly with the
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: weakness of the voice in which they were uttered. He paused,
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: when he had got into a sitting position on the edge.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: That doctor's done me, he murmured. My ears is singing.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: Lay me back. Before I could do much to help him,
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: he had fallen back again to his former place, where
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: he lay for a while silent. Jim, he said, at length,
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: you saw that seafiry man today, black Dog? I asked, ah.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: Black Dog said he he's Abbaddon, but there's worse that
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: put him on ne far. Can't get away no how,
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: And they tipped me the black spot. Mind you, it's
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: my old sea chest. Thereafter you get on a horse,
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: you can can't you. Well, then you get on a
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: horse and go to Well, yes, I will to that
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: eternal doctor Swab and tell him to pipe all hands,
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: magistrates and sitch, and he'll lay them aboard at the
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: Admiral Benbo all Old Flint's crew man and boy all
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: on them that's left. I was first mate. I was
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: Old Flint's first mate, and I'm the only one as
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: knows the place he gave it, me to Savannah when
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: he lay a dine like as if I was to
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: now you see, but you won't peach unless they got
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: the black spot on me, or unless you see that
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: black dog again, or a seafaring man with one leg.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: Jim him above all. But what is the black spot? Captain?
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: I asked, That's a summon's mate. I'll tell you if
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: they get that. But you'll keep your weather eye open, Jim,
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: and I'll share with you equals upon my honor. He
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: wandered a little longer, his voice growing we But soon
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: after I had given him his medicine, which he took
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: like a child, with the remark, if ever a seaman
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: wanted drugs, it's me. He fell at last into a
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: heavy swoon like sleep, in which I left him. What
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: I should have done had all gone well, I do
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: not know. Probably I should have told the whole story
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: to the doctor, for I was in mortal fear lest
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: the captain should repent of his confessions and make an
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: end of me. But as things fell out, my poor
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: father died quite suddenly that evening, which put all other
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: matters on one side. Our natural distress, the visits of
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: the neighbors, the arranging of the funeral, and all the
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: work of the inn to be carried on in the
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: meanwhile kept me so busy that I had scarcely time
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: to think of the captain, far less to be afraid
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: of him. He got downstairs next morning, to be sure,
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: and had his meals as usual, though he ate little
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: and had more, i'm afraid, than his usual supple of rum.
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: For he helped himself out of the bar, scowling and
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: blowing through his nose, and no one dared to cross him.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: On the night before the funeral, he was as drunk
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: as ever, and it was shocking in that house of
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: mourning to hear him singing away his ugly old sea song.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: But weak as he was, we were all in fear
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: of death for him and the doctor was suddenly taken
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: up with a case many miles away, and was never
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: near the house after my father's death. I have said
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: the captain was weak, and indeed he seemed rather to
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: grow weaker than to regain his strength. He clambered up
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: and downstairs, and went from the parlor to the bar
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: and back again, and sometimes put his nose out of
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: door to smell the sea, holding onto the walls as
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: he went for support, and breathing hard and fast like
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: a man on a steep mountain. He never particularly addressed me,
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: and it is my belief that he had as good
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: as forgotten his confidences. But his temper was more flighty, and,
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: allowing for his bodily weaknesses, more violent than ever. He
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: had an alarming way now when he was drunk, of
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: drawing his cutlass and laying it bare before him on
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: the table. But with all that, he minded people less,
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: and seemed shut up in his own thoughts, and rather wandering. Once,
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: for instance, to our extreme wonder, he piped up to
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: a very different air, a kind of country love song
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: that he must have learned in his youth, before he
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: had begun to follow the sea. So things passed until
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: the day after the funeral, and about three o'clock of
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: a bitter, foggy, frosty afternoon, I was standing at the
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: door for a moment, full of sad thoughts about my father,
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: when I saw some one drawing slowly near along the road.
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: He was plainly blind, for he tapped before him with
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: a stick, and wore a great green shade over his
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: eyes and nose. And he was hunched as if with
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: age or weakness, and wore a huge, old, tattered sea
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: cloak with a hood that made him appear positively deformed.
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: I never saw in my life a more dreadful looking figure.
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: He stopped a little from the earn, and, raising his
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: voice in an old sing song, addressed the air in
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: front of him. Will any kind friend inform a poor
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: blind man who has lost the precious sight of his
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: eyes in the gracious defense of his native country England,
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: and God bless King George. Where or in what part
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: of this country he may now be? You're at the
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: Admiral benbo Black. He'll cove, my good man, said I.
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: I hear a voice, said he, a young voice. Will
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: you give me your hand, my kind young friend, and
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: lead me in. I held out my hand, and the horrible,
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: soft spoken, eyeless creature gripped it in a moment like
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: a vice. I was so much startled that I struggled
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: to withdraw, but the blind man pulled me close to
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: him with a single action of his arm. Now, boy,
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: he said, take me into the captain, Sir said, I,
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: upon my word, I dare not. Ah, he sneered, that's it.
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: Take me in straight, or I'll break your arm. He
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: gave it as he spoke, a wrench that made me
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: cry out. Sir said, I it is for yourself. I mean,
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: the captain is not what he used to be. He
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: sits with a drawn cutlass. Another gentleman, come now, march
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: interrupted he and I never heard a voice so cruel
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: and cold and ugly as that blind man's. It cowed
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: me more than the pain, and I began to obey
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: him at once, walking straight in at the door and
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: towards the parlor with a sick old buccaneer was sitting,
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: dazed with rum. The blind man clung close to me,
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: holding me in one iron fist and leaning almost more
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: of his weight on me than I could carry. Lead
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: me straight up to him, And when I'm in view
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: cry out, here's a friend for you, Bill. If you don't,
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: I'll do this. And with that he gave me a
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: twitch that I thought would have made me faint. Between
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: this and that, I was so utterly terrified by the
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: blind beggar that I forgot my terror of the captain,
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: And as I opened the parlor door, cried out the
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: words he had ordered in a trembling voice. The poor
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: captain raised his eyes, and at one look the rum
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: went out of him and left him staring sober. The
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: expression of his face was not so much of terror
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: as of mortal sickness. He made a movement to rise,
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: but I do not believe he had enough force left
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: in his body. Now Bill, sit where you are, said
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: the beggar. If I can't see, I can hear a
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: finger stirring. Business is business. Hold out your left hand, boy,
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: take his left hand by the wrist, and bring it
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: near to my right. We both obeyed him to the letter,
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: and I saw him pass something from the hollow of
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: the hand that held his stick into the palm of
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: the captain's, which closed upon it instantly. And now that's done,
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: said the blind man, And at the words he suddenly
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: left hold of me, and with incredible accuracy and nimbleness,
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: skipped out of the parlor and into the road. Where
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: as I stood motionless, I could hear his stick go
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: tap tap tapping into the distance. It was some time
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: before either I or the captain seemed to gather our senses,
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: but at length, and about the same moment, I released
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: his wrist, which I was still holding, and he drew
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: in his hand and looked sharply into the palm ten o'clock.
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: He cried, six hours, we'll do him yet, and he
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: sprang to his feet. Even as he did so, he reeled,
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: put his hand to his throat, stood swaying for a moment,
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: and then, with a peculiar sound, fell from his whole height,
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: face foremost to the floor. I ran to him at once,
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: calling to my mother, but haste was all in vain.
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: The Captain had been struck dead by thundering apoplexy. It
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: is a curious thing to understand, for I had certainly
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: never liked the man, though of late I had begun
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: to pity him. But soon as I saw that he
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: was dead, I burst into a flood of tears. It
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: was the second death I had known, and the sorrow
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: of the first was still fresh in my heart. End
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: of chapter three, Chapter four, the Sea Chest. I lost
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: no time, of course, in telling my mother all that
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: I knew, and perhaps should have told her long before.
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: And we saw ourselves at once in a difficult and
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: dangerous position. Some of the man's money, if he had any,
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: was certainly due to us. But it was not likely
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: that our captain's shipmates, above all the two specimens seen
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: by me, black Dog and the Blind Beggar, would be
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: inclined to give up their booty in payment of the
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: dead man's debts. The captain's order to mount at once
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: and ride for doctor Livesey would have left my mother
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: alone and unprotected, which was not to be thought of. Indeed,
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: it seemed impossible for either of us to remain much
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: longer in the house. The fall of coals in the
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: kitchen grate, the very ticking of the clock filled us
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: with alarm. The neighborhood, to our ears seemed haunted by
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: approaching footsteps, and what between the dead body of the
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: captain on the parlor floor and the thought of that
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: detestable blind beggar hovering near at hand and ready to return,
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: there were moments, when, as the saying goes, I jumped
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: in my skin for terror. Something must speedily be resolved upon.
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: And it occurred to us at last to go forth
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: together and seek help in the neighboring hamlet, no sooner
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: said than done. Bareheaded as we were, we ran out
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: at once in the gathering evening and the frosty fog.
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: The hamlet lay not many hundred yards away, though out
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: of view, on the other side of the next cove,
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: And what greatly encouraged me it was in an opposite
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: direction from that whence the old blind man had made
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: his appearance, and whether he had presumably returned. We were
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: not many minutes on the road, though we sometimes stopped
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: to lay hold of each other and hearken. But there
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: was no unusual sound, nothing but the low wash of
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: the ripple and croaking of the inmates of the wood.
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: It was already candle light when we reached the hamlet,
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: and I shall never forget how much I was cheered
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: to see the yellow shine in doors and windows. But that,
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: as it proved, was the best help we were likely
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: to get in that quarter. For you would have thought
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: men would have been ashamed of themselves. No soul would
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: consent to return with us to the Admiral Benbow. The
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: more we told of our troubles, the more man, woman
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: and child they clung to the shelter of their houses.
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: The name of Captain Flint, though it was strange to me,
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: was well enough known to sum there, and carried a
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: great weight of terror. Some of the men who had
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: been to field work on the far side of the
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: Admiral Benbow remembered, besides, to have seen several strangers on
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: the road, and, taking them to be smugglers, to have
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: bolted away, And one at least had seen a little
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: lugger in what we called Kit's hole. For that matter,
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: anyone who was a comrade of the captains was enough
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: to frighten them to death. And the short and the
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: long of the matter was that while we could get
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: several who were willing to ride to doctor Livesey's, which
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: lay in another direction, not one would help us to
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: defend the inn. They say, cowardice is infectious, but then
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener. And
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: so when each had said his say, my mother made
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: them a speech she would not She declared lose money
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: that belonged to her fatherless boy. If none of the
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: rest of you dare, she said, Jim and I dare back,
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: we will go the way we came, and small thanks
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: to you, big, hulking, chickenhearted men. We'll have that chest
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: open if we die for it, and I'll thank you
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: for that bag, missus Crossley, to bring back our lawful money.
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: In of course, I said I would go with my mother,
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: And of course they all cried out at our foolhardiness.
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: But even then not a man would go along with us.
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: All they would do was to give me a loaded
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: pistol lest we were attacked, and to promise to have
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: horses ready saddled in case we were pursued on our return,
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: while one lad was to ride forward to the doctors
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: in search of armed assistance. My heart was beating fiercely.
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: When we two set forth in the cold night upon
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: this dangerous venture. A full moon was beginning to rise
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: and peered redly through the upper edges of the fog,
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: and this increased our haste, for it was plain before
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: we came forth again that all would be bright as day,
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: and our departure exposed to the eyes of any watchers.
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: We slipped along the hedges noiseless and swift, nor did
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: we see anything to increase our terrors, till to our
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: huge relief, the door of the Admiral Benbow had closed
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: behind us. I slipped the bolt at once, and we
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: stood and panted for a moment in the dark, alone
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: in the house with the dead captain's body. Then my
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: mother got a candle in the bar, and holding each
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: other's hands, we advanced into the parlor. He lay as
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: we had left him, on his back, with his eyes
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: open and one arm stretched out draw down the blind.
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: Jim whispered my mother they might come and watch outside.
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: And now said she, when I had done so, we
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: have to get the key off that, and who's to
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: touch it? I should like to know? And she gave
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: a kind of sob as she said the words. I
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: went down on my knees at once. On the floor,
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: close to his hand there was a little round of
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: paper blackened on one side. I could not doubt that
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: this was the black spot. And taking it up I
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: found written on the other side, in a very good
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: clear hand, this short message you have till ten to night.
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: He had till ten, mother, said I, And just as
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: I said it, our old clock began striking. This sudden
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: noise startled us shockingly, but the news was good, for
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: it was only six now, Jim. She said that key
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: I felt in his pockets, one after another. A few
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: small coins, a thimble, and some threadned big needles, A
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: piece of pig tail tobacco bitten away at the end
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: his gully with the crooked handle, A pocket compass, and
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: a tinder box were all that they contained. And I
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: began to despair. Perhaps it's round his neck, suggested my mother.
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: Overcoming a strong repugnance, I tore open his shirt at
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: the neck, and there, sure enough, hanging to a bit
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: of tarry string, which I cut with his own gully,
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: we found the key. At this triumph, we were filled
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: with hope, and hurried downstairs without delay to the little
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: room where he had slept so long, and where his
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: box had stood since the day of his arrival. It
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: was like any other seaman's chest. On the outside, the
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: initial b burned on top of it with a hot iron,
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: and the corners somewhat smashed and broken, as by long
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: rough usage. Give me the key, said my mother, And
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: though the lock was very stiff, she had turned it
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: and thrown back the lid in a twinkling. A strong
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: smell of tobacco and tar arose from the interior, but
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: nothing was to be seen on the top except a
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: suit of very good clothes, carefully brushed and folded. They
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: had never been worn. My mother said under that the
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: miscellany began a quadrant, a tin cannikin, several sticks of tobacco,
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: two brace of very handsome pistols, a piece of bar silver,
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: an old Spanish watch, and some other trinkets of little
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: value and mostly foreign make. A pair of compasses mounted
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: with brass, and five or six curious West Indian shells.
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: I've often wondered since why he should have carried about
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: those shells with him in his wandering, guilty and hunted life.
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: In the meantime, we found nothing of any value but
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: the silver and the trinkets, and neither of these were
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: in our way. Underneath there was an old boat cloak
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: whitened with sea salt on many a harbour bar. My
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: mother pulled it up with impatience, and there lay before
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: us the last things in the chest, a bundle tied
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: up in an oilcloth and looking like papers, and a
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: canvas bag that gave forth at a touch the jingle
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: of gold. I'll show these rogues that I am an
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: honest woman, said my mother. I'll have my dew and
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: not a farthing. Over hold missus Crusty's bag, and she
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: began to count over the amount of the captain's score
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: from the sailor's bag into the one that I was holding.
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: It was a long difficult business, for the coins were
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: of all countries and sizes, to bloons and luid'ou, and
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: guineas and pieces of eight, and I know not what besides,
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: all shaken together at random. The guineas, too, were about
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: the scarcest, and it was with these only that my
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: mother knew how to make her count. When we were
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: about half way through, I suddenly put my hand under
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: her arm, for I had heard, in the silent, frosty
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: air a sound that brought my heart into my mouth,
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: the tip tapping of the blind man's stick upon the
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: fozen road. It drew nearer and nearer while we sat
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: holding our breath. Then it struck sharp at the inn door,
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: and then we could hear the handle being turned and
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: the bolt rattling as the wretched being tried to enter.
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: And then there was a long time of silence, both
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: within and without. At last the tapping recommenced, and, to
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: our indescribable joy and gratitude, died slowly away again till
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: it ceased to be heard. Mother said, I take the
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: hole and let's be going, for I was sure the
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: bolted door must have seemed suspicious and would bring the
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: whole hornet's nest about our ears. Though how thankful I
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: was that I had bolted it, none could tell, who
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: had never met that terrible blind man. But my mother,
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: frightened as she was, would not consent to take a
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: fraction more than it was her due, and was obstinately
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: unwilling to be content with less. It was not yet seven,
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: she said, by a long way. She knew her rights
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: and she would have them. And she was still arguing
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: with me when a little low whistle sounded a good
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: way off upon the hill. That was enough and more
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: than enough for both of us. I'll take what I have,
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: she said, jumping to her feet, and I'll take this
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: to square, the count said, I, picking up the oilskin packet.
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: Next moment we were both groping downstairs, leaving the candle
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: by the empty chest, and the next we had opened
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: the door and were in full retreat. We had not
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: started a moment too soon. The fog was rapidly dispersing.
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: Already the moon shone quite clear on the high ground
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: on either side, and it was only in the exact
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: bottom of the dell and round the tavern door, that
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: a thin veil still hung, unbroken, to conceal the first
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: steps of our escape. Far less than half way to
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: the hamlet, very little beyond the bottom of the hill
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: we must come forth into the moonlight. Nor was this all,
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: for the sound of several footsteps running came already to
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: our ears, and as we looked back in their direction,
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: a light, tossing to and fro, and still rapidly advancing,
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: showed that one of the newcomers carried a lantern. My
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: dear said, my mother, suddenly take the money and run on.
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: I am going to faint. This was certainly the end
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: for both of us. I thought, how I cursed the
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: cowardice of the neighbors. How I blamed my poor mother
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: for her honesty and her greed, for her past full
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: hardiness and present weakness. We were just at the little
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: bridge by a good fortune, and I helped tur tottering
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: as she was, to the edge of the bank, where
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: sure enough she gave a sigh and fell on my shoulder.
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: I do not know how I found the strength to
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: do it all, and I am afraid it was roughly done,
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: but I managed to drag her down the bank and
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: a little way under the arch father. I could not
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: move her, for the bridge was too low to let
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: me do more than crawl below it. So there we
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: had to stay, my mother almost entirely exposed, and both
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: of us within ear shot of the inn. End of
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: chapter four, Chapter five, the last of the Blind Man.
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: My curiosity in a sense was stronger than my fear,
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: for I could not remain where I was, but crept
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: back to the bank again, whence, sheltering my head behind
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: a bush of broom, I might command the road before
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: our door. I was scarcely in position. Ere my enemies
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: began to arrive, seven or eight of them, running hard,
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: their feet beating out of time along the road, and
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: the man with the lantern some paces in front. Three
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: men ran together, hand in hand, and I made out,
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: even through the mist, that the middle man of this
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: trio was the blind Beggar. The next moment his voice
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: showed me I was right down with the door. He cried, Aye, aye,
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: sir answered two or three, and a rush was made
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: upon the admiral benbow, the lantern bearer following. And then
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: I could see them pause and hear speeches passed in
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: a lower key, as if they were surprised to find
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: the door open. But the pause was brief, for the
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: blind Man again issued his commands. His voice sounded louder
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: and higher, as if he were afire with eagerness and
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: rage in in in he shouted and cursed them for
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: their delay. Four or five of them obeyed at once,
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: two remaining on the road with the formidable beggar. There
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: was a pause, then a cry of surprise, then a
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: voice shouting from the house Bill's dead. But the blind
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: Man swore at them again for their delay search him.
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: Some of you shrink in lubbers, and the rest of
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: you loft and get the chest, he cried. I could
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: hear their feet rattling up our old stairs, so that
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: the house must have shook with it. Promptly afterwards, fresh
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: sounds of astonishment arose. The window of the Captain's room
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: was thrown open with a slam and a jingle of
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: broken glass, and a man leaned out into the moonlight,
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: head and shoulders, and addressed the blind beggar on the
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: road below him. Pew, he cried, they've been before us.
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: Some one's turned the chest out to lou and aloft
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: is it there? Roared Pew. The money's there. The blind
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: man cussed the money flint's fist. I mean, he cried,
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: I don't see it here. Nohow, returned the man. Here
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: you below, there is it on? Bill, cried the blind
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: man again. And that's another fellow, probably, he who had
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: remained below to search the captain's body, came to the
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: door of the inn. Bill's been overhauled already, he said,
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: nothing left. It's these people of the inn. It's that
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: boy I wish I had put his eyes out, cried
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: the blind man. Pew, they were here no time ago.
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: They had the door bolted when I tried it. Scatter
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: lads and find them. Sure enough they left their glim here,
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: said the fellow from the window. Scatter and find them.
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: Rout the house out, reiterated Pew, racking with his stick
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: upon the road. Then there followed a great to do
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: through all our old inn, heavy feet pounding to and fro,
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: furniture all thrown over, doors kicked in, until the very
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: rocks re echoed, and the men came out again, one
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: after another on the road and declared that we were
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: nowhere to be found. And just then the same whistle
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: that had alarmed my mother and myself over the good
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: Captain's money was once more clearly audible through the night,
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: but this time twice repeated. I have thought it to
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: be the blind man's trumpet, so to speak, summoning his
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: crew to the assault. But I now found that it
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: was a signal from the hillside toward the hamlet, and
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: from its effect upon the buccaneers, a signal to warn
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: them of approaching danger. There's Dirk, again, said one twice.
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: We'll have to budge mates, Budge you skulk, cried pew.
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: Dirk was a fool and a coward from the first.
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: You wouldn't mind him. They must be close by, they
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: can't be far. You have your hands on it. Scatter
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: and look for him, dogs or shiver my soul, he cried,
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: if I had eyes. This appeal seemed to produce some effect,
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: for two of the fellows began to look here and
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: there among the timber But half heartedly, I thought, and
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: with half an eye to their own danger all the time,
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: while the rest stood irresolute on the road. You have
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: your hands on thousands new fools, and you hang a leg,
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: you'll be as rich as kings if you could find it.
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: And you stand there skulking, There wasn't one of you,
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: dead face Bill, And I did it a blind man,
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: and I'm to lose my chance for you. I'm to
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: be a poor, crawling beggar, sponging farrahm. When I might
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: be rolling in a coach. If you had the pluck
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: of a weavil in a biscuit, you would catch them. Still,
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: hang it, Pew, we've got the do balloons, grumbled one.
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: They might have hid the blessed thing, said another. Take
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: the georgy's pew, and don't stand there squawling. Squawling was
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: the word for it. Pew's anger rose so high at
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: these objections till at last, his passion completely taking the
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: upper hand, he struck at them right and left in
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: his blindness, and his sticks sounded heavily on more than one. These,
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: in their turn, cursed back at the blind miscreant, threatened
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: him in horrid terms, and tried in vain to catch
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: the stick and wrest it from his grasp. This quarrel
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: was the saving of us, for while it was still raging,
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: another sound came from the top of the hill on
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  Speaker 1: the side of the hamlet, the tramp of horses galloping.
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  Speaker 1: Almost at the same time a pistol shot, flash and
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: report came from the hedge side, and that was plainly
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  Speaker 1: the last signal of danger. For the buccaneers turned at
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  Speaker 1: once and ran, separating in every direction, one seaward along
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  Speaker 1: the cove, one slant across the hill, and so on,
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  Speaker 1: so that in half a minute not a sign of
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: them remained but pew him. They had deserted. Whether in
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: sheer panic or out of revenge for his ill words
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: and blows, I know not. But there he remained behind,
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: tapping up and down the road in a frenzy and
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: groping and calling for his comrades. Finally he took the
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  Speaker 1: wrong turn and ran a few steps past me towards
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: the hamlet, crying Johnny, black Dog, Dirk and other names.
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  Speaker 1: You won't leave, old pew Mate, not old pew Oo.
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: Just then the noise of horses topped the eyes, and
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: four or five riders came in sight in the moonlight
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  Speaker 1: and swept at full gallop down the slope. At this
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: Pew saw his error, turned with a scream and ran
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: straight for the ditch, into which he rolled. But he
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: was on his feet again in a second and made
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: another dash, now utterly bewildered, right under the nearest of
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: the coming horses. The rider tried to save him, but
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: in vain down went Pew with a cry that rang
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: high into the night, and the four hoofs trampled and
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: spurned him and passed by. He fell on his side,
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: then gently collapsed upon his face and moved no more.
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: I leaped to my feet and hailed the riders. They
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: were pulling up at any rate, horrified at the accident,
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  Speaker 1: and I soon saw what they were. One trailing out
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: behind the rest was a lad that had gone from
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: the hamlet to doctor Livesey's. The rest were revenue officers,
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: whom he had met by the way, and with whom
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: he had had the intelligence to return at once. Some
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: news of the lugger in KITT's hole had found its
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: way to Supervisor Dance, and set him forth that night
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  Speaker 1: in our direction, and to that circumstance, my mother and
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: I owed our preservation from death. Pew was dead, stone dead,
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: as for my mother when we carried her up to
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: the hamlet. A little cold water and some salts very
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: soon brought her back again, and she was none the
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: worse for her terror, though she still continued to deplore
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: the balance of the money. In the meantime, the supervisor
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: rode on as fast as he could to KITT's hole,
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: but his men had to dismount and grope down the dingle,
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: leading and sometimes supporting their horses, and in continual fear
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: of ambushes. So it was no great matter for surprise
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: that when they got down to the hole, the lugger
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: was already under way, though still close in. He hailed her.
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: A voice replied telling him to keep out of the
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: moonlight or he would get some lead in him, and
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: at the same time a bullet whistled close by his arm.
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: Soon after, the lugger doubled the point and disappeared. Mister
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: Dance stood there, as he said, like a fish out
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: of water, and all he could do was to dispatch
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: a man to bur to warn the cutter. And that,
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: he said, is just about as good as nothing. They've
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: got clean off, and there's an end only, he added,
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: I'm glad I trod upon Master Pew's corns. By this
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: time he had heard my story. I went back with
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: him to the Admiral Benbow. And you cannot imagine a
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: house in such a state of smash. The very clerk
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: had been thrown down by these fellows in their furious
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: hunt after my mother and myself. And though nothing had
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: actually been taken away except the captain's money bag and
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: a little silver, from the till I could see at
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: once that we were ruined. Mister Dance could make nothing
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: of the scene. They got the money. You say, well, then, Hawkins,
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: what in fortune were they after more money? I suppose no, certain,
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 1: not money, I think, replied I. In fact, sir, I
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: believe I have the thing in my breast pocket, and
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: to tell you the truth, I should like to get
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: it put in safety to be sure. Boy quite right,
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: said he, I'll take it if you like, I thought,
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: perhaps doctor Livesey, I began, perfectly right, he interrupted, very cheerily,
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: perfectly right, a gentleman and a magistrate. And now I
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: come to think of it, I might as well ride
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: round there myself and report to him or Squire. Master
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: Pew's dead when all's done. Not that I regret it,
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 1: but he's dead, you see, and people will make it
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: out against Officer of His Majesty's revenue. If make it out,
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: they can. Now I'll tell you, Hawkins, if you like,
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: I'll take you along. I thanked him heartily for the offer,
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 1: and we walked back to the hamlet where the horses were.
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: By the time I had told my mother of my purpose,
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: they were all in the saddle. Dogger said, mister Dance,
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: you have a good horse. Take up this lad behind you.
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: As soon as I was mounted, holding onto Dogger's belt,
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: the supervisor gave the word and the party struck out
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 1: at a bouncing trot on the road to doctor Livesey's
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: house and of Chapter five, Chapter six the Captain's Papers.
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: We rode hard all the way till we drew up
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: before doctor Libsey's door. The house was all dark to
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: the front. Mister Dance told me to jump down and knock,
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: and Dogger gave me a stirrup to descend by. The
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 1: door was opened all my most at once by a maid.
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: Is doctor Livesey in? I asked, no, she said he
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: had come home in the afternoon, but had gone up
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: to the hall to dine and pass the evening with
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: the Squire. So there we go, boys, said mister Dance.
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: This time, as the distance was short, I did not mount,
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: but ran with doggers stirrup leather to the lodge gates
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: and up the long leafless moonlit avenue to where the
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: white line of the hall buildings looked on either hand
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: on great old gardens. There mister Dance dismounted, and taking
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: me along with him, was admitted at a word into
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: the house. The servant led us down a matted passage
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: and showed us at the end into a great library,
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 1: all lined with bookcases and busts on top of them,
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 1: where the Squire and Doctor Livesey sat pipe in hand,
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: on either side of a bright fire. I had never
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: seen the Squire so near at hand. He was a
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 1: tall man, over six feet high, and broad in proportion,
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: and he had a bluff, rough and ready face, all
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: roughened and reddied and lined in his long travels. His
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: eyebrows were very black and moved readily, and this gave
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: him a look of some temper, not bad, you would say,
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: but quick and high. Come in, mister Dance said he,
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: very stately and condescending. Good evening, Dance, said the doctor
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: with a nod, And good evening to you, ol friend Jim,
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: what good wind brings you here? The supervisor stood up
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: straight and stiff and told his story like a lesson.
