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03 - Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson · Classic Adventure Books - Daily

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  Speaker 1: Chapter five, The last of the blind Man. My curiosity
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  Speaker 1: in a sense was stronger than my fear, for I
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  Speaker 1: could not remain where I was, but crept back to
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  Speaker 1: the bank again, whence, sheltering my head behind a bush
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  Speaker 1: of broom, I might command the road before our door.
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  Speaker 1: I was scarcely in position. Ere my enemies began to arrive,
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  Speaker 1: seven or eight of them, running hard, their feet beating
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  Speaker 1: out of time along the road, and the man with
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  Speaker 1: the lantern some paces in front. Three men ran together
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  Speaker 1: hand in hand, and I made out, even through the mist,
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  Speaker 1: that the middle man of this trio was the blind beggar.
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  Speaker 1: The next moment, his voice showed me I was right
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  Speaker 1: down with the door. He cried, ay ay, Sir answered
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  Speaker 1: two or three, and a rush was made upon the
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  Speaker 1: admiral benbow, the lantern bearer following. And then I could
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  Speaker 1: see them and hear speeches passed in a lower key,
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  Speaker 1: as if they were surprised to find the door open.
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  Speaker 1: But the pause was brief, for the blind man again
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  Speaker 1: issued his commands. His voice sounded louder and higher, as
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  Speaker 1: if he were afire with eagerness and rage in in
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  Speaker 1: in he shouted and cursed them for their delay. Four
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  Speaker 1: or five of them obeyed at once, two remaining on
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  Speaker 1: the road with the formidable beggar. There was a pause,
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  Speaker 1: then a cry of surprise, then a voice shouting from
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  Speaker 1: the house. Bill's dead. But the blind man swore at
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  Speaker 1: them again for their delay, search him. Some of you
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  Speaker 1: shrink in lubbers, and the rest of you loft and
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  Speaker 1: get the chest. He cried. I could hear their feet
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  Speaker 1: rattling up our old stairs, so that the house must
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  Speaker 1: have shook with it. Promptly afterwards, fresh sounds of astonishment
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  Speaker 1: are rose. The window of the captain's room was thrown
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  Speaker 1: open with a slam and a jingle of broken glass,
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  Speaker 1: and a man leaning out into the moonlight, head and shoulders,
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  Speaker 1: and addressed the blind beggar on the road below him. Pew,
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  Speaker 1: he cried, they've been before us. Someone's turned the chest
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  Speaker 1: out a loud and alaft is it there? Roared pew.
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  Speaker 1: The money's there. The blind man cussed the money flint's fist.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he cried, I don't see it here. Nohow,
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  Speaker 1: returned the man. Here you below, there is it on? Bill,
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  Speaker 1: cried the blind man again. At that another fellow, probably
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  Speaker 1: he who had remained below to search. The captain's body.
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  Speaker 1: Came to the door of the inn. Bill's been overhauled already,
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  Speaker 1: he said, nothing left. It's these people of the inn.
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  Speaker 1: It's that boy. I wish I had put his eyes out,
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  Speaker 1: cried the blind man. Pew. They were here no time ago.
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  Speaker 1: They had the door bolted when I tried it. Scatter,
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  Speaker 1: lads and find them. Sure enough they left their glim here,
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  Speaker 1: said the fellow from the window. Scatter and find them.
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  Speaker 1: Rout the house out, reiterated Pew, striking with his stick
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  Speaker 1: upon the road. Then there followed a great to do
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  Speaker 1: through all our old inn, heavy feet pounding to and fro,
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  Speaker 1: furniture all thrown over, doors kicked in, until the very
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  Speaker 1: rocks re echoed, and the men came out again, one
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  Speaker 1: after another on the road, and declared that we were
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  Speaker 1: nowhere to be found. And just then the same whistle
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  Speaker 1: that had alarmed my mother and myself over the good
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  Speaker 1: Captain's money was once more clearly audible through the night,
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  Speaker 1: but this time twice repeated. I had thought it to
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  Speaker 1: be the blind Man's trumpet, so to speak, summoning his
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  Speaker 1: crew to the assault, But I now found that it
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  Speaker 1: was a signal from the hillside toward the hamlet, and
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  Speaker 1: from its effect upon the buccaneers, a signal to warn
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  Speaker 1: them of approaching danger. There's Dirk, again, said one twice.
