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Perhaps the Greatest Adventure iy Romance in All Fiction r The Evenin Can You Beat It? (WON'T GO ouT WITH You JOHN , You Look Too SLOPPY be anchor steal ing Ashore and party wade to find it im the SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS, Billy & irate, dies at the A: Hotoriiaie iret, bu Kine (who tela’ the re Prelaeys Bhs at once it out an ‘ek; fads 0%, he, urge, . ‘Sne evening Wiring the veriae Jit to elge the mien of Flunt’s oll er March om the mutineers bh Intech shemales in 9 orn maroovel on the is ta hiding CHAPTER XXVIII. In the Enemy's Camp. lighting up the interior of the block house showed me sions realized. The pirates Were in possession of the house and There were six of the buccaneers, all told; not another man was left feet, flushed and swollen, suddenly @alied out of the first sleep of drunk- His head was bandaged, iver, “here's Hawkins, eh? Weill, come, 1 take that friend- ly.” I made no answer. They had sct me with my back against the wall, and face, pluckily enough, I hope, to all outward appearance, but with blact jow, you see, Jim, so be as you are here,” says bo, “I'll give you @ you, I have, for a lad of spirit, and the picter of my own self when [ was Wanted you to fine and take your sbare, and die a gentleman, and now, “leaving thie chart of ‘ko ‘the chart a ee I to Dr. bar the cha The Sq nd maken “var supe, ‘barrel, orcthears Silver aed the the “island, © "The mquire Meets Hen Gunn, he returns to the hada ‘of Blver's nen HM red glare of the torch the ‘worst of my apprehen- stores, alive, Five of them were on their ‘The sixth had only rigen upon shiver my timbers! Dropped in, like, Po all this, as may bo well supposed, 1 stood there, looking Silver in the despair in my heart. Silver went on: piece of my mind, ‘I've always liked young and handsome. I always my cock, you got to. Captain Smollet’s a fine seaman, as I'll own ‘up to any day, but stiff on discipline. ‘Dooty 18 dooty,’ says he, and right he is. Just you ke clear of the cap'n, The doc himself is gone dead agin you — the ‘ungrateful scamp’ was what he said; and the short and the long of the whole story fe about here; You can't go back your own for they won't have lot, you; and, without you start a third ship's company all by yourself, which might be lonely, you'll have to jine With Cap'n Bilver.”” “Well,” says I, growing abit bolder, “if I'm to choose, teclare have & right to know What's what, and why you're here, and where my frionds are. “Wots wot?” repeated one of. the buccineers, a a ep growl “Ah, he'd a lucky one as Knowed that! “Yowh ys ba down you hatches y p sp my friend, cried Silver trucuiently t the speaker. “Yesterday morning, Mr. Hawkins, said he, “in dogs watch, down came Dr. Livesey with w flag of (truce, Says h ‘apn Sil- ver, you're sold out, Ship's gone Well, maybe we'd en taking @ gloss, and a song to help it round, Leastways none of We looked out, the old ship was gone. I never sean a pack 0’ fools look fishier; and you may lay to that if L telly you that I looked the fishiest. ‘Well,’ says the doctor, “let's bargain.’ We bargained, him and T, and here wo are: stores, brandy, Dlock-!ouse, the firewood you Was thoughtful enough to cut, and, in a manner of spenking, the whole blessed boat, from cross-trees to keelson, As for them, they've tramped; I don't know where they ‘And now T am to choos “And now you are to « 1 may lay to that,” sat “Well,” sald I, “I amr fool but I know pretty welt what I have to look for. Let the come to the worst, it’s little I care. I've seen too many die since I fell in with you, But there’s a thing or two I have to tell you,” I sald, and by this time [ was quite excited; “and tho first is this: Here you are, in a bad way; ship lost, treasure lost, men k whole business gone to wrec! you want to know who did \t—it was T! Iwas in tho apple barre! the t we sighted land, and I heard 9 John, and