Pittston Gazette

              • Established 1830. I TOL. XLTUINo. 2( J Oldest Newspaper in the Wyoming Valley. PITTSTON, LUZERNE COUNTY, PA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 7, 1898. A Weekly Local and Family Journal. JIKNI a'\D» 1 l» AdTHIIC ® duce ill feeling. The captain Has said too much or be has said too little, and I'm bound to say that 1 require an explanation of his words. You don't, you say, like the cruise. Now, why?" •et of cabins was only joined to the galley and forecastle by a sparred passage on the port side. It bad been originally meant that the captain, Mr. Arrow. Hunter, Joyce, the doctor, and ihe Bquire were to occupy these six berths. Now Redruth and J were to get two of them, and Mr. Arrow and the captain were to sleep on deck In the companion, which had been enlarged on each side till you might almost have called it a roundhouse. Very low it was still, of course; but there was room to swing two hammocks, and even the mate seemed pleased with the arrangement. Even he, perhaps, had been doubtful as to the crew, but that is only guess; for, as you shall hear, we had not long the benefit of his opinion. All of the crew respected and even obeyed him. He hed a way of talking to each and doing everybody some particular service. To me he was unweariedly kind, and always glad to see me in the galley, which he kept as clean as a new pin; the dishes hanging up burnished and his parrot in a oage in the corner. de died a beggar-man. runt was, ana he died of rum at Savannah. Ah, they was a sweet crew, they was! on'y, where are they?" yet, by an odd train of circumstances, St was indeed through me that safety came. In the meantime, talk As we pleased, there were only seven (gut of the 26 on whom we knew we coufd rely; and out of these seven one ipas m boy, so that the grown men on ride were six to their 39. [ROBERT LOUIS STEVEnSM. Ing does it, you may lay to that Where's ail England's men now? 1 dunno. Where's Flint's? Why, most on 'em's aboard uere, and glad to'get the duff—bet-n begging before that, some on 'cm. Old I'ew, as has lost hi.« sight, and might have thought shame, spends £1,200 a year, like a lord in parliament. Where is he now? Well. "Thank you, my man," says Capt. Smollett. "I'll ask you, later on, to give us a help. Ytu may go." "I was engaged, sir, on what ye call sealed orders, to sail this ship for that gentleman where he should bid me," said the captain. "So far so good. But now 1 firrd th-at every man before the mast knows more than 1 do. I don't call that fair, now, do you?" "But," asked Dick, "when we do lay 'em athwart, what are we to do with 'em, anyhow?" I was surprised at the coolness with which John avowed his knowledge of the island; and I own 1 was half frightened when 1 saw him drawing nearei to myself. lie did not know, to be sure, that 1 had overheard his council from the apple barrel, and yet 1 had, by this time, taken such a horror of his cruelty, duplicity and power, that 1 could scarce conceal a shudder when he laid his hand upon my arm. "There's the man for met" cried the cook, admiringly. "That's what I call . business. Well, what would you think ? ' Put 'em ashore like maroons? That would have been England's way. Or cut 'em dawn like that much pork? That would have been Flint's or Billy ! Bones'." "Come away, Hawkins," he would say; "come and have a yarn with John. Nobody more welcome than yourself, mj son. Sit you down and hear the news. Here's Cap'n Flint—1 calls my parrot Cap'n Flint, after the famous buccaneer—here's Cap'n Flint predicting success to our v'yage. Wasn't you, oap'n ?" PART IIL MY SHOKE ) he's dead now, and under hatches; but for two years before that, shiver my timbers' that man was starving. He begged and he stole, and he cut throats, and starved at that, by the powers!" "Next," said the captain, "I learn we are going after —hear it from my own hands, mind you. Now, treasure is ticklish work; I dont like treasure voyages on anyaccount; and I don't like them, above all, when they are secret, and when (begging your pardon, Mr. Trelawney) the secret has been told to the pa trot." "No," said Dr. Livesey, "I don't." HOW I BEGAN MY SHORE ADVEN- CHAPTER XIII. TURE. "Weil, it ain't much use, after all," •aid the young seaman. "Billy was the man for that," said Israel. " 'Bead men don't bite,' says he. Well, he's dead now, hisself; he knows the long and short on it now; and if ever a rough hand come to port, it was Billy." "Ah," says he, "this here ia a sweet spot, this island—a sweet spot for a lad to get ashore on. You'll bathe, and you'll climb trees, and you'll hunt goats, yon will; and yon'll get aloft on them hills like a goat yourself. Why, it makes me young again. 1 was going to forget my timber leg. 1 was. It's a pleasant thing to be young and have ten toes, and you may lay to that. When you want to go a bit of exploring, you just ask old John, and he'll put up a snack for you to take along." The appearance of the island wfaen I came on deck next morning was altogether changed. Although j the breeze had now utterly failed, we had made a great deal of way during the night, and were now lying becalmed about half a mile to the southeast of the low eastern coast. Gray-colored woods covered a large part of the surface. This even tint was indeed' broken up by streaks of yellow sand-' break in the lower lands, and by many tall trees of the pine family, out-topping the others—some singly, some in clumps; but the general coloring wu uniform and sad. The hills ran up clear above the vegetation in spires of naked rock. All were strangely shaped, and the Spy-glass, which was by 300 or 400 feet the tallest ow the ' island, was likewise the strangest in configuration, running up sheer from almost every side, and them suddenly cut off at the top like a pedestal to put a statue on. The "Hlspaniola" was rolling scup* pers under in the ocean swelL The booms were tearing at the blocks, the rudder was banging to and fro, and? the whole ship creaking, groaning, and jumping like a manufactory. I to. cling tight to the backstay, anC| the world tur&ed giddily before my for though I was a good enough intlrrr when there was way on, this standing1 still and being rolled about like a bottle was a thing I never learned to standi without a qualm or so, above all ia the morning, on an empty stomach. Perhaps it was this—perhaps it wam the look of the island, with Its  melancholy woods, and wild stone spires, and the surf that we could both, see and hear foaming and thundering on the steep beach—at least, although* the sun shone bright and hot, an4 the shore birds were fishing and cryiqg alb around us, and you would have thought anyone would have been glad to get to land after being so long at sea, my heart