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  Speaker 1: We'll have to budge mates, Budge you, skulk, cried pew.
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  Speaker 1: Dirk was a fool and a coward from the first.
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  Speaker 1: You wouldn't mind him. They must be close by, they
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  Speaker 1: can't be far. You have your hands on it, scatterer,
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  Speaker 1: and look for him, dogs or shiver my soul, he cried.
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  Speaker 1: If I had eyes. This appeal seemed to produce some effect,
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  Speaker 1: for two of the fellows began to look here and
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  Speaker 1: there among the timber, but half heartedly, I thought, and
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  Speaker 1: with half an eye to their own danger all the time,
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  Speaker 1: while the rest stood irres on the road. You have
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  Speaker 1: your hands on thousands new fools, and you hang a leg.
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  Speaker 1: You'll be as rich as kings if you could find it.
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  Speaker 1: And you stand there skulking. There wasn't one of you,
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  Speaker 1: dead face Bill, and I did it a blind man,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm to lose my chance for you. I'm to
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  Speaker 1: be a poor, crawling beggar sponging for rum when I
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  Speaker 1: might be rolling in a coach. If you had the
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  Speaker 1: pluck of a weavil in a biscuit. You would catch them. Still,
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  Speaker 1: hang it, Pew, We've got the do balloons, grumbled one.
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  Speaker 1: They might have hid the blessed thing, said another. Take
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  Speaker 1: the George's pew, and don't stand there squawling. Squawling was
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  Speaker 1: the word for it. Pew's anger rose so high at
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  Speaker 1: these objections till at last his passion completely taking the
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  Speaker 1: upper hand. He's struck at them right and left in
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  Speaker 1: his blindness, and his sticks sounded heavily on more than one. These,
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  Speaker 1: in their turn, cursed back at the blind miscreant, threatened
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  Speaker 1: him in horrid terms, and tried in vain to catch
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  Speaker 1: the stick and wrest it from his grasp. This quarrel
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  Speaker 1: was the saving of us, for while it was still raging,
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  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
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  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
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  Speaker 1: them remained, but Pew him they had deserted. Whether in
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  Speaker 1: sheer panic or out of revenge for his ill words
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  Speaker 1: and blows, I know not. But there he remained behind,
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  Speaker 1: tapping up and down the road in a frenzy and
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  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
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  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. Just
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  Speaker 1: then the noise of horses topped the rise, and four
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  Speaker 1: or five riders came in sight in the moonlight, and
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  Speaker 1: swept at full gallop down the slope. At this Pew
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  Speaker 1: saw his error, turned with a scream and ran straight
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  Speaker 1: for the ditch, into which he rolled. But he was
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  Speaker 1: on his feet again in a second and made another dash,
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  Speaker 1: now utterly bewildered, right under the nearest of the coming horses.
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  Speaker 1: The rider tried to save him, but in vain down
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  Speaker 1: went Pew with a cry that rang high into the night,
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  Speaker 1: and the four hoofs trampled and spurned him and passed.
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  Speaker 1: He fell on his side then gently collapsed upon his
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  Speaker 1: face and moved no more. I leaped to my feet
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  Speaker 1: and hailed the riders. They were pulling up at any rate,
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  Speaker 1: horrified at the accident, and I soon saw what they were.