you, Dick Johnson, Hands, who is now at the bottom of the sea, and told every word you sald before the hour was out. And as for the schooner, !t was I who cut her cable, and it was I who Killed the men you had aboard of her, and it was I Who brought her whére you'll never ace her more, not one of you. The laugh's on my side; I've had the top of this business from the first; T no more fear you than I fear a fly, KI! me, if you please, or spare me. But ane “ing and no more; if Zou spare me, by-gones are by-gones, fnd when you fellows are in court for piracy, [ll save you all Lean, T ia for you to choose, Kill another anc do yourselves no good, or spare me and keep & witness to save you from the gallows.” I won't say no. ua had looked and, by thunder “Then here goes!" sald Morgan, with an oath, And he sprang up, drawing his eas if he bad n twenty we ae nero! eried Silver. Who are vy Morgan? M you thought you were captain he pers haps. By the powers b il teach you better! Cross me and you'll go whi many a good man’s Kone before y firat and last, these thirty years bac —some to the yard-arm, shiver my sides! and board, and all to feed t 8, ‘There's n between the rw looked ne ‘en a good day a’ n, you may Tay to t paused, but 4 mur. from the others, init ush for Hed another. iN be hanged if I be py John Sily you, “Did any of you gentlemen want to have it out with me?” roared Silver, bending far forward f. ition on the keg, with his p glow- tng in his ri ul 4 nama on what you're mt nin't dumb, © reckon, [lim that want it, Have [lived this ty years to have a son of n puneheon cock his | athwart iny hawser at the latter end ef it? You know the wav; you've @emiianen oF fortune, by your ace By Robert Louis Stevenson RAR ARN RR ANA RUA RRA AADAC TIN MAD AAAI IIA 74 fore that pipe's empty.” ( count. Well, I'm ready. Take a cut- lass him that dares and I'll see the color of his inside, orutch and all, be- Not a man stirred; not a man an- awered, “That's your sort, 1s it?” he added, returning hie pipe to his mouth, “Weil, you're a gay lot to look at, any way, Not worth much to fight, you ain't. raps you oan understand King George's English, I'm cap'n here dy ‘lection. I'm cap'n here because I'm the best man by a long sea-mil You won't fight, as gentlemen o’ for. tune should; then by thunder you'll obey, and you may lay to it! I like that boy now; 1 never seen a better boy than that. He's more a man than any pair of rats of you in this here house, and what I say is this: Let me sce him as'll lay a hand on him— that’s what I say, and you may lay to it.” The men gathered tn a group in one corner and began to whisper to- gether, “You seam to have a lot to say,” remarked Silver, spitting far into the air, “Pipe up and let me hear it, or lay to.” Ax your pardon, str," returned one of the men; “you're pretty free with some of the rule: maybe you'll Kindly keep an eye upon the rest. This crew's dissatisfied; this crew don't vally bullying a marlinsplke; this crew has its rights like oth crews, I'll make so free as that, and by your own rules I take it we can talk together, I ax your pardon, air, acknowledging you for to be capting at this present, but I claim my right and steps outside for a council.” And they marched out, leaving us alone together, une sea-cook instantly removed his pipe. “Now look you here, Jim Hawkins,” he said in a steady whisper that wa no more than audible, “you're within half a plank of death, and what's a long sight worse, of torture, They're going to throw me off. But you mark, I stand by you through thick | and thin, I didn’t mean to; no, not till you spoke up. I was about de perate to lose th much blunt, and be hanged int bargain, 1 see you was the right sort. I to myself: You stand by Hawkins, | John, and Hawking'll stand by you! You're his last card, and by the liv nunder, John, he's yours! . says 1. You save y ness and he'll save your nec I began dimly to understan ou mean all ts