Pittston Gazette

              PITTSTON, LUZERNE COUNTY, PA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 1898. Katablirthed 1850. | VOL. XLVIUNo. i' Oldest Newspaper in the Wyoming Valley. A Weekly Local and Family Journal. ! »1 00 a Yea I in Advance- "Jim," said Silver, when we were alone, "if I saved your life, you saved mine; and I'll not forget it. I seen the doctor waving you to run for it—with the tail of my eye, I did; and 1 seen you say no. as plain a* hearing. Jim. that's one to you. This is the first glint of hope I bad since the attack failed, and I owe it you. And now, Jim, we're to go in for this here "treasure-hunting, with sealed orders, too, and I don't like it; and you and me must stick close, back to back like, and we'll save our necks in spiteo' fate and fortune." At the first4Bhntset. heavy, miry ground and a «iatted. marsh vegetaiiuii greatly delayed our progress; tDut by little anrPtittle the hill began to mounting from all round, ana tnecnirp of countless insects in the brush. Not b man, not a sail upon the sea; the very largeness of the view increased the sense of solitude. Tbe first of the "tall trees was reached, and by the bearing, proved the wrong one. So with the second. The third rose nearly 200 feet into the air above a clump of underwood; a giant of a vegetable, with a red column as big as a cottage, and a wide shadow around in which a company could have maneuvered. It was conspicuous far to sea both on the east and west, and might have been entered as a sailing mark upon the chart. And we set off at a great pace, sometimes plunging through the bushes to the chest. many It bed cost in the amassing, what blood and sorrow, what good ships scuttled on the deep, wha/t (brave men walking the plank blindfold, what shot of eannon, what shame and lies and cruelty, perhaps no man alive could tell. Yet there were artlll three upon that 18Land—Silver, and old Morgan, and Ben (Junn—who had each taken his •hare Is these crimes, as each bad hoped In vain to share in the reward. leave them to die in such a place. At last, seeing the ship still bore on her course, and was now swiftly drawing out of earshot, one of them—I kbow not which it was—leaped to his feet with a hoarse cry, whipped his musket to his shoulder and sent a shot whistling over Silver's head and through the mainsail. I tell you, but Silver waa anxious to keep up with us. Tbe work that man teepen and become Ctony underfoot. nd the wood to chang-e it* character Silver, as he sat, took certain bear Ings with his compass. and io grow in a more open order. It was. indeed, a most pleasant portion of the island that we were now approaching. A heavy-scented bloom and many flowering shrubs had almost taken the place of grass. Thickets of green nutmeg trees were dotted here and there with tbe red columns and the broad Rhadow of the pines; and tbe first mingled their spice with tbe aroma of the Vthers. The air, besides, was fresh and stirring, and this, under the sheer sunbeams, was a wonderful refreshment "There are three 'tall trees.'" said he, "about in the right line from Skeleton island. 'Spy-glass shoulder,' I take It. means that lower p'int there. It's child's play to find the Btuff now. I've half a mind to dine first." After that we kept under cover of the bulwarks, and when next I looked out they disappeared from the spit, and the spit itself had almost melted out of sight in the glowing distance. That was. at least, the end of that; and before noon, to my inexpressible joy, the highest rock of Treasure Island had sunk into the blue round of sea. But it was not its size that now impressed my companions; it was the knowledge that £ 700,000 in gold lay somewhere buried below its spreading shadow. The thought of the money, as they drew nearer, swallowed up their previous terrors. Their eyes burned in their heads; their feet grew speedier and lighter; their whole soul was bound up in that fortune, that whole lifetime of extravagance and pleasure, that lay waiting there for each of them. "Come in, Jim," said the captain. "You're a good boy in your line, Jim; but I don't think you and me-'U go to tea again. You're too muob of the born favorite for me. is that you, John Silver? What brings you here, man?" "I don't feel sharp," growled Morgan. "Thinkin' o' Flint—I think it were—'as done me." Just then a roan hailed us from tbe Are that breakfast was ready, and we were soon seated here and there about the sand over biscuit and fried junk. They had lighted a Are fit to roast an ox; and It was now grown so hot that they could only approach K from the windward, and even there nol without precaution. In the same-wasteful spirit, they had cooked. I suppose, three times more than we could eat; and one of them, with an empty laugh, threw what wasjeftinto the fire, which blazed and tryred again oyer this unusual fuel. I nevft- in my life sa*v men so careless of the morrow; hand to mouth is the only word that can describe their way of doing; and what with wasted food and sleepingsentries, though they were bold enough for a brush and be done with It, I could see their entire unfitness for anything like a prolonged campaign."Ah. well, my son, you praise your ("tars he's dead," said Silver. C*A  CHAPTER XXX. ON PAROLE. I was wakened—indeed, we were all wakened, for I could see even the sentinel shake himself togelher from where he had fallen against the doorpost by a clear, hearty voice hailing us from the margin of the wood: "Block-house,ahoy!" it cried. "Here's the doctor." And the doctor It was. Although 4 was glad to hear the sound, yet my gladness was not without admixture. 1 remembered with confusion my insubordinate and stealthy conduct; and when I saw where it had brought me— among what companions and surrounded by what dangers—I felt ashamed to look him in the face. He must have risen in the dark, for the day had hardly come; and when I ran to a loop-hole and looked out I saw kim standing, like Silver once before, up to the mid-leg in creeping vapor. "You, doctor! Top o' the morning to you. sir!" cried Silver, brood awake and beaming with good nature in a moment. "Bright and early, to be sure, and it's the early bird, as the saying goes, that gets the rations. George, shake up your timbers, son. and help Dr. Livesey over the ship's side. All a-dooin' well, your patients was—all well and merry." So he pattered on. standing on the hill top, with his crutch under his elbow and on« hand upon the side of the log house—quite the old John in voice, manner and expression. "We've quite a surprise for you, too. sir,** he continued. "We've a little stranger here—he! he! A noo boarder and lodger, sir, and looking fit and taut as a fiddle; slep' like a supercargo, he did, right alongside of John—stem to stem we was, all night." Dr. Livesey was by this time nerdss tbe stockade and pretty near the cook, and I could hear tbe alteration in his voice as be said: "Not Jim ?" "The very same Jim as ever was," says Silver. The doctor stopped outright.although he did not speak, and it was some seconds before he seemed able to move on. "Well, well." he said at last, "duty fir»t and