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  Speaker 1: One trailing out behind the rest was a lad that
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  Speaker 1: had gone from the hamlet to doctor Livesey's. The rest
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  Speaker 1: were revenue officers, whom he had met by the way,
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  Speaker 1: and with whom he had had the intelligence to return
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  Speaker 1: at once. Some news of the lugger in Kit's hole
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  Speaker 1: had found its way to Supervisor Dance, and set him
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  Speaker 1: forth that night in our direction, And to that circumstance,
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  Speaker 1: my mother and I owed our preservation from death. Pew
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  Speaker 1: was dead, stone dead. As for my mother when we
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  Speaker 1: carried her up to the hamlet. A little cold water
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  Speaker 1: and some salts very soon brought her back again, and
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  Speaker 1: she was none the worse for her terror, though she
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  Speaker 1: still continued to deplore the balance of the money. In
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  Speaker 1: the meantime, the Supervisor rode on as fast as he
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  Speaker 1: could to Kit's hole, but his men had to dismount
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  Speaker 1: and grope down the dingle, leading and sometimes supporting their horses,
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  Speaker 1: and in continual fear of ambushes, so it was no
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  Speaker 1: great matter for surprise that when they got down to
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  Speaker 1: the hole, the lugger was already under way, though still
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  Speaker 1: close in. He hailed her. A voice replied, telling him
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  Speaker 1: to keep out of the moonlight or he would get
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  Speaker 1: some lead in him, and at the same time a
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  Speaker 1: bullet whistled close by his arm. Soon after, the lugger
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  Speaker 1: doubled the point and disappeared. Mister Dance stood there, as
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  Speaker 1: he said, like a fish out of water. And all
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  Speaker 1: he could do was to dispatch a man to bur
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  Speaker 1: to warn the cutter. And that, he said, is just
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  Speaker 1: about as good as nothing. They've got clean off. And
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  Speaker 1: there's an end only, he added, I am glad I
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  Speaker 1: trod upon Master Pew's corns. By this time he had
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  Speaker 1: heard my story. I went back with him to the
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  Speaker 1: Admiral Benbow. And you cannot imagine a house in such
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  Speaker 1: a state of smash. The very clerk had been thrown
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  Speaker 1: down by these fellows in their furious hunt after my
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  Speaker 1: mother and myself. And though nothing had actually been taken
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  Speaker 1: away except the captain's money bag and a little silver,
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  Speaker 1: from the till I could see at once that we
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  Speaker 1: were ruined. Mister Dance could make nothing of the scene.
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  Speaker 1: They got the money. You say, well, then, Hawkins, what
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  Speaker 1: in fortune were they after more money? I suppose no, certain,
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  Speaker 1: not money, I think, replied I. In fact, sir, I
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  Speaker 1: believe I have the thing in my breast pocket, and
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  Speaker 1: to tell you the truth, I should like to get
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  Speaker 1: it put in safety to be sure. Boy quite right,
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  Speaker 1: said he. I'll take it if you like. I thought,
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  Speaker 1: perhaps doctor livesey, I began, perfectly right, he interrupted, very cheerily,
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  Speaker 1: perfectly right, a gentleman and a magistrate. And now I
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  Speaker 1: come to think of it, I might as well ride
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  Speaker 1: round there myself and report to him or squire. Master
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  Speaker 1: Pew's dead when all's done. Not that I regret it,
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  Speaker 1: but he's dead, you see, and people will make it
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  Speaker 1: out against an officer of his Majesty's revenue. If make
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  Speaker 1: it out they can. Now I'll tell you, Hawkins, if
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  Speaker 1: you like, I'll take you along. I thanked him heartily
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  Speaker 1: for the offer, and we walked back to the hamlet
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  Speaker 1: where the horses were. By the time I had told
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  Speaker 1: my mother of my purpose, they were all in the saddle.