sunk, as the saying is, into my boots; and from that first look onwsrdj " Tain't much use for fools, you may lay to it—that, nor nothing," cried Silver. "But now, you look here; you're young, you are, but you're as smart as paint. Ieeethatwhen 1 set my eyes on you, and I'll talk to you like a man." CHAPTER TOL I. "1 knew that blind man, too. Jttis name was Pew." And the parrot would say, with great rapidity: "Pieces of eight! pieces of eight! pieces of eight!" till you wondered that it was not out of breath, or till John threw his handkerchief over the cage. AT THE SIGN OF THJC SPYOLA88. "It was!" cried Silver, bow quite excited. "Pew! That were his name for certain. Ah, be looked a shark, ho did 1 If we run down this r - I We were all hard at work, changing the powder aud the berths, when the lust man or two, and Long John along with them, came oil in a shore-boat. When 1 had done breakfasting, the squire gave me a note addressed to John Silver, at the sign of the Spyglass, and told me 1 should easily find the place by following the line of the docks, and keeping a bright outlook for a little tavern with a large brass telescope for a sign. I set off, overjoyed at this opportunity to see some more of the ships ana seamen, and picked Ay Way among a great crowd of people and carts and bales, for the dock was now at its busiest, until I found the tavern in question. "Silver's parrot?" asked the squire. "Right you are," said Silver, "rough and ready. But mark you here; I'm an easy man—I'm quite the gentleman, says you; but this time it's serious. Dooty is dooty, mates. I give my vote death. When Tm in parlyment and riding in my coach, I don't want none of these sea-lawyers in the cabin a-coming home, unlooked for, like the devil at prayers. Wait, is what I say; but when the time comes, why, let her rip!" "It's a way of speaking," said the captain. "Blabbed, I mean, rt's my belief that neither of you gentlemen know what you are aCbout; but I'll tell you my way of it—life or death, and a close run." The cook came up the side like e monkey for cleverness, and. as soon as he saw what was doing, "So bo. mates!" said he, "what's this?" You can imagine I felt when 1 heard this abominable old rogue addressing another in the very same wortta of flattery he had used to myself. I think, if 1 had been able, I would have killed him through the barrel. Meantime he ran on, little supposing he he was overheard. there'll be news fo "Now, that bird." b« would say, "5*, maybe, 200 years old. Hawkins— they live forever mostly; and if anybody's seen more wickedness, it must be the devil U/Mrelt. She's sailed with England—the great OBpt. England, the pirate. She's been at Madagascar, and at Malabar and Surinam, and Providence, and Portobello. She wu at the Ashing up of the wrecked plate ships. It's there »he learned 'Pieces of «*igbt,' and little wonder; 350,000 of em, Hawkins! She was at the boarding of the 'Viceroy of the Indies' out of (ioa, she was; and to look at her vou would think she was a babby. But you smelled powder — didn't you. cap'n?" better than Ben Ben's a good run down, hand over hanu, pOWlTo' He talked o' keel-hauling, did he? Ell keel haul him!" "We're a-changing the powder. Jack," answers one. "That is all clear, and, I daresay, true enough," replied Dr. Livesey. "We take but we are not so Ignorant as "Why. by the powers," cried Long John, "if we do, we'll miss the morning tide!" All the time he was jerking out thejg phrases he was stumping up and do* the tavern on his crutch, slappi: And clapping me in the friendliest way upon the shoulder, he hobbled off forward and went below. /H believe us. Next, you say you don't like the crew. Are they not good seamen?""My orders!" said the captain, ahortly. "You may go below, my man. Hands will want supper." "Here it is about gentlemen of fortune. They lives rough, and they riBk swinging, but they eat and drink like fighting cocks, and when a cruise Is done, why. It's hundreds of poundB Instead of hundreds of farthings in their pockets. Now, the most goes for num and a good fling, and to sea again in their shirts. But that's not the course I lay. I puts it away, some here, some there, and none too much anywheres, by reason of suspicion. I'm 50, mark you; once back from this cruise, I set up gentleman in earnest. Time enough, too, say you. Ah! but I've lived easy in the meantime; never denied myself o* nothing heart desires, and slept •oft and eat dainty all my days, but when at see. And how did I begin? Before the mast like you!" tables with his hand, and giving buc) "John," cried the cockswain, "you're a man!" Capt. Smollett, the squire and Dr. Livesey were talking together on the quarter-deck; and, anxious as 1 was to tell them my story, 1 duret not interrupt them openly. While I was still casting in my thoughts to find some probable excuse, Dr. Livesey called me to his side. He had left his pipe below, and, being a slave to tobacco, had meant that I should fetch it; but as soon as I was near enough to qpeak and not be overheard 1 broke out immediately: "Doctor, let me speak. Get the captain and squire down to the cabin and then make some pretense to send for me. I have terrible news." It waa a bright enough little place of entertainment. The sign waa newly painted; the windows bad neat red curtains; the floor waa cleanly sanded. There waa a street on either side, and an open door on both, which made the large, low room pretty clear to aee in, in spite of clouda of tobacco smoke. •how of excitement as would have «# "You'll say so, Israel, when you see," •aid Silver. "Only one thing I claim— vinced an Old Bailey judge or a Bow atreet runner. My suspicions had been thoroughly reawakened on finding Black Dog at the Spyglass, and 1 watched the cook narrowly. But he waa too deep, and too ready, and too clever for me, and by the time the two men had come back out of breath, and confessed that they had lost the track In a crowd, and been scolded like thieves, I would have gone bail for the innocence of Long John Silver. "1 don't like them, sir," returned Capt. Smollett. "And I think I should have had the choosing of my own hands, if you go to that." "Ay, ay, sir," answered the cook; and, touching bis forelock, be disappeared at once in the direction of bis galley. "Perhaps you should," replied the doctor. "My friend should, perhaps, have taken you along with him; but the slight, if there be one, was unintentional. And you don't like Mr. Arrow?" "That's a good man, captain," said the doctor. "Very likely, sir," replied Capt. Smollett. "i£asy with that, maneasy." he ran on, to the fellows who were shifting the powder: and then suddenly observing me examining the swivel we carried amidships, a long brass nine—"Here, you ship's boy," he