lost?” 1 Rack ir wite wked. y, by gum, I do!” he answered, hip gone, neck cone: ‘ath nize of it. Once I looked into that bay, Jim Hawkins, and seen no schooner—weill, I'm_ to’ but gave out. As for that lot and thetr coun- cil, mark me, they’ ight f and cowards, I'll save so be as I can—from ther ur ti But ‘TAISE OFF THAT BELT AND PUT ON we | SUSPENDERS | GAVE You FoR XMAS LOWER THEM A LITTLE, Te ARE Too HIGH Now No Now THE OTHER LEG 1S LONGER ¢ World Daily Magazine, Saturday, March wt an Now Dot Look BETTER? id { Putt THEM rj | * ) UP. You MAKE ME TIRED! GO AND ON Your BEcT No one LEG tg LONGER THAN THE OTHER 18, 191 Visine ae niin ieee WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU MET A GLORIOUSLY BEAUTIFUL GIRL In the Springtime Forest and She SAID ? But What She Said Ie Best Told in Next Week's Complete Novel in THE EVENING WORLD _THE SPRING LADY BY MARY BRECHT PULVER not quite like the other stories you've read. And a charm and originality that will appeal to you. PLEASE DON’T MISS IT! SO MRARKRARIANI HARA RAR ATTA RTA ABARAT It was done, The body pointed straight in the direction of the island, end the compass read duly B. 8. BL crack!—three musket shots flashed out of the thicket, Merry tumbled head-foremost iato by the excavation; the man with the I thought so,” ertod the cook andage spun round ike @ teetotam, here ts a p'inter, Right up th ther three ran. our line for the Pole Star and the At the sume moment the doctor, Jolly dollars. liut by thunder! if tt Gray, and Hen Gunn joined us, with don't make mo ¢ of Flint. 1 Inside to think This is one of bia jokes, smoking nutmeg tr muskets, foom among the and no mistake, Him and these six I wd!" erled the doctor. “Dow. was alone here: ho killed ‘am, every ble quick, my | must head man; and this one he hauled here and ‘em off the bod laid down by compass, shiver my And we set off at a erent pace, tmberst ‘They're long bones, and the somet plunging through the hair's been yellow. Ay, that would bushes to the chest Allardyce, You mind Allardyce, I tell you, but Silver was anxtous koep up with us returned Morgan, “I mind — “Doctor, he hailed, “see there! mo mo money, he did, and hurry! took my knife ashore with him.” iro enough there was no hurry, “Speaking of knives,” said another, In a more open part of the plateaw why don't we find his'n lytng round? we could see the three survivors still Flint warn't the man to pick @ sea. running in the same direction they man's pocket; and the birds, C guess, had start right for Mizzen-maat would leave it be Mil, We were already between them “Hy the powers and that's truo! and the boatt and so we four eat cried Silver. down to breathe, while Long John, “There ain't a thing left hore,” said Mopping his face, came slowly up Me still feeling round among the With us. bor “not a copper doit nor a baccy Thank yo kindly, doctor,” saya he, box, It don’t look nat'ral to me, “You came tn in “Come, come,” sald silver, * guess, for me and Hawkins, And’ so this talk and let's start on.” it's vou, Hen Guna!” he added. “Well, Head A dbahaotdal You're & nico ong to be sure.” CHAPTER XXX. bout the nick, I “Cm Ben Gunn, [ am," repited the maroon, wriggling Hke The Treasure Hunt—TheVoice or oo Among the Trees. Sliver! Pretty weil, I thank ye, saya y f JSRTLY from the damping “tien, Hen,’ murmured Silver, “to 1 influence of this alarm, think as you've done me.” partly to rest Iver and sr we walked on, the doctor told he lek folk, the whole we,tte story B tho alck folly tho whole en iy tong, lonely wanderings arty sat down a% 800 AS Ahout the island, bad found the they gained the brow of the ascent, skeleton, It was he that had rified iver since th ad found the [ti he bad found the treasure: he had dug it up Gt was the hatt of bis pieke ax that lay broken in the excava-! tion); he had carried it on his orek in many ry journeys, m the foot of the tall pine to & cave he had on the two-pointed bill at the norta- east