pleasure afterward, as you might have said yourself. Silver. Let ua overhaul these patients of yours." A moment afterward he had entered the block-house, and. with one griir. nod to me, proceeded with his work among the sick. He seemed to me under no apprehension, though he must have known that his life among these treacherous demons depended on a hair, and he rattled on to his patients ait 1/ he were paying an ordinary professional visit In a quiet English family. His manner, I suppose, reacted on the men, for they behaved to as if nothing occurred—as if lie w» • e stflf! ship's doctor and they still faithful j treaty the very aay they were douwj a-treasure hunting. "No, by thunder!" he cried, "it's us must break the treaty when the time comes; and till then I'll gammon that doctor, if I have to ile his boots with brandy." And then he bade them ge« the firs lighted and stalked out upon hH crutch, with his band on my shoulder, leavirg them in a disarray,and silenced by his volubility, rather than convinced."Slow, lad, slow," be said. "They might round upon us in a twinkle of an eye, if we were seen to hurry." Very deliberately, then, did we advance across the sand to where the doctor waited us on the other side of the stockade, and as soon as we were within easy speaking distance Silver stopped. "You'll make a note of this here, also, doctor," says he. "and the (boy'll tell you how I saved his life, ana were deposed for it, too, and you may lay to thai. Doctor, when a man's steering a* near the wind as me—playing chuckfarthing with the last breath in hia body, like—you wouldn't think It too much, mayhap, to give him one good word! You'll please bear in mind it'a not my life only now—It's that boy'a into the bargain; and you'll speak me fair, doctor, and give me a bit o' hope to go on, for the sake o' mercy." Silver was a changed man, once he was out there and had his back on his friende and the block-house; his cheeks icemed to have fallen in; his voice trembled: never was a soul more dead in earnest. "Why, John, you're not afraid?" upked Dr. Livesey. "Doctor. I'm no coward; no, not I— not so much!" and he snapped his fingers. "If I was I wouldn't say It. But I'il own up fairly I've the shakes upon me for the gallows. Vou're a good man and a true; I never see a better ram! And you'll not forge* what I done good, not any more than youH forget the bad. 1 know. And 1 ertep aside—see here—and leave you and Jim alone. And you'll put that down for me. too. for it's a loag stretch, is that!" So saying, he stepped bock a little way till he was out of earshot, and (here sat upon a tree-stump and bepan to whistle; spinning round now and again upon his seat so as to command a sight sometimes of me and tbe doctor, and sometimes of his unruly ruffians as they went to and fro In the sand, between the fire—which they were busy rekindling—and the house, from which they brought forth pork ind bread to make the breakfast. "So, J im," said the doctor. 64idiy,"bere you are. As you have brewed, so shall j fou drink, my boy. Heaven knowa, 1 I cannot find it in my heart to blame "lie was an ugly devil," cried a third pirate, with a shudder; "that blue in the face, too!" "Come back to do my dooty, air," returned Silver. We were so short of men that everyone on board had to bear a hand—only the captain lying on a mattress in the stern and giving his orders; for. though greatly recovered, he was still in want of quiet. We laid her head for the nearest port in Spanish America, for we could not risk the voyage home without fresh hands; and. as it was, what with baffling winds and a couple of fresh gales, we were all worn out before we reached it. to our senses. "Ah!" said the captain; and that w«s ill he said. The party spread itself abroad. In a fan sbape, shouting and leaping to and fro. About the center, and a good way behind the rest. Silver and I followed—1 tethered by my rope, he plowing. with deep pants, among the sliding gravel. From time to time, indeed, I had to lend him a hand, or he musthavemissed his footing and fallen backward down the hill. "That was how the rum took him," added Merry. "Blue! well, I reckon he was blue. That's a true word." What a supper I had of it that night, with all my friends around me; and what a meal it was, with Ben tiunn's ulted goat, and some delicacies and a bottle of old wine from the "Histianiols." Never, 1 am sure, were peopi gayer or happier. And there was Silver, sitting back almost out of the firelight, bat eating heartily, prompt to spring forward when anything was wanted, even joining quietly in our laughter— the same bland, polite, obsequious seaman of the voyage out. Ever since they had found the skeleton and got upon this train of thought they had spoken lower and lower, and they had almost got to whispering by now, so that the sound of their talk hardly interrupted the silence of the wood. All of a sudden, out of the middle of the trees in front of us, a thin, high, trembling voice struck up the well-known air and words: Silver hobbled, grunting, on his crutch, his nostrils stood out and quivered; he cursed like a madman when the flies settled on his hot and shiny countenance; he plucked furiously at the line that held me to him, and, from time to time, turned his eyes upon me with a deacVJy look. Certainly he took no pains to hide his thoughts; and certainly I read them like print. In the immediate nearness of the gold, all else had been forgotten; his promise and the doctor's warning were both things of the past; and I could not doubt that he hoped to seize upon the treasure, find and board the "Hispaniola" under cover of night, cut every honest throat about that island, and sail away as be had at first intended, laden with crimes and riches. "That mu than kaaw It aU -*—g * i—t«»rt went through, leaping on his crutch till the muscles of his cheat were fit to burst, was work no sound man ever equaled; and so think* the doctor. Aa it waa, he waa already 30 yards behind us and on the verge of strangling when we reached the brow of the slope. We had thus proceeded for about half a mile, and were approaching the brow of the plateau, when the man upon the furthest left began to cry aloud, as if in terror. Shout after shout came from him, and the others began to run in his direction. It was just at suudown when we cast anchor in a most beautiful land-locked "Fifteen men on the dead man's chest— Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!" I never have seen men more dreadfully affected thau the pirates. The color went from their six faces like enchantment; some leaped to their feet, some clawed hold of others; Morgan groveled on the ground. "Doctor," he hailed, "see there! no hurry!" CHAPTER XXXIV. AND LAST. Even Silver, eattng away, with Capt. Flint upon his shoulder, had not a word of blame for their recklessness. AnH "He can't have found the treasure," aaid old Morgan, hurrying past us from the right, "for that's clean a-top." The next morning we fell early to work, for the transportation of this great mass of gold near a mile by land to the beach, and thence three milea by boat to the "Hispaniola," was a