cried, "out o' thatl CHI with you to the cook and get some work." The customers were mostly seafaring men; and they talked so loudly that 1 hung at the door, almost afraid to enter. "Stand by to go about," the parrot would scream. "1 don't, sir. I believe he's a good seaman; but he's too free with the crew to be a good officer. A mate should keep himself to himself—shouldn't drink with the men before the mast!" MAh, she's a handsome craft, she is," the cook would say, and give her sugar from his pocket, and then the bird would peck at the bars and swear straight on, passing belief for wickedness. "There," John would add, "you can't touch pitch and oot be mucked, lad. Here's this poor old Innocent bird of mine swearing bine fire, and none the wiser, you may lay to that. She would swear the same, in a manner of speaking, before the chaplain." And John would touch his forelock with a solemn way be had, that made me think be was the best of men. As I waa waiting, a man came out of of a aide room, and at a glance, I waa ■ore he must be Long John. His left leg waa cut off close by the hip, and under the left shoulder he carried a crutch, which he managed with wonderful dexterity, hopping about upon it like a bird. He waa very tall and strong, with a face as big as a ham— plain and pale, but intelligentand smiling. Indeed, he seemed in the moat cheerful spirits, whistling as he moved about among the tables, with a merry word or a slap on the shoulder for the most favored of his guests. "See here, now, Hawkins," said he, "here's a blessed bard thing on a man like me now, ain't it? There's Cap'n Trelawney—what's he to think? Here I have this confounded son of a Dutchman sitting in my own house, drinking of my own rum! Here you comes and tells me of it plain; and here I let him give us all slip before my blessed dead-lights! Now, Hawkins, you do me justice with the cap'n. You're a lad, you are, but you're as smart as paint. 1 see that when you first came in. Now, here it is; What could 1 do, with this old timber I hobble on? When 1 was an A B master mariner I'd have come up alongside of him, hand over hand, and broached him to in a brace of old shakes, I would; and now—" "Do you mean he drinks?" cried the squire. The doctor changed countenance a little, but next moment he was master of himself. "No. sir," replied the captain; "only that he is too familiar." And then, as 1 was hurrying off. I heard him say. quite loudly, to the doctor:"Well," said the other, "but all the other money's gone now, ain't it? You daren't show face in Bristol after this." "Thank you, Jim," said he, quite loudly, "that was all I wanted to know," as if he had asked me a question."Well, now, and the short and long of it, captain ?" asked the doctor. "Tell as what you want." "I'll have no favorites on my ship." Iassure you 1 was quite of the squire's way of thinking, and hated the captain deeply. "Why, where might you suppose it was?" asked Silver, derisively. "Well, gentlemen, are you determined to go on this cruise?** And with that he turned on his heel and rejoined the other two. They spoke together for a little, and though none of them started, or raised his voice, or so much as whistled, it was plain enough that Dr. Livesey had communicated my request; for the next thing that I heard was the captain giving an order to Job Anderson, and all hands were piped on deck. "At Bristol, In banks and places." answered his companion. "Like iron," answered the squire. CHAPTER X. THE VOTAOa "It were," said the cook; "It were when we weighed anchor. But my old missis has it all by now. And the Spyglass is sold, lease and good-will and rigging: a°d the old girl's off to meet me. I would tell you where, for I trust you; but it 'ud make Jealousy among the mates." "Very good," said the captain. "Then, as you've heard me very patiently, saying things that 1 could not prove, hear me a few words more. They are putting the powder snd the arms in the fore hold. Now. you have a good place under the cabin; why not put them there?—first point. Then you are bringing four of your own people with you, and they tell me some of them are to be berthed forward. Why not give them the berths here beside the cabin—sec- second point." In the meantime, the squire and Capt. Smollett were still on pretty distant terms with one another. The squire made no bones about the matter; he despised the captain. The captain, on his part, never spoke b'lt when he was spoken to, and then sharp and short and dry, and not a word wasted. He owned, when driven into a corner, that he seemed to have been wrong about the crew, that some of them were as brisk as he wanted to see, and all had behaved fairly welL As for the ship, he bad taken a downright fancy to her. "She'll lie a point nearer the wind than a man haa a right to expect of his own married wife, sir. But," h« would add, "all I say is, we're not home again, and I don't like the cruiae." All that night we were in«a great bust Is getting things stowed in their place, and boatfuls of the squire's friends, Mr. Blandly and the like, coming off to wish him s good voyage and a safe return. W« never had s night at the Admiral Benbow when I bad half the work; and 1 wus dog-tired when, s little before dawn, ths boatswain sounded his pipe, and the crew began to man the capstan-bars. 1 might have been twice ss weary, yet I would not have left the deck; all was so new and interesting to me—the brief commands, ths shrill notes of the wbisrtle. the men bustling to their places in the glimmer of the ship's lanterns. "Dick." hm added, breaking off. "brine me an apple." Now, to tell you the truth, from the very first mention of Long John in Sqnire Trelawney's letter, I had taken a fear in my mind that he might prove to be the very one-legged aailor whom I had watched for so long at the old Benbow. But one look at the man before me was enough. I hsd seen the captain, and Black Dog and the blind man Pew, and I thought I knew what a buocanear was like—a very different creature, according to me, from this clean and pleasant-tempered landlord. I claim Trelawney. I'll wring his calfs head off his body with these hands. Dickl" he added, breaking off, "you must jump up, like a sweet lad, and get me an apple, to wet my pipe like." "And you can trust your missis?" asked the other. "My lads," said Capt. Smollett, "I've a word to say to you. This land that we have sighted is the place we have been sailing to. Mr. Trelawney, being a very open-handed gentleman, as we all know, has just asked me a word or two, and as 1 was able to tell him that every man on board had done his duty, alow and aloft, as 1 never ask to see it done better, why, he and 1 and the doctor are going below to the cabin to drink your health and