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 1: But you should have seen how the two gentlemen leaned
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 1: forward and looked at each other and forgot to smoke
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 1: in their surprise and interest when they heard how my
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: mother went back to the inn. Doctor Livesey fair slapped
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: his thigh, and the squire c bra vo and broke
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: his long pipe against the grate. Long before it was done,
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 1: a mister Trelawney, that you will remember was the squire's name,
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: had got up from his seat and was striding about
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: the room, and the doctor, as if to hear the better,
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 1: had taken off his powdered wig and sat there looking
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 1: very strange, indeed with his own close cropped black pole.
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 1: At last, mister Dance finished the story. Mister Dance said
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 1: the squire, you are a very noble fellow. And as
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: for riding down that black atrocious miscreant, I regarded as
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 1: an act of virtue, sir, like stamping on a crockroach.
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 1: This lad Hawkins is a trump. I perceive, Hawkins, will
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 1: you ring that bell? Mister Dance must have some ale,
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 1: And so Jim said the doctor. You have the thing
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 1: that they were after. Have you here it is, sir,
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: said I, and gave him the oilskin packet. The doctor
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 1: looked it all over as if his fingers were itching
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: to open it, but instead of doing that, he put
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 1: it quietly in the pocket of his coat. Squire said he.
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 1: When Dance has had his ale, he must of course
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: be off on his Majesty's service. But I mean to
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 1: keep Jim Hawkins here to sleep at my house. And
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 1: with your permission, I propose we should have up the
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 1: cold pie and let him sup as you will. Livesey,
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: said the Squire. Hawkins has earned better than cold pie.
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: So a big pigeon pie was brought in and put
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 1: on a side table, and I made a hearty supper,
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: for I was as hungry as a hawk, while mister
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 1: Dance was further complimented and at last dismissed. And now Squire,
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: said the doctor. And now lives here, said the Squire
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: in the same breath. One at a time, one at
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 1: a time, laughed doctor Livesey. You've heard of this Flint.
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: I suppose heard of him, cried the squire. Heard of him?
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 1: You say he was the bloodthirstiest buccaneer that sailed Blackbeard
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 1: was a child to Flint. The Spaniards were so prodigiously
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 1: afraid of him that, I tell you, Sir, I was
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 1: sometimes proud that he was an Englishman. I have seen
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 1: his topsails with these eyes off Trinidad, and the cowardly
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 1: son of a rum puncheon that I sailed with put back,
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: put back, sir, into the port of Spain. Well, I've
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 1: heard of him myself in England, said the doctor. But
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 1: the point is, had he money? Money? Cried the squire.
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: Have you heard the story? What were these villains after
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 1: but money? What do they care for but money?
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 4: For?
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 1: What would they risk their rascal carcasses? But money that
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 1: we shall soon know, replied the doctor. But you are
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: so confoundedly hot headed an exclamatory that I cannot get
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 1: a word in. What I want to know is this
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: suppose that I have here in my pocket some clue
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 1: to where Flinter buried his treasure? Will that treasure amount
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 1: too much? Amount? Sir, cried the squire. It will amount
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 1: to this if we have the clue you talk about,
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 1: I'll fill out a ship in Bristol dock and take
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 1: you and Hawkins here along, and we'll have that treasure
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 1: if I search for a year. Very well, said the doctor. Now,
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 1: then if Jim is agreeable, we'll open the packet, and
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 1: he laid it before him on the table. The bundle
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 1: was sewn together, and the doctor had to get out
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 1: his instrument case and cut the stitches with his medical scissors.
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 1: It contained two things, a book and a sealed paper.
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 1: First of all, we'll try the book, observed the doctor.
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 1: The Squire and I were both peering over his shoulder
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 1: as he opened it. For Doctor Livesey had kindly motioned
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 1: to me to come round from the side table where
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 1: I had been eating, to enjoy the sport of the search.
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 1: On the first page, there were only some scraps of writing,
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 1: such as a man with a pen in his hand
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 1: might make for idleness or practice. One was the same
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 1: as the tattoo mark Billy Bones his fancy. Then there
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 1: was mister w Bone's mate no more rum off palm
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 1: key he got it, and some other snatches most single
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 1: words and unintelligible, but I could not help wondering who
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 1: it was that had got it and what it was
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 1: He got a knife in his back. As likely as not,
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 1: not much instruction there, said doctor Livesey as he passed on.
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 1: The next ten or twelve pages were filled with a
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 1: curious series of entries. There was a date at one
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 1: end of the line, and at the other end a
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 1: sum of money, as in common account books, but instead
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 1: of explanatory writing, only a varying number of crosses between
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 1: the two. On the twelfth of June seventeen forty five,
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 1: for instance, a sum of seventy pounds had plainly become
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 1: due to someone, and there was nothing but six crosses
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 1: to explain the cause. In a few cases, to be sure,
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 1: the name of a place would be added as of
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 1: off Caracas, or a mere entry of latitude or longitude
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 1: as sixty two degrees seventeen minutes twenty seconds nineteen degrees
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 1: two minutes forty seconds. The record lasted over nearly twenty years,
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 1: the amount of the separate entries growing larger as time
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 1: went on, and at the end a grand total had
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 1: been made out. After five or six row editions and
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 1: these words appended bones his pile. I can't make head
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 1: or tail of this, said doctor Livesey. The thing is
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 1: as clear as noonday, cried the squire. This is the
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 1: black hearted hound's account book. These crosses stand for the
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 1: names of ships or towns that they sank or plundered.
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 1: The sums are the scoundrels share. And where he filled
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 1: an ambiguity, you see, he added something clearer off carackers.
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 1: Now you see here was some unhappy vessel boarded off
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 1: that coast. God helped the poor souls that man her
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 1: coral long ago. Right, said the doctor. See what it
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 1: is to be a traveler? Right, And the amounts increase,
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 1: you'll see as he rose in rank. There was little
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 1: else in the volume, but a few bearings of places
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 1: noted in the blank leaves towards the end, and a
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 1: table for reducing French, English and Spanish moneys to a
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 1: common value. Thrifty men, cried the doctor. He wasn't the
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 1: one to be cheated. And now said the squire, for
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 1: the other. The paper had been sealed in several places
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 1: with a thimble by way of seal, the very thimble,
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 1: perhaps that I had found in the captain's pocket. The
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 1: doctor opened the seals with great care, and there fell
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 1: out the map of an island, with latitude and longitude soundings,
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 1: names of hills and bays, inlets, and every particular that
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 1: would be needed to bring a ship to a safe
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 1: anchorage upon its shores. It was about nine miles long,
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 1: file of across, shaped you might say, like a fat
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 1: dragon standing up, and had two fine landlocked harbors and
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 1: a hill in the center park marked the spyglass. There
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 1: were several editions of a later date, but above all
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 1: three crosses of red ink, two on the north part
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 1: of the island, wine in the southwest, and besides this
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 1: last in the same red ink, and in a small
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 1: neat hand very different from the captain's tottery characters, these
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 1: words bulk of treasure. Here over the back. The same
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 1: hand had written this further information. Tall tree, spyglass shoulder
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 1: bearing a point to the north of nor Nor East
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 1: Skeleton Island south south east by east ten feet. The
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 1: bar silver is in the north cash. You can find
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 1: it by the trend of the east hummock ten fathoms
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 1: south of the black crag with a face on it.
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 1: The arms are easy found in the sand hill, north
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 1: point of North Inlet Cape, bearing east and a quarter
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 1: north j F. That was all but brief as it was,
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 1: and to me incomprehensible. It filled the Squire and Doctor
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 1: Livesey with delight. Livesey said the Squire, you will give
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 1: up this wretched practice at once tomorrow I start for
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 1: Bristol in three weeks time, three weeks, two weeks, ten days.
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 1: We'll have the best ship, Sir, and the choicest crew
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 1: in England. Hawkins shall come as cabin boy. You'll make
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 1: our famous cabin boy Hawkins. You'll Livesey our ship's doctor.
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 1: I am Admiral. We'll take our read Ruth, Joyce and Hunter.
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 1: We'll have favorable winds, a quick passage, and not the
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 1: least difficulty in finding the spot, and money to eat,
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 1: to roll in to play duck and drake with ever
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 1: after true Lornie, said the doctor. I'll go with you,
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 1: and I'll go bail for it. So with Jim, and
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 1: be a credit to the undertaking. There's only one man
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 1: I am afraid of. And who's that, cried the Squire.
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 1: Name the dogs are you, replied the doctor, for you
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 1: cannot hold your tongue. We are not the only men
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 1: who know of this paper. These fellows who attack the
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 1: inn tonight, bold desperate blades, to be sure, and the
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 1: rest who stayed aboard that lugger and more, I dare say,
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 1: not far off, are one and all through, thick and
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 1: thin bound, that they will get that money. We must
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 1: none of us go alone till we get to see
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 1: Jim and I shall stick together in the meantime, and
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 1: you'll take Joyce and Hunter when you ride to Bristol.
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 1: And from first to last, not one of us must
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 1: breathe our word of what we've found. Lives Ere returned
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 1: the Squire. You are always in the right of it.
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 1: I'll be silent as the grave. End of chapter six,
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 1: Part two, The Sea Cook. Chapter seven. I go to Bristol.
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 1: It was longer than the Squire imagined. Ere we were
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 1: ready for the sea, and none of our first plans,
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 1: not even Doctor Livesey's of keeping me beside him, could
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 1: be carried out as we intended. The doctor had to
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 1: go to London for a physician to take charge of
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  Speaker 1: his practice. The Squire was hard at work at Bristol,
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 1: and I lived on at the hall under the charge
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 1: of Old Redruth, the gamekeeper, almost a prisoner, but full
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 1: of sea dreams and the most charming anticipations of strange
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 1: islands and adventures. I brooded by the hour together over
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 1: the map, all the details of which I well remembered,
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 1: sitting by the fire in the housekeeper's room. I approached
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 1: that island in my fancy from every possible direction. I
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 1: explored every acre of its surface. I climbed a thousand
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 1: times to that tall hill they called the Spyglass, and
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 1: from the top enjoyed the most wonderful and changing prospects.
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 1: Sometimes the isle was thick with savages, with whom we fought,
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 1: sometimes full of dangerous animals that hunted us. But in
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 1: all my fancies nothing occurred to me so strange and
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 1: tragic as our actual adventures. So the weeks passed on
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 1: till one fine day there came a letter addressed to
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 1: doctor Livesey, with this addition, to be opened in the
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 1: case of his absence by Tom Redruth or Young Hawkins.
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 1: Obeying this order, we found, or rather I found, for
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 1: the gamekeeper was a poor hand at reading anything but
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 1: print the following important news Old Anchor Inn, Bristol March one, seventeen, HM,
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 1: dear livese ere As I do not know whether you're
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 1: at the Hall or still in London. I send this
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 1: in double to both places. The ship is bought and fitted.
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 1: She lies at anchor, ready for sea. You never imagined
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 1: a sweeter schooner a child might sail her two hundred
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 1: tons name Hispaniola. I got her through my friend Blandly,
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 1: who has proved himself throughout the most surprising trump. The
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 1: admirable fellow literally slaved in my interest, And so I
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 1: may say, did everyone in Bristol as soon as they
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 1: got wind of the port we sailed for treasure? I
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 1: mean red, said I, interrupting the letter. Doctor Livesey will
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 1: not like that the Squire has been talking. After all, Well,
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 1: who's a better right, growled the gamekeeper, A pretty rom go.
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 1: If squire ain't to talk for Doctor Livesey, I should
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 1: think at that. I gave up all attempt at commentary
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 1: and read straight on. Blandly himself found the Hispaniola, and
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 1: by the most admirable management, got her for the merest trifle.
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 1: There is a class of men in Bristol monstrously prejudiced
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 1: against Blandly. They go the length of declaring that this
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 1: honest creature would do anything for money, that this Spaniola
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 1: belonged to him, and that he sold it to me
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 1: absurdly high the most transparent calumnies. None of them dare, however,
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 1: to deny the merits of the ship. So far there
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 1: was not a hitch. The workpeople, to be sure, riggers
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 1: and what not, were most annoyingly slow. But time cured
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 1: that it was the crew that troubled me. I wished
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 1: to round up a score of men in case of
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 1: Navy's buccaneers or the odious French, and I had the
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 1: worry of the deuce itself to find so much as
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 1: half a dozen, till the most remarkable stroke of fortune
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 1: brought me the very man that I required. I was
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 1: standing on the dark when by the merest accident I
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 1: fell into talk with him. I found he was an
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 1: old sailor, kept a public house, knew all the seafaring
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 1: men in Bristol, had lost his health ashore, and wanted
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 1: a good berth as cook to get to sea again.
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 1: He had hobbled down there that morning, he said, to
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 1: get a smell of the salt. I was monstrously touched
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 1: so would you have been, And out of pure pity,
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 1: I engaged him on the spot to be ship's cook.
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 1: Long John Silver he is called and has lost a leg,
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 1: but that I regarded as a recommendation, since he lost
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 1: it in his country's service under the immortal Hawk. He
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 1: has no pension livesey imagine the abominable age we live in. Well, Sir,
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 1: I thought I had only found a cook, but it
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 1: was a crew I had discovered. Between Silver and myself,
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 1: we got together in a few days a company of
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 1: the toughest old salts, imaginable, not pretty to look at,
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 1: but fellows by their faces of the most indomitable spirit.
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 1: I declare we could fight a frigate Long John even
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 1: got rid of two out of the six or seven
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 1: I had already engaged. He showed me in a moment
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 1: that they were of just the sort of freshwater swabs
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 1: we had to fear in an adventure of importance. I
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 1: am in the most magnificent health and spirits, eating like
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 1: a bull, sleeping like a tree. Yet I shall not
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 1: enjoy a moment till I hear my old tarpaulins tramping
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 1: around the capstan Sea. Would Hoe hang the treasure it's
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 1: the glory of the sea that has turned my head.
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 1: So now livesey, come post, do not lose an hour.
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 1: If you respect me. Let young Hawkins go at once
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 1: to see his mother, with Red Ruth for a guard,
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 1: and then both come full speed to Bristol. John Trelaudy
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 1: p s. I did not tell you that Blandly, who,
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 1: by the way, is to send a consort after us
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 1: if we don't turn up by the end of August,
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 1: had found an admirable fellow for sailing master, a stiff man,
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 1: which I regret, but in all other respects a treasure.
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 1: Long John Silver unearthed a very competent man for a mate,
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 1: a man called Arrow. I have a bozen who pipes livesey.
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 1: So things shall go man o war fashion on board
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 1: the good ship Hispaniola. I've got to tell you that
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 1: Silver is a man of substance. I know of my
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 1: own knowledge that he has a banker's account which has
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 1: never been overdrawn. He leaves his wife to manage the inn,
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 1: and as she is a woman of color, a pair
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 1: of old bachelors like you and I may be excused
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 1: for guessing that is the wife. Quite as much as
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 1: the health that sends him back to roving j T. P. P. S.
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 1: Hawkins may stay one night with his mother. J T.
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 1: You con fancied the excitement into which that letter put me.
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 1: I was half beside myself with glee. And if ever
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 1: I despised a man, it was old Tom Redruth, who
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 1: could do nothing but grumble and lament. Any of the
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 1: under gamekeepers would gladly have changed places with him, but
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 1: such was not the Squire's pleasure, And the squire's pleasure
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 1: was like law among them more nobody but Old Redruth
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 1: would have dared so much as even to grumble. The
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 1: next morning he and I set out on foot for
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 1: the admiral Benbow, and there I found my mother in
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 1: good health and spirits. The captain, who had so long
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 1: been the cause of so much discomfort, was gone, where
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 1: the wicked cease from troubling. The Squire had had everything repaired,
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 1: and the public rooms and the sign repainted, and had
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 1: added some furniture, above all a beautiful arm chair for
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 1: my mother in the bar. He had found her a
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 1: boy as an apprentice, also so that she should not
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 1: want help when I was gone. It was on seeing
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 1: that boy that I understood for the first time my situation.
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 1: I had thought up to that moment of the adventures
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 1: before me, not at all of the home that I
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 1: was leaving, And now at sight of this clumsy stranger
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 1: who was to stay here in my place beside my mother,
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 1: I had my first attack of tears. I am afraid
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 1: I led that boy a dog's life, for he was
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 1: new to the work. I had a hundred opportunities for
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 1: setting him right and putting him down, and I was
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 1: not slow to profit by them. The night passed, and
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 1: the next day, after dinner, Read Ruth and I were
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 1: afoot again, and on the road I said good bye
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 1: to my mother and the cove where I had lived
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 1: since I was born, and the dear old abomeral Benbow,
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 1: since he was repainted not longer quite so dear. One
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 1: of my thoughts was of the captain who had so
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 1: often strode along the beach with his cocked hat, his
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 1: saber cut cheek, and his old brass telescope. Next moment
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 1: we had turned the corner and my home was out
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 1: of sight. The mail picked us up about dusk at
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 1: the Royal George on the heath. I was wedged in
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 1: between Redruth and a stout old gentleman. And in spite
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 1: of the swift motion and the cold night air, I
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 1: must have dozed a great deal from the very first,
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 1: and then slept like a log up hill and down
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 1: Dale through stage after stage. But when I was awakened
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 1: at last, it was by a punch in the ribs,
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 1: and I opened my eyes to find that we were
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 1: standing still before a large building in a city street,
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 1: and that the day had already broken a long time.
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 1: Where are we, I asked Bristol, said Tom, get down.
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 1: Mister Trelawney had taken up residence at an inn far
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 1: down the docks to superintend the work upon the schooner.
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 1: Thither we had now to walk, and our way to
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 1: my great delight lay upon the quays, and besides the
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 1: great multitude of ships of all sizes and rigs and nations.
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 1: In one sailors were singing at their work. In another
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 1: there were men aloft high over my head, hanging to
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 1: threads that seemed no thicker than a spider's. Though I
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 1: had lived by the shore all my life, I seemed
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 1: never to have been near the sea till then. The
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 1: smell of tar and salt was something new I saw
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 1: the most wonderful figureheads that had all been far over
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 1: the ocean. I saw besides many old sailors with rings
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 1: in their ears, and whiskers curled in ringlets, and tarry pigtails,
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 1: and their swaggering, clumsy sea walk. And if I had
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 1: seen as many kings or archbishops, I could not have
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 1: been more delighted. And I was going to see myself,
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 1: to see in a schooner and a piping bowzin and
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 1: pig tailed singing seamen, to see bound for an unknown island,
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 1: and to seek for buried treasure. While I was still
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 1: in this delightful dream, we came suddenly in front of
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 1: a large inn and met Squire Trelawney, all dressed out
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 1: like a sea officer in stout blue cloth, coming out
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 1: of the door with a smile on his face and
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 1: a capital imitation of a sailor's walk. Here you are,
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 1: he cried, And the doctor came last night from London.
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 1: Bravao the ship's company complete, Oh, sir, cried I, when
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 1: do we sail? Sail? Says he we sail to morrow.
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 1: End of Chapter seven, Chapter eight, at the sign of
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 1: the spyglass. When I had done breakfasting, the squire gave
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 1: me a note addressed to John's silver at the sign
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 1: of the spyglass, and he told me I should easily
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 1: find the place by following the line of the docks
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 1: and keeping a bright lookout for a little tavern with
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 1: a large brass telescope for a sign. I set off,
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 1: overjoyed at this opportunity to see some more of the
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 1: ships and seamen, and picked my way among a great
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 1: crowd of people and carts and bales, for the dock
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 1: was now at its busiest until I found the tavern
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 1: in question. It was a bright enough little place of entertainment.
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 1: The sign was newly painted, the windows had neat red curtains,
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 1: the floor was cleanly sanded. There was a street on
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 1: either side and an open door on both, which made
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 1: the large, low room pretty clear to see in in
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 1: spite of clouds of tobacco smoke. The customers were mostly
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 1: seafaring men, and they talked so loudly that I hung
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 1: at the door, almost afraid to enter. As I was waiting,
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 1: a man came out of a side room, and at
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 1: a glance I was sure he must be long John.
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 1: His leg was cut off close by the hip and
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 1: under the left shoulder. He carried a crutch, which he
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 1: managed with a wonderful dexterity, hopping about upon it like
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 1: a bird. He was very tall and strong, with a
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 1: face as big as a ham plain, and pale, but
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 1: intelligent and smiling. Indeed, he seemed in the most cheerful spirits,
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 1: whistling as he moved about among the tables, with a
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 1: merry word or a slap on the shoulder for the
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 1: more favored of his guests. Now, to tell you the truth,
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 1: from the very first mention of long John in Squire
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 1: Trelorney's letter, I had taken a fear in my mind
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 1: that he might prove to be the very one legged
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 1: sailor whom I had watched for so long at the
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 1: old Benbow. But one look at the man before me
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 1: was enough. I had seen the captain and black dog
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 1: and the blind man pew, and I thought I knew
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 1: what a buccaneer was like, a very different creature, according
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 1: to me, from this clean and pleasant tempered landlord. I
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 1: plucked up courage at once crossed the threshold and walked
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 1: right up to the man, where he stood propped on
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 1: his crutch, talking to a customer, mister Silver, Sir, I asked,
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 1: holding out the note. Yes, moy lad, said he. Such
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 1: is my name, to be sure, and who may you be?
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 1: And when he saw the Squire's letter, he seemed to
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 1: me to give something almost like a start. Oh, said
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 1: he quite aloud, and offering his hand. I see you
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 1: are a new cabin boy. Please do I am to
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 1: see you. And he took my hand in his large,
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 1: firm grasp. Just then one of the customers of the
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 1: far side rose suddenly and made for the door. It
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 1: was close by him, and he was out in the
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 1: street in a moment. But his hurry had attracted my notice,
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 1: and I recognized him at a glance. It was the
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 1: tallow faced man and wanting two fingers who had come
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 1: first to the Admiral Benbow. Oh, I cried, stop him.
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 1: It's black dog. I don't care two coppers who he is,
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 1: cried Silver, But he hasn't paid his score. Erry, run
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 1: and catch him. One of the others, who was nearest
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 1: the door, leaped up and started in pursuit. If he
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 1: were Admiral Hawke, he shall play his score, said Silver,
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 1: and then, relinquishing my hand. Who did you say? He was,
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 1: he asked, black What black dog said? I has mister
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 1: Trelawney not told you of the buccaneers. He was one
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 1: of them, so cried silver in my house, Ben run
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 1: and help Harry. One of those swabs? Was he was?
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 1: That you'd drink him with him? Morgan? Step up here,
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 1: The man whom he called Morgan, an old, gray haired,
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 1: mahogany faced sailor, came forward, pretty she bishly, rolling his quid. Nil, Morgan,
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 1: said long John, very sternly. You never clapped your eyes
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 1: on that black black dog before, did you? Now? No, sir,
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 1: said Morgan, with a salute. You didn't know his name,
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 1: did you, No, sir? By the powers Tom Morgan. It's
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 1: good for you, exclaimed the landlord. If you had been
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 1: mixed up with the like of that, you would never
• 1:36:27
  Speaker 1: put another foot in my house. You may lay to that.
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 1: And what was he saying to you? I don't rightly know, sir,
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 1: answered Morgan. Do you call that ahead on your shoulders?
• 1:36:39
  Speaker 1: Are a blessed dead eye? Cried long John. Don't rightly know,
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 1: don't you? Perhaps you don't happen to rightly know who
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 1: you were speaking to? Perhaps come now? What was he jarring? Voyages,
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 1: cap'n ships pie up? What was it? He was a
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 1: talking of keel hauling, answered Morgan. Keel all him was
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 1: you and a mighty suitable thing too, And you made
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 1: later that get back to your place for a lubber, Tom.
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 1: And then as Morgan rolled back to his seat, Silver
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 1: added to me in a confidential whisper that was very flattering,
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 1: as I thought, he's quite an honest man, Tom Morgan,
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 1: only stupid. And now he ran on again loud, let's
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 1: see black dog. No, I don't know that name, not
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 1: I yeah, I kind of think, yes, yes, I've seen
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 1: the swab he used to come here with a blowing
• 1:37:38
  Speaker 1: beggary used that he did, You may be sure, said
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 1: I I knew that blind man too. His name was Pew,
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 1: it was cried Silver, now quite excited. Pew that was
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 1: his name for a certain ah. He looked as shark
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 1: he did. And if we run down this black dog now,
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 1: then I'll be news for cap'n Trelawney. Ben's a good runner.
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 1: Few seamen run better than Ben. He should have run
• 1:38:07
  Speaker 1: him down hand over a hand by their powers. He
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 1: talked to keel Allan, did he I'll keel all him
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 1: all the time he was jerking out these phrases, he
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 1: was stumping up and down the tavern on his crutch,
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 1: slapping tables with his hand, and giving such a show
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 1: of excitement as with a convinced an old Bailey judge
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 1: or a bow street runner. My suspicions had been thoroughly
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 1: reawakened on finding black Dog at the spyglass. And I
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 1: watched the cook narrowly, but he was too deep, and
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 1: too ready, and too clever for me. And by the
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 1: time the two men had come back out of breath
• 1:38:44
  Speaker 1: and confessed that they had lost the track in a
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 1: crowd and been scolded like thieves, I would have gone
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 1: bail for the innocence of long John Silver. No. See here,
• 1:38:55
  Speaker 1: Hawkins said he. Here is a blessed hard thing on
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 1: a man like me, now, ain't it. There's cap'n Trelawney.
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 1: What's he to think? Here? I have this confounded son
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 1: of a Dutchman sitting here in my own house, drinking
• 1:39:11
  Speaker 1: of my own rum. Here you comes and tells me
• 1:39:14
  Speaker 1: of it plain, and here I let him give us,
• 1:39:18
  Speaker 1: oh the slip before my blessed dead lights. Now, Harkins,
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 1: you do me justice with the Captain. You're a lad,
• 1:39:26
  Speaker 1: you are, but you're as smart as paint. I see
• 1:39:29
  Speaker 1: that when you first came in now here. It is
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 1: What could I do with this old timberoy hobble on?
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 1: When I was a a b master mariner, I'd have
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 1: come along beside him, hand overhand and broached him into
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 1: a brace of old shakes. I would and now, and
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 1: then all of a sudden he stopped, and his jaw dropped,
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 1: as though he had remembered something. The score, he burst out,
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 1: three goes a rub boy, shiver my timber, if I
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 1: hadn't forgotten my score, And falling on a bench, he
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 1: laughed till the tears ran down his cheeks. I could
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 1: not help joining, and we laughed together. Peel laughed appeal
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 1: till the tavern rang again. Why what a precious old
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 1: sea calf I am, he said, at last, wiping his cheeks.
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 1: You and me should get on well, Hawkins, for I'll
• 1:40:25
  Speaker 1: take my davy. I should be rated ship's boy. But
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 1: come now stand by to go about this? Won't do?
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 1: Dooty is dooty, messmates. I'll put on my old cocked
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 1: hat and step along you to Captain Trelawney and report
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 1: this here affair. For mind you, it's serious, young Harkins.
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 1: And neither you nor me's come out of it with
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 1: what I should make so bold as it called credit,
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 1: nor you neither says you not smart, none of the
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 1: pair of us smart, but dash my buttons that were
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 1: a good about my score. And he began to laugh again,
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 1: and that so heartily that though I did not see
• 1:41:07
  Speaker 1: the joke as he did, I was again obliged to
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 1: join him in his mirth. On our little walk along
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 1: the keys, he made himself the most interesting companion, telling
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 1: me about the different ships that we passed by their
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 1: rig tonnage nationality, explaining the work that was going forward,
• 1:41:25
  Speaker 1: how one was discharging, another taking in cargo, and a
• 1:41:28
  Speaker 1: third making ready for sea, and every now and then
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 1: telling me some little anecdote of ships or seamen, or
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 1: repeating a nautical phrase till I had learned it perfectly.
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 1: I began to see that here was one of the
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 1: best of possible shipmates. When we got to the inn,
• 1:41:45
  Speaker 1: the Squire and Doctor Livesey were seated together, finishing a
• 1:41:49
  Speaker 1: quarter of ale with a toast in it, before they
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 1: should go aboard the schooner on a visit of inspection.
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 1: Long John told the story from first to last with
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 1: a great deal of spirit and the most perfect truth
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 1: that was how it were? Now? Weren't it? Hawkins? He
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 1: would say now and again, and I could always bear
• 1:42:08
  Speaker 1: him entirely out. The two gentlemen regretted that black Dog
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 1: had got away, but we all agreed that there was
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 1: nothing to be done. And after he had been complimented,
• 1:42:19
  Speaker 1: Long John took up his crutch and departed. All hands
• 1:42:23
  Speaker 1: are board for for this afternoon, shouted the squire after him.