considerable task for so small a number of workmen. The three fellows still abroad upon the island did not greatly trouble ua; a single sentry on the shoulder of the hill waa sufficient to insure na against any sudden onslaught, and we thought, besides, they had had more than enough of fighting. Sure enough, there waa no hurry. Is a moce open part of the plateau wa could see the three survivors still running in the same direction as they had started, right for Mixzen-maat Hill. We were already between them and their boats, and so we four sat down to breadbe, while Long John, mopping his face, came slowly up with us. Indeed, as we found when we also reached the spot. It was something this the more surprised me, for I thought he bad never shown himself so cunning as he did then. "It's Flint, by —!" cried Merry. Tbe song had stopped as auddenly aa it begaD—broken off, you would have said, in the middle of a note, as tuough some one had laid his hand upon the singer's mouth. Coming so far through the clear, sunny atmosphere among the £reen tree-tops, I thought It had winded airily and sweietly, and the effect on my companions was the stranger. "Ay, mates," said he, "it's lucky you have Barbecue to think for you with thia here head. I got what I wanted, I did. Sure enough, they have the ship. Where they have it, I don't know yet; but once we hit the treasure, we'll have to jump about and find out. And then, mates, us that has the boats. I reckon, fcas the upper hand." Shaken as I was with these alarms, it was hard for me to keep up with the rapid pace of the treasure hunters. Now and again I tumbled; and it was then that Silver plutked so roughly at the rope and launched at me his murderous glances. Dick, who had dropped behind us, and now brought up the rear, was babbling to himself berth prayers and curses, as his fever kept rising. This also added to my wretchedness, and, to crown all, I was haunted by the thought of the tragedy that had once been acted on that plateau, when that ungodly buccaneer with the blue face—he who had died at Savannah, singing and shouting for drink—had there, with his own hand, cut down his six accomplices. This grove, that was now so peaceful, must then have rung with cries. I thought; and even with the thought I could believe I heard it ringing still. "Thank ye kindly, doctor," aaya he. "You came in about the nick, I guess, for me and Hawkins. And so it's you, lien Qunn!" he added. "Well, you're a nice one, to be aure." "Come." said Silver, struggling with his ashen lips to get the word out, "that Therefore the work was pushed on briskly. Gray and Ben Qunn came and went with the boat, while the rest during their absence piled treasure on the beach. Two of the bars, slung in a rope's end, made a good load for a grown man—one that he was glad to walk alowly with. For my part, as 1 was not much use at carry ing, I was kept busy all day in the cave, pecking the minted money into bread bags. I wm ktpt busy D11 d»y packing the money Into "I'm Ben Gunn, I am," replied the maroon, wriggling like an eel In hia embarrassment. "And,** be added, after a long pause, "how do.Mr. Silver! Pretty well, I thank ye, aaya you." taraad baga. gulf, and were immediately surrounded by shore boats full of negroes, and Mexican Indiana, and balf-bloods, selling fruit and vegetables, and offering to dive for bits of money. The sight of so nl&D? good-humored faces (especially the blacto), the taste of the tropical fruits, amTCtowe all, the lights that began to shine inrtbe town, made a most charming contrast to our dark and bloody sojourn on the island; and the doctor and the squire, taking me along with them, went ashore to pass the early part of the night. Here they met the captain of an English man-of-war, fell in talk with him, went on board his ship, and, in short, bad so agreeable a time that day was breaking when we came alongside the "Hispaniola." Thus he kept running on. with his mouth full of the hot bacon; thus he restored their hope and confidence, and, 1 more than suspect, repaired his own at the same time. won't do. Stand by to go about. This is a rum start, and I can't name the voice, but it's some one skylarking— some one that's flesh and blood, and you may lay to that." "Ben, Ben,** murmured Silver, "to think as you've done me." "Aa for hostage." he continued, "that's his last talk, I guess, with them he loves so dear. I've got my piece o' news, and tha'nky to him for that ; but It's over and done. I'll take him in a line wben we go treasure-hunting, for we'll keep him like so much gold. In case of accidents, you mark, and in the meantime, once we got the ship and treasure both, and off to sea like jolly companions, why, then we'll talk Mr. Hawkins over, we will, and we'll give him his share, to be sure, for all his kindness." His courage had come back as he spoke, and some of the color to his face ilong with it. Already the others had begun to lend an ear to this encouragement, and were coming a little to themselves, when the same voice broke out again—not this time singing, but in a faint, distant bail, that echoed yet fainter among the clefts of the Spyglass.The doctor sent back Gray for one of the pickaxes, deserted. In their flight. By the mutineers; and then, aa we proceeded leisurely downhill to where (he boats were lying, related In a few word* what had taken place. It was a story that profoundly interested Silver, and Ben Gunn, the half-idiot maroon, waa the hero from beginningtoend. It was a strange collection, like Billy Bones' hoard for the diversity of coinage, but so much larger and so much more varied that I think 1 never had more pleasure than in sorting them. English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Georges and Louises, doubloons snd double guineas and moidores and •equina, the pictures of all the kings of Europe for the last hundred years, strange oriental pieces stamped with what looked Uke wisps of string or bits of spider's web, roundpieces and square pieces, and pieces bored through the middle, as if to wear them round your neck—nearly every variety of money in the world must, I think, have found a place in that collection; and-for number, 1 am sure they were like autumn leaves, so that my back ached with stooping and my fingers with sorting them out. Shout after shout came from him. very different. At the foot of a pretty big pine, and involved In a green creeper, which had even partly lifted some of the smaller bonee, a human skeleton lay, with a few shreds of clothing, on the ground. I believe a chill struck for a moment to every heart. "Darby M'firaw," It wailed—for that is the word that best describes the sound — "Darby M'Grawl Darby M'Graw!" again and again and again, and then rising a little higher, and with an oath that 1 leave out: "Fetch aft the rum. Darby!" We were now at the margin of the thicket. Ben, In hds long, lonely wandering* about the ialand, had found the akeleton—It waa he that had rifled it; be had found the treasure; be had dug it up (it waa the hal/ of hU pickax that lay broken in the excavation); be had carried it on hia back in many weary journeya from thefootof