luck, and you'll have grog served out for you to drink our health and luck. I'll tell you what I think of this: I think it handsome. And if you think aa 1 do you'll giv£ a good sea cheer for the gentleman that does it." And then, all of a sudden, he stopped, and his jaw dropped as though he had remembered something. "The score!" he burst out. "Three goes o' rum! Why, shiver my timbers, if I hadn't forgotten my score!" You may fancy the terror I waa in. I should have leaped out and run for it, if I had found the strength; but my limba and heart alike misgave me. I heard Dick begin to rise, and then some one seemingly stopped him, and the voice of Hands exclaimed: I toted the very thought of Trtamtf "Gentlemen of fortune," returned the cook, "usually trusts little among themselves, and right they are, you may lay to it. But I have a way with me, I have. When a mate brings a slip on his cable—one as knows me, I mean —it won't be in the same world with old John. There was some that was feared of Pew, snd some that waa feared of Flint; but Flint his own self was feared of me. Feared he was, and proud. They was the roughest crew afloat, was Flint's; the devil himself would have been feared to go to sea with them. Well, now, I tell you, I'm not a boasting man, and you seen yourself how easy I keep company; for when I was quartermaster, lambs wasn't the word for Flint's old buocaneers. Ah, you may be sure of yourself in old John's ship." We bod a dreary morning's work before us, for there was no sign of any wind, and tbe boats bad to be got oat and manned, and the ship warped three or four miles round the corner of the island, and up the narrow passage to the haven behind Skeleton island. I volunteered for one of the boats, where I had, of course, no business. The 'leat was sweltering, and the men grumbled fiercely over their work. Anderson was in command of my boat, and instead of keeping the crew in order, he grumbled as loud as the worst. "Any more?" asked Mr. Trelawney. "One more," said the captain. "There's been too much blabbing already."I plucked up courage at once, crossed the threshold, and walked right up to the man where he stood, propped on his crutch, talking to a customer. And, falling on a bench, he laughed until the tears ran down bis cheeks. I could not help joining; and we laughed, together, peal after peal, until the tavern rang again. "Oh, stow that! Don't you get sucking of that bilge, John. Let's have a go of the rum." "Far too much," agreed the doctor. "I'll tell you what I've heard myself," continued Capt. Smollett: "That you have a map of an island; that there's crosses on the map to show where the treasure is; and that the island lies—" And then he named the latitude and longitude exactly. "Now, Barbecue, tip us a stave,' tried one voice. "Dick," said Silver, "I trust you. I've a gauge on Ctibe keg, mind'. There's the key; you fill a pannikin and bring it up." "Mr. Silver, sir?" 1 asked, holding out the note. "Why, what a precious old sea-calf I am!" he said, at last, wiping his cheeks. "You and me should get on well, Hawkins, for I'll take my davy I should be rated ship's boy. But, come, now, stand by to go about. This won't do. Dooty is dooty, messmates. I'll put on my old cocked hat, and step along of you to Cap'n Trelawney, and report this here affair. For, mind you, it's serious, young Hawkins; and neither you nor me's come out of it with what I should make so bold as to call credit. Nor you, neither, says you; not smart—none of the pair of us smart. But dash my buttons! that was a good 'un about my score." The squire, at this, would turn away and march up and down the deck, chin in air. "Yes, my lad," said he; "such is my name, to be sure. And who may you be?** And when he saw the squire's letter, be seemed to me to give something almost like a start. "The old one," cried another. "Ay, ay, mates," said Long John, who was standing by, with his crutch •inder his arm, snd at once broke out In the air and words I knew so well: "A trifle more of thai man," he would say, "and I should explode/* Terrified as I was I could not help thinking to myself that this must have been how Mr. Arrow got the strong waters that destroyed him. "I never told that," cried the squire, "to a soul!" We bad some heavy weather which only proved the qualities of the "Hlspanlola." Every man oo board seemed well- content, and they mnat have been hard to please if they had been otherwise; for It is my belief there wm never a ship's company so spoiled since Noah put to sea. Double grog was going on ths least excuse; there was duff on odd days, as for Instance, If the squire heard It was any man's birthday; and always a barrel of apples standing broached in the waist, for anyone to help himself that bad a fancy. "Fifteen men on the dead man's chest—" The cheer followed—that was a matter of course; but it rang out ao fuli ■nd hearty that 1 confess I could hardly fcelieve these same men were plotting for our blood. "Well." he eaid, with aa oath, Tt'l "Oh!" said he, quite aloud, and offering his hand, "I see. Yon are our new cabin-boy; pleased 1 am to see you." "The hands know it, sir," returned the captain. And then the whole crew bore chorus:Dick waa gone but a little while, and during his absence Israel spoke straight on in the cook's ear. It was but a word or two that 1 could catch, and yet I gathered some important news; for, besides other scrape that tended to the same purpose, this whole clause was audible: "Not another man of themll jine." Hence there were still faithful men on board. not forever." I thought this wu a very bed sign# 'or, up to that day, the men had gone iriskly and willingly about their boaiaesa; but the very alght of the Wand bad relaxed the oords of discipline. All the way in, Long John stood 8jr the steersman and conned the ship. He knew the passage like the palm oi bit baud; and though the man in the chains got everywhere more water than was down in the cb&rt, John never hesitated once. And be took my hand in his large firm grasp. "Livesey, that must have been you or Hawkins," cried the squire. "Yo-ho-bo. and a bottle of rum I" "It doesn't much matter who It was." replied the doctor. And I could see that neither he nor the captain paid much regard to Mr. Trelawney's protestations. Neither did I, to be sure, he was so loose a talker; yet in this case 1 believe he was really right, and that nobody had told the situation of the island. And at the third "hoi" drove the bap* before them w?ib a w1.!!. "Well, I tell you now," replied the lad, "I didn't half a quarter like the job till I had this talk with you, John; but there's my hand on it now." "And a brave lad you were, and ■mart, too," answered Sliver, shaking hands so heartily that all the barrel ■hook, "and a finer figure-head for a gentleman of fortune I never clapped my eyes on." "One more cheer for Cap'n Smollett," cried Long John, when the first had subsided. Just then one of the customers at the far side i"ose suddenly and made for the door. It was close by him, and be was out in the street in a moment. But his hurry had attracted my notice, and I recognized him at a glance. It was the tallow-faced man, wanting two fingers, whp had come first to the Admiral Benbow.Even at that exciting moment It carried me back to the old Admiral Benbow in a second; and I seemed to beai the voice of the captain piping in the chorus. But soon the anchor was short up; soon It waa hanging dripping at the bows; soon the sails began to draw, and the land and shipping to flit by on either side; and before 1 could lie down to snatch an hour of slumber the "Bispaniola" had begun her voyage to the Isle of Treasure. On the top of that the three gentlemen went below, and not long after word was sent forward that Jim Hawkins was wanted in the cabin. And this also was given with a will. And he began to laugh again, and that so heartily that, though I did not see the joke as he did, 1 was again obliged to join him in his mirth. When Dick returned, one after another of the trio took the pannikin and drank—one "To luck;" another with a "Here's to old Flint;" and Silver himself saying, In a kind of a song: "Here to ourselves, and hold your luff, plenty of prizes and plenty of duff." I found them all three seated round the table, a bottle of Spanish wine and some raisins before them, and the doctor smoking away, with his wig on his lap, and that, I knew, was a sign that he was agitated. The stern window was open, for it was a warm night, and you could see the moon shining behind on the ship's wake. "Oh," I cried, "stop him! it's Black Dog!" "Well, gentlemen." continued the captain, "I don't know who has this map; but I make it a point, it shall be kept secret even from me and Mr. Arrow. Otherwise I would ask you to let me resign.""Never knew good to come at It yeti" the captain said to Dr. Livesey. "Spoil fok's'le hands, make devils. That'* my belief." "There's a strong scour with tlx* ebb," he said, "and this here passage has been dug out, in aCmanner of speaking, with a spade." On our little walk along the quays, he made himself the most interesting companion, telling me about the different ships that we passed by, their rig, tonnage, and nationality, explaining the work that was going forward —how one waa discharging, another taking in cargo, and a third making ready for sea; and every now and then telling me some little anecdote of ships or seamen, or repeating a nautical phrase till I had learned it perfectly. 1 began to see that here was one of the best of possible shipmates. By this time I hud begun to under-, stand the meaning of their terms. By a "gentleman of fortune" they plainly meant neither more nor less than a common pirate, and the little scene that I had overheard was the last act In the corruption of one of the honest hands—perhaps of the last one left aboard. But on this point 1 was soon to be relieved, for Silver giving a little whistle, a third man strolled up, and ■at down by the party. "I don't care two coppers who he is." cried Silver. "But he hasn't paid his ■core. Harry, run and catch him." But good did come of the apple barrel. as you shall hear; for If it had not been for that, we should have had no note of warning and might all have perished by the band of treachery. Just then a sort of brightness fell Upon me in the "barrel, and, looking up. I found the moon had risen and was silvering the mizzen-top and shining white on the luff of the foresail; and almost at the Bame time the voice on the lookout shouted: "Land hoi" I am not going to relate the voyage in detail. It waa fairly prosperous. The ship proved to be a good ship, the crew were capable seamen, and the captain thoroughly understood hi* business. But before we came the length of Treasure Island, two or three things had happened which require to be known. We brought up just where the anchor was in the chart, about a.third of a mile from either shore, the mainland on one side, and Skeleton island on the other. The bottom was clean sand. The plunge of our anchor sent op clouds of birds wheeling and crying over the woods; but in lees than a minute they were all down again, and all was once more silent. The place was entirely land-locked, buried In woods, the trees coming right down to high water mark, the shores mostly flat, and the hill-tope standing round at a distance in a sort at amphitheater, one here, one there. Two little rivers, or, rather, two swamps, eroplied out into this pond, as jcn. might call it; and the foliage round tbut part of the shore had a kind of poisonous brightness. From the Alp, we could see nothing of the bouse or stockade, for they were quite bailed among trees; and if it had not been) for the chart on the companion, wd might have been the first that had ever anchored there since the island arose out of the seas. One of the others who was nearest the door leaped up and started in pursuit. "I pee." said the doctor. "You wish to keep this matter dark, and to make a gnrrison of the stern part of the ship, manned with my friend's own people, and provided with all the arms and powder on board. In other words, you fear a mutiny." "If he were Admiral Hawke he shall pay his soore," cried Silver; and then. "Now. Hawkins," snid the squire, "you have something to say. Speak up." This is how it tame about: We had run up the trades to get the wind of the island we were after—I am not allowed to be more plain—and now we were running down for It with a bright lookout day and night. It was about the last day of our outward voyage, by the largest computation; some time that night, or, at lafest, before noon of the morrow, we should sight the Treasure island. We were heading 8. 