• 1:42:27
  Speaker 1: Aye aye, Sir, cried the cook in the passage. Well,
• 1:42:32
  Speaker 1: Squire said, doctor Livesey. I don't put much faith in
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 1: your discoveries as a general thing, but I will say this,
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 1: John Silver suits me. That man's a perfect trump, declared
• 1:42:46
  Speaker 1: the Squire, and now added the doctor. Jim may come
• 1:42:51
  Speaker 1: on board with us. May he not? To be sure?
• 1:42:54
  Speaker 1: He may, said the squire. Take your hat, Hawkins, and
• 1:42:58
  Speaker 1: we'll see the ship. End of Chapter eight, Chapter nine,
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 1: Powder and Arms. The Hispaniola lay some way out, and
• 1:43:11
  Speaker 1: we went under the figureheads and around the sterns of
• 1:43:14
  Speaker 1: many other ships, and their cables sometimes grated beneath our keel,
• 1:43:18
  Speaker 1: and sometimes swung above us. At last, however, we swung
• 1:43:23
  Speaker 1: alongside and were met and saluted as we stepped aboard
• 1:43:26
  Speaker 1: by the mate, mister Arrow, a brown old sailor with
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 1: ear rings in his ears and a squint. He and
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 1: the squire were very thick and friendly, but I soon
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 1: observed that things were not the same between mister Trelawney
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 1: and the captain. This last was a sharp looking man
• 1:43:44
  Speaker 1: who seemed angry with everything on board, and was soon
• 1:43:47
  Speaker 1: to tell us why. For we had hardly got down
• 1:43:50
  Speaker 1: into the cabin when a sailor followed us. Captain Smollett, Sir,
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 1: axing to speak with you, said he. I am always
• 1:43:57
  Speaker 1: at the Captain's orders. Show him in, said the squire.
• 1:44:02
  Speaker 1: The Captain, who was close behind his messenger, entered at
• 1:44:05
  Speaker 1: once and shut the door behind him. Well, Captain Smollett,
• 1:44:10
  Speaker 1: what have you to say? All? Well, I hope all
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 1: ship shape and sea worthy. Well, sir, said the captain,
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 1: Better speak plain, I believe, at the risk of a fence,
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 1: I don't like this cruise. I don't like the men,
• 1:44:26
  Speaker 1: and I don't like my officer. That's short and sweet. Perhaps, sir,
• 1:44:32
  Speaker 1: you don't like the ship, inquired the squire very angry
• 1:44:35
  Speaker 1: as I could see. I can't speak to that, sir,
• 1:44:38
  Speaker 1: not having seen her tried, said the captain. She seems
• 1:44:43
  Speaker 1: a clever craft more I can't say possibly, sir. You
• 1:44:48
  Speaker 1: may not like your employer either, said the squire. But
• 1:44:52
  Speaker 1: here doctor Livesey cut in. Stay a bit, said he,
• 1:44:56
  Speaker 1: stay a bit. No use of such questions as that,
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 1: but to produce ill feeling. The Captain has said too much,
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 1: or he has said too little, and I'm bound to
• 1:45:08
  Speaker 1: say that I require an explanation of his words. You
• 1:45:12
  Speaker 1: don't you say, like this cruise? Now? Why I was engaged, sir,
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 1: on what we call sealed orders to sail this ship
• 1:45:23
  Speaker 1: for that gentleman where he should bid me, said the captain.
• 1:45:28
  Speaker 1: So far, so good. But now I find that every
• 1:45:33
  Speaker 1: man before the mast knows more than I do. I
• 1:45:37
  Speaker 1: don't call that fear, now, do you now, said Doctor Livesey.
• 1:45:42
  Speaker 1: I don't, next, said the Captain. I learn that we
• 1:45:48
  Speaker 1: are going after treasure. Hear it from my own hands.
• 1:45:52
  Speaker 1: Mind you, now, treasure is ticklish work. I don't like
• 1:45:57
  Speaker 1: treasure voyages on any account, and I I don't like
• 1:46:00
  Speaker 1: them above all when they are secret and when begging
• 1:46:04
  Speaker 1: your pardon, mister Trelawney. The secret has been told to
• 1:46:08
  Speaker 1: the parrot. Silver's parrot, asked the squire. It's a way
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 1: of speaking, said the captain, blabed. I mean it's my belief.
• 1:46:20
  Speaker 1: Neither of you, gentlemen, know what you are about. But
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you my way of it. Life or death
• 1:46:27
  Speaker 1: and a close run. That is all clear, And I
• 1:46:31
  Speaker 1: dare say true enough, replied doctor Livesey. We take the risk,
• 1:46:35
  Speaker 1: but we are not so ignorant as you believe us. Next,
• 1:46:40
  Speaker 1: you say you don't like the crew. Are they not
• 1:46:43
  Speaker 1: good seamen? I don't like them, sir, returned Captain Smollett.
• 1:46:48
  Speaker 1: And I think I should have had the choosing of
• 1:46:51
  Speaker 1: my own hands. If you go to that, perhaps you should,
• 1:46:56
  Speaker 1: replied the doctor. My friend should perhaps have taken you
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 1: were along with him. But the slight, if there be one,
• 1:47:03
  Speaker 1: was unintentional. And you don't like mister Arrow, I don't, sir.
• 1:47:09
  Speaker 1: I believe he's a good seaman, but he's too free
• 1:47:13
  Speaker 1: with the crew to be a good officer. A mate
• 1:47:16
  Speaker 1: should keep himself to himself, shouldn't drink with the men
• 1:47:20
  Speaker 1: before the mast. Do you mean he drinks? Cried the squire, No, sir,
• 1:47:27
  Speaker 1: replied the captain, only that he's too familiar. Well now
• 1:47:32
  Speaker 1: and the short of the long of it, captain asked
• 1:47:35
  Speaker 1: the doctor, tell us what you want, well, gentlemen, or
• 1:47:40
  Speaker 1: you determined to go on this cruise like iron? Answered
• 1:47:46
  Speaker 1: the squire. Very good, said the Captain. Then, as you've
• 1:47:51
  Speaker 1: heard me very patiently saying things that I could not prove,
• 1:47:56
  Speaker 1: hear me a few words more. They are putting the
• 1:47:59
  Speaker 1: power and arms in the foe hold. Now you have
• 1:48:04
  Speaker 1: a good place under the cabin. Why not put them there?
• 1:48:08
  Speaker 1: First point? Then you are bringing four of your own
• 1:48:13
  Speaker 1: people with you, and they tell me some of them
• 1:48:16
  Speaker 1: are to be berthed forward, why not give them the
• 1:48:20
  Speaker 1: berths here besides the cabin? Second point anymore, asked mister Trelawney.
• 1:48:29
  Speaker 1: One more, said the captain. There's been too much a
• 1:48:33
  Speaker 1: blabbing already, far too much, agreed the doctor. I'll tell
• 1:48:39
  Speaker 1: you what I have heard myself, continued Captain Smollett. That
• 1:48:43
  Speaker 1: you have a map of an island, that there's crosses
• 1:48:47
  Speaker 1: on the map to show where treasure is, and that
• 1:48:50
  Speaker 1: the island lies. And then he named the latitude and
• 1:48:54
  Speaker 1: longitude exactly. I never told that cried the squire, to
• 1:48:59
  Speaker 1: a Oh, the hands know it, Sir, returned the Captain. Livesey.
• 1:49:07
  Speaker 1: That must have been your Hawkins, cried the squire. It
• 1:49:10
  Speaker 1: doesn't much matter who it was, replied the doctor. And
• 1:49:15
  Speaker 1: I could see that neither he nor the Captain paid
• 1:49:18
  Speaker 1: much regard to mister Trelawney's protestations. Neither did I to
• 1:49:22
  Speaker 1: be sure he was so loose a talker. Yet in
• 1:49:26
  Speaker 1: this case I believe he was really right, and that
• 1:49:29
  Speaker 1: nobody had told the situation of the island Well, gentlemen,
• 1:49:34
  Speaker 1: continued the Captain. I don't know who has this map,
• 1:49:38
  Speaker 1: but I make it a point it shall be kept secret,
• 1:49:41
  Speaker 1: even from me and mister Arrow. Otherwise I would ask
• 1:49:46
  Speaker 1: you to let me resign. I see, said the doctor.
• 1:49:50
  Speaker 1: You wish us to keep this matter dark, and to
• 1:49:53
  Speaker 1: make a garrison of the stern part of the ship,
• 1:49:57
  Speaker 1: manned with my friend's own people, and provided with all
• 1:50:01
  Speaker 1: the arms and powder on board. In other words, you'll
• 1:50:05
  Speaker 1: fear a mutiny, sir, said Captain Smollett, with no intention
• 1:50:11
  Speaker 1: to take offence. I deny your right to put words
• 1:50:15
  Speaker 1: into my mouth. No, Captain, Sir, would be justified in
• 1:50:19
  Speaker 1: going to sea at all if he had ground enough
• 1:50:22
  Speaker 1: to save that. As for mister Arrow, I believe him
• 1:50:28
  Speaker 1: thoroughly honest. Some of the men are the same, or
• 1:50:32
  Speaker 1: maybe for what I know. But I am responsible for
• 1:50:36
  Speaker 1: the ship's safety and the life of every man jack
• 1:50:41
  Speaker 1: aboard of her. I see things going as I think
• 1:50:45
  Speaker 1: not quite right, and I ask you to take certain precautions,
• 1:50:51
  Speaker 1: or let me resign my birth. And that's all, Captain Smollett,
• 1:50:57
  Speaker 1: began the doctor with a smile. Did you ever hear
• 1:51:00
  Speaker 1: the fable of the Mountain and the mouse. You'll excuse me,
• 1:51:04
  Speaker 1: I dare say, but you remind me of that fable.
• 1:51:08
  Speaker 1: When you came in here. I'll stake my wig. You
• 1:51:11
  Speaker 1: meant more than this, doctor, said the captain. You are smart.
• 1:51:17
  Speaker 1: When I came in here, I meant to get discharged.
• 1:51:21
  Speaker 1: I had no thought that mister Trelawney would hear a word.
• 1:51:26
  Speaker 1: No more, I would cried the squire. Had Livesey not
• 1:51:30
  Speaker 1: been here, I should have seen you to the deuce.
• 1:51:33
  Speaker 1: As it is, I have heard you. I will do
• 1:51:37
  Speaker 1: as you desire, but I think the worst of you.
• 1:51:40
  Speaker 1: That's as you please, sir, said the captain. You'll find
• 1:51:45
  Speaker 1: I do my duty and with that he took his
• 1:51:48
  Speaker 1: leave trolawn ear, said the doctor. Contrary to all my notions,
• 1:51:55
  Speaker 1: I believe you have managed to get two honest men
• 1:51:58
  Speaker 1: on board with you, that man and John Silver Silver,
• 1:52:04
  Speaker 1: if you like, cried the Squire. But as for that
• 1:52:07
  Speaker 1: intolerable humbug, I declare I think his conduct unmanly, unsailorly
• 1:52:13
  Speaker 1: and downright un English. Well, said the doctor. We shall
• 1:52:18
  Speaker 1: see when we came on deck. The men had begun
• 1:52:21
  Speaker 1: all ready to take out the arms and powder yohoeing
• 1:52:25
  Speaker 1: at their work, while the Captain and mister Arrow stood
• 1:52:28
  Speaker 1: by superintending. The new arrangement was quite to my liking.
• 1:52:33
  Speaker 1: The whole schooner had been overhauled. Six berths had been
• 1:52:36
  Speaker 1: made astern out of what had been the after part
• 1:52:39
  Speaker 1: of the main hold, and this set of cabins was
• 1:52:42
  Speaker 1: only joined to the galley and forecastle by a sparred
• 1:52:45
  Speaker 1: passage on the port side. It had been originally meant
• 1:52:48
  Speaker 1: that the Captain, mister Arrow, Hunter Joyce, the Doctor, and
• 1:52:52
  Speaker 1: the Squire were to occupy these six berths. Now Redruth
• 1:52:56
  Speaker 1: and I were to get two of them, and mister
• 1:52:59
  Speaker 1: Arrow and the Captain were to sleep on deck in
• 1:53:01
  Speaker 1: the companion, which had been enlarged on either side till
• 1:53:05
  Speaker 1: you might almost have called it a round house. Very
• 1:53:08
  Speaker 1: low it was, still, of course, but there was room
• 1:53:11
  Speaker 1: to swing to hammocks, and even the mate seemed pleased
• 1:53:14
  Speaker 1: with the arrangement. Even he perhaps had been doubtful as
• 1:53:18
  Speaker 1: to the crew, but that is only guess, for as
• 1:53:21
  Speaker 1: you shall hear, we had not long the benefit of
• 1:53:24
  Speaker 1: his opinion. We were all hard at work changing the
• 1:53:28
  Speaker 1: powder and the berths when the last man or two,
• 1:53:31
  Speaker 1: and Long John along with them, came off in a
• 1:53:34
  Speaker 1: shore boat. The cook came up the side like a
• 1:53:37
  Speaker 1: monkey for cleverness, and as soon as he saw what
• 1:53:40
  Speaker 1: was doing so home mates said he what's this? We're
• 1:53:45
  Speaker 1: a change in the powder? Jack answers one. Why by
• 1:53:50
  Speaker 1: the powers, cried Long John. If we do well miss
• 1:53:54
  Speaker 1: the mourning tide, my orders, said the captain. Shortly you
• 1:53:59
  Speaker 1: may go below. My man hands will want supper. Aye aye, sir,
• 1:54:05
  Speaker 1: answered the cook, and touching his forelock, he disappeared at
• 1:54:09
  Speaker 1: once in the direction of his galley. That's a good man,
• 1:54:12
  Speaker 1: the captain, said the doctor. Very likely, Sir, replied Captain Smollett.
• 1:54:19
  Speaker 1: Easy with that, men, easy He ran on to the
• 1:54:23
  Speaker 1: fellows who were shifting the powder, and then suddenly observing
• 1:54:26
  Speaker 1: me examining the swivel, we carried amidships a long brass nine.
• 1:54:31
  Speaker 1: Here you ship's boy, he cried out, Are that off
• 1:54:35
  Speaker 1: with you to the cook and get some work. And
• 1:54:39
  Speaker 1: then as I was hurrying off, I heard him say,
• 1:54:42
  Speaker 1: quite loudly to the doctor, I'll have no favorites on
• 1:54:45
  Speaker 1: my ship, I assure you. I was quite of the
• 1:54:48
  Speaker 1: Squire's way of thinking, and hated the captain deeply. End
• 1:54:53
  Speaker 1: of chapter nine, Chapter ten. The voyage all that night
• 1:55:00
  Speaker 1: in a great bustle, getting things stowed in their place,
• 1:55:03
  Speaker 1: and boatfuls of the Squire's friends, mister Blandly and the
• 1:55:06
  Speaker 1: like coming off to wish him a good voyage and
• 1:55:09
  Speaker 1: a safe return. We never had a night at the
• 1:55:12
  Speaker 1: admiral Benbow when I had half the work, and I
• 1:55:15
  Speaker 1: was dog tired. When a little before dawn the bowsun
• 1:55:19
  Speaker 1: sounded his pipe and the crew began to man the
• 1:55:21
  Speaker 1: capstan bars. I might have been twice as weary, yet
• 1:55:26
  Speaker 1: I would not have left the deck, or was so
• 1:55:29
  Speaker 1: new and interesting to me the brief commands, the shrill
• 1:55:33
  Speaker 1: notes of the whistle, the men bustling to their places.
• 1:55:36
  Speaker 1: In the glimmer of the ship's lanterns now barbecue tip us,
• 1:55:40
  Speaker 1: a stave cried one voice, the old one cried another.
• 1:55:45
  Speaker 1: Aye aye, mates, said long John, who was standing by
• 1:55:49
  Speaker 1: with his crutch under his arm, and at once broke
• 1:55:52
  Speaker 1: out in the air and words I knew so well.
• 1:55:56
  Speaker 1: Fifteen men on a dead man's chest. And then the
• 1:56:00
  Speaker 1: whole crew bore chorus, Yo, ho ho, and a bottle
• 1:56:05
  Speaker 1: of rum, and at the third hoe drove the bars
• 1:56:10
  Speaker 1: before them with a will. Even at that exciting moment,
• 1:56:13
  Speaker 1: it carried me back to the old admiral benbow in
• 1:56:16
  Speaker 1: a second, and I seemed to hear the voice of
• 1:56:18
  Speaker 1: the captain piping in the chorus. But soon the anchor
• 1:56:22
  Speaker 1: was short up. Soon it was hanging, dripping at the bows.
• 1:56:26
  Speaker 1: Soon the sails began to draw, and the land and
• 1:56:29
  Speaker 1: shipping to flit by on either side. And before I
• 1:56:32
  Speaker 1: could lie down to snatch an hour of slumber, the
• 1:56:35
  Speaker 1: Hispaniola began her voyage to the Isle of Treasure. I
• 1:56:39
  Speaker 1: am not going to relate the voyage in detail. It
• 1:56:42
  Speaker 1: was fairly prosperous. The ship proved to be a good ship,
• 1:56:46
  Speaker 1: and the crew were capable seamen, and the captain thoroughly
• 1:56:49
  Speaker 1: understood his business. But before we came the length of
• 1:56:52
  Speaker 1: Treasure Island, two or three things had happened which require
• 1:56:56
  Speaker 1: to be known. Mister Arrow, first of all, turned out
• 1:56:59
  Speaker 1: even worse than the captain had feared. He had no
• 1:57:02
  Speaker 1: command among the men, and people did what they pleased
• 1:57:06
  Speaker 1: with him. But that was by no means the worst
• 1:57:08
  Speaker 1: of it. For after a day or two at sea,
• 1:57:11
  Speaker 1: he began to appear on deck with hazy eye, red cheeks,
• 1:57:15
  Speaker 1: stuttering tongue, and other marks of drunkenness. Time after time
• 1:57:20
  Speaker 1: he was ordered below in disgrace. Sometimes he fell and
• 1:57:24
  Speaker 1: cut himself. Sometimes he lay all day long in his
• 1:57:27
  Speaker 1: little bunk at one side of the companion. Sometimes for
• 1:57:30
  Speaker 1: a day or two he would be almost sober and
• 1:57:33
  Speaker 1: attend to his work at least passably. In the meantime,
• 1:57:37
  Speaker 1: we could never make out where he got the drink.
• 1:57:40
  Speaker 1: That was the ship's mystery. Watch him as we pleased,
• 1:57:44
  Speaker 1: we could do nothing to solve it. And when we
• 1:57:46
  Speaker 1: asked him to his face, he would only laugh if
• 1:57:49
  Speaker 1: he were drunk, and if he were sober, deny solemnly
• 1:57:53
  Speaker 1: that he ever tasted anything but water. He was not
• 1:57:56
  Speaker 1: only useless as an officer, and a bad influence among
• 1:58:00
  Speaker 1: the men, but it was plain that at this rate
• 1:58:02
  Speaker 1: he must soon kill himself outright. So nobody was much
• 1:58:05
  Speaker 1: surprised nor very sorry, when one dark night, with a
• 1:58:09
  Speaker 1: head sea, he disappeared entirely and was seen no more
• 1:58:14
  Speaker 1: Overbold said the captain, Well, gentlemen, that saves the trouble
• 1:58:19
  Speaker 1: of putting him in irons. And there we were without
• 1:58:23
  Speaker 1: a mate, and it was necessary, of course to advance
• 1:58:26
  Speaker 1: one of the men, the bo'sun job Anderson was the
• 1:58:30
  Speaker 1: likeliest man aboard, and though he kept his old title,
• 1:58:34
  Speaker 1: he served in a way as mate. Mister Trelawney had
• 1:58:37
  Speaker 1: followed the sea, and his knowledge made him very useful,
• 1:58:40
  Speaker 1: for often he took a watch himself in easy weather
• 1:58:43
  Speaker 1: and the Coxs and israel Hands was a careful, wily,
• 1:58:47
  Speaker 1: old experienced seaman who could be trusted at a pinch
• 1:58:51
  Speaker 1: with almost anything. He was a great confidante of long
• 1:58:55
  Speaker 1: John Silver. And so the mention of his name leads
• 1:58:58
  Speaker 1: me on to speak of our ship, cook Barbecue, as
• 1:59:02
  Speaker 1: the men called him. Aboard ship. He carried his crutch
• 1:59:06
  Speaker 1: by a lanyard around his neck to have both hands
• 1:59:09
  Speaker 1: as free as possible. It was something to see him
• 1:59:11
  Speaker 1: wedge the foot of the crutch against the bulkhead and
• 1:59:15
  Speaker 1: propped against it, yielding to every movement of the ship,
• 1:59:18
  Speaker 1: get on with his cooking like someone safe ashore. Still
• 1:59:22
  Speaker 1: more strange was it to see him, in the heaviest
• 1:59:24
  Speaker 1: of weather cross the deck. He had a line or
• 1:59:27
  Speaker 1: two rigged up to help him across the widest spaces
• 1:59:30
  Speaker 1: Long John's ear rings, they were called, and he would
• 1:59:33
  Speaker 1: hand himself from one place to another, now using the crutch,
• 1:59:37
  Speaker 1: now trailing it alongside by the lanyard, as quickly as
• 1:59:41
  Speaker 1: another man could walk. Yet some of the men who
• 1:59:43
  Speaker 1: had sailed with him before expressed their pity to see
• 1:59:47
  Speaker 1: him so reduced. He's no common man barbecue, said the
• 1:59:51
  Speaker 1: coxswain to me. He had a good schooling in his
• 1:59:54
  Speaker 1: young days, and can speak like a book when he's
• 1:59:57
  Speaker 1: so minded and brave. A lions nothing alongside of Long John.
• 2:00:03
  Speaker 1: I've seen him grapple four and knock their heads together
• 2:00:07
  Speaker 1: him unarmed. All the crew respected and even obeyed him.
• 2:00:12
  Speaker 1: He had a way of talking to each and doing
• 2:00:14
  Speaker 1: everybody some particular service. To me, he was unweariedly kind
• 2:00:19
  Speaker 1: and always glad to see me. In the galley, which
• 2:00:22
  Speaker 1: he kept as clean as a new pin, the dishes
• 2:00:25
  Speaker 1: hanging up burnished, and his parrot in a cage in
• 2:00:28
  Speaker 1: the corner. Come away, young Haarkins, he would say, Come
• 2:00:33
  Speaker 1: and have a yarn with John. Nobody more welcome than yourself,
• 2:00:38
  Speaker 1: my son. Sit you down and hear the news. Here's
• 2:00:42
  Speaker 1: cap'n Flint. I cause my parrot cap'n Flint, after the
• 2:00:47
  Speaker 1: famous buccaneer, here's cap'n Flint, predicting success to her voyage,
• 2:00:53
  Speaker 1: wasn't your cap'n And the parrot would say, with great rapidity,
• 2:00:57
  Speaker 1: pieces of eight, pieces of eight, pieces of eight, till
• 2:01:00
  Speaker 1: you wondered that it was not out of breath, or
• 2:01:03
  Speaker 1: till John threw his handkerchief over the cage. Now that bird,
• 2:01:09
  Speaker 1: he would say, is maybe two hundred years old, Hawkins.
• 2:01:13
  Speaker 1: They live forever mostly, and if anybody see more wickedness,
• 2:01:18
  Speaker 1: it must be the devil himself. She's sailed with England,
• 2:01:23
  Speaker 1: the Great cop in England the Pirate. She's been at Madagascar,
• 2:01:28
  Speaker 1: and at Malabar, and Suriname, and Providence and Port of Bellow.
• 2:01:34
  Speaker 1: She was at the fishing up of the wrecked plate ships.
• 2:01:37
  Speaker 1: It's there she learned pieces of eight and little wonder
• 2:01:41
  Speaker 1: three hundred and fifty thousand off of markins. She was
• 2:01:45
  Speaker 1: at the boarding of the Vostroy of the Indies out
• 2:01:48
  Speaker 1: of Goa. She was, and to look at her you
• 2:01:52
  Speaker 1: would think she was a babby. But you smelt powder,
• 2:01:56
  Speaker 1: didn't you. Captain stand by to go about. The parrot
• 2:01:59
  Speaker 1: would ah, she's antsome, craft she is, the cook would say,
• 2:02:05
  Speaker 1: and give her sugar from his pocket, And then the
• 2:02:08
  Speaker 1: bird would peck at the bars and swear straight on,
• 2:02:11
  Speaker 1: passing belief for wickedness. There, John would add, you can't
• 2:02:17
  Speaker 1: pitch a nut be mucked. Lad, here's the poor old
• 2:02:21
  Speaker 1: innocent bird of mine swearing blue fire, and Nune the
• 2:02:25
  Speaker 1: wiser you made later that she would swear the same
• 2:02:28
  Speaker 1: in a manner o speaking before the chaplain, and John
• 2:02:32
  Speaker 1: would touch his forelock with a solemn way he had
• 2:02:35
  Speaker 1: that made me think he was the best of men.
• 2:02:38
  Speaker 1: In the meantime, the Squire and Captain Smollett were still
• 2:02:41
  Speaker 1: on pretty distant terms with one another. The Squire made
• 2:02:45
  Speaker 1: no bones about the matter. He despised the captain. The captain,
• 2:02:49
  Speaker 1: on his part, never spoke, but when he was spoken to,
• 2:02:53
  Speaker 1: and then sharp and short and dry, and not a
• 2:02:55
  Speaker 1: word wasted. He owned, when driven into a corner, that
• 2:02:59
  Speaker 1: he seemed to have been wrong about the crew, that
• 2:03:02
  Speaker 1: some of them were as brisk as he wanted to see,
• 2:03:05
  Speaker 1: and all had behaved fairly well. As for the ship,
• 2:03:08
  Speaker 1: he had taken a downright fancy to her. She'll lie
• 2:03:12
  Speaker 1: a point nearer the wind than a man, as the
• 2:03:15
  Speaker 1: right to expect of his own married wife, sir. But
• 2:03:19
  Speaker 1: he would add, all I say is we're not home again,
• 2:03:23
  Speaker 1: and I don't like the cruise. The squire at this
• 2:03:28
  Speaker 1: would turn away and march up and down the deck,
• 2:03:30
  Speaker 1: chin in air. A trifle more of that man, he
• 2:03:34
  Speaker 1: would say, and I should explode. We had some heavy weather,
• 2:03:39
  Speaker 1: which only proved the qualities of the Hispaniola. Every man
• 2:03:43
  Speaker 1: on board seemed well content, and he must have been
• 2:03:46
  Speaker 1: hard to please if they had been otherwise. For it
• 2:03:49
  Speaker 1: is my belief that there was never a ship's company
• 2:03:52
  Speaker 1: so spoiled. Since Noah put to sea, double grog was
• 2:03:57
  Speaker 1: going at the least excuse there was duff on odd days,
• 2:04:00
  Speaker 1: as for instance, if the squire heard it was any
• 2:04:03
  Speaker 1: man's birthday, and all was a barrel of apples standing
• 2:04:07
  Speaker 1: broached in the waist for anyone to help himself that
• 2:04:09
  Speaker 1: had a fancy never knew good to come of it.
• 2:04:13
  Speaker 1: Yet the captain said to doctor livesey, spoil forecastle, hands
• 2:04:18
  Speaker 1: make devils, that's my belief. But good did come of
• 2:04:23
  Speaker 1: the apple barrel, as you shall hear. For if it
• 2:04:26
  Speaker 1: had not been for that, we should have had no
• 2:04:28
  Speaker 1: note of warning, and might all have perished by the
• 2:04:31
  Speaker 1: hand of treachery. This is how it came about. We
• 2:04:37
  Speaker 1: had run up the trades to get wind of the
• 2:04:39
  Speaker 1: island we were after. I am not allowed to be
• 2:04:42
  Speaker 1: more plain, And now we were running down for it
• 2:04:44
  Speaker 1: with a bright lookout day and night. It was about
• 2:04:48
  Speaker 1: the last day of her outward voyage. By the last computation,
• 2:04:52
  Speaker 1: some time that night, or latest before noon of the morrow,
• 2:04:56
  Speaker 1: we should sight the treasure Island. We were heading south
• 2:05:00
  Speaker 1: west and had a steady breeze abeam and a quiet sea.
• 2:05:04
  Speaker 1: The Hispaniola rolled steadily, dipping her bowsprit now and then
• 2:05:08
  Speaker 1: with a whiff of spray. All was drawing a low
• 2:05:12
  Speaker 1: and aloft. Everyone was in the bravest spirits because we
• 2:05:16
  Speaker 1: were now so near an end of the first part
• 2:05:18
  Speaker 1: of our adventure. Now, just after sundown, when all my
• 2:05:22
  Speaker 1: work was over and I was on my way to
• 2:05:24
  Speaker 1: my berth, it occurred to me that I should like
• 2:05:27
  Speaker 1: an apple. I ran on deck. The watch was all forehead,
• 2:05:31
  Speaker 1: looking out for the island. The man at the helm
• 2:05:34
  Speaker 1: was watching the luff of the sail and whistling away
• 2:05:37
  Speaker 1: gently to himself, and that was the only sound, excepting
• 2:05:41
  Speaker 1: the swish of the sea against the boughs and around
• 2:05:44
  Speaker 1: the sides of the ship. In I got bodily into
• 2:05:47
  Speaker 1: the apple barrel and found there was scarce an apple left.