angle of the island, and there it had laid stored in safety since two months before the arrival of the Hiles pantola When the doctor had wormed thie socret from him, on the afternoon of the attack, and when, skeloton and got upon this trata of thought they had spoken lower and lower, and they had al t got td whispering by now, so that the sound of thelr talk hardly interrupted the silence of the wood, All of a sudden, out of the middle of the trees tn front of us, a thin, high, and trembling votce struck up the well-kndwn air and words: Fifteen men on the dead mania next mornigg, Ghele ho saw the anchorage deserted, Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rami" had gone to Silver, given him’ th chart, whi rey "| ™ ny hb Was now useles ve ere, Jim—tit for tat—you save Long Jun Flinti” eried Merry. ith lim the stores, for Den Gunn'e cave i hath an de, ut I'll do," T said, Mps to got the word out, Gaited by” kitastlt;" elves ayn nderstand ine, J he said, Want Go Stand by to ,87 and everything to get a chance of ee eee aad on my, shoul’ “us live and at, and full of good the treasure, Who's the better man “Si-tence!"” he roared, and looked do you suppose by any chance that we can't name the voles, mnt it’ soma. MOVIN I watery froin Meda [ know youve pot that ship safe Pum-duff, and the treasure in the at hat? And now [ resign, by thun- about him positively Tike a lon. aro gulng to let you lose yours? “That Ing—somcone that’s flesh Lane gro reed hill, ther to be omewheres, How vou lone it Pdon't Bold of ber, by thunder! Well, who der! Elect whom you pleaso to be “Doctor,” he went on, in his usual would be a poor return, my boy, You od, and you may lay to that.” Grae oy Mane ees TOW MUL UASG te lar T aonmn HAGE omnes o Who forced my hand, Your cap'n now; I'm done with tt. tones, “i was thinking of that, know- found out the plot; you found Hon the same voicn ke out’ "Ve hemched the. boate: aad\ cower and O'Brien turned « T never @% Was the lawful cap'n? Who tipped Silver!” they cried. “Barbecue ing as how you had a fancy for the Gunn--tho best deed) that ever you again TOT ECT Gea wie aon ih be much believed in neither of them, Me the black spot the day we land- forever! Barbecue for cap'n boy. We're all humbly grateful for did, or will do, though you live to “Darby MeGraw," it walled--for that Gijjyh Heid eon was Ben wa ol fe T ask no ques. ‘4: and began this dance? Ah, it's a Here, Jim—here's a cur‘osity for your kindness, and, as you see, puts ninety Oh, by Jupiter; and talking ty the word that best deseribes the A gentle slope tr th NOW YOU Mark Mn Bg io ates= ting dance—I’m with you there—and You," said Silver, and he tossed me faith in you, and takes the drugs of Ben Gunn, why, this is the m ound Yarby MeGraw! Darby Mus pet ttt ope ran up from the ieee beh ck gibers Know looks mighty Ike a ‘hornpipe in a the black spo} down Uke that much grog, And [ in person, Sil he cried, * wi” again and again and againi the tor the muito wt take oe When a game's up. 1 do: and I know rope's end at Execution Dock by Lone take it I've found a way as'll suit all, T'll give you a piece of advice and then rising w little hisher, and a kind, saving aot eaten iene have dang dou tows, It does, But who done It? CHAPTER XXIX. Hawkins, will you give me your word continued, as the cook drew with an oath that | leave out: “Fetch encnpade, slike ial young—yo' ne might have done Why, it was Anderson and Handa of honor ns a young gentleman-—for a again; “don't you be in any great att the rum, Darby!" iy, ,anoaade, lth a power of good together and you, George Merry! And you're On Parole. young gentleman you although hurry after that treasure, ty the powers, Ben Guan!" roared at (blaine or ‘praise, Ag [lo drew “some cognac from the tho) fast! above board” of “that "aame WAS wakened—indsed, wo Hoo" bornyoun word of honor net to "Why, wip, T'do hy poli ay polite © he somewhat age ipa eee meddling crew; und you Hei slip your cable that ain't,” said Silver, “Le Ay, and so It wera,” 1 Morgan, @itver.