8. W., and had a steady breeze abeam and a quiet Bea. The "Hlspaniola" rolled steadily, dipping her bowsprit now and then with a whiff of spray. All was drawing alow and aloft; every one was In the bravest spirits, because we were now so near an end of the first part of our adveptnre. I did as I was bid. and, as short, as I could make it, told the whole details of Silver's conversation. Nobody Interrupted me till it was done, nor did any one of the three make so much as a movement, but they kept their eyes upon my face from first to last. CHAPTER XU. COUNCIL OF WAR. "Sir," said Capt. Smollett, "with no Intention to take offense. I deny yonr right to put words into my mouth. No captain, sir, would be justified in going to sea at all If he had ground enough for that. As for Mr. Arrow, 1 believe him thoroughly honest; some of the men are the same; ail may be for wbat 1 know. But I am responsible for the ship's safety and the life of every man Jack aboard of her. I see things going, as I think, not quite right. And I ask you to take certain precautions, or let me resign my berth. And that's alL" Mr. Arrow, first of all, turned out even worse than the captain had feared. Ue bad no command among me men. and people did what they pleased with him. But that was by no means the worst of It; for after a day or two at sea he began to appear on deck with hazy eye, red cheeks, stuttering tongue, and other marks of drunkenness. Time after time he was ordered below in disgrace. Sometimes he fell and cut himself; sometimes be lay all day long In bis little bunk at one side of the companion; sometimes for a day oi two he would be almost sober and at tend to bis work at least passably. "Dick's square,'' said Silver, There was a great rush of feet across the deck. I could hear people tumbling up from the cabin and the fok's'le; and, ■lipping in an Instant outside my barrel, I dived behind the foresail, madie a double toward the stern, and came out upon the open deck in time to join Hunter and Dr. Livesey in the rush for the weather bow. When we got to the inn, the squire and Dr. Livesey were seated together, finishing a quart of ale with a toast in it, before they should go aboard the schooner on a visit of inspection. "Oh, I knowed Dick was square," returned the voice of the cockswain, Israel Hands. "He's no fool, is Dick." And he turned his quid and spat. "But, 1 look here," he went on, "here's what I want to know, Barbecue—how long are we a-going to stand off and on like a blessed bum-boat? I've had a'most enough o' Cap'n Smollett; he's hazed me long enough, by thunder! I want to go Into that cabin, I do. I want their pickles and w-ines. and that." "Jim." said Dr. Livesey, "take seat." And they made me sit down at, table beside them, poured me out a glass of wine, filled my hands with raisins, and all three, one afer the other, and each with a bow, drank my good health, and their sen-ice to me, for my luck and courage. Long John told the story from first to last, with a great deal of spirit and the most perfect truth. "That was how it were, now, weren't it, Hawkins?" he would say, now and again, and 1 could always bear him entirely out. There all hands were already congregated. A belt of fog had lifted almost simultaneously with the appearance of the moon. Away to the southwest of us we saw two low hills, about a couple of miles apart, and rising behind one of them a third and higher hill, whose peak was still buried in the fog. All three seemed sharp and conical in figure. The two gentlemen regretted that Block Dog bad got away; but we all agreed there was nothing to be done, and after he had been complimented. Long John took up his crutch and departed.' Capt. Smollett," began the doctor, with a smile, "did ever you besr the fable of the mountain and the mouse? You'll excuse me, 1 dare say. but you remind me of that fable. When you came in here I'll stake my wig you meant more than this." "Israel," said Silver, "your head ain't much account, nor ever was. But you're able to hear, I reckon; leastways, your ears is big enough. Now, here's what I say—you'll berth forward, and you'll live hard, and you'll speak soft, and you'll keep sober, till I give the word; and you may lay to that, my son." "Now. captain." said the squire, "you were right and I was wrong. I own myself an ass, and 1 await your orders."Now, just after sundown, when all my work was over, and I was on my way to my berth, it occurred to me that I should like aw apple. I ran on deck. The watch was all forward looking out for the island. The man at the hehn was watching the luff of the sail, and whistling away gently to himself; and that was the only sound excepting the swish of the sea against the bows and around the sides of the ship. In the meantime, we could nevei make out where he got the drink. Thai was the ship's mystery. Watch him at we pleased, we could do nothing to Bolve it; and when we asked him to his face he would only laugh, if he were drunk and if he were sober, deny solemnly that he ever tasted anything but water. "No more an ass than I, sir," returned the captain. "I never heard of a crew that meant to mutiny but what showed signs before, for any man that had an eye in his head to see the mischief and take steps accordingly. But this crew," he added, "beats me." "All hands aboard by four this afternoon," shouted the squire after him. "Ay, ay, sir," cried the cook, in the passage. So much 1 saw almost in a dream, for I had not yet recovered from my horrid fear of a minute or two before. And then I heard the voice of Capt. Smollett issuing oraers. The "Hispaniola" was laid. a couple of points nearer the wind, and now sailed a course that would just clear the island on the east. There was not & breath "of air moving. nor a sound bat that of the surf booming half a mile away along the beaches and against the rocks outside* A peculiar stagnant smell hung over the anchorage — a smell of sodden! leaves and rotten tree trunk*. I observed the doctor sniffing, and sniffing* like some one tasting a bad egg. "Doctor." said the captain, "you are smart. When I came In here 1 meant to get discharged. I had no thought that Mr. Trelawney would hear a word." -0tof t crladi " Mop him! lf» Black Do*.- "Well, I don't sny no, do I?" growled the cockswain. "What I say is, when? That's what I say." "Well, squire," said Dr. Livesey. "1 don't put much faith in your discoveries. as a general thing; but I will saj this—John Silver suits me." relinquishing my hand, "who did you say he was?" he asked. "Black what?" "Captain," said the doctor, your permission, that's Silver. "with A very "Dog, sir," said 1. "Has Mr. Trelawney not told you of the buccaneers? He was one of them." "No more I would." cried the squire. "Had Livesey not been here I should have seen you to the deuce. As It Is, I have heard you. I will do as you desire; but I think the worse of you." He was not only useless as an officer, and a bad Influence amongst the men but It was plain that at this rate he must soon kill himself outright; sc nobody was much surprised, nor verj sorry, when one dark night, with a head sea, he disappeared entirely and was seen no more. In I got bodily iwto the apple barrel, and found there was scarce an apple left; but, sitting down there in the dark, what with the sound of the waters and the rocking movement of the ship, I had either fallen asleep, or wss on the point of doing so, when a heavy man sat down with rather a clash dlo*e by. The barrel shook as he leaned his ■boulders against it, and I was juat about to jump up when the roan began to