• 2:05:50
  Speaker 1: But sitting down there in the dark, what with the
• 2:05:53
  Speaker 1: sound of the waters and the rocking movement of the ship,
• 2:05:56
  Speaker 1: I had either fallen asleep or was on the point
• 2:05:58
  Speaker 1: of doing so, when a heavy man sat down with
• 2:06:01
  Speaker 1: rather a clash close by. The barrel shook as he
• 2:06:05
  Speaker 1: leaned his shoulders against it, and I was just about
• 2:06:08
  Speaker 1: to jump up when the man began to speak. It
• 2:06:11
  Speaker 1: was Silver's voice, and before I had heard a dozen words,
• 2:06:15
  Speaker 1: I would not have shown myself for all the world,
• 2:06:18
  Speaker 1: but lay there, trembling and listening in the extreme of
• 2:06:22
  Speaker 1: fear and curiosity. For from these dozen words I understood
• 2:06:27
  Speaker 1: that the lives of all the honest men aboard depended
• 2:06:30
  Speaker 1: upon me alone. End of chapter ten, chapter eleven. What
• 2:06:40
  Speaker 1: I heard in the apple barrel, no nay said silver
• 2:06:47
  Speaker 1: Flint was capt'n I was quite a master along of
• 2:06:51
  Speaker 1: my timbre leg the same side I lost my leg,
• 2:06:55
  Speaker 1: old pew Lust his daylights. It was a master, Sir Jennim,
• 2:07:00
  Speaker 1: that amputated me out of college, and all Latin by
• 2:07:04
  Speaker 1: their bucket and what not. But he was hanged like
• 2:07:08
  Speaker 1: a dog and sun droid like the rest at Corso Castle.
• 2:07:13
  Speaker 1: That was Robert's men, that was, and comed of changing
• 2:07:17
  Speaker 1: names to their ships, Royal Fortune and so on. Now
• 2:07:22
  Speaker 1: what a ship was christened? So let her stay, he says.
• 2:07:27
  Speaker 1: So it was with the Cassandra as brought us all
• 2:07:31
  Speaker 1: saate home from Malabar after England took the viceroy of
• 2:07:36
  Speaker 1: the Indies. So it was with the old Warrus Flint's
• 2:07:40
  Speaker 1: old ship, as I've seen him up with the red
• 2:07:44
  Speaker 1: blood and fit to sink with gold. Ah, cried another voice,
• 2:07:51
  Speaker 1: that of the youngest hand on board, and evidently full
• 2:07:54
  Speaker 1: of admiration. He was the flower of the flock, was
• 2:07:58
  Speaker 1: Flint Davy was a man too, boy all accounts, said Silver.
• 2:08:04
  Speaker 1: I never sailed along o him, first with England, then
• 2:08:08
  Speaker 1: with Flint. That's my story, and now here on my
• 2:08:12
  Speaker 1: own account. In a manner of speaking, I laid by
• 2:08:16
  Speaker 1: nine hundred safe from England in two thousand and half
• 2:08:20
  Speaker 1: to Flint. That ain't bad for a man before the mast,
• 2:08:24
  Speaker 1: all safe in bank. Ain't earning now it's saving, does it?
• 2:08:30
  Speaker 1: You made later that where's all England's men? Now? I
• 2:08:34
  Speaker 1: don't know where's Flint's why most of em are board
• 2:08:39
  Speaker 1: here and glad to get the duff been begging before that.
• 2:08:44
  Speaker 1: Some of em old pew As has lost his sight
• 2:08:47
  Speaker 1: and might have thought shame spells twelve hundred pounds in
• 2:08:52
  Speaker 1: a year, like a lord in parliament whereas he now,
• 2:08:56
  Speaker 1: well he's dead now and under hatches. But for two
• 2:09:00
  Speaker 1: years before that, shiver my timbers. The man was starving.
• 2:09:06
  Speaker 1: He begged, and he stole, and he cut throats and
• 2:09:09
  Speaker 1: starved at that by the powers. Well, it ain't much
• 2:09:13
  Speaker 1: use after all, said the young seamen. Tain't much use
• 2:09:18
  Speaker 1: for fools. You made lay to it, that know nothing,
• 2:09:21
  Speaker 1: cried Silver. But now you look here. You're young, you are,
• 2:09:27
  Speaker 1: but you're smart as paint. I see that when I
• 2:09:31
  Speaker 1: set my eyes on you and I'll talk to you
• 2:09:34
  Speaker 1: like a man. You can imagine how I felt when
• 2:09:38
  Speaker 1: I heard this abominable old rogue addressing another in the
• 2:09:42
  Speaker 1: very same words of flattery he had used to myself.
• 2:09:46
  Speaker 1: I think, if I had been able, that I would
• 2:09:49
  Speaker 1: have killed him through the barrel. Meantime he ran on
• 2:09:52
  Speaker 1: little supposing he was overheard. Here it is about gentlemen
• 2:09:57
  Speaker 1: of fortune. They lives rough and they risk swinging, but
• 2:10:02
  Speaker 1: they eat and drink like fighting cocks. And when a
• 2:10:06
  Speaker 1: cruise is done, why it's hundreds of pounds instead of
• 2:10:09
  Speaker 1: hundreds of fathings in their pockets. Now the most goes
• 2:10:13
  Speaker 1: for rum and a good fling and to see again
• 2:10:16
  Speaker 1: in their shirts. But that's not the course I lay.
• 2:10:21
  Speaker 1: He puts it all away, some here, some there, and
• 2:10:25
  Speaker 1: none too much anywhere. Is by reason of suspicion. I'm
• 2:10:29
  Speaker 1: fifty mark you once back from this cruise. I set
• 2:10:33
  Speaker 1: up gentlemen in earnest time. Enough too, says you. Ah.
• 2:10:39
  Speaker 1: But I've lived easy in the meantime, never denied myself
• 2:10:43
  Speaker 1: and nothing the heart desires, and slept soft and ate
• 2:10:47
  Speaker 1: daity all my days. But when at sea, and how
• 2:10:50
  Speaker 1: did I begin before the mast like you? Well, said
• 2:10:55
  Speaker 1: the other. But all the other money's gone now, ain't it?
• 2:10:59
  Speaker 1: You showfacing Bristol after this? Why where might you suppose it?
• 2:11:05
  Speaker 1: Was asked Silver derisively. Bristol in banks and places, answered
• 2:11:12
  Speaker 1: his companion. It were, said the cook, it were when
• 2:11:17
  Speaker 1: we weighed Anchor. But my old missus as it are
• 2:11:20
  Speaker 1: by now, and the spyglasses sold leasts and good will
• 2:11:25
  Speaker 1: and rigging, and the old girls off to meet me.
• 2:11:28
  Speaker 1: I will tell you where a mate, for I trust you,
• 2:11:32
  Speaker 1: but it'd make jealousy among the mates, And you can
• 2:11:36
  Speaker 1: trust your missus, asked the other gentlemen of fortune, returned
• 2:11:42
  Speaker 1: the cook usually trust little among themselves, and right they are.
• 2:11:47
  Speaker 1: You may lay to it, But I have a way
• 2:11:50
  Speaker 1: with me. I have when a mate brings a slip
• 2:11:54
  Speaker 1: on his cable, one as knows me, I mean it
• 2:11:57
  Speaker 1: won't be in the same world with old John. There
• 2:12:01
  Speaker 1: were some that was feared of Pew, and some that
• 2:12:05
  Speaker 1: was feared of Flint. But Flint his own self was
• 2:12:11
  Speaker 1: feared of me. Feared he was, and proud they was.
• 2:12:16
  Speaker 1: The roughest crew of float was Flint's. The devil himself
• 2:12:21
  Speaker 1: would have been feared to go to sea with them. Well,
• 2:12:25
  Speaker 1: now I tell you I'm not a boasting man, and
• 2:12:29
  Speaker 1: you've seen yourself how easy I keep company. But when
• 2:12:34
  Speaker 1: I was quite a master, lambs wasn't the word for
• 2:12:38
  Speaker 1: Flint's old buccaneers. Ah, you may be sure of yourself
• 2:12:42
  Speaker 1: in old John's ship. Well I tell you now, replied
• 2:12:47
  Speaker 1: the lad. I didn't half a quarter like a job
• 2:12:51
  Speaker 1: till I had this talk with you, John. But there's
• 2:12:54
  Speaker 1: my hand on it now, And a brave large you were,
• 2:12:58
  Speaker 1: and smart too, answered Silver, shaking hands so heartily that
• 2:13:04
  Speaker 1: all the barrel shook, and a finer figure head for
• 2:13:07
  Speaker 1: a gentleman of fortune, I never clap the eye's arm.
• 2:13:12
  Speaker 1: By this time I had begun to understand the meaning
• 2:13:15
  Speaker 1: of their terms. By a gentleman of fortune, they plainly
• 2:13:20
  Speaker 1: meant neither more nor less than a common pirate. And
• 2:13:23
  Speaker 1: the little scene that I had overheard was the last
• 2:13:26
  Speaker 1: act in the corruption of one of the honest hands,
• 2:13:29
  Speaker 1: perhaps of the last one left aboard. But on this
• 2:13:32
  Speaker 1: point I was soon to be relieved. For Silver, giving
• 2:13:35
  Speaker 1: a little whistle, a third man strolled up and sat
• 2:13:39
  Speaker 1: down by the party. Dick Square said, Silver, Oh, I
• 2:13:44
  Speaker 1: know Dick was square, returned the voice of the coxswain
• 2:13:48
  Speaker 1: Israel hands. He's no fool, is Dick. He turned his
• 2:13:52
  Speaker 1: quid and spat. But look here, he went on, here's
• 2:13:57
  Speaker 1: what I want to know, Barbecue. How longer we are
• 2:14:01
  Speaker 1: going to stand off and on like a blessed bumboat.
• 2:14:05
  Speaker 1: I've had almost enough, a Captain Smollett, He's hazed me
• 2:14:10
  Speaker 1: long enough. By thunder. I want to go into that cabin.
• 2:14:14
  Speaker 2: I do.
• 2:14:14
  Speaker 1: I want their pickles and wines. And that is ral
• 2:14:19
  Speaker 1: said Silver. You head ain't much a count, nor never was,
• 2:14:24
  Speaker 1: but you're able to hear I reckon blest ways. Your
• 2:14:27
  Speaker 1: ears is big enough.
• 2:14:29
  Speaker 4: Now he is what I say, your birth forehead, and
• 2:14:33
  Speaker 4: you'll live hard, and you'll speak soft, and you'll keep
• 2:14:38
  Speaker 4: sober till I give the word, and you may lead
• 2:14:42
  Speaker 4: to that. My son.
• 2:14:44
  Speaker 1: Well, I don't say no, do, I growled the cockswain.
• 2:14:48
  Speaker 1: What I say is when that's what I say when
• 2:14:53
  Speaker 1: by the.
• 2:14:54
  Speaker 2: Powers cried Silver. Well, now if you want to know,
• 2:14:58
  Speaker 2: I'll tell you when the last moment I can manage,
• 2:15:03
  Speaker 2: and that's when. Here is the first rate seamen. Captain
• 2:15:08
  Speaker 2: Smollett sails the blessed ship for us. Here's this squire
• 2:15:13
  Speaker 2: and doctor. We are map and such. I don't know
• 2:15:17
  Speaker 2: where it is? Do I no more to you?
• 2:15:20
  Speaker 1: Says you? Well they know I mean this squiring doctor
• 2:15:24
  Speaker 1: shall find the stuff and help us to get it
• 2:15:27
  Speaker 1: aboard by the powers. Then we'll see. If I was
• 2:15:32
  Speaker 1: sure of you, all sons a double Dutchman, we'd have
• 2:15:36
  Speaker 1: cap'n Smollett navigate us halfway back again before I struck
• 2:15:42
  Speaker 1: why we're all seeming aboard here, I should think, said
• 2:15:45
  Speaker 1: the lad dick. We're all Folks'll hand your mean snapped silver.
• 2:15:51
  Speaker 1: We can steer a car suppose to set one. That's
• 2:15:55
  Speaker 1: why you gentlemen spit on first and last. If I
• 2:15:59
  Speaker 1: had more, i'd have Captain Smollett workers back into the trades.
• 2:16:04
  Speaker 1: At least. Then we'd have no blessed miscalculations and a
• 2:16:08
  Speaker 1: spoonful of water a day. But I know the sort
• 2:16:12
  Speaker 1: you are. He'll finish with them at the island as
• 2:16:16
  Speaker 1: soon as the blunt's on board. And a pity it is,
• 2:16:20
  Speaker 1: but you're never happy till you're drunk. Split my sides.
• 2:16:24
  Speaker 1: I have a sick heart to sail with the likes
• 2:16:26
  Speaker 1: of you. Easy Lord John cried Israel, who's a crossing
• 2:16:31
  Speaker 1: of you? Why? How many tall ships think ye? Now?
• 2:16:37
  Speaker 1: Have I seen laid aboard? And how many brisk lads
• 2:16:41
  Speaker 1: draw in the sewn execution? Duck cried silver, and all
• 2:16:46
  Speaker 1: for the same. Hurry and hurry and hurry you hear me.
• 2:16:51
  Speaker 1: I've seen a thing or two at sea. I have
• 2:16:54
  Speaker 1: if you would only lay your course and a point
• 2:16:57
  Speaker 1: the windward, you would ridly carry your would.
• 2:17:00
  Speaker 2: But not you.
• 2:17:02
  Speaker 1: I know you. You'll have your milk full of rum
• 2:17:06
  Speaker 1: tomorrow and go hang. Everybody know that you was a
• 2:17:10
  Speaker 1: kind of a chaplain John. But there's others who could
• 2:17:14
  Speaker 1: hand and steer as well as you, said, Israel. They
• 2:17:18
  Speaker 1: liked a bit of fun, they did. They wasn't so
• 2:17:22
  Speaker 1: high and dry, nohow, but took their fling like jolly companions.
• 2:17:26
  Speaker 1: Everyone so said silver, Well, and where are they? Nail
• 2:17:33
  Speaker 1: Pew was that sort, and he died a beggar man.
• 2:17:37
  Speaker 1: Flint was and he died of rum at Savannah. They
• 2:17:42
  Speaker 1: was a sweet crew. They was, only where are they?
• 2:17:47
  Speaker 1: But asked Dick, when we do lay them athwart? What
• 2:17:51
  Speaker 1: are we going to do with him? Anyhow? There is
• 2:17:54
  Speaker 1: the man for me, cried the cook, admiringly. That's what
• 2:17:58
  Speaker 1: I call business. Well what would you think put them ashore?
• 2:18:03
  Speaker 1: Look maroons that would have been England's way, or cut
• 2:18:07
  Speaker 1: him down like that much pork that would have been
• 2:18:11
  Speaker 1: flints or billy bones. Billy was the man for that,
• 2:18:16
  Speaker 1: said Israel. Dead men don't buy it, says he. Well,
• 2:18:20
  Speaker 1: he's dead now hisself. He knows the long and short
• 2:18:24
  Speaker 1: on it now. And if ever a rough hen come
• 2:18:27
  Speaker 1: to port, it was Billy right, you are, said silver,
• 2:18:33
  Speaker 1: rough and ready. But mark you here. I'm an easy man,
• 2:18:39
  Speaker 1: I'm quite the gentleman, says you. But this time it's serious.
• 2:18:44
  Speaker 1: Duty is duty, mates, I give my vote death when
• 2:18:50
  Speaker 1: I'm in Parliament and riding in my coach, I don't
• 2:18:54
  Speaker 1: want none of these sea lawyers in the cabin a
• 2:18:58
  Speaker 1: coming home and look for like the devil at prayers.
• 2:19:01
  Speaker 1: Wait is what I say. And when the time comes,
• 2:19:06
  Speaker 1: why little rip John, cried the Coxswain. You're a man,
• 2:19:13
  Speaker 1: you say, soul Israel when you see said silver. Only
• 2:19:18
  Speaker 1: one thing I claim, I claim, Trilorney, I'll wring his
• 2:19:25
  Speaker 1: calf's head off his buddy with these hands, dick, he added,
• 2:19:31
  Speaker 1: breaking off. You must jump up like a sweet lad,
• 2:19:34
  Speaker 1: and get me an apple to wet my pipe like
• 2:19:38
  Speaker 1: you may fancy the terror I was in, I should
• 2:19:41
  Speaker 1: have leapt out and run for it if I had
• 2:19:43
  Speaker 1: found the strength, But my limbs and heart alike misgave me.
• 2:19:48
  Speaker 1: I heard Dick begin to rise, and then someone seemingly
• 2:19:52
  Speaker 1: stopped him, and the voice of hands exclaimed, Oh, stow,
• 2:19:56
  Speaker 1: that don't you get sucking of that bild John, Let's
• 2:20:00
  Speaker 1: have agar of the rum. Dick said, silver, I trust you.
• 2:20:06
  Speaker 1: I've a gauge on the keg. Mind, there's the key.
• 2:20:10
  Speaker 1: You fill a panikin and bring it up. Terrified as
• 2:20:14
  Speaker 1: I was, I could not help thinking to myself, then
• 2:20:17
  Speaker 1: this must have been how mister Arrow got the strong
• 2:20:19
  Speaker 1: waters that destroyed him. Dick was gone but a little while,
• 2:20:23
  Speaker 1: and during his absence Israel spoke straight on in the
• 2:20:27
  Speaker 1: cook's ear. It was but a word or two that
• 2:20:30
  Speaker 1: I could catch, and yet I gathered some important news.
• 2:20:34
  Speaker 1: For besides other scraps that tended to the same purpose,
• 2:20:37
  Speaker 1: this whole clause was audible. Not another man of them
• 2:20:41
  Speaker 1: will jine. Hence there were still faithful men on board.
• 2:20:46
  Speaker 1: When Dick returned, one or another of the trio took
• 2:20:49
  Speaker 1: the panickin and drank one to luck another with a
• 2:20:54
  Speaker 1: earsed to old flint and silver, himself saying in a
• 2:20:58
  Speaker 1: kind of song years to herself an older loff, plenty
• 2:21:03
  Speaker 1: of prizes and plenty of duff. Just then a sort
• 2:21:06
  Speaker 1: of brightness fell upon me in the barrel, and looking up,
• 2:21:09
  Speaker 1: I found the moon had risen and was slivering the
• 2:21:12
  Speaker 1: mizzen top and shining white on the laugh of the Forcil.
• 2:21:16
  Speaker 1: And almost at the same time the voice on the
• 2:21:18
  Speaker 1: lookout shouted and o end of Chapter eleven, Chapter twelve,
• 2:21:30
  Speaker 1: Council of War. There was a great rush of feet
• 2:21:34
  Speaker 1: across the deck. I could hear people tumbling up from
• 2:21:38
  Speaker 1: the cabin and the forecastle and slipping in an instant
• 2:21:41
  Speaker 1: outside my barrel. I dived behind the forcil and made
• 2:21:45
  Speaker 1: a double toward the stern, and came out upon the
• 2:21:48
  Speaker 1: open deck in time to join Hunter and doctor Livesey
• 2:21:52
  Speaker 1: in the rush for the weather bow. There all hands
• 2:21:55
  Speaker 1: were already congregated. A belt of fog had lifted almost
• 2:22:00
  Speaker 1: simultaneously with the appearance of the moon. Away to the
• 2:22:03
  Speaker 1: southwest of us, we saw two low hills about a
• 2:22:07
  Speaker 1: couple of miles apart, and rising behind one of them,
• 2:22:11
  Speaker 1: a third and higher hill, whose peak was still buried
• 2:22:15
  Speaker 1: in the fog. All three seemed sharp and conical in figure,
• 2:22:21
  Speaker 1: So much I saw almost in a dream, for I
• 2:22:24
  Speaker 1: had not yet recovered from my horrid fear of a
• 2:22:28
  Speaker 1: minute or two before. And then I heard the voice
• 2:22:31
  Speaker 1: of Captain Smollett issuing orders. The hispaniola was laid a
• 2:22:35
  Speaker 1: couple of points nearer the wind, and now sailed a
• 2:22:39
  Speaker 1: course that would just clear the island to the east.
• 2:22:43
  Speaker 1: And now men, said the captain, when all was sheeted home.
• 2:22:47
  Speaker 1: Has any one of you ever seen that land ahead?
• 2:22:52
  Speaker 4: Oh?
• 2:22:53
  Speaker 1: I ave, sir, said silver. I watered there with a trader.
• 2:22:58
  Speaker 1: I was cooking. The anchorage is on the south, behind
• 2:23:03
  Speaker 1: an islet, I fancy asked the captain. Yes, sir, Skeleton
• 2:23:09
  Speaker 1: Island they calls it. It were a main place for
• 2:23:13
  Speaker 1: pirates once and a hand we had on board knowed
• 2:23:17
  Speaker 1: all their names for it. That hill to the Norrid
• 2:23:21
  Speaker 1: they caused Foremast Hill. There are three hills in a
• 2:23:25
  Speaker 1: row running southward, four Main and Mizzen, Sir. But the
• 2:23:30
  Speaker 1: Main that's the big un with the cloud on it.
• 2:23:34
  Speaker 1: They usually cause the spy glass by reason of a lookout.
• 2:23:38
  Speaker 1: They kept when they was in the anchorage cleaning, for
• 2:23:43
  Speaker 1: it's there they cleaned their ships, Sir, asking your pardon,
• 2:23:47
  Speaker 1: I have a chart here, said Captain Smollett, see if
• 2:23:51
  Speaker 1: that's the place. Long John's eyes burned in his head
• 2:23:56
  Speaker 1: as he took the chart, but by the fresh look
• 2:23:59
  Speaker 1: of the paper, I knew he was doomed to disappointment.
• 2:24:03
  Speaker 1: This was not the map be found in billy Bone's chest,
• 2:24:06
  Speaker 1: but an accurate copy, complete in all things, names and
• 2:24:10
  Speaker 1: heights and soundings, with this single exception of the red
• 2:24:14
  Speaker 1: crosses and the written notes. Sharp as must have been
• 2:24:18
  Speaker 1: his annoyance, Silver had the strength of mind to hide it. Yes, sir,
• 2:24:25
  Speaker 1: said he, this is the spot, to be sure, and
• 2:24:29
  Speaker 1: very prettily drawed out. Who might have done that? I
• 2:24:34
  Speaker 1: wonder the pirates were too ignorant, I reckon. Ah, Here
• 2:24:38
  Speaker 1: it is cap'n Kid's anchorage, just the name my shipmate
• 2:24:43
  Speaker 1: called it. There is a strong current roads along the
• 2:24:47
  Speaker 1: south and then away up Nord up the west coast.
• 2:24:52
  Speaker 1: Right you was, sir, said he, to haul your wind
• 2:24:56
  Speaker 1: and keep the weather of the island least wh if
• 2:25:00
  Speaker 1: such was our intention as to enter and kreene, there
• 2:25:03
  Speaker 1: ain't no better place for that in these waters. Thank you,
• 2:25:09
  Speaker 1: my man, said Captain Smollett. I'll ask you later on
• 2:25:13
  Speaker 1: to give us a help. You may go. I was
• 2:25:18
  Speaker 1: surprised at the coolness with which John avowed his knowledge
• 2:25:21
  Speaker 1: of the island, and I own I was half frightened
• 2:25:24
  Speaker 1: when I saw him drawing nearer to myself. He did
• 2:25:28
  Speaker 1: not know to be sure that I had overheard his
• 2:25:31
  Speaker 1: counsel from the apple barrel. And yet I had by
• 2:25:34
  Speaker 1: this time taken such a horror of his cruelty, toupelicity,
• 2:25:39
  Speaker 1: and power that I could scarce conceal a shudder. When
• 2:25:43
  Speaker 1: he laid his hand upon my arm, AH said he
• 2:25:49
  Speaker 1: this here is a sweet spart, this island, a sweet
• 2:25:53
  Speaker 1: spot for a lad to get ashore on. Y'a'll bathe
• 2:25:57
  Speaker 1: and you'll cloimb trees, and you'll hunt golts. You will,
• 2:26:02
  Speaker 1: and you'll get a laught on them heels. Lay a
• 2:26:05
  Speaker 1: goat yourself. Why it makes me young again? I was
• 2:26:10
  Speaker 1: going to forget my timber leg, I was. It's a
• 2:26:14
  Speaker 1: pleasant thing to be young and have ten tolls. You
• 2:26:17
  Speaker 1: may later that when you want to go a bit
• 2:26:20
  Speaker 1: of exploring, you ask old John and he'll put up
• 2:26:24
  Speaker 1: a snack for you to take along, and clapping me
• 2:26:28
  Speaker 1: in the friendliest way upon the shoulder, he hobbled off
• 2:26:31
  Speaker 1: forehead and went below. Captain Smollett, the Squire, and Doctor
• 2:26:36
  Speaker 1: Livesey were talking together on the quarter deck, and anxious
• 2:26:40
  Speaker 1: as I was to tell them my story, I durst
• 2:26:43
  Speaker 1: not interrupt them openly. While I was still casting about
• 2:26:47
  Speaker 1: in my thoughts to find some probable excuse, Doctor Livesey
• 2:26:51
  Speaker 1: called me to his side. He had left his pipe below,
• 2:26:55
  Speaker 1: and being a slave to tobacco, had meant that I
• 2:26:57
  Speaker 1: should fetch it. But as soon as I was near
• 2:27:00
  Speaker 1: enough to speak and not be overheard, I broke out immediately.
• 2:27:04
  Speaker 1: Doctor let me speak, get the Captain and Squire down
• 2:27:08
  Speaker 1: to the cabin, and then make some pretense to send
• 2:27:11
  Speaker 1: for me. I have terrible news. The doctor changed countenance
• 2:27:16
  Speaker 1: a little, but next moment he was master of himself.
• 2:27:20
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Jim, said he quite loudly. That was all
• 2:27:24
  Speaker 1: I wanted to know, as if he had asked me
• 2:27:27
  Speaker 1: a question. And with that he turned on his heel
• 2:27:30
  Speaker 1: and rejoined the other two. They spoke together for a
• 2:27:33
  Speaker 1: little and though none of them started or raised his voice,
• 2:27:37
  Speaker 1: oh so much as whistled, it was plain enough that
• 2:27:40
  Speaker 1: doctor Livesey had communicated my request for the next thing
• 2:27:44
  Speaker 1: that I heard was the captain giving an order to
• 2:27:46
  Speaker 1: Joe Anderson, and all hands were piped on deck. My lads,
• 2:27:52
  Speaker 1: said Captain Smollett, I have a word to say to you.
• 2:27:55
  Speaker 1: This land that we have cited is the place we
• 2:27:59
  Speaker 1: have been sailing to. Mister Trelawney, being a very open
• 2:28:03
  Speaker 1: handed gentleman, as we all know, has just asked me
• 2:28:08
  Speaker 1: a word or two. And as I was able to
• 2:28:11
  Speaker 1: tell him that every man on board had done his
• 2:28:14
  Speaker 1: duty a low and aloft as I never asked to
• 2:28:18
  Speaker 1: see it done better, why he and I and the
• 2:28:21
  Speaker 1: doctor are going below to the cabin to drink your
• 2:28:25
  Speaker 1: health and luck, and you'll have grog served out to
• 2:28:29
  Speaker 1: you to drink our health and luck. I'll tell you
• 2:28:32
  Speaker 1: what I think of this. I think it handsome, and
• 2:28:37
  Speaker 1: if you think as I do, you'll give a good
• 2:28:40
  Speaker 1: sea cheer for the gentleman that does it. The chair
• 2:28:43
  Speaker 1: followed that was a matter of course, but it rang
• 2:28:47
  Speaker 1: out so full and hearty that I confess I could
• 2:28:50
  Speaker 1: hardly believe these same men were plotting for our blood.
• 2:28:55
  Speaker 1: One more cheer for come, Smollett, cried long John, when
• 2:29:00
  Speaker 1: the first had subsided, and this was given with a will.