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  Speaker 1: Dogger said, mister Dance, you have a good horse. Take
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  Speaker 1: up this lad behind you as soon as I was mounted,
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  Speaker 1: holding on to Dogger's belt, the supervisor gave the word,
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  Speaker 1: and the party struck out at a bouncing trot on
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  Speaker 1: the road to doctor Livesey's house and of Chapter five,
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  Speaker 1: Chapter six the Captain's papers. We rode hard all the
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  Speaker 1: way till we drew up before Doctor Libsey's door. The
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  Speaker 1: house was all dark to the front. Mister Dance told
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  Speaker 1: me to jump down and knock, and Dogger gave me
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  Speaker 1: a stirrup to descend by. The door was opened almost
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  Speaker 1: at once by a maid. Is doctor Livesey in? I
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  Speaker 1: asked no. She said he had come home in the afternoon,
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  Speaker 1: but had gone up to the hall to dine and
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  Speaker 1: pass the evening with the squire. So there we go, boys,
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  Speaker 1: said mister Dance. This time, as the distance was short,
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  Speaker 1: I did not mount, but ran with Dogger's stirrup leather
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  Speaker 1: to the lodge gates and up the long leafless moonlit
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  Speaker 1: avenue to where the white line of the hall buildings
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  Speaker 1: looked on either hand on great old gardens. There mister
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  Speaker 1: Dance dismounted and take me along with him, was admitted
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  Speaker 1: at a word into the house. The servant led us
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  Speaker 1: down a matted passage, and showed us at the end
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  Speaker 1: into a great library, all lined with bookcases and busts
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  Speaker 1: on top of them, where the Squire and Doctor Livesey
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  Speaker 1: sat pipe in hand, on either side of a bright fire.
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  Speaker 1: I had never seen the squire so near at hand.
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  Speaker 1: He was a tall man, over six feet high, and
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  Speaker 1: broad in proportion, and he had a bluff, rough and
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  Speaker 1: ready face, all roughened and reddi and lined in his
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  Speaker 1: long travels. His eyebrows were very black and moved readily,
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  Speaker 1: and this gave him a look of some temper, not bad,
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  Speaker 1: you would say, but quick and high. Come in, mister Dance,
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  Speaker 1: said he, very stately and condescending. Good evening, Dance, said
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  Speaker 1: the doctor, with a nod. And good evening to you,
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  Speaker 1: old friend Jim. What good wit to bring jul here?
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  Speaker 1: The supervisor stood up straight and stiff, and told his
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  Speaker 1: story like a lesson. But you should have seen how
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  Speaker 1: the two gentlemen leaned forward and looked at each other,
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  Speaker 1: and forgot to smoke in their surprise and interest. When
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  Speaker 1: they heard how my mother went back to the inn.
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  Speaker 1: Doctor Livesey fair slapped his thigh, and the Squire cried
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  Speaker 1: bravel and broke his long pipe against the grate. Long
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  Speaker 1: before it was done, a mister Trelawney, that you will
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  Speaker 1: remember was the squire's name, had got up from his
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  Speaker 1: seat and was striding about the room, and the doctor,
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  Speaker 1: as if to hear the better, had taken off his
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  Speaker 1: powdered wig and sat there looking very strange, indeed with
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  Speaker 1: his own close cropped black pole. At last, mister Dance
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  Speaker 1: finished the story. Mister Dance said the squire, you are
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  Speaker 1: a very noble fellow. And as for riding down that
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  Speaker 1: black atrocious miscreant, I regard it as an act of virtue, sir,
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  Speaker 1: like stamping on a crockroach. This lad Hawkins is a trump,
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  Speaker 1: I perceive, Hawkins, will you ring that bell? Mister Dance
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  Speaker 1: must have some ale, and so Jim said the doctor.
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  Speaker 1: You have the thing that they were after. Have you
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  Speaker 1: here it is, sir, said I, and gave him the
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  Speaker 1: oilskin packet. The doctor looked it all over as if
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  Speaker 1: his fingers were itching to open it, but instead of
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  Speaker 1: doing that, he put it quietly in the pocket of
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  Speaker 1: his coat. Squire said he, when Dance has had his ale,
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  Speaker 1: he must of course be off on his Majesty's service.
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  Speaker 1: But I mean to keep Jim Hawkins here to sleep
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  Speaker 1: at my house. And with your permission, I propose we
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  Speaker 1: should have up the cold pie and let him sup
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  Speaker 1: as you will, Livesey, said the Squire. Hawkins has earned
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  Speaker 1: better than cold pie. So a big pigeon pie was
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  Speaker 1: brought in and put on a side table, and I
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  Speaker 1: made a hearty supper, for I was as hungry as
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  Speaker 1: a hawk, while mister Dance was further complimented and at
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  Speaker 1: last dismissed. And now, Squire, said the doctor. And now
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  Speaker 1: lives ere, said the Squire, in the same breath. One
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  Speaker 1: at a time, one at a time, laughed doctor Livesey.