the tall pine to a cave hehad an the two-pointed hill at the northeast angle of "the island, and there It bad laid stored in aafety since two months before the arrival at the "Hlspanlola." "Huzza, mates, altogether!" shouted Merry; and the foremost broke into a run. It was no wonder the men were In a good humor now. For my part, I waa horribly cast down. Should the scheme be had now sketched prove feasible. Silver, already doubly a traitor,would not hesitate to adopt It. He had still a foot in either camp, and there waa no doubt be would prefer wealth and freedom with tbe pirates to a bare escaipe from banging, which waa the best he bad to hope on our side. Ben Gunn was on deck alone, and, as soon as we came on board, he began, with wonderful contortions, to make us a confession. Silver was gone. The maroon and connived at his escape in a shore boat some hours ago, and he now assured us he bad only done so to preserve our lives, which would certainly have been forfeited if "that man with the one leg had stayed aboard." But thia was not all. The sea cook had not gone empty-handed. He bad cut through a bulkhead unobserved, and had removed one of the sacks of coin, worth, perhaps, three or four hundred guineas, to help him on his further wanderings. And suddenly, not ten yards further, we beheld them stop. A low cry arose. Silver doubled his pace, digging away with the foot of his crutch like one possessed, and next moment he and 1 had come also to a dead halt. "He wa* a seaman," said George Merry, who, bolder than the rest, had gone up close, and was examining the rags of clothing. "Leastways, this is a good sea-cloth." The buccaneers remained rooted to the ground, their eyes starting frem their heads. Long after the voice had died away they still stared In silence, dreadfully, before them. "Ay, ay," said Silver, "like enough; you wouldn't look to find a bishop here, I reckon. But what sort of a way is that for bones to lie? Tain't in natur*." "That fixes it!'^gasped one. "Let's Before us was a great excavation, not very recent, for the sides had fallen in and grass had sprouted on the bottom. In this were the shaft of a pick broken in two and the boards of several packing eases strewn around. On one of these boards I saw, branded with a hot iron, the name "Walrus"—the name of Flint's ship. gtD. "They was his last words," moaned Morgan; "his last words above-board." When the doctor had wormed hit secret from hhn on the afternoon at the attack, and when, next morning, he saw the anchorage deserted, he bad gone to Silver, given him the ohart, which was now useless—given him the srtorea, for Ben Gunn'a cave Cre* wall supplied with goats' meat salted By himself—given anything aad everything to get a chanoe of moving in safety from the (Oockade to the twopointed hill, there to be clear of malaria and'keep a guard upon tfcemoney. MAa for yon. Jim." W said, "it went againat my heart, but I did what I thought be art, for those who had stood by their duty; and if you were no* one of these, whose fault was it?" Nay. #rd even If things bo fle-11 out that be teas forced to keep bis faith with Dr. Livesey. even thea wbat danger lay before ui! What a momeait that would be when the suspicion* of hi«follo*verx turned to eertaiaty, and be and 1 should have to fight* for dear life— he. a cripple, and I. aD boy—against five strong and active seamen I Indeed, on second glance, it seemed impossible to fancy that the body was in a natural position. But for some disarray (the work, perhaps of the birds that had fed upou him, or of th« slow-growing creeper that had gradually ,enveloped hia remains) the man lay perfectly straight—his feet pointing in one direction, his hands, raised above his head like a diver's, pointing directly in the opposite. Dick had his Bible out and was praying volubly. He bad been well brought up, had Dick, before he came to sea and fell among bad companion*. Day after day thia work went on; by every evening a fortune had been stowed aboard, but there waa another fortune waiting for the morrow; and all thia time we heard nothing of the three surviving mutineers. I think we were all pleased to be so cheaply quit of him. Still. Silver was uucoucfuend. I could hear his teeth rattle in hiB head; but he hsd not vet surrendered. All was clear to probation. The cache had been found and rifled—the £700,000 were gone I Well, to make a long1 story short, we got a few hands on board, made a good cruise home, and the "Hispaniola" reached Bristol just as Mr. Blandly was beginning' to think of fitting out her consort. Five men only of those who had sailed returned with her. "Drink and the devil had done for the rest" with a vengeance; although, to be sure, we were not quite in so bad a case as that other ship they sung about: bands before the mast. "Yo~D' do' you; but this much 1 will say, be H dnd or onkiud: wh '.'apt. Smollett At last—I think It was on the third night—the doctor and I were strolling on the shoulder of the hfll where it overlooks the lowlands of the isle, when, from oat the thick darkness below, the wind brought us a naise between shrieking and singing. It was only a snatch that reached our ears, followed by the former silence. .oti're doiDg well, my friend," he jald to the fellow with the bondntrer) bead, "and If etfr any person had p close shave, it teas yon; your head must unkind; -*en jpt. was well, you dared not have gone off, and when be was ill, and couldn't help It, by George, it was downright cow- Add to this double apprehension, the mystery that atill bung over the behavior of my friends; their unexplained desertion of the stockade; their inexplicable cession of the chart; or, harder still to understand, the doctor's last warning to Silver: "Look out for squaMs when you find it;" and you will readily believe how little taste I found in my breakfast, and with how uneasy ft heart I set forth behind my captors on the quest for treasure. "Nobody in this here island srer heard of Darby," he muttered; "not one but ua that's here." And then, m*ltfng a great effort: "Shipmates," he cried, "I'm here to get that stuff, and I'll not be beat by man nor devil. I never was feared of Flint in his life, and, by the powers, I'll face him dead. There's £700.000 not a quarter of a mile from here. When did ever a gentleman o' fortune show his stern to that much dollars, for a boozy old seaman with a blue mug—and him dead, too?" CHAPTER XXXm. THE FALL OF A CHIEFTAIN. There never was such an overturn in this world. Each of these sdx men wa« be as bard as irt i Well, f3eorg»\ how goes it? You're a pretty color, certainly; why, vour liver, man. is upside down. Did you take that medicine? Did be take that medicine, men?" ardly!" 