* 7 “Will you taste, messmate?” he Davy Jones Insolence to uy wero all wakened, for I "'r’readily guvo the plodga required. ashing your pardon, save my Ui springing on his knees, “Ben Gunn it aged Bi), SOU rea asked, ,and when’ T had refu for cap'n over me—you, that sunk the could see even the sentinel then, Doctor,” said Silver, “you the boy's by seoking for that treasure; Were jinmatraus (peter tis Tee “Well, Fil take a drain myself, Jim,” sot of us! By the powers! but this shake himself together just step outside o’ that stockade, ANd you may lay to that.” “Tt don't: make much o: Wo thot ay: abe Ee Grek va ma sold said he. “I need a cauiker, for tops the stiffest yarn to nothing.” trom whore he had fallen against the Ald ones you're there L'il bring the ,,“Well, Sliver,” replied the doctor, now?" asked Dick, “Hon Cusn't not tent Tilt aie goa Wale here's trouble on hand. And, talk sy 1 Seana boy down on the faside, and I reckon “If that ts so, Ul go one step furthers jera In the body, any more'n Flint NEUE octal ae : ing o° trouble, why did that doctor doorpost—by & clear, hearty voice yoy “can yarn through the spars, 109k out for lis when you find it!" Tut the older hands greeted this res fw APOUS YOUF DOCK: Ne, Hime give me the chart, Jim the others!” returned John, Délling us from the margin of the Goou-day to you, air, and all our And Dr, Livesoy shook hands With jiarie with seor hank you kindly, sir," replied My expressed a wonder so un- “They're a nice lot, ain't they? You Wood: dooties to the squire and Cap'n Suvi. MO through the stockw nodded to Why, nobody minds Ren Gunn," Lo John, again saluting. P! affected that he saw the needlessness say this cruiso Is ‘bungled. Ah! by “Block-house, hoy!” t erled. Jett.” Silver and sot off ats brisk pace Into oried Morry; “dead or alive, nobody “How dire you to thank mel* of further questions. gum, if you could understand bow «fere's the doctor. Very deliberately, then, did we na- {6 Wood, minds him!" eet ie ettnee aank mel “Ah, well, he did, though,” said he, bad it's bungled, you would seer“ wyoy doctor! Top o' the morning Y@NC@ across the sand to where the It was oxtraord ow thelr liction of a ind back!* “And there's sometiing under that, no ow, that's about where we are, et a a 5 doctor Waited us on the other side of CHAPTER spirits had returi And thereupon we all entered the doubt—something, surely, under that, overy mother's son of us, thanks to t® You, sir!” cried Silver, browd the stockade, and as soon as we Were cinkd ame * natural nhs ve. It waa a large, airy place, with Jimn—bad or good.” him, and Hands, derson, and 4Wake and beaming with good na within y speaking distance, Suver The Treasure Hunt—Flint’s ° vat a little spring and ‘a pool of clear he door opened, and the five men, other ruination fools of you. And if ture in a moment. Kiignt and stopped, 3, together, w of listen’ water, overhung with ferns. The standing huddled together just inside, you want to know about nuiaber early, to be sure; and it's (ue early “You'll make a note of this here Pointer. nd not long after, hearing no further floor was sand. fore a big fire lay pushed one of their mumber forward, four, and that boy, why, shiver my bird, as the saying goes, that gets also, doctor,” sald he, “aud the boy'll 66 IM," aald Silver, when we sound, they shouldered the tools and Capt. Smoltett: @ far corner ‘Step up, lad,” cried Sliver, “f timbers! isn’t he # hostage? Are we the rations, George, shuke up your tell you how saved bis life, and s aaeriy . t forth again toward the tall trea only duskily fl over by the won't eat you. Hand {t over, Iub- going to waste a hostage? No, not timbers, son, and help Dr, Livesey wera deposed for It, too, aud you were alone, “if T saved qyiy gtood in the heurt of n thleket blaze, T beheld at heaps of coin ber. I know the rules, 1 do; I won't