• 2:29:04
  Speaker 1: On the top of that, the three gentlemen went below,
• 2:29:07
  Speaker 1: and not long after word was sent forward that Jim
• 2:29:11
  Speaker 1: Hawkins was wanted in the cabin. I found them all
• 2:29:15
  Speaker 1: three seated around the table, a bottle of Spanish wine
• 2:29:18
  Speaker 1: and some raisins before them, and the doctor smoking away
• 2:29:22
  Speaker 1: with his wig on his lap, and that I knew
• 2:29:25
  Speaker 1: was a sign that he was agitated. The stern window
• 2:29:28
  Speaker 1: was open, for it was a warm night, and you
• 2:29:31
  Speaker 1: could see the moon shining behind on the ship's wake. Now, Hawkins,
• 2:29:36
  Speaker 1: said the squire, who will have something to say, speak up.
• 2:29:40
  Speaker 1: I did as I was bid, and short as I
• 2:29:43
  Speaker 1: could make it, told the whole details of Silver's conversation.
• 2:29:49
  Speaker 1: Nobody interrupted me till I was done, nor did any
• 2:29:52
  Speaker 1: one of the three of them make so much as
• 2:29:54
  Speaker 1: a movement. But they kept their eyes upon my face
• 2:29:58
  Speaker 1: from first to last. Jim said, doctor Livesey, take a seat,
• 2:30:04
  Speaker 1: and they made me sit down at a table beside them,
• 2:30:07
  Speaker 1: poured me out a glass of wine, filled my hands
• 2:30:10
  Speaker 1: with raisins, and all three, one after the other, and
• 2:30:14
  Speaker 1: each with a bow, drank my good health, and their
• 2:30:17
  Speaker 1: service to me for my luck and courage. Now, Captain,
• 2:30:22
  Speaker 1: said the squire, you were right and I was wrong.
• 2:30:27
  Speaker 1: I owned myself an ass and I await your orders
• 2:30:32
  Speaker 1: no more an ass than I, Sir, returned the Captain.
• 2:30:36
  Speaker 1: I never heard of a crew that meant to mutiny,
• 2:30:39
  Speaker 1: but that what signs before for any man that had
• 2:30:43
  Speaker 1: an eye in his head to see the mischief and
• 2:30:46
  Speaker 1: take steps accordingly. But this crew, he added, beats me, Captain,
• 2:30:53
  Speaker 1: said the doctor. With your permission, that's silver a very
• 2:30:58
  Speaker 1: remarkable man. He'd looked remarkably well from a yard arm.
• 2:31:03
  Speaker 1: Sir returned the captain. But this is talk. This don't
• 2:31:08
  Speaker 1: lead to anything. I see three or four points, and
• 2:31:13
  Speaker 1: with mister Trelawney's permission, I'll name them. You saw are
• 2:31:18
  Speaker 1: the captain. It is for you to speak, said mister
• 2:31:21
  Speaker 1: Trelawney grandly. First point, began mister Smollett. We must go
• 2:31:27
  Speaker 1: on because we can't turn back. If I gave the
• 2:31:31
  Speaker 1: word to turn about, they would rise at once. Second point,
• 2:31:36
  Speaker 1: we have time before us, at least until this treasure's found.
• 2:31:41
  Speaker 1: Third point, there are faithful hands. Now, sir, it's got
• 2:31:46
  Speaker 1: to come to blows. Sooner or later. And what I
• 2:31:50
  Speaker 1: propose is to take time by the forelock, as the
• 2:31:54
  Speaker 1: saying is, and come to blows some fine day when
• 2:31:58
  Speaker 1: they least expect it. We can count I take it
• 2:32:02
  Speaker 1: on your own home servants, mister Trelawney, as upon myself,
• 2:32:08
  Speaker 1: declared the squire, three reckoned the captain. Ourselves make seven
• 2:32:14
  Speaker 1: counting hawkins there now about the honest hands most likely
• 2:32:20
  Speaker 1: are Trelawny's own men, said the doctor. Those he picked
• 2:32:24
  Speaker 1: up for himself before he lit on silver. Nay, replied
• 2:32:28
  Speaker 1: the squire hands was one of mine. I did think
• 2:32:33
  Speaker 1: I could have trusted hands, added the captain. And to
• 2:32:37
  Speaker 1: think that they're all englishmen, broke out the squire, Sir,
• 2:32:41
  Speaker 1: I could find it in my heart to blow the
• 2:32:44
  Speaker 1: ship up. Well, gentlemen, said the captain. The best that
• 2:32:49
  Speaker 1: I can say is not much. We must lay too,
• 2:32:53
  Speaker 1: if you please, and keep a bright lookout. It's trying
• 2:32:58
  Speaker 1: on a man I know would be pleasanter to come
• 2:33:01
  Speaker 1: to blows, but there's no help for it till we
• 2:33:05
  Speaker 1: know our men lay to and whistle for a wind.
• 2:33:08
  Speaker 1: That's my view, Jim here said, the doctor can help
• 2:33:13
  Speaker 1: us more than anyone. The men are not shy with
• 2:33:16
  Speaker 1: here man Jim is a noticing lad Hawkins. I put
• 2:33:21
  Speaker 1: prodigious faith in you, added the squire. I began to
• 2:33:24
  Speaker 1: feel pretty desperate at this, for I felt altogether helpless,
• 2:33:29
  Speaker 1: and yet by an odd train of circumstances, it was
• 2:33:32
  Speaker 1: indeed through me that safety came. In the meantime, talk
• 2:33:37
  Speaker 1: as we pleased. There were only seven out of the
• 2:33:41
  Speaker 1: twenty six on whom we knew we could rely, and
• 2:33:45
  Speaker 1: out of these seven, one was a boy, so that
• 2:33:48
  Speaker 1: the grown men on our side were six to their nineteen.
• 2:33:54
  Speaker 1: End of chapter twelve, Chapter thirteen, how am I sure
• 2:34:00
  Speaker 1: adventure began. The appearance of the island when I came
• 2:34:04
  Speaker 1: on deck next morning, was altogether changed. Although the breeze
• 2:34:09
  Speaker 1: had now utterly ceased, we had made a great deal
• 2:34:12
  Speaker 1: of whey during the night, and were now lying becalmed
• 2:34:15
  Speaker 1: about half a mile to the southeast of the low
• 2:34:18
  Speaker 1: eastern coast. Gray colored woods covered a large part of
• 2:34:22
  Speaker 1: the surface. This even tint was indeed broken up by
• 2:34:27
  Speaker 1: streaks of yellow sand break in the lower lands, and
• 2:34:30
  Speaker 1: by many tall trees of the pine family out topping
• 2:34:34
  Speaker 1: the others, some singly, some in clumps, but the general
• 2:34:38
  Speaker 1: coloring was uniform and sad. The hills ran up clear
• 2:34:43
  Speaker 1: above the vegetation in spires of naked rock. All were
• 2:34:48
  Speaker 1: strangely shaped, and the spyglass, which was by three or
• 2:34:53
  Speaker 1: four hundred feet the tallest on the island, was likewise
• 2:34:56
  Speaker 1: the strangest in configuration, running up sheer from almost every
• 2:35:01
  Speaker 1: side and then suddenly cut off at the top like
• 2:35:04
  Speaker 1: a pedestal to put a statue on the Hispaniola was
• 2:35:09
  Speaker 1: rolling scuppers under in the ocean's swell. The booms were
• 2:35:13
  Speaker 1: tearing at the blocks, the rudder was banging to and fro,
• 2:35:17
  Speaker 1: and the whole ship creaking, groaning and jumping like a manufactory.
• 2:35:23
  Speaker 1: I had to cling tight to the back stay, and
• 2:35:26
  Speaker 1: the world turned giddily before my eyes. For though I
• 2:35:30
  Speaker 1: was a good enough sailor when there was way on this,
• 2:35:33
  Speaker 1: standing still and being rolled about like a bottle was
• 2:35:36
  Speaker 1: a thing I never learned to stand without a qualm
• 2:35:39
  Speaker 1: or two. Above all in the morning on an empty stomach.
• 2:35:44
  Speaker 1: Perhaps it was this, Perhaps it was the look of
• 2:35:47
  Speaker 1: the island, with its gray, melancholy woods and wild stone spires,
• 2:35:53
  Speaker 1: and the surf that we could both see and hear,
• 2:35:55
  Speaker 1: foaming and thundering on the steep beach at least, so
• 2:36:00
  Speaker 1: the sun shone bright and hot, and the shore birds
• 2:36:02
  Speaker 1: were fishing and crying all around us, and you would
• 2:36:06
  Speaker 1: have thought anyone would have been glad to get to
• 2:36:08
  Speaker 1: land after being so long at sea. My heart sank
• 2:36:13
  Speaker 1: as the saying is into my boots, and from that
• 2:36:16
  Speaker 1: first look onward I hated the very thought of Treasure Island.
• 2:36:22
  Speaker 1: We had a dreary morning's work before us, and there
• 2:36:25
  Speaker 1: was no sign of any wind, and the boats had
• 2:36:28
  Speaker 1: to be got out and manned, and the ship warped
• 2:36:31
  Speaker 1: three or four miles round the corner of the island
• 2:36:34
  Speaker 1: and up the narrow passage to the haven behind Skeleton Island.
• 2:36:39
  Speaker 1: I volunteered for one of the boats, where I had,
• 2:36:42
  Speaker 1: of course no business. The heat was sweltering, and the
• 2:36:46
  Speaker 1: men grumbled fiercely over their work. Anderson was in command
• 2:36:50
  Speaker 1: of my boat, and instead of keeping the crew in order,
• 2:36:53
  Speaker 1: he grumbled as loud as the worst well, he said,
• 2:36:58
  Speaker 1: with an oath, it's not forever. I thought this was
• 2:37:02
  Speaker 1: a very bad sign, for up to that day the
• 2:37:05
  Speaker 1: men had gone briskly and willingly about their business, but
• 2:37:09
  Speaker 1: the very sight of the island had relaxed the cords
• 2:37:12
  Speaker 1: of discipline all the way in long John stood by
• 2:37:16
  Speaker 1: the steersman and conned the ship. He knew the passage
• 2:37:19
  Speaker 1: like the palm of his hand. And though the man
• 2:37:22
  Speaker 1: in the chains got everywhere more water than was down
• 2:37:25
  Speaker 1: on the chart, John never hesitated. Once. There's a strong
• 2:37:31
  Speaker 1: score with the ebb, he said, And this ere passage
• 2:37:36
  Speaker 1: has been dug out in a manner of speaking with
• 2:37:39
  Speaker 1: a spade. We brought up just where the anchor was
• 2:37:43
  Speaker 1: on the chart, about a third of a mile from
• 2:37:46
  Speaker 1: each shore, the mainland on one side and Skeleton Island
• 2:37:50
  Speaker 1: on the other. The bottom was clean sand. The plunge
• 2:37:54
  Speaker 1: of our anchor sent up clouds of birds, wheeling and
• 2:37:58
  Speaker 1: crying over the woods, but in less than a minute
• 2:38:01
  Speaker 1: they were down again, and all was once more silent.
• 2:38:05
  Speaker 1: The place was entirely land locked, buried in woods, the
• 2:38:09
  Speaker 1: trees coming right down to high water mark, the shores
• 2:38:13
  Speaker 1: mostly flat, and the hill tops standing round at a
• 2:38:16
  Speaker 1: distance in a sort of amphitheater one here one there.
• 2:38:21
  Speaker 1: Two little rivers, or rather two swamps, emptied out into
• 2:38:25
  Speaker 1: this pond, as you might call it, and the foliage
• 2:38:28
  Speaker 1: around that part of the shore had a kind of
• 2:38:31
  Speaker 1: poisonous brightness. From the ship. We could see nothing of
• 2:38:35
  Speaker 1: the house or stockade, for they were quite buried among trees.
• 2:38:40
  Speaker 1: And if it had not been for the chart on
• 2:38:42
  Speaker 1: the companion, we might have been the first that ever
• 2:38:45
  Speaker 1: anchored there, since the islands arose out of the seas.
• 2:38:49
  Speaker 1: There was not a breath of air moving, nor a sound,
• 2:38:52
  Speaker 1: but that of the surf booming half a mile away
• 2:38:56
  Speaker 1: along the beaches and against the rocks outside. A peculiar,
• 2:39:01
  Speaker 1: stagnant smell hung over the anchorage, a smell of sodden
• 2:39:05
  Speaker 1: leaves and rotting tree trunks. I observed the doctor sniffing
• 2:39:11
  Speaker 1: and sniffing, like someone tasting a bad egg. I don't
• 2:39:16
  Speaker 1: know about treasure, he said, but I'll stick my wig.
• 2:39:19
  Speaker 1: There's fever here. If the conduct of the men had
• 2:39:23
  Speaker 1: been alarming in the boat, it became truly threatening when
• 2:39:26
  Speaker 1: they had come aboard. They lay about the deck, growling
• 2:39:31
  Speaker 1: together in talk. The slightest order was received with a
• 2:39:35
  Speaker 1: black look, and grudgingly and carelessly obeyed. Even the honest
• 2:39:40
  Speaker 1: hands must have caught the infection, for there was not
• 2:39:43
  Speaker 1: one man aboard to mend another mutiny. It was plain
• 2:39:48
  Speaker 1: hung over us like a thunder cloud. And it was
• 2:39:51
  Speaker 1: not only we of the cabin party who perceived the danger.
• 2:39:55
  Speaker 1: Long John was hard at work, going from group to group,
• 2:39:59
  Speaker 1: spending himself good advice and and as for example, no
• 2:40:04
  Speaker 1: man could have shown a better He fairly outstripped himself
• 2:40:08
  Speaker 1: in willingness and civility. He was all smiles to everyone.
• 2:40:13
  Speaker 1: If an order were given, John would be on his
• 2:40:15
  Speaker 1: crutch in an instant, with the cheeriest aye aye, sir
• 2:40:20
  Speaker 1: in the world. And when there was nothing else to do,
• 2:40:24
  Speaker 1: he kept up one song after another, as if to
• 2:40:27
  Speaker 1: conceal the discontent of the rest. Of all the gloomy
• 2:40:31
  Speaker 1: features of that gloomy afternoon, this obvious anxiety on the
• 2:40:36
  Speaker 1: part of long John appeared the worst we held a
• 2:40:40
  Speaker 1: council in the cabin, Sir, said the captain. If I
• 2:40:45
  Speaker 1: risk another order, the whole ship will come about our
• 2:40:50
  Speaker 1: ears by the run. You see, sir, here it is
• 2:40:54
  Speaker 1: I get a rough answer, Do I not? Well? If
• 2:40:59
  Speaker 1: I speak back, pikes will be going in two shakes.
• 2:41:03
  Speaker 1: If I don't, Silver will see there's something under that
• 2:41:08
  Speaker 1: and the game's up. Now we've only one man to
• 2:41:12
  Speaker 1: rely on. And who's that? Asked the Squire Silver, Sir
• 2:41:18
  Speaker 1: returned the captain. He's as anxious as you and I
• 2:41:23
  Speaker 1: to some other things up. This is a tiff. He'd
• 2:41:27
  Speaker 1: soon talk him out of it if he had the chance.
• 2:41:31
  Speaker 1: And what I propose to do is to give him
• 2:41:34
  Speaker 1: the chance. Let's allow the men an afternoon. Sure. If
• 2:41:40
  Speaker 1: they all go, why we'll fight the ship. If they
• 2:41:45
  Speaker 1: none of them go, well then we hold the cabin
• 2:41:49
  Speaker 1: and God defend the right. If some go, you mark
• 2:41:54
  Speaker 1: my words, Sir Silver'll bring them aboard again as mild
• 2:41:59
  Speaker 1: as it was so decided, loaded pistols were served out
• 2:42:04
  Speaker 1: to all the shore men. Hunter Joyce and Redruth were
• 2:42:09
  Speaker 1: taken into our confidence and received the news with no
• 2:42:12
  Speaker 1: less surprise and a better spirit than we had looked for.
• 2:42:15
  Speaker 1: And then the captain went on deck and addressed the crew.
• 2:42:19
  Speaker 1: My lads said he, we've had a hot day and
• 2:42:23
  Speaker 1: are all tired and out of sorts. A turn ashore
• 2:42:28
  Speaker 1: will hurt nobody. The boats are still in the water.
• 2:42:32
  Speaker 1: You can take the gigs and as many as please
• 2:42:35
  Speaker 1: can go ashore for the afternoon. I'll fire a gun
• 2:42:40
  Speaker 1: half an hour before sundown. I believe the silly fellows
• 2:42:44
  Speaker 1: must have thought that they would break their shins over
• 2:42:46
  Speaker 1: treasure as soon as they were landed, For they all
• 2:42:50
  Speaker 1: came out of their salts in a moment and gave
• 2:42:53
  Speaker 1: a cheer that started the echo in a far away hill,
• 2:42:56
  Speaker 1: and sent the birds once more flying and squalling round
• 2:43:00
  Speaker 1: the anchorage. The captain was too bright to be in
• 2:43:03
  Speaker 1: the way. He whipped out of sight in a moment,
• 2:43:06
  Speaker 1: leaving Silver to arrange the party, And I fancy it
• 2:43:10
  Speaker 1: was as well he did so. Had he been on deck,
• 2:43:13
  Speaker 1: he could no longer so much as have pretended not
• 2:43:17
  Speaker 1: to understand the situation. It was as plain as day.
• 2:43:21
  Speaker 1: Silver was the captain, and a mighty rebellious crew. He
• 2:43:25
  Speaker 1: had of it the honest hands, and I was soon
• 2:43:29
  Speaker 1: to see it proved that there were such on board
• 2:43:32
  Speaker 1: must have been very stupid fellows. Or rather, I suppose
• 2:43:36
  Speaker 1: the truth was this, that all hands were disaffected by
• 2:43:40
  Speaker 1: the example of the ringleaders. Only some more, some less,
• 2:43:44
  Speaker 1: and a few, being good fellows in the main, could
• 2:43:47
  Speaker 1: neither be led nor driven any farther. It is one
• 2:43:51
  Speaker 1: thing to be idle and skulk, and quite another to
• 2:43:55
  Speaker 1: take a ship and murder a number of innocent men.
• 2:43:58
  Speaker 1: At last, however, the party was made up. Six fellows
• 2:44:01
  Speaker 1: were to stay on board, and the remaining thirteen, including Silver,
• 2:44:05
  Speaker 1: began to embark. Then it was that there came into
• 2:44:09
  Speaker 1: my head the first of the mad notions that contributed
• 2:44:12
  Speaker 1: so much to save our lives. If six men were
• 2:44:16
  Speaker 1: left by Silver, it was plain our party could not
• 2:44:20
  Speaker 1: take and fight the ship, And since only six were left,
• 2:44:24
  Speaker 1: it was equally plain that the cabin party had no
• 2:44:27
  Speaker 1: present need of my assistance. It occurred to me at
• 2:44:30
  Speaker 1: once to go ashore. In a jiffy. I had slipped
• 2:44:33
  Speaker 1: over the side and curled up in the four sheets
• 2:44:36
  Speaker 1: of the nearest boat, and almost at the same moment
• 2:44:39
  Speaker 1: she shoved off. No one took notice of me, only
• 2:44:43
  Speaker 1: the bow or saying is that you, Jim, keep your
• 2:44:47
  Speaker 1: head down. But Silver from the other boat looked sharply
• 2:44:52
  Speaker 1: over and called out to know if that were me,
• 2:44:56
  Speaker 1: And from that moment I began to regret what I
• 2:44:59
  Speaker 1: had done. The crews raced for the beach, and in
• 2:45:02
  Speaker 1: the boat I was in, having some start and being
• 2:45:05
  Speaker 1: at once the lighter and the better manned shot far
• 2:45:08
  Speaker 1: ahead of her consort, and the bough had struck among
• 2:45:11
  Speaker 1: the shore side trees, and I had caught a branch
• 2:45:14
  Speaker 1: and swung myself out and plunged into the nearest thicket,
• 2:45:18
  Speaker 1: while Silver and the rest were still a hundred yards away.
• 2:45:22
  Speaker 1: Jim Jim, I heard him shouting, but you may suppose
• 2:45:27
  Speaker 1: I paid no heed. Jumping, ducking, and breaking through, I
• 2:45:32
  Speaker 1: ran straight before my nose till I could run no longer.
• 2:45:38
  Speaker 1: End of Chapter thirteen, Chapter fourteen, the first blow. I
• 2:45:45
  Speaker 1: was so pleased at having given the slip to long
• 2:45:48
  Speaker 1: John that I began to enjoy myself and look around
• 2:45:51
  Speaker 1: me with some interest on the strange land that I
• 2:45:54
  Speaker 1: was in. I had crossed a marshy tract full of willows, bulrushes,
• 2:45:59
  Speaker 1: and odd outlandish swampy trees, and now had come out
• 2:46:03
  Speaker 1: upon the skirts of an open piece of undulating sandy
• 2:46:07
  Speaker 1: country about a mile long, dotted with a few pines
• 2:46:11
  Speaker 1: and a great number of contorted trees, not unlike the
• 2:46:14
  Speaker 1: oak in growth, but pale in the foliage like willows.
• 2:46:19
  Speaker 1: On the far side of the open stood one of
• 2:46:21
  Speaker 1: the hills, with two quaint, craggy peaks shining vividly in
• 2:46:26
  Speaker 1: the sun. I now felt for the first time the
• 2:46:29
  Speaker 1: joy of exploration. The isle was uninhabited, but my shipmates
• 2:46:34
  Speaker 1: I have left behind, and nothing lived in front of
• 2:46:37
  Speaker 1: me but dumb brutes and fowls. I turned hither and
• 2:46:41
  Speaker 1: thither among the trees. Here and there were flowering plants
• 2:46:45
  Speaker 1: unknown to me. Here and there I saw snakes, And
• 2:46:48
  Speaker 1: one raised his head from a ledge of rock and
• 2:46:50
  Speaker 1: hissed at me with a noise not unlike the spinning
• 2:46:53
  Speaker 1: of a top. Little did I suppose that he was
• 2:46:56
  Speaker 1: a deadly enemy, and the noise was the famous rattle.
• 2:47:00
  Speaker 1: Then I came to a long thicket of these oak
• 2:47:03
  Speaker 1: like trees live or evergreen oaks, I heard afterward they
• 2:47:07
  Speaker 1: should be called, which grew low along the sand like brambles.
• 2:47:12
  Speaker 1: The boughs curiously twisted, the foliage compact like thatch. The
• 2:47:17
  Speaker 1: thickets stretched down from the top of one of the
• 2:47:20
  Speaker 1: sandy knolls, spreading and growing taller as it went, until
• 2:47:25
  Speaker 1: it reached the margin of the broad, reedy fen through
• 2:47:28
  Speaker 1: which the nearest of the little rivers soaked its way
• 2:47:30
  Speaker 1: into the anchorage. The marsh was streaming in the strong sun,
• 2:47:35
  Speaker 1: and the outline of the spyglass trembled through the haze.
• 2:47:39
  Speaker 1: All at once there began to go a sort of
• 2:47:41
  Speaker 1: bustle among the bulrushes, a wild duck flew up with
• 2:47:45
  Speaker 1: a quack. Another followed, and soon over the whole surface
• 2:47:50
  Speaker 1: of the marsh a great cloud of birds hung, screaming
• 2:47:54
  Speaker 1: and circling in the air. I judged at once that
• 2:47:57
  Speaker 1: some of my shipmates must be drawing near along the
• 2:48:00
  Speaker 1: or of the fen. Nor was I deceived, for soon
• 2:48:03
  Speaker 1: I heard the very distant and low tones of a
• 2:48:06
  Speaker 1: human voice, which, as I continued to give ear, grew
• 2:48:09
  Speaker 1: steadily louder and nearer. This put me in great fear,
• 2:48:14
  Speaker 1: and I crawled under cover of the nearest live oak
• 2:48:17
  Speaker 1: and squatted there, hearkening as silent as a mouse. Another
• 2:48:21
  Speaker 1: voice answered, and then the first voice, which I now
• 2:48:24
  Speaker 1: recognized to be Silver's, once more, took up the story
• 2:48:28
  Speaker 1: and ran on for a long while in a stream,
• 2:48:31
  Speaker 1: only now and again interrupted by the other by the sound.
• 2:48:35
  Speaker 1: They must have been talking earnestly and almost fiercely, but
• 2:48:39
  Speaker 1: no distinct word came to my hearing. At last, the
• 2:48:43
  Speaker 1: speakers seemed to have paused, and perhaps to have sat down,
• 2:48:46
  Speaker 1: for not only did they cease to draw any nearer,
• 2:48:49
  Speaker 1: but the birds themselves began to grow more quiet and
• 2:48:52
  Speaker 1: to settle again into their places in the swamp. And
• 2:48:56
  Speaker 1: now I began to feel that I was neglecting my business.
• 2:48:59
  Speaker 1: But since I had been so foolhardy as to come
• 2:49:02
  Speaker 1: ashore with these desperadoes, the least I could do was
• 2:49:05
  Speaker 1: to overhear them at their councils, and that my plain
• 2:49:08
  Speaker 1: and obvious duty was to draw as close as I
• 2:49:11
  Speaker 1: could manage. Under the favorable ambush of the crouching trees.
• 2:49:16
  Speaker 1: I could tell the direction of the speakers pretty exactly,
• 2:49:19
  Speaker 1: not only by the sound of their voices, but by
• 2:49:22
  Speaker 1: the behavior of the few birds that still hung in
• 2:49:25
  Speaker 1: alarm above the heads of the intruders. Crawling on all fours,
• 2:49:29
  Speaker 1: I made steadily bar slowly towards them, till at last,
• 2:49:34
  Speaker 1: raising my head to an aperture among the leaves, I
• 2:49:37
  Speaker 1: could see clear down into a little green dell beside
• 2:49:41
  Speaker 1: the marsh, and closely set about with trees, where long
• 2:49:45
  Speaker 1: John Silver and another of the crew stood face to
• 2:49:49
  Speaker 1: face in conversation. The sun beat full upon them. Silver
• 2:49:54
  Speaker 1: had thrown his hat beside him on the ground, and
• 2:49:57
  Speaker 1: his great smooth blonde face, all shining with heat, was
• 2:50:01
  Speaker 1: lifted to the other man's in a kind of appeal. Mate.
• 2:50:07
  Speaker 1: He was saying, that's because I thinks gold dust of
• 2:50:11
  Speaker 1: you gold dust, and you may late that. And if
• 2:50:15
  Speaker 1: I hadn't took to you like pitch, do you think
• 2:50:18
  Speaker 1: I'd have been here a warning of you? All's up?
• 2:50:22
  Speaker 1: You can't make no amend. It's the savior neck that
• 2:50:27
  Speaker 1: I must speaking. And if one of the wild uns
• 2:50:30
  Speaker 1: knew it, where it'd I be? Tom, Now tell me
• 2:50:33
  Speaker 1: where it'd I be? Silver said the other man, And
• 2:50:37
  Speaker 1: I observed he was not only red in the face,
• 2:50:39
  Speaker 1: but spoke as hoarse as a crow, and his voice
• 2:50:42
  Speaker 1: shook too, like a taut rope. Silver says he you're old,
• 2:50:48
  Speaker 1: and you're honest, or has the name of it? And
• 2:50:52
  Speaker 1: you've money too, which lots of poor sailors hasn't, And
• 2:50:56
  Speaker 1: you're brave or are mistook? And will you tell me
• 2:51:00
  Speaker 1: you'll let yourself be led away with that kind of
• 2:51:03
  Speaker 1: a mess of swabs, not you. As sure as God
• 2:51:07
  Speaker 1: seized me, I'd sooner lose my hand if I turn
• 2:51:11
  Speaker 1: again my duty. And then all of a sudden he
• 2:51:15
  Speaker 1: was interrupted by a noise. I'd found one of the
• 2:51:18
  Speaker 1: honest hands. Well here. At that same moment came news
• 2:51:22
  Speaker 1: of another far away out in the marsh there arose
• 2:51:26
  Speaker 1: all of a sudden, a sound like the cry of anger,
• 2:51:30
  Speaker 1: then another on the back of it, and then one horrid,
• 2:51:34
  Speaker 1: long drawn scream. The rocks of the spyglass re echoed
• 2:51:38
  Speaker 1: it a score of times. The whole troop of marsh
• 2:51:42
  Speaker 1: birds rose again, darkening heaven with a simultaneous whir, And
• 2:51:47
  Speaker 1: long after that death yell was still ringing in my brain.