1 will own that I here began to weep. "Doctor," 1 said, "you might spare me. I have'blamed myself enough; my life's forfeited anyway,andlshould have been "I've taken a notion into my old numskull," observed Silver. "Here's the compass; there's the tip-top p'int of Skeleton island, stickin' out like a tooth. Just take a bearing, will you. along the line of them bones." ss though he bad been struck. But with Silver the blow passed almost instantly. Every thought of his soul had been set full-stretch, like a racer, on that money; well, he was brought up in a single second, dead; and he kept his head, found his temper, and changed his plan before the others had had time to realize the disappointment. "Heaven forgive them." said the doctor; "'tis the mutineers I" "Ay. ay, sir. he took it, sure enough." dead now, if Silver hadn't stood for me; returned Morgan. and, doctor, believe this, 1 can die—and "Because, you see, since I am muti- I dare say 1 deserve it—but what 1 fear neers* doctor, or pi tson doctor, as I pre- is torture. If they come to torture fer to call it." said Dr. Livesey. In his me—" plensantest way, "1 make it a point of "Jim." the doctor Interrupted, and honor not to loce a man for Kins his voice was quite changed, "Jim, 1 George (Ood bless him!) and the gal can't have this. Whip over, and well lows." run for it." The rogues looked nt each other, bir "Doctor," said 1, "I passed my word." swallowed the hon e-thr-jsrt in silence. "1 know, I- know." be cried. "We "Dick don't feel well, sir," said one. can't help that, Jim, now. I'll take it "Don t he?" replied thpdoctor. "Well on my shoulders, holus bolus, blame step up hC*re. Dick, and let me see your and shame, my boy; but stay here, 1 tongue. Xo. I should be surprisrd If cannot help you. Jump! One Jump, he did; man's tonjrue Is fit to and you're out, and we'll run for it like frighten the Frmch. Another fever." antelopes." "Ah, there," said Morgan, "thatcomed "No," 1 replied, "you know right well »f sp'iling Bibles." you wouldn't do the thing yourself; "That eomed—as you call it—of be- neither you nor the squire,nor captain; Ing arrant asses," retorted the doctor, and no more will L Silver trusted me; 1 '"and not having sense enough to know passed my word, and back 1 go. But, honest, air from poison, and the dry doctor, you did not let me finish. If land from a vile, pestiferous slough. I they come to torture me, 1 might let slip think it most probable—though, of a word where the chip is; for I got the rourse, it's only an opinion—that you'll ship, part by luck and pari by risking, til have the deuce to pay before you and she lies in North inlet, on the southpet that malaria out of your systems. ern beach, and just below high water. Camp In a bog, would you? Silver. I'm At half-tide she must be high and dry." ntrprised at you. You're less of a fool "The ship!" exclaimed the doctor, than many, take you all round; but you Rapidly 1 described to him my ad vendon t appear to me to hnve the rudi* tures. and he beard me out in silence, menta of a notion of the rules of health. "There is a kind of fate in this." he Well," he added, after he had dosed observed when 1 bad done. "'Every them round, and they had taken his step it's you that saves our lives; and prescriptiona, with really laughable hu- do you suppose by any chance we are raility, more like charity school chil- going to let you lose yours? That dren than blood-guilty mutineers and wouW be a poor return, my boy. You pirates "well, that's done I or to-day.- found out the plot; you found BenGunn And now I should wish to have a talk —the best deed that ever you did, or with that boy, please. will do, though you live to ninety. Ob, And he nodded his head in my direo- by jUplt«r! and talking of Ben Gunn. Hon carelessly. why, this Is the mischief In person* George Merry was at the door, spit- Silver!" he cried! "Silver! I'll give you ting and spluttering over some bad- a plece of advicCi.. hC5 continued, as the tasted medicine; but at the first word of cook drew near aJn. „don.t be the doctor's proposal he swung round in aDjr at hurr that Uea#. with a deep flush and cried: "Nol and ure D• -* . .. . . ... ,, "Why. sir. I do my possible, which 8ilver struck the barrel with his open that ain-u- Ba)d Silver. "1 can only, •To. i . , , . asking your pardon, save my life and • "Si-lence! he roared, and looked the boy', by seeking for that treasure, about him positively like a lion. "Doc- nnd , to that." tor. he vvent on. In hie usual tones. ..WelJ stiver." wpHad the doctor, "I was -thinking of that, knowmg a, that u n, fu how you had* fancy for the boy We re out fop Kquall8Bwhetl P flnd lt,.. all humbly grateful for your kindness uid ?. man and, aa you see, puta faith In you, and „ . . . . ..... . . V , ... ,, awl man, that stoo much and too little, takes the drugs down like that much . irroir And I teke it I've found a wav What y0XD re after' why ,eft the t« ii it 1,1 in . block-house, why you give me that mHI suit all. Hawkins, will you give me . _ . .' , .J ,f , * . ,, _ _ " there chart. 1 don't know now, do 1? ' . *i i And yet I done your bidding with my nan, for a young gentleman you are, al- J. . . J ' though poor born—your wort of honor 8huttV.Rn* "7" " word °f Tb°Pe! not to slip your cable?" I ,thl" hehre» to° ra,,ch- " *ou , I readily gave the pledge required. * I 1 tel1 me mean pi a in out. "Then, doctor," said Silver, "you juat , * * J "°'a"d ' '*aTe ' •tep outside & that stockade, and onca I * .°' MJ tbe doctor, musingly, I ve you're there. I'll bring the boy down 110 right to say more; it s not my secret, on the inside, and I reckon you can yarn I J™ "ff- 6nver- °r-1 7°" wordthrough the spars. Good-day to you, i . j yaU" 11 g° M wlth sir, and all our dootles to the squire and J®"8" 1 **re go. and a step beyond, for Ckp'n Smollett" t 1 11 have wlS *orted by the captain. The explosion of disapproval, which ' or rm And, first, I'll give nothing but Silver's black looks had *orl * bt of hope;811ver if we both reatrained, broke out immediately the *et vallTe ol,t of wolf-trap. 111 do doctor had left the bouse. Silver was to save you. short of perjury." roundly accused of playing double—of Silver s face was radiant. "You trying to make a separate peace for ®?uWn 1 more- 1 m 8l,re* DOt himself—of sacrificing the interests of , mother," he cried, his accomplices and victims, and. in one ! a 1W®D- thats my first concession.' word, of the identical, exact thing that a?ded th® doctor. 4 My second is a pleca he was doing. It seemed to me so obvi- of Keep the boy close beside ous, in this case, that I could not im- and when you need help, halloo, aglne how he wqb to turn their anger. * m to or y°u» itself But he was twice the mnn the rest were, «how y°u random, and his last night's victory had given Good-by, Jim." Wm a huge preponderance on their ) And Dr. Liveaey shook hands with minds. He called them ail the fools me through the stockade, nodded to and dolts you can imagine, said it was Silver, and set off at a brisk pace into necessary I should talk to the doctor, ths wood. fluttered the chart in their faces, asked CHAPTER XXXI. than if they could afford to break. th» TUB TREASURE HUNT — FLINT'B Thart morning, finding that I was to be involved in the horrid disappointment be had prepared for the mutineers. lie had ran all the way to the cave, and, leaving Squire to guard the captain, had taken Gray and the maroon and started, making the diagonal across the island, to be at hand beside the pine. Soon, however, he ssw that our party had the start of