US; he might be our last chance, and over the ship's gide, All a-doln’ weil, lay to that, Doctor, when a your life, you saved mine, Vo were soon at the margin of tho and quadrilater built of bars of hurt a depytation.” T shouldn't wonder. Kill that ‘boy? your patients was—ail weli and man's steering as noar to the wind and I'll not forget tt, 1 thiel gold, ‘That was Flint's treasure thes Thus encouraged, the buccaneer not mo, mates! And number three? merry, as me—playing chick-farthing with aT Agee 1 Tiefora us was a great excavation, we hnd coma so far to seek, and that stepped forth more briskly, and hav- Ah, well, there's a deal to say to | “We've quite a surprise for you, the last breath in his body, llke~you. seon the doctor waving not very recent, for the sites had fall had y lives ‘of sevens ing passed something to er, from Number thi May be you don't count too, sir,” he continued, “We've & wouldn't thin mayhap, YOU to run for {t—with the tall of my on in and grass had sprouted on the teen men from the Hispaniola, nando, ha slinped | yet more it nothing to have a real coll little stranger here—ho!” he! A noo to give Aim one good worl! Youll e¥®% E dkt—and Laecn you say no as horton Ta this worm the sath of 4 smartly back again to compan- tor come to see you y day) pourder and lodger, sir, and luoking hind it's not i * o pick broken in two and the boards . jon, . - John, with your head broke fit and taut as a fldule; slep’ hike a te end aa not my lite plain se Rearing, Jim, that's SHG ta Be bait EB hts hal Vy teow CHAPTER XXXII, The seacook looked at what had George Merry, that had the supercargo, he did, right alongside gain; you'll speak 10 Garr You. Thie ta tho frat glint of hope OF yen | f the And Last. been given lim. shakes upon you not six hours agone, of John.” tor, and give me a bit hope 'ta go 1 had aince the attack failed, and t oyw } 4owith a h es 4 “The black spot! T thought s and hs a your eyes the color of demon acta tavesey v4 by sh ime on, for the sake of merc owe it you. And now, Jim, we're to aang “Walrus"—the name of ILE next morning we felt observed. “Where might you hav peel to this same moment o he stockade anc ‘etty “Why, John, you're not afratd?” go tn for this here treasure-hunting, #1!) early to work, for the transe the paper? Why, hello! look hero, clock? the cook, and I could hear the alters asieu Doctor Livesey. "NIL was clear to probation. ‘The portation of thin how; this atn't lucky! You've zona | “And maybe, perhaps, you didn't @Hon in, his yolco as he sald: Moctor: Lim no ejvard: no, nog 1 With sealed orders, too, and I don't cache had heen fonnd and rifind~ths } his great mass and cut this out of a Bible, fool's cut a Bible’ t was Dick What know there was a c ither? done sort coming, But there ts, and not so long till then; and we'll see who'll be glad ays Bilver, The doctor stopped outright, “The very same Jim as ever was,” not So much fingers, "and ha snapped his “Ie 1 was I wouldn't say it, Close, back to back Mice {tj and you and me must atick lke, and we'll of gold near a mile by land to seven hundred thou gone! and pounds were the bench, and thence _ But Pl own up fairly ['ve the sakes save our necks in spite o' fate and oe three miles by boat to the Hispaniola, Then Dick, can get fo have a hontaga when it comes 2 encugh to did not apeak, and it waa Upon te for the gallows, You'ro & fortune," CHAPTER XXXU. wan a esnplasanisitase cue re crate Ive: e's seen that, And as for nuriber two, re a never #een at 5 : F : nage his sitce of Wick, has Dick, and you why T made a bargain—well, you Some seconds before he seemed Oe eee aT AT cco Not target We set out, after breakfast; laden The Fall of a Chieftain. : rkmen, ne ny lay to that.’ came crawling on your knees to me *,,1 Be i vauty wha : f man more with pick “and musk- HERE never wes su sure and the proe Hut here the long man with the to make tt—on your knees you came, 4 Well, well,” he sald at nat, Mauty shan you'll forget the b know. ete, Sllver—with the parrot perctod pero aplapren imate alt ard. And we low eyes struck in, you was that down-hearted--and Wy fet Pp RTS, w ly ae r, Let And I step aside—soe here and 108V® on nig shoulder—b “ mturn in thls ti wat anil Relay that talk, John Silver, he you'd have starved, too, If T hadn't—- iene have fhese patients of youre.” YOU and Jim alone, And you'll put # shoulder—brought up the rear. of these six men w he sald. This crew las tipped you the hut that's a trifle!’ You look there— 4 overhey Seren na ha giteread that down for ma too, for it's along He had fastened a tine around my though he had been sti ws must have been black spot in full council, as in dooty that's why!" ae Mone hota ana ations arin, atteton: ie thati Waist and was leading me by it, Thus ib with: Sivas aha, HiGwe us closer than we thought for, bound; Just you turn it over, as in And he cast down upon the floor @ 104 to, Reo fae} wih his work _ 80 Saying, he stepped back @ NttlO we reached the boats and rowed p. Bver r aa we soon had proved, Vor, coming dooty ‘bound, and see what's’ wrote paper that T Instantly recognized— Qu to Me Ricwcedad © nh lls » way tll he was out of earshot eeronn as ae seed almost instantly narrows we had to le there, Then you can tall none other than the chart on yellow Sm20g th a erlan’ Tastan » Jim," gad the doctor ross to the base of the hills, Jim,” he whixpered, “take that, 4 io point, and “ ks, George.” replied the sea- paper, with the three red crosses, that Under, no apprehension. though |e ra you are, AS you hive We pulled easily, by Silver's direc- and stand by for trouble, “fe nree’ of thems cook You always was brisk for T had found in tho olleloth at the these treacherous demons depended % shall you drink, my t tlons, not to weary the hands prem- ang he passed me a double-barrated tt na splt of sand husiness, and haa the rules by heart, bottom of the captain's chost, Why {ese treacherous demons depended “wil “own that 1 here began to aturely; and, afer quite a long pass ‘aida ail yaa . rained In suppiions George, as I'm pleased to see, Well, the or had given it to him was Dorienta as if he were paying an Weer. “Doctor,” 1 said 4 aame, lan led at ihe tt 5, Blstol { to all of our hearta, at is it, any Way? Ah! ‘Deposed’ more than f could fancy. {nary professional vinit in a quiet SPare me. T have blamed amanda he No mouth of the ‘rhoro was no time left for him to them in. that -that's it, Is It? Very pretty wrote, But if {t were inexplicable to m@ Fugiish family Matis qinnage, y enough; my Ife's forfelt any way, Second river—that which runs down speak again. buccanears, a ut w 1 not ris to be sure; like print, [ swear, Your the appearance of the chart was I- pose, reacted on them, for they and fo should have b lead now if & woody cleft of t Spy-gluss, ouths and cries, began to leap, » ud take ther hand o' write, George? Why, you credible to the surviving mutinecrs, faved to him aa if nothing had 0 ver hadn't stood for ind, Doc- Thenes, bending to our left, wo be- after another, into the pit, and to bs home bet would have bees Was gettin’ quite a leadin’ man in They leaped upon It lke cats upon @ curped—as if he wero still sniprs doo. tr believe this, T can d 1idare Kan to ascend the slope toward the with their ngers, | throwing a | kindness, this here crew, You'll be cap'n next, tor, and they still faithful bande be: I deserve it—but what | fear plateau, r boards 4@ ax they did so, Morgan 1 them and tot I shouldn't wonder, State your sald one, “that's Vilnt, sure fore the mast. If they como to torture ri be had thus proceeded for about found @ 26 of gold i" He held iL UD them of stores we had lett and ap 3} Chleaentae . J. F. and a score below, . a . - uf a mile, and were approaching with @ perfect spout of oaths. It was whore t were to. fing nif ig abi |e On Ye ReE Bae. nie he clove hitch to it, so he dona eee ma fee) sell, abr