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  Speaker 1: You have heard of this Flint, I suppose heard of him,
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  Speaker 1: cried the Squire. Heard of him? You say he was
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  Speaker 1: the bloodthirstiest buccaneer that sailed. Blackbeard was a child to Flint.
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  Speaker 1: The Spaniards were so prodigiously afraid of him, that I
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  Speaker 1: tell you, Sir, I was sometimes proud that he was
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  Speaker 1: an Englishman. I have seen his topsail with these eyes
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  Speaker 1: off Trinidad, and the cowardly son of a rum puncheon
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  Speaker 1: that I sailed with put back, put back, Sir, into
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  Speaker 1: the port of Spain. Well, I've heard of him myself
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  Speaker 1: in England, said the doctor. But the point is, had
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  Speaker 1: he money? Money? Cried the squire. Have you heard the story?
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  Speaker 1: What were these villains after but money? What did they
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  Speaker 1: care for but money? For? What would they risk their
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  Speaker 1: rascal carcasses? But money that we shall soon know, replied
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  Speaker 1: the doctor. But you are so confoundedly hot headed and
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  Speaker 1: exclamatory that I cannot get a word in. What I
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  Speaker 1: want to know is this suppose that I have here
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  Speaker 1: in my pocket some clue to where Flint buried his treasure?
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  Speaker 1: Will that treasure amount to munych a mountzer, cried the squire.
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  Speaker 1: It will amount to this. If we have the clue
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  Speaker 1: you talk about, I'll fit out a ship in Bristol
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  Speaker 1: dock and take you and Hawkins here along, and we'll
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  Speaker 1: have that treasure if I search for a year. Very well,
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  Speaker 1: said the doctor. Now, then, if Jim is agreeable, we'll
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  Speaker 1: open the packet, and he laid it before him on
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  Speaker 1: the table. The bundle was sewn together, and the doctor
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  Speaker 1: had to get out his instrument case and cut the
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  Speaker 1: stitches with his medical scissors. It contained two things, a
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  Speaker 1: book and a sealed paper. First, of all, we'll try
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  Speaker 1: the book, observed the doctor. The Squire and I were
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  Speaker 1: both peering over his shoulder as he opened it. For
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  Speaker 1: Doctor Livesey had kindly motioned to me to come round
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  Speaker 1: from the side table where I had been eating, to
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  Speaker 1: enjoy the sport of the search. On the first page
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  Speaker 1: there were only some scraps of writing, such as a
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  Speaker 1: man with a pen in his hand might make for
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  Speaker 1: idleness or practice. One was the same as the tattoo
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  Speaker 1: mark Billy Bones his fancy. Then there was mister w
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  Speaker 1: Bone's mate no more rum off, palm key he got it,
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  Speaker 1: and some other snatches, most single words and unintelligible. But
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  Speaker 1: I could not help wondering who it was that had
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  Speaker 1: got it and what it was he got a knife
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  Speaker 1: in his back. As likely as not, not much instruction there,
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  Speaker 1: said Doctor Livesey as he passed on. The next ten
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  Speaker 1: or twelve pages were filled with a curious series of entries.
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  Speaker 1: There was a date at one end of the line,
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  Speaker 1: and at the other end a sum of money, as
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  Speaker 1: in common account books, but instead of explanatory writing, only
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  Speaker 1: a varying number of crosses between the two. On the
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  Speaker 1: twelfth of June seventeen forty five. For instance, a sum
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  Speaker 1: of seventy pounds had plainly become due to someone, and
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  Speaker 1: there was nothing but six crosses to explain the cause.
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  Speaker 1: In a few cases, to be sure, the name of
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  Speaker 1: a place would be added as of off Caracas, or
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  Speaker 1: a mere entry of latitude or longitude as sixty two
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  Speaker 1: degrees seventeen minutes twenty seconds nineteen degrees two minutes forty seconds.