• 2:51:51
  Speaker 1: Silence had re established its empire, and only the rustle
• 2:51:55
  Speaker 1: of the redescending birds and the boom of the distant
• 2:51:59
  Speaker 1: surges herb, the languor of the afternoon Tom had leaped
• 2:52:04
  Speaker 1: at the sound like a horse at the spur, but
• 2:52:07
  Speaker 1: Silver had not winked an eye. He stood where he was,
• 2:52:11
  Speaker 1: resting lightly on his crutch, watching his companion like a
• 2:52:15
  Speaker 1: snake about the spring. John said the sailor, stretching out
• 2:52:20
  Speaker 1: his hand, ends off, cried Silver, leaping back a yard,
• 2:52:25
  Speaker 1: as it seemed to me, with the speed and security
• 2:52:28
  Speaker 1: of a trained gymnast. Ends off. If you like John,
• 2:52:32
  Speaker 1: Silver said the other. It's a black conscience that can
• 2:52:36
  Speaker 1: make you fear of me. But in Eaven's name, tell
• 2:52:39
  Speaker 1: me what was that? That? Returned Silver, smiling away, but
• 2:52:46
  Speaker 1: warier than ever, his eye a mere pinpoint in his
• 2:52:49
  Speaker 1: big face, but gleaming like a crumb of glass. That, oh,
• 2:52:55
  Speaker 1: I reckon that I'll be allen. And at this poor
• 2:52:58
  Speaker 1: Tom flashed out like a hero. Allan, he cried, Then
• 2:53:03
  Speaker 1: rest your soul for a true seaman. And as for you,
• 2:53:06
  Speaker 1: John silver Long, you've been a mate of mine, but
• 2:53:09
  Speaker 1: you're a mate of mine no longer. If I die
• 2:53:12
  Speaker 1: like a dog, I'll die in my duty. You've killed Allan,
• 2:53:17
  Speaker 1: Have you kill me too? If you can? But I
• 2:53:20
  Speaker 1: defies you. And with that this brave fellow turned his
• 2:53:24
  Speaker 1: back directly on the cook and set off walking for
• 2:53:27
  Speaker 1: the beach. But he was not destined to go far.
• 2:53:31
  Speaker 1: With a cry, John seized the branch of a tree,
• 2:53:34
  Speaker 1: whipped the crutch out of his armpit, and sent that
• 2:53:37
  Speaker 1: uncouth missile hurling through the air. It struck poor Tom
• 2:53:42
  Speaker 1: point foremost, and with stunning violence, right between the shoulders
• 2:53:47
  Speaker 1: in the middle of his back. His hands flew up,
• 2:53:50
  Speaker 1: and he gave a sort of gasp and fell. Whether
• 2:53:53
  Speaker 1: he was injured much or little, none could ever tell,
• 2:53:56
  Speaker 1: like enough to judge from the sound his back was
• 2:54:00
  Speaker 1: broken on the spot, but he had no time given
• 2:54:03
  Speaker 1: him to recover. Silver agile as a monkey, even without
• 2:54:07
  Speaker 1: leg or crutch, was on the top of him next moment,
• 2:54:11
  Speaker 1: and had twice buried his knife up to their hilt
• 2:54:15
  Speaker 1: in that defenseless body. From my place of ambush, I
• 2:54:19
  Speaker 1: could hear him pant aloud as he struck the blows.
• 2:54:23
  Speaker 1: I do not know what it rightly is to faint,
• 2:54:26
  Speaker 1: but I do know that for the next little while
• 2:54:29
  Speaker 1: the whole world swam away from before me in a
• 2:54:32
  Speaker 1: whirling mist, silver and the birds, and the tall spyglass
• 2:54:37
  Speaker 1: hilltop going round and round and topsy turvy before my eyes,
• 2:54:42
  Speaker 1: and all manner of bells ringing, and distant voices shouting
• 2:54:47
  Speaker 1: in my ear. When I came again to myself, the
• 2:54:50
  Speaker 1: monster had pulled himself together, his crutch under his arm,
• 2:54:54
  Speaker 1: his hat upon his head. Just before him, Tom lay
• 2:54:58
  Speaker 1: motionless upon the sward, but murderer minded him not a whit,
• 2:55:02
  Speaker 1: cleansing his blood stained knife the while upon a wisp
• 2:55:06
  Speaker 1: of grass. Everything else was unchanged, the sun still shining
• 2:55:11
  Speaker 1: mercilessly upon the steaming marsh and the tall pinnacle of
• 2:55:15
  Speaker 1: the mountain, and I could scarcely persuade myself that the
• 2:55:19
  Speaker 1: murder had actually been done, and a human life cruelly
• 2:55:22
  Speaker 1: cut shorter moment since before my eyes. And now John
• 2:55:28
  Speaker 1: put his hand into his pocket, brought out a whistle
• 2:55:31
  Speaker 1: and blew upon it several modulated blasts that rang far
• 2:55:35
  Speaker 1: across the heated air. I could not tell, of course,
• 2:55:39
  Speaker 1: the meaning of the signal, but it instantly awoke my fears.
• 2:55:43
  Speaker 1: More men would be coming. I might be discovered they
• 2:55:46
  Speaker 1: had already slain two of the honest people, after Tom
• 2:55:50
  Speaker 1: and Allen. Might not I come next? Instantly I began
• 2:55:54
  Speaker 1: to extricate myself and crawled back again, with what speed
• 2:55:59
  Speaker 1: and silence I I could manage to the more open
• 2:56:02
  Speaker 1: portion of the wood. And as I did so, I
• 2:56:04
  Speaker 1: could hear hails coming and going between the old buccaneer
• 2:56:08
  Speaker 1: and his comrades, And this sound of danger lent me wings.
• 2:56:12
  Speaker 1: As soon as I was clear of the thicket, I
• 2:56:14
  Speaker 1: ran as I never ran before, scarce minding the direction
• 2:56:18
  Speaker 1: of my flight so long as it led me from
• 2:56:21
  Speaker 1: the murderers. And as I ran, fear grew and grew
• 2:56:24
  Speaker 1: upon me, until it turned into a kind of frenzy. Indeed,
• 2:56:29
  Speaker 1: could any one be more entirely lost than I? When
• 2:56:33
  Speaker 1: the gun fired, how should I dare to go down
• 2:56:37
  Speaker 1: to the boats among those fiends still smoking from their crime,
• 2:56:43
  Speaker 1: would not the first of them who saw me wring
• 2:56:46
  Speaker 1: my neck like a snipe's, would not my absence itself
• 2:56:51
  Speaker 1: be in evidence to them of my alarm, and therefore
• 2:56:54
  Speaker 1: of my fatal knowledge. It was all over. I thought,
• 2:56:58
  Speaker 1: goodbye to the hispanis Paniola, goodbye to the Squire, the doctor,
• 2:57:02
  Speaker 1: and the captain. There was nothing left for me but
• 2:57:05
  Speaker 1: death by starvation, or death by the hands of the mutineers.
• 2:57:11
  Speaker 1: All this while, as I say, I was still running,
• 2:57:14
  Speaker 1: and without taking any notice, I had drawn near to
• 2:57:17
  Speaker 1: the foot of the little hill with the two peaks,
• 2:57:19
  Speaker 1: and had got into a part of the island where
• 2:57:21
  Speaker 1: the wild oaks grew more widely apart, and seemed more
• 2:57:25
  Speaker 1: like forest trees in their bearing and dimensions. Mingled with these,
• 2:57:30
  Speaker 1: there were a few scattered pines, some fifty some nearer
• 2:57:34
  Speaker 1: seventy feet high. The air, too, smelled more fresh than
• 2:57:39
  Speaker 1: down beside the marsh, and here a fresh alarm brought
• 2:57:43
  Speaker 1: me to a standstill with a thumping heart. End of
• 2:57:50
  Speaker 1: Chapter fourteen. Chapter fifteen, The Man of the Island from
• 2:57:57
  Speaker 1: the side of the hill which was here steep and stony.
• 2:58:00
  Speaker 1: A spout of gravel was dislodged and fell, rattling and
• 2:58:05
  Speaker 1: bounding through the trees. My eyes turned instinctively in that direction,
• 2:58:10
  Speaker 1: and I saw a figure leap with great rapidity behind
• 2:58:14
  Speaker 1: the trunk of a pine. What it was, whether bear
• 2:58:18
  Speaker 1: or man or monkey, I could in no wise tell.
• 2:58:22
  Speaker 1: It seemed dark and shaggy. More I knew not, But
• 2:58:26
  Speaker 1: the terror of this new apparition brought me to a stand.
• 2:58:30
  Speaker 1: I was now it seemed cut off upon both sides
• 2:58:34
  Speaker 1: behind me, the murderers before me, this lurking nondescript, And
• 2:58:39
  Speaker 1: immediately I began to prefer the dangers that I knew
• 2:58:43
  Speaker 1: to those I knew not. Silver himself appeared less terrible
• 2:58:47
  Speaker 1: in contrast with this creature of the woods, and I
• 2:58:51
  Speaker 1: turned on my heel, and, looking sharply behind me over
• 2:58:54
  Speaker 1: my shoulder, began to retrace my steps in the direction
• 2:58:58
  Speaker 1: of the boats. Instantly the figure reappeared, and, making a
• 2:59:02
  Speaker 1: wide circuit, began to head me off. I was tired
• 2:59:06
  Speaker 1: at any rate, but had I been as fresh as
• 2:59:09
  Speaker 1: when I rose, I could see it was in vain
• 2:59:11
  Speaker 1: for me to contend in speed with such an adversary.
• 2:59:15
  Speaker 1: From trunk to trunk. The creature flitted like a deer,
• 2:59:18
  Speaker 1: running man like on two legs, but unlike any man
• 2:59:22
  Speaker 1: that I had ever seen, stooping almost double as it ran.
• 2:59:26
  Speaker 1: Yet a man it was, I could no longer be
• 2:59:29
  Speaker 1: in doubt about that. I began to recall what I
• 2:59:32
  Speaker 1: had heard of cannibals. I was with an ace of
• 2:59:35
  Speaker 1: calling for help, But the mere fact that he was
• 2:59:38
  Speaker 1: a man, however wild, had somewhat reassured me, and my
• 2:59:42
  Speaker 1: fear of silver began to revive in proportion. I stood still, therefore,
• 2:59:48
  Speaker 1: and cast about for some method of escape. And as
• 2:59:51
  Speaker 1: I was so thinking, the recollection of my pistol flashed
• 2:59:54
  Speaker 1: into my mind. As soon as I remembered I was
• 2:59:58
  Speaker 1: not defenseless, courage glue again in my heart, and I
• 3:00:01
  Speaker 1: set my face resolutely for this man of the island,
• 3:00:05
  Speaker 1: and walked briskly toward him. He was concealed by this
• 3:00:09
  Speaker 1: time behind another tree trunk, but he must have been
• 3:00:12
  Speaker 1: watching me closely, for as soon as I began to
• 3:00:14
  Speaker 1: move in his direction, he reappeared and took a step
• 3:00:17
  Speaker 1: to meet me. Then he hesitated, drew back, came forward again,
• 3:00:22
  Speaker 1: and at last, to my wonder and confusion, threw himself
• 3:00:26
  Speaker 1: on his knees and held out his clasped hands in supplication.
• 3:00:32
  Speaker 1: At that I once more stopped. Who are you, I asked,
• 3:00:37
  Speaker 1: ben Gunn? He answered, and his voice sounded hoarse and awkward,
• 3:00:43
  Speaker 1: like a rusty lock. I'm poor, ben Gunn, I am,
• 3:00:48
  Speaker 1: and I haven't spoke with a Christian these three years.
• 3:00:53
  Speaker 1: I could now seen that he was a white man
• 3:00:55
  Speaker 1: like myself, and that his features were even pleasing. His skin,
• 3:01:00
  Speaker 1: wherever it was exposed, was burned by the sun. Even
• 3:01:04
  Speaker 1: his lips were black, and his fair eyes looked quite
• 3:01:07
  Speaker 1: startling in so dark a face. Of all the beggar
• 3:01:11
  Speaker 1: men that I had seen or fancied, he was the
• 3:01:14
  Speaker 1: chief of raggedness. He was clothed with tatters of old
• 3:01:18
  Speaker 1: ship's canvas and old sea cloth, and this extraordinary patchwork
• 3:01:23
  Speaker 1: was all held together by a system of the most
• 3:01:26
  Speaker 1: various and incongruous fastenings, brass buttons, bits of stick, and
• 3:01:31
  Speaker 1: loops of tarry gaskin. About his waist, he wore an
• 3:01:35
  Speaker 1: old brass buckled leather belt, which was the one thing
• 3:01:39
  Speaker 1: solid in his old accouterment. Three years I cried, were
• 3:01:44
  Speaker 1: you shipwrecked? Nay, mate, said he marooned. I had heard
• 3:01:50
  Speaker 1: that word, and I knew it stood for a horrible
• 3:01:54
  Speaker 1: kind of punishment common enough among the buccaneers, in which
• 3:01:58
  Speaker 1: the offender is put ashore with a little powder and shot,
• 3:02:01
  Speaker 1: and left behind on some desolate and distant island. Marooned
• 3:02:08
  Speaker 1: three years agone, he continued and lived on goats since then,
• 3:02:14
  Speaker 1: and berries and oysters wherever a man is, says I.
• 3:02:18
  Speaker 1: A man can do for himself. But mate, my heart
• 3:02:22
  Speaker 1: is sore for Christian diet. You mayn't happen to have
• 3:02:26
  Speaker 1: a piece of cheese about you now, No, Well, many's
• 3:02:30
  Speaker 1: the long night. I have dreamed of cheese, toasted mostly
• 3:02:34
  Speaker 1: and woke up again, and here I were. If ever
• 3:02:38
  Speaker 1: I can get aboard again, said I, you shall have
• 3:02:41
  Speaker 1: cheese by the stone. At this time he had been
• 3:02:44
  Speaker 1: feeling the stuff of my jacket, smoothing my hands, looking
• 3:02:48
  Speaker 1: at my boots, and generally, in the intervals of his speech,
• 3:02:51
  Speaker 1: showing a childish pleasure in the presence of a fellow creature.
• 3:02:55
  Speaker 1: But at my last words he poked up into a
• 3:02:58
  Speaker 1: kind of startled sligh us. If ever you get aboard again,
• 3:03:03
  Speaker 1: says you. He repeated, why now who's to hinder you?
• 3:03:09
  Speaker 1: Not to you, I know, was my reply. Oh and
• 3:03:13
  Speaker 1: right you was, he cried, Now you, what do you
• 3:03:18
  Speaker 1: call yourself? Mate, Jim, I told him, Jim, Jim says,
• 3:03:25
  Speaker 1: he quite pleased. Apparently. Well, now, Jim, I've lived that
• 3:03:30
  Speaker 1: rough as you'd be ashamed to hear of. Now, for instance,
• 3:03:35
  Speaker 1: you wouldn't think I had had a pious mother to
• 3:03:38
  Speaker 1: look at me, he asked. Why. Uh no, not in particular,
• 3:03:44
  Speaker 1: I answered, ah, well, said he. But I had remarkably pious,
• 3:03:51
  Speaker 1: And I was a civil pious boy, and could rattle
• 3:03:55
  Speaker 1: off my catechism that fast you couldn't tell one word
• 3:03:59
  Speaker 1: from another. And here's what it come to, Jim. And
• 3:04:03
  Speaker 1: it begun with chuck farthing on the blessed gravestones, That's
• 3:04:08
  Speaker 1: what it begun with. And it went farther than that.
• 3:04:11
  Speaker 1: And so my mother told me and predicted the hole.
• 3:04:15
  Speaker 1: She did, the pious woman, for it were a providence
• 3:04:18
  Speaker 1: that put me here. I've thought it all out in
• 3:04:22
  Speaker 1: this here lonely island, and I'm back on piety. You
• 3:04:28
  Speaker 1: can't catch me tasting rum so much, but just a
• 3:04:32
  Speaker 1: thimbleful for lack of course. The first chance I have
• 3:04:36
  Speaker 1: I'm bound. I'll be good, and I see the way too,
• 3:04:41
  Speaker 1: And Jim, looking all round him and luring his voice
• 3:04:45
  Speaker 1: to a whisper, I'm rich. I now felt sure that
• 3:04:49
  Speaker 1: the poor fellow had gone crazy in his solitude, and
• 3:04:52
  Speaker 1: I suppose I must have shown the feeling in my face,
• 3:04:55
  Speaker 1: for he repeated the statement hotly. Rich Rich, I said,
• 3:05:00
  Speaker 1: and I'll tell you what. I'll make a man of you. Jim, Ah, Jim,
• 3:05:05
  Speaker 1: You'll bless your stars, you will. You was the first
• 3:05:09
  Speaker 1: that found me. And at this there came suddenly a
• 3:05:13
  Speaker 1: lowering shadow over his face, and he tightened his grasp
• 3:05:16
  Speaker 1: upon my hand and raised a forefinger threateningly before my eyes. Now, Jim,
• 3:05:23
  Speaker 1: you tell me true. That ain't Flint's ship, he asked.
• 3:05:29
  Speaker 1: At this I had a happy inspiration. I began to
• 3:05:32
  Speaker 1: believe that I had found an ally, and I answered
• 3:05:35
  Speaker 1: him at once It's not Flint's ship, and Flint is dead.
• 3:05:39
  Speaker 1: But I'll tell you true. But I'll tell you true
• 3:05:42
  Speaker 1: as you ask me. There are some of Flint's hands aboard.
• 3:05:46
  Speaker 1: Worse luck for the rest of us. Not a man
• 3:05:50
  Speaker 1: with one leg. He gasped. Silver, I asked, Ah, Silver,
• 3:05:57
  Speaker 1: says he that where is name. He's the cook and
• 3:06:01
  Speaker 1: the ringleader too. He was still holding me by the wrist,
• 3:06:05
  Speaker 1: and at that he gave it quite a ring if
• 3:06:08
  Speaker 1: you were sent by long John, he said, I'm as
• 3:06:12
  Speaker 1: good as poor can I know it? But where was you?
• 3:06:16
  Speaker 1: Do you suppose? I've made up my mind in a moment,
• 3:06:20
  Speaker 1: and by way of answer, told him the whole story
• 3:06:23
  Speaker 1: of our voyage and the predicament in which we found ourselves.
• 3:06:27
  Speaker 1: He heard me with the keenest interest, and when I
• 3:06:30
  Speaker 1: had done, he patted me on the head. You're a
• 3:06:32
  Speaker 1: good lad, Jim, he said. And you're all in a
• 3:06:36
  Speaker 1: clove hit, sha't you? Well? You just put your trust
• 3:06:41
  Speaker 1: in ben Gunn. Ben Gunn's the man to do it.
• 3:06:45
  Speaker 1: Would you think it likely now that your squire would
• 3:06:49
  Speaker 1: prove a liberal minded whine in case of help him
• 3:06:53
  Speaker 1: being in a clove hitch, as you remark, I told
• 3:06:57
  Speaker 1: him the squire was the most liberal of me. Ah,
• 3:07:02
  Speaker 1: But you see, returned ben Gunn. I didn't mean give
• 3:07:07
  Speaker 1: him me a gait to keep, but a suit of
• 3:07:09
  Speaker 1: livery clothes and such. That's not my mark, Jim. What
• 3:07:14
  Speaker 1: I mean is, would he be likely to come down
• 3:07:18
  Speaker 1: to the tune of say, one thousand pounds out of money.
• 3:07:22
  Speaker 1: That's as good as a man's own already, I'm sure
• 3:07:26
  Speaker 1: he would, said I. As it is, all hands were
• 3:07:30
  Speaker 1: to share, and a passage home, he added, with a
• 3:07:35
  Speaker 1: look of great shrewdness. Why, I cried, the squire's a gentleman.
• 3:07:40
  Speaker 1: And besides, if we got rid of the others, we
• 3:07:43
  Speaker 1: should want you to help work the vessel home, Ah,
• 3:07:48
  Speaker 1: said he, So you would, and he seemed very much relieved.
• 3:07:53
  Speaker 1: Now I'll tell you what he went on so much,
• 3:07:58
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you no more. I were in flint ship
• 3:08:02
  Speaker 1: when he buried the treasure. He and six a long,
• 3:08:05
  Speaker 1: six strong seamen. They was a sure nigh on a week,
• 3:08:10
  Speaker 1: and us standing off and on in the old Walrus.
• 3:08:14
  Speaker 1: One fine day, upwent the signal. And he had come
• 3:08:18
  Speaker 1: Flint by himself in a little boat, and his head
• 3:08:22
  Speaker 1: done up in a blue scarf. The sun was getting
• 3:08:26
  Speaker 1: up and mortal white. He looked about the cut water.
• 3:08:31
  Speaker 1: But there he was, you mind, and the six all dead,
• 3:08:36
  Speaker 1: dead and buried. How had he done it? Not a
• 3:08:41
  Speaker 1: man of baldess could make out. It was battle, murder
• 3:08:46
  Speaker 1: and sudden death. Leastways him Agates, six billy bones was
• 3:08:52
  Speaker 1: the mate long journey was quartermaster, and they asked him
• 3:08:59
  Speaker 1: where the treasure was. I says, you can go ashore
• 3:09:05
  Speaker 1: if you like and stay, says, But as for the ship,
• 3:09:10
  Speaker 1: she'll be up for more by thunder, that's what he said. Well,
• 3:09:17
  Speaker 1: I was in another ship three years back and we
• 3:09:21
  Speaker 1: sighted this island. Boys said I here's Flint's treasure. Let's
• 3:09:26
  Speaker 1: land and find it. The captain was displeased at that,
• 3:09:31
  Speaker 1: but my messmates were all of a mind. Landed twelve
• 3:09:36
  Speaker 1: days they looked for it, and every day they had
• 3:09:40
  Speaker 1: the worst word for me, until one fine morning all
• 3:09:45
  Speaker 1: hands went aboard. As for you, Benjamin Gunn, says they.
• 3:09:51
  Speaker 1: Here's a musket, they says, and a spade and a pickaxe.
• 3:09:56
  Speaker 1: You can stay here and find Flint's money for yourself.
• 3:10:01
  Speaker 1: They says. Well, Jim, three years have I been here,
• 3:10:06
  Speaker 1: and not a bite of Christian diet from that day
• 3:10:09
  Speaker 1: to this. But now you look here, look at me?
• 3:10:13
  Speaker 1: Do I look like a man before the mast? No,
• 3:10:17
  Speaker 1: says you, Nor I would neither, I says, And with
• 3:10:23
  Speaker 1: that he winked and pinched me hard. Just you mention
• 3:10:27
  Speaker 1: them words to your squire, Jim, he went on. Nor
• 3:10:32
  Speaker 1: he would neither. That's the words. Three years he were
• 3:10:37
  Speaker 1: the men of this island, light and dark, fair and rain.
• 3:10:42
  Speaker 1: And sometimes he would maybe think upon a prayer, says you.
• 3:10:47
  Speaker 1: And sometimes he would maybe think of his old mother,
• 3:10:52
  Speaker 1: so be as she's alive, you'll say. But the most
• 3:10:57
  Speaker 1: part of Gun's time, this is what you'll say, The
• 3:11:01
  Speaker 1: most part of his time was took up with another matter.
• 3:11:06
  Speaker 1: And then you'll give him a nip like I do.
• 3:11:10
  Speaker 1: And he pinched me again in the most confidential manner.
• 3:11:14
  Speaker 1: Then he continued, Then you'll up and you'll say. This
• 3:11:19
  Speaker 1: Gun is a good man, You'll say. And he puts
• 3:11:22
  Speaker 1: a precious sight more confidence, a precious sight. Mind that
• 3:11:27
  Speaker 1: in a gentleman born than in these gentlemen of fortune,
• 3:11:32
  Speaker 1: having been one hisself. Well, I said, I don't understand
• 3:11:37
  Speaker 1: one word that you've been saying. But that's neither here
• 3:11:40
  Speaker 1: nor there. For how am I to get on board? Ah?
• 3:11:45
  Speaker 1: Said he that's the hitch for sure. Well, there's my
• 3:11:49
  Speaker 1: boat that I made with my two hands. Ah, keep
• 3:11:53
  Speaker 1: her under the white rock. If the worst come to
• 3:11:56
  Speaker 1: the worst, we might try that. After hi, he broke out,
• 3:12:02
  Speaker 1: what's that for? Just then, although the sun had still
• 3:12:07
  Speaker 1: an hour or two to run. All the echoes of
• 3:12:09
  Speaker 1: the island awoke and bellowed to the thunder of a cannon.
• 3:12:13
  Speaker 1: They have begun to fight, I cried, follow me, and
• 3:12:17
  Speaker 1: I began to run toward the anchorage. My terrors all forgotten.
• 3:12:22
  Speaker 1: While close at my side the marooned man and his
• 3:12:25
  Speaker 1: goat skins trotted easily and lightly left. Left says he,
• 3:12:30
  Speaker 1: keep your left hand, mate, Jim, under the trees with you.
• 3:12:34
  Speaker 1: That's where I killed my first goat. They don't come
• 3:12:38
  Speaker 1: down here now. They're all mast headed on them mountains.
• 3:12:43
  Speaker 1: For the fear of Benjamin gun Ah. And there's the
• 3:12:47
  Speaker 1: Setter Mary Cemetery. He must have meant you see the mounds.
• 3:12:52
  Speaker 1: I come here and prayed nows and thens. When I
• 3:12:56
  Speaker 1: thought maybe a Sunday would be about do it a
• 3:13:00
  Speaker 1: quire chapel, But it seemed more sulemn like. And then
• 3:13:04
  Speaker 1: says you, Ben Gum was shorthanded. No chaplain or so
• 3:13:09
  Speaker 1: much as a bible in a flag, says you. So
• 3:13:13
  Speaker 1: he kept talking as I ran, neither expecting nor receiving
• 3:13:16
  Speaker 1: any answer. The cannon shot was followed, after a considerable interval,
• 3:13:21
  Speaker 1: by a volley of small arms. Another pause, and then
• 3:13:25
  Speaker 1: not a quarter of a mile in front of me,
• 3:13:27
  Speaker 1: I beheld the Union Jack flutter in the air above
• 3:13:30
  Speaker 1: a wood. End of Chapter fifteen, Part four The Stockade.
• 3:13:39
  Speaker 1: Chapter sixteen narrative continued by the doctor how the ship
• 3:13:44
  Speaker 1: was abandoned. It was about half past one, three bells
• 3:13:48
  Speaker 1: in the sea phrase that the two boats went ashore
• 3:13:51
  Speaker 1: from the Hispaniola. The Captain, the Squire and I were
• 3:13:54
  Speaker 1: talking matters over in the cabin. Had there been a
• 3:13:57
  Speaker 1: breath of wind, we should have fallen on the six
• 3:14:00
  Speaker 1: mutineers who were left aboard with us, slipped our cable
• 3:14:03
  Speaker 1: and away to sea. But the wind was wanting, and
• 3:14:07
  Speaker 1: to complete our helplessness, down came Hunter with the news
• 3:14:11
  Speaker 1: that Jim Hawkins had slipped into a boat and was
• 3:14:14
  Speaker 1: gone ashore with the rest. It had never occurred to
• 3:14:17
  Speaker 1: us to doubt Jim Hawkins, but we were alarmed for
• 3:14:20
  Speaker 1: his safety. With the men in the temper they were in,
• 3:14:23
  Speaker 1: it seemed an even chance if we should see the
• 3:14:26
  Speaker 1: lad again. We ran on deck. The pitch was bubbling
• 3:14:29
  Speaker 1: in the seams. The nasty stench of the place turned
• 3:14:33
  Speaker 1: me sick. If ever a man smelled fever and dysentery,
• 3:14:37
  Speaker 1: It was in that abominable anchorage. The six scoundrels were
• 3:14:41
  Speaker 1: sitting grumbling under a sail in the forecastle. Ashore. We
• 3:14:45
  Speaker 1: could see the gigs had made fast, and a man
• 3:14:48
  Speaker 1: sitting in each hard by where the river runs in.
• 3:14:52
  Speaker 1: One of them was whistling. Lily Ballero. Waiting was a strain,
• 3:14:57
  Speaker 1: and it was decided that Hunter and I should go
• 3:14:59
  Speaker 1: ashore with the Jolly boat in quest of information. The
• 3:15:03
  Speaker 1: Gigs had leaned to their right, but Hunter and I
• 3:15:06
  Speaker 1: pulled straight in in the direction of the stockade upon
• 3:15:09
  Speaker 1: the chart. The two who were left guarding their boats
• 3:15:12
  Speaker 1: seemed in a bustle at our appearance. Lily Ballero stopped off,
• 3:15:17
  Speaker 1: and I could see the pair discussing what they ought
• 3:15:19
  Speaker 1: to do. Had they gone and told Silver, all might
• 3:15:22
  Speaker 1: have turned out differently. But they had their orders, I suppose,
• 3:15:27
  Speaker 1: and decided to sit quietly where they were and hark
• 3:15:30
  Speaker 1: back again to Lily Balero. There was a slight bend
• 3:15:33
  Speaker 1: in the coast, and I steered so as to put
• 3:15:36
  Speaker 1: it between us. Even before we had landed. We had
• 3:15:39
  Speaker 1: thus lost sight of the gigs. I jumped out and
• 3:15:42
  Speaker 1: came as near running as I durst with a big
• 3:15:45
  Speaker 1: silk handkerchief under my hat for coolness's sake, and a
• 3:15:49
  Speaker 1: brace of pistols ready primed for safety. I had not
• 3:15:53
  Speaker 1: gone a hundred yards when I came on the stockade.