him; and Ben Ounn, bein-g fleet of foot, had been dispatohed in front to do his best alone. Then it had occurred to him to work upon the superstitions of his former shipmates, snd he w«s so far successful that Gray and the doctor had come up and were already ambushed before the arrival of the treasure banters."With one man of the crew alive. It was done. The body pointed straight in the direction of the island, and the compass read duly G. P. E. by E. "All drunk, sir." struck in the voice of Silver from behind us. What put to sea with seventy-five." All of us had an ample share of the treasure, and used it wisely Qr foolishly, according to our natures. Capt. Smollet is now retired from the sea. Gray not only saved his money, but, being suddenly smit with the desire to rise, also studied his profession; and be is now mate and part owner of a fine full-rigged ship; married besides, and Ihe father of a family. As for Ben Gunn, he got £1,000, which he spent or lost in three weeks, or. to be more exact, in 19 days, for he was back begging on the twentieth. Then he was given a lodge to keep, exactly as he had fared upon the Island; and he still lives, a great favorite, though something of a butt, with tlje country boys, and a notable singer in church or\ Sundays and saints' days. We made a curious figure had anyone been there to see us; all in soiled sailor clothes, and all but me armed to the teeth. Silver had two guns slung about him. one before and one behind—besides the great cutlass at his waist, and a pistol in each pocket of his square-tailed coat. To complete his strange appearance, Capt Flint sat perched upon his shoulder and gabbled odds and ends of purposeless sea-talk. I had a line about my waist, and followed obediently after the sea-cook, who held the loose end of the rope, now in his free hand, now between his powerful teeth. For all the world 1 was led like a dancing bear. But tibere was no sign of reawakening «Durage in his followers; rather, indeed, of growing terror at the irreverence of his words. Silver, I should say, was allowed his entire liberty, and, in spite of dally rebuffs, seemed to regard himself once more aa quite a privileged and friendly dependent. Indeed, It was remarkable how well he bore these slights, and wit h what unwearying politeness he kept at trying to ingratiate himself with all. Yet, I think, none treated him better than a dog; unless It was Ben Gunn. who was still terribly afraid of his old "I thought so," cried the cook; "this here is a p'inter. Bight up there is our line for the pole star and the jolly dollars. But, by thunder, if It don't make me cold inside to think of Flint. This is one of bis jokes, and no mistake. Him and these six were alone here; he killed 'em, every man; and this one he hauled here and laid down by compass, shiver my timbers! They're long bones, and the hair's been yellow. Ay. that would be Allardyce. You mind Allardyce, Tom Morgan?" "Jim," he whispered, "take that, and stand by for trouble." And he passed me a double-barreled pistol. "Belay there. John!" said "Don't you cross a sperrit." Merry And the rest were all too terrified to reply. They would have run away leverally bad they dared, but fear kepi rhem together, and kept them close by John, as if hi* daring helped them, lie. on his part, had pretty well fought his weakness down. At the same* time he began quietly moving northward, and in a few steps had put the hollow between us two and the other five. Then he looked at me and nodded, as much as to say: "Here is a narrow corner," as. Indeed, I thought It was. His looks were now quite friendly; and I was so revolted at these constant changes that I could not forbear whispering: "So you've changed sides again." quartermaster, or myself, who had really something to thank him for; sithough for that matter, I suppose, J had reason to think even worse of him than anybody else, for 1 had seen him meditating a fresh treachery upon the plateau. Accordingly, it was pretty gruffly that the doctor answered him "Drunk or raving!" said he. "Sperrit? Well, maybe," he said "But there's one thing not clear to me There was an echo. Now. no man ever seen a sperrit with a shadow; well, then, what's he doing with an echo to him. I should like to know? That ain't in natur', surety?" "Ay, ay," returned Morgan, "I mind him; he owed me money, he did, and took my knife ashore with him." "Ah," said Silver, "it was fortunate for me that I had Hawkins here. Too would have let old John be cut to bite and never given it a thought, doctor." The other men were variously burdened. some carrying picks and shovels—for that had been the very first necessary they brought ashore from the "Bispaniola"—others laden with pork, bread and brandy for the midday meal. All the stores. I observed, came from our stock; and I could see the truth of Silver's words the night before. Had be not struck a bargain with the doctor he and his mutineers, deserted by the ship, must have been driven to subsist on clear water, and the proceeds of their hunting. Water would havs been little to their taste; a sailor is not usually a good shot; and, besides all that, when they were so short of eatables, it was not likely they would be very flush of powder. "Speaking of knives," said another, "why don't we find his'n lying round? Flint warn't the man to pick a seaman's pocket; and the birds, I guess, would leave It be." There was no time left for him to answer in. The buccaneers, with oaths and cries, began to leap, one after another, into the pit, and to dig with their fingers, throwing the boards aside as they did so. Morgan found a piece of gold. He held it up with a perfect spout of oaths. It was a two-guinea piece, and it went from hand to hand among them for a quarter of a minote.Of Silver we have heard no more. That formidable seafaring man with one leg has at last gone clean out of my life; but 1 dare say he met his old negreas, and perhaps still lives in comfort with her and Capt. Flint. It is to b? hoped so, I suppose, for his chancea of comfort in another world are very small. "Not a thought," replied Dr. Llvesey, cheerily. "Right you were, sir." replied Silver "and precious little odds which, to yor. and me." This argument seemed weak enough to me. But you can never tell what will affect the superstitions, and, to my wooder, George Merry was greatly relieved."By the powers, and that's true I" cried Silver. And by this time we had reached the gigs. The doctor, with the pick ax, demolished one of them, and then we all got aboard the other, and set out to go round by the sea for North Inlet. "1 suppose you would hardly ask me to call you a humane man." returned the doctor, with a sneer, "and so my feelings may surprise you. Master Silver. But if J were sure they were raving—as 1 am morally certain one, ai least, of them is down with fever—1 should leave this camp. and. at whatever risk to my own carcass, take them the assist a ui-e of my skill." "Thexe ninH a thing left here," said Merry, still feeling around among the bones, "not a copper dolt nor a baccy box. It don't look nat'ral to me." "Well, that's so." he said. "YouVoa