speak. It was Silver's voice, and before I had heard a dozen words, I •would not have shown myself for all the world, but lay there, tremb'.ingand listening. In the extreme of fear and curiosity; for from these dozen words I understood that the1 lives of all the honest men aboard depended upon me "When! by the powers!" cried Silver. "Well, now. If you want to know, I'll tell you when. The last moment I can manage; and that's when. Here's a first rate seaman. Cap'n Smollett, sails the blessed ship for us. Here's this squire and .doctor with a map and such —I don't know where it is. do I? No more do you, says you. Well, then, I mean this squire and doctor shall find the stuff, and help us to get it aboard, by the powers. Then we'll see. If 1 was sure of you all, sons of double Dutchmen, I'd have Cap'n Smollett navigate us half-way back again before I struck." "That man's a perfect trump," de clared the squire. remarkable man." "He'd look remarkably well from a yard-arm, sir," returned the captain. "But Ibis is talk; this don't lead to anything. I see three or four points, and with Mr. Trelawney's permission I'll name them." "So?" cried Silver. "In my house! Ben, run and help Harry. One of those awabs, waa he? Was that you drinking with him, Morgan ? Step up here." "And, now," added the doctor, "Jim may come on board with us. may he notr "And now, men," said the captain, when all was sheeted home, "has any one of you ever seen that land ahead?" "I don't know about treasure," he said, "but 1*11 stake my wig there's fever here." ) "To be rare, he may." nay* the squire. "Take your hat, Hawkins, and we'll see (he ship." "That's as you please, sir," said the captain. "YouH find I do my duty." And with that he took his leave. If the conduct of the men had been alarming in the boot, it became threatening when they had cotn« aboard. They lay about the deck growling together in talk. The slightest order was received with a black look, and grudgingly and carelessly obeyed. Even the honest hands must have caught the infection, for there was not one man aboard to mend another. Mutiny, it was plain, huncover ns lika a thunder-clond. The man whom he called Morgan—an old, gray-haired mahogany-faced sailor —came forward pretty sheepishly, rolling his quid. "I have, sir," said Silver. "I've watered there with a trader I was cook in." "Trelawney," said the doctor, "contrary to all my notions, I believe you "Overboard!"said the captain. "Well gentlemen, that saves the trouble oi putting him in irons." "You. sir. are the captain. It is for you to speak," said Mr. Treiawney, grandly. CHAPTER IX. POWDER ANT) ARMS. "The anchorage is on the south, behind an Islet, 1 fancy?" asked the captain."Now, Morgan," Bald Long John, very ■ternly; "you never clapped your eyes on that Elack—Black Dog before, did you, now T' 'But there we were, without a mate, and it was necessary, of course, to advance one of the men. The boatswain Job Anderson, was the likeliest man aboard, and, though Che kept his old title, he served In a way as mate. Mr. Trelawney had followed the sea, and his knowledge made him very useful for he often took a watch himself In easy weather. And the cockswain, Israel Hands, waa a careful, wily, old, experienced seaman, who could be trusted at a pinch with almost anything. "First point," began Mr. Smollett* "We must go on, because we can't turn back. If I give the word to turn about they would rise at once. Second point, we have time before us—at least until this treasure's found. Third point, there are faithful hands. Now, sir, it's got to come to blows, sooner or later; and what 1 propose is to take timwby the forelock, as the saying Is. and come to blows some fine day when they leaat expect it. We can count, i take It, on your own home servants, Mr. Treiawney ?" The Hispaniola lay some way oat, and we went under the figureheads and round the sterns of many otber ships, and their cables sometimes grated beneath our keel and sometimes swung above us. At last, however, we swung alongside and were met and saluted as we stepped aboard by the mate, Mr. Arrow, a brown old sailor, with earrings in his ears and a squint. He and the squire were very thick and friendly, but I soon observed that things were not the same between Mr. Trelawney and the captain. "Yea, sir; Skeleton Island tiey call it. It were a main place for pirates once, and a hand we had on board knowed all their names for it. The hill to the nor'ard they calls the Foremast hill; there are three hills in b row running south'ard—fore, main and mizzen, sir. But the main—that's the big 'un, with the cloud on it—they usually calls the Spy-glass, by reason of a lookout they kept when they was in the anchorage cleaning; for it's there they cleaned their ships, sir, asking your pardon," "Not I, air," said Morgan, with n salute. "Why, we're nil seamen aboard here, I should thfcik." said the lad Dick. "You didn't know his name, did you ?' "No. air." "We're all fok's'le hands, you mean," snapped Silver. "We can steer a course, but who's to set one? That's what all you gentlemen Rpllt on. first and last. If I had my way, I'd lmve Cap'n Smollett work us back into the trades, at least; then we'd have no blessed miscalculations and a spoonful of water a day. Hut I know the sort you are. I'll Amah with "em on the Island, as Boon's the blunfa on board, and a pity It is. Out you're never happy till you're drunk. Split my sides, I've a sick heart to sail witDb the likes of you!" And It was not only we of the cabin: party who perceived the dunger. Long1 John was hard at work going from group to group, spending himself ift good advice, and as for example nomas could have shown a better. He fairly outstripped himself in willingness  civility; he was all smiles to every oo«. ~ - would £• "By the powers. Tom Morgan, it's a* good for you!" exclaimed the landlord. "If yon had been mixed up with the like of that, you would never have put another foot in my hou*e, yon may lay alone. CHAPTER XI. WHAT I HEARD IN THE APPLE BARREL. He was a great confident of Long John Silver, and so the mention of hi* name leads me on to speak of our Chip's cook. Barbecue, as the men called him. "No, not L" said fciilver. "Flint was cap'n; I was quartermaster, along of my timber leg. The aune broadside I lost my leg old Pew lost his deadlights. It was a master surgeon, him that ampytated me—out of college and all— Latin by the bucket, Bnd what not; but he was hanged like a dog, «nd sundried like the reat, at Corso castle. That was Robert's men, that ana, and corned of changing names to their ships —'Royal Fortune' and so on. Now, what a ship was christened, so let her stay, says I. So it was with the Cassaudra,' aa brought us all safe home from Malabar, after England took the 'Viceroy of the Indies;' sojt was with the old WaJrus, Flint's old ship, as I've seen amuck with the red blood and fit to sink with gold." to that. And what was he saying to your "As upou myself." declared the "I don't rightly know, air," answered Morgan. The last was a sharp-looking man who-seemed angry with everything on board, and was soon to tell us why, for we had hardly got down into tfce cabin when a sailor followed us. "1 have a chart here," says Capt.; Smollett. "See If that's the place." squire. If &b nrdnr weje eiven. 