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  Speaker 1: The record lasted over nearly twenty years, the amount of
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  Speaker 1: the separate entries growing larger as time went on, and
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  Speaker 1: at the end a grand total had been maned out
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  Speaker 1: after five or six row editions. And these words appended
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  Speaker 1: bones his pile, iiconmic head or tail of this, said
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  Speaker 1: doctor lives. The thing is as clear as noonday, cried
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  Speaker 1: the squire. This is the black hearted hound's account book.
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  Speaker 1: These crosses stand for the names of ships or towns
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  Speaker 1: that they sank or plundered. The sums are the scoundrels share.
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  Speaker 1: And where he filled an ambiguity, you see he added
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: something clearer, off Carackers. Now you see here was some
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: unhappy vessel boarded off that coast. God help the poor souls.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: That man her coral long ago right, said the doctor,
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: see what it is to be a traveler, right, and
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: the amounts increase, you see, as he rose in rank.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: There was little else in the volume but a few
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: bearings of places noted in the blank leaves towards the end,
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: and a table for reducing French, English and Spanish moneys
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: to a common value. Thrifty men, cried the doctor. He
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: wasn't the one to be cheated, and now said the
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: squire for the other. The paper had been sealed in
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: several places with a thimble by way of seal, the
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: very thimble, perhaps that I had found in the captain's pocket.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: The doctor opened the seals with great care, and there
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: fell out the map of an island, with latitude and
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: longitude soundings, names of hills and bays and inlets, and
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: every particular that would be needed to bring a ship
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: to a safe anchorage upon its shores. It was about
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: nine miles long and file of across, shaped you might say,
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: like a fat dragon standing up, and had two fine
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: landlocked harbors and a hill in the center park marked
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: the spyglass. There were several additions of a later date,
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: but above all three crosses of red ink, two on
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: the north part of the island wine in the southwest.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: And besides this last in the same red ink, and
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: in a small neat hand very different from the Captain's
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: tottery characters, these words bulk of treasure. Here over the
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: back the same hand had written this further information tall tree,
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: spyglass shoulder bearing a point to the north of nor
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: Nor East Skeleton Island south south east by east ten feet.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: The bar silver is in the north Cash. You can
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: find it by the trend of the east hummock ten
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: fathoms south of the Black Crag with a face on it.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: The arms are easy found in the sand hill north
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: point of north Inlet Cape, bearing east and a quarter
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: north j f. That was all but brief as it was,
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: and to me incomprehensible. It filled the Squire and doctor
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: Livesey with delight. Livesey said the Squire, you will give
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: up this wretched practice at once. Tomorrow I start for Bristol.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: In three weeks time. Three weeks, two weeks, ten days.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: We'll have the best ship, Sir, and the choicest crew
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: in England. Hawkins shall come as cabin boy. You'll make
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: a famous cabin boy, Hawkins. You'll livesey our ship's doctor.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: I am Admiral. We'll take our Redruth, Joyce and Hunter.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: We'll have favorable winds, a quick passage, and not the
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: least difficulty in finding the spot, and money to eat,
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: to roll in to play duck and drake with ever
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: after true Lornie said the doctor. I'll go with you,
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: and I'll go bail for it. So with Jim, and
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: be a credit to the undertaking. There's only one man
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: I'm afraid of. And who's that? Cried the squire. Name
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: the dogs are you, replied the doctor, for you cannot
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: hold your tongue. We are not the the only men
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: who know of this paper. These fellows who attack the
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: inn tonight, bold desperate blades, to be sure, and the
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: rest who stayed aboard that lugger and more, I dare
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: say not far off, are one and all through, thick
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: and thin bound, that they will get that money. We
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: must none of us go alone till we get to see.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: Jim and I shall stick together in the meantime, and
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: you'll take Joyce and Hunter when you ride to Bristol.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: And from first to last, not one of us must
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: breathe our word of what we've found Livesey returned the Squire.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: You are always in the right of it. I'll be
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: silent as the grave. End of Chapter six