head upon your shouVders. John, tr»* ao mistake. Hoot snip, met est TO here crew is on the wrong tack, I do believe. And come to think on it, it was like Flint's voice, I grant you, but not jost so clear sway like it, after alL It was llker somebody else's voice now— K was like—" This was a ran of eight or nine miles. Silver, though he was almost killed already wlflh. fatigue, was set to an oar. like the rest of us, and we were soon skimming swiftly over a smooth sea. Soon we passed out of the straits and doubled the southeast corner of the island, round which, four days ago, we had towed the "Hispaniola." The bar silver and the arms still lie, for all that I know, where Flint buried them; aod certainly they shall lie there for me. Oxen and wain-ropes would not bring me back again to that accursed Island; aod the worst dreams that ever I have are when I hear the surf booming about its coasts, or start upright in bed, with the sharp voice of Capt. Flint still ringing in my cars: "Pieces of eight! pieces of eightl" THE END. ( "No, by gum, it don't," agreed Silver; "not nat'ral, nor not nice, says you. Great guns! messmate, but if Fllirt was living, this would be a hot spot for you and me. Six they were, and six are we; and bones is what they are now." "Two guineas!" roared Merry, shaking It at Silver. "That's your £ 700,000, is it? You're the man for bargains, ain't you? You're him that never bungled nothing, you wooden-headed lubber!""Ask your pardon, sir, you would be very wrong," quoth Silver. "You would lose your precious life, and you may lay to that. I'm on your side now, hand aod glove; and 1 shouldn't wish for to see the party weakened, let alone yourself, seeing as I know what 1 owes you. But these men down there, they oouldn't keep tbeir word—no, not supposing they wished to; and what's more, they couldn't believe as you could." " mUd the dnrt«r. "You're tV msn to keep your word, we know thst." "Dig away, boys," said Silver, with the coolest insolence; "you'll find some pig-nuts, and I shouldn't wonder." "I saw him dead with these here deadlights," said Morgan. "Billy took me In. There be laid, with penny-pieces on his eyes." "By the power*, Ben Gunn!" roared Silver. As we passed the two-pointed hill, we could see the black mouth of Ben Gunn's nave, and a figure standing by it, leaning on a musket. It was the squire; and we waved a handkerchief and gave him three cheers, in which the voice of Slier joined aa heartily as any. Well, thus equipped, we all set out— even the fellow with the broken bead, who should certainly have kept In shadow—and straggled, one after another, to the beach, where the two gigs awaited us. Kven these bore trace of the drunken folly of the pirates, one in a broken thwart, and both in their muddled, unbailed condition. Both were to be carried along with us. for the sake of safety; and so, with our numbers divided between them, we set forth upon the bosom of the anchorage. "Ay, and so it were," cried Morgan, springing on his knees. "Bra Gunn M •ere!" "Pig-nuts?" repeated Merry, in a ■cream. "Mates, do you hear that? I tell you. now. that man there knew It all along. Look In the face of him. and you'll see It wrote there." "Dead—ay, sure enough he's dead, and gone below," said the fellow with the bandage; "but If ever speerit walked. It would be Flint's. Dear heart, but he died bad, did Flint!" "rt don't make much odds, do It, now?" asked Dick. "Ben Gunn's n®« here In the "body, any more'n FllnC«" IiOVa Hd Friendship. Love is a raging and tumultuous ocean Where waves, hi thousand forms, leap fas* But the older hands {rreefed this redark with acorn. "Why, nobody minds Bern Gunn," cried Merry; "dead or alive '•bod," minds him." "Ah, Merry," remarked Silver, "standing 'or oap'n again? You're a pushing tad, to be sure." Three mile* farther, just Inside the mouth of North inlet, what should we Knt. tie "HJeoaninla " itbMii» b* herself. The last flood had lifted her; and had there been much wind, or a strong tide current, aa in the southern anchorage, we should never have found heir more, or found her stranded beyond help. Aa It waa, there waa little amies, beyond the wreck of the mainsail. Another anchor waa got ready, and dropped inafathom andla half of water. We all pulled round again to Bum core, the nearest point for Ben Oiinn'a treasure house; and then Gray, alngle-handed, returned with the gig to the "Hlapaoiola," where he waa to pass the night on guard. and high; /riandship, a mountain lake where no commotion"Ay, and that be did," observed another; "now he raged, and now he hoi tor for the rum, and now he aung "***■D— Me*' **aa Us mmUr »•D ♦ mates; ana i reiiycm True, i neverngnily liked to hear It since. It was main hot, and the windy was open, and 1 hear that old song comin' out as clear as clear—and the deaith-baul on the man already." But this time everyone was entirely Breaks the blue 'mage of the solemn sky. - a 'a fm sat hAXTBP ble out of the excavation, darting furious looks behind them. One thing I observed, which looked well for us; they all got out upon the opposite aide from Silver. Weil, that wm about the last news we had of the three pirates. Only once we heard a gunshot a great way oil, and supposed them to be hunting. A council was held, and It was decided that we must desert them on the island—to the huge glee, I must Bay, of Ben Gunn and with the strong approval of Gray We left a good stock of powder and shot, the bulk of the salt goat, a few medicines snd some other necessaries, tools, clothing, a spare sail, a fathom or two of rope, and, by the particular desire of the doctor, a handsome present of tobacoo. Lots dart* from b«*ven like lightning. Friendship creeps, A slowly hi nuking dawn, o'er hill and plain. Insatiate love demands, devours, grasps, keeps. Friendship gives all, nor asks for aoght ** -mm W tiwir ante its had returned, and how the natural eolor had revived In their flaoea. Soon they were chatting together, with intervalsof listening; and not long after, hearing no further sound, they ahouldered the toola and set forth again. Merry walking first with Silver's compass to keep them on the right line with Skeleton island. He had said the truth; dead or alive, notoody minded Ben Gnnm. Aa we pulled over there wan Rome discussion on the chart. The red croaa was, of courae, far too large to be a guide; and the terms of the note on the back, aa you will hear, admitted of aome ambiguity. They ran, the reader may remember, thus: —Emanuel Qeibel. Wall, there we stood, two on one aide, five on the other, the pit between us, and nobody screwed up high enough to offer the first blow. Silver never moved; he watched them, very upright on his crutch, and looked as cool as ever I saw him. He was brave, and no mistake.Lst oa speak plain There Is more force In "Come, come." said Silver, "stow this talk. He's dead, and he don't walk, that I know; leastways, be won't walk by day, and you may lay to that. Care killed the cat. Fetch ahead for thp doiibloona." Than most men dream of, and a He may keep Its throne a whole age longer if it skulk Behind the shield of a fair seeming name, For man in