• 3:15:56
  Speaker 1: This was how it was. A spring of clear water
• 3:16:00
  Speaker 1: arose at the top of a knoll well on the knoll,
• 3:16:04
  Speaker 1: and inclosing the spring, they had clapped a stout log
• 3:16:07
  Speaker 1: house fit to hold two score people in a pinch
• 3:16:11
  Speaker 1: and loop holed for musketry on every side. All around
• 3:16:15
  Speaker 1: this they had cleared a wide space, and then the
• 3:16:17
  Speaker 1: thing was completed by a paling six feet high without
• 3:16:21
  Speaker 1: door or opening, too strong to pull down without time
• 3:16:24
  Speaker 1: and labor, and too open to shelter the besiegers. The
• 3:16:28
  Speaker 1: people in the log house had them in every way.
• 3:16:32
  Speaker 1: They stood quiet in the shelter and shot the others
• 3:16:35
  Speaker 1: like partridges. All they wanted was a good watch and food,
• 3:16:39
  Speaker 1: for short of a complete surprise, they might have held
• 3:16:42
  Speaker 1: the place against a regiment. What particularly took my fancy
• 3:16:47
  Speaker 1: was the spring, For though we had a good place
• 3:16:50
  Speaker 1: of it, the cabin of the Hispaniola, with plenty of
• 3:16:53
  Speaker 1: arms and ammunition and things to eat and excellent wines,
• 3:16:56
  Speaker 1: there was one thing overlooked. We had no water. I
• 3:17:00
  Speaker 1: was thinking this over when they came ringing over the island,
• 3:17:04
  Speaker 1: the cry of a man at the point of death.
• 3:17:07
  Speaker 1: I was not new to violent death. I have served
• 3:17:10
  Speaker 1: His Royal Highness, the Duke of Cumberland, and got a
• 3:17:13
  Speaker 1: wound myself at Faultonoy. But I know my pulse went
• 3:17:17
  Speaker 1: jot and carry one. Jim Hawkins is gone, was my
• 3:17:22
  Speaker 1: first thought. It is something to have been an old soldier,
• 3:17:26
  Speaker 1: but more still to have been a doctor. There is
• 3:17:29
  Speaker 1: no time to dilly dally in our work, and so
• 3:17:32
  Speaker 1: now I made up my mind instantly, and with no
• 3:17:35
  Speaker 1: time lost, returned to the shore and jumped on board
• 3:17:38
  Speaker 1: the jolly boat. By good fortune, Hunter pulled a good oar.
• 3:17:42
  Speaker 1: We made the water fly, and the boat was soon alongside,
• 3:17:46
  Speaker 1: and I aboard the schooner. I found them all shaken,
• 3:17:49
  Speaker 1: as was natural. The Squire was sitting down as white
• 3:17:52
  Speaker 1: as a sheet, thinking of the harm he had led
• 3:17:55
  Speaker 1: us to the good soul. And one of the six
• 3:17:58
  Speaker 1: Forecastle hands was little better. There's a man, said Captain Smollett,
• 3:18:04
  Speaker 1: nodding towards him. New to this work. He came nigh
• 3:18:08
  Speaker 1: hand fainting. A doctor when he heard the cry and
• 3:18:12
  Speaker 1: now the touch of the rudder, and that man would
• 3:18:16
  Speaker 1: adjoin us. I told my plan to the captain, and
• 3:18:19
  Speaker 1: between us we settled on the details of its accomplishment.
• 3:18:23
  Speaker 1: We put old Redruth in the gallery between the cabin
• 3:18:27
  Speaker 1: and the forecastle, with three or four loaded muskets and
• 3:18:30
  Speaker 1: a mattress for protection. Hunter brought the boat round under
• 3:18:34
  Speaker 1: the stern port, and Joyce and I set to work
• 3:18:37
  Speaker 1: loading her with powder tins, muskets, bags of biscuits, kegs
• 3:18:42
  Speaker 1: of pork, a cast of cognac, and my invaluable medicine chest.
• 3:18:47
  Speaker 1: In the meantime, the Squire and the Captain stayed on
• 3:18:49
  Speaker 1: the deck, and the latter hailed the Coxswain, who was
• 3:18:53
  Speaker 1: the principal man on board, mister hands. He said, there.
• 3:18:57
  Speaker 3: Are two of us with a brace of pistols each.
• 3:19:01
  Speaker 3: If any one of you'll six make a signal of
• 3:19:03
  Speaker 3: any description, that man's dead. They were a good deal
• 3:19:08
  Speaker 3: taken back, and after a little consultation one and all
• 3:19:11
  Speaker 3: tumbled down the fore companion, thinking no doubt to take
• 3:19:15
  Speaker 3: us on the rear. But when they saw Redruth waiting
• 3:19:18
  Speaker 3: for them in the sparred gallery, they went about ship
• 3:19:21
  Speaker 3: at once, and a head popped out again on deck down.
• 3:19:24
  Speaker 1: Dog cried the captain, and the head popped back again,
• 3:19:28
  Speaker 1: and we heard no more for the time of these
• 3:19:31
  Speaker 1: six very faint hearted seamen, by this time tumbling things
• 3:19:36
  Speaker 1: in as they came wear The jolly Boat loaded as
• 3:19:39
  Speaker 1: much as we dared, Joyce and I got out through
• 3:19:42
  Speaker 1: the stern port, and we made for shore again as
• 3:19:44
  Speaker 1: fast as oars could take us. This second trip fairly
• 3:19:48
  Speaker 1: aroused the watchers along shore. Lily Ballero was dropped again,
• 3:19:53
  Speaker 1: and just before we lost sight of them behind a
• 3:19:56
  Speaker 1: little point, one of them whipped ashore and disappeared. I
• 3:20:00
  Speaker 1: had half a mind to change my plan and destroy
• 3:20:02
  Speaker 1: their boats, but I feared that Silver and the others
• 3:20:05
  Speaker 1: might be close to hand, and all might very well
• 3:20:08
  Speaker 1: be lost by trying for too much. We had soon
• 3:20:12
  Speaker 1: touched land in the same place as before, and set
• 3:20:15
  Speaker 1: to work to provision the block house. All three made
• 3:20:18
  Speaker 1: the first journey heavily laden, and tossed our stores over
• 3:20:22
  Speaker 1: the palisade, then leaving Joyce to guard them one man
• 3:20:26
  Speaker 1: to be sure, but with half a dozen muskets, Hunter
• 3:20:30
  Speaker 1: and I returned to the jolly Boat and loaded ourselves
• 3:20:33
  Speaker 1: once more. So we proceeded without pausing to take breath,
• 3:20:37
  Speaker 1: till the whole cargo was bestowed. When the two servants
• 3:20:41
  Speaker 1: took up their position in the block house, and I,
• 3:20:43
  Speaker 1: with all my powder, sculled back to the Hispaniola. That
• 3:20:48
  Speaker 1: we should have risked a second boat load seems more
• 3:20:51
  Speaker 1: daring than it really was. They had the advantage of numbers,
• 3:20:55
  Speaker 1: of course, but we had the advantage of arms. Not
• 3:20:59
  Speaker 1: one of the men a shureed or had a musket,
• 3:21:01
  Speaker 1: and before they could get within range for pistol shooting,
• 3:21:04
  Speaker 1: we flattered ourselves. We should be able to give a
• 3:21:07
  Speaker 1: good account of a half dozen at least. The Squire
• 3:21:11
  Speaker 1: was waiting for me at the stern window, all his
• 3:21:13
  Speaker 1: faintness gone from him. He caught the painter and made
• 3:21:17
  Speaker 1: it fast, and we fell to loading the boat for
• 3:21:20
  Speaker 1: our very lives. Pork, powder and biscuit was the cargo.
• 3:21:24
  Speaker 1: With only a musket and a cutlass apiece for Squire
• 3:21:26
  Speaker 1: and me, and Red Ruth and the captain. The rest
• 3:21:30
  Speaker 1: of the arms and powder. We dropped overboard in two
• 3:21:33
  Speaker 1: fathoms and a half of water, so that we could
• 3:21:36
  Speaker 1: see the bright steel shining far below us. In the
• 3:21:39
  Speaker 1: sun on the clean sandy bottom. By this time the
• 3:21:43
  Speaker 1: tide was beginning to ebb and the ship was swinging
• 3:21:46
  Speaker 1: round to her anchor. Voices were heard faintly hallowing in
• 3:21:50
  Speaker 1: the direction of the two gigs, and though this reassured
• 3:21:54
  Speaker 1: us for Joyce and Hunter, who were well to the eastward,
• 3:21:57
  Speaker 1: it warned our party to be off. Redruth retreated from
• 3:22:01
  Speaker 1: his place in the gallery and dropped into the boat,
• 3:22:04
  Speaker 1: which we then brought round to the ship's counter to
• 3:22:07
  Speaker 1: be handier for Captain Smollett. Now, men said he, do
• 3:22:12
  Speaker 1: you hear me? There was no answer from the forecastle.
• 3:22:16
  Speaker 1: It's to you, Abraham Gray, It's to you. I am speaking.
• 3:22:22
  Speaker 1: Still no reply, Gray resumed mister Smollett, a little louder.
• 3:22:27
  Speaker 1: I am leaving this ship, and I order you to
• 3:22:30
  Speaker 1: follow your captain. I know you are a good man
• 3:22:34
  Speaker 1: at bottom, and I dare say not one of the
• 3:22:37
  Speaker 1: lot of users bad as he makes out. I had
• 3:22:40
  Speaker 1: my watch here in my hand. I give you thirty
• 3:22:44
  Speaker 1: seconds to join me. In Come, my fine fellow, continued
• 3:22:49
  Speaker 1: the captain, don't hang so long, in stays. I'm risking
• 3:22:53
  Speaker 1: my life, and the lives of these are good. A gentleman.
• 3:22:56
  Speaker 1: Every second there was a sudden scuffle, a sound of blows,
• 3:23:00
  Speaker 1: and outburst Abraham Gray with a knife cut on the
• 3:23:04
  Speaker 1: side of the cheek, and came running to the captain
• 3:23:07
  Speaker 1: like a dog to the whistle arm with you, sir,
• 3:23:11
  Speaker 1: he said, And the next moment he and the captain
• 3:23:14
  Speaker 1: had dropped aboard of us, and we had shoved off
• 3:23:17
  Speaker 1: and given way. We were clear out of the ship,
• 3:23:20
  Speaker 1: but not yet ashore in our stockade. End of chapter sixteen.
• 3:23:27
  Speaker 1: Chapter seventeen narrative continued by the Doctor the Jolly Boat's
• 3:23:33
  Speaker 1: last trip. This fifth trip was quite different from any
• 3:23:37
  Speaker 1: of the others. In the first place, the little galley
• 3:23:40
  Speaker 1: part of a boat that we were in was gravely
• 3:23:43
  Speaker 1: overloaded five grown men, and three of them Trelawney read Ruth,
• 3:23:48
  Speaker 1: and the captain, over six feet high, was already more
• 3:23:52
  Speaker 1: than she was meant to carry. Add to that the
• 3:23:55
  Speaker 1: powder pork and the bread bags. The gunles were lipping.
• 3:23:59
  Speaker 1: At several times we shipped a little water, and my
• 3:24:03
  Speaker 1: breeches and the tails of my coat were all soaking wet.
• 3:24:06
  Speaker 1: Before we had got a hundred yards. The captain made
• 3:24:10
  Speaker 1: us trim the boat, and we got it to lie
• 3:24:12
  Speaker 1: a little more evenly. All the same, we were afraid
• 3:24:15
  Speaker 1: to breathe. In the second place, the EBB was now
• 3:24:18
  Speaker 1: making a strong rippling current, running westward through the basin,
• 3:24:23
  Speaker 1: and then southered and seaward down the straits by which
• 3:24:26
  Speaker 1: we had entered in the morning. Even the ripples were
• 3:24:29
  Speaker 1: a danger to our overloaded craft. But the worst of
• 3:24:33
  Speaker 1: it was that we were swept out of our true
• 3:24:35
  Speaker 1: course and away from our proper landing place behind the point.
• 3:24:40
  Speaker 1: If we let the current have its way, we should
• 3:24:42
  Speaker 1: come ashore beside the gigs, where the pirates might appear
• 3:24:45
  Speaker 1: at any moment. I cannot keep her head for the stockade, sir,
• 3:24:50
  Speaker 1: said I to the captain I was steering while he
• 3:24:53
  Speaker 1: and Redruth, two fresh men, were at the oars. The
• 3:24:57
  Speaker 1: tide keeps washing her down. Could you a little stronger,
• 3:25:01
  Speaker 1: not without swamping the boat, said he. You must bear up, sir,
• 3:25:06
  Speaker 1: If you please bear up until you see you're gaining
• 3:25:12
  Speaker 1: I tried, and found by experiment that the side kept
• 3:25:15
  Speaker 1: sweeping us westward till I had laid her head due east,
• 3:25:19
  Speaker 1: or just about right angles to the way we ought
• 3:25:22
  Speaker 1: to go. We'll never get ashore at this rate. Said I.
• 3:25:26
  Speaker 1: If it's the only course we can lie, sir, we
• 3:25:30
  Speaker 1: must even lie, it, returned the Captain. We must keep upstream,
• 3:25:36
  Speaker 1: you see, sir, He went on, if once we dropped
• 3:25:39
  Speaker 1: to leeward of the landing place, it's hard to say
• 3:25:43
  Speaker 1: where we should get ashore, besides the chance of being
• 3:25:47
  Speaker 1: boarded by the gigs. Whereas the way we go the
• 3:25:51
  Speaker 1: current must slacken, and then we can dodge back along
• 3:25:56
  Speaker 1: the shore. The current's lesser. Ready, sir, said the man Gray,
• 3:26:01
  Speaker 1: who was sitting in the fore sheets. You can ease
• 3:26:04
  Speaker 1: her off a bit. Thank you, my man, said I,
• 3:26:07
  Speaker 1: as if nothing had happened, for we had all quietly
• 3:26:11
  Speaker 1: made up our minds to treat him like one of ourselves.
• 3:26:15
  Speaker 1: Suddenly the Captain spoke up again, and I thought his
• 3:26:18
  Speaker 1: voice was a little changed. The gun said he I
• 3:26:24
  Speaker 1: have thought of that, said I, for I made sure
• 3:26:27
  Speaker 1: he was thinking of a bombardment of the fort. They
• 3:26:30
  Speaker 1: could never get the gun ashore, and if they did,
• 3:26:33
  Speaker 1: they could never haul it through the woods. Look, astern doctor,
• 3:26:38
  Speaker 1: replied the captain. We had entirely forgotten the Long nine.
• 3:26:43
  Speaker 1: And there, to our horror, were the five rogues busy
• 3:26:46
  Speaker 1: about her getting off her jacket, as they called the
• 3:26:49
  Speaker 1: stout top hole in cover under which she sailed. Not
• 3:26:53
  Speaker 1: only that, but it flashed into my mind at the
• 3:26:55
  Speaker 1: same moment that the round shot and the powder for
• 3:26:58
  Speaker 1: the gun had been left behind, and the stroke of
• 3:27:01
  Speaker 1: an axe would put it all into the possession of
• 3:27:03
  Speaker 1: the evil ones aboard. Israel was Flint's gunner, said Gray hoarsely.
• 3:27:10
  Speaker 1: At any risk, we put the boat's head directly for
• 3:27:13
  Speaker 1: the landing place. By this time we had got so
• 3:27:16
  Speaker 1: far out of the run of the current that we
• 3:27:19
  Speaker 1: kept steerage way even at our necessarily gentle rate of rowing,
• 3:27:23
  Speaker 1: and I could keep her steady for the goal. But
• 3:27:26
  Speaker 1: the worst of it was that, with the course I
• 3:27:29
  Speaker 1: now held, we turned our broadside instead of our stern
• 3:27:33
  Speaker 1: to the Hispaniola and offered a target like a barn door.
• 3:27:37
  Speaker 1: I could hear as well as see that brandy faced
• 3:27:41
  Speaker 1: rascal Israel Hands plumping down a round shot on the deck.
• 3:27:46
  Speaker 1: Who's the best shot, asked the captain, mister Trelawney, out
• 3:27:51
  Speaker 1: and away, said I, mister Trelawney, will you please pick
• 3:27:56
  Speaker 1: me off one of those men, Sir hands, if a possible,
• 3:28:00
  Speaker 1: said the captain Trelawney, was as cold as steel. He
• 3:28:05
  Speaker 1: looked to the priming of his gun. Now cried the captain.
• 3:28:09
  Speaker 1: Easy with that gun, sir, or y'll swamp the boat.
• 3:28:13
  Speaker 1: All hands stand by to trim her. When he aims.
• 3:28:18
  Speaker 1: The squire raised his gun. The rowing ceased, and we
• 3:28:22
  Speaker 1: leaned over to the other side to keep the balance.
• 3:28:24
  Speaker 1: And all was so nicely contrived that we did not
• 3:28:28
  Speaker 1: ship a drop. They had the gun by this time
• 3:28:31
  Speaker 1: slewed around upon the swivel, and Hans, who was at
• 3:28:35
  Speaker 1: the muzzle with the rammer, was in consequence the most exposed. However,
• 3:28:40
  Speaker 1: we had no luck, for just as Trelawney fired down,
• 3:28:44
  Speaker 1: he stooped, the ball whistling over him, and it was
• 3:28:47
  Speaker 1: one of the other four who fell. The cry he
• 3:28:50
  Speaker 1: gave was echoed not only by his companions on board,
• 3:28:54
  Speaker 1: but by a great number of voices from the shore.
• 3:28:57
  Speaker 1: And looking out in that direction, I saw the other
• 3:29:00
  Speaker 1: the pirates trooping out from among the trees and tumbling
• 3:29:03
  Speaker 1: into their places in the boats. Here come the gigs, sir, said,
• 3:29:08
  Speaker 1: I give way. Then said the captain, we mustn't mind
• 3:29:13
  Speaker 1: if we swamp her now. If we can't get ashore,
• 3:29:16
  Speaker 1: all's up. Only one of the gigs is being manned, Sir,
• 3:29:21
  Speaker 1: I added. The crew of the other is most likely
• 3:29:24
  Speaker 1: going around by shore to cut us off. They'll have
• 3:29:27
  Speaker 1: a hot run, Sir returned the captain jack ashore. You know,
• 3:29:32
  Speaker 1: if it's not near my mind, it's the round shot
• 3:29:36
  Speaker 1: carpet bowls. My lady's maid couldn't miss. Tell us, squire,
• 3:29:41
  Speaker 1: when you see the match, and we'll hold water. In
• 3:29:45
  Speaker 1: the meantime, we had been making headway at a good
• 3:29:47
  Speaker 1: pace for a boat so overloaded, and we had shipped
• 3:29:50
  Speaker 1: but little water in the process. We were now close
• 3:29:54
  Speaker 1: in thirty or forty strokes, and we should beat her,
• 3:29:57
  Speaker 1: for the ebb had already disclosed, and now arrow belt
• 3:30:00
  Speaker 1: of sand below the clustering trees. The gig was no
• 3:30:04
  Speaker 1: longer to be feared. The little point had already concealed
• 3:30:08
  Speaker 1: it from our eyes. The ebb tide, which had so
• 3:30:11
  Speaker 1: cruelly delayed us, was now making reparation and delaying our assailants.
• 3:30:17
  Speaker 1: The one source of danger was the gun. If I durst,
• 3:30:21
  Speaker 1: said the Captain, I'd stop and pick off another man.
• 3:30:26
  Speaker 1: It was plain that they meant nothing should delay their shot.
• 3:30:29
  Speaker 1: They had never so much as looked at their fallen comrade,
• 3:30:32
  Speaker 1: though he was not dead, and I could see him
• 3:30:35
  Speaker 1: trying to crawl away. Ready cried the Squire. Hold cried
• 3:30:40
  Speaker 1: the Captain quick as an echo, and he and Redruth
• 3:30:44
  Speaker 1: backed with a great heave that sent her astern bodily
• 3:30:48
  Speaker 1: under water. The report fell into the same instant of time.
• 3:30:53
  Speaker 1: This was the first that Jim heard the sound of
• 3:30:56
  Speaker 1: the Squire's shot, not having reached him. When the bull passed.
• 3:31:00
  Speaker 1: Not one of us precisely knew, but I fancy it
• 3:31:03
  Speaker 1: must have been over our heads, and that the wind
• 3:31:06
  Speaker 1: of it may have contributed to our disaster. At any rate,
• 3:31:10
  Speaker 1: the boats sunk by the stern quite gently in three
• 3:31:13
  Speaker 1: feet of water, leaving the Captain and myself facing each
• 3:31:17
  Speaker 1: other on our feet. The other three took complete headers
• 3:31:20
  Speaker 1: and came up again, drenched and bubbling. So far there
• 3:31:24
  Speaker 1: was no great harm, no lives were lost, and we
• 3:31:27
  Speaker 1: could wade ashore in safety. But there were all our
• 3:31:30
  Speaker 1: stores at the bottom, and to make things worse, only
• 3:31:34
  Speaker 1: two guns out of five remained in a state for service.
• 3:31:38
  Speaker 1: Mine I had snatched from my knees and held over
• 3:31:40
  Speaker 1: my head by a sort of instinct. As for the Captain,
• 3:31:44
  Speaker 1: he had carried his over his shoulder by a bandolier,
• 3:31:48
  Speaker 1: and like a wise man, lock uppermost. The other three
• 3:31:52
  Speaker 1: had gone down with the boat. To add to our concern,
• 3:31:55
  Speaker 1: we heard voices already drawing nearer to us in the
• 3:31:58
  Speaker 1: wood along the shore, and we had only the danger
• 3:32:01
  Speaker 1: of being cut off from the stockade in our half
• 3:32:04
  Speaker 1: crippled state. But the fear before us whether if Hunter
• 3:32:08
  Speaker 1: and Joyce were attacked by half a dozen they would
• 3:32:10
  Speaker 1: have the sense and conduct to stand firm. Hunter was steady,
• 3:32:15
  Speaker 1: that we knew. Joyce was a doubtful case, a pleasant
• 3:32:19
  Speaker 1: polite man for a valet and to brush one's clothes,
• 3:32:23
  Speaker 1: but not entirely fitted for a man of war. With
• 3:32:27
  Speaker 1: all this in our minds, we waded ashore as fast
• 3:32:30
  Speaker 1: as we could, leaving behind us the poor jolly boat
• 3:32:34
  Speaker 1: and a good half of all our powder and provisions.
• 3:32:38
  Speaker 1: End of Chapter seventeen. Chapter eighteen narrative continued by the
• 3:32:44
  Speaker 1: doctor end of the first day's fighting. We made our
• 3:32:50
  Speaker 1: best speed across the strip of wood that now divided
• 3:32:53
  Speaker 1: us from the stockade, and at every step we took
• 3:32:56
  Speaker 1: the voices of the buccaneers rang nearer. Soon we could
• 3:33:00
  Speaker 1: hear their footfalls as they ran and the cracking of
• 3:33:02
  Speaker 1: the branches as they breasted across a bit of thicket.
• 3:33:06
  Speaker 1: I began to see we should have a brush for
• 3:33:09
  Speaker 1: it in earnest and looked to my priming Captain, said I,
• 3:33:14
  Speaker 1: Trelawny is the dead shot. Give him your gun. His
• 3:33:18
  Speaker 1: own is useless. They exchanged guns, and Trelawney, silent and
• 3:33:23
  Speaker 1: cool as he had been since the beginning of the bustle,
• 3:33:26
  Speaker 1: hung a moment on his heel to see that all
• 3:33:29
  Speaker 1: was fit for service. At the same time, observing Gray
• 3:33:33
  Speaker 1: to be unarmed, I handed him my cutlass. It did
• 3:33:37
  Speaker 1: all our hearts good to see him spit in his hand,
• 3:33:40
  Speaker 1: knit his brows, and make the blade sing through the air.
• 3:33:44
  Speaker 1: It was plain from every line of his body that
• 3:33:47
  Speaker 1: our new hand was worth his salt. Forty paces farther,
• 3:33:51
  Speaker 1: we came to the edge of the wood and saw
• 3:33:54
  Speaker 1: the stockade in front of us. We struck the enclosure
• 3:33:57
  Speaker 1: about the middle of the south side, and almost at
• 3:34:00
  Speaker 1: the same time, seven mutineers Job Anderson, the Bowswain at
• 3:34:04
  Speaker 1: their head, appeared in full cry at the southwestern corner.
• 3:34:09
  Speaker 1: They paused as if taken aback, and before they recovered,
• 3:34:13
  Speaker 1: not only the squire and I, but Hunter and Joyce
• 3:34:16
  Speaker 1: from the block house had time to fire. The four
• 3:34:19
  Speaker 1: shots came in rather a scattering volley, but they did
• 3:34:23
  Speaker 1: the business. One of the enemy actually fell, and the rest,
• 3:34:27
  Speaker 1: without hesitation, turned and plunged into the trees. After reloading,
• 3:34:32
  Speaker 1: we walked down the outside of the palisade to see
• 3:34:35
  Speaker 1: the fallen enemy. He was stone dead, shot through the heart.
• 3:34:40
  Speaker 1: We began to rejoice over our good success, when just
• 3:34:44
  Speaker 1: at that moment a pistol cracked in the bush and
• 3:34:47
  Speaker 1: a ball whistled close past my ear, and poor Tom
• 3:34:51
  Speaker 1: Redruth stumbled and fell his length on the ground. Both
• 3:34:55
  Speaker 1: the Squire and I returned the shot, but as we
• 3:34:58
  Speaker 1: had nothing to aim at, it was probably we only
• 3:35:00
  Speaker 1: wasted powder. Then we reloaded and turned our attention to
• 3:35:04
  Speaker 1: poor Tom. The Captain and Gray were already examining him,
• 3:35:09
  Speaker 1: and I saw with half an eye that all was over.
• 3:35:13
  Speaker 1: I believe the readiness of our returned volley had scattered
• 3:35:16
  Speaker 1: the mutineers once more, for we were suffered without further molestation.
• 3:35:20
  Speaker 1: To get the poor old gamekeeper hoisted over the stockade
• 3:35:24
  Speaker 1: and carried, groaning and bleeding into the log house. Poor
• 3:35:29
  Speaker 1: old fellow, he had not uttered one word of surprise, complaint,
• 3:35:33
  Speaker 1: to fear, or even acquiescence, from the very beginning of
• 3:35:36
  Speaker 1: our troubles till now, when we had laid him down
• 3:35:39
  Speaker 1: on the log house to die. He had lain like
• 3:35:42
  Speaker 1: a trojan behind his mattress in the gallery. He had
• 3:35:46
  Speaker 1: followed every order silently, doggedly and well. He was the
• 3:35:50
  Speaker 1: oldest of our party by a score of years, and
• 3:35:54
  Speaker 1: now sullen, old, serviceable servant. It was he that was
• 3:35:58
  Speaker 1: to die. The Squire dropped down beside him on his
• 3:36:02
  Speaker 1: knees and kissed his hand, crying like a child. Be
• 3:36:06
  Speaker 1: I going doctor, he asked tom My Man said, I
• 3:36:12
  Speaker 1: you're going home. I wish I had had a liquet
• 3:36:16
  Speaker 1: em with the gun first, he replied, tom said, the
• 3:36:21
  Speaker 1: Squire say you forgive me, won't you? Would that be
• 3:36:25
  Speaker 1: respectful like from me to you, Squire? Was the answer,
• 3:36:30
  Speaker 1: howsoever it be amen. After a little while of silence,
• 3:36:35
  Speaker 1: he said he thought somebody might read a prayer. It's
• 3:36:39
  Speaker 1: the custom, sir, he added apologetically, and not long after,
• 3:36:44
  Speaker 1: without another word, he passed away. In the meantime, the captain,
• 3:36:49
  Speaker 1: whom I had observed to be wonderfully swollen about the
• 3:36:52
  Speaker 1: chest and pockets had turned out a great many various stores,
• 3:36:56
  Speaker 1: the British colors, a bible, a coil of Stetish rope,
• 3:37:01
  Speaker 1: pen ink, the log book, and pounds of tobacco. He
• 3:37:05
  Speaker 1: had found a longish fir tree lying felled and cleared
• 3:37:09
  Speaker 1: in the enclosure, and with the help of Hunter, he
• 3:37:12
  Speaker 1: had set it up at the corner of the log
• 3:37:14
  Speaker 1: house where the trunks crossed and made an angle. Then,
• 3:37:18
  Speaker 1: climbing up on the roof, he had with his own
• 3:37:21
  Speaker 1: hand bent and run up the colors. This seemed mightily
• 3:37:25
  Speaker 1: to relieve him. He re entered the log house and
• 3:37:28
  Speaker 1: set about counting up the stores as if nothing else existed.