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"We was a-talkin' of keel-hauling," answered Morgan. Aboard ship he carried his crutch by a lanyard round his neck, to have both hands as free as possible. It was something to see Mm wedge the foot of the crutch against a bulkhead,and,propped against it, yielding to every movement of the ship, get on withhls cooking like some one safe ashore. Still more strange was it to see him in the heaviest of weather cross the deck. He hod a line or two rigged up to help him across the widest spaces—Long John's earrings, tbey were called; and he would hand himself from oneplace to another, now using the crutch, now trailing it alongside by the lanyard, as quickly as another man could walk. Yet some of the men who had sailedwith him before expressed their pity to see him so reduced.Long John's eyes burned In his head as he took the chart; but, by the fresh look of the paper, 1 knew he was doomed to disappointment. This was not the map we found in Billy Bones' chest, but an accurate copy, complete In all things—names, and heights, and ■ soundings—with the single exception of the red crosses and the written notes. Sharp as must have lbeen his annoyance, Silver had the strength of mind to hide it. "Most likely Trelawney's own men," said the doctor; "those he picked up for himself before he lit on Silver." "Capt. 8mollett, sir, axing to speak with you," said be. "Bands "I am always at the captain's orders. Show him in." said the squire. •*Ea«y all, Long John," cried Israel. "Who's a-crossln' of you?" "Nay," replied the squire, was one of mine." The captain, who was close behind his messenger, entered at once and shut the door behind Mm. "So bo. mat**,- Mid at: " wntfi UtlaP" "Why, how many toll ships think ye, now, have I seen laid aboard? and how many brisk lads drying In the sun at Execution Dock?" cried Silver; "and all for the same hurry and hurry and hurry. You hoar nie? I seen a thing or two at sea, I have. If you would on'y lay your course, and a p'int to windward, you would ride in carringes, you would. But not you! I know yon. You'll have your mouthful of rum tomorrow, and go haug." "I did think I could have trusted Hands," added the captain. have managed to get two honest men on board with you—that man and Johu Silver." "And to think that they're all Englishmen!" broke out the squire. "Sir. 1 could find it in my heart to blow the ship up." "Keel-hauling, was you? and a mighty suitable thing, too, and you may lay to that. Get back to your place for a lubber, Tom." "Well, sir," said the captain, "better speak plain, I believe, at the risk of offense. I don't like this cruise; I don't like the men, and I don't like my officer. That's short and sweet." "Silver, if you like," cried the squire; "but as for that intolerable humbug, i declare I think his conduct unmanly, nnsailorly, and downright un-English." "Well," says the doctor, "we shall "Yes, sir," said he, "this is the spot, to be sure; and very prettily drawed out. Who might have done that, 1 wonder? The pirates were too ignorant, I reckon. Ay, here it is: 'Capt. Kidd's anchorage'—just the name my shipmate called it. There's a strong current runs along the south, and then away nor'ard up the west coast. Right you was, sir," says he, "to haul your wind and keep the weather of the Island. Leastways, if such was your intention as to enter and careen, and there ain't no better place for that in the** «aiftnk" "Well, gentlemen," said the captain, "the best that I can say is not much. We must lay to, if you please, and keep a bright lookout. It's trying on a maa, I know. It would be pleasanter to come to blows. But there's no help for it till we know our men. Lay to, and whistle for a wind, that's my view." And then, as Morgan rolled back to his seat. Silver added to me in a confidential whisper, that waa very flattering, as I thought: "Perhaps, sir, you don't like the ship?" inquired the squire, very angry, as I could see. "Ah!" cried another voice, that of the youngest hand ou board, and evidently full of admiration, "he was the flower of the flock, waa Flint!" see." "I can't speak as to that, sir. not having seen her tried," said the captain. "She seems a clever craft; more I can't say." When he came on deck, the men had begun already to take out the arms and powder, yo-ho-ing at their work, while the captain and Mr. Arrow stood by superintending. "He's quite an honest man, Tom Morgan, only stupid. And now," he ran on again, aloud, "let's see—Black Dog? Mo, 1 don't know the name, not L Yet I kind of think I've—yea, I've seen the p—k He used to come here with a blind beggar, he used." L Tl*t ha did. yon. maj be sure," said "Everybody know'd you was a kind of a chapling, John; but there's others as could hand and steer as well hs you,*' said Israel. "They liked a bit o' fun. they did. They wasn't so high and dry. nohow, but took their fling, like jolly companions every one." "He's no common man. Barbecue," said the cockswain to me. "He had good schooling in his young days, and can speak like a book when so minded; and brave—lion's nothing alongside of Long John I I see him grapple four and knock their heads together—him unanmed.""Davis waa a man, too, by all accounts," said Silver. "I never sailed along of him; first with England, then with Flint, that's my story; and now here on my own account, in a manner of speaking. I laid by 900 safe, from England* and 2,000 afier Flint. That ain't bad for a man before the mast—all safe In bank. Taln't earninc now; Jt'a sbv- "Jim here," said the doctor, "can help us more than anyone. The men are not shy with him, and Jim is a noticing lad." "Possibly, sir, you may not like your employer, either?" says the squire. The new arrangement was quite to my liking. The whole schooner bad been overhauled; six berths had been made astern, out of what had been the afterpart of the main hold; and this But here Dr. Livesey cut in "Stay a bit," said he, "stay a bit. No gse of such questions as that but to pro- "Hawkins, I put prodigious faith in you," added the squire. "So?" says Silver. "Well, and where •re they now? Pew waa that sort, and I begaa to feel pretty desperate at this for I felt altogether heloless; and