earnest have no time to waste In patching fig leaves for the naked truth. —Lowell. "Tall tree. Spy-glass shoulder, bearing a point to the N. of N. N. E. "Skeleton Island. G. 8. E. and by E. "T#n test." Dick alone still held his Bible, and looked around blm aa he went, with fearful glances; but he found no sympathy. and SilveT even joked him on hia precautions. At last. Merry seemed to think a speech might help matters. A tall tree waa thus the principal mark. Now, right before ua, the anchorage waa bounded by a plateau from two to three hundred feet high, ad joining on the north the aloping southern shoulder of the 8py-glasa, and rising We Btarted. certainly; but in spite of the hot sun and the staring daylight, the pirates no longer ran separate and shouting through the wooda, bu* kept aide by aide, and apoke with bated breath. The terror of the dead baocaneer had fallen on their spirits. A gentle slope ran up from the beach to the entrance of the cava. At the top the squire met ua. To me he waa cordial. saying nothing of my escapade, either in the way of blame or praiae. At Bilver'a polite salute he somewhat Rushed. That was about oar last doing on the Island. Before that we had got the treasure stowed, and had shipped enough water and the remainder of the goat meat, in oaee of any distress; and at last* one fine morning, we weigh' "Mates," says he, "there's two of them alone there; one's the old cripple that brought us all here and blundered us down to this; the other's that cub that I mean to have the heart of. Now. mates—" I^r [rheumatism! p I H&lJltALCHA ud similar Oompl&istif J m *nd prepared under the stringent M |L GERMAN MEDICAL LIWS.^ preson bed by eminent physioians:^^B or. RSi OR. RICHTER'S (wJk 2 p5'"ANCHOR  fPAIN EXPELLERl ■ World renowned! Remarkably successful! 1 ■Only genuine with Trade Mark " Anchor,''! nt BF. id. Bichter *-00., £15 Pearl St., New York. ■ D I 31 HIGHEST AWARDS. ■ 19 Branch Houses. Own Glassworks. , & 60c. Endorsed 8 re omn ended  ce Farrer & Peck, SO Lucerne Avenue. G. C. Gllck. 60 North Main St r H Honck, 4 North Main St^^l Pitttston. Pa. '• DR'bwh ■■ I * ANCHOR" STOMACHAL beet for I "I told you," said he—"T told you, you had wp'llcd your Bible. If it ain't no good to swear by, what do you auppose a sperrlt would give for it? Not thatl" and he snapped his big fingera, halting a moment on hie crutch. train toward the aonth Into the rough, cliffy eminence called the AllKzen-mast anchor, wbIA wh about all that Hill. The top of the plateau was dotted thickly with piae trees of varying height. Every here and there, one of a different species rose forty or fifty feet clear above its neighbors, and which of He was raising hia arm and hie voice, and plainly meant to lead a charge. But just then—crack! crack! crack! — three musket shots flashed out of the thicket. Merry tumbled head foremost Into the excavation; the inan with the bandage spun round like a teetotum, and fell ail his length upon his side, where he lay dead, but still twitching: and the other three turned and ran for it with a-11 their might. "John Silver," ha said, "you're a prodigious villain and impostor—a monstrous Impostor, air, I am told 1 am not to proaecute you. Well, then, I will not. But the dead men, air, hang abent your neck like millstones." could manage, and stood out of North Inlet, tbe aame colore flying that tlD captain bad flown and fought under THE TREASURE HUNT—THE VOICE CHAPTER XXXIL AMONO THE TREES. But Dick was not to be comforted; indeed, it was soon plain to me that the lad was falling sick; hastened by heat, exhaustion, and the shock of his alarm, the fever, predicted by Dr. Livesey, waa evidently growing swiftly higher. Partly from the damping influence •f this alarm, partly to rest Silver and the sick folk, the whole party sat down as soon as they had gained the brow of the palisade. The three fellows must have bee watching us closer than we thought ' as we soon had proved. For. com through the narrows, we had to very near the southern point, i there we saw all three of them kneel; together on a wpit of sand, with tbC arm* raised in supplication. It we to all our hearts. I think, to leave the to that wretched state; but we eo these was the particular "tall tree" of C,'apt. Flint could only be decided on the spot, and by readings of thecompasa. Yet, although that was the case. "Thank you kindly, sir," replied Long John, again saluting. the ascent. It was fine open walking here, upon the sirmmlt; our way lay a little downhill, for, as I have said, the plateau tilted toward the west. The pines, great and small, grew wide apart; and even between the clumps of nutmeg and azalea, wide open spaces baked in the hot sunshine. Striking, as we did, pretty near northwest across the island, we drew, on the one hand, ever nearer under the shoulders of the Spyglaiss, and on the other, looked ever wider over that western bay where I had once tossed and trembled In the coracle. The plateau being aomewhat tilted toward the west, this spot on which we had paused commanded a wide proapect on either band. Before us. over the we beheld the Cape of the Wooda fringed with surf; behind, we not only looked down upon the anchorage and Skeleton Island, but saw—clear across the spit and the easlern lowlands—a great field of open sea upon the east. Sheer above us rose the Spyglass, heredotted with single pines,there black with precipices. There was no sound bnt that of the distant breakers, "How dare you to thank mel" cried the squire. "It la a gross dereliction of my duty. Stand back!" every man on board the boats had picked a favorite of his own ere we were half'-way over, fjong John alone shrugging his shouldera and bidding Before you could wink Ixing John had fired three barrels of a pistol into the itruggling Merry; and as the man rollwl up his eyes at him in the last agony. "George." said he. "I reckon- I settled you." And thereupon we all entered the cave. It was a large, airy place, with a little spring and a pool of clear water, overhung with ferns. The floor waa *and. Before a big flre lay Capt. Smoliet; and in a far corner, only duakily Nickered over by the blase, 1 beheld Creat heaps of coin and quadrilaterals built of bars of gold. That waa Flint's treasure that we had com* so far to seek, and that had coat already the Uvea »t 1? men Iron the "Hiroanlola." Bow them wait till they were there, We pulled easily by Silver's directions. not to weary the hands prematurely; and. after quite a long passage. not risk another mutiny; and to tal them home for the gibbet would ba At the same moment the doctor. Gray, and Ben Gunn joined us, with smoking muskets, from among the nutmeg trees. been a cruel sort of kindness. T doctor hailed them and told them the Btores we had left, and where tbC were to find them, but the; continu to call as by name sod appeal to river—that which runs down a woody • left of the Spy-glass. Thence, bending to our left, we began to ascend the slope toward the plateau. landed at the mouth of the second "Forward!" cried the doctor. "Double quick, my lads. We must head 'em off the boats." for God'* a&ke, to be merciful, and noi