• 3:37:33
  Speaker 1: But he had an eye on Tom's passage for all that,
• 3:37:36
  Speaker 1: And as soon as all was over, came forward with
• 3:37:39
  Speaker 1: another flag and reverently spread it on the body. Don't
• 3:37:44
  Speaker 1: you take on, sir, he said, shaking the squire's hand.
• 3:37:48
  Speaker 1: All's well with him, No fear for a hand that's
• 3:37:52
  Speaker 1: been shot down in his duty to captain named owner.
• 3:37:57
  Speaker 1: It mayn't be good, divinity, but it's a fact. Then
• 3:38:01
  Speaker 1: he pulled me aside, Doctor Livesey, he said, in how
• 3:38:06
  Speaker 1: many weeks do you and Squire expect the consort. I
• 3:38:11
  Speaker 1: told him it was a question not of weeks, but
• 3:38:14
  Speaker 1: of months, that if we were not back by the
• 3:38:17
  Speaker 1: end of August, Blandly was to send to find us.
• 3:38:21
  Speaker 1: But neither sooner nor later. You can calculate for yourself,
• 3:38:25
  Speaker 1: I said, why, yes, returned the captain, scratching his head
• 3:38:31
  Speaker 1: and making a large allowance. Sir, for all the gifts
• 3:38:35
  Speaker 1: of providence, I should say, we were pretty close hauled.
• 3:38:40
  Speaker 1: How do you mean, I asked. It's a pity, sir,
• 3:38:44
  Speaker 1: we lost that second load. That's what I mean, replied
• 3:38:49
  Speaker 1: the captain. As for powder and shot, we'll do. But
• 3:38:54
  Speaker 1: the rations are short, very short, so short, Doctor livesey
• 3:38:59
  Speaker 1: that we're perhaps as well without that extra mouth, and
• 3:39:04
  Speaker 1: he pointed to the dead body under the flag. Just then,
• 3:39:08
  Speaker 1: with a roar and a whistle, a round shot passed
• 3:39:11
  Speaker 1: high above the roof of the log house and plumped
• 3:39:14
  Speaker 1: far beyond us in the wood. Oho, said the captain,
• 3:39:19
  Speaker 1: Blaze away, you've litten enough powder already, my lads. At
• 3:39:25
  Speaker 1: the second trial, the aim was better, and the ball
• 3:39:28
  Speaker 1: descended inside the stockade, scattering a cloud of sand, but
• 3:39:32
  Speaker 1: doing no further damage, Captain, said the squire. The house
• 3:39:37
  Speaker 1: is quite invisible from the ship. It must be the
• 3:39:39
  Speaker 1: flag they're aiming at. Would it not be wiser to
• 3:39:42
  Speaker 1: take it in strike? My colors cried the captain, No, sir,
• 3:39:48
  Speaker 1: not i, And as soon as he had said the word,
• 3:39:52
  Speaker 1: I think we all agreed with him, for it was
• 3:39:54
  Speaker 1: not only a piece of stout seemingly good feeling, it
• 3:39:58
  Speaker 1: was a good policy besides, and showed our enemies that
• 3:40:02
  Speaker 1: we despised their cannonade. All through the evening they kept
• 3:40:07
  Speaker 1: thundering away. Ball after ball flew over, or fell short,
• 3:40:12
  Speaker 1: or kicked up the sand in the enclosure, but they
• 3:40:15
  Speaker 1: had to fire so high that the shot fell dead
• 3:40:18
  Speaker 1: and buried itself in the soft sand. We had no
• 3:40:21
  Speaker 1: ricochet to fear, and though one popped in through the
• 3:40:24
  Speaker 1: roof of the log house and out again through the floor,
• 3:40:28
  Speaker 1: we soon got used to that sort of horseplay and
• 3:40:31
  Speaker 1: minded it no more than cricket. There is one good
• 3:40:34
  Speaker 1: thing about all this, observed the captain. The wood in
• 3:40:39
  Speaker 1: front of us is likely clear. The EBB has made
• 3:40:43
  Speaker 1: a good while our stores should be uncovered. Volunteers to
• 3:40:49
  Speaker 1: go and bring in pork. Gray and Hunter were the
• 3:40:52
  Speaker 1: first to come forward. Well armed, They stole out of
• 3:40:56
  Speaker 1: the stockade, but it proved a useless mission. The mutineers
• 3:41:00
  Speaker 1: were bolder than we fancied, or they put more trust
• 3:41:04
  Speaker 1: in Israel's gunnery. For four or five of them were
• 3:41:07
  Speaker 1: busy carrying off our stores and wading out with them
• 3:41:10
  Speaker 1: to one of the gigs that lay close by, pulling
• 3:41:13
  Speaker 1: an oar or so to hold her steady against the current.
• 3:41:17
  Speaker 1: Silver was in the stern sheets in command, and every
• 3:41:20
  Speaker 1: man of them was now provided with a musket from
• 3:41:23
  Speaker 1: some secret magazine of their own. The captain sat down
• 3:41:28
  Speaker 1: to his log, and here is the beginning of the entry.
• 3:41:33
  Speaker 1: Alexander Swollett, Master, David Livesey, ship's doctor, Abraham Gray, carpenter's mate,
• 3:41:41
  Speaker 1: John Trelawney, Owner, John Hunter, and Richard Joyce, owner's servants landsmen,
• 3:41:49
  Speaker 1: being all that is left faithful of the ship's company,
• 3:41:52
  Speaker 1: with stores for ten days at short rations, came ashore
• 3:41:56
  Speaker 1: this day and flew British colours on the loghouse in
• 3:42:00
  Speaker 1: Treasure Island. Thomas Redruth, owner's servant landsman, shot by the mutineers.
• 3:42:08
  Speaker 1: James Hawkins, cabin boy. And at the same time I
• 3:42:12
  Speaker 1: was wondering over poor Jim Hawkins. Fate a hail on
• 3:42:16
  Speaker 1: the land side. Somebody hailing us, said Hunter, who was
• 3:42:21
  Speaker 1: on guard, Doctor Squire, Captain Halloo. Hunter, is that you
• 3:42:26
  Speaker 1: came the cries, and I ran to the door in
• 3:42:30
  Speaker 1: time to see Jim Hawkins, safe and sound, come climbing
• 3:42:34
  Speaker 1: over the stockade. End off Chapter eighteen, Chapter nineteen. Narrative
• 3:42:41
  Speaker 1: resumed by Jim Hawkins the garrison in the stockade. As
• 3:42:47
  Speaker 1: soon as ben Gunn saw the colors, he came to
• 3:42:49
  Speaker 1: a halt, stopped me by the arm, and sat down.
• 3:42:53
  Speaker 1: Now says he, there's your friends, sure enough, far more
• 3:43:00
  Speaker 1: it's the mutineers. I answered that. He cried, why in
• 3:43:06
  Speaker 1: a place like this, where nobody puts him but gentlemen
• 3:43:10
  Speaker 1: of fortune, silver would fly the jolly roger. You don't
• 3:43:14
  Speaker 1: make no doubt of that. Nah, that's your friends. There's
• 3:43:19
  Speaker 1: been blows too, and I reckon, your friend has had
• 3:43:23
  Speaker 1: the best of it. And here they are ashore in
• 3:43:25
  Speaker 1: the old stockade that has made years and years ago
• 3:43:29
  Speaker 1: by flint. He was the man to have a headpiece,
• 3:43:33
  Speaker 1: was flint barring rum. His match was never seen. He
• 3:43:39
  Speaker 1: were afraid of none, not he only silver silver? Was
• 3:43:44
  Speaker 1: that genteel well said I that may be so, and
• 3:43:50
  Speaker 1: so be it all the more reason that I should
• 3:43:52
  Speaker 1: hurry on and join my friends. Nay mate, returned Ben
• 3:43:58
  Speaker 1: not you. You're a good boy or I'm mistook, but
• 3:44:02
  Speaker 1: you're only a boy, all told. Now Ben Gunn is
• 3:44:07
  Speaker 1: fly Rum wouldn't bring me there where you're going. Now,
• 3:44:12
  Speaker 1: Ram wouldn't till I see your born gentleman and gets
• 3:44:16
  Speaker 1: it on his word of honor. And you won't forget
• 3:44:20
  Speaker 1: my words. A precious sight, that's what you'll say, A
• 3:44:24
  Speaker 1: precious sight more confidence, and then nips him and he
• 3:44:29
  Speaker 1: pinched me the third time with the same air of cleverness.
• 3:44:33
  Speaker 1: And when ben gunn Is wanted, you know where to
• 3:44:36
  Speaker 1: find him, Jim, just where you found him today. And
• 3:44:40
  Speaker 1: him that comes is to have a white thing in
• 3:44:43
  Speaker 1: his hand, and he's to come alone. Oh and you'll
• 3:44:46
  Speaker 1: say this, Ben Gunn says you has reasons of his own. Well,
• 3:44:53
  Speaker 1: said I I believe, I understand you have something to propose,
• 3:44:57
  Speaker 1: and you wish to see the squire or the dot,
• 3:45:00
  Speaker 1: and you're to be found where I found you. Is
• 3:45:03
  Speaker 1: that all? And when says you, he added, why from
• 3:45:08
  Speaker 1: about noon observation to about six bells, good says I,
• 3:45:14
  Speaker 1: And now may I go. You won't forget, he inquired
• 3:45:18
  Speaker 1: anxiously precious sight, and reasons of his own, says you.
• 3:45:24
  Speaker 1: Reasons of his own. That's the main stay as between
• 3:45:27
  Speaker 1: man and man. Well, then, still holding me, I reckon,
• 3:45:33
  Speaker 1: you can go, Jim, And Jim, if you was to
• 3:45:36
  Speaker 1: see silver, you wouldn't go for the cell bend gun
• 3:45:41
  Speaker 1: wild orses wouldn't draw it from you, no, says you.
• 3:45:46
  Speaker 1: And if them pirates came ashore, Jim, what would you say?
• 3:45:50
  Speaker 1: But there'd be widders in the morning. Here he was
• 3:45:53
  Speaker 1: interrupted by a loud report, and a cannonball came tearing
• 3:45:58
  Speaker 1: through the trees and pitched it in the sand, and
• 3:46:00
  Speaker 1: not one hundred yards from where we two were talking.
• 3:46:03
  Speaker 1: The next moment, each of us had taken to our
• 3:46:05
  Speaker 1: heels in a different direction. For a good hour to come,
• 3:46:10
  Speaker 1: frequent reports shook the island, and balls kept crashing through
• 3:46:14
  Speaker 1: the woods. I moved from hiding place to hiding place,
• 3:46:17
  Speaker 1: always pursued, or so it seemed to me, by these
• 3:46:21
  Speaker 1: terrifying missiles. But toward the end of the bombardment, though
• 3:46:26
  Speaker 1: still I durst not venture in the direction of the
• 3:46:28
  Speaker 1: stockade where the balls fell oftenest I had begun in
• 3:46:32
  Speaker 1: a manner to pluck up my heart again, and after
• 3:46:35
  Speaker 1: a long detour in the east, crept down among the
• 3:46:39
  Speaker 1: shore side trees. The sun had just set. The sea
• 3:46:43
  Speaker 1: breeze was rustling and tumbling in the woods, and ruffling
• 3:46:46
  Speaker 1: the gray surface of the anchorage, and tied too was
• 3:46:49
  Speaker 1: far out, and great tracks of sand lay uncovered the air.
• 3:46:54
  Speaker 1: After the heat of the day chilled me through my jacket.
• 3:46:58
  Speaker 1: The Hispaniola still lay where she had anchored, but sure
• 3:47:01
  Speaker 1: enough there was the Jolly Roger, the black flag of
• 3:47:05
  Speaker 1: piracy flying from her peak. Even as I looked, there
• 3:47:09
  Speaker 1: came another red flash, and another report that sent the
• 3:47:13
  Speaker 1: echoes clattering, and one more round shot whistled through the air.
• 3:47:17
  Speaker 1: It was the last of the cannonade. I lay for
• 3:47:20
  Speaker 1: some time watching the bustle which succeeded. The attack men
• 3:47:24
  Speaker 1: were demolishing something with axes on the beach near the stockade,
• 3:47:29
  Speaker 1: the poor jolly boat. I afterwards discovered anyway, near the
• 3:47:33
  Speaker 1: mouth of the river, a great fire was glowing among
• 3:47:36
  Speaker 1: the trees, and between that point and the ship, one
• 3:47:39
  Speaker 1: of the gigs kept coming and going. The men whom
• 3:47:42
  Speaker 1: I had seen so gloomy, shouting at the oars like children,
• 3:47:47
  Speaker 1: but there was a sound in their voices which suggested rum.
• 3:47:51
  Speaker 1: At length, I thought I might return towards the stockade.
• 3:47:54
  Speaker 1: I was pretty far down on the low sandy spit
• 3:47:57
  Speaker 1: that enclosed the anchorage to the east and is joined
• 3:48:00
  Speaker 1: at half water to Skeleton Island. And now, as I
• 3:48:03
  Speaker 1: rose to my feet, I saw some distance farther down
• 3:48:07
  Speaker 1: the spit, and rising from among low bushes, an isolated rock,
• 3:48:12
  Speaker 1: pretty high and particularly white in color. It occurred to
• 3:48:16
  Speaker 1: me that this might be the white rock of which
• 3:48:19
  Speaker 1: Ben Gunn had spoken, and that some day or other
• 3:48:22
  Speaker 1: a boat might be wanted, and I should know where
• 3:48:24
  Speaker 1: to look for one. Then I skirted among the woods
• 3:48:28
  Speaker 1: till I had regained the rear or shoreward side of
• 3:48:31
  Speaker 1: the stockade, and was soon warmly welcomed by the faithful party.
• 3:48:35
  Speaker 1: I had soon told my story and began to look
• 3:48:38
  Speaker 1: about me. The log house was made of unsquared trunks
• 3:48:42
  Speaker 1: of pine, roof, walls and floor. The latter stood in
• 3:48:46
  Speaker 1: several places as much as a foot or a foot
• 3:48:49
  Speaker 1: and a half above the surface of the sand. There
• 3:48:52
  Speaker 1: was a porch at the door, and under this porch
• 3:48:55
  Speaker 1: the little spring welled up into an artificial basin of
• 3:48:59
  Speaker 1: a rather odd kind, no other than a great ship's
• 3:49:02
  Speaker 1: kettle of iron, with the bottom knocked out and sunk
• 3:49:06
  Speaker 1: to her bearings. As the captain said, among the sand,
• 3:49:10
  Speaker 1: little had been left beside the framework of the house,
• 3:49:13
  Speaker 1: but in one corner there was a stone slab laid
• 3:49:16
  Speaker 1: down by way of a hearth, and an old, rusty
• 3:49:19
  Speaker 1: iron bucket to contain the fire. The slopes of the
• 3:49:24
  Speaker 1: knoll and all the inside of the stockade had been
• 3:49:27
  Speaker 1: cleared of timber to build the house, and we could
• 3:49:30
  Speaker 1: see by the stumps what a fine and lofty grove
• 3:49:33
  Speaker 1: had been destroyed. Most of the soil had been washed
• 3:49:36
  Speaker 1: away or buried in drift after the removal of the trees.
• 3:49:40
  Speaker 1: Only where the streamlet ran down from the kettle, a
• 3:49:44
  Speaker 1: thick bed of moss, and some ferns and little creeping
• 3:49:47
  Speaker 1: bushes were still green among the sand. Very close around
• 3:49:52
  Speaker 1: the stockade, too close for defense, they said. The wood
• 3:49:56
  Speaker 1: still flourished high and dense, all of fur on the
• 3:50:00
  Speaker 1: land side, but toward the sea, with a large admixture
• 3:50:04
  Speaker 1: of live oaks. The cold evening breeze of which I
• 3:50:08
  Speaker 1: have spoken whistled through every chink of the rude building,
• 3:50:12
  Speaker 1: and sprinkled the floor with a continual rain of fine sand.
• 3:50:16
  Speaker 1: There was sand in our eyes, sand in our teeth,
• 3:50:19
  Speaker 1: sand in our suppers, sand dancing in the spring at
• 3:50:23
  Speaker 1: the bottom of the kettle for all the world like
• 3:50:25
  Speaker 1: porridge beginning to boil. Our chimney was a square hole
• 3:50:29
  Speaker 1: in the roof, But it was but a little part
• 3:50:32
  Speaker 1: of the smoke that found its way out, and the
• 3:50:34
  Speaker 1: rest edded about the house and kept us coughing and
• 3:50:37
  Speaker 1: piping the eye. Add to this that Gray, the new Man,
• 3:50:41
  Speaker 1: had his face tied up in a bandage for a
• 3:50:44
  Speaker 1: cut he had got in breaking away from the mutineers,
• 3:50:47
  Speaker 1: And that poor old Tom Redruth, still unburied, lay along
• 3:50:52
  Speaker 1: the wall, stiff and stark under the union jack. If
• 3:50:56
  Speaker 1: we had been allowed to sit idle, we should all
• 3:50:58
  Speaker 1: have fallen into the blues. But Captain Smollett was never
• 3:51:02
  Speaker 1: the man for that. All hands were called up before him,
• 3:51:06
  Speaker 1: and he divided us into watches, the Doctor and Gray
• 3:51:10
  Speaker 1: and I for one, the squire, Hunter, and Joyce upon
• 3:51:14
  Speaker 1: the other. Tired as we were, two men were sent
• 3:51:18
  Speaker 1: out for firewood. Two more were sent to dig a
• 3:51:21
  Speaker 1: gray for Redruth. The doctor was named Cook. I was
• 3:51:25
  Speaker 1: put sentry at the door, and the Captain himself went
• 3:51:28
  Speaker 1: from one to another, keeping up our spirits and lending
• 3:51:32
  Speaker 1: a hand wherever it was wanted. From time to time
• 3:51:35
  Speaker 1: the doctor came to the door for a little air
• 3:51:37
  Speaker 1: and to rest his eyes, which were almost smoked out
• 3:51:41
  Speaker 1: of his head. And whenever he did so, he had
• 3:51:44
  Speaker 1: a word for me. That man's smollet, he said once,
• 3:51:49
  Speaker 1: is a better man than I am. And when I
• 3:51:52
  Speaker 1: see that, it means a great deal. Jim. Another time
• 3:51:56
  Speaker 1: he came and was silent for a while. Then he
• 3:51:59
  Speaker 1: put his head off one side and looked at me.
• 3:52:02
  Speaker 1: Is this ben gunn a man? He asked? I do
• 3:52:08
  Speaker 1: not know, Sir said I I am not very sure
• 3:52:11
  Speaker 1: whether he's sane. If there's any doubt about the matter,
• 3:52:15
  Speaker 1: he is returned the doctor, a man who has been
• 3:52:19
  Speaker 1: three years biting his nails on a desert island. Jim
• 3:52:22
  Speaker 1: can't expect to appear as sane as you or me.
• 3:52:26
  Speaker 1: It doesn't lie in human nature. Was it, Cheese? You
• 3:52:30
  Speaker 1: said he had a fancy for Yes, Sir, Cheese, I answered, well,
• 3:52:35
  Speaker 1: Jim says he just you see the good that comes
• 3:52:40
  Speaker 1: of being dainty in your food. You've seen my snuff box,
• 3:52:43
  Speaker 1: haven't you, And you never saw me take snuff, the
• 3:52:46
  Speaker 1: reason being that in my snuff box I carry a
• 3:52:50
  Speaker 1: piece of Parmesan cheese, a cheese made in Italy, very nutitious.
• 3:52:56
  Speaker 1: Well that's for ben Gunn. Before supper was eaten, we
• 3:53:00
  Speaker 1: buried old Tom in the sand and stood round him
• 3:53:03
  Speaker 1: for a while, bare headed. In the breeze. A good
• 3:53:07
  Speaker 1: deal of firewood had been got in, but not enough
• 3:53:10
  Speaker 1: for the captain's fancy, and he shook his head over
• 3:53:12
  Speaker 1: it and told us we must get back to this tomorrow,
• 3:53:17
  Speaker 1: rather livelier then. When we had eaten our pork and
• 3:53:21
  Speaker 1: each had a good stiff glass of brandy grog, the
• 3:53:25
  Speaker 1: three chiefs got together in a corner to discuss our prospects.
• 3:53:30
  Speaker 1: It appears that they were at their wits end what
• 3:53:32
  Speaker 1: to do, the stores being so low that we must
• 3:53:35
  Speaker 1: have been starved into surrender long before help came. But
• 3:53:39
  Speaker 1: our best hope, it was decided, was to kill off
• 3:53:42
  Speaker 1: the buccaneers until they either hauled down their flag or
• 3:53:46
  Speaker 1: ran away with the Hispaniola. From nineteen they were already
• 3:53:50
  Speaker 1: reduced to fifteen two others were wounded, and one at
• 3:53:54
  Speaker 1: least the man shot beside the gun severely wounded if
• 3:53:58
  Speaker 1: he were not dead. Every time we had a crack
• 3:54:01
  Speaker 1: at them we were to take it, saving our own
• 3:54:04
  Speaker 1: lives with the extremest care. And besides that, we had
• 3:54:08
  Speaker 1: two able allies, rum and the climate. As for the first,
• 3:54:13
  Speaker 1: though we were about half a mile away, we could
• 3:54:16
  Speaker 1: hear them roaring and singing late into the night. And
• 3:54:20
  Speaker 1: as for the second, the doctor staked his wig that
• 3:54:24
  Speaker 1: camped where they were in the marsh, and unprovided with remedies,
• 3:54:28
  Speaker 1: half of them would be on their backs before a week.
• 3:54:32
  Speaker 1: So he added, if we are not all shot down first,
• 3:54:38
  Speaker 1: they'll be glad to be packing in the schooner. It's
• 3:54:41
  Speaker 1: always a ship, and they can get to buccaneering again.
• 3:54:45
  Speaker 1: I suppose first ship that I ever lost, said Captain Smollett.
• 3:54:52
  Speaker 1: I was dead, tired as you may fancy, and when
• 3:54:54
  Speaker 1: I got to sleep, which was not after a great
• 3:54:56
  Speaker 1: deal of tossing, I slept like a log of wood.
• 3:55:00
  Speaker 1: The rest had long been up and had already breakfasted
• 3:55:04
  Speaker 1: and increased the pile of firewood by about half as much. Again,
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  Speaker 1: when I was awakened by a bustle and the sound
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  Speaker 1: of voices flag of truce, I heard some one say,
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  Speaker 1: and then immediately after, with a cry of surprise, Silver himself.
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  Speaker 1: And at that I jumped up, and, rubbing my eyes,
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  Speaker 1: ran to a loop hole in the wall and of
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  Speaker 1: chapter nineteen, Chapter twenty Silver's embassy. Sure enough, there were
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  Speaker 1: two men just outside the stockade, one of them waving
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  Speaker 1: a white cloth, the other no lesser person than Silver himself,
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  Speaker 1: standing placidly by, who was still quite early and the
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  Speaker 1: coldest morning that I think I was ever abroad, in
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  Speaker 1: a chill that pierced into the marrow. The sky was
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  Speaker 1: bright and cloudless overhead, and the tops of the tree
• 3:56:00
  Speaker 1: shone Rosalie in the sun. Where Silver stood with his
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  Speaker 1: lieutenant Or was still in shadow, and they waded knee
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  Speaker 1: deep in a low white vapor that had crawled during
• 3:56:10
  Speaker 1: the night out of the morass. The chair and the vapor,
• 3:56:14
  Speaker 1: taken together, told a poor tale of the island. It
• 3:56:18
  Speaker 1: was plainly a damp, feverish, unhealthy spot. Keep indoors, men,
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  Speaker 1: said the captain ten to one. This is a trick.
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  Speaker 1: Then he hailed the buccaneer, who goes stand or we
• 3:56:34
  Speaker 1: fire flag of truce, cried Silver. The captain was in
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  Speaker 1: the porch, keeping himself carefully out of the way of
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  Speaker 1: a treacherous shot should any be intended. He turned and
• 3:56:47
  Speaker 1: spoke to us, doctor's watch on the lookout, Doctor Livesey,
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  Speaker 1: take the north side, if you please, Jim in the east,
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  Speaker 1: gray west, the watch below. All hands till, load, muskets,
• 3:57:01
  Speaker 1: lively men and care for And then he turned to
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  Speaker 1: the mutineers. And what do you want with your flag
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  Speaker 1: of truce?
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  Speaker 2: Sir?
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  Speaker 1: He cried? This time it was the other man who replied,
• 3:57:14
  Speaker 1: cap'n Silver, sir, to come on board and make terms,
• 3:57:18
  Speaker 1: he shouted, Captain Silver, don't know him? Who's he cried
• 3:57:23
  Speaker 1: the captain, and we could hear him adding to himself,
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  Speaker 1: cap'n is it my heart? And here's promotion? Long John
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  Speaker 1: answered for himself, me, sir, These poor lads have chosen me,
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  Speaker 1: cap'n for your desertion, sir, laying a particular emphasis upon
• 3:57:44
  Speaker 1: the word desertion. We're willing to submit if we can
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  Speaker 1: come to terms and make no bones about it. All
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  Speaker 1: I ask is your word, cap'n Smollett, to let me
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  Speaker 1: safe and sailed out of this ere stockade and minute
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  Speaker 1: to go get out a shot before a gun is fired,
• 3:58:04
  Speaker 1: my man, said Captain Smollett, I have not the slightest
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  Speaker 1: desire to talk to you. If you wish to talk
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  Speaker 1: to me, you can come, That's all. If there's any treachery,
• 3:58:17
  Speaker 1: it'll be on your side, and the Lord help you.
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  Speaker 1: That's enough, copt'n, shouted Long John, cheerily. A word from
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  Speaker 1: you's enough, I know, a gentleman. And you may later
• 3:58:30
  Speaker 1: that we could see the man who carried the flag
• 3:58:33
  Speaker 1: of truce attempting to hold Silver back. Nor was that wonderful,
• 3:58:38
  Speaker 1: seeing how cavalier had been the captain's answer. But Silver
• 3:58:42
  Speaker 1: laughed at him aloud and slapped him on the back,
• 3:58:45
  Speaker 1: as if the idea of alarm had been absurd. Then
• 3:58:48
  Speaker 1: he advanced to the stockade, threw over his crutch, got
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  Speaker 1: a leg up, and with great vigor and skill, succeeded
• 3:58:55
  Speaker 1: in surmounting the fence and dropping safely to the other side.
• 3:59:00
  Speaker 1: I will confess that I was far too much taken
• 3:59:03
  Speaker 1: up with what was going on to be of the
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  Speaker 1: slightest use as sentry. Indeed, I had already deserted my
• 3:59:09
  Speaker 1: eastern loophole and crept up behind the captain, who had
• 3:59:13
  Speaker 1: now seated himself on the threshold, with his elbows on
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  Speaker 1: his knees, his head in his hands, and his eyes
• 3:59:19
  Speaker 1: fixed on the water as it bubbled out of the
• 3:59:22
  Speaker 1: old iron kettle in the sand. He was whistling to himself,
• 3:59:26
  Speaker 1: cumlasses and lads silver. Had terrible hard work in getting
• 3:59:31
  Speaker 1: up the knoll, what with the steepness of the incline
• 3:59:34
  Speaker 1: and the thick tree stumps and the soft sand. He
• 3:59:38
  Speaker 1: and his crutch were as helpless as a ship in stays.
• 3:59:41
  Speaker 1: But he stuck to it like a man in silence,
• 3:59:45
  Speaker 1: and at last arrived before the captain, whom he saluted
• 3:59:48
  Speaker 1: in the handsomest style. He was tricked out in his
• 3:59:52
  Speaker 1: best an immense blue coat, thick with brass buttons, hung
• 3:59:57
  Speaker 1: as low as to his knees, and a fine lace