anid one Jim," tho doctor interrupted, and the brow of the plateau, when the a two-guinea piece, and tt went from ¢} sed NS under’ no Kind of apprehension; we're “Well, atep up hore, Dick, and let mo Me volco wie quite changed, “Jim. 1 inan upon the farthest left began to hand to hand among then for & and tou "s sake to nil square, we are, iat you've made . “Mighty pretty,” said George, “But yee your tongue. "No, I should be can't have this, Whip over, and we'll ory aloud Oe at Ae ee os URED Ob 8 FOLATE vert oh: them to dle L hash of this erulse—you'll be a hold NOW are we to get away with Ih and gurprised if ho did; the man's tongue FO Ne wantin) vison unaw ene Gas Oe tiie onal ts dna it at diieas,. omeara eo yan eS : ae man to say no to that, Second, you "Ate suddenly aprang up, and sup. {6 ft tg frighten the French, Another | cy eat achate te ae een the Went ne Paes Ue ¥ nin alti Mes 3 Erbledlal i fs Dn) 9 eihie let the cnomy out oF this here trap posting 1 if with a hand again: eta, th ” afar “pnat Self; neither you, nor squire atop. You' t man ba uin't shot, one of then for nothing. Why did they want out? ¢ nt T ive you warn shane id btorgany “thal a, no more will 1 er Indeed, as we found when we you? Y that nev ed ‘ “4 I dunno, but it’s pretty plain. they bahay : ai wu wernlis gomed of spiiling Bibles Ot haaaa? ih 1 at a‘ t. it 4 ' i a EN rie " h It Was-—lea Dad Sm ite pretty the rge," he cried, “One more word “phat comes—as you call {t--of bo T pussed my word, and also reached spot, It was some- nothings, you wooden-headed lubber rae ery, whipped Wanted it, Third, you wouldn't let of your sauce and I'l call you down ing arrant ussca,” retorted the doc But, doctor, you did not thing very different, “At the foot of "Ah, Merry.” — remarked oulder and sent Qs gO at them upon the march, Oh, and fight you. How? Why, how do tor, “and not having sense enough to mo finish, If they ie to torture a pretty ble pine, and involved in a “standing for cap'n agat You're a over Silver's head We seo through vou, John Silver; you 7 know? You had ought to tell me know honest alr from poison, and the mo I might let allp a word of 6 reen creeper, which had even partly pushing lad, to be sur veinsail want t play booty, that's what's ¢hat-you and the rei t lost me dry land from a vile, pestiforous ta" abip is, for [ got the siilp, part lifted somo of tho smaller bones, a At last Merry ink a under cover of wrong with you, And then, fourth, jy gehooner, with 3 rference, slough. And now I wish to have « bY luck and part by risking human skeleton lay with a few apee rt he 8 xt I looked boy burn yon! Rut not you, you can't! talk with that boy, please.” lieg in North Inlet, on 1 shreds of clothing, the ground, I'M vya | vere'a_ two of eared from the ok here, TM answer you sintt got the invention of %\ — George Me ‘wan at the door ten, and just be At helleve a chill struck for a moment them a rey ¢ Lerippt 1 the ar If had almont ,Piints~one after another Cockroach, But civil you can spitting and spluttering over some tide she mu heart ' it 1 crowing Ml answertem, Em th nnd § George Merry, you bad-tasted medicine: bur nt the fir iy J described 7 ve ttken om 1 town t ‘ ' was, a! least, the end cruise, did 1? 1 all may lay to that word of the doctor's proposal ho ¥ 1 he heard ( ' u it Tome ' f to my tne Know what I a all Theat fur enow," said the old x ung round with f and n ' eart Now, mit ‘ ighest rock know, if that , that mon Morga erled “No!” and swore Ther ind ate th ho keleton Tslind ch Ho wa 1 1 + ret 1 into the wed a" been tniola “air! T reckon fo,” said the sea. Silver struck the barrel with his obs! i n 1 had done Every Just take a ering, W \ anid Minty meant to ut this night as ever was, every man of eook, “You lost the ship; I found open hand etep i's you that saves our vives, and aioug the line of them boues." chargo, But just thon—erack! pos {

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